The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLI SH OPERA, CO VENT GARDEN. Il M der the Management of iss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. S o le Lessees. THIS EVENING, to commence with RUY BLAS: Miss Louisa Pyne. Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Thirlwall. and Madame Laura Baxter ; Mes srs. Santley, Patey, Lyall, AynaleyCooke, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor —Mr. A. Mellon. After which, the Grand Coic Christmas Pantomime, en. t itl e d HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Doors open at halt-past 6—Commence at 7. THE ATR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT OF KIN. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GO )DY TWO SHOES. Commence at '. TREAT RE-R 0 Y Al,, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed BUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone Lord Dundreary, Mr. P Sothern. After which, a new and original Extravaanza, entitled RASSELAS, P R INCE OF ABYSSINIA or rz , The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Concluding with MRS. WHITE. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. THIS EVENING, Jan. 16, to commence with an Original sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi comb% MW. 'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond , 1 4 _. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are enga----I•and will ..g- shortly appear. Doors open at half-past Six, performance to 2 commence at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., a nd s l.2 64t; Places registered. Stalls, 6s. Bd. ; Dress circle, Circle, 4s. 6d. Prices at doors—Stal ls, t price. 61;1 hDarsl;Ts Circle, ss. ; Box- Upper Circle, 4s. ;Pit, 2s. • Galler". e ls p • b üblic are entreated to office open daily from 11 till 5. 'I de to the occupants of boxes, take notice that no charge ifonlay bills or for the safe keep box places, or stalls, eith a e n r th a t d the attendants in all parts ing of hats and cloaVi , of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Stage-M.anag er. Barnett. ____________ fp, OVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. I.aftsee and Manager, Mr 'lndus. THIS EVENING, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. H. Marston, Mr. Wallace ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Mrs. B. White. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, RIQUET WITH THE TUFT; or, Harlequin and Mother 13:lipton." Mr. G. Beimore, Mr. C. Seron, Misses Gray and Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Halton!. 'XT EW FRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.— k 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE LI I TLE TRE. SURE. Mr Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole, P. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with " GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Took, P. Bed ford, ..c!ephenson, C. J. Smith. Ilarkquin, Mr. John Lauri; Lolumbine, Miss JarColine Adams CAown, Mr. W. Filldyard and ntaloon, Mr. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur .flertrand. Commence at 7. The VcrEATHER.—Sun Office, Jan. 16, 1863. THERMOMETER. Sighest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... liarometer-30.24. Wind—N.B. ; fresh, with fine but dull weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tilg DA.T.—Morning,,„loh. 28m.—Afternoon,Illh. 10m To-Kon.n.ovf.-Morning, Ilh. 49m.—Afiernoon, h. in - •=i" siICE410111111&;`• • nirt LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1863. The grand event of 1863 has come to pass. That the PIUSIDENT's Emancipation Proclamation will prove to be so can hardly be doubted. It is in itself a great event, but it is scarcely possible it should not be greater in its consequences. Some of our con temporaries! hope, indeed, that its first consequence will be to insure the final separation of the South from the North. Even if it had that result, its im- I p or t a nce would be great enou g h. But it will, we trust, have another far more interesting to English men. Let the States be reunited or separated, it will have given a shock to negro slavery, from which that hateful institution can hardly recover. The negroes of the ten States will quickly pass the word from one to another that the PAICSIDENT of all the States has declared them " for ever free !" Their masters will have no means of preventing this knowledge from spreading, as C.MSAR says intelli gence did among the ancient Gauls, till in a little time every slave from the Potomac to the Gulf, and from Charleston and Savannah to the Mississippi, will know that he is legally a free man. Brutalised into indifference to bondage as the mass of the negroes may be, the news that they are free will pervade them like an e l ec tric shock ; and, deluded as they have been by their masters' representations of the North, the fact that the North has struck uff their chains w ill open their eyes, and change the whole current of their feelings. The Northern armies will now be the hope, not the terror, of Southern slaves. The measure comes indeed late; it comes not in the name of philanthropy or right, but of military neces sity. But still it comes. It leaves the loyal Border States, half of which have begun the good work which the others must soon follow, to voluntary emancipation. It leaves these five States to free themselves ; but it frees all the others, ten in num ber, unconditionally —except the parts which have already come under Federal rule. Ten large Slave States, with at least three millions of slaves, have in one day seen their old institution deposed from its posit ion by a military act of the Commander-in- Chief, whose will, in his own department, is the supreme law. The States who went with their can didate to the ballot, who, when defeated in a fair ballot, declared war, with military stores in their hands they had previously seized by treachery— and appealed to the sword, when theycould Their no t conquer by reaso n an d fair voting. Their d o om is just. Tbey had received no in j ur y. State rights remained unimpaired; no attempt on their favourit e, thou g h wicked, institution was even t hought off; too many guarantees rather were offered thel ; but nothing would do ; if slavery could not rule the whole Union, it would rule by itself. They proclaimed its Divinity, and in ex plicit language gloried iu a THEOCRACY of SLAVERY. We may be told t hat they will simply laugh at this proclamation. It w ill be brutum fiamen, and so forth. They do not seem tO have laughed at it in anticipation. Their rage has known no bounds. They have ludicrously enough endeavoured to frighten their own women and children by calling it a proclamation of 6, s ervile war !" They hav e taught the cuckoo note to their advocates on this side the water, and journalists and public speakers here have been found weak enough Ayrs to learn and D repeat the cry. It is , as MASON, and SLIDEL L well know, but a nursery h Those who began the cry have themselves obgob no ln. tear i of servil.e war, but they have a tyrant's tear of slave s tricing their rights, when they have the chance. .Accustomed to regard a man as their property, they rae 123‘4 dd erle d at the thought of his claiming to be to himself. To give wages for labour instead lorg r)f the whip, seems to them like the abdication cf a throne ; to ki.ow a Leg ro to be a man is as ignomi nious ad to a d ML=t their swine and their horses to the l:Jr] ar entage. It is not servile war, rights of ac_ a p not assassination but free labour which the y dread ' of o their helpless wives a nd children, but negro men gaining the rights of W ives, and negro chil dren th e rights of ehiltllicod in relation to their p aerate. Notwithstanding discreditable pro -slavery cant, this imperfect proclamation has been read with a solemn thrill of joy by thousands. Its constitution alism, we mean its non-application to the States not actually in rebellion, may be forgiven by a people who paid 20 millions to emancipate their own slaves legally. But though we rejoice that President LINCOLN has at last resolved to do it, we must blame him that he did not do it at the be ginning. We have repeatedly blamed him, even as constitutional ruler, that he did not meet rebel lion for slavery, by declaring the cause of the rebel- lion abolished. We believe it would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives; for the negroes would have then been his best help. He now in vokes " the considerate judgment of mankind." That judgment may be favourable, when the mists of present passion and feeling shall have cleared away. Posterity will only wonder, as we ourselves do, that the proclamation was not issued sooner. Christendom is every year increasing in its detestation of slavery. In the Roman Catholic countries, where it still exists, as in Cuba and Brazil, the slave code is mildness and Christianity itself, compared with what it is in Protestant America ; and before long it will be universally acknowledged that slavery and Christianity are inco mpatible. We hope the PRESIDENT'S injunction to the slaves, to abstain from violence, will be carefully observed wherever the Proclamation itself is known, but we have our doubts. It will be difficult to rea son with men wild with joy in the tumultuous delirium of freedom so suddenly and so unex pectedly acquired ; while their masters, on the other hand, will be savage at the change which deprives them of power and property at onee. By this act Mr. LINCOLN has now taken a step from which there is no retrogression. For the remaining two years of his power he must act in its spirit. The vulgar Democrats (whom some here, slandering our own Conservatives, call the Conser vatives of America) may find that their majority avails them but little. The die is cast. The Federal armies wil have become emancipation armies, and the Federal fleets along all the rivers, on which the great plantations generally abut, will become emancipation fleets. The link between the vulgar, rowdy Democracy of the North and the slaveholders, by whom they have hitherto ruled, will be completely severed, and the triumph of Democracy itself will be greatly maimed of slavery. We may hope too much from the LINCOLN Proclamation, but why was it deferred till it loses the grace of gift ? It is a boon wrung from necessity, which would have been still with held if its retention could have saved the Union. The pride of empire has hitherto overshadowed his virtue. He would be free himself, but would not confer freedom on others if it militated against his idol—Union. More temper and conciliation might have freed the slave gradually, and long before the year 1900, which he at one time proposed himself ; bat now it is too late. Mr. LINCOLN is a man of half-measures—he is afraid to do right, yet loth to do wrong ; and is only generous at the expense of others. He does good by accident, and glorifies himself before hie good intentions can bear fruit. Still let us hope for the best. His act will render the year 1863 one of the most remarkable in the world's history—certainly in that of America. Last night the members for Birmingham were present at the annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. BRIGHT, as usual, favoured his hearers with some severe strictures on several subjects, and indulged in diatribes against various individuals. Even his new allies, the Ministers, do not escape this time, for we find the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer arraigned on the charge of making unwise state ments, and causing general confusion in the public mind thereby. First Lord RI7SSELL comes under censure for his speech in the House of Lords on the motion against the blockade, and here Mr. BRIOHT evidences a want of common courtesy that must strike the most ignorant reader, these are his words, " Lord RUSSELL concluded his re- marks in a very careless manner, as he were really not thinking of what he was saying, by stating that he hoped in a few months the North would consent to the in dependence of the South." To this grave error Mr. BRIGHT attributes considerable damage to business in Manchester. Again, Mr. GLADSTONE is blamed in no measured terms for his remarks at Newcastle. "'These statesmen," he says, " who know no more than any one else, speak with their supposed know ledge, and their presumption costs enormous sums to unfortunate traders." However, all these offences are trifling and venial, compared with what has been effected by the London press. When Mr. BRIGHT approaches this exciting topic, he loses all command of his temper, and refuses to listen to the restraints that his better judgment in calmer moments must impose. The torrent of his invec- tive flows in full force, the fury of his indignation reaches the culminating point, 1 when he nears this fatal goal. We put it to any man of sense or justice, no matter what his poli tics may be, if this is the tone a member of Par liament should assume in speaking of that great institution, the pride and boast of our country, the Free Press. "I of course don't speak of news papers that have no force or influence. The Morning Herald may rave, and the Standard may follow suit, but what they say will not alter the value of a pinch of snuff in any market in Eng land." Surely these words are more fitting and appropriate language for Billingsgate than Bir mingham. Mr. BRIGHT then honours the Times with his candid friendship. He first states, sneer ingly, that it is accepted by some persons as an lauthority on gr ea t quest i ons. U n f or tunate some, why have they not Mr. BRIGHT'S perspicuity n discovering the folly and detecting the frauds of the wise men of the world. "Well," says the far seeing investigator, " the columns of the I meg have been filled with articles on America for two years, but, as I said before, not one generous article with regard to the Free North has appeared in them." Now, it may be suggested what has the North done to deserve so much generosity at our hands. Though the limes cannot be generous, Mr. BRIGHT is determined to give them a lesson in that virtue we suppose he is tired of their neglect ing his precepts, and henceforth will instruct by practice. The writers of the Times are under a , mask, be says, and adds "I do not propose, although I could do it to tear that mask away:, Surely this is most unusual forbearance from one who never considers the feelings of others, or bows down to the absurd restraint of conventional etiquette when he is illumining his hearers with the light of his intellect, and carrying them away with him in the fervour of his g lowing eloquen ce. His own wor d s w ill now s peak for the mselves thisu‘ T p h i et great i ep a / a ) t t r e a s cbo w l ue r n i at t rg e y e a i; a n s yott a fepr g tr INorl prophecies tetnhepieoysAi years twentyamrsr ems Merl iin e naa sn p ohd r iet e ar s inski s leeea o l nnst f in indulged th e free in States as a n or anybody else of whom tradition gives us s ome account, but no on e single prophecy this time has been fulfilled. There is notamhuapn to r the commercial class in verpool or Manchester who would not admit to-day, if he were asked, ter the influence, and, if you like, the ignorance, or if you wish to speak correctly, the malice of that paper towards the United States has produced disas trolls results and consequences to very many persons in Lancashire. None of us can predict with any accuracy the 4uratio4 Of the war ; but surely the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1863. inevitable uncertainty is bad enough, without being aggravated by the inconsiderate speeches of the Foreign Minister and the Chancellor of the Exche quer, or by the incessant folly and malice poured out from day to day in the leading columns of the Times." Now, we cannot too strongly protest against such a tone as this becoming general among our public men ; but, fortunately, it is not likely to be so. At the same time it is to be regretted that, 1 times out of number, these great assemblies at Bir- I mingham cheer to the echo such violent diatribes as this that we have referred to. Because Mr. BRIGHT came forward some years ago in support of the Corn-laws being abolished, and then and there distinguished himself by his zeal and energy, it does not follow that he has thus obtained carte blanche for the rest of his life to abuse and vilify all who have not the good fortune to agree with him in his extreme opinions and ultra notions. It is unworthy of independent English men to encourage, muoh less to applaud, such an in tolerant spirit, and so arbitrary and unfair a tone. In the name of the spirit of independence, the vital breath, the native air of our institutions, in the name of common sense and justice,' we call upon Englishmen of every class to repudiate and not up hold such intolerance, such bitter sentiments and such unfounded statements as those which inform and actuate all Mr. BRIGHT'S provincial harangues. In Parliament he speaks differently, there he knows that violence cannot ba the order of the day, and that to indulge in this "splenetic authoritativeness and factious sophistication," he would have to cross the Atlantic, and take his place among the enlight ened Senators of Congress, to find congenial souls and kindred spirits. Mr. BRIGHT has another object in view for our foreign politicians to dwell upon, the cesnon of Gibraltar. He confesses that many things he advocates are considered rather foolish at first, but in time people agree with him, and ,hence "he has the satisfaction of being a little ahead of the Government and often of the nation." He proceeded at some length to make good his case, and said that for his part he consi dered it as " a monument of a very foolish war and a very dishonourable peace." He said that most military persons in this country, if they were inde pendent, would be of his opinion that the work was of no value whatever to us. The last argument employed is, indeed, a reductio ad absurdum when he says that, " Suppose this country were the Chamber of Commerce in the city of Madrid, how should we then be likely to view this matter ?" He then goes on to say that the irri tation and annoyance that our tenure of this fortress occasions to Spain, spoils all our intercourse with that country. The induce ments held out for us to yield up possession are, that Spain, when mollified by our conduct in this respect, will most probably enter into a liberal treaty of commerce with us, and also we may persuade her to make effectual the laws against the traffic of negroes. No doubt these are two very desirable objects to attain ; but if the price demanded be what Mr. BRIGHT suggests, they are not likely to be soon effected ; and the Manchester school will have few disciples in this department of its pro gress, except from the admirers of Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH'S theory, of abandoning our Colonial Empire Referring to the last passage in Mr. BRIGHT'S speech, the idea naturally occurs to the mind, why cannot he profit by his own advice ? He says that " there are gentlemen here who think me mistaken and dangerous in the propositions which I make to my fellow. countrymen." It is really quite refresh ' ing to hear, on such undoubted authority, that there is a remnant of discerning individuals among those who listen to his speeohes. When he goes on, however, to say that " If we were to shun a party spirit, if we were to examine the questions fairly and carefully, if we were to endeavour to de cide them truthfully !" we might hope for great things, and so on. Now, why does not this second DANIEL come to judgment, first set us an example by doing all this himself. If he acted on this ex cellent advice we might listen in delight to the elo quence which animates his words, but while -he persists in degrading the great gift with which he is endowed, of an oratory that im presses and influences in no common degree, we can but regret that such great powers are not in the possession of one who would use and not abuse them, who would glory in upholding the Constitution of his country, instead of always seeking to uproot its stronghold and undermine its dignity. We hope this is the last display that we shall be favoured with, for some time, of this rhetorical raving about events that are too great in themselves, and of too much magnitude in their consequences to be made the handle for personal abuse, political spite, and arty prejudice. The principal news brought by the lEtna may well engross our chief attention, but the other news, both political and military, must not be overlooked. It shows that the Democrats are in creasing in such practical boldness, as must consi derably perplex the Federal Government. In the empire State, the Governor, Mr. SEY3IOUR, who has been in offic9 before, is beginning measures of retaliation against those who have been during the unchecked Republican reign oppressing his party. Throughout the States there are of necessity Fede ral and State officials. The latter are answerable, of course, to the" Sovereign State," whose servants they are, and can be called by it to account. Go vernor SEYMOUR is powerless against the United States Marshals and other Federal officers in New York, but he has fluttered not a little the State police officials by summoning them to take their trials for official misconduct, furnishing them with the particulars for which they must answer. We may presume they consist of delinquencies against Democrats committed in the excess of Republican zeal, and it seems likely they will all receive wins; to yield their places to aspirants to the honours of the baton who will wield it as energetically against the Republicans as the latter have long done against the Democrats. The Republican policemen seem perplexed between resigning at once, salmi digni tate, or trying a legal fight for a little longer tenure of office. The PRESIDENT had signed the Bill for the ad mission of Western Virginia as a State. He has thus cut a second Gordian knot with the same sword as severed the complicated cne of slavery. In both cases the principle now wielded with such desperation is, that the rebellion has extinguished all State rights which interfere with its repres sion. The separation of a State into parts, without the consent of the regular Legis lature of the State, is even more explicitly against certain clauses of the constitution than the procla mation of etnancipAtion itself. It would have been more regular to have treated the Legislature elected by the loyalart of Virginia as the true Legish p war with the Federal G o vernment to be ipso facto t u re of the State , holding that one which was at no Legislature at all. In both cases Mr. LINCOLN has, however, tern V •agricultural free Virginia his long been an . \ community, with hardly a slave am ongst its moun tains --.for mountain air and slavery rarely seem LINCOLN has done seems but the recognill° rl of a long existing fact whic'a therebalion only brought after all, therefore, what Mr. to its natural crisis. In that separation, too, which # all Europe believes must come at last, all politicians must have recommended that Western Virginia should go with the North. Geographical as well as social reasons demand that it should. If we turn to the war news, all looks eiark for the Federals. ROSENCRANS, from whom so much was expected, has been, we strongly suspect, severely defeated in Tennessee, near Murfreesborcaugh. This has been battle-ground, ever and anon., since the' spring. Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, is not far off, and DAY'S declared himself determined to be master again of it. He has evidently collected a largo force there, since the Northerns confess to 45,000 men with ROSENCRANZ, who yet has barely, according to Federal accounts,held the field against the rebels. To the reader here, the successes seem to have been alternate, and the last rather on the side of the Confederates. It is especially to be re marked that it was the Confederate cavalry which seem to have been their most effective arm. More than once in this protracted battle they got into the Federal rear, carried off prisoners and ammunition, and in one important instance actu ally silenced the fire of several regiments, because they seized on their waggons ! To the South, their cavalry seems to be the eompensation for the want of gunboats. Their horsemen ride to the rear of the Federals and plunder their baggage and stores, as easily as the boats sail up the rivers and shelter the Federals under their heavy artillery. On the Missisi ppi again—only this is news from Richmond, which, however, has rarely been sub stantially untruthful —the Confederates are victo- Hong against the assailants of Vicksburg. The works of this place—let not Lord PALMERSTON forget this—have.,been extemporised since the war began. Yet this almost unknown place has been sufficient, alone, to hold the numerous fleet of 17A RAGUT at bay ; to send forth the Arkansas to destroy some of its ships, to make the others flee, like the doves before the eagle ; and to prevent the complete command of the Mississippi by the Fede rals throu ,hout the whole summer. We have but brief accounts of the assault and defence ; and like the battle at Murfreesborough, fighting was going on, as is so common with these American battles, when the news left. We must assume that the Federals were conveyed by water to Vicksburg, since by the last accounts GRANT, who was nearing Vicksburg, had been compelled to fall back, by the capture of his stores at Holly Springs; it hi also mentioned that the Yankees were compelled to take shelter under the fire of their boats. Both parties appear, however, to be in force near the place. On the whole, in the west and south-west, the Confederates are showing renewed vigour. All looks still like a long and bitter struggle. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 16. The Ministers met in Council 3esterday at the Tuileries, the Emperor presiding. The llioniteur of this morning announces that the Revue Nationale has received a first warning. La ,France of this evening announces that the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who had been pro posed as a candidate for the Throne of Greece, has declined to accept the nomination. The same paper says that intelligence received from Constantinople states that the Sultan acts as if he were preparing for war, and that Eng land appears to urge him in that direction. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg accuses the Porta of giving assistance and encouragement to the Circassians, and of fomenting agitation in the Caucasus and Daghestan. BOURSE, Jan. 15.—Heaviness continues to be the predominant feature of the market, but the price of Threes, for the Account, although it re ceied slightlyat the commencement of business,is now again, as yesterday, at 70fr. Railway Share Mar ket quiet, but firm. The announcement of the advance in the rate of discount by the Bank of England caused a retrograde movement towards the close, when the market stood as follows : 4t per Cents 9B 25 Bank Shares 3400 Do. end month.... Credit 1. oneier 1430 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 85 Italian Loan 69 80 New 3 per Cents .. Russian Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 1130 Spanish Threes 54 75 Do. end m0nth....1132 50 Home Debt .. — RA IL" 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ICBS 1085 Northern .... New ditto - . Lyons and Mediterranean 1167 50 .. 1166 25 Geneva.. 3B! 50 .. Southern BO7 50 812 50 Western Eastern .... ,.. 530 .. 528 75 Sardinian 367 50 .. 362 50 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa — Ditto to Barcelona 315 ITALY. TURIN, JAN. 15. An official decree was published to-day appoint ing the 20th inst. for the termination of the ex traordinary powers conferred upon the Prefects of Naples end Palermo. The Municipality of Genoa has voted 50,0001 for the subscription in favour of the victims 01 brigandage. The Duchess of Genoa will shortly visit Naples, where she will reside for a considerable time. GERMANY. THE FEDERAL DIET. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, JAN. 15. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Digit the repre sentative of Baden stated that his Government re jects the proposal of the majority of the Committee upon the Chamber of Popular Delegates question, and declines co-operation. Baden is, however, ready, by unanimous vote of the Diet, and with the consent of the Chambers of the different Garman States, to concede to an Assembly of Popular Dele gates, associated with the Federal Diet, the right of vite upon Federal financial questions and proposals I to increase the contingent 3 from the different. States. The proposition of Baden, not being formally acceded to by any other representative, was merely entered upon the protocol of the Federal Diet. GREECE. ATHENS, JAN. 14. Brigands in the vicinity of this city having cap tured a young man of a wealthy family, have demanded 70,000 drachmas as ransom. The National Assembly has declared the elections of 40 deputies null and void on account of irre gularities of form. THE LEVANT. TRIESTE, JAN. 15. The latest news from the East received here states that Omar Pasha's resignation had not been accepted. A Russian steamer had been wrecked near Kertch. Dost Mahomet has withdrawn his troops from before Herat in order to negotiate for peace with Sultan Achmet Khan. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 15. All the Ministers have resigned. Her Majesty has commissioned Marshal O'Don nell to form a new Cabinet. It is asserted that Senor Posada will replace Senor Collantes as Minis ter for Foreign Affairs. Several other changes are expected. RUSSIA. ST. PE fERSBURG, JAN. 15. The Invalide Russe of to-day contains a decree of the Emperor, appointing Privy Councillor rata richow, Secretary of State, and Provisional General Controller, in place of M. Annenkoff. THE BRAZILS. (PER THE ESTRAMADURA ) BUENOS AYRES, DEC. 16. Exchange, 66. Ounces, 394. Contracts have been made for wet salted ox hides at 43; dry American, 35 to 36. Wool slightly lower. Tallow, 16 to 161. Lumber, 40 to 42. Flour unchanged. Refined sugar, 19 to 191. The in - port is quiet. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JAN. 14. The opening of the Session of the Prussian Parliament took place to-day, as appointed. In memory, doubless, of the unpleasant remarks made in his sermon by the officiating clergyman on the last similar occasion, scarcely any Deputies at tended the preliminary service of the Evangelical Church. I❑ the White Hall the attendance was also very thin of members of both Houses, as well as of spectators. The King. of course, was not present. A rumour that he is worse again was current this morning, but I have had no time to verify it. For these two or three days he seems to have been better, for he has received several per sons and transacted business. The Ministers were in undress uniform. That comical old gentleman, Marshal Wrangel, was, of course, present. M. von Bismark reed the speech. It is scarcely necessary to say that it was not applauded. It runs as fol lows : " Illustrious, noble, and honoured Gentlemen of both Houses of the Diet, — "His Majesty the King has been pleased to commission me to open in his name the Diet of the Monarchy. "The Government of his Majesty greets you with the lively wish that in this session a durable understanding may be attained with respect to those questions which last year remained unsolved. This object will be arrived at if if our constitution be firmly adhered to as the basis for the correct apprehension of the position of the representatives of the country, and if the legislative powers, with mutual consideration of each ether's constitutional rights, take their common task to be the promotion of the power and welfare of the Fatherland. _ _ " The establishment of the Budget is prominent among the objects that will occupy you. "The state of the finances is thoroughly satisfactory. "Last year's receipts were so good that in most branches of the administration they considerably exceeded the esti mates, and will afford moans completely to cover the expen . diture, including all extraordinary demands. The deficit shown by the estimates for 1862 will, therefore, as was anti cipated at the time of their discussson, in reality not exist. "In the absence of a legally. fixed Budget for 1862, the Government has especially aimed at conducting the admi nistration with economy; it nevertheless has not neglected to make all such expenditure as was necessary for the regu lar carrying on of the administraticn of the country, for the maintenance and advancement of existing State institu• tiQns, and for the welfare of the land. As soon as accounts • have been finally balanced, Government will present a pro- P"itim concerning the receiPts and exPenditure of the ;AO year, and move for the retrospective approbation of both Houses of Parliament for the expenses incurred. " The Budget for the year 1863 will again be laid before you. The dispositions of the same have been further cor- rected by the experiences since obtained, and in certain items rectifications have been made corresponding to cir cumstances. It has thus been found possible to diminish the deficit shown by the previous draught. Considering the results of the past year, and the circumstances with which the revenue is estimated, the hope appears 17e11- grounded that this deficit, like those of previous years, will be fully covered by excess of income. " The preparation of the Budget for 1864 is well ad vanced, and, as soon as ready, it will be laid before you. " The carrying out of the law for the further regulation of the land-tax has gone on in a satisfactory manner, and already about one-half of the territorial surface of the Prus sian State has been brought to valuation. " His Majesty's Government will lay before you, in ful filment of the given assurance, a bill for the alteration and completion of the law of the 3d of September, 1814, con cerning the obligation to military service The Govern ment indulges the hope that the reorganisatim of the army, to the maintenance of which it unanimously holds itself bound in the interest of the power of Prussia, will now be finally settled by the grant of the sums necessary to carry it through. " The near approach of the anniversary of the day on which, 50 years ago, was made the memorable summons of King Frederick William 111. to his people for the deliver ance of the Fatherland,' brings with it an earnest exhor tation to attend to the wants of the needy among those who fought in the campaigns of that glorious period, and to that end corresponding bills will be laid before you. " The suitable increase of the navy must still be regarded as an urgent interest of the country, and his Majesty 'a Go vernment will apply for your assent to the employment of the necessary means, " With thankfulness we have to acknowledge that, through the grace of the Almighty the country has been blessed with a satisfactory harvest. The economical cir cumstances of the country would, therefore, present a com pletely satisfactory aspect, did not certain branches of in dustry suffer from the effects of the war in the United States. " Manufacturers and trade are still debarred the advan- ;ages which they were justified in anticipating from the treaties of commerce with France : the Government is firmly resolved that this state of things shall not endure be yond the expiration of the engagements which at present stand in the way of tho carrying out of those tre.tico. " The Government is resolved zealously and effectually to work for the gradual supply of railways to those districts which do not yet possess them. It has forwarded to the utmost private undertakings in that direction, and hopes also, during the present session, to make propositions to you concerning the establishment of new connecting lines already in course of preparation. _ _ _ " BY the improvements of dikes and the draining of low lands, the Government continually strives to enlarge the available surface, and in this respect also, during the past year, gratifying results have been obtained. It has also given due attention to the advancement of science and art, and doubts not that you will readily vote the sums allotted to that end in the Budget. "Several bills will be laid before you, partly relating to provincial interests and partly to changes in the legislation in special departments of jurisprudence ; among these will be one for the completion of the German law regarding bills of exchange, and one relating to the jurisdiction of consuls, the legal regulation of which was moved for by the Chamber in the last Session. "The state of the negotiations concerning the project for he organisation of circles (Kyeis-ordnung), which was last year laid before Parliament, has rendered it advisable pre viously to hear the provincial States in discussion of the local interests. The opinion emitted by those States shall be followed by ulterior deliberations, and hence it is not yet possible to decide whether a Bill can be presented in this matter, The same applies to the question of the pro- vincial police and to the communal constitutions, the pre paratory work for which, in the different provinces, is not yet sufficiently advanced for the Government to be able to promise a project of law respecting them. "His Majesty's Government will nevertheless make the needful progress of legislation in those eomprehensive de partments an object of unceasing activity. "The relations of his Majesty's Government to foreign Powers are generally satisfactory. lts persevering efforts have succeeded in obtaining the adoption of the policy it advocates in Hesse, as well by the Electoral as by the other German Governments, and so to afford to the neighbour ing Electoral State a prospect of a regular Constitutional development—a prospect which can be only temporarily troubled by the latest occurrences announced from Cassel. " In pursuance of the identical notes addressed to the Royal Cabinet in the month of February, 1861, by a num ber of German Federal Governments, mltions have been made by the same Governments in the Diet, which, less by thcir substance than by the interpretations of the Federal compact they involve, have acquired an important signifi cance for the position of Prussia relatively to the Federal Diet. The Government is also, for its part, fully persuaded that the federal treaties no longer correspond, in the form in which they were concluded in 1815, with the altered cir cumstances of the times. Above all, however, it is aware of the duty of a conscientious observance of existing trea. ties, and resolved to exact complete reciprocity in the ful filment of that duty as the first condition of the mainten ance of such treaties, " Whilst taking part in your deliberations his Majesty's Government will be guided by the earnest endeavour to obtain the co-operation of the two Houses of Parliament, which must be considered an essential condition of the development of State affairs, &c." The speech concluded with the announcement that, by order of his Majesty the King, M. von Bismark declared Parliament opened. The tone of the speech, and especially the first paragraph is looked upon as conciliatory, but the deputies seemed to listen rather contemptuously to the professions and fair promises and unfounded hopes of the Minister. From the paragraph about the Krets ordnung, &c., it was clearly inferred that no liberal reforms were to be looked for, but that feudal insti tution would be upheld, as far possible, for the present. The promises of railways, public works, promortion of art and science, &c., are looked upon as sops prepared a la;Napoleon. The last paragraph but one is a threat, or at least a warning, to Aus tria;- and the final one, intimating a hope which is certainly not felt, of the support cf both Houses, and of results full of blessings, and tending to the welfare of the country and the honour of the Crown, was qualified, by some of the deputies pre sent, by a German expression equivalent to the English one of bosh. The Chamber meets to-mor row, when, or on the next day at latest, President Grabow will report on the addresses sent by the country to the Chamber, and on the number of sig natures they bear. There will be nothing about the Address for a day or two. There are many opinions on that subject, but there seems little chance of any division among the Liberals, who are resolved that, whenever they vote, it shall be in an overpowering majority—a result easy to be obtained when all the different shades of Liberals are disposed to mutual concessions and previous concert. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The Montreal ocean mail steam-ship Bohemian Captain Borland, which left Portland, Maine, on the evening of the 3d, arrived in this port at a very early hour this morning. The general news by this arrival is virtually the same as that received by the Etna, which has been already published, but from the afternoon telegraphic despatches from New York we extract the following : " The steamer Ocean Queen, from Aspinwall on the 24th ultimo, has safely arrived at New York, bringing 1,300,000 dols. in epecie, a large number of passengers, and a company of cavalry for the Massachussetts 2d Regiment. The steamer Caledonia, already reported to be ashore near Cape Cod, has broken her back, and w.ll be a total loss. Her cargo is floating out of her, but a portion may be saved in a damaged state. Thtre is no further war nor political news to re port since the Etna left New York. The cotton, breadstuffs, and produce markets have undergone no essential change. Erie and Illinois shares have declined, the former to 661, the latter to 83. The premium on gold has receded to 34 per cent,; ster ling exchange without alteration. AND so FORTH.— There a young man in the „, United States army, who was born July 4, at 4 o'clock p.m., at No. 44, in a street in Boston, in 1844, a fourth child, has four names, enlisted in the Newton com pany, which has joined the 4th battalion, 44th Regiment, 4th company, and on the 4th of September was ap pointed 4th corporal, and is now gone forth to defend his country. PRESENTATION TO A BRITISH CAPTAIN.—The Liverpool Marine Board yesterday presented Cap tain Douglas, of the barque Veronica, with a fine telescope, as an acknowledgment of his humanity and bravery in res cuing 28 lives, officers and crew of the ship Nepaul, bound from Moulmein to Plymouth. The telescope was the gift of the I3oard of Trade, and was suitably accompanied by a handsome letter, acknowledging Captain Douglas's services. M. Guizot, who hits been residing for the last six months at his country seat of Val Richer, is about to return to Paris. It is said that he will bring with him the fifth yolume of his Memoirs ready for the press. NEW ZEALAND. The following details respecting the native ques .on are from the Southern Cross of October 6:— By the steamer Wonga Wonga, which arrived in the Manukau harbour this morning, we have Wellington, Nilson, and Taranaki papers to late dates, and from these we publish copious extracts bearing upon the native question. The details of the meetings between Sir George Grey and the Wellington natives are most interesting, and wit show the people of England that the settlers of New Zealand are not to blame for the present crisis. On reading the report of the speeches made by the " loyal" natives, and those who profess adhesion to the "King," one cannot fail to see that there is a degree of straightforwardness about the latter which is wanting among the friendly orators. With the " King natives" metaphor is all but dropped; there is a plain statement of intentions, and undis guised defiance of the Queen's authority and laws, and a challenge to decide the dispute by an appeal to arms. On the side of the Queen natives there is no end of metaphor; the law and the gospel are absurdly mixed together; it is scarcely possible to know what they are driving at, while an occasional remark is dropped which almost compels one to think that after all that has been said and written about their loyalty, they are " gammoning" our rulers to their faces. After talking for two days with the " friendly" natives, Sir George Grey sent Mr. Buller as his envoy to Otaki ; with the following message, to the chiefs of the King natives, who were assembled there in considerable force:— " Send me the Maori king flag, cut down the flag staff, discontinue your present king work, and let all the king people come into town, that I may see you and talk to you, for I will not go to Tainui." Brave words these, Sir George Grey, if you Meldl. to abide by them. But the leaders of the king move ment were not frightened into submission, as they should have been. Their reply was couched in. equally explicit terms. Heremiah to Tibi said—" We refuse. We will never give the Maori flag to the governor ; we will never cut down the flagstaff; we will never discon tinue our work; and we will not go into the town. to meet the governor. If the governor will not come here let him remain. We are satisfied." When it was found that the governor woul(1 not go to Tainui, and that the chiefs would not come to Wanganui, a compromise was effected, PA nd a meet- ing took place half-way. Six hundred king-natives assembled at the bridge to witness the meeting be tween the governor of New Zealand and the king chiefs. Wi Tako was the principal speaker, and the tone he adopted towards Sir George Grey was any thing but submissive or conciliatory. In fact he taunted his excellency with the weakness of the Queen's government, and vaunted the strength of the King's or nativ e government. The conference ended ; and his Excellency re marked— " Wherever I go, I find the Roman Catholic na tives are at the bottom of all this work and dis turbance." Perhaps this remark, taken in connexion with a rumour which we published a few days ago from one of our correspondents, that Potatu IL, and all his Waikato adherents not Roman Catho lics, were about to join the Roman Catholic Church, may be in some degree connected with the "King" zeal, whio has everywhere been exhibited by the Maori professors of that form of Christianity. Mr. C. Hunter Brown, in his report of a visit to the Urawera district, writes in nearly similar terms to those used at the Otaki meeting by Sir George Grey. At the meeting between his Excellency and the friendly natives, the expressions of good will were somewhat overshadowed. There was a profusion of meat, for the Maoris are extravagantly hospi table on all State occasions; and his Excellency was welcomed by them in the name of " all New Zealand." This was not correct, for the 600 King natives were assembled only a few miles off. Cer tain payments were made, and £24 were handed to the Governor to assist in supporting " the roof of the new work." Then, three Maori women, fan tastically dressed, sang an old song of welcome, the burden of which was that an egg had been broken, and that Sir George Grey had come to mend it. We believe he found. the task rather difficult. After professions of "love" and "peace" had been made, and the " good words" of the Governor had been talked over, a question arose regarding land, and we are not quite certain, looking at the report of the proceedings printed elsewhere, that his Excel lency will find the " friendly" natives one whit more pacific than their neighbours. We regret that his Excellency has been so badly received by the natives, who seem bent on bringing about their own ruin. What under-current is at work to make them so perverse we do not pre tend to say, but that the natives have evil cony" sellors in their midst there can be no doubt. The stand taken by Sir George Grey is one from which he cannot recede. He is the supreme power in New Zealand, and will not recognise any other authority. His declaration that he would not treat " the chief whom they call King" different from any other man ; that if he committed a felony or robbery he would be arrested, and imprisoned or hanged according to the decision of the court ; is one for which the settlers of New Zealand, as fs. body, will thank his Excellency. We have the Governor pledged to uphold the law, and we want no more. In commenting upon the above interview, the Wellington Independent says :—" It is certainly enough to make one's blood boil to witness the attitude assumed by the natives towards Sir George Grey, as the representative of her Majesty. Her!, is a man of hi g h pcs i t i on, great attainments, an d vast experience, expressly sent out to use the most strenuous efforts to save at least one race of abori gines from that doom which has hitherto been "the fate of the brown man receding before the white,'' to endure. Looking at the history of colonisation in the past, it is melancholy to contemplate the ex tinction of race after race of aborigines as the Anglo Saxons advanced in the occupation and cul ture of the country. Philanthropists have wept over the spectacle, and denounced the cruelties of our countrymen in dealing with their savage yet Wes% and ignorant human brethren; but now, when all effort is being made to save the Maoris from annihi lation, we are met with distrust and derision, our Oil' anthropy is sneered at, our offers treated with con tempt, the king -movement is still supported, colonisa tion is virtually stopped, and generally a line of action taken the ultimate issue of which it is not very difficult to foresee. Be it so ; our present Lind past efforts in the cause o f p eace w ill b e a source of satisfaction to our consciences, and should an appea l to force become inevitable, on their heads, not 011 ours, be the consequences." The following additional items of intelligence 10 from the Southern Cross of Oct. 31 :—" While the native question is still unsettled, the country is pre" gressing rapidly; and almost every chip that sr , rives lessens the probability of hostilities morn" mencing. While the white population are steadili on the increase, the natives see their chance of mol ing a successful stand as certainly declining. Th e great drawback to developing the vast natural re.. sources of this island has been the difficulty in pro' curing land suitable for settlement, in favourab le localities, from the native owners. To the quiet operation of the Native Lande Bill we look forwar d hopefully for a gradual solution of a difficulty tlit' t has hitherto defied soldiers and politicians to unravel' "The Lancashire Relief Fund already amounts t c? £1,200, of which £550 were sent to England b 5: the late mail. A draft for £7OO will go by 0:1 ' 114 mail. An inter-provincial rifle match between th e volunteers of Auckland and the Nelson voluntee rs is arranged to come off. The Aucklanders are prlic tising for the event, Coromandel engages a COns' . derable degree of attention —every day adds totii? e existing proof of the richness of the quartz reefs 1 : this province, and as quartz-crushing machinery will soon be in f u ll operation, we may reasona bly hope to indu ce , b y the results, the investment ° more capital and a larger amount of labour, in "' velopiug this Auckland gold field." Importing Tea without colour on:the leaf Pre-' vents the Chi nese passing off inferior leaves as in the u° l kinds. Ho rn i man ' s Tea is uncoloured, therefore, allil9o sovd ea.. Sold in packets by 2,28 Q agents. ARRIVAL OP TEE GREAT EASTERN. The Great Eastern arrived at Liverpool to-day from New York. LITERATURE. The Dramatic , wick Equeartan, and Mama, Fund Almanac fot 1863. By J. W. Anson. This is the seventh year of this useful little pub lication which has a special claim on all lovers of dramatic art, from the worthy purpose to which the proceeds are devoted. The profits are given to the Dramatic Sick Fund, and specially laid aside for the interment of those unfortunate members of this pre carions profession who may have died friendless in hospitals or unions. It was probably from the fulfilment of this benevolent purpose that this little almanac became the means of intro ducing the Necropolis Company to the leading members of the dramatic profession, who are indebted to to it for the gift of the land on which the College now stands. The most noticeable feature in this little work is the summary of greit events of the drama, which extends over a period of 2,300 years, reaching from the death of Sheridan Knowles, in 1862, to the first celebration of the Olympic games in Greece. The names of London, provincial, colonial, and American theatres and managers are given, with all other information likely to be useful to the pablic or the profession. COLONIAL AID FOR LANCASHIRE.—The Provin vincial Government of Canterbury, New Zealand, have appropriated a sum of £lO,OOO for granting free pas sages to that province to female domestic servants of good character, and single men and married couples having a knowledge of farm and labouring work, to be selected from the cotton districts. The arrangements for carrying out the object, it is understood, are to be entrusted to her Ma jesty's Emigration Commissioners. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Jan. 15. -The cot ton market has assumed a quieter tone to-day; neverthe less, the sales reach fully 10,000 bales, one half on specula tion and for export. Yesterday's advance has been well maintained. Mn. EDWIN JAMES.—The New York correspon dent of the Standard, writing upon Jan. 2, says : In the Supreme Court to-day Mary Ann James succeeded in getting a decree of divorce from Edwin James, the cele brated lawyer. Sbe can marry again, but he cannot, although most husbands under similar circumstances do get married, and the law does not touch them. Mr. James to-day is not the husband of the late Mrs. James. If she is single he is too, in common sense point of view, although the law says he is not. JUGGED HARE.—The following is an instance, says the Medical Times and Gazette, showing how our profession is exposed to ridicule through the exagge rations of chemists and sanitarians, who argue a priori, . forgetting that, in all tha t p ert ains to human life, experi ence is the only safe guide. It is sa id th a t D r . the food analyst for Birmingham, summoned a game dealer be fore the magistrates on the ground that he had in his shop hares which were putrid and unfit for food, and which were therefore condemned and ordered to be destroyed. When the defendant came before the bench 14 days afterwards the doctor is said to have deposed that " all meat that had undergone any process of decomposition was very unwhole sofne and poisonous. He did not think fire destroyed the poison of decomposition nor hid the taste of it." At this point we are told a professional cook was called in, who produced a saucepan boiling hot, filled with jugged hare, and requested Dr. Hid to taste whether it was good. Dr. Hill did so, and replied, "It appears to me very good, but rather highly seasoned ; I should not object to eat it my -self." Great was the laughter when it was shown that this was one of the hares which had been pronounced by this eminent chemit4 as unfit for food 14 days previously. The reporters, attorneys, witnesses, and spectators hereupon adjourned to lunch off the hare, which was placed at their disposal ; and, on the resumption of business, Professor W. Sands Cox, of Queen's College, deposed solemnly that " hare is not goo I to eat till it does smell, fire destroys the smell : hung game is wholesome." Solvuntur risutabulx. The magistrate evidently repented in his soul that he had ordered the other hares to be destroyed, Every rational stomach will feel that things are coming to an alarming pass, when a dish of jugged hare shall come under the ban of the pseudo-sanitarian. THE REPRESENTATION OF WEST SOMERSET.— Mr. 'Moody has j ust i ssue d hi s a dd re ss t o th e e l ectors of West Somerset announc i ng his resignation of his seat in the House of Commons. Mr. Moody says--" After what has fallen from me at the late large meetings of the consti- I tueney the subject of this address will take no one by sur prise. In anno unc i ng my early res i gnation of the trust with which you h ave so long honoured me, I address you with mingled f ee li ngs of gratitude and regret—grateful for tt e large amount o f favour and indulgence which you have grantod me, and grieved that the tie which has for so many years united us must now be severed. Advancing years have br ught with them an increa•ing inability fitly to dis charge my requir e d d uties, and in justice to your interes t s, as well as to myself, it, becomes me to withdraw fiem the responsibility o f b e i ng any longer one of your representa tives in Parliament, The present time seems mo st oppor tune for my retirement --as, on the one hand, no questions of great importan ce are pending, so that I canno t b e sa id t o relinquish my duties at a critical moment ; and, on the other ' hand, this freedom from grave political discussions permits you calmly to exercise your privilege as electors without undue agitation and excitement ; and the election will take place at a time when you are not occupied in those busy scenes of agricultur4 employment in which, if deferred for a few months,by the r enewe d b o unty of a gracious Provi dence, I h pe you will be again successfully engaged." MO W. H. P. G. Langton, of Hatch Park, who formerly repfe ed the divi s i on, h as announced hi s i n t en tion of offering himself is the C onservative interes t ; an d Mr. li.alph _e: Ville Urenville, th e present hig h s h' er iff of the county, spoken of by the Liberals as likely to be his opponent. /,, ~- ~ /1 T rest SUre LOU: urea circl EnE rag, Tal for of i ope call ben ttliti Ye: do pro ME GT Fr an Be 3 / 3i NE