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

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN' ;:nder the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, to commen-e with RITY BLAS : Miss I,oaisa Pyne, Susa Fyne, Miss Thirlwall. and Madame Laura Barter; Ntessrs. Santley, Patey, AynsleyCooke, E. Pussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor —Mr. A. Mellon. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en tit led lIA.RI.EQUIN BEAUTY AN TILE BEAST. Mors open at halt-past o—Commence at 7. HE ATR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.- .1_ Lessee and Manaarr, Mr. rdmund Falconer. THIS EVEANG, the Comic Drama of THE Niar OF KIN. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GO DM.' TWO SHOES, Commence at T t-tE A T E-ROYA 1,, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed Cint AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchant, Mr. Buck stone Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. After which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled MASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keley. Concluding with MRS. WHITE. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FEC'IITEIf. Trus EVENING, Jan. 16. to commence with an Orilnll Sketch, entired A STJI)DEti ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, 11. Whidicomb, Mfrs llenrade, and Mrs. Lee. .Alter which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic I)rama, in Three Acts, and Pr)io_, , tie, entitled THE DUKE'S STOTT°, by Paul Feval and John Broug,ham. 'I he pr!ncipal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, sanported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Broug! am, H. V: iddi combe, IV. M'lntyre, F. Charles. Garden, Raymond, IL Butler, Dawson; Mis , es Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, 11 - I.,avenue, and Llsworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, shortly appear. Doors open at half-past Six, performance to _corare a rr e e s and will at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 12s. dd., and £ 2 6 - 1 . .. Upper registered. Stalls, 6s. Gd. ; Dress Circle, • Circle, 4s. Gel. Prices at doors ---t-t Alls, Cs. ; No halt-price. Box- Tipper Circle, 4s. ;Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls• D s r s t ss drcle, ss. ; tblio are t ntreated to office or en daily from 11 till 5. '1 he take notice that no charge bills or for the sate keep box places, or stalls, either for piLY is made toPtthe occupants of byes, in' of hat s and cloaks : and thaeptivileleanayttgoaradtiumittiseshllvahlaltpeavretrs of . the house are forbidden to re Stage-Manager, 'lllr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. It 01r AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindu4. Tins EVENING, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. H. Marston, Mr. Walace ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver. and Mrs. B. White. Atter which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOM DIE, RiQUET tiVITII TILE turf ; or, Harlequin and :Motile , 13!1ipton." Mr. G. Belinore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and I I tHispeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Raiford. VEw TH FAME-HO YA L, ADELPIII. _Li Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE LT TLE TIM A SURE. Mr Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET ON' 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 Woolv,ar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, S'N , phenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. IV. Ilildyard ; ittaloon, Mr. J. natio. The celebrated Arthur and !'l Bertrand. Commence at 7. The WEATHER. --Sun Office, Jan. 16, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at Noon . Barometer-30.24. Wind—N.E. ; fresh, with fine but dull weather. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. D.9.7.—Morning, 10h. 28m.—Afternoon, 11h. 10m To-monaow.-Morning, 11h. 49m.—Afternoon, h. m Zij Ai t " :4o3 l lo4‘7A ItEL THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, - JANUARY 16, 1863 LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 18E 3. __~___ __ The grand event of 1863 has come to pass. That the PRESIDENT'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 portance would be great enough. 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. Tho negroes of the ten States will quickly pass the word from one to another that the PRESIDENT of all the States has declared them " for ever free !" Their masters will have no means of preventing this knowledge from spreading, as C,Eant says intelli gence did among the ancient Gauls, till in a little time every slave from the Potomac to the Gulf,end from Charleston and Savannah to the Mississippi, will know that he is legally a free man. Brutalised into iud:fference to bondage as the mass of the negroes may be, the news that they are free will pervade them like an electric shock ; and, deluded as they have been by their masters' representations of the North, the fact that the North has struck off their chains ill open their eyes, and change the whole current of their feelinge. 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, butof 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 ECOII 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 Fats which have already come and r Federal rule. 'lon large Slave State?, with at least three millicris of slaves, have in one day seen their old institution deposed from its poei•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— F ,nd appealed to the sword, when they could not conquer by reason and fair voting. Their doom is just. They had received no injury. Their state tights remained unimpaired ; no attempt on their favourite, though wicked, institution was even thought off; too many guarantees rather were offered them ; but nothing would do ; if slavery could not rule the whole Union, it would rule by itself. They proclaimed its Divinity, and in ex ;'licit language gloried in a THEOCRACY of SLAVERY. We laugh at may be told that they will si m p l y this proclamation, It will be brut um Jo/men, and (:) 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 Womenea:ned children by calling it a proclamati on o f ‘t er war!". They have taught the cuckoo note to their advocates on this side the water, and journalibta and publi c sp ea k ers here have been found weak enough to learn and repeat the cry. It is, as DAVIS, M ASON, and : SLIDELL well know, but a nursery hobgoblin. Those who began the cry have themselves no fear of servile war, but they have a tyrant's fear of slaves taking their rights, when they have the ch ance . A e eestemed to regard a man as their Troperty, they are maddened at the thought of his claiming to be lone to himself. To give wages for labour instead of the whip, stems to them like the abdication cf a throne; to allow a negro to be a man is as ignomi nious e s to IJlinit their swine and their horses to the eight s of a Ceti - it/l en parentage. It is not servile war, Teat free labour which they dread ; not assassination el their hill less n ieee and enildren, but negro g aini ng the rights of wiveP, end negro chil `l'.''" the rights of chine - h ea d i n re lation to their otwithsr3,mling discreditable prc,-;,litv4-,ty cant , . itnixrfect proelatv- - ktion has bEen rc:: - .d with au thrill of joy by thousandth- It s „nstitution. lvt, mean its non-application to the States not actlytily in rebellion, may be forgiven by people h o /h a 20 milliQUO 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•• yokes " 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, tlic compared withe slave code is mildness and Christianity itself, what it is in Protestant America beforeslavery a long ery it will be universally acknowledged 3 and that u We hope t he PR ESIDENTB injunction to the and Christianity a re incompatible.l slaves, to ab stain from violence, will be carefully observed wherever the FroclamatzOn 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 sudden'y 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 once. 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 wi I 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 slavaolders, 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 bo 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 ; but 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 his good intentions can bear fruit. Still let us hope fcr the best. His act will render the year 1803 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 RUssELL comes under censure for his speech in the House of Lords on the motion against the blockade, and here Mr. BRIGHT 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 if he were really not thinking of what he was saying, by stating that ho 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, 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 institu'ion, 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 I orning Herald may rave, and the Standard may foil )w suit, bat 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 authority on great questions. Unfortunate 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 'lmes I have been filled with articles on America for two I 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 linzes 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, he says, and adds " I do not propose, although I could do it to tear that mask away! , Surely this is most unusua l forbearance from one who never considers the feeling s 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 glowing His own w or d s now speak for themselves -64 The 'limes writes as a eloquence. great p ower i n the press of this great coun t ry; for two yea rs it h as t a ken up its parabl e aga i nst the tlei,i‘tymei: anti tu r il e t a im of m haseu in the free St a t es of NertNl; indulged in as m any prophecies as Marlin herself or anybody else of w h om tradition gives us some account, hut Eel ono 510015 pro I"Pe3' up to this time has been fulfilled. The re is no., a roan o f the commercial class in Liverpool or Manchester who would not admit to-day, if he woe asled, that the in flurnce, and, if you like, the ignorance, or if wish to speak correctly, the, malice of that paper towards the United States has produced disas trous rt. , sultg and consrTisnces to very many persons L aucat hi r e, None of 113 Cull prcdiet with any accuracy the darglon of ale war; but klUely the 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 lawn ; but, fortunately, it is not likely to be so. At the same time it is to be regretted that, times out of number, these great assemblies at Bir 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, much 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 be tho order of the day, and that to indulgo in this "splenetic authoritativeness and factious sophistication," he would have to cross the Atlantic, and take hie 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 cession of Gibraltar. He confesses that many things he advocates are considered rather foolish at first, but in time people agree with him, and thence "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 reductto ad absurdum when ho 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. BRlGnrs speceb, 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 speeches. 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 !" wo 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 abase 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 aro too great in themselves, and of too much magnitude in their consequences to be made the handle for personal abuse, political spite, and party prejudice. The principal news brought by the iThna may well engroa 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. Ia the empire State, the Governor, Mr. SElmoun, who has been in of 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 In called by it to account. Gl vernor SEYMOUR is powerless against the United States Marshals and other Federal officers in New York, but he has flattered 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 notice 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, salva dzgnz ttaetneu,re of office. or trying a legal fight for a little longer The i!ItESIDENT 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 one of slavery. Id both cases the principle now wielded with such desperation is, that the rebellion has extinguished all State rights which interfere with its repres. g on . The separation of a State into parts, without the consent of the regular I.oBis lature of the State, is even more explicitly against certain clauses of the constitution than the procla mation of emancipation itself. It would have been more regular to have treated the Legislature elected by the loyal part of Virginia as the true Legisla ture of the State, holding that one which was at war with the Federal G overn ment to be ipso facto no teeislat ure a t a ll. In both cases Mr. LINCOLN ha-, however, sacrificed formalities to facts. Wes -1 Urn Virginia has long been an agricultural free community, with hardly a slave amongst its moun tains —for mountain air and slavery rarely seem compatible---and, after all, therefore, what Mr. LINCOLN has done seems but the remmition of a loig emoting fact whic:a the rebellion only brought , to its natural crisis. In that separation, too, which t all E trope 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 dark for the Federals. ROSENCRANZ, from whom so much was expected, has been, we strongly suspect, severely defeated in Tennessee, near Murfreesborough. This has been battle-ground, ever and anon, since the spring. Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, is not far off, and DAVIS declared himself determined to be master again of it. He has evidently collected a large force there, since the Northerns confess to 45,000 men with ROSENCIIANZ, 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 compensation 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 Missisippi again—only this is news from Richmond, which, however, has rarely been sub stantially untruthful—the Confederates are victo rious against the assailants of Vicksburg. The works of this place—let not Lord PALMERSTON forget this—have been extemporised since the war began. Yst this almost unknown plac? has been sufficient, alone, to hold the numerous fleet of FAR RAGUT at bay ; to send forth the Arkansas to destroy some of its ships, to make the others flee, like the doves before the elgle ; and to prevent the complete command of the Mississippi by the Fede rals throughout 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, bythe capture of his stores at Holly Springs ; it is also mentioned that the Yankees were compelled to take shelter under the fire of their boats. Both parties appear, how ever, to b e i n f orce near t h e osnt still lik e eas longare s h a o i n n w d place. On the wh o l e , I south-west, renewed vigour. All t i o h o e k Cs b nh i ge t t w e r e s s t t raungdg LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN. The Great Eastern arrived at Liverpool to-day from New York. LITERATURE. The Dramatic, Eguestr and Muszcal, •Sich Fund Almanac f ot 18 63. B y J. W. Anson. zan, This is the seventh year of this useful little pub lication which has a special claim on all lovers of dramatic art, from the Wort h y p u rpose to which the proceeds are devoted. Th e p r ofits 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 whicb the College now stands. The most noticeable feature in this little work iy the summary of great 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 public or the profession. COLONIAL AID FOR LANCASIIIRE.—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 ekhoaorwaleetdegr,eaonfdfasrinm andglemn be and in gm work,arri e d t o e couples selectedl e m a the cotton di s t r icts. The arrangements for carrying out the object, it is understood , arc t o be entrusted to her Ma jesty's Emigration Commissioners. men LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Jan. 15.—Tne cot ton market has assumed a quieter tone to-day; neverthe less, the sales reach fully 10,030 bales, one half on specula tion and for export. Yesterday's advance has been well maintained. MR. EDWIN JAMES, —The New York correspon dent of the Standard, writing upon Jan. 2, nays : In the Supreme Court to-day Mary Ann James succeeded in getting a decree of divorce from Etwia James, th e cele brated lawyer. She can marry again, but he cannot, although most husbands under similar circumstances do get m:rried, and the law does not touch them. Mr. James lth l o f u s g h h e i t s o .sdi single e i s hnoo is t t t h o e o h , i u n s b o -cn ol d m o o f n t s h e; e s l e a t p e 0 1\ i r l a r so.f although. the law says he is not. JUGGED HARE.—The following is an instance, says the Medical Times and Gazette, sho w i ng h ow our profcs,ton is exposed to ridicule through the exagge rations of chemists and sanitarians, who argue a p r i or i , forgetting that, in all that pertains to human life, experi ence is the only safe guide. It is said that Dr. tl ill, the food analyst for Birmingham, summoned a game dealer be fore the magistrates on the ground that he had in his shop bares which were putrid and unfit for food, and which were therefore condemned and ordered to be destroyed. When the defendant came before the bench 11 days afterwards the doctor is said to have deposed that " all meat that had undergone any process of decomposition was very unwhole sl,,vmh.ealrlet Sandsihsun noCgt Cox, o f some end poisonous. He did net 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. , lii '1 did so, and replied, "It appears to me very good, but rather highly seasoued ; I should not object to cat 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 chemist as un \ fi v t it f u o o r s f s e e o s d , l a - n 1 d da s 3; i s eo p t r o e t v o i r o s us h l.:. iou l p ' o h o e off the hare, which was placed at their a re d u j o ou rt i e m r e s d , t a o tt l o o rn oo ey h 's, disposal ; and, on the resumption of business, Professor ne t cast e , lth e yt il ot oirl; wholesome." sbpiCoetcmondl destroyed, c g is t e irs , n(lB: d ylhoo c i p dvsi e ifiot d Euur oetdrlhreeiyassnlttitrnrhioaal destroy :Bou t h h nti aeh a adol t . l s lo i h e d m eer a me c da h gtih N s v et i r l oa l tt l he eel 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 GF WEST SOMERSET.-- Mr. Moody has just issued his address to the electors of West Somerset announcing his resignation of his seat in the House of Commons. Mr, Moody ssys---"After what has fallen from me at the late large meetings of the consti tuency the subject of this address will take no one by sur prise. In announcing my early resignation of the trust with which you have so long honoured me, I address you with mingled feelings of gratitude and regret—grateful for the large amount of favour and indulgence which you have granted me, and grieved that the tie which has for so many years united us must now bo severed. Advancing years have braught with them an increa•ing inability fitly to dis charge lay required duties, and in justice to your iuterests, as well as to myself, it becomes rue to withdraw from the responsibility of being any longer one of your representa tives in Parliament. The present time seems most oppor.. tune for my retirem en t —as, on the one hand, no questions of great importan ce are pending, so that I cannot be said to relinquish my dutie s a t a critical moment ; and, on the other baud, this freedo m f rom 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 agricultural employment in which, if deferred for a few months, by the renewed bounty of a gracious Provi dence, I h pe you will b e again successfully engage d . " M i W. 11. P. G. Langton, of Hatch Park, who formerly repee sen`cd the division, has announcedhis intention of offering himself in the Conservative interest ; a nd Mr. Ralph Ne ville Grenville, the present hi g h sher iff o f the county, is spoken by ale ;iibinial *ii sly to be Aio oPponenti FRANCE. PARIS, JAN: 16. The Ministers met in Council yesterday at the Tuileries, the Emperor presiding. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the Revue Nationale has received a first warning. La Irance 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 Porte of giving assistance and encouragement to the Circassians, and of fomenting agitation iu the Caucasus and Daghestan. BOURSE, Jan. 15.—IIcaviness continues to be the predominant feature of the market, but the price of Threes, for the Account, although it re ceded 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 : 11 per Cents. 9B 25 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 85 New' 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 1130 Do, end month.., 1132 50 Bank Shares 3400 Credit koneier 1430 Piedmontese Fives, Italian Loan 69 80 Russian Austrian Spank , h Threes 54 75 Home Debt RA IL- - AYS. Cash. Account. Orleap Northern New ditto . Lyons and Mediterranean 1167 50 Ile C 25 Geneva 382 50 .. 380 Southern BO7 50 .. 812 50 Western Eastern ... Sardinian 367 50 .. • 362 50 Austrian LOT/'hard North of Spain Saragossa — .. Ditto to Barcelona 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 and Palermo. The Municipality of Genoa has voted 50,000 f. for the subscription in favour of the victims of 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 Diet 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 German States, to concede to an Assembly of Popular Dele gates, associated with the Federal Diet, the right of vote upon Federal financial questions and proposals to increase the contingent 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. ne 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 CoNantes as Minis• ter for Foreign Affairs. Several other changes are expected. RUSSIA. ST. PE FERSBURG, JAN. 15. The Invalide I?usse of to-day contains a decree of the Emperor, appointing Privy Councillor Tata richow, Secretary of State, and Provisional General Controller, in place of M. Annenkoff. THE BRAZILS. (PER THE ESTRAMADUB,A ) BUENOS AYItES, DEC. 15. 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 i.nchanged. Refined sugar, 19 to 19. 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 teeded the preliminary service of the Evangelical Church. In 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. Tho Ministers were in undress uniform. That comical old gentleman, Marshal Wrangel, was, of course, present. M. von Bismark read 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 tho 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. . . . • • 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 means completely to cover the expen • (Elmo, including all extraordinary demands, The deficit shown by the estimates for 1862 will, therefore, as was anti cipated at the time of their discusssoii, in reality not exist. " In the absence of a kg - ally. fixed Budget for 1862, the Government has especially aimed at conducting the admi nistration with economy; it neverthelus has not neglected to make all such expenditure as was necessai y for the regu lar carrying on of the fultuinistratiwa of the country, for the maintenance and advanc:nuent of existing State institu• tions, and for the welfare of the land. As soon as accounts have been finally balanced, Government will present a pro position cQucerningtlae receipts and expenditure of tb.:, Past year, and move for the retroopective approbation of both Houses of Parliament for the expenses incurred. "The Budget for the year 1863 will again be laid before you. Tho 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 well grounded that this deficit, like those of previous years, will be fully covered by excess of income. " The preparation of the Budget for 186-1 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 tho 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 reorganisatian 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 tages which they were justified in anticipating from the treaties of cemmerce 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 the carrying out of those treaties. " 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 hop:s also, during the present session, to make propositions to you concerning tho establishment of new connecting lines already in course of preparation. " By the improvements of dikes and the draining cf 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 the organisation of circles (Kr eis-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. Tho opinion omitted 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 temporality 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, mations have been made by the same Governments in the Diet, which, less by their 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, &e." 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 ordnun 0, &e., 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:2l 7 apoleon. 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, 1y . 7 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 specie, 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:11 be a total loss. Her cargo is floating out of her, but a portion may be saved in a damaged state. There 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 est,‘ential change. Erio and Iliinois shares have declined, the former to 66k, the latter to 83. The premium on gold has receded to 34 per cent.; ster ling exchange without &Iteration. AND 80 FORTll.—Thtre is a young man in the United States tates army, who was born July 4 , at 4 o'clock p. at No. 41, 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, 44111 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 Marino Board yesterday presented Cap • Lain Douglas, of the barque Veronica, with a fine telescope, as an a cknowledgment 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 gilt of the Board of Trade, and was suitably accompanied by a handsome letter, acknowledging Captain Douglas's servic'2s. M. Uuizot, who has been residing for th© last she mouths at his country seat of Val Richer, is about to return to Paris. It is said that he will bring with him the fifth volume of his Memoirs ready for the press. NEW ZEALAND. The following details respecting the native gnu ion are from the Southern Cross of October 6:— By the steamer Wonga Wonga, which arrived in the Manukau harbour this morning, we have Wellington, Nelson, 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 w'll show the people of England that the settlers of New Zealand arenot 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. 13uller 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 Tainni." Brave words these, Sir George Grey, if you mean 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 Alaori tlig to the governor; we will never cut down the fl igstaff; 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 would not go to Tainui, and that the chiefs would not come to Wanganui, a compromise was effected, and 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 native 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 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, whic` 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 fouud the task rather difficult. After professions of "love" and " peace" had been made, and the "good wattle" 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 coun sellors in their midst there can be no doubt. The stand taken by Sir George Grey is one from which be 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 mm ; that if ho 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 a 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. Here is a man of high pcsition, great attainments, and 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 weak and ignorant human brethren; but new, when an effort is being made to save the Maoris from annilii.- lation,weare met with distrust and derision, our phil 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 nolt very difficult to foresee. Be it so ; our present cna past efforts in the cause of peace will be a source of satisfaction to our consciences, and should an appeal to force become inevitable, on their heads, not on ours, be the consequences." The following additional items of intelligence are from the Southern Cross of Oct. 31 :—" While the native question is still unsettled, the country is pro gressing rapidly; and almost every ship that ar rives lessens the probability of hostilities recom mencing. While the white population are steadily on the increase, the natives Eee their chance of mak ing a successful stand as certainly declining. The great drawback to developing the vast natural re sources of this island has been the difficulty in pro curing land suitable for settlement, in favourable localities, from the native owners. To the quiet operation of the Native Lands Bill we look forward hopefully for a gradual solution of a difficulty that ties hitheriodetied soldiers and politicians to unravel. The Lancashire Relief Fund already amounts to £1,200, of which £550 were sent to England by the late mail. A draft for £7OO will go by this mill. Au inter-provincial rifle match between the volunteers of Auckland and the Nelson volunteers is arranged to come off. The Aucklanders are prac tising for the event. Coromandel engages a consi derable degree of attention —every day adds to the existing proof of the richness of the quartz reefs in this province, and as quartz-crushing machinery will soon he in full operation, we may reasonably hopo to induce, by the results, the investment of more evil al and a larger amount of labour, in de veloping this AufAdana gold field." Importing Tea without colour on: the leaf pre vents the Chinese peeing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. llernitnen's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents, rest SUre nOlll crew ,1 eirel Eng POT( of ti befoi pose' £6 1 Willi 1111511 necel At Coun lucre Ti and Ti Faris Tt for t' Cont Di Braz Di Chi ti Di Egp Gr e , Ili Alexi Di New Port itus; Di Bard Di Sp a , Di Di Spas Itali Di eon D fr o ,