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THE SUN,
LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 3, 1862.

The advocates of peace and arbitration have at
least made themselves heard. Mr. COBDEN has
written ; and besides others of less note, Mr. C.
BUXTON at Maidstone, Messrs. CONINGHAM and
WHITE at Brighton, and Mr. W. E. FORSTER at
Bradford, have all delivered set speeches on their
view of the subject. With all these last-named
gentlemen there has, however, been the avowal, for
decency's sake, that they would not submit to the
last insults, from America itself. Mr. CONINGIIAM
even demurred a little to the form of the resolution
offered him, "it went further, and was more
emphatic, than he was prepared for;" and Mr.
WHITE, if we understand him rightly, seemed
to think we had thus far done our duty. Mr.
FORSTER argued earnestly, we cannot say cogently,
for arbitration, insisting only on the thrice-answered
statement that if the Americans refused the surren-
der it would be because they differed in their view
of the law from us. The plain answer is, we con-
sider the act of Captain WILKES to be an insult to
our flag. We refuse, explain as they may, to re-
gard it in any other light. They may reproach
us with our deeds half a century back, but they
might as reasonably reproach us for the co-
lonial slavery of that time. We can, indeed,
deny that ever such an act was tolerated by
our prize courts as at all approaches the case of
the Trent stopped and robbed of her passengers for
carrying civilians from port to port of neutrals.
Even Mr. FORSTER confesses that if the precedent
were tolerated, the Dover packets to France would
not be safe. With the wrong undeniable, and the
insult not to be explained away, there is no case for
arbitration. There is no point we can admit to be
a subject of dispute. If they allege that they in-
tended no insult, we reply, the act itself while it
stands is, to us, an insult. If redress is not con-
ceded we regard ourselves as insulted by the mere
fact, and must take measures necessary to deter
from the repetition of such an outrage. Perhaps,
however, all the speakers may think some deference
due to the decision, last night, of 6,000 of Mr.
BRIGHT'S own constituency at Birmingham. They
may well believe in the correctness of the popular
instinct.

Ihe Brighton speakers accuse our Government of
insincerity. They will have it that the Government
never expected that the Trent affair would issue in
a war ; but that the intention of England and
France has for some time been to recognise the
Confederate Government next summer at latest.
}fence they have seized the opportunity to
strengthen Canada, and to be thus prepared to sus-
tain themselves in their Southern policy. We
should like some better evidence of such intentions
on the part of our Government than the conjectures
of the sagacious member for Brighton. But sup-
posing them to be substantially correct,
the Government might do worse than
prepare against the contingency of Federal
wrath whenever it may be necessary to
recognise the claims of the South. As a matter of
English policy, we indeed, as at present advised,
should be slow to recognise the South, and break a
blockade which will do such service to India; but
events may be such that mere humanity will de-
mand that France and England should do what in
them lies to bring a horrid civil war to a close.
And surely a Secretary, who has openly talked of
annexing Canada, and a President who did not in-
stantly restore the Commissioners and punish
WILKEs, are not to be trusted to let alone un-
defended colonies. Every way, we think the mea-
sures of our Government prudent; in regard
to the present, we have no doubt that
the evidence of our earnestness has had much to do
with the subsidence of threatening talk in America;
and in regard to the future, Canada ought to
be in a military position to enable us to do what is
wise and right, irrespective of the temper in which
the Cabinet at Washington may receive it. It is
by no means sufficient that we should sincerely

intend not to affront o•ar susceptible descendant
we must be ready to meet their indignation with
what we may dordm mere justice. We have had an
illustration of this in the spirit with which they
received 41r_ acknowledgment of the belligerent
rights of the South. Their temper in the recent
affair is a simibir warning. We must think, there-
fore, that all who wish peace to last between Eng-
land and the Fe deral States, should also think it good
economy to make our colonies secure. In a word, to
show the Federal war party that their chance of
success is hopeless.

Only with too much reason did the French EM-
PEROR, on the Jour de l'An, remark to the Corps
Diplomatique that " The past year has been sadly
marked by numerous agitations in various quarters
of the world, and by cruel losses among royal
families." Adding, " I hope that the year 1862 may
be a happier one both for kings and peoples." The
" agitations" referred to by his Majesty are chiefly,
of ceur;_e, those 'which have taken place among the
American Republicans, among the Poles, the Nea-
politans, the Hungarians, and the Japanese. The
" cruel losses" sustained during the past year by
certain reigning families start upon the instant
quite as readily, and if possible still more painfully
in some respects to, public recollection. The
cruellest loss of all, naturally enough in our estima-
tion, being that endured by our beloved SOVEREIGN,
and sympathetically by ourselves, her MAJESTY'S
lieges. More numerous and more tender ties being
abruptly sundered by the premature demise of his
Royal Highness ALBERT, the late PRINCE CON-
SORT--

VICTCRLE REGIN.X
CONJUGIS PERCARISSIMI,

dying, as that virtuous and accomplished Prices
did, on the 14th of December, in the flower of his
age, the joy and solace of his august partner, him-
self the central figure of a youthful and fondly
attached family, It was in these respects the
heaviest, and the saddest, and the fatallest, blow to
the happiness of the Royal Home upon which it
descended almost as abruptly as a thunderbolt.
Other reigning houses, besides that of England,
have been desolated by grievous calamities of this
kind during the lapse of the last twelvemonth.
In truth the death that thus saddened all
this vast Empire owning allegiance to the
sceptre wielded by the fair hand of VICTORIA
at the head of our grand Constitutional Govern-
ment, had its mournful precursor but a very few
months previously—namely, within the first quar-
ter of 1861, by the demise, on the 10th of March,
of her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, the
mother of the sovereign. The Ottoman Empire,
moreover, during the same fatal year, has had to
witness the sudden disappearance from life of his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan ABDUL MEDJID.
Yet, in this instance, although, considering his age
alone, the deceased monarch might be deemed to
have expired prematurely—AßDUL MEDJID, at the
period of his decease, being only in his thirty-eighth
year, his constitution was so undermined and broken
down by the enervating influence of Oriential
luxury—that with him
"the pear" may be said
to have bßen precociously ripened almost to rot-
tenness. Generous and noble though the dead
SULTAN'S disposition unquestionably was—as was
magnificently manifested by various acts of personal
magnanimity and munificence, acts that can never
be obliterated from the annals of his reign—in-
stance this, his princely contribution in aid of the
starving peasantry of Ireland his throwing
the shield of his protection over KOSSUTH and
his compatriots, when hunted within the boun-
daries of European Turkey by the banded sol-
diery of the Austrian and Russian despots—and
last, but not least remarkable, the late SULTAN'S
spontaneous presentation of an estate to
M. DE LAMARTINE as a token of his
MAJESTY'S admiration of the French Poet's Heroism
and sympathy for his misfortunes: notwithstand-
ing incidents like these, we say, redeeming in a
great measure the otherwise unsatisfactory cha-
racter of ABDUL-MEDJID as a Sovereign Ruler—
Turkey itself, Europa at large could not but by
contrast regret his glorious predecessor, could not
but look hopefully to the chance of improvement
under his possible saccessor. Those hopes it is yet
painfully matter of uncertainty whether his brother
the present Sultan ABDUL-AZIZ will dash to the
ground or realise.

Death, for a long while threatening to destroy
tke fair and youthful partner on the imperial
throne of the Austrian Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH
has happily to, all appearance in that instance
only threatened to do so. The fatal stroke has
seemingly been averted, under Heaven, by the care
and skill of the physicians in attendance upon her
MAJESTY. And it is a gratifying souvenir for Eng-
land to remember that in the efforts that have been
made during 1861 to ward off in this instance the
dangers of consumption, her Government have very
conspicuously participated. The Royal yacht con-
veyed the Austrian Empress with all despatch to
and fro between Europe and her Imperial MAJESTY'S
place of southern sojourn ; and the young EMPRESS
not only found a home, and, with that, returning
health, upon British soil in the island of Madeira,
but afterwards, and under yet happier auspices,
and with more appreciable success, in the prin-
cipal island of the lonian Archipelago. The
crown of Prussia we have seen transferred from the
dead brow of an imbecile and faineant Sovereign to
that of a Prince having only too haughty and
energetic a notion of the grandeur of the kingly
dignity and of the " right divine," appertaining to
a Monarch of even the most mushroom dynasty.
Worse than Death has swept the diadem and the
whole regalia of tho ITwo Sieilies from the grasp
of young King FRANCIS ll.—has swept them off
by the force of an overwhelming defeat to swell
the mass of the accumulating crown jewels
gathered already from Parma, and Lom-
bardy, and Tuscany, and Modena, and
other minor Italian principalities now appertain-
taining to the dominions of King VICTOR
EMMANUEL. Divers other calamities, now of
death, now of political disaster, might be par-
ticularised here, and descanted upon at length,
as having befallen different Royal Families during
this late fatal year of 1861. The demise of the
Chinese Emperor HIEN FUNG alone is eminently
suggestive of certain solemn considerations, occur-
ring as it did upon the very morrow as it were
of the capture of the hitherto sacred capital of his
stupendous empire. But—there is one Reigning
House nearer Home whose griefs from deaths occur-
ring within its narrow but august limits with
extraordinary rapidity, prematurity, and reiter-
ation, have so startled us all into attention—even
here in England in the midst of our own bitter
regrets for the late bereavement of the British
Queen and the British Nation—that it is difficult
not to pause for a moment before the dire calami-
ties that have within co brief an interval
desolated the Palace of Necessidades at
Lisbon. There—notwithstanding that the late
Queen Regnant of Portugal, MARIA DA GLORIA,
had left as heirs to her Sovereignty a family of
Five Young Princes, all of them more or less upon
the verge of manhood, a sudden and total extinc•
tion of that branch of the dynasty appears to have
been threatened. Three of those princes—the
eldest of the three, the heir to the Crown of MARIA

DA GLORIA, the late amiable young King Dom
PEDRO V.—three of those Fire Princes, namely
King PEDRO V., the Infante DOM FERNANDO, and
the Infante DoM JoAo, have been carried cif by
their unlooked-for dissolution. The elder of the
two survivors, the youthful reigning Sove-
reign of Portugal, King Lvis, though
as yet unscathed by the fatal malady
that has thus destroyed three of his young brother,
has the grief of knowing that his only remaining
brother, the Infante Dom AUGUSTO, lies still pro-
strated by it upon a bed of sickness. His Majesty
being, meanwhile, compelled by the loyal solicitude
in his behalf of his dismayed subjects, to
quit, at any rate for the time being, the
fatal palace in which those lamentable incidents
baying occurred with such appalling rapidity.
With reason, therefore, might the Emperor NAPO-
LEON utter on New Year's Day in his Palace of the
Tuileries the aspiration for brighter times both for
Princes and Peoples : remembering the sorrows
brought to both in 1861 by Death alone—among
other places—in England, Turkey, China, Ger-
many, and Portugal.

We often hear the character of the commissioners
and the nature of the Southern cause still spoken of
as if it were almost or quite reason enough for for-
bearance with the North in the San Jacinto case, and
for espousing its cause generally. We do not deny
that both are bad enough ; we early pointed out that
Mr. MASON was the author, or at least the prime
mover in the enactment of the over infamous Fugi-
tive Slave Law. But, who accepted and carried that
law P—the North. And what were the thirty pieces
which purchased the concession to the South P A
tariff to exclude English manufactures. The North,
for commercial protection against England, sold
the freedom of their soil and the rights of the
negro ! Surely the receiver was as bad as the
thief. Indeed, we think the Fugitive Slave Law
a greater disgrace to the North than to the South.
And when we saw Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWARD
come forward and propose, instead of abolishing,
to make it more effective, we confess we lost at once
all respect for them. One or two States had passed
"Personal Liberty" Acts—these acts simply pro-
vided that the coloured man resident among them
should not be deprived of his liberty until his
Southern claimant had proved to the satisfaction of
a jury, that he had been the claimant's slave. Their
design was to prevent a judge, who received a
double fee if he sent a negro into slavery, from
enabling a Southern planter's agent to kidnap free
blacks on his affidavit—probably a perjured one—
alone. Yet to these safeguards Mr. LINCOLN ob-
jects ! Mr. MASON and Mr. SLIDELL may be
traitors against ABRAHAM LINCOLN, but verily
Mr. LINCOLN is as odious a traitor against the
negro, or very nearly so, as the Commissioners
themselves.

And then, with regard to negro emancipation,
we are told that we ought to sympathise with the
North, because it will be driven by the war to
emancipate them ! Small praise to the North,
then, for that ! Precious motive to sympathy that,
out of revenge and despair, when it sees the
hopes of a restored empire over the South gone, it
will proclaim emancipation ! For a weary twelve-
month Mr. LINCOLN and his Cabinet have endea-
voured to woo back the South with promises of not
meddling with slavery, and of helping them to
catch fugitives, at the risk of many free-
men being caught also. Now, the lover of
the Slave States and their slavery—finding
all his advances rejected—finding that they will
not have him and his tariffs at any price, turns
round and says, "Then, I'll do you all the harm I
can in parting from you. I'll proclaim freedom for
your slaves." This is nothing but the unvar-
nished truth of the case. Mr. LINCOLN and his
friends, perhaps, blinded even their own eyes to the
real character of their twelvemonths' speeches and
acts, but they have all come to this—" The Union
and Slavery." We cannot sympathise with this.
But, again—will the South be such fools a 3 to
let Mr. LINCOLN play this last game ? Mr. TOOMBS,
of Georgia, significantly observed, when adverting
to Northern threats of emancipation—" We, too,
hold emancipation in our hands." And, indeed,
the South does. If it comes to the question,
—shall we emancipate our own slaves, or let
the North do it for us,—the Southerners will
not show the skill they have done hitherto, if they
hesitate longer. Were they freemen, the slaves,
there is every reason to think, would prefer their
old masters to Northern ones. They hear of the
North only as people who make the lives of their
coloured brethren there as miserable as they can ;
who loathe them far more than Southern masters
do, and heap every social indignity upon them. But
should the South itself adopt the ttltima ratio which
the North talks of using, it will be all up for ever
with the North, and most righteously so. Nor
do we think such an issue improbable. The South,
it is now evident, so revolts from the thought of
submission to the North, that it would far sooner
liberate every slave than bow again to the Northern
yoke.
What a pity that it is not given to democrats
more than to monarchs to see their true interest.
Slaveholders have but one thing to overcome—
reluctance to part with ownership of men, and con-
sequent absolute power—and their independence
would be secured. The free labour of their blacks
would pay them better than that of slaves ; they
would lose nothing but the mischievous privilege,
the moral injury to themselves, of uncon-
trolled power over fellow - men. England
and France must, if they emancipated their
slaves, recognise their Government, and their poli-
tical status would then be safe. And not only that,
European emigration and capital would soon
visit their ports, and aid to people and to reclaim
their wildernesses, and they would in a short time
become a powarful and greatly elevated people. It
would, however, be certainly in no way surprising
should the Northern Congress overcome its deep
aversion to abolition, if the South took emanci-
pation into its own hands.

NEW YEAR FEASTS.—On Thursday, the 2d inst.,
Miss Burdett Coutts entertained at a New Year's dinner
more than 300 poor people in the schoolrooms of St. Ste-
phen's, Westminster. The Bishop of Honolulu was pre-
sent, with several clergymen connected with the Abbey and
neighbouring parishes of Westminster.

HER MAJESTY'S STAGIIOUNDS.—The Royal pek
has again appeared in the field, the meet on Wednesday
being at Farnham-common, when the deer Glenridge was
selected for the occasion. The noble master was absent,
and Mr. Davis and his whips were in mourning for the late
Prince Consort. There was a very good field, but the run
altogether may be considered indifferent, owing to the re-
luctance of the stag to leave the woods. The hunt finished,
after 21 hours ringing, by Stoke, close to the Beeches at
Burnham, the stag being taken at Fulmer.
PEMBROKE GARRISON.—A battery of the 4th
brigade Royal Artillery arrived at Pembroke on the 31st
ult. from Plymouth, and toak possession of the fortified
losamehs. They were accompanied from the landing place
Hobbs'-point pier—by the drums of the depot battalion.
They came by the Great Western and South Wales Rail-
ways. The other fortresses on the haven still remain with-
out troops, notwithstanding the critical aspect of political
a tiairs

With reference to the public meeting which had
been announced to be held at the Mansion-house on the
subject of a proposed memorial to his late Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, the Lord Mayor, finding that many
influential persons who would desire to take part in the
measure are unavoidably absent from town at this sea-
son, has been advised to postpone the meetinr; for the
present,

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

THE AFFAIR OF THE TRENT.

(Per the Anglo-Saxon, via Portland and London-
derry.)

NEW YORK, DEC. 21, AFTERNOON.

It is reported that Lord Lyons has had several
informal interviews with Mr. Seward, but that
no official communication on the subject of the
Trent affair has yet passed between them.

It is rumoured that Mr. Seward sent a commu-
nication to the British Government previous to the
receipt of the Europa's advices.
The belief in a pacific solution is universal.

The New York Herald and Times state that
Messrs. Mason and Slidell will be surrendered.
The TVorld, however, says they will not.
A treaty between America and Mexico is re-
ported to have been subjected to Congress,by which
the Federal Government agrees to pay Mexico
11,000,000 dols. to satisfy the British and French
claims.

Mexico is to grant America commercial privi-
leges, and permission to transport troops across the
Mexican territory.
NEW YORK, DEC. 20, AFTERNOON.

A battle is reported in Missouri, in which 1,300
Confederates, finding themselves surrounded by the
Federal Forces, surrendered, with their baggage
and equipments.
Reports are current that the Confederates have
evacuated Galveston.

Vice-President Stephens, of the Southern Con-
federacy, is said to be seriously ill.
General Ville's projected Federal expedition from
Beaufort has been abandoned.
120,0001b5. of Sea Island cotton have arrived at
New York from Beaufort; 400,0001 b. more are
reported ready to be shipped.