The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-18 00:00:00

711 E ARIIII.

The first division of the depot brigade, Royal
Artillery, has been reinforced at Chatham by a
nnmber of non-commissioned officers and gunners
from headquarters, 'Woolwich.
The non-commissioned officers and men of the
31st Regiment as well as those belonging to the
Army Hospital Corps, who arrived from China in
the iron screw steamer Urgent, 3, 400-porse power,
Capt. H. W. Hire, reached Chatham garrison yes-
terday, the whole of them having been forwarded
from Portsmouth by special train. The officers who
arrived from China in charge of the troops were
Capt. J. S. C. Harcourt, Lieut. I. Parsons, and En-
sign R. T. Masefield, 31st Regiment, and Staff-
Assist.-Burg. W. K. Stewart, M.D. After the
troops had been medically inspected, those requir-
ing hospital treatment were taken to Fort Pitt, and

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quartered at the invalid
the remainder Wrli !)1:3
1
depot, St. Mary's Barracks, antil an order has been
received for their discharge from the service.
A general court-martial, of which Col. W. H.
March, second commandant of the Claathsta divi-
sion of Royal Marines Light Infantry, was the pre-
sident, assembled at Chatham on Friday for the
trial of Private James Coyle, on a charge of having'
assaulted Capt. D. Blytb, the gunnery instructor to
the division, his superior officer. The prisoner said
that he was drunk when the offence was committed.
The Court, after deliberating for some time, found
the prisoner guilty, but the sentence will not be
promulgated until it has been approved by the
Lords of the Admiralty. The offerv.:e of which the
Pi- '
;sener has been convicted renders him liable to
be kepi. in penal servitude for life.
On Saturcio.y Major-General C. C. Hay, Inspec-
tor-General of Musketry, who was accompanied by
Capt. J. .11PK;ty, Depaty Assist.-Adjt.-General,
cornoteted his inspection of the officers and troops
O the 7nrious regiments atid depoo under instr,:c-
tion at Chatham garrison, in which ne had been
occupied several days. The Inspector-General also
went through the returns of the several depots, in
order to select the non-commissioned officers and
men of each regiment who for their excellence at
rifle practice are entitled to wear the distin-
guishing badge and to receive an increase of pay
for one year, paiviously to their names being sub-
mitted to the Horse Guards for
approval. The re-
turns for the past year egbibit a considerable im-
provement in rifle shooting.
The brigade field-days by the troops at Chatham
garrison having terminated for the season, a garri-
son order was on Saturday issued by Major-Gen.
H. Eyre, commanding the forces in the Chatham
district, directing the whole of the troops computing
the garrison to take periodical marches into the
country, weekly, during the winter. On these oc-
casions the troops are to be occasionally halted, and
pickets and advanced guards thrown out, and other
manoeuvres attempted which the nature of the coun-
try visited will permit. The officers accompanying
the forces are to make occasional reconnaissances
and reports of the districts traversed, and the ad-
vantages or disadvantages which they present for
carrying on military operations. A sketch of the
country is also to accompany the report sent in by
each officer. The battery of Horse Artillery sta-
tioned at Chatham took their first march for the
season on Friday, last, on which occasion they were
accompanied by their battery of field Armstrong
guns, ammunition and other waggons, and the other
accompaniments of a field battery. The artillery
took the route of Bluebell-hill and Aylesford, pro-
ceeding in that direction nearly as far as Maidstone,
and returning to their quarters, Brompton Barracks,
in the afternoon.

In accordance with orders to that effect from the
War-office, every exertion is being used at the
Royal Arsenal for the equipment of 40-pounder
Armstrong batteries of position, for the defence of
the coast. On Saturday a complete battery of new
40-pounder Armstrong guns, for the land defences,
each weighing 34 cwt., mounted on travelling car-
riages, with ammunition waggons, &c., complete,
was received at Gravesend, having been sent from
Woolwich in charge of a detachment of Royal Ar-
tillery. The guns are intended to be placed at New
Tavern Fort, opposite Tilbury Fort, for the defence
of the Thames. Other batteries of a similar nature
are in a forward state, and as soon as completed
will be sent to the Artillery stations on the banks of
the Thames and Medway, in the Chathan; district.
Each gun is amply equipped with shot and shell
and a full supply of all descriptions of stores.

WALKING MATCH BETWEEN MILES AND HATLEY.
--The cor.test between William Hatley, of Blackfriars, and
James Miles, of Brixton, the champion, for a stake of £5O,
was decided yesterday afternoon at Mr. Baum's, Hackney
Wick. -The distance to be traversed was two miles, the
champion allowing Hatley a start of 100 yards. Shortly
after four o'clock the competitors appeared on the ground,
and a good deal of betting took place at 7 to 4 on Hatley.
On the signal being given they started at a rattling pace,
Miles in the first lap gaining something like ten yards. He,
however, never caught his opponent, who won with ease in
15 minutes 25 seconds. F. Symes was referee.

RUMOURED RAILWAY ALLIANCE.—In the north
pore is a very generally believed rumour (which has
confidently mentioned in. some share ciienlars) that the
North Eastern end North British Companies are about to
lease the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way al five per cent.,
in order to secure to the eist coast lines an independent
access to Glasgow, together with command of all the large
towns and ports from the north to London, via the Great
Northern. The effect of the rumour has been to cause a
rise in the value of Edinburgh and Glasgow stock to a
point higher than it stood before the late dreadful accident.
However desirable the proposed alliance might be for the
east coast interests, it is certain that as yet nothing definite
is known of the arrangement in official quarters.—Leeds
Mercury.

Jefferson Davis, the Southern President, now abou
fifty-five years of age, is a native of Kentucky, though by
the possession of property and long residence therein more
intimately connected with Mississippi. Entering the U.S.
Military Academy at Westpoint, N.Y., in 1824, he served in
the Ist Infantry and Ist Dragoons successively, and retired
to civil life in 1835. At the opening of the Mexican war he
was a representative in Congress ; but conceiving that at that
crisis he could best serve the state in the field, he accepted
the command of a volunteer rifle regiment. In acknowledg-
ment of his distinguished services on the Rio Grande, Con-
gress named him a Brigadier-General, but he declined ac-
cepting a title which had ceased to be honourable, because
too often bestowed on the unworthy from party considera-
tions. From 1847 to 1851 he sat in Congress as senator fr ora
Mississippi, and was remarked for his eloquence and ability
in debate. He was Minister of War during General Pierce s
presidency, and in that officedisplayed great administrative
capacity, and by his care for its interests was very popular
with the army, to which he was Already favourably known
as a gallant soldier. He is tall, spare, dark-complexioned,
as Southerners generally are, with a massive forehead, bril-
liant deepset eyes, a pensive and somewhat sad expression,
and a perceptible limp arising from a wound received at the
battle of Buena Vista, apropos of which an interesting anec-
dote is current. When young he fell in love and eloped
with a wealthy heiress, the only daughter of Gen, Zachary
Taylor. The old gentleman was yet unreconciled to him
when the current of events brought Davis, as Colonel of the
Ist Mississippi rain ,A, aa..txea ryro Lioisieum,e
uviuluuuu tea
Northern Mexico ; but discernment of his son-in-law's mi-
litary merits gradually soothed his anger ; and when the
brilliant charge of the Mississippi Rifles under the leader-
ship of Davis retrieved the almost desperate fortunes of the
bloody day of Buena Vista, tumble to repress his admiration
any longer, the stout old general hastened to the front where
Davis was lying desperately wounded, and seizing his
hand, exclaimed—" I forgive the hasty marriage, my dear
lad ; any father might be proud of such a son I" Jefferson
Davis is alike wary in council and fiery in the field ; but
his swift audacity is guided by a cool and powerful intel-
lect, and is the servant, not the master, of a resolute will.
—Nee a Week.

MURDER OF BRITISH SEAMEN.—In September,
1859, the Kitty, of Newcastle, was lost in Hudson's Straits
by being nipped in the ice. Five of her crew, who got into
a small boat, after enduring great suffering by exposure to
rie
the cold, succeeded in reaching a Moravian missionary
station, where they were hospitably entertained,
of them sent to their homes in England next summand threr. But
of the fate of the master of this vessel, Mr
Ellis and the
remainder of the crew, who left the ship in. a long-boatl
nothing has been heard until the arrival of the vessels
from the Hudson Bay stations this autumn, when the sad
intelligence has been brought that the 11 poor fellows tel
into the hands of unfriendly Esquimaux, and were murdered
for the sake of their blankets. The missionaries at Okak,
Writing to the widow of the master of the vessel in August
last, say—" It is with grief, madam, we must inform you
that it is, alas, only too true that the long-boat, with her
master and crow, arrived at Ungava Bay, but that none of
the men survive. Last winter Esquimaux from Ungava
B"y visited our northernmost settlement, Hebron, who re-
lated that in the winter of 1859-GO, several Europeans in a
boat landed at the island called Apatok, in Ungava Bay. They
lived with the Esquimaux until about January, upon what
the latter could provide for them ; but then, most likely
when their provisions became short, the Esquimaux at-
tacked them when they were asleep and killed them, stab-
bing them with their knives. There is no doubt of these
really being the men from the Kitty, because the Esqui-
maux knew there had been another boat with five men
belonging to them, whom they doomed lost. They said one
man of the murdered company had very frost •bitten feet ,
and him the Esquimaux would not kill by stabbing, but
into
the him a kind of heathen mercy, as they put him
the open air until he was dead by severe cold." It seems
that these unfortunate men had been murdered for the sake
wmithurt here
d
of the blankets they had with them. It would appear that
one of the Esquimaux wanted to save the three Europeans
who lodged with him, but they met the same f
as their
companions.
The tribe who
committedbtvueghtin contact this
do not appear to have been
the information in to Hebron f
European missions; and the friendly tribe who brought
have
informed the Mora.
vian missionaries at that place that a little further north
from Ungava Bay a whole crew, consisting in all from .10
men, were enticed onshore and then killed by Esquimaux.

I

NMI

We hope the lesson will not be lost on English
Conservatives, or on their great organ, that the
triumph of American Conservatism had been through
the ballot and universal suffrage ! We must con-
cede to them, we suppose, as they so loudly insist
on it, that the Democrats are the Conservati,es, nt
America. We used to think differently. We re-
member the time when the leading men of the other
party—the
\VEBSTERS and CLAYS—were those to
whom the respectables of England looked as the
men with whose ability, public character, and social
position they naturally sympathised. We also re-
member that it was an occasion of frequent taunt
against Democratic institutions that they did not
elect such men to the Presidency. But, as c,ur
Conservatives ought to know their own best,
We will allow that the Democrats of: New York and
of all the Union belong to the;in, the brothers WOOD
of New York city included. We only ask them, as a
fair consequence, to admit that the ballot is a very
conservative measure, that it can give a Conserva-
tive candidate a majority of twenty or thirty
thousand in one city, and a large majority to the
Conservative saviours of their country in the whole
State. That it can increase the gains of Con-
servatism where every man has a vote, in fact,
can vanquish the " Rfljiicals," although armed with
the terrors of Fart Lafayette, and having an im-
mense army at their disposal.

We should think, too, they will acknowledge
that the ballot is Conservative of order at elections.
Never surely was there a greater excitement prior
to The polling day than in this New York election ;
to excitement too amongst a most excitable people,
and with hosts of super-excitable Irishmen to in-
Remo and explode in the midst of all. Yet all
accounts agree that the polling day was as quiet as
any such occasion could possibly he where great
numbers were concerned, and engaged for and
against, on a question which stirred all their passions
eo deeply. Why, there was more disturbance at
little Kidderrnir.Ster, when the Hon. ROBERT
LOWE stood as the mark for brickbats, before he
took to the Marquis of LANSDOWNE'S sofa at Caine,
than, at all the polling booths in the whole State
tf New York. Our Conservatives here ought
to confess that their brother Conservatives,
tailed Democrats in America, are wiser than them-
'selves in having chosen the Ballot as their Corrupt
Practices at Elections Prevention Act. Whatever
corruption there is in violence—the corruption of
terror—the Ballot, under the most unfavourable
circutusitauces, certainly prevented. We know of
but one 1"-•=.nglish Conservative reply to this fact,
that just in
England_lreland cannot be included
violence ig seldom now mob violence. The
olny violence es. •
kind of violence
on
carried on to any great extent, a
'which Tories so largely depend,
being quite
violence ot
an
of °f another kind. The private
lawyers, bankers, creditors,
and all the richer classes, which they so easily
carry county elections especltill
they will say, to prevent the It may be well,
tau
poor mobs from braining the enaltervati%pnblivcans, but
it would never do to re e Amer--
press the respectable violence
done by country squires and landlords %c!nerally to
Vne convictions of their tenantry. Well, if e th,--
111 int thus, let them only have the re. --y
..-uvittess
to
eo when the next MOti°:z Tor the ballot comes
forward.

For ourselves, we are free to cc.nfess that, thongh
'the hillnt has worked in this case in opposition to
our wishes, we yet acknowledge that it has in
so doing proved its merits. We, as Englishmen,
cannot wish the Conservative Democrats of America
success. We do not wish to see the furious enemies
of England in power. We do not desire to see a
conservatism of the lash and the slave auction block
ruling the destinies of the North; we have no sym-
pathy with Conservative Fugitive Slave Laws and
ft reunited Federation, of which the distinguishing

feature shall be conservatism of all the most extra-
vagant demands of slaveholders. We do not wish
to see a Democratic:conservative annexation of Cuba
and Mexico, perhaps of Jamaica also. Yet 7.„- admit
it to be only right that if the conservators of such
things be the more numerous party they ought to
have the responsibility of office, and not be mere
outsiders, embarrassing the Radical opponents of
slavery and friends of freedom. We, therefore, as
well as the English Conservatives, admit the suc-
cess of the ballot in America. Majorities must be
converted by experience of the effects of their own
follies—not overpowered by mobs, provost-mar-
shals, and Government prisons.

The good work prospers. The funds now col-
lecting on all hands for the relief of the immense and
increasing distress in Lancashire increase with it :
though, alas! they cannot possibly be said to in-
crease proportionately. At the worst, there will
come, of course, the Government grant—whenever it
may become painfully manifest that this spontane-
ous charity on the part of the community at large
cannot compete with it—cannot drive away those
dire results of the stoppage of a large branch of in-
dustry in a busy and populous mercantile land—
famine and pestilence. At the first threatening of
the approach of either of those appalling scourges,
the Government would, of course, promptly and un-
hesitatingly step in, Meanwhile, the people of the
United Kingdom are astir in all directions, to the
end by their own (spontaneous efforts to relieve
those perfectly innocent but deplorably afflicted
classes of their fellow-countrymen. Sympathisers
of all classes aid the good cause by swelling the
already considerable sum of the contributions prof-
fered to the half-starving workers of the North, but
more especially of Lancashire—workers now, un-
happily, no longer ! Committees everywhere ! Public
meetings convened upon every opportunity !
Charitable sermons among all kinds of reli-
gionists! Subscription lists lying open in all
directions ! Individual contributions to the fund—
people of the most diverse characters—pressing for-
ward every day now with some affecting mite, now
with some munificent and princely offering I In a
single day, Mr. SPURGEON collects at two services
in his Metropolitan Tabernacle, collects in that one
building, on that one day, at those two services,
£750 for the relief of this dire distress in Lanca-
shire ! A fashionable lady, upon the eve of inviting
her friends to a ball, bethinks herself that the money
that would be thus frivolously expended upon rout-
seats, and rout-cakes, and fiddlers, and confectionery,
might perchance be a little more wisely expended
under existing circumstances—she postpones her
intended ball sine die, or rather sine nocte, and
encloses a cheque for £l2O to the Lord Mayor for
the use of the poor operatives in Lancashire. Noble-
men and merchants, country squires and pro-
fessional men, yeomen and artizans (still in
work), forward the noble design we have
all of us so near at heart, and do this, we repeat,
spontaneously and with a truly affecting unanimity.
About the latest among the public demon-
strations in furtherance of this benevolent enter-
prize, upon which we have had occasion to take
any note here in our own metropolis, is the ves-
try meeting which took place yesterday, the meet-
ing convened by the local churchwardens in the
Vestry Hall of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and
attended by a goodly number of the more influen-
tial parishioners—conspicuous among these being
the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The respected Vicar of the Parish, the Rev. W. G.
HUMPHREY, having duly opened the proceedings,
we might say as a matter of course, in his inevitable
capacity there as Chairman—Mr.GLADSTONE availed
himself of the opportunity to speak with most per-
suasive tongue, directly and energetically to the
purpose, in behalf of the suffering -victims
in the North, the impoverished, and all but
famine-stricken operatives of Lancashire. The argu-
ment which the Right Hon. Gentleman had to en-
force was one the truth of which we have long
since learnt to recognise, and by sympathy to
realise to the full. The resolution moved by Mr.
GLADSTONE being in fact simply to the effect "That
considering the severe and vvidespread distress now
prZsvailing in the cotton manufacturing districts,
this meeting desires to express its deep sympathy
with the people of those districts, and its admira-
tion of the patience and fortitude w ith which they
have borne their privations." In descanting upon
this theme, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
spoke for once not so much in his high position as
a Minister of a State, but simply in his twofold
character—as a landowner in Lancashire, and as a
parishioner of St. Martin's.in-the-Fields. And,
speaking in that two-fold character, he spoke, we
repeat, after a fashion the most eloquent of all under
the circumstances—namely, in words going directly
to the point, in a strain completely to the purpose.
During the course of his able and generous-hearted
speech yesterday, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer remarked, in fitting terms, the noble and
magnanimous part taken by the millowners
themselves in the furtherance of relief of the dis-
tress now ravaging the North, but more particu-
larly the County Palatine of Lancaster. In de-
monstration of the practical character, and
of the magnitude, and of the magnanimity
of this relief vouchsafed to the poor opera-
tives in the manufacturing districts by the
mill-owners there, who are themselves the most
considerable sufferers from the present calamity.
Mr. GLADSTONE mentioned one circumstance, one
incident, coming within the range of his own know-
ledge—an incident so noble of its kind as indeed
to have well deserved to be thus particularised :
"The house in question," he said, " is one of name
and of great respectability. The firm held a con-
siderable stock of cotton. They could not work it
up without incurring an enormous loss, so they sold
the cotton, and have since taken upon themselves
the support of every one of their workpeople, pay-
ing them one moiety of the wages which they
would have received in the mills—namely, £250
a week, or £13,000 a year, and I believe that it is
their intention to continue this payment.
The firm need not appear on the subscrip-
tion list ; but if they had so appeared with a Bum
which would have seemed munificent it would have
been a mean act compared with the noble course
which they have in fact pursued." With facts like
these coming to light out of the darkness
and the misery of present distress, who
can doubt but that its after consequences will
prove in the end to have been most bene-
ficent : and that,
grief, affliction aosftewn a
baloessminugchin of hdisguumisaent
Area";;nile, so long as the visible affliction lasts,
we have, as Christians and Englishmen, as fellow-
Citizens and fellowmen, but one course to pursue
steadily, resolutely, and unfalteringly that,
namely, of striving to relieve it.

We have already briefly adverted, when the tele-
gram brought the subject before us, to the singular
conduct of Lord RUSSELL in regard to the Schles-
wig and nolstein affair. The announcement was
first made while his Lordship was in Germany,
that he had sent a despatch to Denmark, advising
the Danes to concede everything to the Germans,
advice which, with becoming spirit, they promptly
and decidedly refused. Somehow when his
Lord-
,ship 8.44 Araongat the Clem Ana he Uppers to be

completely at their mercy ; indeed, this despatch,
seems to be butithe of yielding to Vienna
ca3l.!:ing, which for some time threw his Lordship
politically into the shade. It seems, too, so sin-
gularly ill-timed. At the very time when our
Royal fe.mily is contracting an alliance with that
of Denmark, for our Foreign Minister to propose
to weaken and break up the kingdom, seems more
like an amateur idiosyncracy than the deliberate
) act of en English Secretary of State.
We are not, of course, about to rewrite the inter-
minable story of Schleswig and Holstein. Suffice
it to say that that Denmark practically includes
Holstein, Lauenberg, Schleswig—that the King of
DENMARK does not deny that the Duchies of Hol-
stein and Lauenburg are part of the German Con-
federation, or refuse to govern them as such; that
he does deny this of little Schleswig, which is in-
habited by a mixed population, and that Lord
RUSSELL has sent a despatch to Denmark which
we think Englishmen generally will be ashamed of
when they read it. Apart from the merits of the
question, the tone of it is so much that of a superior
lecturing an inferior, that we do not wonder the
Danish Government resented such a haughty piece
of scolding and dictation. But when he sums up
all in the dogmatic propositions, that " Holstein
and Lauenburg are to have everything the
the German Confederation asks for them that
" Schleswig should have power to govern itself,
and not be represented in the Reichrath,"—and
concludes with proposing to give the three duchies
such powers as shall make all little better than
separate States united only by the crown, we can
no more expect Denmark to listen to such a pro-
posal, than we could be expected to listen to one
from Denmark to break up the Union between
England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. We
hope his Lordship is a strenuous defender of the
Desk party in Hungary, and of the independent
rights of that kingdom. Hungary can show
grounds for her claim, with which it were idle to
compare those of the Danish Duchies. If he has
not lectured Austria or Hungary, far more sharply
than Denmark, on these petty appendages to its
crown, he is self-convicted of gross partiality. The
whole affair of Denmark and her Duchies is, how-
ever, nothing but a dirty German job, and no Eng-
lishman ought to have anything to do with it, ex-
cept to rebuke the vanity and inconsistency of the
Germans.

Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON'S withdrawal from the
threatened contest at Southampton simplifies the
matter very considerably. His timely decision to
this effect ought to be held, in his regard, among
other Liberal constituencies, in very favourable re-
membrance. It ought to be, in other words, for
him a—mark to the good. For we yet hope to felici-
tate this true Orator and advanced Liberal on his
return to the British House of Commons. Not—
we will venture to premise, however, at once as a
hope and an expostulation—not as the champion of
"vested interest," or of any individual, no matter
how illustrious or how persecuted, but as the advo-
cate of principles worthy of enforcement by an elo-
quence as remarkable as that with which Mr.
GEORGE THOMPSON is so abundantly gifted, and
by a probity of character as indisputably con-
spicuous as his. The last of the " outsiders"
among the competitors for the vacant seat of
Southampton has consequently, in the person of Mr.
GEORGE THOMPSON, retired from the field. A
clear stage is left, therefore, betimes between the
two remaining candidates—the Liberal and the
Conservative.

Clever though the design was by which
the latter hoped to slip in for the borough,
we cannot but feel confident that it will now be
effectually worsted by this opportune avoidance of
anything like a serious split among the Liberal
elector's constituting the bulk of the bouthauapton
constituency. The Lord Mayor ROSE has a chance,
it is true, even now, of obtaining a majority—sup-
posing that the supporters of Captain MANGLES
should not be vigilantly upon the alert. Let there
be no further toleration, consequently—for we fear
there has been some already among the supporters
of the Liberal candidate—no further toleration
whatever of the disgraceful scenes of rowdyism by
which the earlier incidents of this sharply-con-
tested election have (we grieve to bear the
fact in recollection) been disgraced. The
rivalry existing among the great railway com-
panies and also among the great packet companies,
the enterprise of which may be said to con-
verge at Southampton—has unhappily originated a
certain disunion among the otherwise dominant
and unassailable upholders of Liberalism down at
Southampton. The knowledge of the fact that it
is really and truly, as we say, ought, beyond all
other considerations just now to influence the policy
of those more earnest and practical Liberals who
have undertaken to sustain the interests of the
Liberal candidate now standing forward alone be-
fore the constituency—ought to influence their po-
licy in one rational direction, namely, to the dedica-
tion of the whole of their energies to the practical
work of electioneering. Not the toleration even of
that fancy work (of which we had cherished the
hope that we had in a great measure heard the last
long since, at any rate in England) what
may be called the fancy work of elec-
tions, executed for the most part with the
agency of brickbats and bludgeons. The Liberal
electors of Southampton have something better to
do now than to connive at the repetition of the late
disgraceful proceedings in that borough. Mr. GEo.
THOMPSON has afforded them, by his timely with-
drawal from the contest, the fullest opportunity of
vindicating in a signal manner the liberality of the
constituency, by the rejection of Lord Mayor ROSE
and the triumphant return of Capt. MANGLES—of
all men the fittest and properest person yet thought
of as a successor to the late representative of the
borough.

THE RUMOURED PLOT AGAINST TnE EMPEROR
NAFOLEON.—A Paris letter says t--Since the discovery of
the Boulevard Prince tugene plot, which every day as-
sumes lart:t:
proportions as facts creep out, the police set,
Ytte at Compiegne has been tripled. The most minute e
pre-
cautions have been taken. The famous Corsican guard,
which is always about the Emperor's perison in plain
clothes, is divided into three sections, and watches night
and day Without
the intermission,
Emperor
ailTtihneder hihis
eh i
rht a, beenswhich
h e
ad-
vised to resume
left oft wean •ng in 1659, on accountof the great
of it. itn spite of all the efforts made to throw a veil over
the real state of things, the guests are aware that the palace
is swarming with spies, and there is in consequence much
less gaiety in Court society than there was last year.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Down-
ing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Pal-
-merston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir George
Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles
Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the
Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.
UNSEASONABLE SALMON FISHING.—Two eases of
salmon poaching in the Severn iu the fence or close season
have just been prosecuted by the officers of the united asso-
ciation for the protection of the fisheries of that river. At.
the Petty Sessions at Lydney, Glocestershire, Reuben Ward
was convicted of fishing for salmon with a " lade not" at
Lydney on the 29th of October, the fence season commencing
on the 2d of September. He was also convicted of having
in his possession a portion of a foul and unseasonable sal-
mon, and he was fined for the first offence £2 10s. and £2 ls.
assts, and for the second offense ls. and costs. Thomas
Lewis and Thomas Lewir, jun., father and son, were also
convicted of fishing on the same day for salmon in the
Severn at Lydnye. 1 hey were seen on the sands fishing
with a " lade net," and were proved to have taken at least
‘),
one salmon. They were fined £2 and lls. 6d. costs each ;
iu default of payment a EnOntWe imprisouroeut.

LATESr NEWS.

ATHENS, Nov. 11.

All is quiet. The cases of insubordination which
occurred among the soldiers in the provinces have
been repressed. The National. Guard is being
organised and armed.
A demonstration has taken place at Syra in favour
of Prince Alfred ; others are preparing all over the
country.

CORFU, Nov. 15.

The principal inhabitants of Syra and the Pincus
have given a banquet to the officers of the English
fleet.

The health of Prince Alfred was proposed by the
Greeks.

The toast of " The Independence of Greece" was
drunk by the English.
The English vessels hoisted the Greek flag and
saluted it with 21 guns.

PARIS, NOV. 18.
Baron Gros has been appointed Ambassador of
France to the Court of St. Tames.

The despatch of M. Drousn de Lhuys, in reply to
the note of Gen. Durando, is published to-day.
It corresponds with the analysis recently given by
the Belgian papers.

TURIN, Nov. 17.

Parliament will meet here to-morrow for the
Session. There will be no Speech from the Throne.
Almost all the deputies have already arrived.
Th© King has forwarded a large sum of money
from his private purse to the towns of the Romagna
for the benefit of the sufferers from the recent inun-
dations.

The official Gazette of to-day &nes the abolition
of the state of siege in the Neapolitan provinces
and Sicily. The Prefects of Ntples and Palermo
retain the power of making some exceptions.
The board of directors of the Neapolitan Rail-
ways has been elected. ?Mess's. Charles Waring
and Howard Kennard have arrived upon business
connected with these and the Si ilian railways.
Mr. Brassey is expected to-norrow.

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