The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

- _ VIE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of I?epresentatices, Another yesr of health end sufficiently ab andant hsrvests has passed. For these, and especially for the improved condition of our national affairs, our renewed and profoundest gratitude is dae, FOREIGN AFFAIRS. We remain in peace and friendship with foreign Powers. The efforts of disloyal citizens of the United States to inv olve us in foreign wars to aid an inexcusable insurrection have been unavailing. Her Britannic Majesty's Government, as was justly expected, have exercised their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from Bri. tish ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly indicated the neutrality which he pro claimed at the beginning of the contest. Question s o f great intricacy and importance have arisen out of the blockade, and other belligerent operations, between the Government and several of the mari time Powers, but they hare been discussed. and, as far as was possible, accommodated in a spirit of frankness, justice, and mutual goodwill. It is especially gratifying that our Prize Courts, by the impartiality of their adjudications, have commanded the respect and confidence of maritime Powers. The supplemental treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave trade, made on the lith day of Feb ruary last, has been duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned that in human and odious traffic has been brought to an end. I shall subenit for the consideration of the Senate a convention for the adjustment of the possessory claims in Washington Territory arising out of the treaty of the 15th of June, 1846, between the United States and Great Britain, and which have been the source of some disquiet among the citizens of that now rapidly improving part of the country. A novel and important question, involving the extent of the maritime jurisdiction of Spain in the waters which surround the Island of Cuba, h as been debated without reaching a n agreement, and it is proposed in an amicable spirit to refer it to the arbitrament of a friendly rower. A convention for that purpose will be submitted to the Senate. I have thought it proper, subject to the approval of the Senate, to concur with the interested com mercial Powers in an arrangement for the liquida tion of the Scheidt dues, upon the principles which have been heretofore adopted in regard to the im posts upon n avigation in the waters of Denmark. The long-pending controversy between this Government and that of Chili, touching the seizure at Setana, in Peru, by Chiiian officers, of a large am ount of treasure b e l ong i ng to citizens of the been United States, has be brought to a close by the award of his Majesty the King of the Belgians, to whose arbitration the question was referred by the parties. The subject was thoroughly and patiently exa mined by that justly respected magistrate, and although the sum awarded to the claimants may not have been as large as they expected, there is no reason t o dist r ust the wisdom of his Majesty's decision. That decision was promptly complied With by Chili when intelligence in regard to it reached that country. The joint commission under the act of the last session for carrying into effect the convention with Peru on the subject of claims has been organised at Lima, and is eugAged in the business. Difficulties coocerzing inter-oceanic transit through Nicaragua aro in course of amicable ad justment. _ In conformity with principles set forth in my last Anonl Message I have received a representative from the Uaited States of Columbia, and have accredited a Minister to that Republic. INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF ALIENS. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of international questions touching the rights of foreigners in this country, and of United States citizens abroc.d. In regard to some Governments, these rights are at least partially defined by treaties. In no instance, however, is it expressly stipulated that in the event of civil war a foreigner residing in this country, within the lines of the insurgents, is to be exempted f. ono the rule which classes him as a belligerent, in whose behalf the Government of this country can not expect any privileges or immunities distinct from that character. I regret to say, however, that such claims have been put forward, and in some in stances in behalf of foreigners who have resided in the United States the greater part of their lives. There is reason to believe that many persons born in foreign countries, who have declared their inters• tion to become citizens, or who have been fully na turalised, have evaded the military duty required of them by denying the fact, and thereby throwing upon the Government the burden of proof. It has been found difficult or impracticAble to obtain this proof for want of guides to the proper source of in formation. These might be supplied by requiring clerks of courts, where declarations of intention may be made or naturalisations effected, to send periodi- Lats of the names of the persons naturalised or deela r i n s , creta l , their intention to become citizens, to the of the Interior, in whose department the names t u • l ext be arranged and printed for general inforrami" . There is also reason to believe that foreigners f rE t Zt:r l itly become citizens of the United States for lam : o purpose of evading duties im p7md by the naturalised here native country, to which, en becoming re turning here, they at once repair, and though never to the United States, they still claim the i t l ,7 nin g as citizens. 'trposition of this Government M a ny altercations am great prejudices have heretofore ar isen out of thi s su b m itted to your consider4e. It is therefore It might be ad visable to fit a limit beyond m a no citizen of th e United States re sidin g abroad 7 claim the inter position of his Government. Tll3 right of suffrage has often b een exercised by aliens und er the prete,„,:jumediand tions, which they have disarw,vel when drafted into the military service. I submit the expediency of such an trawra of the law as will make the fac t of voting a4itEut o pal against any plea of exemption from military ,4: vice, or even civil obligation, on the ground of alienage. JAPAN. In common with other Western Powers, our rela tions with Japan have been brought into serious jeopardy through the perverse opposi t i o n of the heredi!ary aristocracy of the empire to the en lightened and liberal policy of the Tycoon designed to bring the country in the society of nations. It is hoped, althoug not with entire confidence, that these difficulties may be peaceably overcome. I ask your attention to the claim of the Minister residing there for the damages he sustained in the destruc tion by fire of the residence of the legation at Yedo. Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Emperor of Russia, which it is believed will result In Efft:eting a continuous line of telegraph through t hat empire from the Pacific coast. I rnatue COMMERCIAL INTERESTS. 54b ,...,7,_ ° 0 _ an international to your favourable consideration the lan i ti t e 't e : eao, international telegraph across the At tiaiend also of a telegraph between the capital anal of ttional forts along tho seaboard and the calf established with Mexico. Such communications, veil? reasonable outlay, would be economical as naval service, aids to the dipo rtiatie, military, and o stehrviee. The. consular s3-st eni begins to be the enactments or the iirist congresse United States under self-sustaining, end th ere isle v,ace i ncrease of trade, IMIS become entirely s° with the to ;lope that it beens restored.. which will ensue whenever faithful in de- Oar Ministers abroad hav e fending Amnion rights. " In protecting commercial intenq„ 0., ..- , r cnu t o,„ have necessarily had to encounter in creased l a b ° and responsibilities gro win g out of the war. These they have, for the most p art, met and disehar g ,, n with zeal and efficiency. This acknawi edgfner,r justly includes thoss consuls who, residing i n Morocco, Egypt, Tutkey, Japan, China, and other +1•116..." Oriental countries, are charged with:complex func tions and extraordinary powers. The condition of the several organised territories is generally satisfactory, s.lthough Indian disturb ancea in New Mexico ha•we not been entirely sup pressed. The mineral resources of Co:or.Ido, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, and Arizona are proving far richer than has been heretofore understood. I lay before you a communication on this subject from the Governor of New Mexico. I again submit to your consideration the expedi ency of establishing a system for the encourage ment of emigration. although this source of national wealth and strength is again flowing with greater freedom than for several years before the insurrec tion occurred. There is still a great deficiency in every field of industry, especially in agriculture and in our mines, as well of iron as the precious metals. While the demand for labour is thus increased here, tens of thousands of persons destitute of remunerative occu pation are thronging our foreign consulates and offering to emigrate to the United States, if essen tial but very cheap assistance can be afforded them. THE CIVIL WAR IN ITS RELATIONS WITII FOREIGN COUNTRIES. It is easy to sea that unde r the sharp discipline of civil war the nation is beginning a new life. This noble effort demands the aid and ought to re ceive the attention and support of the Government. Injuries unforeseen by the Government, and unin tended, may, in some cases have been inflicted on the subjects or citizens of foreign countries both at sea and on land by persons in the service of the United States. As this Government expects redress from other Powers when similar injuries ere inflicted by per sons in their service upon citizens of the United States, we must be prepared to do justice to foreigners. If the existing judicial tribunals aro inadequate to this purpose, a spec i al court may be authorised with power to hear and decide such claims of the character referred to as may have arisen under treaties and the public law. Conventions for adjusting the claims by joint commission have been proposed to some Govern ments, but no definite answer to the proposition has yet been received from any. In the course of the session I shall probably have occasion to request you to provide indemnification to claimants where decrees of restitution have been rendered (and damages awarded by Admiralty Courts), and in other cases where this Government may be acknowledged to be liable in principle, and where the amount of that liability has been ascer tained by an informal arbitration. FINANCE AND TAXATION. The proper officers of the Treasury have deemed themselves required by the law of the United States upon the subject, to demand a tax upon the incomes of foreign consuls in this country. While such a demand may not, in strictness, be in derogation of public law, or perhaps of any existing treaty be tween the United States and a foreign country, the expediency of so far modifying the act as to exempt from tax the income of such consuls as are not citizens of the United States derived from the emoluments of their office, or from property not situated in the United States, is submitted to your serious consideration. I make this suggestion upon the ground that a comity which ought to be reci procated exempts our consuls in all other countries from taxation to the extent thus indicated. The United States, I think, ought not to be exception ally illiberal to international trade and commerce. The operations of the Treasury during the last year have been successfully conducted. The enactment by Congress of a National I3nking law has proved a valuable support of the public credit, and the general legislation in relation to Loans has fully answered the expectations of its favourers. Some amendments may be required to perfect exist ing laws, but no change in their principles or general scope is believed to be needed. Since these measures have been in operation all demands on the Treasury, including the pay of the army and navy, have been promptly met and fully satisfied. No considerable body of troops it is be lieved were ever more amply provided and more liberally and punctually paid, and it may be added that by no people were the burdens incidental to a great war more cheerfully borne. Teie receipts during the year from all sources, in cluding loans and the b :lance in the Treasury at the commencement, were 901,125,674 dole. 86c., and the aggregate disbursements 89.3,796,630 dole. 65e., leaving a balance on the Ist of July, 1863, of 5,329,044 dole. 21c. Of the receipts, there were received from customs 69,059,642 dots. 40c.; from internal revenue, 37,640,787 dole. 95c. ; from direct tax, 1,485,103 dots. 61c.; from lands, 167,617 dots. 17c. ; from miscellaneous sources, 3,046,615 dots. 35c., and from loans, 776,682,361 dols. 57c., making the aggregate 901,125,674 dole. 86c. Of the disburse ments, there were for the civil service, 23,253,922 dols. 08c.; for pensions, and Indians, 4,216,526 dols. 59c. ; for interest on public debt, 24,729,846 dots. 51c. ; for the War Department, 599,298,600 dots. 83c. ; for the Navy Department, 63,211,105 dots. 27c.; for payment of funded and temporary debt, 181,086,635 dots. 07c., making the aggregate 895,796,630 dots. 65e., and leaving the balance of 5,329,044 dots. 21c. But the payments of the funded and temporary debt having been made from moneys borrowed during the year, must be regarded as merely nomi nal payments, and the moneys borrowed to make them as merely nominal receipts, and their amount 181,086,635 dole. 07c. should therefore be deducted both from receipts and disbursements. This being done there remains as actual receipts 720,039,039 doll. 79c., and the actual disbursements are 714,709,995 dole. 58e., leaving the balance as already stated. The actual receipts and disbursements for the first quarter, and the estimated receipts and disburse ments for the remaining three quarters of the cur rent fiscal year, 1861, will be shown in detail by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, to which I invite your attention. It is sufficient to say here that it is not believed that actual results will exhibit a state of the finances less favourable to the country than the estimates heretofore submitted, while it is confidently ex pected that at the close of the year both disburse ments and debt will be found very considerably less than has been anticipated. THE WAR DEPARTMENT. The retort of the Secretary of War is a docu ment of great interest. It consists ot— Vint- - The military operations of the year do t'' in the of the General-in-Chief. i nto ", t —T he organisation of coloured persons war service. exchange of prisoners fully set forth Fourth in the I . , tt i r Gen. Hitchcock. jug , an d cal l : n o_ operations under the act of enroll °tan: Provost Marshal-General. in the report oat l., the national forces—detailed Fifth—The Sixth —The op, r l t 7tien of the Invalid Corps, and the several departments Commissary•Gene of the Quarterm‘meZ. nof ral, Pdymaster-Generc, 'Chief of Ordnance , and Surg„ t. f of Engineers, Chief It has appeared impos,ib'ic.neral. able summary of this „ p„r t t o make a valu-, would be too ex tended for thia Place such as I content myself by asking lour and hence tention to the report itself. The e Z tie e ti ar s eful at on the navy branch of the service du r i nit u t e ;olving and throughout the whole of this unn &ppy Year, have been dischirged with fidelity and emin Ztest, ass. The extensive blockade has been conet teat, increasing in efficiency. if the Navy has expanded, yet en so long a lin e i t has so far been impossible to entirely suppress illicit trade. From returns received at the Navy Depart ment, it appears that more than a thousand vessels have been captured since the blockade was insti tuted, hn d that the value of prizes already sent in for adjudication amounts to over thirteen millions of dollars. Th 9 naval force of the United States consists at this time o , 588 vessels, completed and in the course of completion, and of these 75 are iron-clad or ar moured. steamers. The events of the war give an increased interest and importance to the navy, which Will probably extend beyond the war itself . . The armoured ve,.sels in our navy, completed and THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1863, in service, or which are under contract and approach ing completion, are believed to exceed in number those of any other Power. But while these may be relied upon for harbour defence and coast service, others of greater strength and capacity will be necessary for cruising purposes, and to maintain our rightful position on the ocean. The change that has taken place in naval vessels and naval warfare since the introduction of steam as a motive power for ships of war, demands either a corresponding change in some of our existing navy yards or the establishment of new ones for the con struction and necessary repair of modern naval vessels. No inconsiderable embarrassment, delay, and public injury have been experienced from the want of anch Govermental establishments. The necessity of suc h a navy-yard, so furnished, abtooasrodm, ehassuointabrleepepaltaecde to the att en ti on of Congress occa s i o nsup upon n the beenA t Atlantic n ti broughtc se a - by the Navy Be partment ; and it i s aga i n presented in the report of the Secretary, which accompanies this communica tion. I think it my duty to invite your special attention to this subject, and also to that of establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the western rivers. A naval force has been created on these interior waters, and under many disadvan tages, within a little more than two years, exceed - ing in number the whole naval force of the country it the commencement of the present Administra tion. Satisfactory and important as have been the performances of the heroic men of the navy at this interesting period, they are scarcely more wonder. ful than the success of our mechanics and artisans in the production of war vessels which has created a new form of naval power. Our country has advantages superior to any other nation in resources of iron and timber, with inex haustible quantities of fuel in the immediate vicinity of both, and all available and in close proximity to navigable waters. Without the advantage of public works, the resources of the nation have been de veloped and its power displayed in the construction of a navy of such magnitude which has at the very period of its creation rendered signal service to the Union. The increase of the number of seamen in the pub lic service from 7,500 men in the spring of 1861, to about 34,000 at the present time, has been accom plished without special legislation or extraordinary bounties to promote that increase. It has been found, however, that the operation of the draft, with the high bounties paid for army re cruits, is beginning to affect injuriously the naval service, and will, if not corrected, be likely to im pair its efficiency by detaching seamen from their proper vocation, and inducing them to enter the army. I, therefore, respectfully suggest that Congress might aid both the army and naval eervice by a definite provision on this subject which would at the same time be equitable to the communities more especially interested. I commend to your consideration the suggestiins of the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the policy of fostering and training seamen, and also the edu cation of officers and engineers for the naval service. Th e Naval Academy is rendering signal service in preparing midshipmen for the highly responsible duties which in after life they will be required to perform: - In order that the country should not be deprived of the proper quota of educated officers for which legal provision has been made at the Naval School, the vacancies caused by the neglect or omission to make nominations from the States in insurrection have been filled by the Secretary of the Navy. The school is now more full and complete than at any former period, and in every respect entitled to the favourable consideration of Congress. THE POST OFFICE. During the past fiscal year, the financial condition of the Post-office Department has been one of increasing prospe rity, and I am gratified in being able to state that the actual postal revenue has nearly equalled the entire expenditures —the latter amounting to 11,311, 206 dais. 84c., and the former to 11 ,163,789 dols, 593., leaving a deficiency of but 150,414 dols. 25c. In 1860, the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the deficiency amounted to 5,656,705 dols. 49c., the postal re ceipts being 2,643,722 dole. 193, less than those of 1863. The decrease since 1860 in the annual amount of transpor tation has been about 25 per cent. ; but the annual expendi ture on account of the same has been reduced 35 per cent. It is manifest, therefore, that the Post-office Department may become self-sustaining in a few years, even with the re storation of the whole service. The International Conference of Postal delegates from the principal countries of Europe and America, which was called at the suggestion of the Post master-General, met at Paris on the 11th of May last, and concluded its deliberations on the Bth of June. The principle established by the conference as best adapted to facilitate postal intercourse between nations, and as the basis of future Postal Conventions, inaugurates a general system of uniform international charges at reduced rates of postage, and cannot fail to produce beneficial results, LAND SALES, I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Interior, which is herewith laid before you, for useful and varied in formation in relation to public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pertaining to his department. The quantity of land disposed of during the last and the first quirter of the present fiscal year was 3,841,549 acres, of which 161,911 acres were sold for cash. 1,456,514 acres were taken up under the Homestead Law, and the residue disposed of under laws granting lands for military bounties for railroad and other purposes, It also appears that the sale of public lands is largely on the increase. It has long been a cherished opinion of some of our wisest statesmen that the people of the United States had a higher and more enduring interest in the early settle • ment and substanthl cultivation of the public lands than in the amount of ditect revenue to be derived from the sale of them. This opinion has had a controlling influence in shaping legislation upon the subject of our national domain. I may cite as evidence of this the liberal measures adopted in refe rence to actual settlers, the grant to the States of the over flowed lands within their limits in order to their being re claimed and rendered fit for cultivation, and the grants to railway companies of alternate sections of land upon the contemplated lines of their roads, which when completed will largely multiply the facilities for reaching our distant possessions. This policy has received its most signal and beneficent illustration in the recent enactment granting homesteads to actual settlers. Since the first day of January last before mentioned the quantity of 1,456,514 acres of land have been taken up under its provisions. This fact and the amount of sales furnish gratifying evi dence of increasing settlement upon the public lands, not withstanding the great struggle in which the energies of the nation have been engaged, and which has required so large a withdrawal of our citizens from their accustomed pursuits. I cordially concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior suggesting a modification of the act in favour of those engaged in the military and naval service of the United States. I doubt not that Congress will cheerfully adopt such mea sures as will, without essentially changing the general fea tures of the system, secure to the greatest prao ical extent its benefits to those who have left their homes in defence of the country in this arduous crisis, can be done now. Augmented interest is given to this sub ject by the actual commencement of work upon the Pacific Railroad, under auspices so favourable to rapid progress and completion. The enlarged navigation becomes a palpable need to the great road. I transmit the second annual report of the Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture, asking your attention to the developments in that vital interest of the nation. reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment ; and Whereas, a rebellion now exists whereby the loyal State Governments of several States have for a long time been subverted, and many persons have committed and are now guilty of treason against the United States; and Whereas, with reference to said rebellion and treason, laws have been enacted by Congress declaring forfeitures and confiscat!on of property and liberation of slaves, all upon terms and conditions therein stated : and also declaring that the President was thereby authorised at any time thereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have parti cipated in the existing rebellion in any State, or part thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such exceptions and at such times and on such conditions as he may deem expe dient for the public welfare ; and Whereas, the Congressional declaration for limited and conditional pardons with the well-established judicial ex position of the pardoning power, and Whereas, with reference to the said rebellion, the Presi dent of the United States has issued several proclamations with provisions in regard to the liberation of slaves, and Whereas, it is now desired by same persons heretofore engaged in the said rebellion to resume their allegiance to the United States, and to reinaugurate loyal State Govern ments within and for their respective States ; Therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known to,all persons who have directly or by implication participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves, and in property cases where the rights of third parties shall have intervened, and upon the condition that every such person shall take and subscribe an oath, and thenceforward keep and maintain said oath inviolate, and which oath shall be registered for permanent preservation, and shall be of the tenor and effect, following, to wit : " I, --, do solemnly swear in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder, and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court, and that I will in like manner abide and faithfully support all pro clamations of the President made during the existing re having reference to slaves, so long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme Court. So help me God." The persons excepted from the benefits of the foregoing provisions are all who are or shall have been civil or diplo matic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Govern ment; all who have left judicial stations under the United States to aid the rebellion; all who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Go vernment above the rank of colonel in the army, of lieute nant in the navy; all who left seats in the United States Congress to aid the rebellion; All who resigned commissions in the army or navy of the United States, ani afterwards aided the rebellion, and all who have engaged in any way in treating coloured persons or white persons in charge of such, otherwise than lawfully as . prisonera of war, have been found in the United States service as soldiers, seamen, or in any other capacity. And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas. Louisi ana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, tt, number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such States, at the Presidental election of the year of our Lord, 1860, each having taken the oath aforesaid, and not having since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the State existing immediately before the so-called act of Secession, and excluding all others, shall re-establish a State Government, which shall be republican, and in no wise contravening said, oath, such shall be recognised as the true Government of the State, and the State shall receive thereunder the benefit of the constitutional provision which declares that " The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, on application of the Legis lature, or of the Executive, when the Legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence." And I do furtber proclaim, declare, and make known that any provision which may be adopted by such State Govern ment in relation to tne freed people of such State which shall recognise and declare their permanent freedom, pro vide for their education, and which may yet be consistent, as a temporary arrangement, with their present condition as a labouring, landless, and houselcss class, will not be ob jected to by the National Executive. And it is engaged, as not improper, that in constructing a loyal State Government in any State, the name of the State, the boundary, the subdivisions, the Constitution and the general code of laws, as before the rebellion, bo maintained subject only to foe modifications made necessary by the conditions hereinbefere stated, and such others, if any, not contravening said conditions, and which may be deemed expedient by those framing the new State Government. To avoid misunderstanding, it may be proper to say that this proclamation, so far as it relates to State Governments, has no reference to States wherein loyal State Governments have all the while been maintained. And for the same rea son it may be proper to further say, that whether members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to seats constitutionally,rests exc!usively with the respective houses, and not to any extent with the Executive. And still further, that this proclamation is intended to present the people of the States wherein the national autho rity has been suspended, and loyal State Governments have been subverted, a mode in and by which the national autho rity and loyal State Governments may be re-established within said States, or in any of them. And while the mode proposed is the best the Executive can suggest with his present impressions, it must not be understood that no other possible mode would be acceptable. Given under ray hand at the city of Washington, the eighth day of December, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-eighth. ADRAILAM LINCOLN. By the President. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. [L.s.] STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTEII, Dec. 22,—The yarn market has been very quiet today, and to effect sales lower prices would have to be taken, but spinners, as a rule, being pretty well under contract, show no dis position to press sales. There are exceptional in stances to the contrary, but they are not numerous. Most of the spinners appear to think that at the turn of the year we shall have more activity, as it is well known that many °reels are in the hands of export houses, which for the present are kept back. 'lle market for home trade yarns is quite as flat as last week, and, as manufacturers are disinclined to operate, prices are against producers. Sellers re port that there is a good deal of irregularity on the part of the spinners, who are anxious to realise, and buyers who have tested the market pretty actively say that in some descriptions of cop yarn there is a great difference between the rates which spinners aro willing to accept rather than not sell. In the cloth market we have also had a flat day. There is no disposition on the part of buyers to operate. Many of them are understood to hold orders, and some of them pretty considerable ones, but at limits which are far below what manufacturers are disposed to accept at pre sent. At the same time, a considerable concession would be made by manufacturers on lest Tuesday's rates, but they find so few who are really disposed to buy that it would be difficult to arrive at a cor rect quotation of the concession which would lead to business, There is a rumour of advises of a dis couraging character from Bombay having been re ceived by the China mail. The market closes with declining prices both for cloth and yarn, and a great curtailment of production is expected. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of the cloth market :—" Buyers still keep oat of the market, or only offer prices too low to be entertained by manufacturers. W e may, on the whole, quote the market lower than last Tuesday, but the transactions have been so few, and at prices so irregular, that our quotations can only approximate the actual value of goods." LEEDS, 22d.--Though there was not much woollen cloth sold in the cloth halls to-day, the market was cheerful, both manufacturers and merchants being without complaints either as to the condition or the prospect of trade. The purchases were of a miscel laneous character, including a small quantity of heavy as well as light goods. The demand for good black cloths is scarcely so brisk as it lately was, yet that branch of trade is in a satisfactory state, first • rate productions not being difficult to sell by the manufacturer. The wool trade is moderately active and prices of both wools and cloths are steady. The flax trade, so far as the demand for yarns and threads is concerned, is a little quieter than it was, but the manufacturers are well employed. On account of next Saturday being partially kept as a holyday here the cloth markets usually held on a Saturday will this week take place on Thursday. ROCHDALE, 214t.—The flannel market to •day was much the same as last week. The attendance of buyers was not large, and they purchased rather e carefully, though in the aggregate rather more goods changed hands than on the precedirus.ness ket day. In Yorkshire goods a moderate w done. Prices of flannels and . other laint of goods in this market keep steady. There is coral? ar i e h fi e r w m o l o y l want of work among the manufacturrn.e:res; market is rather quiet, but late p maintained. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The arrival by the same mail of the text of two President's Messages, both addressed to Senates and Houses of Representatives, is an illus tration of the political condition of the American Republic more striking than the report of any battle won or lost. Fighting indicates a power of resistance or .attack, but the appearance of the two Messages side by side, both equally formal, is the visible proof that behind the Southern Secession there is a political organization as complete as that of the North itself. The opening the Session of a Legislature is a peaceful ceremony; but when done in duplicate, as in the present case, it may bear a very different meaning. A convulsion of the old political system has thrown off a second and hostile body. Instead of the one planet of the West, ob servers have now to watch the movements of a double star and make a twofold series of calcu lations. The message of the Northern President is brief when compared with former specimens of that annual document. The points it touches are numerous enough, but they are shortly dealt with. The time is too busy for diffuseness, and topics are dismissed in a single paragraph of a few lines which formerly would hove been found capable of indefi nite expansion. Little is said of the relations of the North with the European Powers, and in the tone employed there is no echo of the bitter feeling to wards England that has found expression so often in journals and in party speeches. Mr. Lincoln passes very rapidly over the questions connected with the construction in England of the vessels the South has employed as cruisers, but his allusion, brief as it is exaggerates the facts. He says,—" Her Majesty's Government, as was justly expected, have exercised their authority to prevent the de parture of new hostile expeditions from British ports." An empty hull, without armament or crew, is misdescribed as an " expedition." The difficulty in all the cases complained of has been that nothing in the fittings of the ships indicated their destination with legal certainty. The vessels were on the open set; liable to capture by the North when the Southerners converted them into ships of war and made them capable of doing mischief. We ere still unable to comprehend hoiY the skill and enterprise of the North has been ao para;,,vsed that, possessing 588 ships of war afloat er in coarse of construction, it did not enforce for its own prota tion a stricter " police of the ocean." With half the number of war vessels on the Northern Navy List the Government could station one ship on every ten miles of the coast blockade. If the North has wasted its real strength in building or chartering whole fleets of vessels unfit to keep the sea, it must visit the failure on its own Government. A year ago Mr. Seward was reproaching all Europe because it could not receive his exceedingly cheerful views of the war as correct estimates of the position of the country. Mr. Lincoln goes back to the same period, and describing the position of affairs at the time, intimates that the European opinion of his difficulties was nearer the truth than that of his Foreign Secretary. When Congress had assembled last December, he says, the war had lasted nearly 20 months. The result of many conflicts by land and sea had been " varying." Though the limits of the revolt had been practically narrowed, yet " the tone of public feeling and of opinion, at home and abroad, was not satisiactory." The popular elections indicated the domestic" uneasiness" caused by political division. The kindest words coming from Europe " were uttered in accents of pity that we " were too blind to surrender a hopeless cause." The commerce of the North was suffering greatly from a few armed vessels, which constituie the whole Southern navy. There was even a prospect that the Northern blockade should be raised by toreign intervention. These diffi:iulties Mr. Lincoln does not now disguise, but a year ago Europe was ft equently rebuked and accused of ill-will for per ceiving and pointing them out. Substantially, the President contends that the North has been success ful during the past year ; but he abstains from going into the particular incidents of that success. The recent operations at Chattanooga are not directly mentioned. There is no allusion whatever to the Army of the Potomac. No military commander is named by the chief of the Northern Republic. The omission may be according to official precedent, hut bearing in mind the immense sacrifices the American people has made the Message contains a very cold and inadequate appreciation of them. Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of pardon and amnesty to those citizens of the Southern States who may be disposed to abandon the revolt we have already considered. The text of the document adds to the number of classes who will be excepted from any terms of reconciliation. Tae door is shut against all who have any influence in or over the Confederacy. The proclamation differs from the usual form in which an amnesty is proclaimed, in that it gives no time of grace, and contains nu date after which the offer of pardon will be forfeited. The Southerners therefore can lose none of its advantages by trying the chances of war for a few months longer. The suggestion that one-tenth of the population of a State may, if assisted by a Federal army, construct a local Government, and come into the Union with it, is neutralised by the " condition precedent"--the Northern army must possess the State before the tenth fraction of the people can vote. This posses sion is the exact point which war, as Mr. Lincoln intimates, must decide. The proposal that a tenth of the inhabitants, plus the Northern army, shall bind the whole of the citizens is a singular illustra tion of the principle that the will of the majority constitutes the only legal governing power. The Message of the Southern President is in style and language much superior to that of his Northern rival. He is also more generous in acknowledging the ser• vices of his military commanders. Mr. Davis goes at length into the history of the war during the year, which Mr. Lincoln appears to avoid. He begins by noticing the Southern reverses at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, of which he admits the importance; but he does full justice to the efforrs that have saved Charleston from capture ani continued such an effective resistance to the Northern arms in Vii ginia. He speaks in a tone of disappointment as to the relations of the Confederacy with Europe. He expected, probably that the sympathy felt for the weaker party in a life and death struggle would by this time have taken the more effective shape of ac tion. The South has doubted, we fear, whether England could be neutral if she wished, and to find that even the cotton famine is not to us an over whelming national calamity has been a disappoint ment at Richmond. Of the civil war itself Mr. Davis speaks without despondency, but yet with a aegree of feelipg creditable to his humanity. The absence of any sentiment of the kind from Mr. Lincoln's Message rer ders it one of the most cold blooded political documents ever published. PosT.-The responsibility of providing for the future is inculcated commonly enough as a duty to individuals in their private capacities; but it is a precept taken less frequently to heart than it might be with advantage as a measure of precaution to nations. Nevertheless, it would be easy to show that the precept applies with equal force to the one case as to the other; and if the community of a na tion manifest in a lesser degree than individuals the need of considering what may be the resources of a hereafter, this can only arise from the selfishness inseparable front humanity. Subsequent to the last meeting of the British Association, when Sir Wm. Armstrong first gave utterance to a fact enun ciated long before his time, relative to the compa rative exhaustion of available coal, the public mind has been rather more disposed than before to take cognisance of certain phases of national futurity that may be or may not be equal in resources to those commanded at present, according as the sources of productive force—for so we may deno minate them —may or may not be kept up to their existing level. Speculations relative to the period of coal exhaustion seem to have taken less firm possession of the public mind than speculations re lative to the exhaustion of elements of agricultural fertility. This is so far inconsistent that, whereas —no efficient substitute for pit coal being known, and the need for using this material being impera tive—the world must go on remorselessly towards the issue of coal exhaustion whether he wilt or not —in respect of the second case, chemists tell us e and the truth of their assurance has been amply demon strated, that agricultural nations have the power at option of maintaining the needful balance indefi nitely ; and that if, at any period, manure should run short, and comparative barrenness of the soil ensue, such a result could only happen from a squandering of the elements, and materials of fer tility, by unadvised measures, for periods long ante cedent. Granting absolutely, as Baron Liobige himself could grant, that some time hence— „wd"thre not walled upon to say when —every . population of which assiduously castsmoitlfatir and other offal into the sen, must beco me to what it but for the importation of au .Ediles must thus casts away,we are wr conv inced o t he g i u bd i a v biet : nevert heless oinerffe st c h er at ic ; o te w y ai t utterly futile the attempt this point is, This generatian is immeoiate alteration of their sewage economy',. . c4- W ng b j a s t our British is, that if posterity to future h eart very serioudi Gave to sdy on needs suffer, w " lot it lay to e, e a r s sw fo i r li t c . h o e n t g im r 3' a e o u n g" g niaY tillie to corn generation in achieved success this not the iunntseetlefivestoherean ofol m atter. present, British sewage commission tulate themselves on having c hannel the sewage matters over they have bodily Conveyed b^ when / the nearest available which their control e xtends into the sea. Now, it is concerning these sewage matters to p the urp re o d s a c e . ability to a gr i cu l tural that " a s b g. o r u ee t o t t o th m e a ir ke ap s p o i m ic e remarks in ref e rence . We are not dis posed to enter upon any violent controversy, the moreespeeially at this kstive season of the year; and a violent controversy would assuredly be reified by , any expression of opinion concerning the utility or the inutility of liquid sewage. The dictum, how ever, may be safely laid down, without fear of con tradiction from any quarter, that tale dejecta of a town if flooded with water and passed aloug through a sewer to a reservoir some distance away, represents a very different material, chemically speaking, to what it was originally, even though the weather be eold. It is in summer and autumn, however, that the mutation effected upon it will be most complete. Fermentation will have set in, and before the expiration of many hours the original nitrogenous constituents—unquestionably the most valuable that a manure can possess—will have absolutely evapo rated. This result is one that we say is undeniable and will not be demurred to by the members of any party in the debate now pending relative to the utilisation of sewage liquids ; and being so, certain grave questions of public interest cannot fail to be suggested. In the first place, we would deLlund whether much of the discrepancy that now odes relative to the utility or inutility of liquid sewage matter in an agricultural sense may not be referable. to the variation in length of transit before utilisa tion, to which the sewage fluid, the subject of testi mony, may have been exposed. To cite a hypotheti cal, but at the same time fairly illustrative examp le s the liquid sewage of London would present on e chemical composition at Barking-creek and aeothe r at every intermediate part of its course between th e source and final deliverance. We are disposed to fancy that much of the discrepancy to which we advert would disappear under this way of looking at, the circumstances. Another, and it may be a 0 11 2. more important, question is the following which we grant to be the cese, there is a present necessity for diluting the natural valuable element° of manures, can this practice—once forced upon us by our habits and our education ; one moreover to which so large a measure of in_mediate comfort is due—can it be reconciled with some treatment that shall have the effect of obviating those fermentive changes to which the evolution of ammonia end other nitrogenous matter is attributable. Theoreti cally, it should be possible to temper the sewers with some material more appropriate than the line now commonly used, which must needs exert the chemi cal effect of liberating ammonia under ordinary cir cumstances. As for the salts of potash and B ode, they of course must be lost, or at least must present themselves under all the disadvantages of extreme dilution. COUNTRY MARKETS. ,I , -..., LEEDS—TUESDAY. The trade to-day has been very slow, the business passing in wheat being quite of a retail character, at about the rates of this day week. The same remarks apply to all kinds of spring corn. THE INDIAN SYSTEM. I invite your attention to the views of the Secretary as to the propriety of raising by appropriate legislation a re• venue from the mineral lands of the United States. The measures provided at your last session for the removal of certain Indian tribes have boen carried into effect, Sundry treaties have been negotiated which will, in due time, be submitted for the constitutional action of the Senate. They contain stipulations for extinguishing the possessory rights of the Indians to large and valuable tracts of land. It is hoped that the effect of these treaties will result in the esta blishment of :permanent friendly relations with such of these tribes as have been brought into frequent and bloody collision with our outlying settlements and emigrants. Sound policy and our imperative duty to these wards of the Government demand our anxious and constant atten tion to their material well-being, to their progress in the arts of civilisation, and, above all, to that moral training which, under the blessing of Divine Providence, will confer upon them the elevated and sanctitying influences, the hopes and consolations of the Christian faith. I suggested patronised in my last annual message the propriety of refee,delling our Indian system. j.,,titaubscquent events have satisfied me of its necessity. The fostering care. The u_rgeinist bet forth in the report of the Secretary evince the `` l eoraneed for immediate legislative action. ebiad the benevolent institutions established or h o c d oein in n l this district to your generous and Ilog'irbtore attention of Congresa during the last the w g: t g e ed to some extent with a proposition for Since then, upon a he e l aTl a e o t f c li th i e R :erjl i si ve : r gr4 a :v e ga ; th " e . unication between the Mississippi however, failed for t c ae a t g i tern seaboard, which proposition, greatest respectability, a Convention has been contained upon the same subject, will force its own way I do notnteent=iniTrilt: __, r ntainecl in a memorial ad the honour to lay before yo u . of That I now have darseassmtrao summary ewshidoesne tvaiendsCun„, and which ere long while it is submitted entirely to yea s w • 184 " 9 ' B to what REVIEW OF THE WAR. When Congress assembled a year a gche war had already lasted nearly 20 months, and there had been many conflicts on both land and sea, with varying results ; the rebellion had been pressed back into reduced limits, yet the tone of public feeling and opinion at home and abroad was not satisfactory. With other signs the popular elections then just past indi• cated uneasiness among ourselves, while, amid much that was cold and menacing, the kindest words coming from Europe were uttered in accents of pity, that we were too blind to surreLder a hopeless cause. Our commerce was suffering greatly by a few armed ves sels built upon and furnished from foreign shores, and we were threatened with such additions from the same guar tors as would sweep our trade from the sea and raise the blockade. We had failed to elicit from European Govern ments anything hopeful upon this subject. The preliminary emancipation proclamation, issued in September, was running its assigned period to the beginning of the new year. A month later the final proclamation came, including the announcement that coloured men of suitable condition would be received in the war service. The policy of emancipation and of employing black sDldiers gave to the future a new aspect, about which hope and fear and doubt contended in uncertain conflict. According to our political system, as a matter of civil administration, the Government had no lawful power to effect emancipation in any state, and for a long time it had been hoped that the rebellion could be suppressed without resorting to it as a military measure. It was all the while deemed possible that the necessity for it might come, and that if it should, the crisis of the contest would then be pre sented. It came, and, as was anticipated, was followed by dark and doubtful days. Eleven months having now passed, we are permitted to take another review, The rebel borders are pressed still further back, and by the complete opening of the Mississippi the country dominated by the rebellion is divided into two distinct parts, with no practical communication between them. Tennessee and Arkansas have been substantially cleared of insurgent control, and influential citizens in each, owners of slaves and advocates of slavery at the beginning of the rebellion, now declare openly for emancipation in their re spective States. Of these States not included in the emanci pation proclamation, Maryland and Missouri, neither of which three years ago would tolerate any restraint upon the extension of slavery into new territories, only dispute now as to the best mode of removing it within their own limits. Of those who were slaves at the beginning of the rebel lion, full 100,000 are now in the United States military ser anti suppl y i ng t h e vice, about one-half of w hich number actu a ll y b ear arms in the ranks, th us g i v i ng th e d o uble advant age of taking so muchplaces labour .svhi h from ether thewis otherwise m insurgentustbe filled cause, with so m an y w hi to men. So far as tested it is difficult to say they are not as good soldiers as any. No servile insurrection or tendency to violence or cruelty has marked the measures of emancipa tion and arming the blacks. These measures have been much discussed in foreign countries, and contemporary with such discussion, the tone of public sentiment there is much improved. At home the same measures h ave b een f u ll y di scuss ed, supported, criti cised, and denounced, and the annual elections following are highly encouraging to those whose official duty it is to bear the country through this great trial. Thus we have the mew reckoning. The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past. Looking now to the present and future, and with a refer ence to a resumption of the national authority in the Sta es wherein that authority has been suspended I have thought fit to issue a proclamation —a copy of which is herewith transmitted. On examination of this proclamation it will appear (as is believed) that nothing is attempted beyond what is amply justified by the Constitution. True, the form of an oath is given, but no man is coerced to take it, The man is onlypromisedapardon in case he voluntarily takes the oath. The Constitution authorises the Executive to grant or withhold the pardon at his own absolute discre tion, and this includes the power to grant on terms, as is fully established by judicial and other authorities. It is also proffered that if in any of the States named a State Govern ment shall be recognised and guaranteed by the United States, and that under it the State shall, on the Constitu tional conditions, be protected against invasion and domestic violence. The constitutional obligation of the United States to gua rantee to every State in the Union a Republican form of Go vernment, and to protect the State in the cases stated, is ex plicit and full. But why tender the benefits of this provision only to a State Government set up in this particular way ? This section of the Constitution contemplates a case wherein the element within a State in favour of Republican Govern ment in the Union may be too feeble for an opposite and hostile element external to or even within the State, and such are precisely the cases with which we are now dealing. An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State Go vernment constructed in whole, or in preponderating part, from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected, is simply absurd. There must be a test by which to separate the opposing elements so as to build only from the sound, and that test !...s a sufficiently liberal one which accepts as sound whoever will make a sworn re cantation of his movements. But if it be proper to require as a test of admission to the political body, an oath of allegiance to the United States, and to the Union under it, why no t a l so to the laws and proclamations in regard to slavery ? Those laws and proclamations were put forth for the pur pose of aiding in the suppression of the rebellion. To give them the fullest effect there had to be a pledge for their maintenance. In my judgment they have aided and will further aid the cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel and astounding breach of faith. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. I may add, at this point, while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retraot or modify the Emanci pation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any per son who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress• For these and other reasons, it is thought best that sup port of these measures shall be included in the oath, and it is believed that the Executive may lawfully claim it in re turn for pardon and restoration of forfeited rights, which he has a clear constitutional power to withhold altogether, or grant upon the terms he 0101 deem wisest for the public interest. It should be observed also that this part of the oath is sub ject to the modifying and abrogating power of legi s l at i on and supreme judicial decision. CONCLUSION. The proposed acquiescence of the National Executive in any reasonable temporary State arrangement for the freed people is made with the view of possibly modifying the con fusion and destitution which must at best attend all classes by a total revolution of labour throughout whole States. It is hoped that the already deeply afflicted people in these States may be somowhat more ready to give up the causo of their affliction, if to this extent this vital matter be left to themselves. While no power of the National Executive to prevent an abuse is abridged by the proposition, the sug gestion in the proclamation as to maintaining the politica framework of the States on what is called reconstruction , is made in the hope that it may do good without danger of harm. It will save labour and avoid great confusion. But why any proclamation now upon the subject ? This subject is beset with the conflicting views that the step might be delayed too long, or be taken too soon. In some States the elements for resumption seem ready for ac'ion, but remain inactive, apparently for want of a rallying point —a plan of action. Why shall A adopt the plan of B, rather than B that of A ? And if A and B should agree, how can they know but that the General Government here will reject their plan P By the proclamation a plan is presented which may be accepted by them at , a rallying point, and which they are assured i advance will not be rejected here. This may bring them to act sooner than they other wise would. The objections to a premature presentation of a plan by the National Executive consists in the danger of committees on points which could be more safely left to further develop • meats. Caro has been taken so to shape the denouement as to avoid embarrassment from this source, saying that on certain terms certain classes will be pardoned, with rights restored, It is not said that other classgas and other terms will never be included, saying that reconstruction will be accepted if presented in a specific way. It is not said it will never be accepted in any other way. The movements by State action for emancipation in several of the States not included in the emancipation proclamation, are matters of profound gratu lation. And while I do not repeat nor detail what I have hereto• fore so earnestly urged upon this subject, my general views and feelings remain unchanged : and I trust that Congress will omit no fair opportunity of aiding these important steps to the great consummation. In the midst of other cares, however important, we must not lose sight of the fact that the war power is still our main reliance. To that power alone can we look fur a time to give confidence to the people in the eanteeted regions that the insurgent power will not again overrun them. Until that confidence shall be established, little can be done anywhere for what is called reconstruction. Hence our chiefest care must still be directed to the army and navy, which have thus far borne their harder part so nobly and well ; and it may be esteemed fortunate that in giving the greatest efficiency to these indispensable arms we do honourably recognise the gallant men, from commander to sentinel, who compose them, and to whom more than to others the world must stand indebted for the harms of free. dom disenthralled, regenepted, enlarged , and perpetuated. .A.BILAIIAX LINCOLN. December 8, 1863. The following Proclamation is appended to th e Message:— PROCLAMA TION. I p h r c o r v en d tbinaantdthbye the i , res id e nt obeal have power to grant Const i tu tion of the United St a t es it is li MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY. White wheat, 41s to 46s ; red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone• Malting barley at 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 29s to 3 20 per 30 st. Oats, old, 26s to 30s; new, 21s to 25s per 30 st. ; beans, 34s to 40s per qr. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. -- • There was a fair attendance of the trade at market ici• day, but the business done was quite of a holiday character. Wheat and flour met with a moderate retail demand at the rates of last Tuesday. Oats and oatmeal met a slow ka)e , and barely supported former prices. In barb y and Pe" there was a moderate inquiry. Beans may be quoted at decline of 6d per qt. Indian corn neglected, although bit week's prices were made. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was a moderate business doing in all kinds of grain, with little variation in former prices. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss Oil to 178 0 d White ff , ...17$ Od to 18s Od New red , , .15s 01 to 178 Od New white ~ ff ...17s Od to 188 0 d Peas, per qr Beans ff f 1 ... 15s 6d to 17s Od Grindin g barley, per qr 4os Od to 4 4 s Od 30s Od to 3 2 s 04 Malting ditto, „ 3ls Od to 388 0 d Oats f 1 22s Od to 2 48 OCI Flour, Is sd, is 7d, and is Sd per 14 lb. CORK—TUESDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :.—R ed wheat, 88 Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od to 9s 8d , barley , 06 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 6s 2d ; black do., 48 4d to 5s 3d. DUBLIN—TUESDAY. S. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats ..... 9 0 to 12 0 Do., black — 0 to B. d. s. d. Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. - 0 Bere ... —0 to 0 Rapeseed —0 to 0 Bakers' flour ~ 14 0 to 20 0 Indian corn .. 27 0 to 23 0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Dec. 18. via Marseilles ... Jan. 12. brazil and Cape Verds, by British pachot . Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Dee. 29. Illina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southatnpton.Jan. 2. via Marseilles ...Dec. '27. Falkland Islands Uibraltar, via Southampton ., Dec. 27. i ndia (Calcutta), arid Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 2 via Marseilles Dec. 27. ndia (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles Dec. 21. Portugal..... Jan. 4. Malta, .Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 27. via Marseilles Dec. 21. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec. 23 by U.S. pack& by Canadian packet.. Jan 1. v 4 .C. of Africa, Madoira, and Teneriffe Tan. 10. Bahamas, via New York ....... • Jan . 14. Mexico.. ....Dec. 29 AU parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, California. and British Columbia. i D ec . 29. The Courrier du Havre says :—" The maritime world was astonished at our signalising the number of 41 0 disasters at sea during the first half of the month of Nov eni ' ber ; that is, 230 total losses of vessels, and 930 accidental more or less serious. It is now no longer astonishoe!" but stupefaction and consternation which we shall pr oviso in annoumeing that for the first fortnight in December of this same year, 1863, we have to enumerate 1,158 accidents of different kinds, including the wrecks of vessels more or less susceptible of recovery ; 230 vessels irrevocably lost ; 27 missing with all hands, their fate being unknown, and 13 fishing boats completely wrecked ; or total of 1,428 maritime disasters of all kinds." 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Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigeBt,„,.. —Curacll gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. 54,816. Ibe Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham. restatedf°lm of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which il_ad ; all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, N d 0. 5 7 1b 7: 11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum of ane United Kingdom grocers and chemists in every tow n -- th ---------=" -------n' Births. a_t Sou . thill, in the count/ of Durham, the wife of iienry r enwick, Esq., my., of FENWICK.—On tho 20thinst.. son and heir. ol f list.. at Wilton- GORING. --011 the ....s. i and on - park, Sussex, DSra• Goring, of twins —a boy girl. the 21st inst at TALBOT. --0" Westminster, the Hon. Mrs. John Gilbert Talbot of a daug hter. / Marriages. RoszalSolf—SMlTH.-011 the 22d inst., at Saint John'e• liensington-park, Captain Robertson, Ist Royal ofßat t Middlesex Militia, to L aura El eanor S m ith, onlychild Edward Smith, Esq., late of Edinburgh. HUNTER — MAGUIRE.—On the 26th ult., at Quebec, E.C. Dvputy Assista n t -C omm i ssar y-General R. E. Hun ter, second PO D o f G eorge Y. Hunter, Esq., of Margate , to - Minnie, eldest daughter of Judge Maguire, of Quebec. Deaths. BIGGS.—On the 18th inst., at Hertford-road, Herts, M.W. Biggs, Esq., aged 72. CAMPBELL.—On the 19th inst., at his residence. Charles street, Berkeley-square, Sir John Campbell, aged 84. t LARKS.—On the 21st inst., William Tredway Clarke. Beg , of 39, Bedfurd - plac e , Russell-square, solicitor, aged 60. FALL.—On the 21st inst., at Herne-hill, Richard Pall, aged 74. MARics —On the 21st inst., at Chatham, Mr. Montag tt Marks. PELLATT.—On the 19th inst., at New-cross, Mill Pellatt, sen., Esq., aged 68. 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