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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OVE.MBER 21, 1864.

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the thus she did •' belligerent" rights and privileges. She
has made similar protests to every government which was
seduced into following the example of England, in ignorance
of its tendency. But sho has at the samo time said to
Brazil and other friendly powers—" although humbled and
humiliated by your proceeding, I do not accuse you of in-
tentional wrong; and your act, grievous and unjust as it
is, I am compelled to recognise; and I indulge the hope that
the day will shortly arrive when we can look back upon the
past without one solitary remembrance of wrong to over-
shadow the future." And to Brazil in particular she has
instructed the undersigned to pledge most earnestly her
confidence and friendship, as imperatively demanded by the
similarity of their respective constitutions, by the general
sentiments . f their iespectivo people, and by their political
duties to each other and to their neighbours arising from
their being th 3 two principal governments 011 the continent
of America.

SOUTH AMERICA.

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Entertaining these sentiments and feelings towards
Brazil, it will tbe a source of unfeigned grief and of very
sincere regret to the Government of the United States, to
learn that a commander in her navy, without instructions
or authority of any kind, should have taken upon himself
the responsibility of capturing one of the piratical cruisers
of our rebels while lying in the harbour of Bahia; and the
undersigned feels authorised to assure your excellency that
every reparation which honour and justice demand will be
most. frankly tendered—more frankly and more promptly
than if the same
.act had been committed by an American
cruiser in the waters of the most powerful maritime nations
of the world. But in so doing, the Government of the
United States will undoubtedly make the antende honorable
under protest. She will tell Brazil that she denies in tote
the right of any nation or natips, immediately upon the
breaking out of a rebellio in the dominions of a
friendly power—withoirt iniquiry or investigation of
any kind, and without knowledge of, or even
pretending to know the merits of the quarrel—
to declare such rebels a belligerent power, and by proclama-

Unfortunately at this moment, owing to the
Brazilian forces having invaded Banda Oriental,
and the Government of Paraguay having openly
declared that it would regard such invasion a decla-
ration of war, many are of opinion that President
Mitre will be dragged into the struggle ; but there
is good reason to suppose that no complication will
induce President Mitre to enter into a war which
can only result in both misery and expense to the
Argentine Republic.

The Government of Buenos Ayres is introducing
many useful retorms, and is assiduous in its efforts
to foment industry and protect life and property.
Its Treasury boasts of a surplus; and the public
money, instead of being squandered, is applied
towards the building of new churches, schools, the
survey of lands, the extension of railways, &c.
Trade in the city is getting brisk, as dealers from
the country and provinces are coming in.
There is good prospect of a splendid wool crop ;
the quality is very superior, and the quantity is
expected to be in excess of that of last year some
20 per cent.
The Provincial Bank has drawn £35,000 on Eng.
land by this packet. The Standard says :—" We
understand it has opened a credit on F. Huth and
Co., of London, for £200,000, and we suppose per
next packet it will draw for the balance. The rate
of exchange has gone up, owing to the Provincial
Bank drawing, and good bills were offered at 49:,
to 491. The total amount drawn up to the present
we estimate at £140,000 sterling.
The new wool crop is expected in the market in
about 15 days.

tion make them in the ports of the world the equals of the
nation against which they are in rebellion. She will insist
that until their nationality is recognised they cannot invest
their armed vessels with the nationality necessary " to set
forth a vessel of war," and she will insist that all such vessels
are no more and no less than pirates.
She will proclaim, as heretofore, that a vessel built in an
English port by English artisans, and with English funds,
armed and equipped by Englishmen, with Englishmen to
man, sail, and fight her, and sailing from an English port
under English colours, with the avowed purpose of preying
upon and destroying the commerce of a friendly power
which happens to be her naval and commercial rival, and
which does so prey upon and destroy the commerce of the
friendly power under the ridiculous plea that she is a vessel
of war belonging to the rebels—without ever having visited
a rebel port—is nothing more or less than a pirate, which
the nation whose commerce she molests has a right accord-
ing to every principle of equity and justice which obtains
among civilised and Christian communities, to pursue and
destroy in every port and every harbour of the world.
But she will at the same time say to Brazil, that the
powers of the world having, unintentionally no doubt, been
comb ned against her,and her international rights being de-
nied her through that combination, she has been compelled
for the time being to submit to what she cannot resist, as has
heretofore been the case with every nation (including Bra-
zil) of whose injustice she complains. Submitting therefore,
as she does, simply because she is compelled so to do, and
recognising the right of these pirates to protection in the
ports of England and France, simply because she cannot
resist it, the Government of the United States will not
withhold from Brazil one iota of the reparation which,
under similar circumstances, in her present embarrassed po-
sition, she would be compelled to make to England. While
she submits to the great injustice done her, she most scru-
pulously observes the strictest neutrality to al. ; and as she
is compelled to recognise towards European Powers the new
doctrine, which in the twinkling of an eye and by the dash
of a pen converts a rebel of yesterday into the belligerent of
to-day, with all the rights and immunities, and entitled to
all the honours and privileges of the power against which
he is in rebellion —so will she most cheerfully recognise
(under protest) that new doctrine towards Brazil, and hasten
to make her every reparation for the alleged breach of neu-
trality which has occurred in the waters of the empire.
Neither the Government of the United States nor the under-
signed are directly or indirectly responsible for that event
as one dependent upon their volition. It was neither or-
dered nor authorised by the Government of the United
States or the undersigned ; and it will be to his Government
as it is to the undersigned a sourca of very sincere regret
that, it such an event must of necessity have occurred, it did
not take place in the waters of the rower which, fifteen
days after bearing of the rebellion in the United States, joy.
fully and liopofully procloirutd our rebel. o " bulliguicut"
power—an act which her press and 1 eople and our rebellious
States looked upon certain to bring on our country all and
more than all the evils actually inflicted, by adding to them
the dissolution of the American Union.

THE OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND
AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Delhi, Captain Rogers, sailed hence to-day, at
2 p.m., with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediter-
ranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India (except Bom-
bay), China, Mauritius, Australia, and New
Zealand.

In replying to the note of your excellency, and assuming
as facts statements in regard to which the undersigned
knows nothing, he frankly, and very sincerely, for himself
and in behalf of his Government, under the circumstances
herein stated, repudiates most emphatically the capture of
the pirate Fbrida in the waters of Brazil ; and ho desires
to reiterate, as the burtben of all his despatches and
instructions from Washington, his determination to draw
nearer and closer together in bonds of reciprocal friendship
the two le Wing nations upon the American continent. Such
being, as ho is assured, the wishes and intentions of both
Brazil and the United States, the undersigned entertains no
apprehensions that those purposes and intentions can. be
thwarted by the commander of one of our vessels of war, or
by the hasty acts of an excited populace, based uron what
they considered a national indignity.
In the full conviction that the Government of the United
Suttee will promptly do all that becomes its own dignity and
the dignity and honour of Brazil, the undersigned begs leave
to renew to your excellency, with apologies for this hastily
written note, the expression of his most distinguished con-
sideration. J. WATSON" WEBB.
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P.S.—This despatch will be placed in the hands of the
courier from the Foreigu.oinec,
instructed to wait for it, at
720 p.m.

'o his Excellency Sr. Joao Pedro Dias Vieira, Councillor
to his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor, Minister and Secre-
tary ot_State for Foreign Affsirs, &C.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments
in the Civil Service.

(From the Civil Service Gaattc.)

TUB ADMIRALTY,—Alf P. Brown has been appointed a
temporary clerk at Somerset House—Mr P. A. Stephenson
has been appointed a temporary dockyard clerk—Mr Samuel
Churchward, foreman and accountant in the Civil Engi-
neer's department, Reyhana, has been appointed clerk of
works at Davenport dockyard, vino Hooper, resigned,
PRISONS DEPARTMENT—The office of surgeon-suporin•
tendent of Portsmouth Convict Prison has become vacant
by the death of Dr John William Bowler.
TILE POST-oPricE-11.4 Cook, second clerk at Canterbury,
has been appointed to be first clerk at Dover—Mr Grime,
first clerk at Hull, has been appointed to be postmaster of
Doncaster—Mr Jones has been promoted from the second
to the first class of sorting clerks at Manchester—Mr Law
has been promoted from the first class of sorting clerks to
the second class of clerks at Manchester—Mr Davis has
been promoted from the third to the second &ass of clerks,
Shrewsbury. •

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I LOULIOU Docks—Mr Robert
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CUSTOMS—Mr John Kennedy
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of out-door officers, Sunderland —Mr Robert Edgar has been
. promoted from the sth to the. 3d class of out-door officers,
from the 3d to the 2d
Sunderland—Mr William Muaniece has been promoted from
officers, Belfast—Mr
cAllasrs of out-door officers
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John Leary has been
officer,
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appointed officer of Derby, 2d
the sth to the 4th class of out-deer officers, Belfast.
INLAND REVENUE—EXCISs Branch—Mr Thomas Miller,
collection—Mr William APDonald,
examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Thurso district
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ce,
officer, Monasterevan ride, Carlow collection, has been ap-
pointed officer of Glasgow, 7th division, Glasgow collection
—Mr O'Flanagan, officer, Athlone, Ist ride, Athlone col-
lectioa, has been appointed officer of Monasterevan ride,
Carlow collection-51r J. sPGrath, officer, Epworth ride,
Sheffield collection, has been appointed officer of Athlone,
Ist ride, Athlone collection-51r J. Palliser, officer, Birken-
head, Ist division, Chester collection, has been appointed
officer of Birkenhead, 2d
.division, Chester collection—Mr
J. Noyes, officer, 6th division, Liverpool collection, has
been appointed officer of Birkenhead, 2d division, Chester
collection—Mr W. Curran, officer, Cork, 2d division, Cork
collection, has been appointed of. Liverpool, 6th division,
Liverpool collection—Mr P. Padua, officer, Waterford ride,
Waterford collection, has boon appointed officer of Cork,
2d division, Cork collection.
EAST INDIES.—Mr T. 11. Thornton, judge of the Small
Cause Court, Delhi, has been appointed secretary-to the
Government, Punjaub—Capt. C. L. 51‘Mahon, judge of the
Small Cause Court, Umritsur, has been appointed to officiate
as &puty commissioner of Delhi—Mr R. W. Thomas,
• ' • • at Rohtuck has been appointed to
assistant commissioner
officiate as judge of the Small Cause Court at Uniritsur—
Mr F. R. Scarlett, judge of the .
Small Cause Court, has
been transferred from Peshavrur to Simla--Lieut. Glover,
R,E, deputy superintendent general, irrigation, N.W.P.,
has been appointed to officiate as superintendent general,
vice Col. A. D. Turnbull, &Et deceased—Dr R. 51oir,
—dg division, Is
ricoolVl 1,
superintendent of the Central Prison at Benares, has Lean
appointed superintendent of the (Antral Prison at Agra.

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entries daring the last four years, combined wit'a
that of the present year, which shows a very sen-
sible per cen tags of increase :-
18G0. 1861. 1862. 1863. 1851.
Cattle .... 110 .. 104 .. 131 163 151
Sheep 42 .. 66 110 92 104
Pigs ...... 75 .. 72 .. 70 .. 93 .. 81
Roots 118 .. 196 116 121 .. 109
Curti '" 15 .. 57 .. GO
Poultry ..1,135 ..1,297 ..1,361 ..1,505 1,677
Pigeons .. 168 .. 220 232 .. 275 .. 200

Total 1,618 2'183
The show will open on Monday, the 28th, and
close on Dec. 1.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Rev. John Thomas Howe L
Mesurier, M.A., late Archdeacon of Malta, was
proved in the London Court on the 24th ult., and
the personalty in J!.'egland sworn under £12,000,
the executors and trustees nominated being his
cousin, the Rev. John Le Mesurier, M.A., perpe-
tual Curate of Bembridge, in the Isle of Wight;
together with the testator's sister, Miss Marian Oc.
tavia Le Mesurier, and the Rev. David Morton,
Rural Dean, Rector of Harleston, and domestic
Chaplain to Earl Spencer. The testator was for-
merly Chaplain to the Forces, and previously of
Brazenose College, Oxford ; and his will bears date
the 12th of May, 1863. The testator died at Beni%
bridge on the 29th of September last. After mak-
ing several bequests, he leaves the bulk of his pro.
party to his said sister Marian, whom he has ap-
pointed residuary legatee. The plate which he
inherited from his father and grandfather, and the
silver salver presented to him by the congregation
frequenting Dockyard Chapel, Malta, also the sil-
ver epergne presented to him by certain friends on
the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, are to be
held by his said sister during her life, and then
given over to his said cousin John Le Mesurier, to
whom he has bequeathed a £lOO share which he
held in King's College, London. To his brother-
' in-law, John Ludham, of Buenos Ayres (the brother
of his late wife) he leaves a legacy of £2,000, the
interest for his life and the principal to his children.
To the following seven institutions charitable be•
quests are left, viz., the Colonial Bishops' Fund, the
Societies for the Propagation of the Gospel in Fo-
reign Parts, for the Promotion of Christian Know-
ledge, for Building and Enlarging Churches ; the
Additional Curates Aid Society, the Clergy Orphan
Societ, and the National Society for the Education
of the Poor--to each a legacy of £5O, free of duty.
The will of General Sir James Hervey Reynett,
K.C.8., K.C.H., late of 62, Eaton-square, formerly
of Brunswick.terrace, Brighton, was proved in
London, on the 7th ult., by the executors, Sir John
Kirkland, of Portman-square, and James Campbell,
Esq ,of Hampton Court. This gallant sod distin-
guished military officer was Colonel of her Majesty's
48th Foot, and was formerly Governor of Jersey.
He died at Hampton Court Palace, on the 9th of
August last, at the age of 78. His will was axe.
cuted in 1856. His wife, Lady Reynett, having a
provision under marriage settlement, he has ap.
pointed her ladyship residuary legatee, having left
two annuities of about £BO per annum to a sister
and a friend at Hanover.

The will of Francis Sitwell, Esq., of Barmoor
Castle, Northumberland, was proved in London by
the acting executor, William 11. Sitwell, Esq., the
brother, power being reserved to the testator's
nephew, Francis Henry Massey Sitwell, Esq. (the
son of the said William H. Sitwell), also an executor
to prove hereafter. The test .tor died on the sth of
August last, having executed his will on June 20,
1850, which was attested by John Connell and Hugh
Hope, both of 3,.Plinees-street, Westminster. He
has left to his said brother William H, Sitwell the
whole of his property, baying expressly bequeathed
to him his personal estate and devised to bim the
castle and family mansion, together with the landed
estates at Barmoor and Yeavering, both in the
county of Northumberland.—lllustrated London
News.

The Stranding of the Lagoda Screw
Steamer.

On Saturday an official inquiry, instituted by the
Board of Trade, was concluded at the Greenwich
Police-court, before Mr Trail!, the magistrate, and
Captain DJmett and Captain Cow, as nautical as-
sessors, into the circumstances attending the strand-
ing and subsequent wreck of the Lagoda iron screw
steamer on the upper part of the Nore Sand, and a
mile distant from the Norc Light, on the night of
the 26th October.

Mr OTowd attended to conduct the inquiry on
behalf of the Board of Trade.

From the evidence adduced it appeared that the
Lagoda was on her homeward passage from St.
Petersburg to London, having on board three pas.
sengers and a valuable general cargo. She was
under the command of Captain B. Moore, and was
a newly-built vessel, having been registered at
Lloyd's in 1863, and classed A. 1 for six years.
Nothing particular occurred on the voyage, and on
the evening of the 26th ult. the vessel made the
Maplin Light, and four hours afterwards, her en-
gines being worked at full speed, she went hard on
to the upper part of the Nore Sand,as above stated.
Attempts were made to get her off, but unsuccess•
fully, and at three o'clock on the following morning
(four and a half hours after striking) she parted
right amidships. At daybreak her passengers and
crew were safely landed, and a small portion of the
cargo was saved, the steamer being afterwards got
off and towed into Sheerness harbour.

The master, chief and second mates and others of
the crew were examined as to the courses steered
immediately preceding the stranding, when the
Court adjourned to consider its judgment.
On returning, Mr. Traill, addressing Captain
Moore, said—According to his (the master's) state-
ment the ship was abreast of the Nore Light about
10 p.m,, and that the course then given was W. by
N., which course was used for about ten minutes,
and W.N.W. for five minutes longer, and on this
course the ship went aground. The weather was
moderate, and sufficiently clear to see the lights,
and there is no way of accounting for the stranding
of the ship except through some default of proper
care in the navigation. The answers of the master
appear to the Court to establish such a case of
default. From these answers it appears to the Court
that the master is chargeable with the following
default. First, in shaping a too southwardly course
on passing the Nore Light. Even supposing the
ship to have been one mile or a mile and a
half to the north on passing the Nore
Light, the :course, instead of the main course
of W.N.W., whioh is the course he says he steered,
ought to have been N.W. by W. tW. Conse-
quently, if, as stated by the second mate, the ship
was only half or three quarters of a mile, or, as
stated by the steersman, only 300 yards to the north
of the Nore Light, the course steered would have
been still more faulty. Again, there being no diffi
culty in seeing the two lights, if they had been pro•
perly watched, the captain must have seen his course
was much too far to the southward. Again, not
using the lead was, under the circumstances, a seri.
ous omission ; and lastly, the speed was improper,
particularly coupled with so little precaution as
to the course shaped. For those reasons the Court
is of opinion that the stranding of the vessel we,.
Caused by the default of the master, and have de.
cidtd that his certificate be suspended for six calen-
dar months from this date.
The inquiry then terminated.

OXFORD LOCAL EXAMI NATIONS.—The certificates
awarded to candidates who were examined at Ox.
ford this year will be delivered by Mr John Walter, M.P.,
on Wednesday next, Nov. 23, at two o'clock p.m. Prices
of books will be given at the same time to those candidates
who were placid in a first or second division. The meeting
will be held in the council chamber.