The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-02 00:00:00

TUB 2V-4 VAL RESERVE.

9,287 claims have been received and 8,229 volun-
teers enrolled in the undermentioned porta in the
Naval Reserve :

Name of Port. Number
Enrolled Number Name of Port. Enrolled
Aberdeen 285 Lowestoft
Aberystwith
Alloa
. _

Arbroath l9lMaldon
Banff
Barnstaple
Berwick
Blyth ... .
Borrowstoness .4 .... 3 ; Newcastle
Boston .. 11Newhaven
Bridgwater ll4 I Newport 3
Bridport
Bristol , 419 Penzance l3
Cardiff llPerth

Cork
Dartmouth • .
Dundee
Exeter 65, ltamsgate

Falmouth
Faversham
Fowey
Galway
Glasgow • 115 Shields, South
Glocester
Grangemouth 3 , Strauraer l

Greenock 39 Sunderland .. 9)2
t;tuarnsey 1 j Swansea
Hartlepool
Harwich .. 41Waterford
Ha
Inverness 2l Wexford
Leith

Lerwick
Limerick 7 Wisbeach
Liverpool
Llanelly -
London

Londonderry ..... ...

Of the above, 24 hold certificates of competency
as masters, and 116 certificates of competency as
mates; 17 hold certificates of service as masters, and
38 certificates of service as mates. Total holding
certificates, 195. And the force embraces 1,145
petty officers in the merchant service.

Reserve men are not prevented from making long
voyages, as leave may be obtained from a shipping
master after the drill has been performed. Reserve
men are required to produce their books, R.V. 2..
to the shipping master whenever engaged or dis-
charged; and to Consuls abroad on the like occa-
itions, in order that the necessary entries may be
made therein ; and to deposit their books with the
naval officer when entering on drill, or entering the
Royal Navy.

A volunteer must have served five years at sea,
be an A.B. one year, and be under 35 years of age.
Ho will receive £6 every year as a retaining fee,
payable quarterly, and a pension of £l2, after requ-
ite service, at 60 years of age, or before if worn
out. He is also eligible for the Coastguard and
Greenwich Hospital. He is required to perform 28
days' drill during each year, and will receive pay
and allowances while on drill.

For detailed particulars respecting enrolment and
drill, application should be made to a shipping
master.

J. H. BROWN, Registrar• General
of Seamen and Shipping.
General Register and Record-office of Seamen
and Shipping, Jan. 1, 1862.

ANOTHER LETTER FROM JOHN
IV ITOILELL.

THE WISH FATHER TO THE THOUGHT.

PARIS, DEC. 24.

The ship which bears to England an apology, or
else a defiance, is now at sea. That it is freighted,
not with the apology but with the defiance, I be-
lieve, for the following reasons :—The enormous
effort whichthe Northern States have been making
for the last nine months to subdue the Confederate
States, has called away from their ordinary occupa-
tions vast multitudes of men, who must bo either
paid and fed, or else disbanded, and suffered to pay
and feed themselves. The great mercantile com-
munity of New York and other cities has brought
about this state of things by stopping employment
and driving the idle masses of men into the
army as their only refuge ; hoping by this enor-
mous concentration of force to crush out the re-
bellion at once and regain the lucrative trade of the
South for the merchant " princes" of the North.
The effort has failed, finally and hopelessly; and a
huge army is on hands. Useless to tell them to go
home to their work, their shops, their farms. The
work they used to do, the business they used to
carry on, areigone. General bankruptcy and ruin
stare the country in the face; and the military
system of the Federal States is at this moment, to
a very great extent, a system of out-door relief. The
Government dare not disband these men. Within
the short nine months of this war the whole Govern-
ment and social system of those Northern States
have been shaken to its foundations. The President
and his Ministers have set the example of violating
all law, and establishing a mere military rule; a
perilous example to half a million of armed men, if
they are now to bo sent adrift to live as they best
may. Amongst those soldiers are the worst of the
rowdy population of the cities, and thousands of
convicts taken out of the State prisons, like the
" Zouaves" of Billy Wilson. In sending forth these
fellows to subdue the South, New York hoped never
to see their faces again ; and if they were now to
come back, amongst an impoverished community,
rendered more atrocious than ever by military
habits, and inflated by the esprit de corps—decent
people would be obliged to emigrate to Europe. In
short, Mr. Lincoln's Government holds a wolf by
the ears.

The conclusion is obvious—if they cannot plunder
the South, they must provide for these half-million
of fierce armed men somewhere and somehow. The
more enormous have been the pecuniary efforts and
sacrifices heretofore made by the moneyed classes in
New York, the more needful is it that they reim-
burse themselves out of some fund. If they cannot
whip the Southerners, they are bound to whip some-
body, and in their rage they naturally turn upon
England, their ancient enemy. They think, and
think rightly, that it was England that involved
them in their present difficulty, and it is more than
flesh and blood can bear to see England standing by
grinning and sneering now at their failures and
their troubles. Take this for a fact also—l assert
it after six years' close observation —all Americans
hate England perfectly and satisfactorily, except
some few foolish and servile iiterati, mostly at
Boston. They fully believe that a casus belli with
England is always open and available; and are
firmly of opinion that Americans must ever and
always thrash the English, and that the third war
between them will also be the last; a conclusion in
which I altogether concur.

But further : the Americus will stand by and
maintain this insult and outrage for another reason
—namely, that they are largely in England's debt,
and are likely to be unable to pay. I remember
that, a few years ago, when war was threatened,
American journalists disposed of it with a pooh,
pooh ! Talk of England bombarding New York,
said they : if she does she will be setting fire to
warehouses bursting with her own property ; she
will be cutting off her sole chance of even the
smallest per tentage in' the pound. And, in this
nineteenth century, are men going to stab their
debtors and shoot their customers ? Pooh, pooh !
If the Americans shall now, therefore, deliberately
and with cool calculation, resolve to push England
to the alternative of either fighting or being dis-
honoured for ever, they will come to this resolution
after a mature consideration of the account and the
balance-sheet.

You observe with what horror the English press
comments on the barbarism of Lincoln's Govern-
ment sending a fleet laden with stones to be sunk
at the mouth of Southern harbours. One would
suppose that a British Government had never
been guilty of such a piece of brutality—
for brutality and barbarism it is. Well, it is
not yet forgotten in France that English ships were
sent before now with similar lading, and on a simi-
lar errand, to more than one French seaport; and
particularly that a stone fleet once sailed into the
harbour of Cherbourg, and sunk in it many thou-
sands of tons of solid rock. New England only
imitates Old ditto, like a dutiful child. It is from
the parent Anglo-Saxon that the Yankee one de-
rives whatever brutality he has in his character—
just as he has derived his Habeas Corpus, his Shak-
spere, his love of fair play. J. M.

At Lloyd's, on the news from Amerioa, there
was a slightly downward tendency in the rates for war
risks, but the business transacted was unimportant.