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to many qualities of mind and heart. His very ap-
pear...7.mo and manner must have conduced
greatly to tho impression which he produced.
No one can look upon the soft, bright face
which is preserved in his portrait without feel-
ing that it is animated and irradiated by a soul
which must find its way to the hearts of others.
The clear bright eye, the fine features, the intelli-
genc3 which reigns over the whole, above all, the
present altogether an in-
sweetness of expression,
fluence which is well-nigh irresistible. If we add
to this a mellifluous flaw of language, it will be
apparent that he possessed all the physical qualities
which go to make a first-rate orator. But it was
not entirely, or perhaps chiefly, from these that he
derived his influence. The foundation of his power
must bo sought in the reality and depth of his
religious convictions, in the affection which he
cherished for his fellow-men, in his earnest love of
souls, which appears perhaps more strikingly in
his letters than in his Conferences, which were
mainly of a controversial character, in his tender
love for Jesus Christ, a love which amounted to a
passion. His Conference on Jesus Christ, delivered
in 1846, are considered by many the most marvel-
lous fruits of his eloquence. (CEuvres, tom. 3.)
" Faith and love," he once said, " have no need of
genius : they speak and all the world recognises
them." That he possessed faith and love those
who knew him never doubted : that he added to
these the natural gift of genius, his works still
testify. Without doubt also his custom of impro-
visation, extempore preaching in the strict sense of
the word, had much to do with his successes.
He prepared his discourses rapidly, but with in-
tense application at the time; bat he did not write
them. M. Montalembert, who gives us this infor-
mation, states that the conferences, which were
taken down in shorthand and published the same
week in the form in which we now possess them,
received very few corrections from his hand.

:NEW Yorx, jun. 22 (lifita.;,,il)..
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IA Knoxville.

A resolution has liJen introduced in the M iry-
land Legislature endorsing President Lino)i:,'F.
policy, amnesty, and proclamation, end favouring
his re-election to the Presidency. The CaliA.ri,in
Senate has pasi4cd a resolution renominating Mr.
Lincoln for the Presidency.
The Raleigh (North CiArclina) press continu4,4
violently to denounce. the measurcs of the Con fo-
deratc Government and the universal conscriptiou
proposed by the Congress. It, declares that the
people will take their affairs into their osvn hands
and vindicate in a convention their liberties and
privileges.
The blockade runner Isabel has arrived at
Havana, from Mobile, with 480 bales of cotton.
The Confederate steamer Gray Jacket has been
captured off Mobile with 500 bales of cotton.
Further diplomatic correspondence has been laid
before Congress.
In April last, Mr. Seward requested Mr. Adaths
to inform Earl Russell that the negotiation of a
Confederate loan brings to an end all concessions
made by the Federal Government fcr mitigating
the rigour of the blockade in regard to the shipping
of cotton or tobacco, nor will the Federal Govern-
ment respect the title of any person, whether a
citizen of the United States or a subject of a
foreign Power, to cotton or merchandise,
,when
such title is derived through insurgent authority,
or agents hostile to the United States. Such pro.
ceedings as a negotiation of this loan have come
to be regarded by the people and the Government
in America as tending to complicate the relations of
both countries in such a manner as to render it
difficult, if not impossible, to maintain and preserve
friendship bet wean both countries.

In July Mr. Seward, referring to the Alexandra
decision, writes Mr. Adams that if British law must
be left without amendment and be construed by the
Government in accordance with the rulings of the
Chief Baron, there will be left for the United
States no alternative but to protect themselves and
commerce against armed cruisers proceeding from
British ports as against the naval bfficers of the
public enemy. They will also claim and insist upon
indemnities for injuries committed by such expedi-
tions. If the Federal naval force is not sufficient for
the emergency, the United States must employ
a private armed force afforded by the mercantile
marine. As these piratical vessels are received in
British ports to obtain supplies and land prisoners,
can it be an occasion for surprise or complaint that,
if this condition of things receives the deliberate
sanction of the British Government, the Federal
navy will receive instructions to pursue these ene-
mies into the ports which thus, in violation of the
law of nations and the obligations of neutrality, be-
come harbours for pirates. The President perceivos
the risk such a naval conflict will bring to commerce•
and even the peace of both countries, but he is obliged
to consider that in the case supposed the destruction
of American commerce will probably amount to a
naval war waged by a portion of the British nation
against the Government and people of America---a
war tolerated, though not declared or avowed, by
the British Government. If, through the employ-
ment of such means of national defence, such
partial war shall become a general one between
both nations, the President thinks the responsi-
bility of that result will not fall on the United
States. It is not the President's purpose to
resort to the measures of defence referred to unless
they shall be rendered necessary by the final deci-
sion of the British Government, that it cannot and
will not interfere to restrain the hostilities now ap-
prehended. This is not written in a spirit of de■
monstration, as it is well understood that the
British Government is the last in the world to
yield to vehemence that which cannot be conceded
in equity 3r justice ; so, on the other hand, it should
be understood that the United States, if they could
ever be presumptuous, are sufficiently chastened by
civil war to seek peace and friendship with all
nations through any concession compatible with the
interests of the national life and honour. In April
last Earl Russell requests Mr. Adams not to repeat
complaints about British subjects entering the Con-
federate service, unless he can prove that all British
Subjects in the Federal service have been dis-
charged, and orders given not to enlist more.
In September Earl Russell, in a letter to Mr.
Adams, disclaims all responsibility of the British
Government in regard to the proceedings of the
Alabama or any other Confederate cruiser, and
trusts that Mr. Adams will not again be instructed
to put forward claims which the British Govern-
ment cannot admit to be founded on grounds of law
or justice.

The faults of his oratory were such as resulted
from his literary tastes and his historical informa-
tion. His historical illustrations are mostly drawn
from Cornelius Nepos and the De Viris," and from
the classical authors that he committed to memory
in his youth. Mediaeval history he had not suffi-
ciently studied. Brutus and Socrates, Epaminondas
and Scipio seem to have done the same duty in his
sermons as Hannibal in the essays of our own
public school-boys. Montalembert further re-
marks that he was given to common-places. In his
striking sermon on " Humility," he makes use of
the expression so often quoted: 'Par la grace de
Dieu j'ai honneur du lieu commun," and his friend
says that he never more deceived himself than in
thinking so. But his faults were few compared
with his excellencies, and it is impossible to study
his published discourses without feeling that we
are in contact wiih a master. Above all, the felt
power of his preaching and the influence which it
actually produced on his audience, were great and
lasting beyond those of any living preacher. Those
whose knowledge of Lacordaire is gained from books
are every day receiving fresh accessions to their store,
and his life as a priest and a monk is promised by
a brother Dominican, Father Chocame. All such ,
contributions to the religious history of the times
will be most valueable. " Two generations of this
century," says the Abbe Perreyve, "have known
him, and have listened to the incomparable majesty
of his word. Many men have approached him as
priest; several have received from his lips the name
of friend ; some have been to him what a son is to
a father, and will long feel in their hearts the shock
of his premature death. Such and many besides
who have received a healthful impulse from his
writings will welcome all trustworthy additions to
the history of his life, works, and character. In
the meantime, M. de Montalembert deserves the
thanks of every student of contemporaneous Church
history, not to say every Christian, for a memoir
not only remarkable for its literary excellence,
but equally so as the offering of pious affection and
gratitude.

THE SCREW STEAMER REGINA.

OFFICIAL REPORT.

The Regina is a schooner-rigged screw steamer,
of 497-49 tons register, and 90 combined (estimated)
horse power. She is employed chiefly in trade to
the Mediterranean, from whence she was on her
return voyage to London, with a cargo of fruit,
when she met With the damage which was the sub-
ject of this inquiry. She arrived off Guernsey on
the morning of the 15th of last December, and
running up Channel, with a westerly wind and
moderate weather, about 10 p.m. made the light on
Dungeness, bearing E.N.E. Her proceedings after
this till she got ashore about 2 15 a.m. of the 16th
to the westward of Dungeness Light, are detailed
in logbook, of which the following is an extract,
namely:--" Midnight, arrived off Dungeness,

NEW YORK, Jan. 22
,(Evening).

The correspondent of the Boston Traveller asserts
that information had reached Newbern that a con-
vention had been called in Raleigh for the purpose
of carrying out the secession of North Carolina
from the Southern Confederacy. This report re-
quires confirmation.
Advices from Nassau to the 16th inst. state that
the departures to and from the blockaded ports Lou-
tinue numerous.

distant two miles. Pat a light over the bows
for a pilot, and fired six blue lights at inter,•
vale. Hauled in towards the East Bay,
seeing no pilot cutter. At 1 a,m., Dungeness Light
bearing W.N.W., ported helm and put ship's head
to the W.S.W., ship going quarter speed. At 1 20
Dungeness Light bore N.-W., sky overcast and
night extremely dark. At 1 35, abreast of Dunge-
ness Light, dropped the lead in eight fathoms
water, and starboarded the helm to veer the ship
round to the eastward, intending again to seek for
a pilot, when in the act of doing so saw two ves-
sels running up close aboard of us, showing red
lights. Ported our helm to clear them, and, when
sufficiently clear, hard a starboard, and in the act
of coming round felt our vessel:touch the ground,
but saw no land, when suddenly a man on the
beach appeared close to the ship, with a light,
who told us it was about high water. The light
of Dungeness then bore E. by N. N., but so
intensely bright was the light that nothing could
be seen around tho ship, and we appeared full
two miles off it. At daylight our estimated dis-

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (Morning).
The military situation is unchanged, and the
political news unimportant.
The Confederates have four steamers in Mata-
gorda Bay, Texas, co resist the Federal advance
from Fort Esperanza into the interior.
The Confederate gunboat Carr was lately blown
up off Matagorda bay. General Dana,
command-
ing at Brownsville, has sent a peremptory protest
to General Serna, commanding at Matamoras,
against levying a forced loan from American
citizens. General Serna replied that Americans
would not be molested.

It is reported that a Democratic national addzcss,
shortly to be issued, will favour a vigorcus prose-
cution of the war, but will oppose the unconstitu-
tional measures of the Administration,

tance from the lighthouse was about three.
quarters of a mile." The ship remained on the beach
till the 9th of January, when, her cargo being
unshipped, she was brought to London, and put into
dock, where she was found to have sustained material
damage. The above entry in the log-book is stated
by the master and chief officer to be correct, with
the exception (as the master states) of the sounding,
which, he says, ought to have been 17 and not 8
fathoms. The latter sounding of 8 fathoms is, no
doubt, correct, if we may judge from the shert time
that elapsed before the ship took the ground, as de-
scribed in the log, three-quarters of a mile from the
lighthouse. To account for the stranding of the ship
under these circumstances the most probable
supposition is, that, intending to run back
abreast of the light, and then come about and
make for Dover, the master was not sufficiently
particular in watching the exact bearing, so as
to know precisely his offing, meaning only to use
the light as a point of departure. Instead of being, as
he believed, two or three miles off, when abreast or
the light, he must then have been dangerously Yd
hav-
ingnear the shore, and being obliged to port his helm to keep
clear
hi ofs
attentiont h the tw o shipsentirely
occupiedup
P with that object,
he did not observe how far aft he had brought the
light. The prudent course, therefore,
been either to have come about befworoeulhdehagvott
abreast of the light, or to h
ave
searoom to meet the contingencyht to th allvvved more
viz., having to portoccurred
the light. Giving due vveig helm when .
of the error, and taking into cons ideration the
his Whiei3nr i
explanationabreast
master's high character for genera 1 carefulness
and ability, it was not deemed nee Z,lisary to visit
the case with severity, and, under the advice of
the Nautical Assessors, Captain Bowl In was strictly
admonished of his error, and his ;ertificate was
returned to him.

Thomas Frances Meagher has delivered a pane-
gyric on General Corcoran before a large Irish
audience at the Cooper Institute. His numerous
references to the Fenian Brotherhood were loudly
cheered.

The New York. Herald asserts that a strong
movement is being made by the Republican party
to nominate General Fremont for the Presidency.
The House of Representatives has passed a bill
imposing a duty of two cents on cotton, and an
additional duty of 40 cents per gallon on imported
spirits.

Greenwich Police Court, Jan. 26, 1864.
We concur. JAM XS TRAILL.
HY . HARRIS.
JOI [Di DQAIUT.

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