The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-22 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, SAT UR OA. EVENING, FEBR VARY 22, 1A62,
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princely nature, of him whoe,
to the earth with a sense of desolation b.-

that every day, alas ! serves only to increase, is ap-
preciated by the country—that the benefits he has
been instrumental in conferring upon the nation,
the good he has wrought since he first came among
us, and to effect which he may truly be said alone
to have lived, are understood and acknow-
ledged." Her MAJESTY then goes on to remark,
through
MAJESTY'S Secretary,
the medium of her
I, The QUEEN is also much touched by the feeling
which has led the promoters of the movement for
erecting a national monument to the Prince to leave
the nature of that monument to her decision. It is
a subject on which there must necessarily be much
difference of opinion. Many, influenced, doubtless,
by the belief that there was nothing which the
Prince himself had so deeply and constantly at heart
as the promotion of whatever might tend to the ad-
vantage of the community at large, or of any por-
tion of it, have thought that the most appropriate
monument to his memory would be to connect
his name with some great work that should have
that end in view ; and the Queen cannot but be
gratified by this proof of a just appreciation of his
character." General GREY, it will be observed, in
one of the above sentences, refers to the hitherto
debated questions as to the character of the proposed
memorial, as to the choice of its site, and again as to
the manner of its execution, as constituting al together
"a subject on which there must be much difference
of opinion." Much difference of opinion there has
been, no doubt. But that is now all put an end to.
The matter is definitively set at rest by her
MAJESTY'S own gracious and, we cannot
but think it really a admirable decision.
What the Royal decision is we will let
the QUEEN'S Secretary himself explain in his
own words. "After giving the subject her
best consideration," writes General GREY, " her
MAJESTY has come to the conclusion that nothing
would be more appropriate, provided it is on a scale
of sufficient grandeur, than an obelisk to be erected
in Hyde park on the site of the Great Exhibition of
1851, or on some spot immediately contiguous to
it ; nor would any proposal that can be made be
more gratifying to the QUEEN personally, for she
can never forget that the PRINCE himself had
highly approved of the idea of a memorial of this
character being raised, on the same spot, in remem-
brance of that Exbibition." Who is there amongst
her MAJESTY'S loyal subject who will not instantly
recognise the grace, the dignity, the tenderness,
and the grandeur of those loving recollections which
have led Queen VICTORIA to this most admirable
selection at once of memorial, of site, and of manner
of execution. The site—the greensward in Hyde-
park, where, eleven years ago, glittered in the sun-
light the Fairy Crystal Palace of the 1851 Exhibi-
tion ! The monument itself—a favourite style of me-
morial with the departed PRINCE—an Obelisk. But,
quoth the QUEEN, though her MAJESTY'S Secretary
an Obelisk—and an Obelisk there—upon one pro-
viso [and here it is that Her MAJESTY decides the
mode of execution !]—" provided it is on a scale of
sufficient grandeur" Her MAJESTY has said it.
All the difficulties hitherto surrounding the scheme
of the nation's memorial are at length, and by those
few words, effectually dissipated. Happily too the
wherewithal through which to erect this grand
memorial obelisk in Hyde Park on the site of the
late Prince Consort's MASTERPIECE, the Great
International Exhibition of 1851, has been magni-
ficently provided already by those loyal contribu-
tions to the memorial, now considerably over
thirty thousand pounds sterling.

A. supplementary letter, it will have been
remarked, was alluded to yesterday by the Lord
Mayor as having been addressed to his lordship by
command of the QUEEN, and enclosed in the same
envelope with the gracious communication from
which the foregoing extracts have been taken.
That separate and supplementary letter, as the Lord
Mayor himself calls it, was merely read by the Chief
Magistrate yesterday to the members of the assem-
bled Committee, with a request from the Lord Mayor
to the representatives of the Press not to give it
publication unless Her MAJESTY should have
herself graciously authorised its publication. The
Royal permission having since then been accorded,
empowering us to give publicity to this second and
still more beautiful and affecting expression of the
QUEEN'S grief for the loss of her MAJESTY'S
Royal Consort, we have the sorrowful gratification
of giving insertion to it verbatim elsewhere.

Another Federal success is at least another
favourable augury for the North. If it were of no
great military value, still success itself in war is
something; if it does nothing else, it raises the
spirit of the conquering side. It shows superior
skill or courage, or both ; and, if only better luck,
even this last, in its effects, is not to be despised.
The capture of Fort Henry is not, however, to be
despised from any point of view. It was a fort in a
very important position; commenced by the rebels
last summer, because it commands an important
railroad from Memphis, on the Mississippi, to Ken-
tucky and the North, and also the navigation of the
Tennessee, a large and navigable branch of the
Obio, running through the State of the same
name. The fort was, it would seem, well built
and armed. The Southerners thought it impreg-
nable. It mounted twenty guns, and a
little army appears to have been encamped
under them. The affair, however, was one of long
balls. Several iron-clad gun-boats, from Cairo—
situated at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio—
steamed up the latter river, turned up the Ten-
nessee, and shelled the fort from a distance. The
commander, a regularly trained West Point officer,
defended it vigorously for an hour and a half, when
he was obliged to haul down the Confederate flag,
and surrender at discretion. As to the regiments
encamped under the fort, they appear to have taken
to their heels when the artillery, which they were
to support, ceased to support them. The Federal
loss was, it is said, 30 men killed by a shot enter-
ing a boiler. But the official report makes no men-
tion of this loss.

We shall now see whether General BEAUREGARD,
who has been some weeks in the west, will succeed
in retrieving, or maintaining the Confederate posi.
tion. He has kept the large army on the Potomac
at bay, and he will have a country to defend, it
must be supposed, naturally stronger, than the more
populous North of Virginia. The Federals have
pretty nearly possessed themselves of Kentucky,
and i❑ the part adverted to, are pressing into Ten-
nessee, in parts of which, as well as in Kentucky,
there are many Unionists. There seems a disposi-
tion to try now the cifect of attacking the flank of
the rebel force in the West. ;The sea-board expedi-
tions have not resulted in calling forth any Union
demonstrations at the points seized; the generals
hardly advance beyond the covering fire of the
ships, slaves show:no marked appreciation of North-
ern generosity, and of the whites we do not hear
that a single man has joined the Federals. It may
be better in the West. Several States there have,
or parts of them, an anti-slavey population—whole
counties which keep all slaves as far away as they
can. Congress seems well pleased with the recent
small successes, and on the arrival of the news of
the fall pf Fort Henry promptly voted the
£2,000,000 for twenty iron-clad gunboats, respect-

-, loss has bowed her ing which they had, till that time, been hesitating.
-"d misery There appears to be a general impression in the
North that unless some visible movement be

"^ made towards the conquest of the South,
prompt, j
—rients will be likely to inter-
the European Govern—
v ossenop.Tehss themselves The impression is
of m
is so strong thatti
theporatotenms
attempt
to of
Southern territory, or important posts in it, is
almost certain to be made. Europe must be shown
that the North is doing its work, and that inter-
vention is uncalled for. • Next month the country
will bo drier; it will soon be possible, so far as
physical obstacles are concerned, for troops to
move, and if they do not the impatience of the tax-
payers will probably become unmanageable.
But, in truth, the taxpayers have hardly been
appealed to yet ; Congress seems to evade the actual
voting of a tax till the last moment. Loans and
Treasury notes it has no objection to, but it is
unwilling to commit itself to a tax. We do not
wonder at this. The difficulty is enormous. Already
Mr. LINCOLN'S own district, the North-West, is
crying out at the very prospect of being taxed
equally with New England ; they attempt to show
that it would be but a nominal, not a real equality.
They also assert, which is true enough, that with
the MORILL tariff, and as manufacturing States, the
New England people were making comparative for-
tunes out of the war, while the corn markets of the
North-West had been injured by it. It seems very
probable that the attempt to impose a property or
income tax, which, by the constitution, must be
equal all over the States, would, on account of its
practical inequality, be met by non-payment, and,
if persisted in, by something little short of another
rebellion. The one thing needed to smooth all, is,
such manifest success as should silence every com-
plaint in the exultation which would quickly
follow.

Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE has already baptised the
present session—it is to be called, " The Private
Members' Sess!on." Government, he says, has
taken to the pleasant occupation of lying on its
oars, so that unless private members were to be
allowed to go on with their little reforms, he did
not see how the house was to employ itself till
the first of June. The only way by which the
session could escape the reproach of doing no-
thing was, he thought, by giving full scope
to the private members. These remarks were
dropped as a little piece of advice to Mr. NEWDE-
GATE, who, he thought, "chewed a settled dispo-
sition to harass Mr. HADFIELD." Now Mr. HAD-
FIELD has before the House a little reform, so
small and yet so pre-eminently reasonable, that
hitherto the Commons have given it several times
unopposed readings, and the Lords only turned it
out last Session on the principle of " the smallest
reforms thankfully rejected."

His Bill is for the repeal of a declaration on
taking municipal and other offices, that the person
making it will do nothing in virtue of his Vice to
injure the Established Church, or to disturb its
ecclesiastical personages in any of their legal
rights. It is chiefly against municipal officers that
the declaration is directed. Thus, the second section
of the Act enacts, " That every person who shall
hereafter be placed, elected, or chosen in or to the
office of mayor, alderman, recorder, bailiff, town
clerk, or common councilman, in or to any office
or magistracy, or place, trust, or employment re-
lating to the 'government of any city, corpora-
tion, borough, or einque port within England and
Wales, or the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, shall
within one calendar month next, before or upon
his admission into any of the aforesaid offices or
trusts, make and subscribe the declaration." And
again, the fourth section enacts(with reference to the
second only), that, " If any person placed, elected or
chosen into any of the aforesaid offices or places
shall omit or neglect to make and subscribe the said
declaration in manner above mentioned, such
placing, election or choice shall be void, and that
it shall not be lawful for such person to do any act
in the execution of the office or place into which he
shall be so chosen, elected or placed." But in re-
gard to Cabinet Ministers and all persons of high
military and naval rank, who have to make the
same—they are allowed six months before they are
required to make it ! The fact is that these higher
offices have an annual indemnity bill
passed in order to protect them from the
penal consequences of neglecting the very
law which is enforced rigidly against municipal
officers within a period too short for the bill to be
of any avail to them ! Can legislation be
more one sided ? The high officers of State
are persons of far more influence than the local
town councillor or alderman, yet for the great man
impunity is secured; for the inferior man there is
no relaxation of the law.

It was acknowledged by the Lords themselves
that the declaration was useless. Lord DERBY on
that very ground declined to argue the question,
though he voted for what he pronounced of little
importance. But Lord CHELMSFORD openly said
that while it did no good to the Church, its object
was to show the predominance of the Established
Church, and to be a bridle on Dissenters. In fact,
the Novua Dominus proposed the rejection of Mr.
HADFIELD'S bill, and carried his motion by a majo-
rity of ten—on the ground of the honour to the
Church, and of course corresponding insult to all
Catholics and other Dissenters implied in the decla-
ration.

But really, we would put it to their Lordships,
whether this is the day to preserve usages of any
kind which are no substantial advantage to the
Church, while they irritate all who do not be-
long to it ? As the Church has so many
advantages on its side, so much power, and so
much wealth—ought not the Churchmen
rather to make a declaration that they will not in-
jure Dissenters as by law tolerated. Is it not a
pitiful sight—the Church, which has the Crown as
its supreme head, its bishops in the House of
Lords, all the State ecclesiastical wealth in its pos-
session—is it not pitiful to see this Church look-
ing down on the despised Dissenter, and de-
manding of him a declaration to do her
no harm. To us the declaration seems one
which a really strong Church might well blush
to esk. For her own credit's sake it ought to be
repealed. It came in the place of the tests im-
posed by the old teat and Corporation Act, and,
like them, it ought to be consigned to the limbo of
the old persecuting enactments. We trust the
Lords will have the good sense to see it in this
light.

OSBORNE, Feb. 21.—The Queen attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce and Major •General Seymour, drove
out yesterday.

The Earl and Countess Verulam have arrived
at Critchill House, Dorset, on a visit to Mr. and Lady
Charlotte Sturt.

Lord and Lady Foley will leave town early next
week on a visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvcir Castle.
Lord and Lady Sondes and family will come to
town on Tuesday next from Elmham flan, Norfolk, for
the season.

Lord Wenloek has taken a residence in Upper
Belgrave-street. Tha noble lord and her ladyship will
come to town early next month for the season from Escrick
Park, Yorkshire,
Lord and Lady Colchester have issued cards for
deuce in Berkeley-square,
dinner parties this evening and Monday next at their reg..

The Spealrei will give his second Parliamentary
dinner this evening at Westminster Palace.

THE CASE OF 11B._DIGBY S-47.510(11?.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF T'',/E SUN.
Sir,---I am directed by the l‘J.:asters of the Bench of the
Middle Temple to inform Ka that a copy of the judgment
of the Benchers in Mr. Digby Seymour's case, and copies
of the evidence and proceedings on which it was founded,
were furnished to M. Digby Seymour by the Benchers
before Mr. Digby Seymour made his address to his con-
stituents at Southampton.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. H. DAKYNS, Under-Treasurer.
Treasury-office, Middle Temple, Feb. 21.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—Her Serene Highness
the Princess Hohenlohe (half-sister to the Queen), accom-
panied by her son, Count Glechin, landed in the docks this
afternoon, at a quarter to three, from the royal yacht Fairy,
Capt. G. H. Seymour, C. 8., on their return from a visit to
her Majesty. They were received, on landing, by Mr. Y.
Hedger, and Mr. J. Levy, of the dock company, and Mr.
R. Beach, of the South-Western Railway Company. The
Princess and her son left by the 3 o'clock train for Bucking-
ham Palace, and will take their departure for Germany on
Saturday. H.R.H. Prince Arthur, attended by Major
Elphinstone, Lady Bruce, and Major-General Seymour
(Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty), accompanied the
Princess to the docks, and returned in the Fairy to Osborne.
Sir James Clark, her Majesty's principal physician, also
embarked in the Fairy for Osborne.
___

We are informed on good authority that Dr.
Rowland Williams has notified his intention to resign his
office of Vice-Principal, with the Professorship of Hebrew
at St. David's College, Lampeter, next Summer. The in-
come of the appointment is about £5OO, with a good house,
—Clerical Journal.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—We
are informed that Mr. J. E. M`Connefi, who has been for
so many years the chief of the locomotive department of
this company, has resigned his official connexion with it.
The causes of Mr, M'Connell's resignation have not at pre-
sent transpired.

ACCIDENTS TO WORKMEN.—The bill which Mr.
Ayrton has laid before Parliament is one of considerable
importance to employers. Tho bill gives a right of action
against a master for damages to any workman or servant
(or to his family if he is killed), in case of his being injured
in consequence of his master, " or any other person em-
ployed by his master," omitting anything proper, or doing
anything improper in the work that is to be done. The
only limitation is that a master is not to be liable for any
wilful act or omission of the fellow servant amounting to a
criminal offence.

WRECK IN CARMARTHEN BAY.-FERRYSIDE
Friday Night.—The clergyman of this place, who is the
hon. secretary of this branch of the Royal National Life-
boat Institution, writes as follows relative to a vessel which
had gone on the rooks near Carmarthen Bay :—" I have
just despatched the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution to the assistance of a schooner, which within the last
two hours has gone among the rocks off the Worley Point,
at the mouth of Laugharne River, the wind blow-
ing heavily from E. S.E. The information of the
wreck was brought to me by the second cox-
swain of the lifeboat who saw the vessel going ashore.
Her sails had split, and she had become unmanageable, and
at once got among the rocks, where the sea is always
breaking heavily. I believe she is the schooner chartered by
the owners or underwriters of the ship and cargo of the
Woodside, a vessel wrecked on Pendrin Sands, about three
weeks or a month ago, and was now laden with the wine
saved from the Woodside, To-morrow full particulars
shall be sent. In justice to the coxswain and crew let me
add that the lifeboat was despatched with very great
alacrik."

TUE LATE ROBBERY OF JEWELRY IN NOTTING.

HAM—At the Nottingham quarter sessions, on Thursday,
before Mr. R. Wildman, Recorder, two men named George
Turner and Edward Jackson were charged with committing
a burglary on the premises of Mr. F. Gibbs, watchmaker, of
Nottingham, and stealing a considerable quantityof jewelry.
From the evidence adduced it appears that a few weeks ago
the prosecutor's shop was broken into and jewelry of various
kinds to the amount of £4O carried away. The robbery
was of a most audacious character, as the burglars must
have secreted themselves on the premises during the day.
The prosecutor did not sleep on the premises, and left all
safe on the evening when the offence was committed. A

few days afterwards the prisoners offered the stolen property
for sale to several persons, and this coming to the know-
ledge of the police they were apprehended. The jury found

them both guilty. Turner, who had been previously con-
victed, was sentenced to four years and Jackson to three
years penal servitude.

_ -
ROBBERY AT MR. SPURGEON'S TABERNACLE.—
On Wednesday night last some thieves effected an entrance
into the Metropolitan Tabernacle by getting, it is supposed,
through one of the windows on the basement floor of the
building. They were evidently on the premises for a consi-
derable time. There are boxes placed near every door for
the purpose of the congregation depositing weekly whatever
they may feel disposed to give towards the support of Mr.
Spurgeon's Training College for young men who desire to
become ministers. Several of these were broken open, and
whatever sum was in them stolen. The robbers also broke
open the secretary's drawers and abstracted £5 16s. Fortu-
nately they d id not get the booty they might have had had they
known where the property that was in the Tabernacle was
kept. It seems evident they were disturbed in their depre-
dations, as spots of blood as well as matches and a candle,
were left near one of the chapel windows. The thieves lit
one of the gas burners in the secretary's apartment, and left
it burning. No clue as to the discovery of these sacrilegi,
ous burglars has at present been ascertained, and it is hoped
that the police will be on the watch to track their footsteps.
Every precaution will be taken by Mr. Spurgeon's deacons
to prevent the recurrence of such an affair in future, and
they hope that their efforts will be successful.
THE LEEDS INFIRMARY.—The _Medical Times
and Gazette says :—We have heard with much pleasure of
the great success which is attending the project of making
a new infirmary at Leeds. The subscriptions now amount
to very nearly £60,000. An ample site has fortunately been
found within the precincts of the town, on high and sloping
ground; and it is intended that no trouble shall be spared
to make the new building as perfect as human ingenuity
can devise it, with the aid of the resources of modern sani-
tary science. The stagnation of trade by which the whole
of the North country is at present affected makes the noble
energy with which this project has been taken up, not only
by the merchant princes who give their thousands, but by
all classes in and about Leeds, the more conspicuous. The
workmen actually intend to raise £lO,OOO among themselves,
those of one firm having already given nearly £3OO. It
must be remembered that the subscription was commenced
no longer ago than November last, with a contribution of
1,000 guineas from the medical staff. Since that time the
work has been pushed forward in earnest, and evidently in
the right way. A committee of local men of business, in
which are included two of the medical staff, Dr. Chad-
wick and Mr. Teale, has been giving its time, as well as
its money, most liberally to this noble object. We need
scarcely add, that it has our most hearty good wishes.
THE PARANA STEAMSHIP.—The officers of the 2d
Battalion of the Scots Fusileer Guards who went out from
Southampton in the Royal Mail steamship Parana enter-
tained the commander and officers of that vessels at dinner
on the 22d ult., on their arrival out at St. John's, New
Brunswick, on which occasion Captain Sawyer was pre-
sented with the following complimentary address :—" St.
John's, New Brunswick, Jan, 20, 1862. Dear Captain
Sawyer,—On disembarking from the Parana you must al-
low me, not only in my own name, but in that of the offi-
cers under my command, to convey to you our thanks for

tho admirable manner in which everything has been con

ducted on board your ship during our passage from Eng-
land to St. John's, New Brunswick, which has been un-
usually trying, not only from its duration, but also from
the very tempestuous and severe weather, which we met
with during the greater part of our voyage. I cannot suf-
ficiently thank you for the unceasing care you have taken
of us throughout, as well as for the untiring energy and
watchfulness you have displayed, especially in the masterly
manner in which you extricated us from our difficulties in
the river St. Lawrence—difficulties which, I believe, no
ships have ventured to encounter at this inclement season
of the year. The coolness and skill which you displayed
on that trying occasion were, I assure you, the subject of
universal praise. I am induced to adopt this means of
addressing you because I think it right to put upon record
how much beholden to you we all are for your conduct
during our protracted voyage. You must allow me, in
conclusion, to thank you still further for the kindness
and courtesy which we have uniformly received at your
hands, which have contributed so materially to the har-
mony and comfort which have attended our intercourse
throughout. Wishing you all possible success and happi-
ness for the future, believe me yours very truly, J. H. E.
DALItYMPLE, Colonel Commanding 2d Battalion Scots
Fusileer Guards."

Canada, some twenty-five years since, was then
disturbed and unhappy, and as likely as not to be absorbed
in the republic, If not relieved and comforted ; but not
even this danger roused us. We knew and cared very little
about our American colonies; we had no idea how to set
about helping them to consolidate themselves into a genuine

power, colonial or independent ; and it suited our mood
best, perhaps, to trust that events would provide for them-
selves ; that " Fate, or Providence, or something," would
shape the destinies of our later colonies, as it had of the
earlier group. It appeared to some people that the
unhappy mode of severance of that earlier group from
the mother country should have taught us to take the
other case in time. It is true, wo soon began to
govern Canada well, and to set her well forward on the way
to self-government : but we took no measure to unite the
several colonies in any kind of league, as a defence against
probable aggression from unscrupulous neighbours. For
30 years the neighbouring republic has been strengthening
and spreading, still expressing at intervals her intention of i
annexing Canada when it suited her convenience. During
the 30 years those colonies have been growing also, though
less conspicuously and less vigorously than the republic;
and now again we hear of a movement to help them to
security at home, to a closer and pleasanter intercourse with
the mother country, and, in this, to the best preparation
for ultimate indepudence,—Once a Week.

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, FEB, 22.

The Illoniteur of this morning announces that up
to the evening of the 20th inst. the amount of
Four-and-Half per Cent. Rentes presented for con-
version was 35,000,000 f. Rente, the property of
49,618 holders.

THE WAR IN COCHIN CHINA.

PARIS, FEB. 21.

The Paris papers of this evening publish news
from Cochin China announcing that nearly all the
provinces had made submission to Admiral Bonard.

THE INSURRECTION IN GREECE.
ATHENS, FEB. 18.

The whole country, and the troops which have
been despatched against Nauplia, are inspired by
the best spirit.
The troops have defeated the insurgents outside
Nauplia, while those still remaining in the town are
greatly discouraged.

VIENNA, FEB. 21.

Advises from Athens state that the capital and
the provinces are quiet. The insurrection is con-
fined to Nauplia. General Hahn is already at
Argos. The feeling prevailing in the army is
sstisfactory.

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 20.

According to advices received here from Athens,
the Greek Chambers assembled on the 14th inst.,
and unanimously voted a resolution expressing their
devotion to the dynasty, and stating that vigorous
measures would be taken for the suppression of the
insurrection. On the 16th and 16th inst. troops
and National Guards were despatched from different
quarters against Nauplia, where a provisional Go-
vernment had been established, consisting of Judge
Peturezos and four advocates. Public and private
property was respected at Nauplia, and the spirit
prevailing among the inhabitants was good.

AMERICA.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 22.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Bavaria, from New York, on the Bth inst.,
arrived off the Needles at 8.50 a.m. to-day.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 21.

The applications made yesterday for the conver-
sion to Three per Cent. Rentes of Obligations Tren-
tenaries amounted to 160,000 f., and of Four• and-a-
Half per Cent. Rentes to 30,000,000 f.
To-day in the Senate Count Persigny, in his
quality of senator, alluded to the insults which had
been directed against him, and said,—
"I shall not reply to personalities. Since, how-
ever, some have thought fit to bestow on me, as a
sort of insult, the appellation of unfortunate
Minister' (Ministre malheureux), I shall only reply
that we live under a Government the issue of uni-
versal suffrage, which owes everything to the
national will, and can neither be lost nor saved by
a Minister."

In to-day's sitting of the Senate M. Pietri pro-
tested against the attacks made upon the Adminis-
tration of the Interior, and said that as soon as the
Empire brought forward the great international
questions the men belonging to the old parties made
opposition to it. " The Napoleonic dynasty," con-
tinued M. Pietri, "is the incarnation of the genius
of France, and will reign as long as it renews its
strength in the resources of democracy and liberty."
M. Pietri maintained that the Pope as a temporal
Sovereign is subjected to the fate of his neighbours,
the absolute Sovereigns.

Cardinal Morlot repelled the distinction which
it was sought to establish between the French
clergy and the clergy of other countries, and said—
" The French clergy have but one wish—viz., the
prompt solution of the great question of the Papacy,
and that this solution may be as happy a one as all
good and sincere Catholics desire."
The general discussion then closed, and the first
paragraph of the Address was adopted. At the
reading of the second paragraph M. Larochejacque-
lin pointed out the dangers caused by an anarchical
press.

The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes the fol-
lowing :—" The Minister of the Interior has ordered
that henceforth all English newspapers shall be
distributed immediately on their arrival, without
any previous examination. Two or three journals
only, little known in France even by name, and of
no credit in England, are excluded from this liberal
measure, because those journals trade upon defama-
tion, and only speak of France and the Government
she has selected to insult and calumniate both. They
are journals of scandal, not of discussion. All true
friends of liberty in France and England will ap-
plaud this measure taken by Count de Persigny.
They will also remember with satisfaction that the
Minister who now establishes the free circulation of
ideas between the two countries has already inau-
gurated the free circulation of individuals by the
suppression of passports. This is all sound policy."

BOURSE, Feb. 21.—The market has again shown
considerable buoyancy and animation, and a rather
considerable amount of business has been transacted
at a further advance in quotations. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 70f. 50c. Railway Shares
also firm.

The following are the last quotations :
tit per per Cents ... 100 401 Credit Foncier l4OO
Do. end month.... 100 60 ! Belgian 4f —...-
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 52f Roman
Bank Shares 3050 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 760 Spanish Threes 5O 50
Do. Account 762 50 Home Debt

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PLYMOUTH, FEB. 21,
The Royal mail steamer Briton arrived here this
evening with the above mail. She brings 43 pas-
sengers.

The Briton has made the passage home in only
31 days. She left the Cape on the 21st ult., St.
Helena on the 29th, and Ascension on Feb. 3.

The Cambrian arrived out on the 15th January,
after a long passage.
Mr. Wodehouse took the oaths of office and as-
sumed the reins of government within a hour after
landing. He was cordially received.
The first levee took place on the 18th January,
and was numerously attended.

Mr. Southey has been appointed Treasurer-Ge-
neral. Mr. Rawson has resumed his duties as
Colonial Secretary.

Important political changes, tending towards
the ultimate establishment of a responsible govern-
ment, were expected to be effected by Mr. Wode-
house, A settlement of border affairs, and a de-
termination whether Kaffraria proper is to be an-
nexed, and if so, by whom, were also looked for.

The separation movement is declining. Dr. Way •
secretary of the League, had resigned his office, dis-
gusted, as he alleged, with the apathy of the
Eastern Provinces on the question.

Sir George Grey had presented his splendid col-
ection of books and manuscripts, valued at £20,000,
to the public library of Cape Town.

Basutoland affairs were in an unsettled state, but
it was thought there was less probability than
before of war between the Dutch Republic and the
Basutos. A bank was about to be established at
Bloemfonlein, the capital of the Free State. Moshesh
had sent valuable contributions to the International
Exhibition at London.

Subscriptions were being collected at Cape Town
to augment the stipends of the parochial clergy,
and for carrying on mission work in the city.
The decision in the case of " Long v. Bistiop”
was still withheld by the Supreme Court. Another
ecclesiastical case, of equal celebrity, was likely to
arise, in connexion with Bishop ColenLo, the
Bishop of Cape Town, as the metropolitan had
reported to the Archbishop of Canterbury alleged
heresies in Bishop Colenzo's new translation of
Romans.

Prince Alfred's three rifles had been shot for.

Trade was a little more active.

The harvest has been a good one, although not so
large as anticipated. The vintage had been much
better than was expected.

Parliament was expected to open late-e than
usual, on account of the Governor yip:ding the
frontier before convening the Legislat•dre.
The Briton brings three ladies, passengers on
board the Orient, from Adelaide, laden with wool,
'
which took fire near AscensiJn. She was able,
hower, to get into the port, where the fire was
extinguished, and the vessel 'repaired.