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Idle and Times of St. Bernard. Poems of Rural Life.
David Elg-inbrod. Niccolo Marini.
British Engineers Smiles Miscellanies.
and Devey. Correspondence.
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Music—The Chorale Book of England. Monday Popular
Concerts.
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New Zealand's Antipodean Forest-law chief, in

MALTA-ALLIANCE A ( GREEK-PALATINE OP CHESTER,
on JULIAN D.S. 1 a 01 As 19 i] v. Gres.'ricn v N.Style
illegal Calendar of Papal-palmer-s T-one, now cancelled.
TAX INCH-FULCRUM' OF ARCHIMEDES,
ON AMERICA'S CARIB 'NEON § BALTIMOR' RATE, '42.
Marlbro'-street Coal-hole Anthrax- case,Dog-set'ng harm,
with its L'EllrEka Gladiatorial Inchkeith Toga rray.

The Telegraph of Ci'mas-day states that Capt. Ackerley
claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur-
ner, and wife, agents of George Harrow), on their being
bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO
penalty, for misdemeanour, and wilful dog offence with a
Le aticmac"-p/ot intent to do injury by canine agency,
on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis-
crepancy in n..c. Police reports, induces us to refer to this
¶ark-government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup-
porter of Anglo-America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter
Banquet, llt years)—for holding under his Coal Hole
County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double-rent
lease, now a 20-yrs title ; forecloses ' the Woods & Forest-
law Works'-1582 N. B'. Chiliarcher Cowper of St. Mic, Corn-
hill's gold-key lessees' wish, by Opster le main to regain a
Primer Seisin by getting the Captain to recognize an in-
verted tenantcy by their lessee Batchelor building-in his
Coal .hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam-
engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-draft ejection.—to
womb.> 'Think !—every day to be thy last, .< Chandos.
For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.'

Whence papal 1'29 Metropolis police act, 3 Wm. 4, c 19,
15, 39, 44—gives Di fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on
"Offences against the person, &c, 24-25 Vict., cap. 100, sec.
4, 42, 67, 77—Garot-Chlor'formists, and Chester police soc:
fire-raisers" conviction, with £5 fine—recoverable against
Stipendiary-justice. In jwainGe' homage to our readers we
refer to this Clapham Atkins case (of City Beam Swan-mote
River bailiff's seaman of peaceful lake in God's pen'umbrs.
Game amphibious to the Forest common law—to upper as
in lower spirit-level, on lex mercatora mark—SwAnn s
" Float double so-Q-
-.
Swan, and shadii,"
Sydney-like, 13 Hen. Bin 1835-Meter act), wherein the Cap-
rain (& brother Atkins Chamberlayne, by reason of Jul. 3's
papal boy Edw. 6th Swainherd-city grants, at age 14), as
Montague kin executor of privy council by 35 H. 8, c. 1, he
being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlem
Hospital Estates, now on St. James's Hall, as Q. Eliz. Park
lodge, 5 Swallow-st. & Ormond -Yard—the people's land.
The city w.end onus shift brings back H. s's CKhandOs
under no 'British-crown' Queen's Church head t assump-

ion from Cardinal (John ci Gaunt's Swinford) Beaufort's
bastard niece Joan----James I. Stuart 1424 race in Vie.
as Papal illegititna'd 1397--book'd on 1752 to 'Greerien
mythotog mean Sun (non-siderial) Priests' of Peru Indian,
on Ego Itex mandates, 1546.7, at 11. B's death—cancelled
in Emp. Iturbide, Pedro r, See M. _Post, Jan. 7, '63, p. 7,
Nf ' She was and is, what can there more be said? 1 s
• 1 On earth the chief, in heaven the second maid.' J S.

* Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy-wt. from Ex-
chequer 1838 for Pope's mitre-and-key mint Conefalonier.
So, by wine City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Hess Mayor Rose,
LP. of Southampton (Tower Ordnance office-shift), for K.
John's Bd-tun,—was mock presented in November to Indian
Peter, Constable of the Tower—Angl9 Micmac flag union
Theocone-ic Parliament Succession Oath'R, 1843 act—on
Ackerley's 1837 Siderial 'Cwt.' voice regula--whence the
CHRISTIAN HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES ELECTED PETER
by Ashburton Cornifon, their Antipodean Maori New
Zealand Carib'ean Pope, in 1842—by medal/ien-flag.
tOn Luther-set 3ty of 21-July, 1521, by Leo X and Imp.
Charles V, by Pavia'n intermediate Heligo-land supremacy
in Sydney—made the )1 &Malta Goza t sagitta/,-,Arch'r
inch bearer. Likewise, by 30 May 1814-31's Co•partner Act,
No. 54, for 2.3 Will. 4, Caput-81, 92, 1832, (for Russian
Dutch Loan guarantee—on Submission of the Clergy and
restraint of appeals to Rome, on lack of justice—names 25
Rem 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c 5), for 1863 marine link causes,
to avoid tedious suits—' now O.S. pending' for peace.

So, on Sir C. Stuart and MELLo's Brasil S.A. election,
(witnessed in Admiral Hamond and Secy. Hill Sandys),
by the 1825 Holy Alliance of Kings' abolition, the Malta
Cmsar Peru 1547 rota-crown 1829-Protector Lieut Ackerley,
u.rr, as King John's Ist Montague 'R/ kin trust, was sworn-
in as Chief-judge, at Worcester's Crt. in Jan. 1837, by Gold
stick archer-Wm. 4 [whose JoßD.ix-daughter marries the
Captain's nephew, by 2nd-branch of Dartmouth's Slane
le Fleming Chamberlayne, in Leicester Denton Coke, Hun-
loke gate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzelarence bar'd in
heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-hill Egerton, by ' Somer-
set' half-cast],—as Malcolm 111. line of Clare Lincoln-in'-
Lacy as Pala-Nen of Wales-Ireland, since 1825-37 by Holy
Alliance in Ackerley's L. mint of Chester by Indian Mary
o byn £paow Cmprotn- ifte
G 1 Br2a3oc (z.n2da)=_a_s
pt
aeufit
4C3i vAi cDC.herdi sitcita
cnima
uadr
irii.a g e
f " As Chester's Judge—like owl alone
Hugh '-'-'Loop'd am I,—thy 'Plautie'a ono.) A. D.
¶ The same evil Isolating influence—appears to have
closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club,
on his £4.000 Co-burn discovery fraud, and U.S. Museum
membership, for holding to his Duplex official duties, and
civil law mixed church cause (of his imprisonment at Bath,
Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil), without crime,
So, for a death-rid of Ackerley's Nfndland Bal-timore's
Maryland, of Car. I. 1631 Indian 2-Arrow trust on Cherokee
Nation, 1730-74's Cecil Ist s' Exeter Change at taint—which
Calvin-papist Quakers Percy-Smithsonian' peculiar insti •
tution' on Can'ng's £.Rush native by Gladstone Hs. Com.'-
mittee, 1833-37-touch Georgia's Belly •Orant-war for LIN-
COLN'S last Dec. PIRATE Army word Nation.
*God's arc -A.' Ofeilla'tic of pendulum in lat. 519- 30 N. as
the 1. 30 to & fro,_ 'A'Noult go to like polar *declina-
tion (above 25 M.) below the pots, 29 Sept., for Poor-law
Treasury audits year, now in : : •. 0. Style as rproad IL'
aever"` It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for
towns prefix 19* to 51. 30 now, _Bantry, drunswie.
Mansion Howe 'Market,' London, 2-Jan. 17, 1863.

GODFATHERS' GIFTS.--The custom in ques-
tion
is probably of older date than Chris-
tianity itself, and certainly older than its intro-
duction
into Northern Europe. It prevailed uni-
versally among our Pagan ancestors, the old
Teutons and t,candinavians, for with them it was a social
law that whoever bestowed a name upon another was bound
to accompany it with a gift. There is a curious illustra-
tion of this ancient rule in a legend which is preserved in
the preface to the code of laws of notharis, king of the
Lingobards or Lombards, The original name of this
people was Winiler or Winils, and they had for rulers the
two brothers Agio and lbor, with their mother Gambara.
Once they were at feud with the dukes of the Vandals,
and the latter summoned them either to pay tribute or
fight. The \Visas chose the alternative of battle, where-
upm Ass and Atari, the dukes of the Vandals, went to
Woden or Odin, the king of the gods, and prayed that he
wou'd give them victory. lie answered, "I will give victory
fi,ou:fbatande victory.women must "At
to that party which first meets my eye at sunrise." Mean-
while, Ibor and Agio went with their mother Gambara to
Free,
them
th to the wife of Woden, and besought the goddess that
shewould helptle,
must appear with your wives and daughters on the
bsuilndr sunrise," saidn Free,p along
"You
with the men i
brought
round
to
their
array, with their long black hair
after the manner of eairbfaees, and hanging down from them
iner of light began to shard," Scarcely had the first glim-
Frea went to Woden's obwe itself in the eastern sky, when
and waked him. The bed, turned his face to the dawn,
was the Winil women, trist thing that met his view
are those ?" he Whatask ion beards (Lango-
bards)Frea, "you have given them "Sir," i eplied
therefore, give them victory a 150.,,
The a name, now,
Winne defeated
the enemy, and from that day forth have been called Lag-
nobards.-00nan'slilagazine,

President Lincoln's Proclamation.

DEPUTATION TO THE AMERICAN MINISTER

Yesterday afternoon a deputation from the exe
cutive committee of the Emancipation Society
waited on his Excellency the American Minister,
in Portland-place, for the purpose of presenting him
with a resolution, agreed upon at a special meeting
of the committee, approving President Lincoln's
Proclamation.

Among the gentlemen comprising the deputation
were the Hon. and Rev. Baptist •Noel, M.A., Mr.
P. A. Taylor, M.P., Mr. Benjamin Scott, F.R.S A.,
Chamberlain of London, Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B.,
Rev. R. Everest, Rev. J. H. Rylance, Mr. W.
Evans (chairman of the Emancipation Society), Mr.
Edmond Beales, barrister-at-law ; Mr. W. Shaen,
M.A.; Messrs. W. Hargreaves, Jacob Bright, H.
J. Slack, James Beal, J. Gorrie, Harry Taylor,
Washington Wilke, F. W. Cesson (hon. sec.), A.
H. Dymond, W. Farmer, R. Moore, &c.
Mr. Evans appropriately introduced the deputa-
tion, after which Mr. Cheston read the resolution,
as follows :

" That this committee, constituted without respect to
political party or social distinctions, for the development of
British anti-slavery feeling, has learned with profound sa-
tisfaction the issue, on the let. of January, of President
Lincoln's Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all persons
held as slaves in the States, or parts of States, in rebellion
against the United States Government. That the Presi-
dent's injunction to the persons declared free to abstain
from violence, except in self-defence, and to accept reason-
able terms of hired service, with the offer of military em-
ployment under the United States Government, is an effec-
tual rebuke to the imputation that servile war was contem-
plated by the Proclamation, or that the liberated negro
would be left to starvation and crime. That this committee
rec3gnises in the limitation of that declaration of freedom
to the districts so described no indifference on the part of
the President and his Cabinet to the injustice and evil of
slavery in other districts of the Union, but an act of sub-
mission to the Constitution, and of faithful regard to their
official oaths. That this committee also connects with this
Proclamation of freedom, under the authority of martial law,
the offer of compensation to loyal slaveholders for the loss
of their slaves and that great scheme of emancipation sub-
mitted to Congress in the Message of Dec. 1, 1862, as an
amendment to the Constitution. That those acts, taken
together, and with them other measures tending to the free-
dom and equality of the subject race, inspires this committee
with hearty confidence in the anti-slavery purposes of the
United States Government. That this committee therefore
offers to President Lincoln and his ministers, through their
representative in this country, its warmest congratulations
upon the auspicious aspect they have given to this now year,
and joins with the President in invoking for these acts of
freedom, justice, and mercy the considerate judgment of
mankind and the gracious favour of Almighty God.' "

Mr. TAYLOR, M.P., expressed the great pleasure
he felt at the course the American Government had
lately taken in regard to slavery. That course would
greatly strengthen the people of this country, many
of whom had been misled as to the origin and re-
sults of the war. Slavery bad been one of the causes
which had sown dissensions between the two coun-
tries. He therefore believed that the Proclamation
would not only tend to the entire abolition of sla-
very and the continuance of the Union, but that it
would greatly conduce to a lasting peace between
England and America. (Hear.)
The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL said he cor-
dially approved Mr. Lincoln's policy. He had ob-
served Mr. Lincoln's honest intention to maintain
the Constitution on the one hand, and to do what
the Constitution allowed, on the other, for the libe-
ration of the slave. The President had used the war
power which had been put into his hands, and he
(Mr. Noel) hoped that, under God's blessing, it
might be the means of brining the rebellion to a
close. In abstaining from taking the -same course
in the Border loyal States he recognised the Presi-
dent's submission to the Constitution. But he (Mr
Noel) hoped and trusted the loyal States would ac-
cept the liberal offer which the Government had
made; and that, before long, America would be free
from the stain of slavery. (Applause.)
The Rev. NEWMAN HALL said the opinion of this
country on the American struggle had been greatly
misrepresented. The leading newspapers, which
were supposed to represent public opinion, really did
not represent the feelings of the masses. Many of
the upper and middle classes had been misled on the
question, but the working classes had no'. No
meetings had been called in support of 81" very,
while the meetings had been held against it bad
been of the most triumphant character.• All tLe op-
position that had been attempted had been.an utter
failure. He would just give one illustration of the
inconsistency of those who misrepresented public
opinion. In the Times of the day before
there had been a leading article, in the first
paragraph of which the President had been con-
demned, on the high ground of philanthropy, for
not issuing the Proclamation, while in the next pa-
ragraph he had been condemned for what he had
done on the ground that he had invaded the Con-
stitution. Now, when one paragraph in a leading
journal contradicted another, he did not think there
was much danger that the great body of the people
would fall into error on the question. (Hear.)
Mr. JACOB BRIGHT said he concurred in what
had already been said. In Lancashire, where they
should find opposition to the continuance of the war,
if they were to find it anywhere, the working
classes were almost unanimously in favour of the
North. He had seen the question tested in Roch-
dale and many other places, and in these places he
had seen a strong, warm, and earnest feeling in
favour of emancipation displayed. (Approbation.)
His EXCELLENCY then replied in the following
terms :—Gentlemen, I receive this expression of the
sentiments of so respectable a body with great plea-
sure and great satisfaction. I need not say how
encouraging such manifestations will be to those
persons in my country represented by the Presi-
dent of the United States, who have been di iven
into the necessity of maintaining such a pAinful
struggle as has been carried on by them in Ame-
rica in devotion to great principles of pub.:c law
and public order. I am very much encourag d by
the circumstance that there is growing here, and in
Europe generally, a better conception than has
heretofore prevailed of the principles involved in
the struggle. The election of Mr. Lincoln was a
great declaration of the majority of the people of
the United States in favour of human freedom. The
signification of it was that the persons then elected
to places of responsibility should be so far imbued
with that principle as that, while they carried on
the Government in the spirit of freedom, they
should at the same time avoid the necessity of a
struggle of physical face. It was the conviction on
the part of the opponents of that policy that the
result would be as certain by that process, though
perhaps much slower, that drove them into the
desperate measure of stopping it at the threshold
by violence. The consequence was that the Govern-
ment was attacked at its very foundations. The
struggle to preserve it has been going on from that
time to this. If, therefore, there has been what
might otherwise be thought extraordinary haste
and precipitate energy in any of the measures which
have been taken by the Government, it has not been
owing so much to any will of their own, as to the
fact that the violence of the resistance has caused
the necessity for them. I think the idea which it
is desirable to present distinctly is this—that the
struggle has been one of self-defence against the
aggressive system that was threatening destruction
to the whole edifice of government as it stood, for
the reason that it was too favourable to freedom.
And with regard to this proclamation, the desire on
the part of the President of the United States has
been, as I conscientiously believe, not to hasten the
measure of emancipation any faster than popular
sentiment in the Slave States would demand, nor
any faster than the emergency should dictate, sr, in
other words,
simply so to act as to prevent those
very convulsions which war is too apt to precipi-
tate. Therefore, in all matters incidental to the
maintenance of his policy, regard has been steadily
had to the possible avoidance of those dangers of ser-
vile war which necessarily must have been foreseen
by Rll thoughtful persons daring the contest. There-

fore, while always keeping in view the ultimate con
sequences of this most remarkable, and, I may say,
unprecedented struggle, I trust that the great results
which we all hope to arrive at will be eventually
reached, not perhaps immed;ately, not perhaps 1 o-day
or to-morrow, or the next day, but ultimately, by
a steady perseverance in one course, which may
force the consent of all parties, and yet avert the
fearful consequences which he might naturally ap-
prehend. I am extremely gratified i n the assur
ances which have been given by several gentlemen
with respect to the state of popular feeling in Eng-
land on this subject. I have myself had occasion to
notice the fact that, although some of the exponents
of the public sentiment have appeared at times to be
exceedingly harsh upon the United States, yet that
when opportunity offered for an appeal to the people
themselves the sentiment has uniformly responded
to the policy which the United States Government
have enunciated. I am, therefore, encouraged to
hope that the clouds which have hitherto gathered
and at times somewhat portentously, over the ami-
cable relations of the two countries have now more
and more the appearance of vanishing from the sky.
I feel sanguine that the expression of sympathyfrom
here; which I have been lately the medium of re-
peatedly -communicating to my countrymen, will
have the effect of clearing away many impressions
that may have been received by reading the attacks
of hostile journals, and taking them too much as
the true expression of the sentiment of the people.
I think, by understanding distinctly—which they
will now have the opportunity of doing—that the
policy of Great Britain is not retrograde on the sub-
ject of slavery, wherever it may yet exist, and that
it is true to the former pledges it so nobly gave to
the world of its devotion to the principle of human
freedom—the growing conviction of that fact will
have the effect in America of restoring those ami-
cable relations and reviving those warm sentiments
which ought to be entertained between the two
kindred "peoples at all times. Gentlemen, I shall
no longer detain you. I will just say that I shall
have pleasure in communicating to my Government
a knowledge of the sentiments which have been ex-
pressed here by you to-day.
The deputation then thanked his Excellency for
the courtesy with which he had received them, and
withdrew.

THE CHASE OF THE ALABAMA.

(From the New Yoyk Times, Jan. 3.)

The failure of our naval vessels to capture the
Alabama before this time has caused the most er-
roneous impressions to prevail relative to the doings
of the navy department. The public has been so far
misled in this matter that it is only right to state
the facts of the case. Notwithstanding the still un-
checked success of Captain Semmes, it is beyond
contradiction that the history of the American, Eog-
lisb, or French Navy furnishes no parallel for the
feats accomplished by our naval authorities in con-
nexion with the much dreaded pirate. In times of
peace we had six navy yards which were pretty
generally kept going, providing for the current
wants of the 40 men-of-war we used to have in com-
mission. When war came upon us Norfolk and Pensa-
cola were swept away, leaving onlyNewYork, Phila-
delphia, Boston, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
(Washington being an ordnance yard chiefly), avail-
able. And these have had to fit out a series of
squadrons in 15 months which could not be armed
elsewhere in the same time. We have now over GO
vessels more in commission than in England, and to
keep their wants supplied, to keep them repaired,
always relieved at the proper time, and to have ships
approaching completion as others wear out, is one
item of the daily work of the four navy yards
named. Besides doing it well time has been found
within the brief space of three months to equip a
fleet for the purpose of overhauling the Alabama,
which is now represented in every sea. In order
to estimate the extraordinary energy required to
accomplish this, it is only necessary to know that
not one vessel in 40 at Mr. Welles's command would
be worth anything for the business. The proper
ships had to be first picked out, and as they all need
great alterations, and as some of them were at the
furthest end of the blockade, time was required to
bring them home and put them in proper trim.
And now, after 12 weeks' work, the following fleet
is on the ocean, every vessel belonging to it a match
for the Alabama, save in speed, and several well
able to overhaul her :
Vessels. How long out, Screw or Paddle.
Chippewa
Dacotah
Juniata .. Bound out
Kearsage Three weeks

Minnesota
Powhattan Some weeks Screw
_ _

Rhode Island Three weeks
Vanderbilt Five weeks Paddle

San Jacinto
Tuscarora 'Three weeks
Canandaigua Some weeks..
Mohican Some weeks Screw
Fast steam frigate .. Under orders
Fast steam frigate .. Ready January 10
___ .

Fast steam gunboat.. Sails next Wed.

Colorado
Ossipee Two weeks Screw
Sacrimento .. Under orders

As the armament or tonnage of these ships is not
given, it can convey no information to the enemy.
Some of the vessels named were not fitted out espe-
cially for the duty they are now believed to be en-
gaged in. Besides putting these craft in fighting
and chasing condition, the aforesaid four navy yards
have had to despatch the following vessels for cur-
rent blockade service, the neglect of which even the
capture of the Alabama would not atone for :

Vessels. Rate. Work done.
Alabama Purchased paddle ....Overhauled in
toto
A. Houghton Store ship Repaired
America Yacht America Almost rebuilt
Colorado 50-gun frigate Repaired in toto
Canandaigua Iron sloop
Dale Sailing corvette Repaired
De Soto Paddle steamer .. Repaired
D tylight Screw steamer Repaired
E. B. Halo Screw steamer ....Repaired

Florida Side-wheel steamer ..Repaired

Housatonic Screw sloop Fitted out

Iroquois .. ...... Steam gunboat Thoroughly

overhauled
Lackawanna Steam frigate Finished
Massachusetts Troop ship, transport.. Refitted
_ _

Midnight Bark Refitted

Montgomery ~.... Screw steamer Repaired
Monticello Screw steamer Repaired
Maratanza . Screw steamer .. Repaired
Mahasha Paddle steamer Repaired

Monongahela .. .. Screw Finished
Monitor Iron clad Overhauled
Magnolia Side wheel steamer.... Repaired
Potomska Screw steamer Repaired
Sagamore Screw stramer ..Finished
Shepherd Knapp.. Ship Repaired

Sonoma Paddlewheel Finished

Sacramento . .Steam frigate ..Now ready
_ _

Troja Steam gunboat ... , ..Finished

Unadilla Screw steamer. Repaired
Water Witch Paddlewheel Repaired
Wissahickon ...,Screw gunboat Repaired
This is twelve weeks' work, but it does not in-
clude the new men-of-war now in progress, of
which 12 or 15 are building at the four navy yards.
Nor does it include vessels fitted up elsewhere, and
sent to the yards for " final preparations," which
often occupy weeks ; storeships were provisioned,
transports commissioned and sent away, and other
work done which should be performed if troops
were to be fed or a blockade maintained.
We challenge any naval Power in the world to
show such a twelve weeks' work as this. Under
the circumstances, the mere manning of such a fleet
as ours, and kseping it supplied with beef, bread,
butter, cheese, flour, raisins, apples, &c., is marvel-
lous. France
challenged the world to equal her
sending off 14,000 men in transports, and about ten
Glen-of-war, in two weeks. We have sent as many
ia a week, if the everlasting changing of
crews,
re-
lieving and reshipping, were taken into account.
While all these facts are true, it may seem strange