The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER- 12;" 1861.

than his fellows ; but if once he fads the yearning
for it, it is not " practical freedom" that will sr
tidy him. He will value not only Os fruit, hat
the root, the trunk, the branches, the foliage, the
shade, the beauty, the sentiment of liberty. The
"practical freedom " of Canada fascinates nobody,
while the liberty of the United States has for
eighty years attracted to its shores an emigration
which can only be compered to that great removal
of the human race which preceded the fall of the
Roman Empire. America had nothing to offer
but her freedom--4 fair start for all in the race
of advancement—the assurance that no one class
should be sacrificed either to the convenience or
the embellishment and perfection of another. But
this was enough to people the desert with crowds
full of life and hope and eagerness. Tho vigour
of the people of the United Statessprings from the
knowledge that their interests are in their own
keeping. Everybody is interested in the govern-
ment, because he partakes in it. " Every one,"
says Ds TOCQUIVILL; "takes as zealous an in-
" terest in the affairs of his township, his
"county, and of the whole State, as if they
" were his own, because everyone in his own
" sphere takes an active pert in the government of
" society." Therefor* the traveller hears every-
where the sound of the hammer and the saw, and
sees new homes spread over the West and North,
and therefore while fools are prating of failure
the Census returns tell every ten years of an in-
crease without example in the history of our race.
Canada, too, will be great and populous some
day, but she must first learn the great lesson of
self-reliance.

LATEST INTELLIINXeIi
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SWITZERLAND. ;

Advice* from Berne announce that the Federal
oouticil has officially Informed the ClllllllOO of Skate
of -Geneva that the incident raised by the violation
of the Helvetic territory, committed by a French
gendarme on the commune of Jassy, must be con-
sidered as settled. A letter frora M Thouvenel,
of the 29th Nov., declares to M. Kern, the Swiss
Ministerin Paris, "that the violation of the territory
in question can only be attributed to the error of the
gendarme who committed it, and who WU ignorant
that be was beyond the French frontier ; that,
moreover, the lieutenant of gendarmerie of Saint-
Julien, on bearing of the affair, had inflicted a
punishment on the chief of the brigade of gen-
darmerie of Annunass, and on the soldier who had
effected the anent on the Swiss territory. The
individual arrested was also immediately set at
liberty."

(astrnies imacitAxs.)
FRANCE.

• PARIS, Mr. IS.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes the fol-
lowing imperial decree :

"Considering that it imports essentially to the
order of the finances that the charges on the bud-
get should not be augmented without the Minister
of Finance having been enabled to appreciate and
to acquaint us whether there may be sufficient re-
sources to meet such additional charges, we de-
cree that, for the future, no decree authorising or
ordering any works or measures whatever which
may add to the charges on the budget shall be sub-
mitted to ns for our signature unless accompanied
by an opinion from the Minister of Finance."
The Meniteur also announces that the re-opening of
the Chamber of Deputies will probably take place
in the second foi Might in January.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL. Dzc. 11.

The Liverpool, New York, and ihiladelphia
Company's screw steamer Etna, Captain Kennedy,
which left New York ou the 30th ult., and which
touched at Queenstown Lust night to land de-
spatches, arrived in the Mersey at 7.15 this
evening.

This arrival adds but few details to those already
received through the Boston and Portland journals.
The New York papers of the 30th ult publish
the case of the Harvey Birch, but without editorial
comment, the telegram being probably too late for
that purpose. The New York rinses makes the
following remarks on the report of the British
government having sent a steamer to watch the
James Adger :
If the James Adpr had actually boss commissioned to
search a British packet the goverment might bare felt
justified in baulking a deliberate purpose of that sort, bat
it will be remembered that all vessels detailed to intercept
the two runaways were despatched upon the assumption
that they bad pat to sea is the Nashville, • viral of the
aciemy, so that so Weenies el stopping sad saarohiac
as English mad esa be impated to the Americas
government. Tin sot of Cbgleis Wilkes, however satisfac.
tory to the Amadeus pee" w eatirely spontaneous sad
amstithcaised. It will wily balms • ground of hostilities
when formally mactioasd by the Anglican govinneest, is
response to the demand he explamitioas on the part el
Basked ; and area la that crest, the latter power will
Wag hesitate before it will min ea Imo so unimportant
• pretest for war.

The New York Herald says that the Canadian
press continue to make an unnecessay bluster about
the arrest of Mews. Slidell and Mason, and are
making as much bad blood out of the matter as
possible. It continues :—" They hear how mach
more moderately the English press discuss the
event, about which they are so clamorous, and
should not allow their positions to run entirely away
with their prudence."
The Pensacola Observer, in its number; of Noy.
22, thus announces the beginning of the action at
that place :
At Ave minutes past 10 this men* heavy sad cen-
times. firing commenced at Use forts below. We learn
from a person just arrived from the Navy-yard, that the
Are woe opened by Fort Pickens upon the Confederate
'teenier Tunes, and wee returned by our batteries and forte.
The ('ailed States frigate Niagara is trying to cross the bar,
for the purpose of entering the harbour. The excitement
in the tow. is intense, the business places are all closed, and
the tope of the houses are covered with au excited popu-
lation.

The same journal of the following morning says:

The firing of Fort Pickens during the morniug was
directed at the steamer Times with very little effect. The
Times came up last night, and, with the exception of two
se three little holes made by rifle @both is unhurt. The
steesser Nelson was also in the engagement at the beginning ;
way one shot struck her, and did but little dams"
The Nelson went over to the mainland, and found the
Merida regiment all right. In peering Wi'soll's W-
ish@ the gave them • couple of shots, which were
reteuted. The frigate Niagara tried hard to come in, but
bey reception was too warm, nod she had to back out. The
*sly is of life we can learn of was • private of the
lesisiana regiment and the wife of a sergeant of the
Marine Corp, both of whom were killed by shells in the
yard. A gnat many shot and shell fell In the yard,
bat did very little damage to the buildings. Our guns
were worked all day, and must have told with terrible
effect upon the other side.
At 10.47 next morning the fire wee reopened and
still matinees at a very brisk rate. The people
are not so much excited as yesterday, and we out
fee every appearance of • determination to resist to
the lath extremity if need be. But overrun appears to
pith unlimited cuifidenoe in our success.

A Richmond despatch says :—" An official des-
patch received on Tuesday night from General
Bragg states that everything was quiet about Pen-
sacola, and that the Federal fleet keeps at a sae
distance front his guns."
A special despatch in the New York Tribune,
dated Washington, Nov. 27, lays :
The President's message has sot been completed, nor is it
is type, as cartels ill-is/onsed journals assert. (icily •
portion, sod that in as usfisisbed form, west to the printer
to-day. The residue awaits, in manuscript, • teal decision
upon some important points before even a first proof
of it can be taken. The estimates, for example,
of roes and mosey required doting the next fiscal
year ham sot been definitively determined, but there is
erica to believe that of the drat not far from 700,000 is
all, and of the second not far from 700 million dollars will
be called for. It is certain that the message will be in tone
fall of cheer and vigour. The President, far from per-
ceiving my seasons to deepen of the Republic, or seines
may steeds is the European ha.i2oll, will declare that be
dude is the put the beat auguries for the future, gal that
be is determined to bare Mein fulfilled, if an
uncompromising and energetic prosecution of the war ass
West it. Knowing that while „id. anther
blood ace Menne. if prudeetly in they are own-
ling that either be wasted, the Prandial will advise Cou-
pon, sad indeed all the departments of the govern-
Nest, to Reserve the just medium between • wise
.cocas) sad a prudent energy. As a whole, the
inmate will be read with satisfaction by all loyal men. and
it will inspire ocw faith in the Republic, the government,
and our speedy triumph over the rebellion. Indulging but
slightly in argument, and sot at all in bunkum, it will be •
Ora, bunnaes-like document, of unusually short length.
A private despatch, received in this city from
Boston, states that George James, Esq., and the
Ron. William Stuart, arrived in the Nissars, bring-
ing despatches from Earl Russell to Lord Lyons,
and that they booked themselves at the hotel as of
Washington. This despatch intimates the proba-
bility that they are the avant courtiers of a new
minister from England.
The Kentucky rebel State Convention in session
at Russellville has made • declaration of indepen-
dence, pared an ordinance of eareesion, and
adopted the laws and constitution of Kentucky,

Iwhere not inconsistent with the laws dais rebel
government
I Colonel Lee, ci the Massachusetts 90th Regi-
ment, who was taken prisoner by the rebels at tie
battle of Bail's Bluff, has written a letter to •
person in Boston, in which he confirms the repoeb
that he has been selected by the rebel government
to suffer the same fate as that meted out to the
pirates captured by our cruisers. He is now an
inmate of a cell in the gaol at Richmond. He
states, however, that the rebel government is
anxious to effect an exchange of prisoners.
It is currently stated and believed among the
Washington Secessionists that John C. Breckin-
ridge and R. M. T. Hunter have already been
selected by Jefferson Davis's government to go
abroad as ambassadors, in place of Slidell and
Mason, and that they are secretly intending to
cross our lines into Canada, and sail from Quebec
or Halifax.

Mr. Sumner addressed a crowded meeting of the
Young Men's Republican Union in New York on
the 27th of November. He argued that slavery
was the sole cause of the rebellion, and that the
only remedy adequate to meet it is abolition. Reso-
lutions were adopted endorsing the proclamation of
General Fremont, the instructions of General
Cameron to General Sherman, and the speech of
Colonel Cochrane.

Fernando Wood, the present candidate for the
mayoralty of New York, in a speech to a mass
meeting of the German population of New York,
assembled to promote his election, declared that as
long as the republican party remained in power at
' Washington there would be no peace whilst
there was a dollar to be wrung from the people, or
a drop of Southern blood to be shed."
A military and naval expedition under General
Burnside, for the Southern coast, is now actively
fitting out at Annapolis.
General Fremont had arrived at New York, en
route for Washington.
Advice' from Richmond say that the British
sloop of war Racer was expected there soon.
Treasury notes were, by orders from Washington,
to be received at all post-offices in payment for
stamps and stamped envelopes.
Thursday, the 28th, was observed as a day of
thanksgiving in New York with all the usual cere-
monies. Business was generally suspended.
The Confederates were making some active
movements in Missouri.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WILDNINDAT EVICININO.

The Opinion Nationale says, I presume on good
information, that the venerable General Scott—
who came to France for his health, and was going
to paas the winter at Pan—has left Paris for
Havre, whence he will sail this evening on board
the Arago for New York. The gallant old maa
thinks he may be useful to his country at this crisis.
The Arago will not touch at Southampton on her
way. The Patrie, confirming the above news, says,
"under all reserve," that the departure of General
Scott is attributed to pressing despatches from
Washington.

The Bourne is quiet, speculators being extremely
cautious. Rente rose sc. both for cash and
account, closing at 67fr. 55c., and 87fr. 75c.
Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. Railways were in some
instances much better. Orleans rose 18tr. 75c.,
and Lyons Bfr. 75c.

The government candidate for the Corps Legis-
latif for the department of the Aude, AL de
Plancy, has been returned by 16,339 votes against
11,004 to M. Lignier. The coalition of the dif-
ferent opposition candidates which it was hoped
might have secured the election of one of them,
was not unanimously agreed to, and 5,968 votes
were thrown away upon a K Armand. This elec-
tion is, however, very important as a demonstra-
tion. There are very few examples indeed of such
a formidable minority being polled in any country
district. The government candidate is returned by
less than half the electors who went to the poll.
General de Goyon's visit to Francis IL, at Rome,
calls forth the following remarks from the Opinion
Nationale, signed " J. Gueroult
It appears that we have at Bann two lines of policy at
the least; ens which recognises the kingdom of Rely,
which lends the aid of our soldiers for the repression of
Neapolitius chonaititerir, and in pursuance of which, on tilt
that we are as the point of recommending Francis IL to
travel beyond the limits of the painsula—that is the
Freed, the a vial, the good policy, the one which we
support. But side by side with this policy we have another,
in obedience to the Juni/ahem of which Beamed de Goyim,
the commander•in•ebisf of the very same French troops
which are to point their ribs, at Frauds IL's chothes,
pays a visit to this King Francis IL, who is no loopy a
king, and deeded' himself for the occasion with the ma.
blear of the ardor of Et. Janne:id, whisk no longer exists,
aloes that odor was appurtenant to the kingdom el Naples ;
and. frenernadt as France and England and half Europe
have recopied Victor Emmensal as King at Italy, we la
France must necessarily conclude that there is no longer a
kingdom of Naples. We ought to be told ditties* dike
of these two coatradictory policies is that al FILM. As to
followieg them both together, we know not bow sash a
course may be dseigasted in the sublime Idioms of high
polities, but simple mortals call it plainly a mem (die
gitekir).

Mgr. Menjaud, Archbishop of Bourges, is dead.

THE RIGHT HON. P. PEEL, M.P., AT BURT.

lAA evening,the Right Hon. F. Peeladdredred bin
constituents, in the neaten at Dory, which waa dans*
aoudad. The chair was lam by Yr. Raman Waits ;
and among the gentlemen on the platform wars Yawn. J.
Walker, W. Hutchinson, G. Wile, J. Gatled, G. Whit*.
head, J. Opanshaw, S. Onun, do.

The CHAIRMAN briefly introduced Yr. Peel to the
ataliesee, ad the honourable gentleman waa received
with anent

The Bight Rm. F. Pm, speaking on the American gnee-
tke, said :—" The present was • time of great surprise, be-
cause Boma not be concealed that • memo had gone forth
from this country upon the tenor of the reply to which hung
the stopsadom rem of peace or war. It was • ramie; in
askew contrast with the time when he last addresesd hi
constitnents • year ego. Then there were no spots upon
the sun of their prosperity ; but now • peat
Wintry was languishing from want of the soma-
temed supplies from abroad. It bad indeed bees said
that there had been over-production, and be believed
there wee truth in the remark ; but he did not believe that
the remedy would have involved more than • pert of the
immure of labour which other circumstances had forced
upon us. The pressure of that suspension bad been felt by
tee el thousands ; but doubtless it had been alleviated by
• provident um of the prosperous times they had had, and
by the self -sacrificing co-operation of others who shared
where from higher than interested motives they felt that they
ought to share. The civil war in America was • great
calamity. It was horrible to see two parties lately united
in one government waging war against each other with a
relentlessness and ferocity which bad been denounced as vin.
latices of the established rights of civilised warfare. Bat the
calamity would be tenfold greater if it dragged ua iota a par-
ticipation in it. (Hear.) It had been said that England
wanted to pick a quarrel with the States. Why, it was
notorious that she bad submitted for years to acts of en-
croachment and rudeness on the part of the United States'
government which she could hardly have tolerated from
any other. (Applause.) And why ? Not from • dread of
their strength—(hear)—but from the instinctive aversion
felt by this country to war with a nation, which comprised
in its population, descended mainly from Englishmen,
tens of thouaandi who • few years ago were our fellow-
countrymen. He feared that our patience had been mis-
understood, and that it had encouraged the Americans to
proceed to acts against us which they would not have mo-
tored upon towards other nations. At last en act had beer
committed which had roused the feeling of the country,
whirr bad touched its honour in its most sensitive part ;
and the people had come to a firm, but melancholy, resolve
that they must rouse themaelves if they would take security
against a renewal of such acts. At the tame time, let It be
remembered that the act was not yet the act of the Ameri-
can government. (Hear, hear.) The resolutions of excited
inserep we could afford to diaregird. making allowance
for the slate of feeling caused by the distraction et
the war. Frem the government we might expert a
Weser arid more dispassionate view at the question.
(Heir, hmr.) As American paper had said they did not
know and did not are what view England would take of
the emigre of the two men. We did loot know what view
the American government would take of the demand ,
addressed to them by the British government ; but was '
there one man who would say he did not care? Nay, rather
they all wished from the bottom of their hearts that the
voice of moderation, of justice, and of right might be heard
sad followed in the cosset of the Amerrea gemeressidiol
sad rem they might reply anikeldy, they eesld,
lose of digit to the just anewell-Loaded eamplaint
whisk we had male. (Applause.) By • stead km an
adveese state et thins' worked re own emu. It bad
bore so evil that we had been so entirely dependent for the
@apply of eette. upon the Southern States of Arserkr.
The ripply we. en regular and cheap, that we wanted the
Clbo emeseipareellilligne from tie Aspartame,. War
ow set MI the supply. The pines left moat by
Anierira, led* cur own tanitery, was ready to occupy.
All she had seeded was encouregemest, said she received
that sow, la part from high prices, and to part from the
melon of the government in improving bier °commi-
t:otiose, sad 'ramming the index bier
capital by
wrablierg the aspiWuit to secure a permeneet tenure
of lead. If the result should he the' in the future
ladle would share with Amore., that we druid nuke
aa ezeksege from dependence to partial iglea
• good would be attained that would morsiZeart:-
prude us in the end for the evil of the preset tran-
giros. (Haar, hear.) It was Deedless for him to eater into
the assess of the American civil war which would, in all
probability, lead to separation. President Davis, in l recent
aneemw, which was firm with piculer
fareiHmess oa that point,tbitet= the South shrank with
aversion from the bare idea of mewing the Union. (Hear.)
Thom words augured ill for the mastaidielunent of the
Union. It was said that the Northern Stain were fighting
for dominion, and it was so. Would say nation voluntarily
consent to become half only of whet had been before,
with perham the half that remained nartmliesel by the half
that had faller away? But they were 116 tang also for
mica, for their emitiratiee. amp at dim believed,
rightly or measly, that wpm the mem of their straggle
depended the ease of free restimblere. or at any rate Q.
seer& with the world of their form of free institutions.
Whether they were fighting also for emancipation of the
slaves was a matter involved is deep ebecunty. Different
views were enunciated by the Northern leaders on that
subject. He believed the truth to be that the emancipation
of the doves was • weapon which lay in the armoury of the
Northeru States, but that it would not be brandished
aloft, except as • desperate measure, On the other Mad,
there could be no doubt that the South was Ightio.g for th
insiatename of slavery, and for preventing the Inniatio:
of the area within which shivery was en institution. If
the friendship of England had been an object with each of
the two parties, the Northera States had a great advantage
in their competition for our favour, from the cireunieriam

of slavery being aridly end prominently identified with
the cause of the aridly
The South was also fighting for
self•goveniment ; and when it was remembered that the
Southern States were sovereign states which joined the
Union voluntarily for a common benefit, and which
have now arrived at the same conclusion that the same laws
and policy can no longer serve for the common benefit of
both sections, could we my that they bad not a cause of
war for which it would not be difficult to find a precedent
la the history of the world? Those being the parties,
and those the objects for which they were ghting, what
coarse was it the duty of England to take! Plainly, it
was to stand seat al in the quarrel ; because the quarrel was
essentially domestic, and because it had been a maxim with
the government of the United States to meet any offer of
our good otiose uan affront. We bad maintained an im-
partial neutrality with a strictome which bad excited the
admiration of foreigners, who knew how essential a regu.
kr supply of cotton was to keep our mighty machinery in
motion. Foreigners knew also the principle of international
law, that a blockade to be entitled to respect must be effec-
tive; and they knew the inefficiency at one period, at all
events, of the blockade of the Southern porta. President
Davis said he could prove the inefficiency of the blockade.
Oa the other hand, General Scott mid the Americans coin.
plained that we had been over prompt in our declaration of
neutrality. But that declaration was addressed to oar own
people, and from the moment the war broke out England
was liable to be compromised by the acts d her subjects
aiding and abetting one side or the other, not knowing the
intentions of the government. Therefore it was impani-
tile to be • day too soon in issuing the declaration of nen.
=Maar bear.) It bad ben maid the neutrality
have beam one of action only, and that we ought
to have given our sympathy to the Northern States as we
did to Italy. But the parties in America did out stood in the
mime relations to each other as did united Italy and the
government of Francis the Second. To come to the last
transaction, the taking of two gentlemen from an English
mail packet, we believed that act to have been illegal. It
had to be considered, ant, whether they were liable to
seizure. They were not liable to be seized as rebels, because
a country which was carrying on a war against its own sub-
joins as rebels had no rights of war whatever over a neutral
musky. They might be treated as rebels by the Northern
States ; but la their negotiatious with this country they
most argue as if th were belligerents, or they had no
right whatever to do what they had dose (Hear, hear.)
The Southern oommiedoners were not liable to seizure as
contraband of war because, elastic as that term was, In
sever yet heard it extended to atop sad moms which were
mining from the seat of war, and promoting to a next el
country. They were not liable to seizure as enem's goods,
although they might have bees if they were of African
descent. (Laughter.) But they were free men. They
were envoys, or at least they were coming to this country
to clothe themselves with that character. It bad been laid
down that ambaseadon might be seized by their enemies
while oo their pump ; but the TIIIIMOD he had to con-
skier was whether they might be sued upon the deck of a
sentral vessel. Was thee any difference between territory
afloat on the high seas, which the deck of a mead wee, and
territory on lead? Presidest Davis thin& there was no
difference, for he said that the American government had
as much right to seise the two geatianon in the streets of
Loudon as :upon the desk of the mod He (Mr. Peed)
oonfamed that he was not clear on that point, and he would
rather reserve his opinion until be had heard the question
more fully discussed. (Hear, hear.) As to the other
ground on which we impeached the legality of the act,
there could be no question whatever. The men might
have been liable to seizure; but they were not legal prizes
until they were coodemnelly • decree of a cunipetent court
of justice. (Hear, hem.) They went seder the protection
of England, of which they amid tit be divested except by
judicial sentence. It would be idle to speculate upon the
answer of the American government, In the interim, our
course should be to hve for the best, and prayers, for the
worst The act was not yetthe act of the Amen= govern-
! mein. She might disavow she might adopt as her own,
and amen the perfect legality of, the act of Captain Wilke,.
If she did the latter, let us heartier reasons. But if she could
sot deny the wrong, and et would deny us redress, then
it would be for us to ' whether we should surrender,
or whether we should maintain our right, which was the
common right of ell civilised nations. A weak nation is
Central America, under like provocation, the other day
protested and then remained inactive. But England was
strong, and her arm, which Providence bad endowed with
strength, would be stronger thau ohm it was.npliftad
in the cause of 80'J-defence, mil in the cause of net and
justice. He would now conclude, as he had
expressing his gratitude for the continued supportetrant'lisl
been given to him. Constancy he believed to be the
1 characteristic virtue of his constituency. Let a man stand
firmly by them sod b his public duty, and he did not
believe that he need have any fear, but that they would
stand firmly by him." (Gnat applause.)A vote of confidence in Mr. Peel was passed with acclama-
dm, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks
to the chairmen.

The Delia Grande of Genes publishes, with the
signature of its editors, the following appeal to King Victor
Emmanuel:—" An Italian of great intelligence, and devoted
to the great common country, the exiled Guiseppe Mazzinf,
is now gravely ill at London. In order not to die under the
cloudy sky of England, he requires one thing which this
royal prerogative eau alone grant, an amnesty, not a simple
pardon. The King of Italy has a large and generous heart.
He cannot be willing to allow the man to die out of Italy
to whom belongs the initiative of the great Idea of unity,
the martyr of independence and of liberty. Lot your
Majesty therefore exercise your right of grace by according
to the exile, without conditions of any kind, the amnesty
required."

One of the correspondents of the Debate gives the
following as a curious specimen of the tolerance of the
police authorities of Warsaw, being a permission signed by
the Prefect of Police :—" I authorise the bearer of the
present owl, —, to carry a cane, even with an iron
ferule at the end, and this oc account of his advanced age
sad the weakness of his tsp.—Pit usu."

NEW. or TEX BURNINO OF TIM HARVEY Blttca
EXCRETED AT New Yost.—The following is the account of
the Harvey Birch affair, published in the Now York jour-
nals of the latest data (Nov. 30) :—" The Nashville, Hying
the rebel flag, has arrived at Southampton. She lauded
Capt. Nelson and crew, 29 in number, of the American ship
Harvey Birch. Capt. Nelson reports that he left Havre on
the 19th, bound for New York in ballast ; on the 19th was
brought to by the Nashville, Commander Peagram, late of the
United States navy. The Harvey Birch wax boarded im-
mediately by the officers and mew of the Nashville, who at
thee ordered the captain and mew on board the steamer,
allowing them to take a few of their effects and fresh pro-
maims. thiptain Peagraint then ordered the Harvey Birch to
be fired, and laid alongside till she burnt to the water's edge.
Captain Nelms immtely placed himself in communes-
tioa with Capt.Brietow, UoitedStatee Consul at Southamp-
ton. The Nashville is still lying in the river, dying the
rebel flag. Oviedo Nelms rye that Commander Peagram
states that he hoe no commission from the Southern go-
vernment as a war steamer, yet declares it is not a pri-
vateer. No fileathera commiseioaers arrived by the Nash-
ville. The whole sew et the Harvey Birth, except the
captain, were placed in Irma till the arrival in Southampton.
Exhortations were made to induce the captain and crew to
take the oath to the Confederate government. Captain
Peagram communicated with Mr. Yancey. The Nashville
will refit at Southampton.*
MADAME LIND AND LOCAL CHARITIIN. —At
Madame Jassy Lind Goldschmides concert on Friday even-
* (sail, the Mu rfrorne Journal), our respected Mayor
(Mr. John Hare) took the opportunity during the per-
formances of waiting upon this gifted and amiable lady, to
cootie& with her upon her indisposition, and, at the same
time, to thank her,in the name of the city, for her munificent
promise-of devoting the whole of the proceeds of the concert
towards the funds of the Royal Infirmary and General
Hospital ; on Saturday lie received • visit from Mr.
Mitchell's agent, to say that if he could make
it convenient to call at her hotel, she would
hand him over the money. The Mayor ac-
cordingly proceeded to the Bath Hotel, but, we regret to
state, he was unable to see the talented cantatrice herself,
who was still confined to her room with a severe cold. He
however, hedu very pleasant interview with her husband,
Mr. Otto Goidethmi4 who handed him over a cheque
for 310/. l&i. 2d., together with the following letter:—
" Bath Hotel, Milos, Dec. 7, 1861.—Mr. Mayor,—ln
accordance with the statement made by me at last eight's
concert, I have the pleasure, on behalf of Selene
Goldschmidt, awl for myself, handyour worshipencloicd
cheque for 310/. 1a5.2(1, being the net prooeedsof the count.
I beg to ea clme, at the same time, two statements, one relating
to the receipts of last night's concert, and the other to the
current expenses ; and 1 beg your worship will have the
goodness to distribute the balance in equal moieties !Moen
the Bristol Royal Infirmary and the Bristol General Hos-
pitel.—l have the honour to be, Mr. Mayor, very obe-
diently yours, Orro Got eacintror." We may add that the
gross receipts of the concert amounted to the large sum of
al/. Is. dd., while the proportion of the artistes % salaried.
hire of rooms, printing, and various other contingent aid
local expeeeex, amounted to 323/. 3.. 4d., leaving abelance.
as already stated, of 310/. 18s. 2d. The Maur/fader 61 o,
dies says :—" We understand that Thomas Goadeby, Esq.!
the Mayor of Manchester, has received from Mr. aid
Madame Lind-Goldschmidt • cheque for the sum of
1931., with so iatimation that it is their dein that
the amount so liberally contributed should be ,x•
pended by the Mayor iu connection with any foods
which may be Mailable for such purposes as 7,0"
vidiog coals ar clothing, or otherwiee, as the Mayor tea 7
think desirable, for the benefit of the families of deserving
operatives who may be suffering from want of employment
during the winter. At the same time we are informed that
Mr. and Madame Goldachmidt transmitted, through M. A.
Schwabe, • donation of 23 games to the Hospital for
C.Thildren, is Bridgeetreet.*
FIRM AND Loco or LITE IN LONDONDERRY.--A
great fire broke out in the mill of Mr. John Christy. cat
9 o'clock ou Tuesday, and continued raging up to about
1 o'clock, when • portion of the wall tell io, burPg
several pathos in the ruins. Five bodies have been le-
covered up to the present. An active search continues to
be node. Only one person vet dead out of the five found;
the other four are greatly injured. The number buried
not yet known.