The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-29 00:00:00

PRANGE.

BOURSE, Nov. 28.—The market continues dull,
but without any material variation in Rente,
Threes for the Account, being unvaried at 64f 85c.
Mobilier shows a slight decline, the present quotas
tion being 882 ft 50c. Railway Market heavy,
and some of the lines rather lower. The market
improved towards the close, and left off as fol-
lows :

4t per Cents .. 93
Do. ead month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 05
Credit Mobilier B9O
Do. end month B9l 25
Bank Shares 3500
Credit Fonder 1225
Roman 74

Italian Loan 64 75
Do. end month 65
Ditto Threes .. --
New Mexican 50a

Russian ..
Austrian
Spanish Times 46
Home Debt
Deferred

RAIL WAYS•

Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
~~•
Austrian
Lombard
_ _

- Cash. Account.
840 842 50
985 980
870 873 76
580 .. 577 60
500
47$ 75 .. 480
307 po .. 305
443 75 .. 443 75
510 .. 508 75

North of Spain 370 370
Saragossa 4ll 25 .. 412 50
Ditto to Barcelona

AMERICA,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.

Inasmuch as the good ship Canada, sniling from
Boston on Wednesday morning last, carried the re-
sult of the Presidential contest, and the fact that a
large majority of the voters, of and in " the States,
had re-chosen Mr Lincoln, it appears to me that
pretty nearly all that is important on the subject
to Europeans wilt Liu ktiown 4; in dun °nurse"—
anyhow before this communication reaches the
British shore. American votes, whether for weal
or woe to Americans generally, have decided an
American question.
What the possible, and some may think certain,
results or effects consequent upon the decision will
be by their nature of great moment " to all whom
it may cancern " may be called a truism, but is no
less important as such. So far as Europe is con-
cerned, perhaps the most salient practical point
that suggests itself is, how will the question of
the blockade be affected by the triumph of the party
that has elected Mr Lincoln ? Of course, I refer
to its probable duration. lam one of those who,
whether right or wrong, has been long convinced
that the would.be monopolists and politically power-
ful " manufacturing corporations" of New England,
Pennsylvania, &c., are as anxious to keep up the
blockade as they were willing if not to create, at
least to envenom and continue the war, of which the
blockade is considered a military necessity. Hold-
ing those opinions, it of course follows that I con-
sider the continuance of that party—the war party
—in office forces the fact of the, so to say, unde-
fined duration of the blockade upon the considera-
tion of all great mercantile and maritime nations,
with the United States.
especially those that have " reciprocity treaties"

In a former letter I ventured two opinions—one
that the election of Mr Lincoln was nearly certain ;
and the other, to the effect that an exaggerated
importance appeared attached in England as to
who might be the successful candidate.
With the exception of the hypothesis that the
civil war, ergo the blockade, might—by some unde-
fined e process—end sps —0
power
in soonermarif
dthe Democratic part)
ch next than with Mr
Lincoln as President, it is difficult to see what
difference the affair makes to England.
At least, I believe, the anti-British feeling,
which has been taught in sohool-books ; inculcated
from the denominational pulpits, and shouted by
stump orators, aye, and by lecturers on science and
the belles lettres, &C., in short, by the " politie
cians" of the Northern States --would be just as
willing to show itself in aggressive action, whether
a Lincoln or a M'Clellan occupied the White
House, at Washington.
I have not referred, and I do not now allude, to
the generally inimical feeling towards our country,
which appears to me the dominant antipathy of the
ruling classes in the United States, in any muerte
tory or deprecatory spirit, but because it is an im-
portant practical reality, and is evidently looked at
as a "card" to be played by certain "British' dis-
appointed and dogmatical demagogues. These—so
far as I understand their plans, or, as it would be
said here, their platform—desire to upset the instill
tutions more or less of our country ; and as some of
them are
-I.P.s" and Professors of Colleges in
Great Britain, of their country. Failing, it seems,
to receive the warm support from portions of the
British people, which perhaps they at one time an-
ticipated, these persons are found interchanging
communications—some published in extenso, others
merely given as extracts, in the avowed, consistent
anti-British journals of the Northern States.
The election proceedings were very quietly con-
ducted in this city.
If it be true, as was generally stated in Demo-
cratic circles, that the ultra members of the Repub-
lican party wished for riots, in order that New
York might be placed under martial law, they were
disappointed. One can hardly expect, however,
that the most bitter Lincolnite citizen regretted
another of Mr Seward's prophecies falling through,
namely, that Southerners were vicariously to fire
the Empire City on the Bth.
Notwithstanding the bonfires and fireworks, and
one or two electric lights, there were fewer normal
fires on that night than usual. _ _ _

The following description of the mode of Toting
the United States may interest some of your
readers :

WIIO ARE ENTITLED TO VOTE.--For the information
of our readers, and as a guide to them at the polls today,
a statement of the qualifications of voters will bo interesting
and useful. A voter who has resided in the State one year,
and four months in one county is entitled to vote for Presi-
dential electors and State and county officers. A residence
30 days in a oongreksioutd and notably difttrist qualifies

for a vote for members of Congress and the State Assembly.
Persons whose names are not on the registry list must hand
in an affidavit of excuse, supported by the oath of a house-
holder. Persons boarding, whether married or single are
regarded as householders as well as those who own or keep
house. The votes of soldiers and sailors whose names
are entered on the registry list must be received, and can-
not be challenged ; and those whose names are not
registered, require a householder's affidavit, which entitles
the ballot to pass unchallenged. The inspectors have a
large discretion and authority, and their decision is final.
Their duty is to see that all persons legally entitled to vote
shall do so, and to decide on the qualifications of voters.
With the character of the ballot which a voter may choose
to deposit. they have nothing to do. The inspector must
receive any bit of paper a voter chooses to offer as a ballot
If a voter takes the required election oath, and swears in
his vote, his ballot must be received, and the party, if not
legally entitled to vote, is then subject to arrest and
punishment under the State laws. Inspectors may challenge
voters; other challengers must reside in the election
district, and no discussion is permitted except a concise
statement of the grounds of objection. The inspector then
gives his decision, from which there is no appeal Ballots
badly spelled, or containing the names of candidates, with
or without their initial names, must be admitted, provided
they sound correctly, and there is not more than one can-
didate of the same name. The law liberally construes the
intentions of the voters, who may write what name they
please on their ballots, the written names, either in ink or
pencil, always controlling the printed names. The poll
opens at sunrise-6 41 a.m., and closes at sunset, 441
p.m."

(Arrival of the North American.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (Evening).
Nothing official has been received from Sherman
this week. The Western press assert that, after
destroying the public buildings, manufactories,
the defensive works, and the railroads north and
south of Atlanta, he moved southward from the
city with 50,000 men, carrying 30 days' rations.
It is reported that he is marching on Macon and
Augusta, on his way to strike Charleston and Sa-
vannah.
Generals Gillem and Thomas, the former in
East and the latter in West Tennessee, have been
left to hold Hood and Forrest in cheek.
The news of Sherman's evacuation of Atlanta
reached Richmond on Tuesday.
It is reported that Wheeler's cavalry made a dash
into Atlanta when nearly all the Federal troops had
left the city.
The Federals have destroyed nearly all the
public property at Rome.
Hood's army is estimated at 300,000 men, and is
reported to be concentrated at Florence in Ala,
barna.
Southern papers assert that Forrest has destroyed
or captured at Johnstonvilie 14 transports, 4 guns
boats, 33 cannon, and stores worth 3,000,000 dole.
The Southern press ridicule Sherman's reported
movement on Charleston. If true, they predict
his failure.
Early still confronts Sheridan above Strasburg.
Rumours are current that the Administration
will shortly offer peace propositions to the South.
General Butler's speech at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel is said to foreshadow the programme of the
Administration, General Butler, after visiting
Washington, returned to the James River.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has organised a
militia in the border counties to resist the Confede-
rate raid.
Rumours of changes in the Cabinet are still pre.
valent.
The crew of the Florida have been sent to the
capitol prison at Washington. The Florida is
ordered to New York for adjudication.
The Richmond Examiner thinks that the remon•
strances of Brazil against the seizure of the Florida
will prove unavailing unless backed by the great
European Powers, which it considers improbable.
The Examiner regards the Florida as lost.
NEW 'YORK, Nov. 19 (Morning.)
The Richmond papers assert that one column of
Sberman's army has moved from Atlauta toward.
Selma, Alabama.
Early has retreated towards Staunton.
Beauregard is reported to be marching from
Corinth with a large force against Memphis.
Breckenridge defeated the Federals at Bull's Gap,
East Tennessee, with the capture of numerous pri-
soners and six guns:
The Tallahasse has arrived safely at Wilmington.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
World asserts that the French Minister had had an
interview with Seward, when the offer of French
intervention was renewed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 39 (Evening).
The report is reiterated that Early had retreated
up the valley to check Sherman's advance, and that
Sheridan was pursuing the former.
Mobile despatches assert that the Confederates
had captured Morganzin, Louisiana, with 1,900
prisoners.
The report of Lincoln sending peace commis-
sioners to Richmond is reiterated.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (Evening.)
Money easy. Gold opened on Wednesday at
288, since declining to 211, but recovering subse-
quently to 2161. Stocks declining. New York
Centrals, 1201 ; Illinois, 123 ; Erie, 954; 5.20
United States Bonds, 1031.
The Government nos anticipated the payment of
the interest of the January Coupons, amounting to
nine millions.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (Evening).
Money easy. To-day gold has fluctuated vio-
lently between 216 and 224, closing at 221. Stocks
steady. New York Centrals, 120 i ; Illinois, 1244 ;
Erre, 95 5 20; United States Bonds, 103 k. Cotton
dull—Middling Upland, 130. Flour and wheat
slightly firmer. Corn advancing. Provisions
heavy. Coffee dull. Sugar very dull. Molasses
dull. Petroleum—crude, 451 ; refined, 68.

CANADA.

MONTREAL, Nov. 18.

The judge of the Montreal court has granted
Lieut. Young's request fur time to send to Rich•
mond for evidence of his official status.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE AT PRESTON.--At the
County Police Court, Preston, on Saturday, a re•
spectably-dressed man, named James Allanson, was
charged by John Alston, gamekeeper to Mr E. Birley, with
night poaching on certain land in Lea, near Preston. Als-
ton said that at twenty minutes past seven o'clock on the
evening of the previous Thursday he caught the defend-
ant and another man with a net in a field he was watch-
ing ; that he had a fight with the defendant, who had
nothing in the shape of game about him; that afterwards
he allowed him to go away; and that about midnight, on
the information he supplied to the police, the defendant
was ordered out of his bed and taken to the lockup for
night poaching.—This was the whole of the evidence for the
prosecution.—Mr Watson, solicitor, who appeared for the
defendant, said that the ease came before the Bench without
the least corroboration, so far as the prosecution was con•
corned ; that he should be able to prove that the defendant
was at his own house at, and for some period after, the time
the gamekeeper alleged that ho saw him in the fold poach-
ing ; that on the night in question he had occasion to meet
a person in the neighbourhood, and whilst going through
the field mentioned was pounced upon by the gamekeeper,
and most savagely maltreated by him ; that about 8 o'clock
he was seen at one of the houses in the locality with his face
covered with blood ; and that he went twice to the police
court to lodge a charge against the gamekeeper, and obtain-
ing his apprehension for assaulting him, but could not get
them to stir in the matter.—Four witnesses were then called
in support of Mr Watson's statement.—Mr W. 0. Pilking-
ton, after a few moments' consultation with Mr Eccles, the
ether magistrate, said to defendant—You must go to the
Rouse of Correction for two calendar months, and find bail
to keep the peace for six months.—Mr Watson said—lt is
my intention to bring an action against the magistrates whe
have given this decision, and against all concerned in the
prosecution. I therefore demand a copy of the informa-
tion and summons.—The magistrates smiled at this state-
ment, whereupon Mr Watson rejoined : I shall bring an
action against both of the magistrates present as sure as
they are

LE CORRESPONDANT—in its two last numbers,
has been especially remarkable, for inasmuch as the
contents of each have been led off by a paper of
considerable importance from no less gifted a hand
than that of the Comte de Falloux. In No. 109, dated
the 25 Octobre, the Comte de Falloux descanted
upon the theme of the Franco-Italian Convention.
In No. 110, but jest now published, being
dated in effect as recently as the 25th of
this present month of November, the same
learned and eloquent Academician pens in the open-
ing paper of the instalment, what he terms an
Itiniraire from Turin to Rome. The title, how-
ever, must not be mistaken. now that we have given
it. And for this reason—That it is not the title of
a single essay or argument, but the general title
given by the Comte de Falloux to a collection of
essays or arguments—all of them, of course, of a
kindred character. So that the particular paper
now immediately before us in the November number
of Le Correspondent is not so much the Itiniraire
itself, as the prefatory chapter or introduction to the
Itine.raire. As such, we welcome it, heartily. It is
the avant-courier of a goodly volume now an-
nounced by M. Douniol as upon the eve of publicae
tion. As indicative of the variety noticeable in the
contents of the annual instalment of our contem-
porary, let us here briefly notify the circumstance
that in this particular number of Le Correspondent,
while our contributor discourses very ably upon
" Certain Novelties in the History of Art,"
another scrutinizes the "Negotiations of Cardinal
Consalvi"—that while M. Rameau comments very
impressively upon the " Catholic Movement in the
United States," M. Foisset vouchsafes an honest
criticism on M. Guizot's " Religious Meditations."
Appended to these and half a dozen other papers
we have at the close of the present instalment of
Le Correspondent, the usual batch of minor criti-
cisms and abbreviated record of the events of the
month, followed, this time, by a very brief biblio-
graphical bulletin.
LAURIE'S ENTERTAINING LIBRARY, in the form
of its ninth volume, presents its juvenile sub-
scribers with a charming little pocket edition of
" The Pilgrim's Progress." The illustrations of
this excellent little series of carefully selected
masterpieces of imaginative literature hardly
appears to us equal to those er bellishing the earlier
volumes of the Library, before the responsibility
of publishing it had been ceded by the Messrs.
Longman to Mr, Thomas Murby. Certainly the
four engravings in the current volume are inferior
to those we remember in several of its predecessers.
They are from drawings by H. Sanderson. In this
particular alone—namely, in the greater excellence
of the embellishments scattered through the letter-
press—we hope to recognise an improvement in
the subsequent issue of the Entertaining Library
a library in the selection of the component parts of
which Mr. J. S. Laurie evidences the same rare
and delightful discrimination as that we have
already taken more than one occasion to commend.
As still additional evidence, of which, we have but
to notify the fact that the next, that is, the ninth,
volume of this serial Shilling Library will consist
of Oliver Goldsmith's immortal domestic romance
of the " Vicar of Wakefield."
THE DOUBLE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF " CHAM.•
BERS'S JOURNAL" (published at 3d., and num-
bering 32 double-columned pages of letterpress)
is a bundle of half a dczen goodly Ghost
stories tied about, as one may say, by
the connecting thread of a narrative entitled
" Tenants at Will." There is the story of a House
and there is the story of a Grange—a sketch of a
Painted Room, and another of Farthing Lodge—to
say nothing of a Ghost in a Top Story and a
Ghost Underground. Far a good, goosefieshy,
eltrich, eyrie, grimly, grisly, ghostly, goblin, set of
make-believe spectral tales, commend us to the fra-
ternal group of contributors to this most season-
able miscellany. They are in their capacity, as
veritable entertainers of the general public,
far and away beyond the Davenport Brothers.
The " structure " here reared—and peopled with
ghosts—is vastly more interesting than th.n.e nom..
niptitc‘,l upkitt Mt. re, as seowman. The tangling
and unravelling of the threads of these narratives, we
cannot for our own part but regard as an operation
very curiously entertaining in comparison with the
dreary waiting for the tying and untying of the
ropes of the two young spiritualistic acrobats.

CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED ALMANACS FOR 1865
although charged to the purchaser of it only Six-
pence, is a very marvel of excellence as an illus•
trated publication. The embellishments are at
ouce profuse and well selected. The obituary for
the past year ('63•'64) comprises engraved por-

traits of Lord Elgin and Archbishop Whately, of
Pelissier the French Marshal, and of Thackeray the
English Novelist. There are, besides this, delinea-
tions of fearful catastrophes—four typical sketches
of the Seasons—and a dozen views of the births
places of celebrated men. The mere illuminated
cover itself is ornamental, as the almanack lies un-
opened upon the table or what-not.
DIETRICIISEN AND HANNAY'S well-known Royal
Almanack, in its new issue for 186:5, thoroughly
well sustains its high reputation as a repertory of
valuable and reliable information. The present is
the twenty•eightl4 year of its publication. It has
long since, therefore, assumed its place by right
among our popular favourites. And its claim to the
continued occupancy of that place, it hero fully
sustains. Published by Mr Edward Cleaver, of 63,
Oxford-street, " Dietrichsen and Hannay's Royal
Almanack," although extending now in bulk to a
goodly volume of letterpress, is still issued a, no
more than eightpence.

THE YELLOW FEVER, which has recently been
devastating the Summer Islands, or Bermudas, we
have now reason to hope is beginning to mitigate
its ravages. Out of the seven humane and skilled
physicians 'who volunteered their services from
Halifax alone, three have been strikcn down by the
terrible malady they themselves bad hastened to
Bermuda to contend with. One of these three—
Dr. John Gallagher, Deputy Inspector-General of
Ho spitals—succumbed ! Another, Dr. Cogan,
of the 2d Qaeen,s, has had the fever
once. The third, not yet mentioned, Dr. Mac-
Swiney, of the Royal Naval Hospitals, has had the
fever twice—but, restored to convalescenee from
the second attack of the fever, he was actually,
according to our last advices from Halifax, seriously
meditating another (under the circumstances it al-
most seems to us a nearly Quixotic) expedition back
from Halifax to the aid of the fever-stricken at Ber.
muds I Honour to these three true-hearted physia
cians—men worthy of their distinguished profession.
And, while all due and honourable mention is thus
made of the Doctors, it is but justice to add as a
circumstance no less worthy of mention—in regard
not to a physician but to an ecclesiastical dignitary
—that the Very Rev. Nlonsignore Virtue, who holds
the Government post of Catholic Chaplain to the
troops stationed at Bermuda, although upon the
eve of taking his departure for England upon a
holiday excursion when the Yellow Fever first
manifested itself in the Islands—voluntarily ab-
stained from holding by his original arrangements
and has ever since then been assiduously occupied
night and day in personal attendance upon all
ranks and classes of the efflnted population.
GENERALS LEE AND GRANT.--Lee does not, as
you perceive, punctuate closely ; and nowhere in
his letter does ho write out the word " and," but in-
variably uses the abbreviation "&." And yet hi
pauses long enough to dot all his " i's" and cross all his
" t's." All his letters are drawn nearly straight up and
down the paper; in other words, they are like himself,
iound, full, bold, and upright, inclining neither to the
right nor the left, and standing firmly on their base, as it
they disdained all assistance. They are so clear and precise,
AO round and weighty and distinct, that each letter reminds
ono of a solid cannon ball, and each word of a cluster of
grape shot. General Grant's handwriting, on the contrary,
though not so bold and distinct, nor the letters so large and
round and erect, is, nevertheless, very legible and very
striking. It is full of energy and action, and his letters all
incline to the right, and follow one atter another, with a
little space between them, as if they represented an equal
number of his brigades on a rapid march round Lee's right.
Among chirographers his hand would be called a running
hand. The words occupy much space from left to right,
and still they are clear and legible, lie pays more attention
to punctuation than General Lee, abbreviates lees, and is
eqaally careful of his "i's" and " t's." It toy be the work
of imagination, yet in reading his letter I cannot but picture
the writer as a restless, nervous, energetic man, full of fire
and action, always in motion, and always in a hurry.—
..drat ion Payer.