The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

letter .type iip-set-refleCt s-c-N. Glasgo-Qier at earth.

Thus Trent Christ'n thieves on Justinian civil law code, 1. i.
T. I, §4, l'exposition 9rlay u.s. '76 Common law for Villette
texktbitionrs T. with no Utrecht flag-Rio 3ty, Negro-plot
in America, by my 1826 l'Brazil-flolbee (as 2nd branch of
Vere in Mordaunt Monox Dacres Atkyns, Crew-Edg-
cumbe-Montague Ackerley), elected as Imperial fiscamp°
Chamberlain Chap/en9 in 21 H. 8 c 13 on 7 Ed. 6 PJUL. 3's
oath, by i G. i, c 3, in Yorki Osnaburg-di'-Cmsar bishop,
Qui vent la fin (will. pat.-7 H. m) tient Le meridian m.
DEAF* DEFECT 'AS ONE-EY'D CORK. iN DECRETAL' SENSE,
Extracts for time, omit in Adm. Kt.-rider Crt. tbooks.

1.-t3,7" I certify, 'That on or about 29th August, 1325,
when Secretary of Embassy to C. Stuart de Rothsay, under
special mission (on holy alliance of King's Ciiian Clubs
abolition, on 1771 act c, 55) to Portugal & Emp. of Brazil.
That Lt. Ackerley on service-detach from Adm. Hamond's
ship at sea—became the Recipient-witness to Cmsar Emp.
Pedro I, of Peru abdication deed, and left with it [as Bahia's
G-flyuraid°-1763], for England in 'Bramble,' Lt. Favel.
26th April, 1861. SANDYS, then A. !Marcus HILL.
IT. Lt. C. H. Ackerley served as Lieutenant H,M, Ship
'ellesley and Spartiate, then under my command—from
June, 1824, to December, 1825—sent to Ocean-80, Lisbon.
TIT. Lt. Ackerley [and boat's crew on secret ' 7th ' order
Cycles-scarf' service money], not being entered on 'Bramble'
Cutter's-books—requires no IRs', certificate under my Rear-
ward Lt.l' command. G. E. Ilemorin,*Admiral.
Also blind Hanover in Lt. A.'s voice, Citizen of U, S. art.
§ 3, 1819, for tax-charged Indn. Peter excluded till 3d Sept.
1841 elected by M. Paley & O'Halloran as fit' pass-oath on
Theocone-ia writ-return, 1842-3 for Ashburton tide Jury-
man' to Cherokee Extradition act Crt. and Fenflotsam limits
in America &c., as PETER not French Pierre Basquet error
giving Warrior; Kt. medal's 'in ma nums'ry shadow, like
1829-35 Pope's police-Toll (e sicl9 Heb. meter-touch illegal
—so Le tons Denizen word, has no p—nor temporal power.
AIR-BALLOON'S UPRISE, with CUL-de-SAC
Poiz'rs, for Baemeter's Consulaire Thumb-inch.
Mmio.—On wing-spread, birds create their up-leg quill-
vacuum : so Pigeon 'Cruelty to animals' Act—gives cause,
for legal stoppage of these ascents without shown wit, viz.—
by four external Cul-de-sack windbags attached from crown
net, whose mouth-rings, (inward weighted to Net'ng are
vertical, till gas lb. Minx oso within the balloon, at the
over-3-mile Zone-electric), self-convert themselves hori-
zontally, by elastic gutta-tie, into parachute fall poizers,
" In (Ahaz-dial) ponderibus librata suis" (Ovid')
as in case of retreat, N.E. of 'Wolverhampton—by har9meter
26in. point of Foulasr collapse, on 17 July '62, for Standard
i'Rargny in. 12 4 -26 29--3206 Yard.
Mr. Coxwell's omission to take, up, car-affixed, the pure
wax taper flame (Agn4s C, see; fr.l l'Burton Crescent) used in
!ts vehicle ' the lamp of life,' for nasal vacu9ns -shield-bone
inhalation—by Aeronauts, against 151 b sqr-inch less 10 to
air-cough prostiTyre on the lungs, So accounts for Blue• lip' d-
Glaishe: 5-sqr. in. e? want of re-aeriform aid within, as in
low firedamp expel by Breath rarity-2/ mile up of winged
life-absence (in Windsor-tie Z 9'erbead O9cot), tho' saved
by hydrogen gas descent belly-paunch-like, at Oakham-'n',
Memo on Shenstone's Tulchan strawcalf milkuse couplet :
6,8 f In Clent, as "' King martyr'd, under a thorn 108
I Lyes Ken'elm, so Edgar with head off-shorn,'
as the Mayncoth ancestors of Emp, Conrad Ws 0.-daughter
Agatha Malcolm in & wife Margaret's P" offspring, now in
Span.Escurial of 4-Philip It. (whose daddy, Ii CAR. v., was
in kin to Ed, m's 0-Rainault PhilipEe) 1553-60, by Vigil M
Subsidy Roll, as Gaunt constable of England, See p. 414,
Oct. Gent's mag, '62, Fecamp's Leger.-bounden' v. I, Lodge,
TOMb.? 'Think !—every day to be thy last, Chandos.
For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.'

The vii-quicksilvery drop Vaceetherize 29 to 16 in. [}loft
9`er-net expansion—for absence of Nitro-moist fog within
Balkan-voltaic power,—influx of dry Quick.electricity : so
Thumb-inch pulse-tic, on Zone-enter where the first pair
twee at 15in. deg., of Blood crystarng— on the 13 inch fall
for 13,840 ft rise 2! -m.up, of 6,280 ft, each to I,oooft. per en.
—decimals the 10-sq. link Chain of Port Gafpe-basin marine
league by cannon shot 3-mile of shore of 1794 3ty' for river
red flag Ligne tir& on Peter Basket, to LOGAN's Cadils-
trvi-r,Tistry survey- °-level by gar°. Acts, § 9, 1818, '42-3.

So 'vactemd TITUS in Melon' on baremete 21n, =-4 lb. fall
for double-reason 64, 32, 16, 8,4, -o-by Geometric progression
to Treble—Sector A scale : : : : I/abelment=vlse on
Chiliarch 1586 Cowper f Palmerston's I-Refeh-Rjew union
Prrodes Soci. League 1826-30, as 2nd Melchisedek p order.
This by Civili D fratres 6-yr metu Comip'n 1826' for
education of Youth and con, cience-keep of Old—by Lisbon
enatch'ng witness Ackerley's Emp. Pedro I. deed resign
on joining Ocean-80, with \ BERESFORD, by holy Alliance
oueng on Sir C. S!uart, Ilamond &HILL, for Ackerley's Rex
7-8 Methuen Sty 9.• 29th Aug. 1826-6 Jan. 1, shows La belle
Indian & sets a • • o • perijove to Coorg '32 Tibet's larnal:.-C.
'red-turban'd dip-falls, from Planet's perihelion-ellipse as
in Monfaucon p 134-254, Vines Temple on Lady-day's
Ur Pileati St., or £'near with a hat on as VAT-i-Cone'd
" Sufficient onto the (pie is the Oval thereof."
spiralcurve (to Mundane =2s-oval of 11. B's will-lease at Ken-
nington-Butts to 1791 Sphinx-head. So TAcznA. Tudor Grey
Dilchef of Sankerstar's white-Al ba- aite,ot Scotia tntnor) on
the Exeter Ur a' Major G?9,regog • : gyrallon TaunTuar
night poach N' bill, 6 August, to a J•esus-nomena/ist' Ardity,
by Itotherham's-will 1490, O.S. transfiguration Rt.-rider-R.
Brant to Vat- /macula Conception feet"realiet-play Lady-day
If o.n"ver. ' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for
towns prefix #3* to 510 30 igow, Bantry, fiellisle, Brunswie.
In Hopton'a Stow Me/unvectigal Englith Kalendar, 1614,
on p. JUIIO3 epitaf Tomplum Flavia3 Gentis a Domitiane
CON DITCH' (Martialis Epigram 1. iv.) ON London-exchange.
EveshO.m-St, ado. Cornhill key + Gov'nor [lndia
• • * N.] e•Atkyns- Montague C. MI ACKERLEY, Exec.
• .1-2 w. IT., No. 64, Chamberlayne eie-sworn [,
Peter• Basquot, Income-tax Carib-chief (1842 unpaid
C• 1
• of China Ruff wall circuit horizon; London, Dec. 16,
a. 1862) its Montezuma-inch Admiralty red flag, not in
Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793-China, to lercyl,
.as so GnEv-cause of Captn's xi-yr support, th 6 tQn's.
ymen use his brains, and CAsAft-mock him to death,
as 'Constable t"' Coligny' for Bombay's Dewanney, on
ea* Hen. 7 and 8, c 31, Will-set Walloon precedency, as
for ottongardian to Canterbury's primelcy-Freeman,
retain to 1820's Greek Protectorate-oath, on its 190-yr
fee, costs £1,600 for my Indian alles duty, which
`721:i0
ivenmiry refuse payor reply, to their Geneva G-set
.of 1325 „Irru,..'n—ratem fecit" G—. ratio acting,
King's Chaplain
(33 G. m, c 7, Slaves free) order as
(to Ackerl4,44lll, under Polar map-inch Aot, 9 1818.20
Calvin Swis 14'41'7%4.. abjure act 1791 ,§ 7),—not for Romish
land, on Luther' I)•L'a %cher Co.'s of Brazil & Baltimore Mary-
arrival in 1861, Eu7,-;,-,.80 their veto unknown, till Peter's
Nov.-Iturbide let Min &vow, by Earl Grey's
as 'fit' Constable of P.O t colonial justice be done' to him,
'lt. Byham' issued totinititto report theft of Tower stores
Ashburton Ind. survey of thaapt't (not as Pierre) in '42 for
by the Earl of Derby' and fyiZZ Found-land of Virginia,
Ind. Yellow Gold-edged 1764-5 2tw"cl' sectry.-holding the
rickion N. Brunswick, Signed Bell-
li_pal-grants, of Frede•
delegate—on It1;1, BRANT', inducti,lm• & HefAgger
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for man t/erelic
removal to Escuriel
over Nf 'ndiand Conrasta2itt fort,
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fords as in Clarence Relies lAfric..
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river Tari.t. fisli'ry on Poor 1)f.
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b2l July 1521-211 CA CL. & 8, of Snuff-lark bar' in
Clapham's
Zealand Pilaw Tiber' Kt-
Teutonic 1842-6, in Quaker's !veil liar nstit ut ion L' igerwiek-
x, 'sin
law on Twred x-flotsain,`"' et stun' Asia's Europe
c. 71, for River Indian Bailie oath Crts, ( L
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' / rods to whale fishery boats 1 upset—medal c,
„ f " As Chester's Judge—like 6wl alone, A. H.
Hugh ‘-=Loop'''d am I,—thy 6_piautiee one.
§ Sir John Pbillimore, (on my Copenhagen 1814-22 R
Lt. set, as Colonial-Sara-ck'sa.-gulf Plowboy-bishop Chap-
lain on G. IV. Edin. gorget submission), founded a Temple,
church in Vatci•Cone rota dedicated to I-ft sqr. Meridian
as prior to Heide/biirg 1532-6 Exchange of Tux-meter.
(See Sun April 19, 28 May 16, & July 19.)

THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 16, 1862.

The long-expected Persia has at last arrived—the
failure of one of her engines much more than de-
stroying all the advantage she might have derived
from the late westerly winds. The tidings she was
to bring us enhanced the anxiety with which we
awaited her, as we knew that she was to place on
our desks the President's second Message. We have
it at last—the telegraphic summary at least—this
morning. We may say, in a word, that it disap-
points sadly the pro-Southern journalism of this
country. On the great question of the hour, it is
at once firm, yet conciliatory. It shows that the
President is determined to maintain the Union, to
get rid of slavery in order to do so, and yet to give
every opportunity to the South to emancipate gra-
dually and with fair compensation, The Southern
prophets in England were expecting either blood
and thunder, or cowardice. They find neither; but
they do find that the second Message is based on
the principle, that for the safety of the Union slavery
must die. Slowly, that is in 28 years, if that be
preferred, but mortal it must be. The new
Southern Republic proclaimed Slavery Divine,
therefore immortal. The Federal Government,
through its President, proclaims it earthborn,
therefore mortal, and, as a Roman might have said,
moriturus.

The PRESIDENT first lays it down that a division
of the States is impracticable. That there is no
line, straight or crooked, suitable for a national
boundary upon which to divide. The present strife
is, he says, a passing one; it belongs only to this
generation, and cannot be passed on to another.
Meaning, we presume, that a division of the States
would be a fertile source of disunion for future gene-
rations. Europeans may not so easily see the
validity of the basis thus laid for his policy, which
follows ; but, we presume, this view is eminently
acceptable in the North to Democrats as well as to
Republicans. Union worship is the worship of the
Northern States. All political parties there are
willing to sacrifice any consideration to that of
being prospectively the mightiest nation upon
earth. And Mr. LINCOLN is, doubtless, politically
right in firmly declaring separation to be an im-
possibility.

He then proceeds to develope his emancipation
scheme. It is founded on the second paragraph of
his proclamation, and is briefly described as "com-
pensated emancipation." It is to be effected by the
process known to the Constitution, of two-thirds of
both Houses concurring to lay certain articles of
amendment of the Constitution before the States
belonging to the Union; these articles to be
adopted into the Constitutions of the several
States, by a majority of three-fourths in conven-
tions called for the purpose. The first article is
that every slave State which shall abolish slavery
at any time prior to January, 1900, shall receive
compensation from the United States. Presidents
of the United States are to deliver United States
bonds, bearing a certain interest, for every slave
ascertained to have been such, at the eighth census
(that of 1860)—the bonds to be delivered by in-
stalments or in one sum, according as the
emancipation is gradual or immediate. It
appears singular, however, that the States
should be at liberty to reimpose slavery; since pro-
vision is made, in case they should do so, for their
refunding the bonds.
The second article provides for the liberty of all
who have been actually emancipated by the chances
of war before the end of the rebellion: loyal owners,
however, on proof of their loyalty are to receive a
fair:compensation. By this article the PRESIDENT,
as we understand him, proposes to carry out his
proclamation for the first of January. That
proclamation is a military not a civil mea-
sure, and all slaves emancipated under it will
obtain their freedom through the "chances of war."
Mr. LINCOLN thus holds over the beggared South
the alternative—compensation, if you will take it;
compulsory emsneipation if you will not. We shall
in a few hours, when we have received the full
message, be in a better position to judge of the
scheme as a whole. But as it lies before
before us at this moment, it appears to be a
declaration that the war shall be carried on with
the utmost vigour, as if no terms were offered,
while yet, terms which ought,without such a threat
to be willingly accepted, will be freely proffered.
If the South does not accept them, if it resolves
to fight for slavery at all costs and hazards, then
let every Englishman blush to say one word more
On its behalf. The future fighting will be more
undisguisedly than ever for slavery, and for no.
thing else ; and the war on the part of the North
one of emancipation. The issue, we may hope,
could hardly he doubtful. The Federal Govern-
merit, though
by loans of one kind or another,
chiefly, has paid its
to its credit—it musters 800,000
equipped and on the field ; and when
millions of dollars way with a balance of fourteen
men actual.y
the quotas are completed will have a million. Most
important of all, it reckons
up a Navy of 323 steam
and 104 sailing vessels, carrying in all 3,268 guns,
with which alone it could almost, in time,
squeeze,
the slaveholders into submission.

Mr. LmcoLii speaks as well as we could expect

of foreign nations. He has some censure for those
who so easily recognised the belligerent position
of the South. It was unwise and unnecessary,
and he had hoped in June last that the powers
would have receded from a position, as he thinks,
injurious to themselves, as well as to the North.
He thinks also that foreign nations have contem-
plated the American struggle less with reference
to its merits than to its effects, which were often
exaggerated, on themselves. Still he thinks that
for America to complain would be unwise, even
though it might be just. In this country,
we apprehend, the merits of the case have
been everything. It is true a good deal
of feeling has been temporarily created on behalf
of the South, but it began entirely through the tem-
porising of the North with slavery, and the North
is regaining the good-will of England, just in pro-
portion as it shows itself determined to strike at
the root of the war, and at the iniquity which,
though locally Southern, has been too much fos-
tered north of the Potomac. One thing the PRE-
SIDENT honourably recognises—that England has
carried out her treaty for the suppression of the
slave trade with a "jealous respect for the autho-
rity of the United States, and the rights of their
•
moral and loyal citizens."

A singularly magnanimous pamphlet has within
the last few days made its appearance at Paris, in
relation to this problematic question as to who
shall be the new Greek Sovereign. M. BALTAZZI
is the Pamphleteer : the title of his brochure being
"Le Prince ALFRED et lee interets Francais en
Orient." PRINCE ALFRED and EN ORIENT being
the conspicuous words upon the title-page—
and obviously with a certain significance. As
much as possible we shall in what follows
let the Parisian publicist who has ventured to touch
upon this delicate theme of debate just now among
Frenchmen and Englishmen, speak for himself—
translating as we turn.the pages a few of the more
telling passages in the argument thus put forth.
At the very opening of this argument says M.
BALTAZZI—" Whether Prince ALFRED may or
may not be destined to reign in Greece, the success
of his candidature is a Jecognized fact. And
the significance of it (that is of this signal
success) is too profound for us not to endeavour to
signalise the causes of it, and from the indication
of those causes to deduce the consequences of an
event which has apparently taken the French
public by surprise. The policy of the Angle-
French Alliance," the writer then adds quite boldly
and frankly, " the policy, the value or the worth-
lessness of the Anglo-French Alliance is now about
to be very brilliant and conspicuously signalized in
Greece ! When," says M. BALTAZZI, " it is said
that the advent of an English Prince to the throne
of Greece would be the signal of the ruin in Greece
of French interests in the East—that it involves, by
necessity, a displacement of equilibrium that could
only bring about general complications, there is
surely a total forgetfulness that there is
such a thing as an Anglo-French Alliance
at all, while a flagrant misinterpretation is
given to the significance of the predilection
which the Greeks are just now manifesting in
favour of an English Prince." A few reflections,
adds the writer, and those reflections, reflections
of the simplest kind, will suffice to put the whole
question upon its right footing, and to recall to
mind, in some manner, the precise principles out
of which the Anglo French Alliance sprang.
He then proceeds in the manner following :
" The Crimean war has effectively proved that
the East is open to domination by one or
other of two policies. Namely, that of
conquest, represented by Russia; and that of
civilisation, represented by France allied to Eng-
land. Between those two policies ther e is no room
left for a third. It is only in a secondary place and
in a subordinate sphere that the thousand and one
questions, which are continually surging to the
surface, enter at times into consideration. And in
order to arrive in any way at a sense, of their
actual significance, it will suffice to inquire
for a moment in what manner any of those
minor questions affect the one or the other
of those two antagonistic influences between
which the East is perpetually balanced and in
oscillation. From this point of view let us now
examine for a moment the events which have very
recently taken place there in Greece. The Revolu-
tion of the Tenth of October regarded strictly in
reference to itself, affects in no degree whatever
either the one or the other of these two policies. It
was a revolutionary movement directed against
the KING, who had no identification with
either." Here we take leave to dissent,
however, toto calo from the conclusion ar-
rived at by M. BALTAZZI, in regard to the neu-
trality of the policy of the ex-King OTno, that
policy, on the contrary, being flagrantly sympa-
thetic with the policy of St. Petersburg, in prefer-
ence to the coincident policies of St. James's and
the Tuileries—and this simply in obedience to the
Russian proclivities of the ex-Queen AMELIA—the
She Marplot of the interests of the Bavarian
Dynasty in Greece ! Returning however to the
course of the argument pursued by the
Parisian pamphleteer, we find M. BAL-
TAZZI thus pursuing in its occasionally
devious windings the tenacious thread of
that argument of his : " Obliged to quit the
country which he had disgusted by his incapacity,"
adds the writer, " King OTHo left behind him no
heir to his throne. As the Greeks had actually
there and then had the clean sweep of a Revolution,
they had, at the moment of the ex-KING'S deposi-
tion, a perfect right, supposing they had pleased to
exercise it, to constitute themselves into a re-
public : and all the more so, seeing that Greece is
peculiarly and essentially the country of equality."
Such a decision, however (argues M. BALTAZZI),—
in favour of proclaiming a Republic—would have
been like entering upon a wild series of specula-
tions. It would have been committing themselves
to the chance of a mere adventure. Prudence drew
the revolutionists at Athens, throughout Greece—
at once, as by an instinct—to a monarchy, to a
monarch. And this new monarch—where WdS he
to be found P In Bavaria ? The rights of treaties
were in favour of such a direction being
followed up. Bavaria was out of the question how-
ever for very obvious reasons—first and foremost
among them being the fact that she had been tried
in this way and found a-wanting ! And this by no
hasty decision on the part of the Greeks, let it be
borne in mind, but by a series of patiently borne
and protracted experiments—experiments extend.
ing over au interval of thirty years of misrule.
Turning from Bavaria to Russia, the pamphleteer
recalls to mind at once, most appositely, the
famous exclamation of the late Czar NICHOLAS to
Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR during the course of one
of their memorable conversations apropos to Greece
and Turkey—" I should prefer to have the last
Russian killed and to spend my last rouble, rather
than permit the Greeks to aggrandise themselves in
the East." Coming at last to the chief alternative
presented to the Greeks in the present not altoge-
ther disagreeable difficulty---"'This KING," asks M.

RATTAZZI, " shall he be French or shall he be Eng-
lish ?" Provided only that the choice lit upon
one or the other he then argues the question as to
which of the two it should be, mattered little or
nothing to the Greeks.
Without mentioning his Imperial Highness
by name, the pamphleteer sets aside as in a
manner out of the question the Prince NAPO-
LEON as one apart from all party, as one with-
out any clear aim before him in his policy, as
one fitted by temperament more for observation
than for action. And after this fashion, he respect-
fully passes by " this Fiench Prince," as he terms
him, periphrastically, but pointedly, " whose name
is his obly prestige." Summing up the principal
claimants otherwise in a sentence, he says (p. 17):
—" An indigenous Prince would have humi-
liated Greece, a Prince allied to Russia
would have been in direct antagonism to
the national aspirations." Consequently, he
says—" Menaced by Russia, unable to demand
their new King from France, the Partizans of the
Anglo-French Alliance in Greece directed their at-
tention towards England, and these fixed their
regard upon Prince ALFRED, of whom personally
they had themselves enjoyed the opportunity of
appreciating the many brilliant qualities." The
rest of the argument may be readily imagined.
It is a vindication of the reasonableness of
the choice determined upon almost by an instinct of
good taste and discretion by the Greeks them-
selves. M. BALTAZZI places his reliance implicitly
and absolutely on the cordiality and integrity and
truthfulness of the Anglo-French Alliance. Greece
he says, just towards the close of his argument, has
not (it should be understood) demanded an exten-
sion of territory. She has simply demanded a
Prince that diplomacy refuses to her. Has she not,
therefore,he asks, a perfect right (in the event of that
refusal being persisted in) to demand an in-
demnity (or compensation) for the sacrifice
which Europe thus imposes upon her legitimate
aspirations P And the Anglo-French Alliance,
has it not, in its turn, an especial interest
in seeing now that the brilliant successes just
proffered to it there in the East in tribute or in
sympathy shall not be abruptly changed into a
disaster. Their power (if they so please) to decide
the question now at issue, the writer of this out-
spoken brochure will express, by briefly remarking
—" When France and England act in concert,
malcontents hold their peace, and the world remains
tranquil."

A FRENCH CRITICISM ON THE ENG
LISH POLICE.

The following letter appeared in the columns of
a contemporary this morning :
Sir,--A fortnight has scarcely passed since you did me
the honour to insert a letter of mine in your journal, and I
again find myself under the necessity of sending you these
few lines, in the hope that you will have the goodness to
insert them in your columns.

It is the habit in France to speak in terms of high praise
of the English policeman and to represent him as being at
once gentle and firm, deliberate and vigilant,—as the model
in short of Sergents-de-Ville, past, present, and future. I
venture to hope, sir, that with your well-known impar-
tiality, you will allow me to give to the English public in
general, and to my countrymen in particular, a sample of
the firmness and vigilance of the English policeman.
On the evening of Thursday, the 7th inst., the day of the
fire in Portpool-lane, at about half-past 7, I passed along a
narrow street, named, I believe, Leather-lane. The crowd
blocked up the road—those whom I shall name, honest
people, occupying the road, whilst the others, of more doubt-
ful probity, and who appeared to be of the lowest class, were
ranged along the pavement. The apparent motive of all
was to see the fire, but the real object of a great number,
as I shall presently prove, was to rob.
As I went along I perceived many hats whirled into the
air, a dozen or so of fights, which might be serious or not,
and other pastimes of a similar nature, to which I paid no
attention, regarding them only as the natural consequences
of the jokes allowable between friends and acquaintances
on such occasions. But I was speedily undeceived.

All at once I found myself surrounded by half a dozen
individuals of the most suspicious appearance, the youngest
of whom might have been sixteen years of age, and the
oldest about five-and-twenty. It did not take me long to
guess their motive, and that it was simply to rob me of
all I possessed. Some persons in the road called out
to me to take care of my hat; but this was the least of my
anxieties; the important and essential thing for me being
to prevent my arms being pinned to my sides, and, above
all, to avoid being thrown to the grcund. My only wea-
pon, offensive or defensive, consisted of an umbrella, hut I
showed a good front to the enemy. This mode of action
seemed to astonish my adversaries, and for a moment made
them hesitate. They looked at each other, with the evident
object of stirring up one another to the attack, but each
was unwilling to be the first ; and this moment of indeci-
sion on their part saved me. I resolved to fall back slowly
upon the honest people in the road, or upon the wall of a
neighbouring house, and put in practice my feeble
knowledge of the French mode of boxing, which has been
pleasantly
the "savote."
Fearing
thatthe somewhat comic position in which I
was placed might speedily turn to a tragic one, I was na-
turally far from feeling altogether at ease or at hone, but
my anxiety was not of long duration. A workman took my
hat, passed it to one of his comrades, and, placing himself
behind rue, facilitated my retreat. In this way I found
myself introduced, always moving backwards, into a pub-
lic-house, and was saved.
I now recovered my hat, and was informed that Ihad
been saved by its temporary removal from my head, since,
had it remained there, it would have been thrust over my
eyes, and that whilst I was unable to see and recognise
who robbed me, my aggressors would have found courage
to despoil me.
A huudred persons had sought refuge in the public-
house in question, and almost all had been robbed. Two
young gentlemen, amongst others, had been completely
cleaned out; their watches, chains, hats, and even coats,
having disappeared, and—what is almost incredible—the
rings belonging to one having been torn from his fingers.
After I had remained a good half-hour in the tavern, I
resolved to sally forth and brave what danger might remain.
Two gentlemen, emboldened by my example, offered to
accompany me, and setting out from a side door, we suc-
ceeded in effecting a passage through the crowd.
Now, will be believed that all this took place within
thirty or forty feet of a steam fire-engine, and, I must add,
of half a dozen policemen, who seemed to make a point of
looking in the exactly opposite direction. Without making
any commentary upon this, I will simply certify, to the
honour of the French police, that such things as those I
have described are unknown in France.

It may be asked, perhaps, what I was doing in such a
place as Leather-lane ? To which I reply that I was
there on business, and not as an idler that being a teacher
of the French language I have to proceed from one place
to another in the shortest possible time, and that I believe
Leather-lane to be the most direct route from Charter-
house to Gordon-square.

I will conclude by acknowledging to my shame, that
the excitement of the moment prevented me from offering
a word of thanks to the labouring man who came to my
aid, and whom I shall always regard as having saved me
on this occasion. It is possible that these lines may meet
his eye, and that they may show him that the person
whom he so much obliged was not ungrateful.

3. Ds L.

MEXICO.

CHINA.

Huntingdon-street, N.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 15,
Her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Princess Louis
of Hesse walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince
Louis of Hcsse rode, attended by Captain Grey.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur left the Castle this
morning, and returned to Greenwich Park, attended by
Major Elphinstone.

A. deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Alderman
Humphery, Alderman Sidney, M.P., Alderman William
Lawrence, Alderman Phillips, Alder man Abbiss, Alderman
Gibbons, Alderman and Sheriff J. C. Lawrence, the Town
Clerk, and the City Rev embrancer, had an interview with
Secretary Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office, on
the increase of crime in the metropolis.

THE EASTERN FIStIERIES.—SeveraI of the boats
hailing from the port of Great Yarmouth, and which have
been prosecuting the herring fishery during the last few
weeks, have already "made up," and most of the remainder
will make their last voyage for the season this week. Since
allusion was last made to the subject in the Sun a week
or two since, the deliveries of fish at Yarmouth have been
larger than is usually the case at this season of the year,
and the fish Lave also been of better quality. Fresh fish
have sold at from £5 to £2O ver last (13,200 fish) and salted
at from £4 to £l5 per last. At Lowestoft the deliveries
have also been large ; prices have ranged from 108, to
£l7 Ns, per last.

Le Prince Alfred et lea iniere'ts Frangais en Orient
Par T. E. Baltt.zzi, Bvo, pp. 31. Paris : Lain et Ifavard.
1862.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUES JAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1862.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

LATESr NEWS.

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

NEW YORK, DEC. 8 (Evening).
(Per Jura, via Cape Race.)

An engagement has occurred at Hartsville,
Tennessee, between the Federal advance force
fi ow. Nashville and the Confederates under Gen.
Morgan. Colonel Moore's Federal brigade was
repulsed several times and finally captured. Gen.
Morgan afterwards attacked the Federals at Galla-
tin, but was repulsed with heavy loss.

Both the Federal and Confederate armies are
actively engaged is fortifying at Fredericksburg.
The Southern journals state that a fleet of 20
Federal vessels sailed from Hilton on the sth
inst. for Georgetown or Wilmington. Several
Federal vessels had passed Charleston harbour.
It was supposed that they were going to assist
in attacking Mobile.

The same journals assert that 30,000 Federals
are at Suffolk, preparing to move against Peters-
burg, while a Federal force at Newbern, North Car-
lina, will operate simultaneously against Weldon.
The Federals occupy Granada, Mississippi.
Large subscriptions for the Lancashire distress
fund continue to pour in.

NEW YORK, DEC. 8 (Evening).

Money easy. Gold, 32 prem. Exchange on
London, bankers' bills, 146. Stocks steady. New
York Central, 1021 ; Illinois, 78 ; Erie, 6L Cotton
dull; Middling Upland, 66k. Flour slightly firmer.
Wheat in good demand for export. Corn advancing
le. higher. Coffee quiet. Sugar steady.

(Per City of Washington.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 6 (Morning).
Seven transports and two iron-clad steamers have
sailed from Fortress Munroe under sealed orders.

The Confederates appears to have left the section
of the country north of the Rappahannock.
The Federal expediti, n which had sailed from
Suffolk, Virginia, has recaptured the Federal bat-
tery taken some time since, and has driven the
Confederates across the Blackwater River.

The Federal gunboat Ellis was blown up during
the expedition up the New River, North Carolina,
to prevent it falling into the hands of the Confede.
rates.

The Federal commander has informed the autho-
rities of Fredericksburg that as long as no hostile
demonstration was made from Fredericksburg, he
should not shell the town.

General " Stonewall" Jackson is reported to
have joined General Lee at Fredericksburg.

.The Confederates are working on the defences of
Fredericksburg, and the Federals are erecting for-
tifications commanding the Confederate positions.
The Confederates have captured a train of
Federal waggons with ordnance stores in Virginia.

ST . NAGAIRE, DEC. 15.

The steamship Floride has arrived here with
General Lorencez on board, and brings news from
Vera Cruz to the 16th ult.

During the previous fortnight six vessels had ar-
rived there, bringing altogether 4,000 men. The
corps of General Berder had victoriously entered
Jalapa, which was defended by 2,500 Mexicans.
A column of 2,000 men had taken possession of
Medlin, which is an important position for obtain-
ing provisions.

Twelve companies of the 81st Regiment of the
Liue had embarked for Tampico, in order to occupy
that place. The 3d Regiment of Zouives were
scouring the neighbourhood of Vera Cruz for oxen,
destined to complete the means of transport.
Another tempest occurred on the 6th November
and drove three vessels on shore. Neither of them
were French.

ST. PETERSBURG, DEc. 16,

The Invalide Russe of to-day announces that
Herr von Langenstrossiu, during his stay in Lon-
don, concluded a loan with Messrs. Rothschild at
5 9 10 per cent. for the Grand Duchy of Vinland.
The amount of the loan is not stated.

MADRID, DEC. 14 (Evening.)

In the Senate to-day the debate on Mexican
affairs was continued. The Marquis de Monaliches
censured the acts of General Prim, especially his
journey to the United States.
The Madrid papers eomment variously upon the
speech of Senor Calderon Collantes, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, relative to the Mexican expedition.

Senor Collantes and M. Barrot, the French Am-
bassador, have had a long conference together.

SHANGHAI, OCT. 2&

Two expeditions hare bees sent from Ningpo
against the rebels, and were successful. X.anding
was captured by the allied forces on the 23d inst.,
and Fimgoha (?), the rEbel stronghold, was carried
by assault by the Imperialists on the 24th inst.

The Mahomedans in Shensi have been routed, and
peace is now restored in that province.
The Duke of Lancaster has been totally wrecked
off Formosa. The captain and crew were saved.
An extensive business is being transacted in
cotton.

Ten thousand (P tons of shipping) have been
chartered for the transport of the raw material from
Hongkong to Europe.
Intelligence from Japan states that the Tycoon
has declared his inability to punish the perpetrators
of the late murder, and has applied to the British
Government for assistance.

The cholera has carried off a quarter of a million
of the inhabitants cf Jeddo.

NOVEMBER 6.
The Taepings are moving on Kanding, and are
expected to attempt its recapture.

It is rumoured that they are also marching to
attack San kow.

An Imperied force is advancing for the protec-
tion of this city.

The news from Japan is unsatisfactory. The
position of foreigners was precarious.

The meeting alleged' to have been recently held
by the Daimios did not take place.
A bloodless revolution is reported to be in pro•
gre.t.s, having, among other objects, the destruction
of Jeddo.

The whole country is in a most unsettled state.
Tea lower. Silk firm. Settlements in fortnight,
2,000 bales. Export to date, 49,500 bales.
Exchange on London, 63. ind. to 6s. ld. Freight,
555. to 60s.

CANTON, Nov. 14.
Tea firm and active. Total export to date,
67,750,0001 b.
Exchange on London, 4s. 7td. to 4s. 7fd.

(PRIVATE TELEGRAM.)
TIONKONG, OCT. 30 (via JUBAL).
Export of tea, 57,500,000.
Exchange at Shanghai, 63. 2d.; ditto at Hong-
Bong, 4s. Id.
Gray skirtings, 33- dollars.
The following telegram has been receiyed from

Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, the Naval Com-
mander-in-Chief in China :
" Kanding retaken ; very few casualities."
INDIA.
CALCUTTA, Nov. 29 (via Jubal).
Gray shirting and mule twist dull.
Indigo, nothing doing. Linseed unchanged.
Exchange on London.—First-class credits, 2e.
Oid.
j Government Securities.—Five per Cents., 1041.
Freight unchanged.

BOMBAY, Nov. 29.
Cotton piece goods and mule twist unchanged.
Government Securities.—Five and a Half per
Cents., 112.
Freight quiet.