The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 22.

The extra Inman steamship City of Limerick,
from New York on the 11th inst., arrived here at
3.45 a.m. to-day, with two cabin and 20 steerage
passengers, but no specie. She landed four steerage
passengers and proceeded at 4 a.m. for Liverpool.
Her news has been anticipated.
GREENCASTLE, DEC. 22.

The Canadian steamer Hibernian, from Portland
on the 12th inst. arrived here at 8.10 a.m. to day.

RUMOURED PEACE NEGOTIATIONS .
LIVERPL OL, DEC. 22.

A private telegram received here by the Hiber-
nian, states that rumours of peace negotiations
were current at New York. These rumours were
considered very doubtful, but they nevertheless
had influenced the markets. Gold, 491.

FRANCE.
REPLY OF THE EMPEROR TO THE
ADDRESS FROM THE SENATE.
PARIS, DEC. 22.

Th 3 Emperor made the following reply to the
address of the Senate, presented by the deputation

yesterday :

" Good is the sole motive power of my actions,
both at home and abroad. I desire the appeasing
of passions, with concord and union. I direct all my
wishes to the moment when the great questions
which divide Governments and peoples will be paci-
fically solved by European arbitrament. This
wish was that of Napoleon when he wrote
from St. Helens, that 'to fight in Europe
is to make civil war.' May not this great thought,
an Utopia in the past, shortly become a reality ?
It is always an honour to proclaim a principle
tending to remove the prejudices of another age.
Let us unite our efforts for this noble end, and lot
us only study obstacles to vanquish them, and in-
credulity to confound it!'

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the cir-
cular of M. Drcnyn de Lhuys, dated Dec. 8, the
sense of which agrees with the analyses already
published by the journals.

BOURSE, December 21.—The arrival of the Eng-
lish funds with an advance of s has had no influence
on the market, which has again become heavy, and
the business done shows a fall on the closing price
of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, which
opened at 66f. 40c., are now at 66f. 30c. Mobilier
have also receded, being now quoted at 1,022 f. 50c.
Railway Shares have also slightly declined. The
market closed as follows :

41 per Cents .. 94 05
.Uo end month.... -- --

' Italian Loan 7l 40
Do. end month —
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian .. —
Spani,h Threes.„ 52 50
HOMO Debt .. —
Deferred

3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 35

Credit M0bi1ier...,1027 50
Do, end month....loD

Bank Shares

3350

Credit koncier 1220
Roman

RA IL'

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons awl bleditsrranean
New ditto
Geneva..
Sauthern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona

'AY%
Cash. Account.
970 .. 970
9G5 .. 966 25

922 50 .. 925 -
883 75 - -
498 75 -
675 - .. 677 50
505 - -
472 50 .. 477 50
396 25 .. 395 25
398 75 .. 395 -
518 75 .. 520 -
515 - .. 515 -
612 50 .. 612 50
302 50 .. 300 -

THE SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN QUESTION.

HAMBURG, DEC. 19.

The feudal party, the clergy, lawyers, and offi-
cials of Holstein are preparing an address in which
they call upon the Prince of Augustenburg to
assume the throne of the Duchies. Numbers of ex-
functionaries in Schleswig and Holstein who have
refused to take the oath of allegiance to the King
are now residing in this city, and keep up the
agitation, from which the Senate wisely holds
itself aloof. It has, however, induced the citizens to
vote a million of marks banco for the defence of the
coast against possible Danish attack.
The well-known writer, Baron Dirking-Holm-
feld, brother of the former Danish envoy to Paris,
is now residing at Frankfort, where he warmly
defends the cause of the Duchies against
Germany. He has recently published a
pamphlet, intended to prove that, in right
of his wife, Christian IX. is the only legiti-
mate King of Denmark and the Duchies. There
is little doubt, indeed, that if the Schleswig-Hol-
steiners felt assured of their national rights, they
would unquestionably reject the Dake of Augus-
tenburg. It would be necessary, however, that
the concession should be made regardless of the
pressure of the priests and functionaries, who think
all their privileges would be secured under the reign
of the Pritice. The agitation in the north of
Germany only hoists the flag of the Duke
of Augustenburg to separate the Duchies
from Denmark and to conquer Schleswig. The
democratic portion only takes part in it, because it
hopes that it will bring about another directed
against the Sovereigns of the small German princi-
palities, and the reactionary system followed in
Prussia.

The Austrian troops, consisting of 170 officers,
5,500 men, and 400 horses, arrived here by way of
Harburg. They are made up of 2 German regi-
ments, 1 Polish regiment, 3 Hungarian regiments,
and 1 Italian regiment; 2 hussar regiments, 1 being
Hungarian, the other Czechs, a chasseur regiment,
and a battery of 98 guns. The town of Hamburg
is to pay 100,000 marks monthly towards the sup-
port of the troops.

ROME.
ROME, DEC. 16.

The great event which chiefly occupies men's
minds in the Eternal City is the step about to be
taken by the Pope at the Consistory which will be
held on the 21st. His Holiness will then appoint
bishops to the various dioceses in the old Pontifical
provinces of the Romagna, the Marches, and
Umbria. The new prelates are to be distributed
as follows :—Cardinal G-aidi will be Archbishop of
Bologna, Monsignor Clementi Bishop of Rimini,
Monsignor Cardoni Bishop of Loretto, Monsignor
Vitelleschi Bishop of Osimo, Monsignor Andreali
Bishop of Cagli, the Abbe Micalet, of Malta, Bishop
of Citta di Castello, and the Franciscan monk
Pettinati Bishop of Nocera.
An opinion prevails that the Emperor Napoleon
will use all his influence at Turin to cause King
of
Victor Emmanuel to accept the
Embenpoei r.
the Pope, but with what result time
l
Archbishop of
Monsignor De Donnechase, the PP
onlVincan show.
Rouen, has been recommended
Napoleon to the I've as
dignity ....
,4 the next Consistory,
co-operated
with ated to that Cardinal,
yn
d the
M. De Bonnechase was formerly an Orleanist,
at Rome in ipux
and being
French Ambassador
with the
Pop, to accept the decree expelling the
Jesuits from France. He is now a devoted Bona-
partist, and a Cardinal.
The ex-Queen of Naples has retired to Albano,
where she intends to pass the winter. The King
of Bavaria, while in Rowe, made every effort to re
concile the King and Queen, but without success.
It is rumoured that the French army at Rome
will be increased by
6,000 men.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Dec. 21.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred left Osborne
this morning, with Prince William of Hesse, for
London.

Prince William proceeds immediately to Ger-
many, and Prince Alfred will return to Osborne.
Lord Stanley of Alderley has returned to London.
Funeral of the late King of Denmark.

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 18.

The Berlina e 7idende publishes the following
"At the moment of going to press the mortal
remains of King Frederic VII. are being conveyed
from this city. The immense, imposing
funeral
cortege moves in the calm, clear winter's day
through our city amid the salute of minute guns,
the tolling of bells, and the deep-felt grief of the
whole population. The city has put on mourning.
All business has ceased. The houses in those streets
through which the procession takes its way are
bung with black and white drapery, and flags half-
mast high. In many places there are inscriptions
recalling the most important events in the life of
the deceased monarch.

" Ad parts of the country have sent representa-
tives to the capital to pay the last mournful honours
to King Frederic, and at different points on the
passage of the cortege a last farewell is raised which
testifies to the affection borne by the present gene-
ration to the deceased, and the gratitude with which
the Danish people through many future generations
will regard him."

THE BETROTHMENT OF THE PRINCESS ANNA OF
lIEssE, daughter of Prince Charles, to the reigning Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, took place a few days since
at Darmstadt.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
a large party will meet on the 4th proximo at Knowsley
Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby.

The Duke of Brabant, by the advice of his physi-
cians, will pass the worst portion of the winter in the envi"
rons of Nice, The Duchess of Brabant will remain at
Brussels with her children.

His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle and suite have
been staying on a visit to the Marquis of Drogheda at Moore
Abbey, Mon asterevan.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and family
left Stafford House, St. James's, yesterday, for Cliefdaf
near Maidenhead.

The Marquis of Tullibardiue left town last even-
ing for Blair Athole, Perthshire, to meet the Duke avi
Duchess of Athole. We are informed the Duke is in a veil
low and precarious state.

The Earl Granville has left town oa a visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowsod
Wilts.

The Earl and Countess of Malmeshury left town
at the close of the past week for Heron Court, near Christ'
church, until the meeting of Parliament.

The Earl and Countess Spencer and Ladp Sarah
3pencer will remain in Egypt until the end of January, and
are then expected to go to Algiers and Spain on their WaY
home. It will be gratifying to the noble earl's numerous
friends to learn that his lordship's health has greatly belle-
fitted by his visit to the East.

The Earl of Mansfield arrived at his residence►
Caen Wood, Hampstead, on Friday last, from Scone Palace'
Perthshire.
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have recently
entertained a pally of visitors at Dean Park. Amongst the
company have been the Earl of Oxford, Lord CourteneY,
Lord Loughborough, Lord and Lady Bruce, Admiral and
the Hon. Mrs. Roue, Mr. and Lady Emily Kingscote,
St. George Foley, Hon, George Craven, Colonel and How
Mrs. Curzon, Hon. H. Forester, Mr. George Payne, Capt.
and Mrs. De Horsey, Bcc.
Louisa Countess of Seafield has arrived at the
Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Grant Lodge, Elgin.
The Right Hun. Sir George Grey is still stayiog
at his seat, Falloden, Northumberland.

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.—The present Emperor
Napoleon 111., some years ago, enjoyed a quite exceptional
popularity amongst the London cabmen, from always pay-
ing without a word whatever they asked of him I

JUDGE'S CIIAMBERS.—Mr. Sergeant Shee, having
been sworn in one of the judges of the Court of
Queen's Bench, attended at the Judges' Chambers yester-
day. His lordship will relieve Mr. Justice Mellor, who has
just returned to town after disposing of the assize business
at York, where he had been sitting in consequence of the
death of Mr. Justice Wightman. There will be a daily at-
tendance at the Chambers until the Christmas recess. At

in
the Queen's Bench and Exchequer Courts the judges sit
the morning ; but in the other court Mr. Justice Keating
sits in the afternoon.
MR. JUSTICE SHEE NOT AN IRISHMAN.--11l the
biographical notice of Mr, Justice Shee which ap-
peared in The Sun on his elevation to the Bench it is stated
that he was born in Kilkenny. This statement is, it al'"
Pears, inaccurate. His father was an Irishman, descended
from a family who had settled in the county of Kilkenny
prior to the revolution of 1668, but came to England at au
early period in life. He married a Miss Darell, belongiag
to a well-known family in Kent, and hid son, now Justice
Shee, was born at Finchley, Middlesex, in 1804. It was as
a gentleman connected with Kent that he addressed the
meeting held at Penenden-heath when that county peti.
tioned Parliament with reference to Roman Catholic ono'
cipation. In his speech on the nomination-day from '11!
Marylebone hustings, in 1847, he said, in reply to the tan"
that he was an Irishman :—I was born at Finchley ; blot
have yet to learn that it is a crime in an Irishman to aspic
"
to enter that Parliament in which Sheridan, and Grattaa'
and Canning, and Wellington laid the foundation of
country's greatness."
AN EPISCOPAL SWASHBUCKLER, GETTING 111/t)
A FIX AND OUT OF IT !—Bishop Polk, according
to Colon el Fremantle, is the finest figure in those parts, a
good looking man, with all the manners and affability of ‘'
"grand seigneur," tall, uprir;ht, and "looking much more:
like a soldier than a clergyman." When he has done figlitivr.P
he intends to go back to his other profession. He is a vied
brave man, whereof here is a specimen incident ottr9.octeu,
from him by our ingenuous Guardsman, Bishel)
loquitur, in a modest yet graphic manner : "—o ell,
it was at the battle of Perryville, late in the evening, `r
fact, it was almost dark, when Liddell's Brigade came it't(l)
action. Shortly after its arrival I observed a body of leer'. '
whom I believed to be Confederates, standing at an angle
this brigade, and firing obliquely at the newly arrive:
troops. I said, Dear me, this is very sad, and must e
stopped ; ' so I turned round, Lut could find none of ,
young men, who were absent on different messages; 5°
determined to ride myself and settle the matter. Rav'eg
cantered up to the. Colonel of the regiment which was firino,
I asked him in angry tones what he meant by shooting 1116
own friends, and I desired him to cease doing so at on"'
He answered with surprise, I don't think there can be,
mistake about it; I am sure they are the enenlY•
' Enemy I' I said; wh y I have only just left them Jul'
self. Cease firing, sir ; what is your name ?" I‘lY
naT
is Colonel —, of the -- Indiana; and pray, sir, who al:"
you ?' Then, for the first time, I saw, to my aatouishme
of Yankees. Well, I saw that there was no hope
ot scurity
that he was a Yankee, and that I was iu rear of a regimentt o
brazen it out; my dark bloutle and the increase
l 5
0 to him and
show you who
befriended me, so I approached,l.7;tooon
shook my fist in his face, sayi.lg! !:nce., I then turned
I am, sir. Cease firing, sir,"
Vankees to cease firing ; at
dissgre.eably sensation, like
atdown rho line, shouting in
amnyahuothrsoeriatnatdivecamnatennreedrstloowlY.
many bullets.
screwing up my back,
shoulders ever.ev moment. I was afraid
would be between niy
the same time I experienacnedd
ce until I got to a small copse, when I
to increase my Pa d galloped back to my men. I ionic"
the spurs in an
the nearest •
diately went up to . colonel, and said to him,
t'lialcult ding how
Colonel, I have reconnoitred those fellows pretty do sell
and I find there is no mistake who they are ; you noel
up and go at them." And I assure you, sir, that the
slaughter of that Indiana regiment was the urealest I have
ever seen in the war."

additions to the collection HOLYROOD PALACE,—it will afford general gra-
tification to the publicllecti n
toofe l
Royal
arnthat several v
are aboutbe made by command of her Majesty. In the
large collection in Ham to
ton Court there are a good many
pictures Ra bold°
olluyarc
uplicate portraits of Royal personages connected more or
less directly with Scottish history, and on the attention of
the Queen being drawn, through theproper official ca'rannels,
to this circumstance, and the suggestion made that some of
these might be spared from the richly clothed walls of -Haar
ton Court Palace to the more needful and not less Royal 5136
appropriate Holyrood, her Majesty at once acquiesced if!
the propriety of the transfer, and exhibited much pDrsone"
el
interest in the selection of the pictures. As the arrant
ments are not yet completed, we cannot give any list of the
.
paintings, but may mention that both their number and
their value aro considerable. We believe that, in conjune•
tion with the Home Secretary and the Lord Advocate,
through whom the necessary communications were made,
Mr. Forbes of Medwyn is entitled to the credit of being 016:
means of obtaining for Scotland this valuable mark of R 431
favour. Mr. Forbes has, we believe, taken much to
in the matter, and his success must be very gratifying to
all who feel an interest in our Scottish historical moms"
ments.—ficotsmaii.