The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-19 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER, 19, 1863.

Ar ESSRS • JAY anti CO. have row on show
1 the most unique and perfect assortment of
BONNETS,
which their 'Manager has selected in Paris, and brought
back with her to this E 9 stiblishment
217, 24, 251, Regent-street.

BONNET'S SILKS LYON.—Every Article of
commerce takes its title either from the inventor or
manufacturer, and the more perfect the production the
grater is the credit which attaches to the originator.
BONNET'S BILKS are said to be incapable of identifica-
tion in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex-
pos dby the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by

Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street.
The following interwoven mark may be seen at thc, end
of each piece :—" Manufacture de C. J. Isonnet et Cie., a Lyon
et a Injarieux." We.r guaranteed.

IFEBOAT SERVICES.—Dnring the recent
JIL A heavy gales some of the boats of the Na ional Lifeboat
institution saved 67 persons from different wrecks. The
Committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the
public for ASSIbTANuE to enable them to meet the con-
tinued heavy demands on the Institution's 125 Web ,at estab-
lishments. Contributions are receivtd by all the London
and country bankers; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
at the Institution, 14, .3( hn-street, Adelphi, W.C.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, Wallace's Romantic Opera, THE
'DESERT FLOWER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ;
Messrs. W. 11. Weiss, H. CorH. A. Cook, and W. Harrison.
To conclude with THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE.
Miss Thirlwall and Dlr H. Corri.
Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon.
Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven.

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El EATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. -
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will h perform
A.
a
New and Original Farce, by Messrs. Wm
Broui.f and
Halliday, entitled MY HEART'S IN THE. HIGHLANDS:
characters by Mr. .i. Neville, Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warde,
Mr. J. Marris ; Mrs. C. Melville, and 3liss Harfleur.
After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
3lessrs. I helps, Ryder. Rayner, Meagreson, Ward, Spencer ;
Miss Eburne,Misa E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. Vocalists —Miss Poole, Miss hitter, Miss Cicely
Nott, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
To conclude with an Original Farce, by
J. Oxenford,
Esq., entitled BEAUTY Ott THE BEAST. Principal cha-
racters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, Spencer,
and G. Weston ; Mrs Edmund Falconer aud Miss it. Leclerq.
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lIEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.—
sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, SILKEN FETTERS : Measrs. Chas.
Mathews, Chippendale, W. Farren, Howe, &c. ; Mesdames
C. Mathews andDL. Harris.
Atl Charlese
M,
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs.s. m
Messrs.
Mathews, Compton,Weathersby, ttc. ; Mesdames c
L. Keeley. Griffith, &c.
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews.
And MY HUSBAND'S (}tiOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL, LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr, Fechter.
BEL DE NIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every
Evening until further notice.
THIS. EVENING, the Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, entitled
UNCLE BABY: Mess•s. Widdicombe,%T. G. Shore, Charles;
Miss P. Leclercq, and Carlotta Leclercq.
Alter which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONTO, a Love
Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian
Chronicle •," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac-
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, N ra.
Lee, and Miss Elsworthy.
Doors open at half-past 6—commence at 7.

LEAH.-EVERY NIGHT

JEW THEATRE-ROYAL, All ELPI-11.-
Sole Pronrlator and Manager. Mr. R. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
tiding.
kt 8, the New Drama of LEAH : 7th wee of Miss Bate-
tnan, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, nil-
lington, Stuart, A Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs.
To conclude wi,ll CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENINTG, MY SON'S A DAUCrfiTER. Miss
Josephs, Mr. Parselle.
After which, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey,
Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
Followed by IVANHOE. Miss Ada Swanborough.
To conclude with FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR
LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray, Miss Button,
Commence at 7.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 19, 1863.

The apathetic policy of this country in regard
both to the Polish Insurrection and the American
Civil War, is rather painfully contrasted with the
vigour of the policy applied by our Government, at
yet remoter points of the habitable globe, to the
Maori and the Japanese populations. The contrast
to us, we cannot but acknowledge it, appears not
only very painful, but very humiliating. Against
a mighty empire like Russia we refrain from acting
i
any
. way energetically. Although, while so re-
fraining, there is every conceivable provocation to
113
mere slips
beings. When delicate women, when
.111)8 of girls are being brutally maltreated in
as p_,
dent as it were,
and that not casually, or by acci-
dent
stematicall37, but repeatedly, deliberately, and
all that our chivalrous Foreign
Secretary can
is to write a series of
cleverly argued
despatches—despatches that end
at last, however,
in
a mere diplomatic fiasco
Tidings that bring he
tears into the eyes and a
burning slush of indignation into the cheek, induced
the noble Earl, who has
earned by a long life of
labour his seat as an
Earl in the House of Peers, and
his Stall as a Knight of
the Garter
in St. George's
Chapel—induce Lord Russtt
(disposed probably
no less as a diplomatist than, h
acknowledged himself rather noireii
has recently
to be, as a
Reformer, to rest and be thankful) actually induce
the noble Earl to re-nib his pen, to
take a fresh
dip of ink, and to write off another of his
wonderful letters to Prince co.
So, likewise, in reference to that hideous El?
Scene
of wholesale slaughter in the North American
continent—a battle-ground where the belligerents
engaged are no less heinously culpable than eon.
fronting armies of fratricides—our Foreign Seere.
tary contents himself with meekly risking the
violation of the law by ordering the seizure of a
couple of steam rams in a private building-yard at
Liverpool, out of a wholesome feeling of respect
for the insolent Government of the Fede-
rals at 'Washington. The disastrous conse-
quences of this most dreadful and protracted
civil war, not only to the population of the
republican land actually devastated by it,
but indirectly to ourselves, has been matter of noto-
riety upon both sides of the Atlantic ever since the
contest between North and South began. We are
way indifferent spectators—using the word
not merely as one expressive of a sentiment. The
contest now going on there
in America affects us
vitally. Its continuance militates against our
interests, both politically and commercially. It
factures. It commerce.
It interrupts our menu
cur exports. And diminishes at once our imports and
this—as it quite insomuch as it does all
does, beyond all clearly and manifestly
reach
contradiction— it
cannot be said that we are without without a right to
interfere whenever we may make up ourb minds to
interfere between the belligerents
Federal Government at Washington and the
the
federate Government at Richmond. Yet, as
in Con-
federate
matter of Poland, as in the matter of Mexico, so
now continuously during all these last two or three
years we have, in the matter of this pitiable Ame-
rican Civil War, hung back and hesitated about
the possibility of interference of any kind!
While the initiative was being taken by the

more adventurous, and enterprising, and ostensibly, 1
at least, for this very reason, the more chivalrous 1
Government of France. Twice the French Em•
PEROR, at any rate, arempted to act between North
und South as Mediator. Ineffectual his efforts
were, to bring about any satisfactory negotiation.
But, at any rate, he tried to do so. Again, in re-
gard to the Polish Question, while Lord
RUSSELL, on the part of England, has vir-
tually eaten all his big words—thoroughly mas-
ticated them and swallowed them one after
another as bully PISTOL did by PLUELLEN'S
leek—while Lord RUSSELL has eaten his words
thus by inditing his last wretched-like mi
ofssthe
ive
to Prince GORTSCHANOFF--the Emperor
FRENCH has intimated, not only to Russia, in-
dividually, but to all Europe collectively, that
unless some definitive arrangement shall be entered
into for the better government of Poland, for the
vindication of those sacred rights of the Poles,
which, says NAPOLEON 111., are inalienably theirs
—but one alternative remains for France,
for Russia, for Europe—War ! As to Mexico

—we know full well how we let " I dare
not wait upon I would" in that direction. We were
engaged in the rroject, first of all, quite as much as
France was—and we backed out of it at the eleventh
hour, before the departure of the expeditionary
force. France there again maintained her career
uninterruptedly, unhesitatingly, with what result—
every one knows. And while all this has been
going on in respect to Mexico, to Poland, to
America—upon the pretext, we were almost
going to call it, of Non-Intervention, we
have been flagrantly violating all the principles of
non-intervention where we could do so with any-
thing like safety. Against those wretched New
Zealanders for example, or against those almost
equally powerless Japanese. Cold steel and hot
iron, there, if you will, instead of rigmarole
despatches and all the frivolous courtesies
of diplomatic circumlocution. So much for
our foreign policy, as it has been latterly moulded
into certainly very new, and startling, and
exceedingly tortuous forms under the direction
of that haughty, proud-speaking, Patriot-Eirl who
seizes the Rams to mollify the Federal Government,
and who drops his correspondence even with Prince
GoRTsdHAKOFF to propitiate the Government of the
CZAR! But who is all readiness, at the same time, to
enter valiantly upon another " little war," or half a
dozen of them if need be, against those miserable
Maories, and who is eager to authorise, at the safe
distance of Japan, the pitiless destruction of a vast
and populous city by the deadly agency of a British
ship-of-war.

It is fortunate for the peace of Europe and the
welfare of Denmark that the members of the Ger-

man Confederation are usually very strongly in-
clined to observe TALLZYRAND'S caution, and be
careful not to act with too much precipitation. If

their acts followed quickly on their words, asser-
tions, and professions, we should never be out of
hearing of " the diapason of the cannonade." The
long-pending dispute with Denmark respecting the
Duchies, which has wearied out the public interest,
and wellnigh exhausted the patience of every diplo-
matist in Europe, is a sufficient proof that German
ambition, however eager and aggressive, and Ger-
man claims, however interminably argued, have a
very long way to go before they make any decided
progress. It is necessary to bear these truisms in
mind at the present crisis, else we might feel called
upon to anticipate the immediate outbreak of a
European war, and a war, too, based on that which
history proves to be, after religion, the most hope-
less and unsatisfactory of all motives for strife—a
war of succession. One might have supposed that
the days for such a phenomenon were over, that
modern Europe had learned the lesson well enough
in the seven years' war in Spain, even as earlier
ages might have watched its bitter fruits in our
English Wars of the Roses. The history of the
Bourbons, too, is full of such passages. Wherever
they have founded dynasties, sooner or later has
come the struggle, bringing in its train, as such
wars invariably do, nothing but prolonged suffer-
ing and an expenditure of men and money wholly
disproportioned to the end to be gained. Yet,
judging from words atone, we are threatened with a
war which is not only to be in some degree a war
of succession, but a war founded on some of the
hopeless intricacies of the genealogical tables of
Royal Houses of Germany. The most indefatigable
student of the Abizanach (le Gotha might draw back
appalled at such a prospect, and foretell that a con-
test depending on such an issue might last till " the
crack of doom." As it happens, however, words in
I
this instance only fulfil the part assigned them by

the witty Frenchman, and conceal the more direct
and comprehensible motive beneath. The sudden
and unexpected death of the King of DENMARK has
given the German antagonists of that kingdom an
opportunity for which they have long been watching.
The right of his present Majesty of Denmark to
succeed to the Duchies has been immediately dis-
puted, and, with a promptness which, in this
instance, proves the exception to the rule of Ger-
man deliberation, the Duke of SAXE-COBURG
GOTHA, who has long been known as a warm up-
holder of the claims of the Diet, has recognised the
hereditary Prince of AUGUSTENBURG as Duke of
SCHLESWIG and HOLSTEIN. The families of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and
Schleswig-Holstein-Son derburg-Glucksburg, both
spring originally from the same source, the former
being the elder branch, while the House of Glucks-
burg, to which Prince CHRISTIAN, now King of
DENMARK, belongs, is the younger. The confusion
of connections, inheritances, successions, and treaties
upon which the Germans base this pretension are

too long and two intricate to discuss, but it is worthy
of notice that by this bold and determined step they
1 proclaim more decisively than ever their determina-
tion. to regard the two duchies as one, and to com-
bine
them under one Sovereign. They find plenty
of excuses
, fordeclaring
evading the terms of the treaty of
1852
AUGUST
Eimilunitg that the hereditary Prince of
,is not bound by the renunciation
of his father,...., somewhat novel reading in law and
diplomacy. They
e forced, however, to consider
all parties bound by much older agreement—the
declaration of the union of
the duchies by Cams-
TIAN I. in 1461, a declaration
which it seems we
are to consider binding,
despite all subsequent
changes—changes concurred in by the people alike
of ammark and the duchies, and
treaties which
have been so!E Innly ratified by the
great Powers
Notwithstandin,g all arguments and facts _
to the.
contrary, howev( ERNEST of Sage-Coburg
r, Pine
has thought proper to support the Clain,
~
... of the
branch of Auguste n burg to the possession
of these
long disputed pro vinces, and has informed the
representative of Lr.olstein at the Diet that any
other pretension w ill be met by a proposal
to the Diet to pr otect the rights of the
legitimate Prince, if need be, by force. Llgiti-
macy, one would have thought, had done mischief
enough in its day, and. a good many of the rulers of
Europe would find the rigid application of the
principle extremely inconvenient. If German
Princes are to be allo wed the right to regulate the
succession of other St ;tags the world is likely to have
(I weary time of it ;, and if the lesson of their
genealogies is to be t Aught by the sword it is not a
Pleasant prospect.
Xeanwhile in I enmark itself,

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great popular enthusiasm has manifested itself far
the new KING. Mr. HALL, the President of the
Council, who occupies a post similar to that of our
Prime Minister, and. whose name is well. known in
this country, having proclaimed Prince CHRISTIAN,
King of Denmark, as CHRISTIAN IX. from the
balcony of the Palace of Chriatianburg, the new
ICING himself appeared to greet his people. The
vast crowds who were assembled broke forth into
vociferous cheers and cries of " Denmark and
Schleswig," " The New Constitution," and words
(A' stwiiar ',Lupe. The resolution of the people to
retain Schleswig as part of the monarchy has
suffered no diminution from the startling event
which has brought a question of hereditary right
still further to complicate the Danish re;ations
with Germany. It is not so long since the Danes
proved themselves formidable antagonists, and the
spirit that animates them in their encounters with
German forces will certainly not be absent now.
Great as is the national grief at the loss of a KING
so much in union with his people, and so staunch a
defender of his constitutional rights, it is yet to be
hoped that the close alliance thus produced between
the Danish and English thrones will not be without
its effect on the cautious members of the Diet. It
is very well to supersede treaties when they are
virtually obsolete by reason of the change in the
times or the sentiments of the people ; but to set
aside so recent and so important a convention when
neither party can put forward any real title to
change, is to shake the foundations of all existing
dynasties, and to efface every boundary line in
Europe.

The attention of the public is again directed to
lie affair of the Alexandra, and it is, of course, a

subject of paramount interest. There is one con-
solation to the friends of the o wners of the
Alexandra, and that is that their interests can-
not be better represented than by Sir HUGH
CAIRNS. Whatever skill, energy, or eloquence
can do to extricate them from their present pain-

ful position, and to vindicate their rights, that he
has certainly effected in his masterly address.
No one can read his arguments without being
deeply impressed with the facts ha has brought
to bear upon his case, and without acknowledg-

ing that he has exhausted the question, so far as
regards the available points under diPeussion.

The attempt to gain a new trial shows a perti

nacity on the part of the Government that speaks
volumes for the animus that has existed through-

out the progress of the affair. It is evidently
their intention to stand t 3 their first intentions,
and, at any cost, to enforce their wishes, or to
make desperate efforts to do so at any rate. It
is singular bad taste to exhibit this persistency,

and to repeat the conduct that has given such dire
offence to so many who are not personally concerned
in the affair, but who are jealous for the indepen-

dance of their country, and who resent interference
with the rights and privileges of British subjects,
in order to suit the views and further the interests
of foreign nations. The utter indifference which
has been manifested in the renewal of this discus-
sion exhibits a total want of respect to the general
sentiments of the community, which it will be very
difficult for them to forgive or to forget. Sir HUGH
CAIRNS very truly explained the difficulty in
which he was placed, in consequence of the
course adopted by the other side. It was
given them to understand that the Lord
Chief Baron had misdirected the jury, but in what
way had not been stated, and therefore it followed
as a natural sequence that they could not meet the
objections which were not stated. The learned
counsel put the question as clearly and distinctly as
could possibly be effected before the Court, and the
passage in which ho laid down the two rules which
regard international law with the subjects of a neu-
tral power is in itself a complete exposition of the
true bearings of the case. While the Government
would not be at all likely to permit any sort of
ammunition to the belligerents, the subjects of a
Power may, on the contrary, supply either or both
belligerents with all articles termed contraband of
war. Mr. Chancellor KENT cited in his Commen-
taries the instance of the United States successfully
proving against the French that neutrals may sell
or convey to a belligerent Power contraband
articles. This opinion Sir HUGH CAIRNS appro-
priately quoted. It would appear, however, as if
the views entertained by the United States in 1796
as regarded themselves are very different from the
notions expressed nowadays when the question
refers to others. The second rule is that the terri-
tory of a neutral Power should be kept inviolate
from anything approaching to war either on the
part of the belligerent, or by one of its own subjects
at the instigation of the belligerent. These rules,
if strictly adhered to, would simplify matters very
considerably, and indeed it is most probable that
none of the present vexed questions would have dis-
turbed and excited the minds of our rulers and mer-
chants. It is the undue exercise of special
favouritism and the unwarrantable assumption of
extreme authority which has caused the clashing
of interests, and led to the fierce and bitter contro-
versy which has been waged in so many quarters.
It seems almost useless to look for moderation, or
to expect reticence from our Foreign Secretary
when once he has taken up an idea, but still his
best friends ought to see the danger of the course
upon which he has entered, and the utter useless-
ness of the controversy he has provoked with so
much perverseness, and carried on with so much
acumen. If it so occurs that a new trial re-
verses the decision of the former one, no one will
be greater losers than the Ministers in the long
run. It is the immediate issue of a conflict that
attests its value, not the ultimate effect and the
attendant circumstances. Thus it will prove of
little avail to the Ministers of this country if the
Cabinet of Washington accord them their gracious
thanks and their flattering approval, and if the
English people regard with signal disapproval, and
look with suspicion upon the whole of the proceed-
ings in the affair. It is not too much to say that
the fate of the Government hangs upon the issue
of their actions in this matter. The day of reckon-
come, when it will be found that ing will surely
the most popular Minister cannot retain the pos-
session of power if he forfeit the confidence of the
nation. Yet more than the rise or fall of parties
hangs in the balance of this undecided question.
Whatever may be the result of the appeal to a
court of law, there will remain many other difficul-
ties to conquer before the uncalled for and unwar-
rantable interference with private rights and public
privileges can be justified. It was a bad day's work
for the Ministers when they undertook to fight the
cause of the Federals against the time-honoured
customs of our land, and in defiance of the deep-
rooted principles and dearly-cherished convictions
of our people. The path on which they have en-
tered
has been beset with difficulties, hedged in by
doubts, and replete with controversies ;rem first to
last, it is more than a legal technicality that is
sought to be made clear, and a point of priority that
is put under discussion, but our Ministers represent
the interests and are
the exponents of the wishes
sentiments of the great
of a foreign Government against the acknowledged
opinions and well-known
thebo tadyeosftbhleisEheid rights glishpeopolef. The interference with
English subjects is an
offence against the national feelings that no

sophistry can explain away, and no specious
arguments excuse. Ministers must remember that,
if successful in their present venture, they will not
have done with the question. They will have to
defend themselves before Parliament, and they will
have to consult the opinions of the country. When
all things seemed going smoothly for them, they
have gone out of the way to provoke a contest
which is disastrous in its defeats and almost anni-
hilating in its victoria, and which throughout its
course excites neither sympathy nor solicitude.

LORD PALDIERSTON'S KINDNESS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER.

Sir,—Having seen the remarks of your London corre-
spondent as to Lord Palmerston's kindness, I trust, though
you may differ from him in politics, that you will not refuse
the meed of praise due to an opponent.
In IS4G, Lord Palmerston had a very great voluntary
emigration of tenants from this port, when his agents bar-
gained with the shipowner that the passengers must be
treated and fed in the best manner; but, Lord Palmerston,
not content, directed the shipowner to snake another con-
tract if the first would not enable him to treat his people
well. Finding the contractor satisfied, ho directed, in.addi-
tion, that the passengers on Sundays should have a tumbler
of hot rum punch, which was given in the first three ships ;
but when the It.C. clergy of the district thought this in-
judicious, the shipowner was directed daily to give to them
i
coffee or tea after dinner n lieu.
To induce the masters of the ships to show every atten-
tion to the emigrants, each captain got a present of £5 or
£lO, and several dozen of wine and brandy for his own
comfort and that of the people.
There were no ejectments in those cases; and (if I recol-
lect) on landing they got £1 a head, while they were allowed
to sell all their stock, no arrears being charged before leav-

ing.
Lord Palmerston endowed tho R.C. church with a grant
of 10 acres of land free of rent for ever, and a house, for
for which he gave the heir of the former parish priest £6OO
or so, the present respected parish priest enjoying it, and
calling it " Palmerston Glebe."

An offer at the same time was made to the vicar of the
parish of a large quantity of land for a glebe, which was
refused, because a glebe house would not bo built.
Lord Palmerston, on the Cliffoney estate, worth about
£6,000 a year, then spent £l,OOO, or two-thirds of the rental,
annually on its improvement.
If every kind act was construed into a crime, the charges
might be legion.—Yours, BENJ. BULBENT.
Sligo, 12th Nov., 1863.

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.

BERLIN, Nov. is.
The Hereditary Prince Frederic, Duke of Angus-
tenbnrg, arrived here early this morning.
His Highness had an interview with the Minister-
President, Herr von bismark-SeliOnhausen.
The Neue Preussische (Kreuz) Zeitung of this
evening says :
" It is asserted on good authority that the Minis-
tries for Marine and War are actively engaged in
making preparations for hostilities, the outbreak of
which between Germany and Denmark appears now
to be unavoidable. The 6th and 13th divisions of
the army are said to have already received orders to
be placed on a war footing. It is said that corres-
ponding directions for the equipment and concen-
tration of a war fleet have likewise been given."
The semi-official Nord Deutsche Zeitung of this

evening says :
" By the accession of the new King to the
Danish throne the Schleswig-Holstein question has
assumed an international character. All turns
upon the validity of the London protocol. It is
doubtful whether the German Confederation will
acknowledge the Prince named by the protocol as
the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. The Federal Diet
is by no means bound by the law of nations to this
course, as it has not acceded to the London protocol.
Neither are the duchies bound to his recognition, as
the Estates have not been applied to for their as•
sent. Austria and Prussia are released from the
engagements they contracted, as Denmark has net
fulfilled the duties it undertook towards Germany.'
FRANKFORT-ON•TIIE-MAINE, Nov. 18.

A proclamation, issued by Prince Frederic of
Augustenbarg, has been published today. The
document is signed " Frederic, Duke of Schleswig-
Holstein," and announces the Prince's intention of
assuming the government of those duchies, and is
dated Do!zig, the 13th instant. It says :
"By virtue of the decree of renunciation exe-
cuted by my father in my favour, I declare that I
assume the government of the duchies. Unques-
tioned right afforded a pretext for the yoke hitherto
laid upon you, as the Danish King was at the same
time your Duke. Henceforth, however, the rule of
the Danish monarch would be usurpation. I do not
call upon you to repel force by force. Your country
is occupied by foreign troaps, and you possess no
arms. It is incumbent upon me therefore to appeal
to the Government of the Federation for protection
of my sovereign rights and your national privi-

I ages."

Addressing himself next to the inhabitants of the
duchy of Lauenburg, and announcing his accession
to the government, the Prince explains the grounds
upon which his claim is founded, and promises to
preserve their rights and liberties.

The Prince, in conclusion, promises to govern the
duchies of Schleswig and Holstein in accordance
with the constitution and fundamental laws of the
country and to uphold the rights of the people,.

It is asserted that the Grand Duke of Weimar
and the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen have recognized
the hereditary Prince of Augnstenburg as Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein.
By permission of his Government the delegate of
Baden to the Federal Diet has accepted the office of
representative of Duke Frederic of Schleswig-Hol-
stein in that Assembly, in right of his vote for the
Holstein territory.

STATUE OF PRINCE EUGENE.—The new statue of
Prince Eugene, on the boulevard of that name, is
now uncovered. The Prince is represented standing, bare-
headed, in a general's uniform, holding a roll of papers in
his right hand, and with his left supported ou the hilt of
his sword, The front of the pedestal bears the words " .Au
Prince Eugene Napoleon," with the arms of the city of
Paris, and the mono, " Ilactuat nee mergitur." The two
sides bear the names of the battles at which the Prince was
present, and eagles bearing laurels in their beaks ; while
tho back of the pedestal is covered with the text of the fol-
lowing memorable letter, written by the Prince in 1814 to
the Emperor Alexander :—" Neither the prospect of the
duchy of Genoa nor that of the kingdom of Italy would lead
me to commit treason, I would rather become a private
soldier again than a degraded Sovereign. The Emperor,
you say, has committed many wrongs against me ; I have
forgotten them all, and only remember his benefits. I owe
him all—my rank, my title, my fortune, and what I prefer
to all, I owe him what your indulgence pleases to call my
glory, I will serve him so long as I live; my person be-
longs to him, as does my heart. May the sword shiver in
my hand if it is ever unfaithful to the Emperor and to
France."
THE ALBERT CLUB, BAYSWATER.—Although this
club was only established last year, it has met with
much success, having enrolled among its members many
noblemen and gentlemen belonging to the Reform, Con-
servative, United Service, Oriental, Thames yacht, and
other clubs, as also clergymen and professional men, all of
whom, we find, are elected by ballot. The entire arrange-
ments, we understand, of this suburban club are similar to
those of the larger clubs in Pall-mall, besides possessing
the advantage of providing bed-rooms for resident mem-
bers, who, with many others, give great praise to the
cuisine, as well as to the appointments of the reading-room,
card-room, billiard-room, smoking-room, &c., which are
fitted up with more than ordinary taste and comfort.
HOMELY COOKEEY.—Our people know nothing
of the art of stewing; very few can boil a potato
or a little rice perfectly, and the whole art of making
palatable the very inferior meat their means will afford, is
lost by their ignorance of the qualifying power of a few
vegetables. There can be no doubt whatever, that at least
20 per cent. of the nourishment which a French man or
woman would extract from the provisions consumed by the
working classes of Great Britain, is wholly lost to them by
their ignorance of cookery. Let us, therefore, welcome
most heartily the experiment of establishing a school for
instruction in the art; and let us add that, if properly
conducted, no speculation is more certain of success, for the
reason that it is an attempt to supply the great want of our
households at the present moment.—Once a Week.
THE ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN SHAW.—This gen
man underwent on Tuesday evening another, but
more protracted operation, which disclosed to his medical
attendants—Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Cock, Mr. Pottar, and Dr.
Saunders—the actual extent of his injuries. Besides the
fracture of the lower portion of the urethra, it was found
that an artery had been divided by the force of the fall,
which had caused great extravasation of blood. The patient
was placed under the influence of chloroform, and the result
was most successful. Ile has since had some refreshing
sleep, and there appears every prospect of his ultimate rQ-
covery,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[ItETITER'S TELI7GRAM.]

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA-
LIAN MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 19.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon has arrived here with the above mails, 78 pas-
sengers, 12,473 dole. in specie, and a general cargo,
including raw silk, to the value of 180,000 sterling.
On the 11th inst. the Ripon spoke the steamer
Poonah, on the 15th the Iberia, and on the 16th
the Florida.
The Spanish steamer Concordia had left Malaga
for the penal settlement of Melilla with Senor
Merry, Spanish resident Minister at the court of
Morocco, the Spanish Consul, and two Moors, The
Concordia likewise carried 85,000 dols. from the
Morocco treasury to indemnify the Ruffians, and
terminate the differences existing regarding the
limits ceded by the late treaty.
The steamer Alava, with volunteers for Ha-
vannah, has left Corunna.
The British brig Lisbon rolled her masts over-
board in a heavy swell off Cape Lines (?) on the
11th, and was taken into Gibraltar by the brig
Mina.

Exchrnge on London at Gibraltar was quoted
90 days'sight, 491 ; on Paris, 5.26 ; on Madrid, one
quarter premium.

The following telegram has bean received at Mr.
Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
THE BOMBAY MAIL.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 19.
The Vectis, with the above mail, reached Mar-
seilles at 7 a.m. to-day.
The mail leaves for London by the 11.30 a.m.

rain.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 19.

The North German Lloyd's steamer New York,
from New York, on the 7th inst., arrived off the
Needles at 10.50 a.m. to-day.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 18.

The King sanctioned the new common Constitu-
tion for Denmark-Schleswig of the 13th of Novem-
ber to. day.
The President of the Council communicated the
measure in person to the assembled Rigsraad. The
galleries were crowded with spectators, who cheered
loudly for the King.
The Rigsraad will proceed in a body to congra-
tulate his Majesty to-morrow.
General exultation prevails throughout the city.

The invitation issued by the leaders of the ex-
treme Holstein party of the Deputies of the Diet
to meet at Kiel to-morrow was forbidden by the
Holstein Government, on account of the meeting
being meant as a hostile demonstration to the King's
succession.

KIEL, Nov. 19 (Evening).

It is said that the meeting of members of the Hol-
stein Diet will take place at Kiel, notwithstanding
the prohibition.

The object of the meeting is to send a deputation
to the German Confederation, requesting it at once
to take steps for protecting public property against
those who have no right to it.

SPAIN.

THE INSURRECTION IN SAN DOMINGO,

MADRID, Nov. 18.
The steamer which last arrived at Cadiz brought
unsatisfactory news from San Domingo.::
Reinforcements of troops continued to leave for
Havanna and Porto Rico.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 19.

Le J[onde of to-day learns that in a congrega-
tion of Cardinals, held at Rome on Saturday last, it
was determined that the Pontifical Government
should accept in a general manner the proposition
of an European Congress.
The monetary situation is far faom undergoing
any improvement in Paris ; the Council of the Bank
is studying the means of remedying this embarrass-
ing state of affairs. The idea has been put forward
of reducing from 3 months to 60 days the
maximum of the bills received for discount;
but on it being observed that this measure
would too greatly prejudice commerce and even
cause embarassments, it is stated that this measure
was renounced. It is now a question of reducing
the quota of advances upon securities. This
measure, if taken, will not produce great results,
and will oblige depositors to sell their securities in
order to obtain funds.

BOURSE, Nov. 18.—The arrival of the English
funds with a decline of a has not produced any
effect on this market, which remains unvaried at
the quotations of yesterday, Threes, for the Account,
being still at 67f. 10e. Mobilier are slightly lower.
The Railway Market has been heavy, but without
any material change in quotations. The market
improved towards the close, and left off as follows :
Italian Loan 71 85
Do. end month 72 10
New ditto 7l 50
Do. end month
Russian
Austrian

41 per Cents 95 05
Do. end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 2.5
Credit Mailier 1085
Do. end month...,lobo
Bank Shares 3350
Credit 1, ander
Roman

Spanish Threes 53 50
Home Debt .. 5l

RA IL

Orleam ...
Northern

Deferred
VAIN.
Cash. Account.
980 .. 977 50
977 50 .. 980

New ditto — • • --
Lyons and Mediterranean 952 50 .. 953 75
New ditto 9OO ..
Geneva 6Ol 25 ..
Southern 693 75 .. 695 --
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lorpbard

North of Spain
Saragossa.. .. 623 75 .. 625
Ditto to Barcelona .... 321 25 .. 323 75

A DECEIVER CAUGHT.—The Montreal Gazette
of Friday relates the following—" On Monday
evening a certain lawyer, who shall be nameless for the
present, informed his wife, a good-looking youug woman,
that urgent business demanded his presence for a short time
in Quebec, He therefore bid her an affectionate good -bp,
advising her in the meantime to spend the period of his ab-
sence with her brother, as he feared in her own house she
would suffer from ennui and loneliness. Appreciating this
evidence of her husband's kind consideration, the lady de-
termined to comply with his request, and before
many minutes she had gone to share her brother's
hospitality. Having occasion to go out on some business
on the same evening, the lady in the course of her walk pro.
ceeded through the street in which she and her husband re-
side, when she was surprised to see a light in the room that
she had only a short time before locked up and aban-
doned. Happening to have then a key which opened the
door, she bethought herself of investigating into the mys-
tery, when lo I on opening the bedroom door, she dis-
covered her faithless consort with another than his wife.
The scene that now ensued baffles description; the injured
wife found vent for her outraged feelings in torrents of
scornful, indignant abuse, and that being insufficient,
resorted to a violent application of physical force, to ex-
hibit in a more marked manner than words could do her
detestation of her husband's offence. He looked sheepisheepish
in the extreme, and somewhat contused in the d pri
l
e
m
m
a
of both charmers, be; a
ng between the horns of took
of 'no ordinary difficulty. The enraged wife
swift and terrible vengeance,te lifting a
unworthy massive
h
bottle she made an onslaught on competitor
for her husband's affections, and belaboured
redher so soundly
as to drive her ,creaming from the house almost in a state
of undress. Than turning on the husband him self, she
bottled' him considerably also, cutting and striking some-
what promiscuously, to the great detriment of his bones
and stray articles of furniture."

LITERATURE.

♦
Stronghand ; or, the Noble Revenge. A Tale of the
Disinherited. By Gustave Aimard. Two Vols.

Maxwell.

This is a most romantic narrative, full of incident
and of adventure. The scene is laid in Mexico, some
twenty years back. The troublous times and pic-
turesque scenes of which we read are evidently
described by one well acquainted with his theme.
At the present moment, when the new empire esta-
blished by France will put an end to the Mexican
difficulties, and that much vexed land may hope at
last for peace and tranquillity, the narrative of Gus-
tave Aimard will be read with especial interest.
In anticipation of which happier future for that
beautiful land, here—before adding another word
about this brilliant tale by Gustave Aimard—is the
gloomy picture he draws of—