The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1863,

T' PERSONS SEEKING LANDED
ESTATES, TOWN AND COUNTY RESIDENCES,
FREE EIOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND
PROPER rI ES Ci r.NERALL Y
To BE BAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls
throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices,
No. 6?, Chancery-Pine, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's
"FREE PROPERTY TiEGISTER," containing a varied selection
of landed and house properties now in the market, from
the nobleman's mansion. with its manorial domain, to the
cottage with its few acres.
OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em-
b-ace the opportunity that the medium of this Register
Affords, by sending the particu'ars of their properties to the
Estate Offices, e 7, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.
Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers,
where the property is of .n eligible chars ter, thereby avoid-
ing the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon-
venier,ces.

THERE IS NO CIIAIIGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur-
chaser is introduced throuzli Hess's. Lumley's Agency,
and then only tho usual moderate commission.

Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London.

THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY.
156, Leadenhall-street, London, E.C.
Queen Insurance-buildings, Liverpool.
Capital ONE MILLION STERLING.
At the Annual Meeting of the Proprietors, held at Liver-
pool, on the 21st October, 186 i, BERNARD HALL, Esq..
Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, the D.recturs'
Report for the year stated—
That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted t 0.... £70,300
being an increase over the precedin:: year of .... 22080
That the Life Premium Receipts for the first three

years were
and for the past three years
being an increase in the latter triennial period
over the former of
That the amount accumulated since last Meeting, as
a Eire Reserve Fund, was
and the amount added to Life Fund was
That during the past five years the Company had paid
for Claims
The Actuary reported that the Life Liabilities had been
valued on the soundest principles, viz., Net Premiums at 3
per cent. interest, and that the Bonus to participating Policy-
holders averaged as much as 46 per cent. per annum of the
Premiums paid, while in some instances it was as high as 65,
70, and even 75 per cent.
A dividrnd was declared to proprietors at the rate of 8 per
cent. per annum.
J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary.

ballot if possible—by the bullet if need be or oppor-
tunity offer, in the outbreak, spontaneous or orga-
nised, of disturbances at the polls. Another charac-
teristic of these elections end of that which is
approaching for some of the minor offices in the gift
of the people in the State and city of New York is,
that they will be more purely American than any
similar contests of the last quarter of a century.
Heretofore, it has invariably been noticed whenever
State or city elections drew near in any part of the
Union that immense numbers of newly arrived
aliens applied weekiy and daily for the " first
Papers." or attested declarations of intention to be-
come American citizens. Armed with these, and
propped up by a little forgery, they were held to be
entitled to the privilege of-a vote; and voted accord-
ingly. Another class of immigrants, who had taken
out their first bat not their second papers, and who
had qualified themselves by right of residence to
vote at elections, were diligently hunted out by the
agents of both political parties, and induced to com-
plete their naturalisation, in order that they might
help the party to which their sympathies attached
them, or by which they been bribed and bought by
promise of worldly advancement, or a share in the
loaves and fishes of corruption. But this year all
has changed. The aliens are no longer ambitious
of the privileges of American citizenship, involving
as they do the unenviable privilege of conscription ;
and those who have taken out their first papers
obstinately refuse to take out tfie second, because
they would thereby forfeit all claim to the protec-
tion of the countries whence they came. This
natural, but as it appears unexpected action of the
foreign population, has greatly deranged the calcu-
lations of the election-managers and wire-puller, and
established the principles of the ancient party of
"Know Nothings" in a manner which the most
vielent supporter of native Americanism never
anticipated.

A yellow-covered pamphlet, entitled " Secret Cor-
respondence Illustrating the Condition of Affairs in
Maryland," has just been privately printed at Balti-
more, and circulated among a chosen few through-
out the Northern States. One copy having found
its way to a New York editor, copious extracts have
been made from it in the columns of his journal,
and have thence been transferred to the press gene-
rally. The correspondence is stated by the com-
piler, insurer, or printer to be " published as a con-
tribution to the materials of which the future history
of Maryland is to he writtEn,"and the endorsements
on the backs of the letters as well as the letters
themselves are affirmed to be exact copies of the
originals. The series commences with the letters of
"spies and informers" addressed to Mr. Seward and
Gen. Banks, when the tatter was in command at
Annapolis, among which spies and informers are
several postmasters in the towns and cities of Mary-
land, the Republican and Abolitionist Governor of
the State, Mr. Thomas H. Hicks; a lady who signs
herself S. M. Bonaparte, and who is said to be the
wife of General, or Mr. Paterson Bonaparte, the son
of King Jerome ; and several others of lesser note.
The second series consists of letters from and to Mr.
Seward, Mr.Ex-Secretary Cameron, Gen. M•Clellan,
Gen. Banks, and others, and refers exclusively to
the arrest of the members of the Legislature of
Maryland in 1861 by the order of Mr. Seward, not
to punish those gentlemen, or to bring them to trial
for anything which they had done, but to prevent
them from doing something which it was supposed
they would do—namely, the passing through the
Legislature of an act or ordinance for the secession
if the State of Maryland from the Federal Union.
The letters have all the appearance of authenticity,
end. must, if genuine, have been stolen from the
.chives of the Wer Department and that of the
Secretary of State by some minor official in the
service of the Government, or been given to the
press for a political purpese,with the connivance and
consent of Mr. Stanton or Mr. Seward. The
pamphlet is very damaging to the reputation of
four persons—Mr. Seward, Mr. Cameron, General
M'Ciellan, and General Banks ; but, as it discloses
nothing particularly new with regard to the &Tree
tary of State or to the ex-Secretary of War, nothing
in fact that was not previously known with regard
to the willing and zealous part they played two
years ago in the arbitrary arrest of their political
opponents, it is probable that the intention of the
publisher or publishers of the pamphlet was mainly
to tar and feather and set adrift upon the street to
be hooted by the people those hitherto immaculate
and unsuspected patriots, Generals M'Clellan and
Banks. If Burnside, Schenck, Butler, and Milroy,
are to be held up to public odium for the alacrity
with which they lend themselves to the dirty work
of an incipient despotism, the acts of these gentle-
men prove that as the Butlers and Scheneks were
and are in 1862 and 1863, M'Clellan and Banks
were-in 1861. The two following letters, selected
from the mass, are sufficient to tell the Story. The
first is from:Secretary Cameron to General Banks:
War Department, Sept. 11, 1861.
General,—The passage of any act of secession by the
Legislature of Maryland must be prevented. If necessary,
all or any of the members must be arrested. Exercise your
own judgment as to the time and manner, but do the work
effectively.—Very respectivesully your obedient servant,
Smote CAMERON, Secretary of War.
To Ktjor-General N. P. Banks, commanding
near Darnesktwn, Maryland.
The second letter marked "confidential," is from
General M'Clellan to General Banks on the same
subject, dated on the following day :
Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac,
Washington, Sept. 12.
General,—After full consultation with the President,
Secretaries of State, War, &c., it has been decideEl to effect
the operation proposed for the 17th. Arrangements have
been made to have a Government steamer at Annapolis to
receive the prisoners, and carry them to their destination.
Some four or five of the chief men in the affair are to be
arrested to•day. When they meet on the 17th you will
please have everything prepared to arrest the whole party,
and be sure that none escape.

It is understood that you arranged with General Dix and
Governor Seward the modue operandi. It has been inti-
mated to me that the meeting might take place on the 14th.
Please be prepared. I would be glad to have you advise
me frequently of your arrangements in regard to this very
important matter.
If it is successfully carried .out it will go far towards
breaking the backbone of the rebellion. It would probably
be well to have a special trail quietly prepared to take the
prisoners to Annapolis.
I leave this exceedingly important affair to your tact and
discretion, and have but one thing to impress upon you—
the absolute necessity of secresy and success.
With the highest regard, I am, my dear General, your
sincere friend,
4Nt Major-General
GEO. B. l'sl‘CLeee
United States Army.
Major-General N. P. Banks, United States Army.
All the world knows how very well the "affair"
was managed; with what skill, secresy and success
it was planned and carried through, and that the
victims, torn from their beds at night, were confined
for 14 months in the dungeons of Forts M'Henry,
Lafayette, and Warren, and submitted to indigni-
ties and indecencies such as make the flesh curdle to
hear and read of; but no one, except the members
of the Administration, knew, until the publication
of this" Secret Correspondence," how thoroughly
and with what gusto these two Popular Generals
lent themselves to the work. Under all the circum-
stances of the case it is not likely that they have
been published by some member of the Government
for the malicious purpose of outing both M'Clellan
and Banks from the ring of eau&dates who aspire
to the Presidential chair in succession to M. Lin-
coln. Both Generals are prime favourites among the
Democracy; and, as the Democracy have made the
illegal arrests ordered by the Government, the sus-
pension of the habeas corpus, the atrocities of Gen.
Butler, and the blundering offeneiveness of Burn-
side and Schenck the
stalkinghorses of their oppo-
sition to the Administration and the party it repre-
sents, it is extremely probable that this exposure is
an electioneering " dodge," intended to make an end
of the patriotic pretensions of both Generals, espe-
cially of M'Clellan'e, and to bowl kim out of the
political game. v.rhough Mr. Seward and Mr.
Cameron show but ill in the business, the publica.

two does them no harm, for they have both retired
from the Presidential arena, with no chance or hope
of re-entering it, and no accusation of ,this kind that
speakers,
the onlei of
can be brought against either of them can do them
any harm. Whether it be Mr. Stanton, in the interest
of Mr. Chase or Mr. Lincoln in his own, who has
winked at or brought about this surreptitious diselo-
cure is a query that none can answer but themselves.
That neither of the two is likely to be much ag-
grieved by it is clear enough to every one who
understands anything of the agencies which are at
work to prepare the way for the election of 1864.
Tue political and anti-British deification of the
Russian cfficers continues unslackened. The British
Adniral and his little fleet take their departure 4o-
morrow, without having been participants in any-
thing but the curiosity of a few sightseers and the
hospitalityof a few citizens, much to the satisfaction
of the British residents, who ever since the Admiral
arrived in port have, been apprehensive that a
studied insult or mark of disrespect would be shown
him by some arrogant official of the city or the Go-
vernment. Nothing of the kind has happened, and
the absence of the fleet will doubtless give a renewed
impetus to the laudations which the Republicans
and Ministerialists are never weary, publicly or
privately, of piling upon the Czar, his Government,
his policy, and his sailors. A dinner, to which
2,000 guests have been invited, is to be given to
Admiral Lesoffsky and the ether officers, at the
Academy of Music, at which, doubtless, all that
can be directly said in favour of a Federal alliance
with Russia, and indirectly hinted against amity
with Great Britain, will find utterance. In the
etheadmiration of the Russo-maniacs vents
imueealnetaitinsmaller dinner parties, got up at the cost of
eminent contractors, and the proceedings at which,
together with the bill of fare, are duly chronicled
in the newspapers. At a dinner of this character
given last night at Astor-house, Mr. Brady, a dis-
tinguished Hibernian and hater of England, which
he calls a "detestable land," was in the chair, and
spoke of his " friend" Admiral Lesoffsky, whom he
called his friend because he was the friend of his,
Mr. Brady's, struggling country, and proposed
"The Emperor of Russia" for the
others, that he was "absolute as a
and allied to the people of all lands by
his efforts in behalf of the freedom of his own."
reason,mth monarch,
n ntroc toast
rionfn g
to the toast of " The President of the
In
United States," who was declared to be the elected
leader of the nation which was solving the question
of self-government, and which was very properly
proposed by an Irishman, unconscious of the blunder
made in regard to a man who has done more to
destroy the principle of self-government than any
man of Anglo-Saxon lineage since Cromwell or
rsleiPplYtee opportunity to sneer at the British
James IL, the Hon. Mr. Winter . Davis could not
denounce the mercantile classes of
let
,clan'd declare that, in return for the noble
given by the Americans to the Prince of
Wales, there was nothing to show " but the imper-
tinence of the Trent affair," and the fitting out of
the Alabama and the Florida, and a nest of pirates
to swarm aronad the American coast. The Rev.
speaking to the toast of " The Govern-
mentswag as complimentary to Russia, and
uncomplimentary to England, as all the previous
uncom
Russia and the United States;'' while ano-
ther of
gentleman, Dr. Hitchcock, who had, rev.
per-
haps, never heard of Prince Gortschakoff'e letter to
Mr. Lineoln in 1861, proclaimed that Russia was
DEa receptionr
nri aristocracy,
tl°llcsrda
Chapin
which wound up the proceedings by a
Power in Europe that had any real svm-
pet by With the Federal Government. The "shoddy"
interest was largely represented at the banquet, one
olfatrhgee largely
r d astonished
buncombe,"
c o m ba en, d"
member
amused the polished Russian Admiral, who tho-
roughlyifnaalslasiidgntiorichanavcee
harvests
English language and
knows th
by proposing BB a sentiment, "The City of New
with her right hand she weds the
York ; with her left hand she grasps the
of the West;
Russians have much of the same sort
understands the
This was net to be outdone,
e toastsi. i a that
st
i n g
Sea
and ell the after oratory fell so flat and stale
as to have been judged unworthy of being re-
The
yet to encounter,
of tribulation as they have ac-
cepted invitations from the municipalities of Boston
and Baltimore. Doubtless a grievous amount of
" buncombe" is in store for them in these cities,
both in the shape of praise of their own country and
abuse of Great Britain.
ported.