The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

TIE zSUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1862.

MR. and MRS. CHARLES SEAN—SPECIAL
OTICE. - In consequence of a Domestic Affliction,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean will NOT PPEAR for a few
'Nights at the Theatre-Royal Drury-laAne.

Ft° YAL

ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Uhler the management of
ison.
Mss Louisa rime and Mr. W.
Harr
THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY.
Misses Louisa Fyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and
Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E .
. Dussek, C. Lyall,
Patey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison
To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants
and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. H., F., and H. Payne, E., and
S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Commence at Seven.

ri.EATltt-KUYAL, HAYMARKET,
Leme, Mr. J. B. Buntstone.

THIS EVENING, to oommence with OUR AMERICAN
COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard,
Mr. Buckstone.
Alter which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLI3
MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle-
quin and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le-
clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosine.

Commence a 7.

JOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 18, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal-
coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.

After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD; or, The Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chitterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, a new Mystic Drama, in four parts
entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr.
Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, Ac. ; Miss Marriott,
Miss Fielding, lc.
After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WHIrrTINr..?-
TON AND HIS CAT; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol
and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque openi.,g
invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the
Princess's Pantomime of " Jack the Giant Killer. ' The
scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous
assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess
Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq; Alice, Miss Pauline Le-
clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast-
ings, Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris;
Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil
of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ;
Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum-
bine, Miss Caroline Adams.

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
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8010 Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

355th Night of the Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. DION
BOUCICAULT.

THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE
OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Bouc:cault, S. Emery, Billington,
Jamison, P. Bedford, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer,
H. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Marston. Miss Latimer,
Miss Denvil. After which (4th time), THE DUBLIN BOY.
Andy, Mrs. Boucicaalt. To conclude with MARGERY
DAW. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billington, W. Smith, Miss Wool-
gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.--
-"L Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
TO-NIGHT, Feb. 18, and during the week, first appearance
o' Rumsey and Newcomb's Double Troupe of Ethiopian Min-
strels, late of the Crystal Palace.
To be followed by NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, by
Madlie. Mazotti, Madlle. Goldsmidt, Mons. Goldkette, and
Mons. Gerard Goldsmidt.

Concluding with a screaming Farce.
On Monday, Feb. 24, will be produced a gorgeous Eastern
Spectacle, in which Two of the finest Performing Elephants
ever seen in this country will appear.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

CANTERBURY lIALL -VICTOR JULIEN,
" the FLYING MAN," at half-past Nine
Continued success of "THE ENCHANTED HASH " by
Mr. E. Marshall, at a quarter-past Ten.
Grand Selections from "La Circassienne" by Mdlle. Negri,
with Band and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock.
Also the following combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr.
Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Har-
riet Coveney, and Miss Greene.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission— Hall, Bd. ; Stalls aad Balcony, ls.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
" LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQUES"
HENRI (aged Eleven years), and PFAU (aged Nine years),

From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris,
Whose Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze are unsurpassed
for daring, skill, and grace, EVERY EVENING.
Their performances do not in any way interfere with the
Musical Entertainment, woich as usual consists of Two
Operatic Selections alternately from "I'_ Trovatore," " Er-
nani," "La Traviata," "Simon Boccanegra," " Macbeth,"
Arc., by the entire Company, Full Band and Chorus—(Con-
ducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans)—And Varied Vocal and Instru-
mental Attractions, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet
Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, M. P. Foster,
and W. Randall.

Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.-Morning, 4h. 17m.—Afternoon, 4h. 36m.
To-moßßow.-Morning, 4h. 56m.---Afternoon, sh. 12m.

THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, FEBRUARY 18, 1862.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest tills morning and during the night.
50—this day at noon.

BARomETER-29.39.
WiNn—S.-Westerly; light, with fine sunshiny weather
now. It rained all the morning until one o'clock, with the
Wind Easterly.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 1862.

Yesterday the Lords certainly had enough of it.
Five distinct Bills in regard to the Transfer of Land
being laid upon the table in succession. The Go-
vernment Bill, as a matter of course, taking prece-
dence. But the four others following suit, imme-
diately after the close of the LORD CHANCELLOR'S
speech, with exemplary rapidity. Four of those
supplementary Bills came from the Ministerial
side of the house, the product each of them of the
recess - meditations of the ex-Chancellor CRAN-
WORTH. The two other Bills emanated, on the
contrary, from the legal acumen of the Opposition
—ex-Chancellor CHELMSFORD claiming the parent-
age. All five Bills were pro forma read a first
time, and were then collectively set aside for detailed
examination before a Select Committee. Even
then—when that next ordeal shall have been passed
--the discriminative judgment pronounced upon
them by that Select Committee will be merely
preliminary. That, of course. Yet—though "of
course "—the fact is deserving thus, even now,
of a momentary consideration. Meanwhile, at this
early stage of our Parliamentary proceedings in
reference to the vast and complicated legal reform
now proposed, there is one, at least, of those Five
Drafts or outlines of an Enactment, which has
already been fairly put before the Legislature, and,
through the Legislature, before the country. If
the merest glimmering has necessarily been afforded
as yet, both by Lord CRANWORTH and by Lord
CHELMSFORD, in regard to the twin Bills each noble
lord in succession took courage to lay upon the table
of the House of Peers last evening—the Government
which had been previously laid there by the
hand of Lord WESTBURY, had been unfolded, though
in itself a scheme of very ample dimensions, and,
in some respect, of wholly unavoidable involution,
in a ElHa"l3. of singular lucidity and of masterly
comprehensiveness, by the noble and learned
framer of it himself, speaking
in his supreme and
responsible position
as the Lord High Chancellor
of England. It is true, no
doubt, that almost im-
mediately after the completion of Lord WEST.,
BURY'S brilliant and really pelucid explanation,
Lord CRANWORTH remarked
that he himself,
bough listening to it with strained attention, from
its exordium to its peroration, had .
faded to catch
the meaning of the Lord Chancellor's speech as
a whole ! That in other words, looking as he had
been throughout looking, with eager solicitude to
the measure as explained by his noble and learned
friend, he had himself after all failed to under.

stand it ! Lord CRANWORTH'S remark to this \
etn ct, it should be remembered, was uttered last I
vening but a, very few minutes after Lord ANEsT..
BURY had resumed his seat upon the woolsack. The
E x plan a tion had been submitted there and then
among others to Lord CPANWORTH'S judgment
merely viva voce, and that, moreover, in the dull
and mutllA, Ltd still confusing echoes of the House
OfPeers. Certain are we, that upon consideration
this
morning, having "slept well on't," and having
refreshed his memory of Lord WESTBURY'S speech
by glancing down the record of it preserved by the

skilled agency of the shorthand-writers in the
gallery—certain are we that Lord CRANWORTII

would hesitate now after this reconsideration of

the Lord Chancellor's speech to assert once more

that it was in any way incomprehensible. Sel-
dom has a subject so intrinsically difficult by reason
of its unavoidable complication been explained
with a more delightful clearness or a more re-
freshing simplicity. Dealing as the laws of pro-

perty relating lo land necessarily do with so many
and such subtle abstractions, it becomes matter
for absolute astonishment that the Lord Chancellor

could divest it so completely of its distracting
technicalities, and so explain his scheme for the

simplication of our code in this particular of vital
importance, that any one, even the unprofessional

reader (perhaps not " hearer," because of those

very echoes that so puzzled the keen senses of
Lord CRANWORTH), that any one, we say, even the
unprofessional reader, can follow him, comprehend-

ing him, throughout.
The object aimed at by the Government Bill, as
explained yesterday by the Lord Chancellor, is—re-

- -
member this to begin with—threefold. The measure
_ _

proposes to give a good statutory, indefeasible title
to the owners of landed property. It undertakes to

provide the means by which that title may be
clearly, as rapidly as possible, and in the fullest

..
sense of the word, authoritatively, ascer-
tained. Finally, it undertakes to define the

means by which its more facile transference
may be effected. Of the principle of the Bill, even

Lord CRANWORTH acknowledged yesterday that
he unquestionably approved. It was merely in
regard to the details of the measure that he con-

ceived it to be faulty. And of course it would be
precisely in the revision and correction of those

details, wherever it might be deemed advisable, that

the labours of the Select Committee about to scru•

tinise it, would be, among other kindred labours,

occupied. Nay, Lord ST. LEONARDS himself, the

venerable and profound author of the Great Tex

Book of the whole law relating to " Vendors and
Purchasers," even that noble lord and learned ex-

Chancellor avowed last evening from his place in
the front rank of the Opposition, that he deemed
the principle of Lord WESTBURY'S Bill to be per-

fectly just and reasonable. Whatever doubts he
had, and some of them were very grave doubts, in
relation to the Government scheme for dealing
with the whole question of the transfer of land,
were restricted to the probability of the working of
its machinery. Nor can it be wondered at for an
instant that doubts of that grave character should
be entertained by a jurisconsult so intensely alive as
Lord LEONARDS must be to the difficulties threaten-
ing to impede any scheme of innovation into a
labyrinth of such extraordinary bewilderment—
that doubts of this kind should be entertained by
him at this early stage of the proceedings when the
Government proposition bas only just been sub-
mitted to the consideration of Parliament. It were
ludicrous, of course, to expect that even Lord
WESTBURY would venture to arrogate to his pro-
position the attribute of perfection. The utmost
any law reformer in the Legislature, even
the present occupant of the woolsack, could
in reason, hope to aspire to in this par-
ticular would be an approximation to that
perfection all are aiming at in the shape of a law
reform of this peculiar description.

What appears to us especially entitled to cons
deration in the measure yesterday brought before
the Upper House of Parliament by the Lord Chan-
cellor is the fact that it is designed to be not man-
datory, but, as Lord ST. LEONARD'S instantly
expressed it, simply permissive. It is in drawing
the line there—drawing it delicately but firmly
through all the maze of difficulties which the sub-
jects of Titles and Transference and so forth are each
separately and all of them collectively involved—it
is in that point of view beyond all others that we
cannot but recognize even now at this early period
in the discussion of the Government measure, the
tact and discrimination we have all of us so con-
fidently expected to see evidenced by the Lord
Chancellor. It is here that already we can perceive'
as it were, at a glance, that in cherishing these same
confident anticipations in his regard we have not
been doomed to disappointment. The more easy
definition of a Title, the more facile Transference of
landed property—are boons, not by any means
only theoretically attainable. Hampered though
property of this kind still is in this country by
all the old bewildering difficulties inherited by us
through the lapse of centuries, from the remote
ages when feudality as a system, as the one
sole system was predominant, we have had a
tolerably ample and protracted experience of what
may be done in the way of getting rid of all
these needless obstructions—in our colonial posses-
sions in all parts of the world. Nay the advantages
that can so very readily be secured in this way, has,
within the last few years, been brought much nearer
home (than our colonies, than the nearest of our colo-
nies)to the national recognition. There is the work-
ing, during the last decade or two, upon the other side
of St. George's Channel, of the now famous, and, as
everyone has long since come to recognise it,benefi-
cent Encumbered Estates Act in Ireland. There,
in Ireland, since that humane and benignantact came
into operation, fully one-third of the entire area of
the Green Isles has passed from one set of proprietors
to another set of proprietors. And if any doubts
as to the validity and security of the system thereby
inaugurated, for the registration of titles to estates,
should still perchance be entertained by any
captious critic of Lord WESTBURY'S measure de-
signed to the same end—enough will surely have
been said when we have remarked that one mis-
take,
and one mistake alone, has marred the other-
wise prevailing accuracy of the Registration
Books in Ireland under the working of the
Encumbered Estates Act.
Lord ST. LEONARDS, we observe, expresses
his anxiety lest the scheme of the noble and
learned lord on the woolsack may, perchance,
degenerate into what he calls a registration of
assurances. Yet he himself is the very one to ac-
knowledge—and in connection with his avowed so-
licitude but just now mentioned, he ought certainly
to bear his own candid admission to this effect in
remembrance—that under Lord WESTBURY's Bill
the registration will be optional—that no one
will be compelled to register his property unless
he himoolf co ploctoc*--that, ars already intimated,
in two words, the Bill, as a Bill authorising regis-
tration in this way, is not mandatory, but simply
permissive. Besides which, the registry of titles
now proposed by Lord -WESTBURY to be opened,
is, by a most judicious forethought of the Chancel-
lor's, to be divided into two distinct parts—
one part giving titles that are guaranteed, and the
other part titles that, though in process of being
guaranteed, are not yet guaranteed. An arrange-
ment of this rational kind in regard to the registry
of titles under the proposed act would secure, among
other leas obvious advantages, these very obvious
advantages—first of all, a good title ; secondly, a
record easily
record of to be turned to, a distinct and reliable
previous investigations,
in-
formation eiicited through those applying the
investigations to
the simplification of any dealings that might arise
subsequently, Finally, and crown sill the provi-
sions of an universally applicable method by
might be more
which all dealings of this kind
readily entered into, and land at .onee more easily,

more rapidly, and more securely transferred. The I
only serious matter of bewilderment to ourselves in
regard to Lord WESTBURY'S proposed measure,
now that he has thrown upon the every crevice and
cranny of that measure the light of his clear intel-
ligence, through the medium of his singularly lucid
explanation—the one only serious matter for bewil-
derment to ourselves in regard to it may be ex-
pressed at once by the unaffected wonder with
which we take note of the Lord Chancellor's
exposition of his scheme when he avows that,
unlike Sir HUGEL CAIRNS' Bill of a session or two
back, the bill now submitted to the Legislature
by the Government proposes no new courts for
the working of the enactment ! If this really and
truly be possible, of course so much the better.
But how it can by any chance be possible is at
the present moment utterly beyond our comprehen-
sion. However, this and all other problematic
parts of the question may now be left confidingly,
and we will say even hopefully, to the calm judg-
ment of the Law Lords in Select Committee.

The most generous view of Mr. BRIGHT'S speech
last night is, that on such questions he is hardly
responsible. There have been other members of the
Society of Friends in the House before, but they
were distinguished amongst their fellow members as
much by their plain speech, almost the taciturnity,
of their body, as Mr. BRIGHT is distinguished by
unusual powers of oratory. Other Quakers in Par-
liament have doubtless felt very much as Mr.
BRIGHT feels, but they had neither the boldness,
nor the powers of speech to otter their non-resist-
ance sentiments. Mr. BRIGHT has both. He pro-
bably hardly knows what it is to doubt his own con-
clusions, and he certainly does not lack the power
to put them forth with the most effective illustra-
tion. Like the rest of his body, however, we should
think that on questions of war and peace, his views
were as fixed a part of him as the cut of his coat or
the shape of his hat. All that had been settled for
every quaker from the days of GEORGE Fox. Mr.
BRIGHT inherited his dress and his notions, on this
subject, together. He persuades himself that he de-
scends to the low ground of worldly politicians, and
that while he has transcendental grounds for his
convictions, his arguments are taken from common
and earthly sources. This is his illusion. He in-
herits the amiable Quaker crotchet, and uncon-
sciously it stimulates his genius to search in every
quarter for appropriate aliment.
We venture these remarks as the best apology
we can offer for the singular aberration of one of
our most popular orators. He found himself, last
night, that not only Lord PALMERSTON, but one
who, like himself, is an advanced Liberal and advo-
cate of economy, Mr. BAXTER, differed from him
entirely. Indeed, it has not been our lot to meet
with the individual who did not thoroughly ap-
prove the policy which Mr. BRIGHT reprobates.

We all knew that the preparations for war—to pre-
vent war—with America, would be heavily felt in
our Income-tax this year, yet we all felt, that if not
a cheap, it was the least costly policy. The hazard
of war, and prolonged angry negotiations, would,
in their effect on commerce alone, have cost vastly
more than the one or two millions which it has cost
us to show that we were in earnest. If any injurious
feeling of bitterness and hostility remain in the
North—which, with Mr. BAXTER, we do not be-
lieve—the blame of it must lie with the party who
committed the inexcusable outrage, and who did
cause the news of the outrage and the announce-
ment of spontaneous redress to come over together.
Looking back coolly, now, on the whole affair,
who can doubt that the purpose of the American
Government was the meanest conceivable. It
was the low-bred determination to squeeze out of
this intolerable wrong as much advantage to them-
selves, and wrong to us, as we would put up with.
We know that it ended with the surrender of the
prisoners ; but it ought, as Lord DERBY, with the
feelings of an English gentleman, pointed out, to
have begun with that. The disgrace of Bull's Run
was, in our judgment, not to be compared with the
infamy of detaining the prisoners from the Trent.
A pcnic has seized, before now, better troops than
those of M'DONVELL. But the illegal detention of
the prisoners was a deliberate act. A hot-brained
device of an officer placed stolen goods in the pos-
session of the Washington Cabinet; and the Cabinet,
knowing them to be stolen, and knowing to whom
they belonged, instead of returning them to their
owners, kept them for their own profit. They only
gave them up when they received a very civil demand
for them, backed by a police force which they dare

not encounter.
How Mr. BRIGHT could be so foolish—for he is
not ordinarily that—as to talk in the face of the
notorious facts of the case, of his being certain from
the beginning that, as the law was against the Ame-
ricans, so they would be certain to obey it—does
indeed surprise us. He talks of them as a law-
loving people, We think them just the reverse—
they are a physical force and political fraud-loving
people. They will take where they can, let Texas
and Mexico, let the wronged negroes and Indians
bear witness; and they will glory in frauds for the
sake of territory, like that practised by Mr. WEB-
STER on Lord ASUBURTON, to deprive us of what is
now Maine, but which, on the authority of BEN-
JAMIN FRANKLIN, belonged to New Brunswick.
Whatever can be obtained 'by political bullying
and sharping they will have. We are
sorry to write thus of them, but it is
because they have first written it themselves in
numberless acts. And even among themselves,
lawless violence and intimidation drives the better
class of men from public life ; and, were Mr.
BRIGHT a native American, and did he differ from
the vast majority of his countrymen as much as he
now does from Englishmen, he would assuredly be
in danger of Judge LYNCH, and would be com-
pelled to keep his oratory to himself.
Few Englishmen can doubt that but for our pre-
parations for the defence of Canada, and the noble
spirit of the Canadians theinselves—and, but for the
certainty, that the blockade of the South would be
exchanged for a blockade of the North, and the
complete and instant triumph of Secession—that
but for this Mr. SEWARD would never have parted
with his ill-gotten prisoners. The American
press all said they should never be parted
tiri4ln, thy arch-pirate wa3 feted and prEtiQed by
governors and judges for his defiance of law and
England—it was lauded as heroism that the cap•
tain of a frigate should defy not so much the gun-
less packet-ship as the law of nations, seeing the
defiance was against Britishers. The Naval Board
and Congress itself praised the pirate; and the
PRESIDENT, not daring to praise the violation of
law, held his tongue while ho kept the men in his
dungeons ! As bad as anything, Mr. SEWARD
wrote over to Mr. ADAMS here, told him that the
American Government had not ordered the act, and
yet said not one word of restitution !! That infer•
mous despatch was proof sufficient that they meant,
if England would stand it, to keep the men, and
fully justified our Government in pushing on their
preparations.
We have indeed a heavy bill to pay for American
fraud and violence. Mr. BRIGHT professes to feel
for the taxpayers of Britain ; if so, instead of ex-
tenuating American crimes against the law of
nations, he should denounce the mingled Audacity

and sharp practice, which compelled us, for the
honour of the nation, to incur the enormous expense
which Mr. BRIGHT and every one else will have to
pay this year for the outrage of his pets. It is we, not
Americans, who have cause for heartburning, if at
least a gratuitous raid upon our pockets should pro-
duce such a feeling. Of one thing, however, the
Government feels assured, that there is no man of
any party in England, be he Radical, Whig, or
Tory, who does not feel indebted to the Government
for both its diplomacy and its naval and military
measures in the case of the Trent.

The American telegrams continue to try our
patience. They come from the North, yet they
have nothing to tell of successful movements either
military or financial. The success in Kentucky is
not followed up, or, if it be, we hear nothing of
it. And, as to money, we hear of nothing what-
ever done to get it : the actual finance measures
appear to be summed up in the issue of irredeem-
able paper. 'We do learn that at last the New
York merchants and bankers are losing faith in
the plans and calculations of Mr. CHASE-but

Congress takes no steps to replenish the trea.
sure. One statement is, that after the 10th of

this month there would not be a dollar
in the Treasury. Another, that the contractors and
army jobbers were deserting Washington, and run-
ning away from payment in inconvertible paper.
It seems the people of Maine are displeased with
Mr. SEWARD for permitting the British troops to
use the railroad to Canada which British capital
constructed through their province. Mr. SEWARD
replies by pointing to, the habitual magnanimity of
the American Government.

The accounts from the South show the Seces-
sionists to be as determined as ever, come
what may, to fight for independence as long
as the North chooses to fight them. They deny
that their privations are severe in the more im-
portant comforts of life. A few luxuries which
they can well do without are dear—coffee, for
instance, three shillings a pound. But beef,
mutton, ham, flour, and poultry are said to be
plentiful and cheap. On such fare the Southerners
are not likely to suffer much ; and they tell
us, incredible as it may seem, that their
own manufacturers are supplying them
rapidly, not only with arms and munitions
of war, but with textile fabrics also.
They own that their expenses are great, but they
calculate on the sale of their accumulation of cotton,
tobacco, sugar, and rice, when the war is over,
to reinstate them in a better pecuniary position ;
and as to patriotism, they assure us that never
were the negroes more content, and that if 100,000
men are sacrificed in the war, a second 100,000 will
promptly supply their place.
All will depend on the feeling of the South. If
it can hold out, by simply standing on the defen-
sive, if it can endure privation of luxuries, for some
years, all the efforts of the North will be in rain.
The country, its extent and character will defend
itself. Nothing can be done by the military occupa-
tion of swamps and wildernesses, and forests ; and
not much by the possession of a few towns, sur-
rounded by a hostile country. The small unforti-
fied towns of the South will not be like those of the
Quadrilateral ; while, if the accounts of the
Southerners be correct, their hatred will be
as bitter towards the Northern armies as
that of the Venetians towards the Austrians.
If want of money do not bring the North to terms
there seems to be no reason why we should not be
destined to witness, as the Messrs. NEILL predict,
a weary and barbarous struggle for years, between
love of independence on one side, and of supremacy
on the other.

THE FORGERIES BY A DERBY SOLICITOR.—At
the Derby Police-court, yesterday, Joseph Shaw, solicitor,
Derby, and until recently the high bailiff of the Derby
County Court, was brought up on remand on a charge of
forging a deed by which he obtained £B5O from Mr. John
Adsetts, of Duffield. I. ome further evidence was taken in
support of this charge, when the bench adjourned the in-
quiry until Saturday next, on which occasion a second
charge of a similar nature will be gone into.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT IN TIM WATERLOO ROAD.
—Yesterday afternoon, at half-past 2 o'clock, Mr. Sergeant
Payne resumed the inquiry at St. Thomas's Hospital on the
body of Edwin James Robbins, who lost his life by the ac-
cident in the Waterloo-road. The inquiry was adjourned
for the purpose of the jury viewing the spot, and for the
attendance of Mr. Jones. At the conclusion of the evidence
of several witnesses the coroner summed up and the jury
returned a verdict of " Accidental death," and at the same
time desired to state that the conduct of Mr. Jones when he
received the notice from the Lambeth vestry in October,
1859, to arch the landing, was most reprehensible. The
coroner refused to insert the latter, as an opinion only, and
recorded a verdict of " Accidental death."
AN M.P. IN JEOPARDY.—Yesterday afternoon,
on the assembling of the House of Commons, and as seve-
ral members were about to cross the dangerous corner that
connects Bridge-street, Westminster, with Parliament-
street, a spring-cart came quickly round the corner, and
would inevitably have run over Mr. Ingham, M.P., who
was crossing at the moment, had not cne of the officers of
the A division adroitly interposed himself between the
hon. member and the horse, which ho succeeded at his
own personal peril in reining in on the instant. The
occurrence would be scarcely worth recording were it not
to point out to the public the danger that exists at this
particular spot, and the necessity that exists for some better
regulation of the traffic here, similar to that adopted by the
City Police authorities at London-bridge and elsewhere.
Occasionally, owing to there being no break in the line of
vehicles, the passage of the public is impeded for five and
ten minutes at a time, to say nothing of the danger they are
exposed to in crossing for want of some intermediate halt-
ing-place.
THE MURDER AT WESTON ZOYLAND.—Yesterday
the prisoner, W. Chard, jun., was brought up on remand, at
the Town• hall,Bridgwater, on the charge of wilfully murder-
ing his servant, Parnell Howe, as reported in this journal of
Tuesday last. The prisoner appeared to take the proceedings
very complacently, and sat in the dock with perfect non-
cialance. Several witnesses were called, but their evi-
dence did not materially differ from that previously given.
The prisoner was committed for trial for wilful murder at

next assizes.
REVOLTING AND INHUMAN MURDER AND MU
TILATION OF A CHlLD.—Yesterday morning, at an early
hour, as Mr. J. Shepherd, residing in Greville-street,
Holborn, was passing through Baldwin's -place, Hatton-
garden, he discovered a paper parcel lying on a door step,
on opening which it was found to contain the body of a
full-grown male child, which could not have been dead
more than two hours. It was ascertained that death had
been occasioned by foul means, the stomach having been
ripped up with a knife, so that part of the entrails dropped
out, and the head and upper part of the body had the ap-
pearance of having been subjected to considerable pressure,
being a perfect mass of contusions. The body was con-
veyed to the dead house of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and in-
formation of the revolting deed forwarded to the coroner
or the district.
DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—Mr. James Cowan,
who presented an extraordinary instance of longevity, died
on the sth inst., at Drumore, parish of Lochrutton. He
had reached the extreme age of 103 years, and was the last
of a family of five, whose united ages amount to fully 450.
He well remembered Burns, having often seen him when
a farmer at Ellisland ; and his rem niscences of Dumfries
iu his boyish days, 90 years ago, were fresh and interesting.
As showing how one age is sometimes linked with another
that seems remote, we may mention that Mr. Cowan's
father, who lived to be threescore, had a distinct recollec-
tion of Grierson of Lag, and often described to his son the
big, bur/ey, and bloated personal aspect of the notorious
persecutor. Nr. Cowan was never married.—. Edin burgh
IVitness.
THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN.—The distress
in this town and district is very great, upwards of 7,000 of
the factory operatives of Blackburn alone being wholly un-
employed, while a decided change for the worse is taking
place in the adjoining townships of Darwen, Accrington,
Church, Enfield, and Great Harwood. The relief fund
amounts to nearly £l,BOO, out of which the committee are
providing bread and meal for necessitous families. During
last week nearly 30 loads of oatmeal and upwards of 4,000
loaves were thus distributed. The parochial relief returns
for the week ended last Saturday show that 7,959 persons,
of whom 2,586 were able-bodied, had been relieved at a
cost of £445 10s. 9d. ; of this number 6,096 belonged to
Blackburn alone, at a cost of £352 45., the remainder be-
longing to the Darwen and Gswaldtwistla districts. In
the corresponding week of last year the number relieved in
the union was 2,571, at a cost of £137 25., or not quite half
the number of Blackburn poor at present in receipt of re-
lief. On Friday a poor rate of 3s in the pound was signed
by the magistrates, and it is estimated to realiso £18,743
18s. 6d. It is anticipated that a further rate will be re-
quired to meet the present distress.--. Manchester Guardian.
LIBERATION OF WILLIAM MILLER, THE PRISONER
FOR DEBT FOR FIFTY YEARS.—Within the last few days
Mr. William Miller, whose extraordinary case has recently
been so much before the public, has received his liberty, of
which he bad been deprived since July, 1824. The; aged
prisoner, however, had been so long without the blessings
of freedom that he had lost all desire, if not remembrance,
of them, and he, therefore, opposed the most obstinate re-
sistance to the proceedings of Mr. Registrar Hazlitt, in his
case last month, and refused to sign his examination, which
was an essential preliminary to his immediate discharge.
The commissioner at the Bankruptcy Court, nevertheless,
decreed him a bankrupt, and sent him an order for his re-
lease, Captain Hudson, the governor of the Queen's Pri-
son, with kind consideration allowed his old captive to re-
main for some time in the place, so that he might become
gradually accustomed to the idea of going forth into a world
to which he has been a stranger for half a century. The
day fixed for his departure, however, at last came, and Mr.
Miller was told that a cab was in waiting to convey him to
the house of a relative in Greenwich. He received the
news with evident regret, and after taking a lingering fare-
well of the prison authorities, he wasassisted to the vehicle,
in which he was driven straigb.tdo Ya destination. The sub-
scription raised in his behalf has reached a considerable
sum.

A FRIGHTFUL DEATH.—A few nights ago a man
named William Berrick, otherwise well known by the
sobriquet of " His Majesty," came to a fearful death under
the following circumstances :—On the night of Sunday he
had been with others at the house of Mr. Braebacek, the
White Hart, at Tile Cross. He remained there until about
11 o'clock, when they lett, and the house was closed. Ber-
rick, who was a single man, about 50 years of age, of un-
settled habits, generally slept at his sister's, but from some
cause he had expressed his determination not to go there
that night, and on his leaving the White Hart nothing more
was seen of him until the next morning. Mr. Bradnock, in
addition to being a licensed victualler, carries on an exten-
sive baking business, and has a large oven on his premises.
Early on the Monday morning he had pcpared wood for
heating the oven, and on his proceeding to place it in the
flee or stove he was startled at seeing the body of a man
therein, and on his gaining assistance and making a nearer
inspection he was horrified at finding the dead body of Ber-
rick. From the body having been found stuck fast in the
flue of the oven, it was supposed that on his leaving the
house the unhappy man had gone to the flue—which had
been used on the previous day—for warmth, and on his en-
deavouring to get into it had got fast, and, being unable to
extricate himself, was literally suffocated. Mr. Poole subse-
quently held an inquest on the body, and evidence being
given bearing out the above particulars, the jury returned
a verdict of "Accidental death from suffocation in the flue,"
no blame being attached to a nyone.—Birmingham Post.
RUNNING THE BLOCKADE—Since the with-
drawal of her Majesty's prohibition order against the ex-
portation of warlike stores to America, several vessels, in-
cluding a fast screw steamer (which ran the Charleston
blockade some months since with a cargo of cotton) have
commenced taking on board at Liverpool immense quanti-
ties of guns, ammunition, blankets, &c., for the use of the
Confederate army, the soldiers of which will be supplied
with many luxuries should any of these vessels succeed in
running the blockade of any of the Southern ports. Many,
if not all these vessels, are loaded by different parties—one
gentleman going in for his share in guns, another in
blankets, a third in ammunition, while a fourth or fifth
ventures in drugs, saltpetre, &c., and so on until each vessel
is loaded. As nothing can be "done" in these vessels at
the insurance offices, the whole risk of loss falls on those
who venture in the speculation. The following advertise-
ment, which appeared in a Liverpool contemporary yester-
day, will show how these partnership ventures are arranged :
" Cargo to run the blockade.—Wanted, a party to provide
a portion of the cargo for a fast sailing vessel of 300 tons,
to run to one of the blockaded ports.—Address, box ---,
Manchester,"
ANOTHER ACCIDENT BY MACHINERY.--A most
shocking accident occurred on Friday afternoon at Birdsall,
a weld village a few miles from Mallon. Except in its hor-
rible termination, the accident is precisely similar to the re-
cent one at Sunderland. It seems that Mrs. Hudson, the
wife of Mr. Hudson, a shopkeeper at Burythorpe, a neigh-
bouring village, was at Mr. Watson's farm, at Birdsall,
where a corn thrashing machine was in use. Mrs. Hudson,
it is stated, attempted to step over the tumbling shaft, which
revolves rapidly, and has a connection in the centre present-
ing sharp angles, which are likely to catch and retain hold
of a dress if brought in proximity. It is thought Mrs. Hud-
son's dress was caught in this way, and was instantaneously
wrapped several times round the shaft, the wearer being
brought down with it, and, to the horror of all present,
whirled round and round with every revolution. The
machinery was stopped as quietly as possible, and when the
unfortunate woman was extricated it was found that her
knees were dislocated, and that she had receiv d many
wounds and very serious injuries. On Saturday she was
stated to be in a precarious state. The accident is doubtless
owing to a want of proper fencing over the shaft, a precau-
tion yery rarely adopted in thrashing raachivis,