The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

THE TVINDRAIkt CASE.

Mr. Hancock, chief surgeon of the Charing-cross
Hospital,—l have carefully examined Mr. Wind-
ham's mouth, It is a peculiarly-shaped mouth,
The upper jaw is exceedingly narrow, and drawn
so much to a point in front that there is room only
for two teeth. It measures rather less than an inch
from one front molar tooth to the other, whereas
the average width of weil-developed jaws is from
12in. to The roof of the mouth, or hard
palate, instead of being a piano-concave, is ex-
tremely lofty and shaped like a pointed arch, so
that it diminishes to a very great degree the cavity
of the nose. The depth from the soft palate to the
back of the throat is unusually great. The lower
jaw is also narrow, but not so much contracted as
the upper one. His tongue is fully developed—
large in proportion to the size of the jaws. This
condition of mouth would affect very materially the
sound of his voice and lead to or favour very much
the slavering that has been described, and also the
noisy, and apparently disagreeable, mode of eating.
It would also have a considerable effect upon the
appearance of bis face, and would likewise very
much affect the tone of his laugh. I should doubt
whether Mr. Windham could halloa or laugh as
other people do. The relative volume of the diffe-
rent air-passages is so very much interfered with
by this formation of the mouth that the sound of
the voice and the laugh must be materially altered.
In deglutition the tongue is pressed against the roof
of the mouth. In a natural formation of the mouth the
act of swallowing is done almost unconsciously ; but,
in consequence of the extreme height of the roof of
Mr. Windham's mouth, that formation would re-
quire some unusual attention from the party him-
self; so that, while from the size of the tongue and
the contraction of the jaws, the pressure upon the
salivary glands would produce when Mr. Windham
was excited an unusual secretion of saliva, the
height of the roof of the month would prevent that
saliva being conducted down the throat in the usual
way. The same remark applies to the swallowing
of food. The peculiar structure of the hard
palate must interfere with the passage of air through
the nose by inspiration, and it is obvious that in
Mr. • Windham's case, in order to obtain the
passage of the proper amount of air into the lungs,
he has fallen into the habit of keeping his mouth
open, and this habit, added to the peculiar action of
the muscles of the upper lip, gives that apparently
vacant look which appears about the lower part of
Mr. Windham's face.
By the Master. I have seen similar mouths
before, presenting similar results.
Witness resumed.—The formation of the back of
his mouth would lead to snoring. He told me that
some years ago his mother took him to Mr. Lintott,
a dentist, who extracted some of his teeth; and then
introduced a plate with pegs or wedges into his
mouth for the purpose of stretching the upper
jaw. He also told me it was a formation prevalent
in his family on the maternal side. He referred to
three persons in particular who had a peculiarity
of the same description. He told me his mother
had attributed the slavering to his having been
tongue-tied as a child, and the operation having
been improperly performed. I asked him whether
he recollected it, and he laughed and said, " I
recollect a good way back, but I don't recollect
that, for I was an infant at the time." My exami
nation was made, I think, on the 17th of December.
He told me he had nearly cured himself of the
slavering. I saw him first on the lst November.
On that occasion I was with him nearly three-
quarters of an hour. Dr. Neale was present. I
had no previous knowledge of the case. When I
went to Piccadilly, Mr. Windham accompanied
Dr. Neale and myself into a room. I placed him
in eshair opposite the window that I might watch
his countenance while he was talking to me. He
told me that he wished to see me because his uncle
General Windham, was endeavouring to prove him
insane ; that long before he came of age the general
had spread reports that he was an idiot and squan-
dered his money; that it was very foolish of the
general to treat him so, because he had over and
over again told him that it would be the worse for
him and for his sons. "But it was no use," he
added, " and therefore as my father left me power
by his will to cut off the entail, I have
done so." He also told me that upon
a more recent occasion the general had
sent him word that if he married he would be
if he wouldn't have him locked up. I asked him
whether he had any evidence to that effect, and he
replied that his uncle sent the message through his
bailiff. He then continued, "He accused me of
keeping improper company, alluding to Mr. Ro-
berts. Mr. Roberts has been a good friend to me,
for you must know that I have only come into a
portion of my property—£3,ooo a year. Of this
I have to pay my mother £1,500 a year, and I leave
you to judge whether I can support a wife and
keep up a large place in the country, besides having
apartments in London, upon the remainder. I
therefore was in want of money. My father had
always cautioned me against getting into the hands
of the Jews, and I was determined not to do so.
Now, Mr. Roberts was with me at my estate in the
country, when one day out riding he said 'Why
should you borrow money, paying interest upon
interest, when you have the money here upon
your estate P You have so many trees ; they are
being spoilt, and I can introduce you to a timber
merchant who would not attempt to cheat you by
taking the timber in a lump, but would pay you so
much afoot for it.' Of course I consented, and he ac-
cordingly introduced me to Messrs. Lawrence and
Fry, who are very respectable timber merchants,
and who paid me £l,OOO down, agreeing to give
me some £350 a month up to £5,000 a year for
four years, or £20,000 in all." He said, " The trees
have not been cut for so many years that, so far
from the estate being injured, it would be much
benefited by having the timber cut down ;" and he
added, " You may depend upon it I shall take care
that they don't cut down anything that will injure
the estate." He told me that after his marriage,
on coming to town, he could not afford to take a
house, and therefore his wife advised him to take
apartments in Mr. Roberts's house, he being her
trustee. He declined telling me what rent he
paid, but he assured me it was not exhorbitant.
I asked him whether they could bring any accusa-
tion of intemperance or extreme extravagance against
him. He said, "No;" he lived well, but was not
intemperate, and he was very fond of driving horses,
but there was nothing in that. I asked him how
anotherh,orsebafockr
himself, had
many horses he kept. Ho replied that before his
marriage he kept only two, but that since then, as
his wife was fond of riding on
bought a riding horse for her,
only the two riding
and two carriage horses. I said, You have six in
all ;" to which he replied, ~N
and the two carriage horses." I then asked him
how much food he gave his horses. He said, I keep
them down at my estate in the country, and I am
very particular that the grooms don't cheat me. I
allow the horses as much hay as they can eat, and
each has four feeds of corn a day. You can easily
tell how much it has in the course of the week. 'I
said, " But how much do you make it yourself ?"
and he answered, We calculate differently in Nor-
folk fioni what you do in London. You calculate
by the bushel or quarter, we calculate by the boll ;
but it is somewhere about a sack of corn per week
fur two horses. I said, " You have not mentioned
the n
Oh, he replied, that doesn't cost me
tenants are obliged to supply me
aytshtrinawg[ mywith that. I then said, "As insanity has been al-
leged against you, have you ever been examined by
any medical man on the part of Gen. Windham ?"
He replied, I don't know whether it was a medical
man or no, but somebody called on me a short time
se pretending that he came about a debt which he
said was owing to him by my mother. I therefore
began to suspect, and very quietly bowed him out
of the room, saying he must know as well as I did

th. nothing- -t0...k; mybilothilts
I then sold I was sorry to r that his wife:had
left him. He said vi ry calmly, Yes she has ; but I
know where she is. I have.emppyed a deteCtive
to trace her, and lam going lie cotland this even-
ing to bring her back. I cautaoncd him against
using any violence, lest it should be brought for-
ward against him ; and he said, You need not be
afraid. I can be firm without being violent. She
knows that I have right on my side. I shall tell her
I am acting under my lawyer's advice, and that the
law gives me great power as a husband, and I shall
therefore tell her to come home without making any
piece of work. He then added," Here again--they
are spreading all manner of reports about my wife ;
among others, that when I married her she owed
Emmanuel, the jeweller, several hundred pounds ;
hit, in fact, she owed him only somewhere about
£6O, which she paid out of her own Money." I
think that was the whole of the conversation I had
with him. I told Mr. Bury Hutchinson, the solici-
tor of Mr. Windham, that I was only a consulting
surgeon, and did not pay special attention to mental
diseases. I therefore advised that he should send'
for Dr. Sutherland, Dr. Take, Mr. Connolly, and.
Mr, Lawrence, who were considered first rate autho-
rities on such subjects. Dr. Winslow's name was
mentioned; but Dr. Neale had previously informed
me that when he called on Dr. Winslow in the
morning for thepurposeof obtaining his services he
found Gen. Windham sitting in the waiting room,
and, consequently, nothing further was said about
Dr, Winslow. I frequently in the course of my
practice meet with cases of insanity. During my
interview with Mr. Windham I neither saw nor
heard anything which would justify me in arriving
at any other conclusion than that he is of sound
mind. His demeanour was characterised by perfect
self-possession, perfect calmness, and total absence
of levity, especially when he referred to his father.
I observed no signs cf slavering. I should say that
Mr. far as his physical appearance
goes, is w ucveloped young man. He seems to
me to have plenty of animal spirits, and is the kind -
of man who would be fond of athletic exercises.
Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—The forma-
tion of Mr. Windham"s•mouth would not lessen the.
space flue Irain; There are the two orbits,
and the whole cavity of-the nose between the cra-=,_
nium and the roof of the mouth. The peculiar for-__
mation of Air. Windham's mouth is not confined to
idiots, nor are idiots restricted to that formation.
It may. be observed in idiots, but it occurs in other
cases as well. Mr. Windham did not tell mehir.v:-._
long he had worn the plate introduce& into hi
mouth by Mr. Lintock, the dentist, for the purpose
of shielding the upper jaw. I made an affidavit in
this case, but I have gone more into detail in my
evidence to-day. I did not ask Mr. Windham how
it happened that his wife had gone to Scotland.
Re-examined—ln my opinion the formation of
Mr. Windham's mouth has no relation at all to the
question of his sanity or insanity.
Dr. Gwyn, examined by Mr. Karslake—l am a
medical man, practising in Hammersmith. I am a
native of Norfolk, and it was my uncle who pro-
posed Gen. Windham at the last election. Early in
September I saw Mr. Windham in Norwich, and
upon his invitation I went to Felbrigge-hall on the
23d. Mrs. Windham and Mr. Roberts were there.
Mr. Windham consulted me professionally about
his throat. I attended him for some time, going
down from town for the purpose. He made a pecu-
niary arrangement with me himself. I went out
shooting with him. He proved a capital shot and
a good driver. His demeanour was that of an ordi-
nary person. I never saw him do anything that
could not be done with propriety by a person of
sound mind.

By Mr. Coleridge—l had never seen nor heard of
Mrs. Windham before I went to Felbrigg-hall, near
the end of September. On the 23d of September I
know she was perfectly well; since the Bth October
she has suffered very severely.
Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—Mr. Wind
ham never told me of certain letters which had been
returned to him from the Dead Letter-office. I ac
companied him down to Scotland on Sunday, the
3d November. He told me that he wanted me to
go with him to Glasgow, and mentioned something
about a paramour or lover of Mrs. Windham. He
said he suspected that she had been unfaithful to
him with that person and had run away with him
to Glasgow, where he was then living as a member
of an operatic company. I told him that, owing
to the illness she was suffering from, it was not
likely she could be unfaithful to him at that time.
He did not tell me, as far as I recollect, that he had
received information that they were sleeping in the
same bedroom in the hotel. He did not tell me that
Mrs. Windham had been in Dublin with the same
individual after her marriage. He informed me that
he had received a letter from his wife saying she
was staying in Dublin. Mrs. Windham left Fel-
brigg owing to her husband's illness on the 29th of
September, and she returned from Dublin on the
Bth October. I was not aware that the opera singer
was in Dublin at the same time. I slept all the way
to Glasgow, and have no idea how Mr. Windham
got on. During the journey I did not hear him
shout out the name of the person whom he suspected
of cohabiting in Glasgow with his wife. We did
not succeed in finding Mrs. Windham. After stay-
ing only 40 minutes in Glasgow we returned to
London, andMrs.Windham was found in the Euston
Hotel. In Glasgow we were told by the landlord
of the hotel in which Mrs. Windham had lived that
while there she conducted herself with perfect pro.
priety. Mr. —, I think, was still in Glasgow, for
I saw his name in a playbill in the hall of the hotel,
but we took no steps to find him out. Mr. Windham
sat in the carriage all the way to London.
The cross-examination of the Witness was not
concluded when the court adjourned.

RAILWAIS AND TELEGRAPHS 1N THE

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Annexed are the latest accounts of the progress
of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, especially as
regards telegraphic and railway communication
" Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope,
Nov. 21, 186/.
" In my last you were informed that contracts
were about to be entered into by the Government
for the erection of electric telegraphs between Cape
Town, the seat of government, and the military,
headquarters—namely, Graham's Town. The con-
tract was signed on the 18th inst., and Mr. Charl-
ton Wollaston, one of the parties to the contract,
proceeds to England by this mail to complete
arrangements for the erection of the wires. The
contract is taken with a subsidy of £3,500 per
annum from the colonial government. For this
consideration all government messages must be
transmitted free of cost for a stipulated number of
years. Natal, not to be surpassed by the older
colony, has also entered into terms with Messrs.
Pickering and Wollaston for the erection, main-
tenance, and working of a line of electric tele-
graphs between the port, Durban, and Pietermaritz-
burg, the capital. The corporation, the mercantile
associations, and the banks have all liberally offered
and engaged to pay a fixed sum per annum for
several years as a guarantee for the interest of the
sum expended on the line. The port and capital
of British Caffraria are in regular communication
with each other throughout the day. Mr. Mackenzie,
the sub-contractor for the line from Algoa Bay to
Graham's Town, has finished a large portion of this
length, and communication from the Sunday River
to Giaham's Town can now be had at any time.
The line from Cape Town to Simon's Bay is now
made available for dropping the time-ball in the
Admiralty-yard, thanks to Sir Thomas Maclean,
the Astronomer Royal; and the railway company
are about to place the city in communication with
the towns Stellenbosh and Paarl by means of the
telegraph. Mr. Cox goes down to raarl for this
purpose next week.
The works of the Capo Town and Wellington
are being
Rpoawilewratyhe company possess,
pushed on now with all the
and it has been said,
on fair authority, the first part will be opened for
traffic about the Ist of February.
"The line projected from the metropolis to the
suburbs, towards Wynberg, is expected to answer
well. Mr. Marcus Smith, GE., has been appointed
engineer to the company. To-morrow a meeting
will be held at Durban—a village situated about 18
miles from Cape Town, and six from the nearest
railway station—to consider whether it shall be put
in communication with the railway by a tramroad.
As soon as the railway is completed to Wellington
active steps will be taken to have it extended to
Worcester, through New Kleof and Talbagh. This
would open the most productive part of South Africa
to markets which are not worth attending at pre-
sent.

"The money-market has continued to indicate a
healthy state of trade. Large advances have been
m adefor wool, this being the season when the port
is active with shipments. Discounts are not quite
so free within the past few days, the banks towards
the close of November putting the screw on a little,
prior to a tight squeeze, which is usually given at
the end of the year, to enable the directors to show
d`chile
flourishing report, and give large dividends after
accommodation,
their half-yearly meetings. Tin and 15 per cent.
are commonly paid for private
" the Cape has refused to be represented
has twaeter-
in the Gieat Exhibition next year, Natalminosa
mined to figure well. Strenuous of are, there-
fore, being made to collect a large and choice lot of
colonial produce and manufactures. The ' circulat-
ing medium' is sadly required to extend trade in
Natal."

ROYAL FREE HosPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
cwaseeetending Jan. 4, was 2,689, of which 067 were new

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Funds 891 92k, Cromwell's cty 1658, v. St. Xenis-pirates.
•1) CAR a-boo Tidal-'deer FooT-day' 6-6 h. meter.
TRIBAL-AMERICA'S ULSTER' PLANTA-
TION-TRANSFER, WITH WILL 4. TRUSTEES.

STOP RENTS TO AFRIC CO'S NIGGER-L'BERMUDA-NEST,
BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 w. IV,. c. 92, § 4,
5 'sic. c-39 § 4, 1842, NAVE: : 9th Q. AN-B'NTY. 132 yr., so
s. *INN-Jetsam eisap lAgance rota Ozr-At-semi j x.
Wall ' 'amens 24 March-s-29 Sept. Erran A finans/ 6 Ap-
ril' Jeu/ian-tree on Twe--,r-ed Fishery-park law-sets, in
conic-sections Isospiral ,• • 9 • • 01200 by Encks co metr.
CAnin-sachims-For trade quiet it be's my £9O a-year
unsought R.N. duty as soul arbiter of the law, to ftate, in op-
position to the 'placet' lawyers of British Church, that the
officer of the anti-slavery potttit-guard ship San Jacinto,
acted on "non-resident rule" trader the Municipal Acts of
21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force
of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the
sandhoard without a three week's market-place guarantee
of slaves-care, under a justice certificate, the ship and
captain aiding such persons' 3: !ache's, open toC Dar. Indian*
*right of search' law (Webster'd -'42). C. A A. , • • '
' [R. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWORTH, Cl. of Synode
J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701]-Re-moderd, 1832-38.
t Negro trade search' in CASS, by Palmerston, '57. So-
JAR-CONE sts s PERIGEE LONOITUDE-AUGURY
-COMPASS '9. _UPVIA GAPHPONTI SPIRIT-°-LEVEL.
THE NAVE CTNQUE PORT, UP-CURVE, LINE OF LATITUDE,
In sp -long ginq'nt 500 by Polar' above & below declin.
soarssin astre-ge6graph . • • : : to @over's Arrow off-
and-on'Diepp's-Rouen s-sto Lizard-Pt. 9'r fierisle's Quadra-
culmination Tropic-wend t'wrds tainor9a's Eangue G'ock
40. N. Its state rope-lay Anchor y flag -tow'r pros--by Tyre
round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night
zone-meter, year 79 on 1824-35's Life-sarg-Eschelviriar
conevolute-Leet- crts.-on America's meridian'd 60. west
N. and S. for its Turloch base -line September like-evapora-
tive Xaraves Nile-'-metre'd lake as, the *ken pivot nappes
(3d Jay). I.), of Villa-Bella's Sack're-mentopez colony-1825
of Brazil, wrongfully Jet-sambuca' d from V -me s's 1828.
Sachims-The Illustrated Landon News, No. 1,119,
page 538, gives us, Clarendon's caelineA, in Philadeph's
Pensylvan-arm9rial /word -1--. scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the
touch, 'resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fens-
Are (' Fodinte -regales, of James L's 72 New River' share
1-plug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on
Enaland's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by De'can° Henry
Wotton. Montague, so CAR. 11. Hyde's grant 1662's jar-
conenect-i-cut-18 to Penn's 81-1701, in Quaker's affirm act,
1749, on 1777 Indian responsibility-trust; the whole land
estate guarantee of the allies were transferred by commit-
toe of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and
Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England 'll,equils? filibuster
institution); with undersigned § as their Lay-Gie'cone-pa-
tron & advocates to Q-Ann-B'nty plant-acre, Z s.
See, No 4421 Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841,
London Convention (Philacelphia), by Bulo, Palmerston
and Labouchere, tbro' D. Webster & Perley's 3d Sept., '4l,
election of Ind. Peter 8., iI (not a at. Denis slave) as succes -
sor to the 99 yr life leases 12 to run, under 14 Geo. m. 1774,
for Saq'mo Jos. Brant (on old John Adams' suggestion,
whose Q'acre grandson is now, here)-as Stow-tower'd for
rhiladelph's Lancaster Duchy crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by
Atkins § Edgcumbe Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen
& Goldfmith Co's-1, N. River proprietary) Stegglesp/ug-1.
Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing
the Ohio, Florida-semioles & Georgil Cherokee Indians of
the coast, 1000 miles west of the Mississippia, lodge-poised-
North and South of Mount Pleasant, in the rear of the
white faced slave-planters or builders, to prevent their
black cattle mixing with the virgin races, thro' the Lan-
caster FRAME and Concessions 1746, Art. I-XIV., for
mixt Comiffn Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as
reset on Admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda (10 M,
by Philadel's partizan friends Coloniza- Off, Boston-Judge
Jay-31 May, 1853. GREY. So Deerfoot's ' dye-Fellow
scholarship' Trinity i-Col., Cambridge, 1861.8 Dec.)-the
term negro for Indian, not in 1726 Geo. I grant p 66.
Hence New shire-ert foundation' on French and British
Stys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra-
dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P . 'Basket,'
the living repres'ntative of the Ashburton boundary capi-
tnlaion, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn -in
successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820-for Act of 1843's
Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of ' Texas-hundred' 6 & 6
partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all
America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of
Borromeo's ' Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage
subsidies' of Trent-council, for swamping by votes thro' the
Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd negro-shift 3-5 for Indian in cm-
no] Exhibition-rs, on Elliott's may '5l Col. letter,
TEvroT-1847, as In re Trent-The arrest of Slidell &Ma-
son, as contra-band illegal persons, you perceive, is just, for
trade quiet. Thus instant paid recognition of Red Indian
and trustees below tho' made the xe-Rye 0 t' scapegoad-fools
40 yrs, by Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'is of Luis /-
bronze'd-4-PENN-statue 1655-8 X, society of friends.
AFRiers.-By pyre- Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32
still pending), ¢4.9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards
in expeditions. Ye will think, on your 3 in 5 freemen vote, of
the danger in joining either party of the white faces or half-
negur Indian persuaders, and are forbid from noticing the
late Fetish 'p/aced-proclamation as headed in Times and
Post of 16th Nov., "A Convention between ENGLAND,
France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby
you will perceive [that on such setting forth], the com-
mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's
rights, or alien's of the contracting parties to keep peace
on their soil, thus avoid the (, Ebert murder ? of all the
whites, By " this' and reasons as follows so:-'
" Command old words, that long have slept-to wake,
Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake."
1. My admiralty RED flag, is the war Gap-line-tiree
one of water :knits (the Flag Union of the crosses by 3rd
Jaq°bo I. is a Christian Zollverein trade flag x s x and not
a belligerent by the Ordnance issue', from Tower nave T
343, of Jan. 31 1842. The Civile merchant's flag, on board
Car. Hotel-post-Office Trent, had not a white border
-Rome's transept Church plant having no flag.
2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether
St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for outing the word
England from the log-wood 1782 Court christian sea charts,
adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the
Justinian code Lase of the Roman X-span' Fueros union
courts of R-gal law of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which
was decided in the Angrlot-iffpan'sh Texas Crts. as inad-
missible, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in-
corporated St. Denis, under the words "except France" in
March 3, 1815, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's
signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of
Melchiside'k on a moving earth error' with it] the 17th
of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd
Belgic Leopold-Pedro 2-ty's in 28-30 of illegality.
3, Saving my N. Z. Waitangi'd 512, by t-Bunbury-like
Sir Gore Onseley's foist on the 800 Sachima sign for Gross
rebels in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Wa'ker-ite in
Central America, for Bamberg-Sigismund life-tenure 1047,
Dappes-Nap-assumption of auFERT-clad Savoy), for seizing
of Mexico, from England-caused his papist envoy Captain
Aldhamp to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their
nationalities to priests ' I wolves 4 men as manifest by
late ' Morocca bullion convention theft,' for like umbilical
Nave : : violation of ood's-acre in Ackerley's pivot-trust
appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all
parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the
MONROE doctrine, [as of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla channel
of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the
law's font, and recognised by Peel & Derby's Queen, and
the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the 'sole'
elect (of Poland's NW. red-Russia a-harman) of the cent-
years Dutch loan act, 1832, of no sect religion.
4. The ' Jar/ Russell-ratification of _London' Gazette,
Nov. 16, not within the 15 days, is illegal by act of Parlia-
ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a sup-
plement. Whity-.coloured persons being voice-divorced in
this Az‘fmithson'lsinstitutioni district, April, 1836.0 n Glad-
stone's H.C. comtee. by U.S., tarDwife Congress, '46.
This super-natus Chain proves to ye' Indian I Negros,
aliens, &c., that the Cabinets named in late convention
are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr, CANNING
in a convers' Domus Romish sense, in total opposition to
an infran taus Unity of / the Nonmallncie standard measure
of 1824 & 35, for aw-Ge' raising the revenue-on yearly
election of paid laymen (so guiding their trade by + Joint
comffn) without People's voice-arbiter, below-so
(f./B, RI) "Scorn arbitration as a stain- (g-I *lrv)
9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th.
Thus the Signor Noutro' gist of this letter, for my civic-
God-Magog right, is [for money recognition of all dues from
America upon primary well-intentioned colonization, of the
whites, by Royal Afric Colo human nature decay, so their
theft of our 1730 Indian nationality on, my life], by a brother
and sister love for the future, under England's trust law, as
(d is-joined with t- rope, S. -churches or t-water sects late on
minister's money], of the:el:el-A p read-bag estate.
PETER BRANT BASQUET, 'America's Meelard-stickam6,
NepbeW II (of Sac'rno J. Brant, 1775-Saemo Peter 'roma
Brant, 1825-XlO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe.
L.S. H.7's Montague § C ' x' ACKERLEY, P.C., sworn in,
Chief-sus. of Ireland's Nave-comfire of review, 1825-37,
L.S. H. B's Executors ' WOTTON' LYON BOWES, P.C.
Jan. 7-London. See The Sun, Nov. 16, 1861.
FIX (NASHVILE, SUMTER) SHIP-PIRATES
ON 'A3 -v a CORPUS-NAVE RED-FLAG DISPLAY.
Notice.-In re Anderson-like Extra-dition-Act, on
Yancey & Man's eller en course' with Hunter and Soul'e,
by Lockhart's 3ty, 23 -M. 1657, in 16 Car. Tr c 2.
By aid-force de lege Rhod' lib. iv., § 1, for criminal law
on-this side of sea level, as on the other-Washington ex-
tradition Act-touching Fire-raising, as one of the four
pleas of the Crown-fulcrum voice-reserve for all.
Mayor of Southampton, *rear-admiral of England's pin-
nace charge-rAßfey's isl o Wight's Gaulic-coque os coast-
guard, will arrest PEAGRIM and crew of ship Nashville,
for La course-pillage robbery, on the high seas of Boston,
property of American ship Harvey Birch. of N. York- by
' Sumpter-hors't false reps about 19th Nov., 1861.
By rota (a) 0 • in universe ditioni supremus eat' of the
placet regium imperium, mans populo inArestor° Constit9
federieP on Laws of Rhodes, 1942, in A.D. 1346 V. 291, P.
Pickii - So (p 59, BODIN'S lib. 1, Ticket e;39-tilaves of St.
Denis, on Dagobert's Ord. WILL 1-3), by 1658's Art. 19, Les
pirate & Eenmeure de mer, in M. Ship'ng Act, 1854.
As (b) Newfound-land Hay-factor (nexvini of Lisbon wine
license Co.'s in newspsner Precedent, on Junot-jus-inva-
sion, 1807), for Englands rompey'n-Marine sway, en Bris-
tol's g (Liverpool sk Lsns
on), admiralty kalendar 'super
altum mare, qua) Afcendai° et defoentecblique,' O. S.
So (c) by this warrant as of h5-IAR- Con 6- mara), re-
view colonisation [on Port egalw ay' 3o comp/. up-thought,
for He'Loule y 3 arb 37° N repose], on the noly Alliance
abolition, act by *Hamond, SANDYS, in te,
•Signed
PETER Brant BASQUET,n The tradeeeilr .union
.lenocioon7-tax-
on Jak,
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p-Bulo.Cf< freeman, Antipesl'n crown
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fcAodE constable
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Gap vtz' r. a Crt., its G i al is as' poy Stirlord Warden
Capt O'Halloran. -tho' cruelly set a medal' d gappez Vie-
r time civis hostis, by Ashburton Baring-3ty .*
Jr. CHARLES ' ACKERLEY I:C3 of Carib-isle f
Jethou'd Enoland 'Special elect, Aug. 29 1825 . • • :
(by Admiral Gss Doughty Hamond, Stuart de Crown
Rothsay's Sec. morons Hill----Trevor-SANDvs, 4-
on Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of King- ! ""14'
clubs), the Standard weight-bearer of 1837, Lt. sire%
R.N. 4 ay'd double-oathii'd victim-supporter Qte Rien
of Mohawk PETER 10 yrs, by Red Indian Mary s. r. Q n,
March's murder-tie, 1'320 in' habeas virginnle 'Jose '75
tenerum corpus christe' transit. thro' Quebec's r. Toma'2s
Ihmilton-Dalhousie, in S. Elder' duty for his BRANT.'
and own's State- hrth provision, as the Mon- in Medici-
tagno Subsidy Ist-fruit loan 1814'20's on major Tressor-
Cartwright's chief suceossorial surrogat'cy, (on trove.
1322'99i s red-turban'd Hen. 4th, on Hen.
Sigismond life Savoy'd Gape-colons, Martin 5; 3,• V
to GONSALVI 1816 revolamento-159, by Pius 7th on
Scottish Urban Bth's :eiteison-oath of 1749- Advocate
STUART wortley-Newcomen's-en Gonfaloniere'-motu
1824 pass'd is C. A.'s name Act 1-2 W. 4, no . 54, on July
1521-72 Luther- calvin, on (J. Trevor Re-lay-signor-
age, over Stanley. & W. Russell's 1683 Dead-hand yet 1
Sion-attaints), in Leo. X Tavistock augers], life trust.
Jan. 7. 1861 (tut aid Christcorpue martyr 19 yrs), London,

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THE SUN,
LONDON, TUESDAY, SAN. 7, 1862.

If the Washington Cabinet accepts peace, it ap-
pears bent on doing so in the manner least dignified
and honourable to itself. Having thrown away a
fine opportunity of retrieving somewhat the repu-
tation of the country, by liberating the commis-
sioners as soon as they were brought to shore;
having then waited till it heard how England
received the news of the outrage; having com-
placently received the first intelligence by the
Hansa that we were quiet during the day or two
requisite to ascertain whether an obvious outrage
was a deli. illegality ; having been thunderstruck
by the information that we should demand the sur-
render of the commissioners, and that the Army
and Navy Departments were preparing for the
worst ; having had several grace days allowed before
the formal demands were presented—yet now, by
the Europa, we have "nothing definite respecting
the commissioners." On the 20th Mr. SEWARD
certainly knew what were the demands of England.
On the 27th, a full week after, no one knows what
he and Mr. LINCOLN propose to do ! They have
really had the whole case before them from
the day when Captain WILKES landed at Fort
Monroe, and yet, up to the 27th, they had not made
up their minds. After this, let them use what
cunning phraseology they may—and Mr. SEWARD is
a master in the art of Yankee 'cuteness—but one
impression can be left on history, that Americans
would have kept the commissioners if they had
dared to have done it.

If in one way the delay looks like war, because
it looks like the wriggling and writhing of men
who desire to evade the obvious claims of honour
and justice; yet, on the other, every day's delay
but brings to the unhappy Cabinet of Washington
messengers like those who hastened to JOB—mes-
sengers announcing fact after fact, each showing
the hopelessness of contest with the country they
would fain cheat out of its honour, that they may
keep possession of two clever and hated political
antagonists. The French despatch and General
SCOTT'S information will be followed by those of
Austria and Prussia, and the reserved advice of
Russia, while it will also be learned that naval and
military preparations prove the earnestness of
England, and the impossibility of trifling with her
thu time. Every hour of delay is an additional
evidence of ; bat every hour of delay but
inflicts on Mr. SEWARD the mortification of disclo-
sing to him his helplessness. In fighting to retain
the commissioners, ho sees that he would fight
not only with a country that would have New
York and all the Atlantic sea-ports at its mercy ;
but, what at the present day cannot be despised
with impunity, he would fight against the opinion
of all civilized nations.

If the Government intends, as we have little
doubt under present circumstances it does, to
restore the men whom it would be so dangerous to
keep, the warlike speeches in the Senate itself
must be sufficiently annoying. According to the
telegram, the Ne 9? York papers declare that to
avoid war, the demands of England must be acceded
to ; but the tongues of Senators do not seem to
be so self-restrained as even the pens of New
York editors. Several members, we are informed,
spoke against the surrender of the prisoners ;
and we have even a telegraphic summary of the
speech of a Mr. HALE. We are told that he
considered the English demand as a casus belli on
the part of the Federals—he urged war rather than
surrender of the commissioners, and seemed then
to think that NAPOLEON 111. would be glad
of the opportunity to square accounts
with England for Waterloo—that thousands of
Irishmen would, of course, be glad to maintain
in Canada the Federal cause—and that if the
surrender took place, the indignation of the coun
try would hurl the Administration from power.
Mr. SUMNER met this furious tirade with mode-
rate views. The question was not before them
in a practical form; they had no proof of arro-
gant demands on the part of England; the Cabi-

net miy,ht have thought of arbitration, and he
believedi the matter would be honourably and
amicab' ty adjusted. Still, Mr. HALE'S objection-
able d emand for the correspondence with Eng-
landL was not rejected; it was "tabled"--reserved
for fatlare consideration.

Ono incident mentioned is certainly amusing,
as shavving the strange conceit Americans have
of the:r importance to England. We do not here
pretend', to deny the value of any good customer,
but on e would think the importance of England
to Are,erica must be at least equal to that of Ame-
rica to .u.s. The gold which hitherto has been so com-
paratively plentiful there, but which Mr. CHASE
threatens; speedily to exhaust, was almost all sent
by us in payment for corn, to the North-Western
States-9.nd it must occur even to Mr. SEWARD
that to lose large purchasers of corn and cotton
would be not a little disastrous to his own country.
Yet we find this man refusing an invitation to a
dinner which he could not attend, by a letter in-
forming the New England people, that American
prosperity caused prosperity in England, and
American disasters were responded to by disasters
in England. To a certain extent this must, of
course, be true of every country m ith which our
merchants and manufacturers have communication.
Disasters at Shanghae or at Pekin would trouble
some in our own country, But, was this the side
of the case which the New Englanders most needed
to look at ? Or, was it the one which it was dig-
nified for a Foreign Secretary to dilate on in a
public letter ? Unhappily for themselves, the
Americans have gone to the utmost length they
could in rejecting our exports, and have cut down
our trade to half its proportions by their selfish, ill-
natured tariff. As to their cotton and corn, we
believe we should be rather the better than the
worse for seeing no more of the former ; and of the
latter we can obtain abundance already from other
sources. One of the most singular facts for Mr.
SEWARD to ponder is, that it is not now Manchester
which is in the hands of New York, but Lowell
which is in the hands of Liverpool. We could shut
up every American cotton manufactory at once. At
this very moment Americans are even carrying
away cotton from Liverpool steam-haste, sailing
vessels not being quick enough to save Massa-
chusetts manufacturers from ruin. May this go on
till India and free labour beat America'and slave
labour. It would be better for us and better for
India that so magnificent a trade should not rest
on negro slavery.

On the sixth proximo, then, Parliament is to
meet once more—for the despatch of public business.
Thursday the 6th of February. That is the date
when again in the House of Commons the (as
nearly as possible) equal forces of the Govern-
ment and the Opposition will be arrayed against
each other. The last Cabinet was defeated, it will
be remembered, in a House of almost unexampled
magnitude, upon a Division, by a clear majority of—
that unlucky number—Thirteen ! The last DERBY
Cabinet consisted of Thirteen, and it was defeated
in this way, as we have said by its own number—
Thirteen.

"Might be,
'Twist Tweedledum and Tweedledee."

Had but seven of those who voted in favour of the
adroit, but also (as they have proved) tricky Reso-
lutions of the noble lord, then member for the City
of London, voted against it, the late Cabinet would
not have been expelled from office, the DERBY-DIS •
RAELI Reform Bill would have duly gone into Com-
mittee, and could there have been worked into shape
very easily. And the still Vexed Question of Parlia-
mentary Reform—the question thus coolly cushioned
and set aside altogether, as obsolete and beneath
further notice, by the so-called Arch-Champions of
Reform themselves—would, two or three years ago,
have been satisfactorily settled for at least one or
two more generations. As it Was—we know now
what we got by that motion, by what Sir HUGH
CAIRNS very idiomatically termed the extremely
clever dodge of Lord JOHN'S Resolutions. We got
rid, in the first place, of the Tory Government.
And, in the next place, we comfortably in-
stalled in office a genuine Reform Administration—
an Adminirtration so thoroughly in earnest about
Reform that it was supported heart and soul by the
great Tribune of the Reform Movement, the hon.
gentleman the member for Birmingham.
The Government have now a capital reason for
shelving again for another year, with an air of de-
lightful indifference, the very cause they were
pledged to advocate upon their acceptance of office.
We shall have, in all human likelihood, something
else to think of—and that somewhat seriously—by
the time the initial day of the new session, Thurs-
day, the 6th of February, shall have arrived. By
that date, nay, long before that date, we shall know
all about it—that is, in regard to the momentous
alternative of Peace er of War. This, not alone in
one hemisphere. War is just now trembling in the
Balance both in Europe and in America. There
is the imminent possibility of it, between
England and the Federal Government at
Washington. And there is also the imminent possi-
bility of it once more in Italy—between the oppos-
ing forces of the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH and
King VICTOR EMMANUEL. Have there not been
distinct indications recently of the latter conflict as
in all human probability now close at hand—in the
words that have fallen of late from time to time
from the lips and from the pen of General GARI-
BALDI ? Being himself—to the knowledge of the
whole world—one of the most daring and heroic
of living men, GARIBALDI, is, among all brave
men, the least of a Braggart. Whenever be
threatens—be means what he threatens, tho-
roughly and in earnest. GARIBALDI has of
late intimated, as plainly as any words could
possibly intimate anything, that the struggle
for the completion of the great work of Italian
emancipation is again about to be recommenced'
and this once—for the last time ! GARIBALDI has
said it very recently : and be has said it more than
once. We may rest perfectly assured, therefore, that
the struggle will,without any question at all about it,
begin again very quickly in the Roman Peninsula.
Our ships will—come what may within the course
of the next month—have cause for being held per-
petually upon the alert, not only along our own
shores, but upon the North American station, and
in the Mediterranean.

While all this, in one sense, augurs a
considerable increase in the anxieties and
responsibilities of the Government, it reminds us
at the same time that the Cabinet has a very fair
prospect, indeed, before it—of finding an accession
of popularity and an increase of strength in the
very imminence of the emergency. The source
of strength to the Government, on the
contrary, lies clearly and distinctly in its
Foreign Policy.. With a vigorous and pa-
triotic course of Foreign Policy the name, the
historic fame, of the Premier is peculiarly and
inextricably associated. In the development of
that same Foreign Policy Earl RUSSELL has him-
self found the owortunity of rehabilitating his
somewhat ricketty and damaged reputation as
the Leader of 0. Great party. And of matters
more or less affecting her foreign policy England
can always count confidently at these times of
trial upon the magnanimity of the Tory Opposition.
It is due to the (nnseryatiye party to say that much

for them distinctly. Experience has again and
again before now shown that the Tory
leaders, at these crisis of national solicitude,
are ever ready to sink the more selfish in-
terests of Party in the wider and more general
interests of the whole Patriotic Community. -While
1862 therefore has dawned gloomily enough upon
us, and while we have reasons enough and to spare
for looking in this direction and in that with eager
solicitude, the Cabinet itself has apparent cause for
looking forward with calm reliance to those ides
of March which will so soon follow hard upon the
heels of Thursday, the 6th of February.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Jew. 6.

The Queen held a Council to- day, at which were present
Earl Granville, the Duke of Newcastle, and Sir Georgo
Grey.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be further pro-
rogued from Tuesday, the ith of January, to Thursday,
the Gth of February, and a proclamation was issued for the
meeting of Parliament for the despatch of public business
on the said Thursday, the Gth of February.
Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, attended.

Earl Granville, the Duke of Newcastle, and Secretary
Sir George Grey left the Waterloo terminus of the South-
Western Railway, at 20 minutes past nine o'clock, yester-
day morning, by a special train for Gosport, crossed in the
Fire Queen to Osborne Pier, and arrived at Osborne at one
o'clock.

After attending the Privy Council, the Duke of New-
castle, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and Mr. Helps
left Osborne, at a quarter-I•ast three o'clock, re-embarked
on the Fire Queen, went on board and inspected the War-
rior, landed at Gosport soon after five o'clock, and returned
to London by a special railway train.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands
and from the Governors of Malta and the Mauritius.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, Natal, and St. Helena.

Her Majesty the Queen, having been informed
that it was absclutely necessary for the carrying on of im-
portant public business to hold a Privy Council, with diffi-
culty consented to this most painful exertion, and Earl
Granville, K.G., President of the Council, his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and
the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Secretary of state for the
Home Department, attended at Osborne yesterday, when a
Privy Council was held in her Majesty's private apart
ments. Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, was also present.
THE VICARAGE OF TOTTENHAM.---We are re-
quested to state that there is no ground for the statement
which has appeared in some of our contemporaries, that the
vicarage of Tottenham had been presented to the Rev. W.
H. Milman.

The vicarage of Ramsgate has been conferred by
the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Rev. John Mar-
joribanks Nisbet, M.A,, of Balliol College, Oxford, rector
of Deal.

Lord Castlereagh has denied that he signed the
so-called protest of the Roman Catholic gentry against the
Queen's Colleges, although his name appeared to the
document, with his style bnd title of Vice-Chamberlain of
her Tirjesty's Household. "I do not know," he says,
" by what authority my name was affixed to this protest,
for I have neither signed it myself nor authorised any one
to do it for me."

Loss OF FIVE LIVES.—About 5 o'clock on Wed-
nesday night last a keel, the Alice and Jane, Captain John
Gray (belonging to Mr. Ford, of Mexborough), bound from
Grimsby for Gainsborough, with a cargo of deals, caught
the ground on Whitton Sands and capsized. All on board
perished—viz., the captain and wife, mate, and two chil-
dren. It is uncertain to whom the children belonged, the
captain not having, as we are informed, any children of his
own on board. The boat attached to the keel seems either
to have gone down also, or to have broken loose, so that
there was no chance of the captain or mate either saving
themselves or those with them in the vessel. After the
catastrophe the keel floated up the river, as far as the Trent
Sands, and was there seen some time afterwards bottom
upwards. There was a very strong tide on Wednesday
night, and a rather thick fog, and it may have been owing
to these circumstances that the sad accident occurred. The
captain was coming up to Gainsborough without any assist-
ance. The owner was telegraphed for on Thursday by
Captain D. Gleadell, of the Gainsborough United Steam-
packet Company, who had ascertained the particulars of
the melancholy occurrence on his way from Hull to Gains-
borough on Thursday morning. Portions of the cargo
were observed floating in all directions on Thursday. At
Amcoates a large portion of the property was being reco-
vered. It is just about 12 months since a similar accident
occurred at the same place, when six lives were sacrificed.
Recent accounts from the Bahama Islands hold
out the prospect of an early and successful reeuwptiou of
cotton cultivation, especially in Nassau. The cotton pro-
duced in the Bahamas had a high reputation from 1780 to
1820, The plant in those islands yields a crop once in
every six months, being fit to pick about December and
again in June.

ERRATA.—Three paragraphs which appeared in
77e Sun yesterday were accidentally quoted Court Circular
instead of Court Journal.

An "opposition building," to hold some of the
goods rejected from the Intern Ational Exhibition, was
talked of some time ago, without the smallest idea of such a
thing being feasible. There is, however, said to be a scheme
of this kind afoot. Disappointed exhibitors are said to have
raised a sum of £50,000, and to be organising an indepen-
dent display.

The telegraphic quotation of exchange from
Shanghai yesterday is Gs. 2id., showing a movement ad-
verse to this country of about 2 per cent. A change of Ad-
ministration had been reported from Pekin, and it there
was consequently believed to be a good prospect of China
being really opened.

GREAT YARMOUTH. Jan. s.—This morning the
brig Scotia, of and from Sunderland for Lowestoft, coal
laden, Patteson master, was totally lost en the Barber
Sands, off this coast. The Scotia left Sunderland on Fri-
day, and experienced a fair voyage until close to the Barber,
at 5 a.m. to-lay, when the rudder striking a wreck she be-
came unmanageable and was carried cn the sands. She
beat heavily and began to make water so fast that the crew
of fivo hands were compelled to take to the boat, which they
had considerable difficulty in doing, in consequence of the
vessel rolling ♦iolently in the heavy surf. A California
yawl put off to their assistance, and the boatman succeeded
in boarding the brig, but as the water had then risen to the
cabin deck they were obliged to leave her to her fate. The
crew lay by her until she went down, and were landed here
this morning, when they were received into the Sailors'
Home, having lost nearly everything. The Scotia had
170 tons of coal on board, and was insured to the amount
of £4OO.

ILLNESS OF VISCOUNT PEVENSEY.—We Sussex
Express) regret to inform our readers that Lord Pevensey
is exceedingly ill at Paris, where he has been joined by the
Countess and Earl of Sheffield, and other members of his
family. Rio is suffering from a low fever, with exceeding
weakness.

WARMING RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—The directors
of the Eastern Counties Railway Company have determined
on adopting the system of warming railway carriages by
means of the waste steam from the engines, which has been
recently successfully carried into effect on the London and
North-Western line.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY AND MR.
IVINDIIA3I.—The directors of the Eastern Counties Rail-
way Company, with a view of ascertaining the truth of the
statements as set forth in the evidence given by the late
gwird (Ford) and others, in Mr. Windham's case, on Wed-
nesday last, summoned up to the board-room at Bishops-
gate station, a large number of the stationmasters and offi-
cials from various parts of the line, and made a most minute
and searching investigation into the case as alleged by the
evidence given, and we have been given to understand that,
from the evidence given by these officials to the directors,
the statement of Ford and others is very much exaggerated.
Suffolk Chronicle.

PRESERVATION OF SALMON.—The magistrates of
Northumlerland seem determined to enforce rigidly the
recent act of Parliament for the preservation of salmon.
This tribe has suffered severely in past times from the de-
predations of the inhabitants of pit vill ,ges adjacent to the
rivers in that county, in spawning time; and on Friday,
Matthew Carr, pitman, Bedlington, and Henry Wilson, of
the same place, shoemaker, were charged at petty sessions
held at that place, Carr with having two unclean and un-
seasonable salmon in his possession, and Wilson with having
four. They were each fined L.. 2 a fish, with 10s. costs, or in
default to be sent to gaol two months each, but the fines
were paid. The magistrates stated that theso having been
the first cases under the Salmon Fisheries Act brought
before them they would only inflict the penalty of £2 for
each fish, but in future, if any similar cases came before
them, they would inflict a fine of S 5 each fish.

DEATH OF JOHN BOYD, ESQ., M.P. FOR COLE-
RAINE.—John Boyd, Esq., D.C.L., who for a period of 14
years has represented the Irish borough of Coleraine in
Parliament, ex!,ir. d on Thursday night. In politics Mr.
Boyd was a Conservative, and invariably voted with the
party of which Lord Derby is the leader. Tho deceased
gentleman was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the
county of Londonderry, and magistrate for the county of
Antrim and borough of Coleraine. Mr. Boyd was horn in
1789, and at his death was consequently in his 73d year.
On Saturday placards were posted in Coleraine announcing
the intention of Sir H. Bruce, Bart., to offer himself as a
candidate for the borough. It is rumoured that the Soli-
citor-General for Ireland, Mr. Lawson, will offer himself as
a candidate.

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.

QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 6.

The Royal mail steamer Europa, from Boston on
the 25th and Halifgx on the 27th ult., arrived here
at 8.30 p.m. with 70 passengers and £21,420 in
specie for England.

The Europa landed 93 sacks of mails, and pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 8.45 p.m. All well.

She brings nothing definite respecting the Com-

missioners.
She experienced strong easterly winds with
heavy head sea on the passage home.

NEW YORK, DEC. 24, EVENING.
(PER EUROPA, via BOSTON AND QUEENSTOWN.)

A motion has been made in the Senate for the
production of the co respondence respecting the
Trent affair.

Several members spoke against the surrender of
the prisoners.

The New York papers agree that to avoid war
the demands of England would be acceded to.
The Senate has passed a Bill devoting 1,500,000
dols, for the construction of gunboats on the
Western waters.

It is reported that the Government has decided
to erect a naval depot and navy yard on Lake
Michigan. •

Mr. Seward has written a letter excusing himself
from being present at the New England anniversary
dinner. In this letter Mr. Seward says that any
benefit that accrues to America increases the pro-
sperity of Cheat Britain, and that every disaster
befalling America is sooner or later pregnant with
suffering to Great Britain.
It is generally reported that General Scott re-
turns to New York with an offer of mediation from
the Emperor of the French to settle the affair of
the Trent.
The news of the Prince Consort's death has
caused a feeling of sadness to prevail throughout
the British community in New York.
Both Houses of Congress have passed a Bill
making the duty on tea 20c., on coffee 5c., and on
sugar from 21c. to Bc., according to quality; mo-
lasses, Bc. per gallon.

The New York Bank statement shows a decrease
of specie of two and a-half millions, and a decrease
of deposits of four and a-half millions.

The Persia and the Australasian were intercepted
off Cape Race on Dec. 23.

(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 26 (Evening).

To-day in the Senate Mr. Hale demanded the
correspondence with England on the Trent ques-
tion.

Mr. Sumner objected to this demand.

Mr. Hale stated that he had heard. the Cabinet
were considering the proposition to surrender Messrs.
Mason and Slidell. He said, also, that if England
had demanded the surrender of Messrs. Mason and
Slidell, the Federal Government should declare war
against England. If they were surrendered, the
Senate, said Mr. Hale, would be subject to the scorn
and indignation of the country, and the Administra-
tion would be hurled from power. Mr. Hale believed
that Napoleon would desire to wipe out the stain
of Waterloo, and that thousands of Irishmen in
Canada would join the Federal cause. Mr. Hale
concluded a violent speech against England by
urging war sooner than the surrender of Messrs.
Mason and Slidell.

Mr. Sumner urged that the consideration of the
question should be delayed until it was presented in
a practical form. He demanded whether there was
proof of arrogant demands on the part of England,
or that the Administration had not considered the
question of arbitration, and stated his belief that
the matter would be honourably and amicably ad-
justed.

Mr. Hale's motion was tabled for future discus-

sion.

It is generally believed that Lord Lyons has pre-
sented his despatches.
Nothing, however, is known respecting the de-
mands which they contain, as the Administration
preserved strict secrecy on the Trent question.
The New York press argues that America is not
desirous of war with England unless it is farted
upon the country by the latter.
The popular feeling is hostile to England, but
there is a general impression that the Trent ques-
tion will be amicably settled.
The Arago has arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, DEC. 26, EVENING.
Cotton dull. Breadstuffs quiQt. Stoclis closed
weak—lllinois Central, 58k; Erie, 241.
Exchange on London—Commercial bills, 110 ;
bankers' bills, 1101.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA.
(BY TELEORAPH FRO) ALEXANDRIA.)
CANTON, DEC. 30.
A coup d'etat has taken place at Pekin.
The members of the Cabinet have been im-
prisoned.
A new Ministry has been formed under the pre.
sidency of Prince Kung.
POINT DE GALLE, DEC. 17.
Colonel Baird Smith died on the 13th inst. on
board the Candia.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 25.
The shipments of gold since the departure of the
last mail amount to 149,430 oz.

AUSTRALIA,

ARRIVAL OF THE KENT.

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, 9 A.M.

The ship Kent, 926 tons, Captain Matthew T.
Clayton, belonging to Messrs. Money Wigram and
Sons, of Leadenhall-street, 82 days from Melbourne,
is gone up Channel, bound for London.

She has on frieght 105,603 ounces of gold-dust,
'541 bales wool, and a quantity of tallow, copper,
sago, ginger, leather, &c. ; and brings 22 cabin and
172 steerage passengers, including Mr. Brooks, Mr.
Haigh, and families; Mrs. Mead, Mrs. Taylor; and
Messrs. Bernie, Uphill, Hackett, and Richardson.
The Kent left Port Phillip October 15, rounded
Cane Horn November 11, crossed the Line Decem-
' her 7, and was off this port January 6, at 7 a.m.
On October 27, in long 162 W, lat 52 S, ice was
sighted, and before 3 p.m. 61 bergs, some 200
feet high, were passed ; they were observed north
and cast as far as they eye could reach; the
ship was in consequence run SSE under double
reefs until 7 p.m., when scarcely ally ice could ,
be descried; at 9 the wind increased to a heavy
gale, which continued until 5 a.m. on the 28th;
only one berg was then seen, which lay to the
northward. It was most providential that the
Kent ran through this fearful ice ridgy by day
and before the storm. Icebergs, some 350 feet
high and 11 mile long, were, however, passed daily
Until Nov. 9, The Azores were made Dee, 23, from

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which date to January 4th, strong head winds from
the eastward prevailed.

Passengers and crew all well. One birth ; no
deaths.

The Kent spoke, November 28th, in lat 24 49 5,
long 27 41 W, the Harwich, 42 days from London
for Adelaide, and the Broughton Hall, 39 days
from Liverpool, for Bombay ; in lat 24 39 S, long
28 W, the Woodbine, 47 days from London, for
Algoa Bay; January 1, in lat 49 49 N, long 16 51
W, the Mersey, 31 days from Quebec, for Liver-
pool; and January 3, in lat 49 2 N, long 14 34 W,
the Sea, 82 days from Mauritius, for London.
Twenty-five passengers from the Kent have
arrived in the Sound, in a pilot cutter.

PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin, dated 4th inst., says :
_ _

"M, de Bismark-Schonhausen, the Prussian Ambassa-
dor at St. Petersburg, has been telegraphed for and arrived
at Berlin yesterday. To-day he had a conference with M.
de Bernstorff, at which Count do Goltz was also present. It
is believed that the appointment of a new Ambassador to
Paris was discussed. It is probable that both M. Bistnark
and Count Goltz would be equally well received at Paris by
the French Government. The former has always shown
himself the adversary of Austrian preponderance, and the
latter has been constantly favourable to French interests at
Constantinople."