The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-07 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1864. The year 1864, which has already robbed the parliamentary and political world of many of its ornaments, has added another distinguished name to the long list of those it has taken from us. The death of the Earl of CARLISLE, although scarcely unexpected, will not be the less deplored, and the many who mourn him as a dear and honoured friend will be sympathised with in their sorrow by the wide circle who respected his personal character even more than they admired his talents. It is always an ominous sign when an English statesman retires from work. Oar patricians, when once they have entered the arena, are as loth to leave it as men whose means make them less independent of its possible emolumehts. There is a fascination in the life of active politics which few who have once shared are willing to exchange for the atium cunt chgnitate which may be within their grasp, and the man who has . spent the greater part of his life in the busy world would find it as difficult to distract his interest from its scenes as to provide his eller% glee with other occupation. Tho part of CINCIN NATUS is as rare from its versatility as from its disinterestedness, and few of our politicans are in clined to play it. oit Premier himself has long since passed an aze at which he might honourably have laid aside those cares of state in which the best years of his life have been passed. But when the burd en h as b een borne so long its weight is missed instead of its absence being felt as a relief, and, accordingly, when we hear o f men still in the full vigour of their years voluntarily laying down their public responsibilities, we have good reason to fear that their term of life itself will be but brief. It was ao with Lord HERBERT, it was so with the late Duke of NEWCASTLE, it has been so with the Earl of CARLISLE. Connected by birth with most of the leading families of the Whig aristocracy, it was only natural that Lord CARLISLE should have fre. THE ISLINGTON IDOL, The Chronicle of Glover, Sze., In FUN this Week. One Penny. FUN ALMANACK for 1865, Full of Comic Engravin..4 and Humorous Writings. Price 1 xvopence. TRAPPED in a TREE, by Captain MAYNE REID: and other Talcs, will appear in the CHR I S T 7SIAS Double NUMBER of F UN, on Thursday, the 16th. Price Twopence. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. 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THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Eveninz by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 24, Cavendish-street,Old Oxford-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam: DAY.--Morning, 7h. 54 m. —Afternoon, Bh. 30m. To -]BORROW.-Morning; 9a. B m. —Afternoon, 9h. 40m. ‘• ••"-- fi t t jeri=4 , ' T. quently entered official life, but his political emie uence was in some measure due to the accident of birth; his courtesy and kindliness, his upright prin ciple, and gentle heat were all hie own. It has been said of him that he never made an enemy, and if this 'very fact implies that he played no leading part on the stage, it also shows the en. lightenment and tolerance of his views, the libe rality and absence of all sectarianism or prejudice in his conduct. The office which the Earl of CAR. LISLE held during the last eight years was one which, however supetfluoue and unpopular in some respects, demands in no small degree the qualities of tact, judgment, and discretion. It is much to the credit of Lord CARLISLE, after occupy ing a post in which it is extremely difficult to avoid invidious partiality, that he gave offence to none, and that his enforced resignation of the Viceroyalty was the cause of general regret among all classes of Irishmen. Whatever his shortcomings or defi ciencies as a legislator, Lord CARLISLE was an un exceptionable host, and in the task of dispensing the favours of the Castle he found a congenial office. The late Lord Lieutenant, however, origi nated no great measure ; he did not leave his mark on the time or his impress on the people, and in deploring his loss Ireland regrets rather a kind and enlightened nobleman than an active and foresighted Statesman. Lord CARLISLE'S introduction to public life was in the diplomatic service. He was at an early age appointed an attache to the Russian Embassy, and became very popular in the society of the Russian capital. When he was subsequently elected an M.P. for the family seat of Morpeth (whose name he then bore), one of his first speeches was in defence of the GEAR. Iu the stirring times of 1832 he ranged himself on the popular side, though with all his sincere desire for Reform was mingled a little anxiety lest the popu• lar excitement should be carried too far. His gentle and courteous temper made him shrink from the violence of such a contest, but he was a staunch Reformer nevertheless. After a time he exchanged his seat of the little borough of Morpeth for the representation of Yorkshire, then a united county. In Lord MELBOURNE'S Government Lord MORPETU became Chief Secretary for Ireland under Lord NORMANBY, and shared in the popularity which was gained by that nobleman by his liberal admi nistration. 'When Yorkshire was divided into Ridings, Lord MORPETU sat for the West Riding, but lost his seat at the general election which ex changed Lord MELBOURNE'S Government for that of Sir ROBERT PEEL. He employed his leisure in travelling in America, and did not reenter Pare liament until 1846. Since thet time ho has succeeded to the Peerage, and has held what may be termed the minor offices of the Cabinet. His political career is, how ever, chiefly associated with the sister country, both as Chief Secretary in the stormy days of O'CON NELL, when, as Mr. DISRAELI once said of him, " he took a great part in the greatest debates," and as a Lord-Lieutenant popular, prudent, and con ciliatory: Few men could boast of better family or higher connections than Lord CARLISLE, but he was not slow to remember that not " all the blood of all the Howards" could ennoble a man un worthy of his rank, and his invariable regard for the interests of the people and desire to elevate and improve them showed the tree nobleman's spirit. His lectures to Mechanics' Institutes on POPE and on the United States obtained a degree of celebrity, and he manifested some talent and a cultivated taste in other literary productions. The Whig party, not too rich in popular men, has, by the death of this nobleman, lost one who at least. never estranged their followers nor irritated the public—one who never sowed dissensions in the ranks nor lowered their reputatien. If not a leading statesman, at least he never disappointed the expectations of the country ; and, whether from choice or accident, he was never placed in a position for which he was incompetent. The Earl of CARLISLE has left an example of how a man without great talents or shining qualities may obtain public respect and endear himself to private affection ; and while the Liberal party has to lament the loss of a cautious and enlightened politician, society must regret the vacant place of the amiable and accomplished gentleman. Those who sneered at the prophecies which fore• told disruption among the German Puwers will soon find cause to withdraw their objections, and moderate their indignation, when they peruse the latest advices from abroad. It is long since so important a discussion took place, or such signifi , cant demonstrations were made, es have been wit nessed of late in the German territories. The Fatherland will soon be as much a lucus non lucendo as the United States of North America ; there is about as much of unity on one side, as of sympathy and congeniality of sentiment on the other. BYRON, in his remarkable lines in the " Corsair," has illus trated the communion of interest among the pirates in these lines— "And the brief epitaph on danger's day, When those who win at length divide the prey," But in this Schleswig-Holstein question it has been found no such easy matter to divide the prey, nor to settle the disputed territories with anything approaching to dignity and decorum. It must ever remain a slur on the German character that nothing can efface, that they now stand convicted of the lowest motifes in their attacks upon the Duchies, and their invasion of Denmark. If there had been, as they asserted, and their friends in this country and elsewhere upheld, a decided purpose in view, there could not possibly have arisen such a disturbance as this, nor such difficulties in coming to an arrangement. Tho fact is, that the grasping nature of Prussia is now being revealed ; it stands out conspicuous in the conduct of her statesmen, even as in the time of war it shocked and amazed the world in her generals, officers, and soldiers. We can better appreciate the harm that has been done by the tacit approval accorded by other na tions to the deep designs and treacherous course of this country now that the fifth act of high tragedy has commenced. Except among those who were prescient enough to foresee something of this from the first there must be doubtless great surprise felt by the rapacious designs lately exhi bited. It is the best answer to the absurd states ments made by our Government as to the moderate intentions of the Allies and the certainty that existed of their forbearance being displayed if once their demands were acceded to, that there has been during the last few weeks an imminent probability of war breaking out among the conquerors of little Denmark. It is almost a pity that such was not the case in reality, as in perspective it would have been a fine retribution for the fallen country to have beheld. At all events there is this secondary source of satisfaction in the contemplation of the affair, that whatever fate may befall the Duchies of Schles wig and Holstein they have brought their doom upon themselves, and are only reaping the consequences of what they have sown by their foolish demands and unworthy conduct through out the whole of the affair. The indignation which the minor States of Gormany have exhibited' is only natural, and for every reason there is cause to rejoice at its manifestation, for it is only by repeat ed and constant opposition that we cm expect the course of Prussian despotism to be stenunA, and the ha- 14 - 11 , ; BUIN, LONDON', WED.NESDAY 'EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1864, lance of power in some degree adjusted. Not at once, and not with the strongest efforts, can a change come suddenly, but still this is a foreshadowing of the future, which shall see Germany liberated from the dictation of the Berlin Cabinet. " Coming events cast their shadows before," and high as M. BISMARK may carry his head just now, and haughtily as he and his myrmidons may dictate terms to Vienna, and make semblance of crushing the hostile spirit of the Confederation, and the in dignant remonstrances of the Blend, his day of reckoning approaches, hidden in the gloom that overshadows the future, but not the less surely and certainly destined to come. It is difficult to find language strong enough to depict the qualities that M. BISMARK has displayed since the commence ment of this contest, and words are powerless to express the feelings which the upright must expe rience when they contemplate such barefaced effrontery and such wholesale violation of the prin ciples of truth and justice. Well may the Vienna papers say that the conduct of Prussia towards her Federal allies has been most "violent" and "brutal." Such terms only too aptly describe the demeanour that we have so long deplored and de precated in this country, assured that its persistent pursuance would bring about sad and serious con• sequences, and convinced that freedom was im perilled and the good faith of nations endangered by such fatal essumption of undue claims and such false assertions of rights and privileges. The pre sent triumph which Prussia has achieved through intimidating Austria, must necessarily be shurt lived, and even while she outwardly enjoys the victory, the seeds of decay and defeat will be ger minating her Cabinet, and taking root in her Councils. A more tame and impo tent conclusion has seldom followed upon such grandiloquent assertions and fine sounding schemes. It is evident the next step will be the sequestration of the Duchies to Prussia. Rumour has for some time past been busy in whispering this likely oc currence, and all seems to tend that way, which ever way we look at the affair. Once secure of co operation with Vienna, BIsMABK will set the Ger man Confederation at defiance and proceed to ex tremities. In this he will go too far in all probability ; but there is no teaching wisdom to those who think they have the game in their own hands, and that they have the earth for their table and empires for their game. Disap pointed and partially nonplussed as the smaller 2rerman States must he by the over-riding and tyranny of the reckless BISMARK, they will not b 3 found always so impotent and innocuous as that crafty statesman doubtless considers they are and will be. A feeling of distrust and jealousy rankling in the mind is a dangerous weapon against any authority, no matter how puissant he may appear to be ; and it will be seen by those who live long enough, that the day of retribution will dawn. These States have a double injury to record against Prussia, Last year that kingdom did its utmost to prevent the proposed independence and consolida tion of their people, and now it is virtually ignoring their existence by disclaiming their right to act, and their opinion as to the mode in which others ought to act. It cannot be that any kingdom can long withstand the direful and dangerous influences that are arrayed against Prussia at this moment, and especially when it is borne in mind that there is no innate strength in the Government, and no intrinsic greatness in the people. The Peruvian brings U 3 an animated picture of the. state of American effeirs. Every one is watch ing in the greatest excitement for the results of SHERMAN'S expedition, but the suspense will not be of very long duration since an encounter is imminent with the Confederate forces, and the first pitchtd battle will prob Ably either completely rout the invader or enable him to pursue his course un checked to Augusta. The South are making despe rate efforts, and Gen. BEAUREGARD has issued a stirring address to the people of Georgia, calling on them to remove or destroy all property in SHERMAN'S route which could benefit him, to break up the bridges, obstruct the roads, and impede his progress in every way possible. The Richmond authorities and the leading citizens of the State enforce these recommendations, which it is likely enough the people will follow, since they may as well destroy their property themselves for the ultimate good of the country, as leave it to be plundered and destroyed by the Federal army. So far from observing the terms of his order, SHERMAN has been carrying destruction in his train. He has burnt 511 or seven towns, including in one of them the house of Governor BROWN, and he is laying waste the country on every side. According to the manner in which the Federals announca his future movements, they are confident of his success in not only reaching Augusta but in proceeding " on to Richmond ;" but there are very great doubts on both points. He has not yet reached Macon, and Beauregard is hurrying to meet him with a force of 65,000 to SHERMAN'S 50,000. A great part of General EARLY'S army has been withdrawn from the Shenandoah to Richmond and Petersburg to enable General LEE to rein force BEAUREGARD, and thus send an equal force to encounter SHERMAN, which is, of coarse, the vital point. A battle was thought to be imminent, and it is likely to be disastrous in its consequences to the North if the loser. The New Governor of Malta, VALF.TTA, Dec. 1, Ili Excellency Sir H. Storks arrived at Malta on the night of the 29th Nov., in H.M.S. Psyche, from Marseilles, having embarked on board that vassel on Snnday evening, during very tempestuous weather, which rendered the get. ting out of the narrow port of La Joliette no very easy matter, but which was accomplished without accident or mishap of any kind by her skilful commander, Lieutenant Sterne. On Wednesday morning the Chief Secretary to Govern went, Sir Victor Moulton, repaired on hoard to take his Excellency's commands, and in the course of the morning the secretary to the Roman Catholic Bishop also waited upon his Excellency to compliment him in the name of the Bishop of Malta, Sir Henry Storks landed at noon under a salute from the town, and was received at the Custom-house landing-place, by a guard of honour, as well as by Major- Gen, Ridley, the Acting Governor, and the heads of the military and civil departments. General Ridley and the Chief Secretary drove up to the Palace with his Excellency, who was also accompanied by his military secretary, Lieut. Colonel Peel, the route chosen being that by the Mersa side of the harbour, Along the most part of the route, and espe• cially at Floriana and the main street of the city, the pave ment was lined with people, who respectfully saluted their new Governor as he passed, which was repeatedly and politely acknowledged. His Excellency was in civilian dress, which was understood by the population to mean a compliment to their wishes for a civil Governor. At the Palace gates another guard of honour was in waiting. The ceremony of admicistering the oaths was performed by Sir Antonio Micallef, K. C. M . G., the highest judicial functionary in the island,and they were repeated by his Excellency in a re markably firm and audible voice, t he Royal commission hav ing previously been read by the chief secretary. At 1 his Excellency received the Bishop of Malta, and at 2 the Naval Commander-in-Chief, the Admiral Superintendent, and other raval And military officers of high rank, In the even ing his Excellency dined with General Ridley, and after wards went to the Opera, the house being, of course, un usually well attended by a large and fashionable audience. On the Governor making his appearance after the first act, the National Anthem was sung by the whole theatrical company, assisted by the orchestra and a military band be hind the scenes, after which the audience offered its wel come also by a general clapping of hands, but unaccom. panied by any other demonstration. To-morrow a popular address will be presented to the new Governor, as well as one from the Chamber of Commerce. The Emperor of Russia has just issued a ukase extending the abolition of serfdom to Transcaucasia, the only province of the Russian empire where that institution still exists, Charles Dickens's New Serial Story. ---~- - Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No. S. Chapman and Hall. Number Eight of " Our Mutual Friend" contains within it much that shows Mr, Dickens still to be in the plcuitude of his power as Chief among the Great Master Humorists of English Literature. It is the author of Pickwick and Martin Chuzzlew it, of the Old Curiosity Shop and Oliver Twist, of David Copperfield and Great Expectations, who here talks to us. It is the creator of Little Nell and Paul Dombey, of Young Pip and Tiuy Tim, who has here written fur us in this December number of his new serial story, that exquisite Ninth Chapter of the &mid Book of " Oar Mutual Friend." In which " the orphan makes his will." Therein, that is within the compass of that one brief chapter, our author wields, yet once more, by the right divine of genius, a complete mastery over many of our nobler emotions. We read what he has there written through a mist of tears. The words in which his thoughts are articulated are of the simplest. There is about them not one particle of affectation. The tender sensibility of which they are expressive comes to us as it were spontaneously, and, in one sense, it might almost be said, quite unpremeditatedly, It is the very opposite or anti thesis of what we, for our own part, hold in espe cial abhorrence, to wit, mere idle sentimentality. The pathetic beauty of the incident described in this ninth chapter is of the sweetest and of the gentlest well imaginable, and yet, in every syllable of it, it is also of the very manliest. It is related of Fra Angelico—and hence, indeed, the lovely reputation he has left in the History of Art —that especial graces both of shape and of colour seemed to fall upon his canvas whenever his pencil undertook to pourtray the angelic forms and fea tures with which his fame, with which his very name, has come to be identified. In the same way and with equal truth, it might be said that Mr Dickens is at his best whenever his hand touches lovingly upon that darling theme for him—the delineation of those whom he himself has somewhere exquisitely spoken of as—" angels of little children." Of the depth of tenderness with which his manly hand can portray them, these latest records of the foreshortened life of the Orphan, of " Our Johnny," as here given in this eighth in stalment of " Our Mutual Friend," of themselves afford the very amplest amplest attestation. They would of themselves make good all we have but just now said about Mr Dickens's rare and incom municable gifts es a delineator of little chil dren, even if we had no remembrance whatever of his own already thickly peopled little world of little children, such, for example, as those world-famous little children whose names we have already enumerated. . . . Chapter Seven is one in which " A Friendly Move is Originated" betweeu that disgracefully selfish old humbug, (" with a wooden leg,") once upon a time Apple-stall keeper, now custodian of Boffin's Bower, and that melancholy articulator of his dear brcthers and sisters departed, Mr Venus, otherwise describable, let us say, as the Skeleton-maker Crossed in Love. his amiable pair, Mr Venus and Mr Wegg, lay their heads together with a view to the discovering, if possible, under the dust heaps, of something to the disadvantage of the unsuspecting Golden Dust. man, Noddy Boffin. One delightful gleam of humour shines out, every now and then, through the heze of this wretched little conspiracy —namely, upon each occcasion when that ungrateful old rascal Silas Wegg plumes himself upon his magnanimous relinquishment (in the interests of his new em ployer) of " those great creatures (whose very names were of his, that is, of Wegg's, own invention) Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker!" Chapter Eight recounts how a certain "Innocent Elepement,,Occurs"—Miss Bella Wilfer (previously armed, to that very end, we may presume, with a fifty pound note, the gift of dear old Nicodemus Beni, Esquire, of the Bower and the Grand Corner House)—Miss Bella, we say, running off with ~ Pa" (R. W,, otherwise Rumty), after that same poor shabby Pa has been transformed in his attire from head to foot, including patent leather boots ! Runs cff with him to a fashionable hotel down the river at Greenwich—to the end simply of giving poor shabby Pa (shabby now no longer), at last, in his whole dull life, one single day's treat. The which incident of the Innocent Elopement is described thoughout with infinite prettiness. Afterwards it is that we come to that ninth chapter, " In which the Orphen makes his wilt"—in which Our Johnny sickens, droops, and dies. Before the number ends Mr. Sloppy may be said to have been formally installed as poor dead Johnny's successor. And well does Mr. Sloppy—we cannot but think this, and say it—dee serve this promotion. That "poor ungainly piece of honesty"—Sloppy to wit—fairly winning his way to our tr sympathies in despite of all his abundant little vag an ces of grotesqueness. Imm ens e fun is extravag an ces made of his persistent revelation in various parts of his form of many ' ' surprising, confounding, and incomprehensible buttons." Even when he has enjoyed "a complete realisation of that fairy vision --ascot, en beer, oe eaia ble vegetables,bu of hie "became more ttons andiidding,"we learn that those i mpor t una te of public notice than b e f ore , with the n exception of two or three about the region of the waistband, which modestly withdrew into a creasy retirement.' Nay, even when—after the demise of poor little Johnny — we learn that the consideration of Mrs Boffin has clothed Mr Sloppy in a suit of black, on which the tailor had received personal directions to expend the utmost cunning of his art, with a view (if possible) to the concealing of the cohering and sustaining buttons—how is the event reported to us, namely as to the result of this wild sartorial effort at improvement ? Why, by our being informed that—" so much more powerful were the frailties of Sloppy's form than the strongest resources of tailoring science" that he stood forth (in his new suit of black) "a perfect Argus in the way of buttons —shining and winking and gleaming and twinkling out of a hundred of those eyes of bright metal at the dazzled spectators." Yet, it Sloppy, with his ungainliness and his but tons and his fairy visions of " four of 'em," mean ing meat, beer, vegetables, and pudding, wins our laughter, as he does full freely, it is a laughter that comes to us through our tears—tears for the poor little baby orphan, Our Johnny. A glimmering of his sad case we have—when, after Sloppy's description of the strange re semblance discernible betwen the rumbling rattle of the mangle and Our Johnny's breathing—the narrator cipende first of all with his description into a stare and a vacant grin, but afterwards, being silent, contracts into a half-repressed gush of tears—" under pretence of being heated, drawing the under part of his sleeve across his eyes with a Singularly awkward, laborious, and roundabout smear !" Moro painfully still do we come to realise the condition of Our Johnny when, upon entering the poor cottage at Brentford, with the rest of them, we hear old Betty Higden, in answer to Mrs. Boffin's inquiring " How's my boy ?" answering, " Ile's bad ! He's b a d 1" Fainter grow our hopes, darker and darker grow our fears, for poor Johnny, when—after opening his heavy eyes, end slowly breaking into a smile on beholding that splendid phenomenon, the noble charger from the toy-shop—nay after he has con trived (by means of its being placed on a chair within his reach) to hold it by the mane and there contem plate it—we read—. Which he soon forgot to do!" When at last, however, upon his removal to the Children's Hospital, we overhear the kind doctor whispering aside to Rokesmith—" This should have been done days ago. Too late !"—we know the worst —we realise then to the full the approach of the ine vitable parting. Nothing could very well be more beautiful in its way than the description—so simple, so truthful, so touching—Lore penned by Mr.Dickena of the incidents occurring in (nay, of the mere general aspect of) that gently tended dormitory in the Hos pital for Sick Children. Passing through it with him in the dead of the night, in company with Rokesmith and the Doctor—while most of the little patients are lying there asleep—we read, how, there upon the little platforms raised above each tiny couch—" Over most of the beds, the toys were yet grouped as the children had left them when they last laid themselves down, and, in their innocent grotesqueness and ineon. gruity, they 'might have stood for the child, en's dreams !" It is a Poet's thought ! A thought that Hans Andersen might. envy ! And so—in the hush of the children's dormitory—the poor baby, Oar Johnny, gently dies upon Rokesmith's arm--atter bequeathing his toys (for him, " the riches of the earth") to his next neighbour " the mite with the broken leg," and after sending " a kiss for the hoofer lady' , —meaning Bella Wilfer. . We are glad to notify in regard to the present number of " Oar Mutual Friend" that it is yet further remarkable for a very manifest improvement in Mr. Marcus Stone's illustrations, as evidenced particularly in one of them—namely, that of "Pa's Lodger and Pa's Daughter"----the hero and heroine of the narrative. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE " CITY OF LONDON." [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] The City of London, from New York on the 26th Nov., arrived at Queenstown at 3 p.m. today with mails,l79 passengers, and 1,323,757 dgls. in specie. She landed 33 passengers, and proceeded at 3.20 pan, for Liverpool. NEW YORK, Nov. 26. The Confederates aro said to be missing eaten. eively in Petersburg, and immense quantities .of powder have been received there from the South. General Lee reports that in an attack on the night of the 17th, General Pickett captured one colonel, 12 captains, 12 lieutenants, and 113 men. The Richmond Enquirer states on the 18th jug. the Federals made desperate but unsuccessful attempts to retake the ground gained by General Pickett. General Breckenridge reports that his cavalry under Generals Basil, Duke, and Vaughan, routed the Federals under General Gillem, at Bull's Gap, on the 14th, capturing several hundred prisoners, ten stand of colours, six pieces of artillery, 50 loaded waggons, and a largo number of small arms. Other accounts state that Breckenridge had pur sued Gillem to Strawberry Plains, and captured 850 prisoners and 150 waggons, and that Gillem finally retreated in the night to the fortifications of Knoxville. The Confederates attacked the Federals at Fayet. vine, Arkansas, on the 28th nit., bat were repulsed. The town was then closely invested until the 3d inst. when the Confederates were reinforced by 6,000 men of Price's forces. The Confederates were held in check until the following day, when Genes rals Cards and Blunt arrived, and the Confederates retreated with the loss of 1,000 men. The Richmond Sentinel, of the 21st ult., con tains a letter from Vice-President Stephens to Senator Semmes of Louisiana, which states he does not favour any convention of the States as has been reported, unless the pro posal for such a convention should come from the Federal Government. Mr Stevens adds that the old Union and Constitution are dead for ever, ex cept so far as the constitution has been preserved by the Confederacy. Thera is for the Union as it was no resurrection by any power short of that which brought Lazarus from the tomb. He con cludes by stating that his views have not changed since 1861 ; that he then considered the issue before the South to be independence or subjugation, and that when Georgia seceded, he, in full consc i ousness of all prospective trials, sacrifices, and responsibili ties, pledged himself to stand by her, and he should keep his pledge. PORTUGAL. LISBON, DEC. G. The French steamer Ardeche has arrived here from Mexico, with one regiment of the French expeditionary army. The sanitary condition of the troops is good. ITALY. TURIN, DEC. 7. In yesterday's sitting of the Senate, General Cialdini supported the transfer of the capital from a strategic point of view. No compromise, he said, was possible between Austria and Italy. The passes of the Appenines were real Thermopylae. General Cialdini's speech was received with applauss. Signor Pallavicino opposed the Convention, and was in favour of going to Rome and making war in Venetia. Signor Revel censured the Convention from other motives, and considered the independence of the Pontifical temporal powers necessary. General dells Marmora stated that he shared the views expressed by General Cialdini. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 6 (Evening). A long conference took place to-day between M. Mercier, the French ambassador, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Epoca of today asserts that the Madrid Cabinet has unanimously decided to support those candidates for the Presidency of the Congress who have already held that office. Christmas Eve in a Night Train. Some few years ago we met casually a clever friend who was manager of a certain railway, and found, after the usual greetings, that we were both suffering from a very common annoyance, usually known as " depression of spirits," although neither of us was able to assign any substantial reason for our condition at the moment. " Come with me," said our friend. " "Whenever lam in ' the blues,' I adopt a simple but efficacious remedy, and you shall try it.'' " And canst thou minister to a mind diseased ?" was of course the natural and time-honoured rejoinder. " Yes, I can ; and I'll tell you what I do. I wait until the line is clear, and then jump on a pilot engine, run fifty or sixty miles down, and return again under the hour. The excitement of the journey always puts the demons to flight." The absurdity of this proposition had the effect of dis pelling our own megrims as we laughed heartily at the notion of consigning our invaluable body to a pilot engine, steaming along at the rate of 120 miles an hour. We did not accept our friend's invitation, but subse quently, acting upon his discovery, have more than once sought the excitement of Thames.streot when business was at its height, and have found that a walk down that river-side thoroughfare has dispelled every other feeling but one of thankfulness for a safe deliverance from danger and death. Let any tnalade itnaginaire try it. The bags, barrels, and bales swinging over-head from every gradation of height, the jamming of carts and cabs, the unparlia. mentary "cheeking" (we believe that is the word) of cab men, carters, and truck-haulers—the bawling of grimy coal and corn-porters (who certainly ask, "By y' leave," but require such an immediate compliance that if you hesitate a moment you aro pirouetting in the gutter), the roaring which comes from the opened windows of gloomy taprooms, filled with half-tipsy fellows, emitting clouds of most vil lanous tobacco, are a combination of exciting causes suffi cient to stimulate the most desponding. MARK LEMON.— In the Christmas Niember of "London Society," just pub lished. Au Heiress Discovered. About 27 years ago a Capt. Brown, whose family resided in Mattapoisett, was the overseer of tie estate of Mr 11. E. Clifton, a wealthy gentleman of Richmond, Virginia. Front some cause, which still remains a secret, a difficulty arose between Capt. B. and Mr C., wherein the former considered himself the aggrieved party. To revenge himself for the siippo, , ,ed wrong, ho stole Mr Clifton's infant daughter (then but six weeks old) on the day she was christened. The child was brought to Mattapoisett and secretly adopted by Brown and his wile as their own. She was named Julia, and grew up to be a woman. When only 16 years old she married Mr I. O. Pierce, a printer. Several years ago they moved to Taunton, living for a while at East Taunton, but more recently at the Green. Two children have been born to them, one of whom is now living. During this long period Mrs Pierce has lived in blissful ignorance of her parentage; and Mr Pierce, who took her for better or worse, has never imagined himself the husband of an heiress. Ho abandoned the printer's trade shortly after learning it, and for several years has earned his daily bread by the sweat of his brow at Mr Mason's works in this city. Last summer, while the Rev. Mr Talbot, of this city, was at Saratoga, he became acquainted with Mr Clifton and wife, who, it appears, at the breaking out of the rebellion, converted their Richmond property into cash and moved to Baltimore, In the course of conversation with them Mr T. remarked upon the strik ing reeerablance of Mrs Clifton to a lady parishioner of his in Taunton. Nothing particular was thought of it at first— but on his repeating the remark, Mrs C. inquired the age of the lady, On being informed that she was about 27, Mrs C. immediately said to her husband, " Why, that would be just the age of our daughter that was stolen." The matter then received their serious attention. Mr Talbot was taken into their confidence, and inquiry instituted as to the re puted parents of the young lady. He returned to Taunton —had a conversation with Mrs Pierce in regard to her parentage—informed her of the Saratogacon versation,which led het to ask Mrs Brown, who she had never doubted was her own mother, if she really was such, at the same time telling her the reason of the inquiry. Mrs Brown, who had the secret of the child's parentage for 27 years, was so over come by the question and the development of facts that she immediately became ill and died. Before her death she ac knowledged that Mrs Pierce was not her daughter. Capt. Brown died a number of years ago. Within a few weeks the affair has developed itself. Mr and Mrs Clifton and Mrs Pierce have met each other,and the old coloured woman who nursed the abducted infant has recognised Mrs P. as their real child by a mole on her shoulder. The identity of their long lost daughter having been fully established, Mrs Pierce and her husband have been invited to live with the Cliftons and share in their wealth, and this they are preparing to do, having broken up housekeeping and disposed of their furniture. 'I he cream of the affair is that Mrs Pierce is an only child, and therefore solo heiress to an estate said to be worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars; or as an old lady friend of Mrs Pierce expressed it, " a trifle lees than two millions."—Tftwion (Mass.) Republican, MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of Engli:sh wheat received fresh up to our market to-day was very moderate. The trade, however, was by no means active, yet no change took place in prices compared with Monday. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. The principal business transacted was in American produce, which changed hands to a moderate extent, at late rates. Continental produce was unaltered in value from Monday. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. The supply of barley on sale was tolerably large. For good and fine malting produce te trade was firm, at full currencies. Inferior barley was in slow request, at late rates. Malt was in limited demand, on former terms, The market was but moderately supplied with oats. Russian qualities sold readily, at Monday's advance of 6d per quarter, Other descriptions were firm in price. Beans and peas met a slow sale, on former terms, The flour trade was quiet, at late currencies. ARRIVALS THIS WVEK. Wheat. Barley, Malt. Oats, Flour. English 1,330 1,860 970 960 Irish Foreign 4,450 300 14,160 sks 5,200 brls WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is but moderate, and the trade is firm, as follows— Beef, from 3s to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s Gd to 5s Od ; veal, 38 10d to 48 10d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 5s Od per 81b8 by the carcase. BOROUGII HOP. Our market is very firm, and previous quotations aro well supported. Prices range from 90s to 200 s per cwt. LORD LYONS.—It is reported from Washington that Lord Lyons has almost recovered from his recent illness. We feel sure that the whole community will receive this intelligence with sincere satisfaction. It will be left for history to record how much the United States owed to our own Minister at the Court of St. James's and to the British Minister at Washington in maintaining a fair understanding between the two Governments during a crisis which threatened on so many occasions to bring them into actual collision. Combined with a large and varied experience of the world, the Ministers who have been the mediums of official communication between the two coun tries since the opening of the war, have shown that they possessed the still rarer qualifications of oven and genial temper. Both Lord Russell and Lord Derby have borne voluntary testimony to the uniform and perfect courtesy of Mr Adams in all his communications with the Government of her Britannic Majesty, and we are sure that the same testimony would ba borne in the case of Lord Lyons by those who had to con 'net official intercourse with him on this side. We can only express, a cordial wish that his mission may be prolonged, and as satisfactory to both Go vernmentslin the future as it, has been in the past,--Ne ts York Times. DREADFUL TRAGEDY ON TIIE lIIGH SEAS.—A telegram was received in Liverpool yesterday from Queenstown, which gives a brief account of a horrible triple murder and suicide which occurred, on board the ship Alciope, Captain Walker, at sea on the 2d November. It appears from the captain's statement, made immediately on the vessel's arrival at Queenstown, that the Alciope left Demerara on the 11th of October for Queenstown. On the night of the 2d of November, about half-past nine o'clock, two men of the crow, Frenchmen, suddenly attacked tho chief officer, and the carpenter, and succeeded in killing them both. They next attacked the captain in his cabin, and in the struggle he received a severe blow on the head with a hammer. He succeeded, however, in forcing his way forward, and obtained the assistance of the crew. One Of the murderers then, finding that they were overpowered, throw himself into the sea, and was drowned. The other was seized, and so severely handled by the crew that he died shortly afterwards, DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 7. The Dagbladet of to-day announces the arrival of the King at Kolding last evening. The same paper asserts that several thousand in • habitants of Schleswig wanted to proceed thither to render homage to the King. This was forbidden by the authorities, and several arrests had in conse. quince taken place. FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 7. The Court of Correctional Appeal delivered judgment to-day in the case of the thirteen deputies accused of holding illegal meetings. It confirmed the sentence pronounced by the Tribunal of First Instance. A letter from Modena, in the Union, has the sub joined :—" An ingenious expedient was imagined hero by the Municipal Council to obtain the means of paying by anticipation the land tax for 1865. An extraordinary impost of 23f. per head was levied on all the cattle brought to market. The measure was no doubt excellent, for the country people would have furnished the funds, and the city would have received six per cent. discount, while the landowners in return would have to pay an interest of the same amount. Unfortu nately for the council an unforeseen result has oc curred—the markets remain deserted, as neither peasants nor cattle were to bo seen. That extra ordinary contribution had therefore to be aban doned. How will the Municipal Council now keep its engagements with M. Sella ? That is the ques. Lion. Many other towns are or soon will be in the same situation as Modena. What will then happen ? A Turin journal announces with an air of triumph that the Treasury has already received more than 600,000 f. This is something indeed ; but 124,000,000 f, are required before the 15th!" BOURSE, Dec. 6.—Tne market has not been very animated but firm, and Threes, for the Ac• count, have slightly improved, being now at 65f 95c. Mobilier also shows an advance, and is now quoted at 992 f 50c. R iilway Market quiet, but with pre vious prices well maintained. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents . . 94 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents .. 65 60 Do. end month.... 65 9 0 Credit Moldier..., 920 Do. and month.... 921 25 Bank Shares 'l5OO Credit 1 4 ender ....1235 Roman - Italian Loan 65 20 Do. end month 6 45 Ditto Threes — New Mexican 51 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Ilona) Debt Dcfcrred RA IL 'AY S. Casts. Account. Orleans - 8 55 .. 857 50 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 870 .. 875 -- Southern 00000 4•• ••••• 582 50 • . 585 Western 14.:astern .. 485 .. 486 25 Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain Saragossa 423 75 .. 425 Ditto to Barcelona TIIE CHAIR OF HEBREW IN THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE,—The professors of the College de Franco have presented two candidates for the Chair of Ifebrew, vacant by tho dismissal of M. Ilenan. The persons chosen are M. Maul; and M. Derenbourg, both of the Jewieb. perouseion. • 1- 3 61111' --Nwrg---- HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 6. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Higbee" Princess Helena, drove in the grounds this morning' Her Royal Highness Princess Louise went out driving, and her Royal Highness Princess Boatricn also took a carriage drive. Lady Napier arrived at the Castle yesterday• THE COURT.—Her Majesty, with the jae itlr members of the Royal family, will, it is expected, leave Windsor Castle on or about the 17th or 19th inst., and pro' teed to Osborne, where her Majesty will spend the C12r18,. mas season. The Court will probably reside about six wee' it at Osborne, after which the Queen is expected to return to Windsor. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambr id g e, attended by Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, left Gloucester House, Park-lane, on Monday afternoon, f°f Longleat, Wilts, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioll° of Bath. The Duke of Devonshire's party at Chatsworth has separated in consequence of the death of the Bari °i Carlisle. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have 81.‘ rived at Trentham, Staffordshire, from Chatsworth. The Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gwen&llll' St. Maur have arrived at Netherby Park, C um berland' a visit to Sir James and Lady Hermione Graham , a t visiting the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield at Bre t " Hall, near Burton-on-Trent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath are e nd tertaining a distinguished company at Longleat 134114 Wilts. • The Earl and Countess of Wilton have arri,,ed at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the hunting 51, 3 ; son. Viscount and Viscountess Grey do Wilton 110 0 4" arrived at Melton. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Ca bridge House yesterday for Broadlands, Hants. Lord and Lady Taunton and Lady Carolin ( Lascelles were staying at Castle Howard when the Ea rl e n Carlisle was taken with his fatal attack. Lord l'eu nte da and the Hon. Miss Labouchere were about to leave C B2 7 a Howard for London, on their may to the family sc at Sou_ersetshire, but, owing to the remarkable change f ro- the previous day, his lordship stayed at Castle Howerd'. l The Earl and Countess Spencer will l ea ' s Spencer House to-day on their return to Brighton, whet they purpose to reside up to the 20th inst., and then gn to Althorp Hall. The Earl and Countess Russell have arrive — AAt Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, from visiting 3 l r as Lady Elizabeth Portal at their seat, pants. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and /II : Right Hon. Chichester Forteseue, M.P., arrived in Cel t .: gardens yesterday from Dudbrook Park, Essex, ell way to Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. THE NORTH AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION. - " Sbs t following despatch from Col. Finniss, Govern°ie/3. resident of the northern territory, was received this 133°r1l b ; ing. It announces the arrival of the expedition sent 011 , " - n . 0 the Government of South Australia at Adam's Bay itt last, the establishment of a depot, and gives a very satisins; tory report of the prospects of the new settlement :--" pot, Escape Cliffs, Aug. 13, 1861 --Sir, I have the ho l3 A °. o to acquaint you, for the information of purchasers 0f1 31 ',. the north territory, South Australia, that the e xpeditl . consisting of the Beatrice, Commander Hutchinson, X'', 6 : l the HeLry Ellis, Captain Phillips; and the .latalct, Die" e Humbert (Government vessel)—has arrived safeV at . 1- t, rendezvous, Adam's Bay, during the month of Jun e 1 70 I have established a depot at Escape Cliffs, a fey? an south of Cape Hotham, and hope to proceed with the 813 . 0 veys in about a month. lam unable to say where the ° A l e of the town will be, but probably at this place. The Lk A ",O laide river is navigable for 60 miles for ships of any b tir ; n o with the aid of a steam tug, and there is abundance of Pio land and timber in its vicinity, From the appearance of t o ol country inland there seems every reason to believe that fi . o . can be produced in paying abundance, and that all desc r , l ' i j tions of cattle will thrive. The soil is suited to troP l , c o vegetation generally, and if the climate permit i°,, r , i 1 0 4 enough and varied enough for many extra tropical pr° l ",,, - 1 ,• tions, e:pecially such as succeed in South Australia. o ft early departure of the mail forbids my giving long er :;,o counts, The sailing directions will be obtainable At Admiralty, Commander Hutchinson having sent charts fro, explanations home by this opportunity direct to the tf grapher's office in London. We arrived without cas ilt ' 4 ,:il landing 14 horses and 10 bullocks, with which we erob 3r , o t in safety.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most 0be31;,0 humble servant, B. T. I truirs."—ifustra/lan and 1‘ Zealand Gazette, Dec. 3. e fC' MEDALS FOR SAVING LIFE FROM —Mr Lewis, the secretary of the National L if°ls°- s i Institution, has brought under our notice the silver ute " which that society has promptly voted to Mr L. nY r f e e f chief officer of Coast Guard, Tynemouth, "in testimoo/ et his gallant and persevering services in aiding to resc ile ' K the imminent peril of his own life, by means of the I.°G":f apparatus, several persons from the steamship S tanieP Aberdeen, which was wrecked during a very heavy wind off Tynemouth Point on the night of Nov. 2 4 ) lu ti v e eti This is ono of the most chaste medals that has ever brought under our notice. The beautiful obverse, w hich of been executed by L. C. Wyon , Esq., represents the 1-o,j Queen Victoria, her Mejesty's locks gracefully waving o{ gathered in a knot behind, from which issues a W rea- t oak clustering over the forehead. This life-like peft r %o l the Queen, in high relief, conveys a truly pleasing 4,, faithful likeness of her Majesty as at that period ° f 0 01 combining dignity of aspect and benevolence of new" ;0 is represented by Mr Wyon with the most exquisite delicacy, and beauty of workmanship, The reserve, re.,,,V suiting the lifeboat, in which there are three sailors, r ° ,7 0 1 ing a fourth from the see, is a work of superlative merit. ',"l3p of the sailors are steadying the boat; the other, stooYl draws in the shipwrecked sailor, whose figure is giseßs,°,lol to show the form in the most natural and most boß it- p co manner ; and the expression thrown into his countel3°o looking up to his preserver is unrivalled by anYtiaiDo.tior we have ever seen, while the easy, flowing lines of this to are finely contrasted by those of his companions; tile /c. l j et displaying the most perfect knowledgeof the human l the finest taste to arrange it, and a command of th e gi i .4 l to embody to us what the artists's bright geniti%ice shadowed out to himself. But there is another pleafita tivo for our admiration of this beautiful medal, as ths" o ,o l who is so humanely extending his relief to the drowning 4.) river is a portrait of the artist (the late W.Wyon, himself. All the medals of the Royal National 14";,itit Institution are either gold or silver, and are presented l e a copy of the vote of the institution on parchment , I6l' o i fully illuminated. It has voted of them 834 since its establishment to gallant men who, at the risk of th eir Die lives, saved those of their fellow creatures in cases of 0 11 wreck. The medal is highly valued on the coast 1)1001 ranks of men. It is about the size of the war Ulocl' h oot i can be easily worn, for there is a neat dolphin clip st tfi t 1 .3 0 to each one, through which a blue ribbon passes. TA"-i°est, of the Admiralty have sanctioned officers of the navy t° 0 0' pn all occasions the modal of the Lifeboat Institutio%ii well may any man be proud in possessing so beg token of his sell-devotion in the noblest of causes. foe MURDER NEAR ABERDEEN.—A shocki l3 g t. 0 0 evidently premeditated murder was comrsi lz tte . ot or e ' Saturday afternoon in the vicinity of the village a o f 113 some 12 miles north of Aberdeen. The circumstannoll case, so far as yet known, are as follow :—George 51,10! nearly 60 years of age, a wood merchant on a 00 11 ss- ore y Port Elphinaton, near Inverury, on the line of t 110,00031 North of Scotland Railway, had, it seems by letters l ee, re been cohabiting with a married woman named F° l '„ b i , pe t ; siding in Aberdeen. On Saturday, about 2 o'clock, t'OIoPY, son (Forbes) was seen by a woman who was Pas slP 6z t 6 ,t iS o the turnpike standing as if waiting for some one, Bs " oe v lance beyond the Burgh of Kintoro. A littl e furthetria met George Stephen carrying an axe. Of the ra,,°„erteg to tween Forbes and Stephen nothing is known, but u`;', 3 jeot afternoon of Saturday, when the gentlemen of 1 :',„ fr o House were out in tho woods of that estate shoottinolsoP, 113 4 discovered a woman lying on her face, and ePeocli as cos% alarm was at once given, and on examination it No: ti ot,.. that the skull of the poor victim was so shattereraeofts was impossible she could survive long. In the c ° , ll tte r endeavours to mike the sufferer comfortable, a 03 (1 1 01 " ) , discovered in her breast signoi " George Stel' llen ti ' e j f lating to a meeting. Information having eon 00°0 tanned that Stephen had been seen precce ding a ' as int ° o o towards the woods of Thainston, suspicion Wal lis yet! co , directed to him and he was apprehended. ° were found several letters from the womanF °l oo, f fr o o live that she had been demanding money frovi llaitie roo o f one of the letters referred co meeting hiu l at 1 40 Y e'3l.° l l3° Saturday afternoon. Forbes, w h o was about rede ip e 0 age, survived only five hours after be in g diecov w wood, and was quite insensible the whole e. coi ti time. o, 1:13 to has been lodged in the gaol at Aberdeen, 5 .00 in to authorities are making due investigatt so ll ' matter. sipA, TUE AMERICAN BLOCKADE. --I 3l ' ll aO O e' e bteamer Emma Tiene r y arr is' dioilco 15th from Glasgow, via Madeira. She ran to re, od tween the Clyde and Madeira in 4 days 2 0 b°" . Tlie jap eo i the latter port to Bermuda in 9 dugs 2 11 0. °1 p r ii 4 . Hattie had arrived at Nassau from Wilreino yti! 1 . 1 . 0 : r►nYE. Fly, the Talisman, the Wild Rover, t Caroline sailed at the same time as the little ret er! . t eo Bermuda. but failed to got into that port, 0 port iirou:001, Nassau. There had been nc arrivals at th e , s y ir oere o do Confederacy for the last three weeks, th. last. The Agnes from Rio, has arrived la .i9(fi'n°‘ of Onnnicree,