The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-13 00:00:00

men do, to the Government for work or for bread.
We suppose the assertions of the Paris press re-
specting the interviews of Mr. SLIDELL with the
EMPEROR are correct, and that the EMPEROR is
really desirous to do something. This, however, is
little more than is well understo3d to have been
the case from the beginning. He knows, of course,
that his unsupported intervention could have but
little effect on America ; hence he has always been
desirous to secure English co-operation, and that of
Russia also. Russia has no interests at stake in
the question. Commercially she is a gainer, since
her raw products are made more valuable' by the
war. Still, we are told from St. Petersburg, that
she "has constantly tendered advice in a friendly
spirit,"and this she thinks is the only kind of inter-
vention possible. England well knows that any-
thing she could say or do would be misunderstood
or taken in the worst possible sense, and, if on that
ground alone, is very properly disposed to do no-

thing.
But England is also justified in not attempting
what would certainly be unsuccessful. Bad as the
blockade is, it is now beginning to tell more than
ever. Probably no party in the North dare advo-
ceaxtcehgivgieng the South six months, during which to
an its cotton in Europe for all the neces-
saries of war. Those who propose the six months'
armistice may hope indeed that during that six
months the fiercer passions now raging might cool
down, and both North and South become better dis •
posed towards peace. But, if the war is to be re-
newed, it is evident the North would find itself in
a far worse position at the end of the six months
than at present. It is obvious that during the
comingsix months the North will have great ad-
vantages. The rivers will again enable their gun-
boats, which they have been vigorously building,
to pervade all the more important districts of the
South. The North has always been victorious, and
mso, wherever gunboats could
lcarryt s their heavy
ylong range artillery ; and as the
cries,
h r
as they are, and the trade, of the Scuth
at
such
necessarily
are all along its fine rivers, this very fact gives the
North a vast advantage.
Besides, the North, during the winter and spring
will feel the advantage of its greater means for
carrying on the war. It will be able better to
clothe and feed its men than the South can. It will
find the cool weather, as it did last winter and
spring, most adapted to the habits of its men. The
South, on the contrary, begins to show signs already
of great distress. The Governor of North Caro-
lina's appeal is most piteous. He begs the ladies to
part with their carpets to be substitutes for
blankets in the camps, and to knit each of them a
pair of socks for the soldiers. The conscription has
to be ruthlessly enforced ; and the Governors of
the States are already quarrelling with President
DAVIS respecting his interference, by enlistment,
with the sovereignty of their States. The winter and
spring will try the Confederates very severely, and
there seems reason to think that the North will more
than recover all its losses then. Glad, therefore,
as the Southerns would be of an armistice, which
would save them their hardest trials, and equip
them afresh for the war, the North for that very
reason, and because the next six months are its best,
would assuredly not listen for a moment to any such
overtures. Knowing all this as well as if Mr.
SEWARD told us so in one of his bland despatches,
it would only be undignified in England to proffer
advice which she knows will be met with ridicule
and satire. As no one, yet, proposes forcible inter-
vention, all we can do, is to do nothing.

Larendon

The Marquis de Neailles has left the
Hotel for Paris.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has returned to
town from a tour of visits.
The Countess Swieykowska and family have left
the Clarendon Hotel for Paris.
Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Comber-
mere have arrived at Wolverton Villa, Clifton, from Cora-
bermere Abbey.
Viscount and Viscountess St. Vincent and Major
and Mrs. Warrender have left Brown's Hotel.
Lord and Lady Chesham have left Groavenor-
scina7 for Brighton.
Sir Andrew Buchanan and Hon. Lady G.
Buchanan have left Fenton's Hotel for the Hague.
Sir R. Tufton has arrived at Fenton's Hotel
from liathfleld-place, Kent

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHAMPTON.—SOUTH-
AMPTON, Nov. 12.—Between 2,000 and 3,000 persons me
at the Carlton-rooms last night, where Capt. Mangles was
to speak. The meeting was the largest and noisiest ever
known here. The proceedings were all in dumb show.
Scarcely a word could be heard during the whole evening
except by those who stood close to the speakers. The howl.
ing down the speakers and the fighting amongst the people
in the rooms were something fearful.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A MEMBER OF THE LIVER-
POOL Docx BOARD.—Mr. Joseph Mondel, a large Liver-
pool shipowner, and for nanny years a prominent member
of the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, expired suddenly
at his residence, Seaforth, near Liverpool, on Tuesday
night last. Mr. Mondel, who was chairman of the pilots
committee at the board, was present at a meeting on Tues-
day afternoon, and towards the close of the proceedings he
was seized with a sudden illness, which at once rendered
him insensible. In this state he was conveyed to his resi-
dence, where he died at nine o'clock at night. Mr. Mondel
was a man of robust constitution, and in his 54th year at
the time of his death.
Some of the S wiss journals state that the passage
of the Alps by railway on a second point—the Simplon—is
in contemplation. A committee of delegates of the Swiss
Cantonal Governments have held a conference at Lausanne,
where a resolution was come to that a special committee
should be named by the Governments of Geneva, Vaud,
Fridburg, and Valais, in order to come to an understanding
with the company having the concession of the Italian line,
and to concert on the ways and means for carrying out the
plan, The intention is to bore a tunnel, the total length of
which is to be from 4,600 to 4,700 metres. The rock to be
cut through is easy to be perforated, and is so uniform and
solid, the supposition is that it will not require to be faced
with any masonry.
At the Court of Assizes of the Seine, a young
young woman, named Justine Quentin, aged 29, was tried
on a charge of stealing a I,ooof. bank-note from her mis-
tress, Mme. Descombes, who keeps a boarding-school for
young ladies at the Ternes. The prisoner, who is good-
looking, and possessed of considerable intelligence, was
very near escaping from the hands of justice through the
manoeuvres of the secretary of the commissary of police, a
man named Delaboullaye, who has since been condemned
to four years' imprisonment for forgery and fraud ; for,
when Mme. Descombes lodged her complaint with the po-
lice, it was received by Delaboullaye, and he, being smitten
with the charms of the accused, did everything he could to
stop the prosecution. His attempts were frustrated, how-
ever, and a strict inquiry into the prisoner's past conduct
having been instituted, it was ascertained that she had been
condemned to imprisonment for theft at Laval some years
ago, and on her liberation had come to Paris, and been suc-
cessively engaged as servant in seven or eight families, all
of whom she had robbed, but fouud means to escape prose-
cution. In her lodgings was seized a miscellaneous collec-
tion of linen, dresses, and jewellery, which were indentified
by their owners, whose marks still remained on some of
them. With respect to her last robbery, it was clearly
shown that she knew her mistress had put the note into a
certain drawer. It was abstracted one evening between 6
and eight o'clock, when no person but herself had entered
the room. It was further proved that the day after the
note had disappeared, the prisoner had taken jewellery out
of pawn to the amount of 258 f., and she had 550 f. in gold in
her pocket when arrested. The prisoner defended herself
with great vslubility, boldly declaring that all the articles
foun.d in her lodgings had been given to her ; she also made
scandalous insinuations against several of the witnesses
with a view of intimidating them, but all to not urp ,se, for
the jury found her guilty of stealing the 1,0001. note, und
the court sentenced her to three years' imprisonment.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police, the day be-
fore yesterday, tried two brothers named Balme for several
acts of swindling, which consisted in selling worthless
plants at high prices, under the pretence that they were
rare exotics. It appeared from the evidence that the
two accused, who are florists residing at Venose, near
Grenoble, last winter opened a shop on the Boulevard des
Capucines, for the sale of exetie shrubs and plants, which
they warranted to produce beautiful flowers, highly finished
drawings of which were shown to intending purchasers.
To these pretended rarities they gave the most high-sound-
ing names, as Pelpedium elephantissimura, Paconia varie-
gate nova superba, Andromeda variegate, &c. Attracted
by these fine names and the beautiful drawings of the
1 flowers, the gardener of the Princes Mathilde made pur-
chases to the amount of 8001; M. Molinet, a gentleman re-
siding at Fontainebleau, for 2,400 f ; and many other per-
sons for smaller sums, but all were bitterly disappointed,
for the plants proved to be utterly worthless. Complaints
were accordingly made to the police, and an investigation
was instituted, which resulted in the discovery that the two
accused had practised the same frauds two years before at
Cadiz, and that the campaign in Paris last winter resulted
in profits amounting to above 20,000 f. The offences having
been fully proved by several witnesses, the Tribunal de-
clared the accused guilty, and sentenced each of them to a
year's imprisonment and 50f fine.
SEA BATHING.—Eschew machines, rightly so
called, as they reduce sea-bathing to the merest mechanical
process of getting into the water and out again, with a host
of cares on your mind. You are always afraid of getting
into the wrong machine, and as you swim out to sea, you
must bo continually looking back to note the various
changes of those vehicles, for though your own particular
packing case may have been the fourth in order when you
left, a few changes will reduce it to second or raise it to
sixth. As you splash about in the water you cannot keep
from your mind the unpleasant consciousness that some
intending bather is watching your machine with hungry
eye and grudging you every minute of your swim. Then,
as you return, unless your senses of self-reliance be greatly
developed, it is barely agreeable to know that you are ap-
proaching a sea-shore crowded with spectators of both
sexes, and as you gradually get into shallow water, your
efforts to keep yourself modestly hidden under the surface
are sadly provocative of excortations on knees and elbows;
while if your contour has lost the Apollo-like elegance
of its youth, and is tending towards the maturer outlines
of Silenus, you cannot avoid the humiliating conscious-
ness that your efforts are in vain, that perhaps,
though not witty in yourself, you are certainly the
cause of wit in others. Lastly, when you get up those
flapping steps, which always seem as if they were intended
for the purpose of removing the bather's cuticle just as he
raises his foot fcr the ascent, What a wretchedly depressing
and comfortless cell the machines proves to be P—London
Society.
HAVING YOUR PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN.—There
are few periods of a peaceable man's life more deserving
the name of " un mauvais quart d'heure" than the space of
time he is beguiled into spending in a photogropher's
studio. Of itself the attempt to select your own best ex-
pression of countenance is a perplexing effort, and the con-
sciousness that the face you put on, whatever it may be,
will be the one by which, in all future time, all who look
into your friends' albums will know you, does not diminish
the embarrassment. You have a vague expression that to
look smiling is ridiculous, and to look solemn is still more
so. You desire to look intelligent, but you are hampered
by a fear of looking sly. You wish to look as if you were
not sitting for your picture ; but the effort to do so fills
your mind more completely with tee melancholy conscious-
ness that you are. All these conflicting feelings, pressing
upon your mind at the critical moment ; are very painful ;
but they are terribly aggravated by the well-meant inter-
position of the photograper. To prevent a tremulous
motion of your head which the bewildered state of your feel-
ings renders only too probable, he wedges it into a horrible
instrument called a head-rest, which gives you exactly the
appearance as if somebody was holding on to your hair
behind. In such a kituation you may be pardoned if a
somewhat blank look comes over your usually intelligent
features. The photographer, of course, sees this defect, and
does his best to remedy it by a little cheerful exhortation ;
but naturally with no other result than that of making
matters much worse. " Just a little expression in your
countenance if you please, sir—perhaps if you could smile,"
is a most distressing admonition to receive at such a mo-
ment, just when you know that the photographer has his
hand upon the cap. If you are weak enough to listen to
him, and extemporise a little expression, you come out on
the plate with a horrible leer, looking like the Artful Dodger
in the act of relating his exploits. If, as is more probable'
you ()
you are too much absorbed in the uncomfortableness
your own position to regard his exhortations, you are
in-
mortalised with an expression of agonised sternness upon
your features, unpleasantly suggestive of a painful disorder.
—Saturday .Rovietv.