The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-18 00:00:00

7IIE CONVICT'S SONG.

(From Punch.)
AIR.-" Jolly Mortals, fill your glasses."
See the heb.vy-wet before us,
Newgate nobs in jovial ring,
Gents, I 'll thank you for a thcorus,
Here 's the ditty we should sing.
Chorus.—A fig for quod I* By Jebb protected,
Terrors of the jug have ceased :
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Fit for gents we 'ye gaols erected,
And on ticket we 're released.
What is Dartmoor, if you 're quiet?
What 's Bermuda, when you 're there ?
Easy work and ample diet,
With the Chaplain if you 're square.
A fig, &e.

Pitch in pious fudge and fable,
He will swaller all you say ;
And it 's hard if you ain't able
To knock half your term away.
A fig, &o,

Quod o'er flats hang in terrorem,
But don't talk to us as knows ;
If they stops our pipe and jorum,
That 's about the worst they does.
A fig, &o.
Here's to Jebb and his leave-tickets,
That's when coves a rest has ta'en,
Opening their prison-wickets,
Sets 'em on the loose again.
A fig, &c.

• Quod—Prison.

Baron de Wendland, the Bavarian Minister, has
returned to Paris from Munich. The Baron left his post
some months since on account of ill-health, and during his
absence the business of the Legation has been conducted by
M. de Gasser, Charge d'Affaires.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.—On the
evening of the 9th the Prince and Princess of Prussia ar-
rived at Verona from Milan. The Emperor of Austria sent
a Field-Marshal-Lieutenant to welcome them at the fron-
tier. At the railway station, around which a great number
of soldiers had stationed theme elves, all anxious to see the
Royal travellers, their Royal Highnesses were received by
the chiefs of the civil and military authorities. The
General of Athllery, Von Benedek, conducted the Prince
and Princess to a Court carriage which was in waiting, and
accompanied them to their hotel. Their Royal Highnesses
declined a grand military parade which was to have been
held to-day in their honour. The Imperial delegate con-
ducted the travellers through the city, and during their
tour of inspection they examined with much interest the
more remarkable public and private buildings. They re-
mained for some time at the amphitheatre, the Basilica of
St. Zeno, and the cathedral, and repeatedly expressed to
their conductor their admiration at these well-known
edifices. The fortifications were prepared for a visit from
their Royal Highnesses, but they did not visit these works.
Next day, at noon, the Prince and Princess left Verona,
and on their arrival at Venice they were received with
much ceremony.

NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Advices from the block-
ading squadron on the 17th of Nov ember report that an
English bark had been chased and driven on shore, where
she became hard and fast. Another despatch, dated
November 18, reports that the Ariel schooner, of Halifax,
had been chased ashore, also the Ann Maria schooner, Of
Nassau, New Providence ; the latter on being hauled off
bilged in four fathoms water, and the former was destroyed,
The cargo consisted principally of salt, flour, and sugar. A
despatch from the gunboat Chorusa, dated Bemford, North
Carolina, the 12th of November, reports having captured a
schooner, without papers; name, or flag, from Wilmington
to Nassau, with turpentine, resin, and shingles, and de-
stroyed her. The master stated her to be a Confederate
vessel. On the night of the 13th November a steamer at-
tempted to run the blockade at Charleston by Meffit's
Channel, but upon being fired at by the fleet she steered
eastwurd and was lost sight of in the fog. On the night of
the 16th a steamer, believed to be the same vessel, again
attempted to run the blockade by the same entrance. A
shell having struck her, she immediately turned to the
northward and westward, and apparently ran aground on
the shoal of Davis's Inlet, where she remained but a few
moments, and then, steering eastward, disappeared in the
darkness. It was thought she had returned to Nassau dis-
abled. Dee. 4.—The Annie Dees schooner was captured on
tho 17th of November off Charleston harbour, while trying
to run the blockade, by the Federal Gunboat Seneca,
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