The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-15 00:00:00

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological
Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs.
CHAFTE'R ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhoa and Impotenoe;
Farly Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect
CIIAPTER Review of the various Disqualifications
4 Marriao:e ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the
Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection.
CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of
Gonorrhoea and Syphilis.
The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting
aces, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive
Lotion.

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(From the London Gazette of last Evening.)
EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS.
Foreign Office, December 19, 1861.
My Lord,—Mr. Adams came to me to-day, at the Foreign
Office, at 3 o'clock. He said he came to ask two questions
which concerned himself personally.
I interrupted him to ask whether what he was going to
say was by order of his Government, or from his own sense
of what he ought to do.
Mr. Adams answered that the proceeding was entirely his
own, but that he had with him a despatch from Mr. Seward
which he was authorised to read to me if he should think fit
to do so. It appeared, he said, from that despatch, that the
Government of Washington had not authorized the capture
of the two insurgents, Mason and Slidell, and that the
United States' Government stood quite uncommitted at the
time of sending the despatch.
I said that if the despatch did not enter into any contro-
versy with regard to the case of Messrs. Mason and Slidell
I should be glad to hear it read.
Mr. Adams then proceeded to read the despatch. It
commenced by referring with approbation to a speech made
by Mr. Adams at the Mansion House, and proceeded to
notice with gratification the sentiments which had been
expressed by Lord Palmerston in a conversation ho had held
with Mr. Adams in reference to the " James Adger."
Mr. Seward then proceeds to declare that the American
Government value highly the friendship of Great Britain,
and lament that certain causes of difference have arisen,
owing, as Mr. Seward imagines, to the want of attention
on the part of the British Government to the perform-
ance of the duties incumbent on a friendly Power dur-
ing the struggle in which the United States are engaged.
Mr. Seward gives as instances the case of communication
to the Confederate authorities by Mr. Bunch ; the admis
sion of the " Sumter," privateer, to purchase coal and pro-
visions at Trinidad, in distinction, as he said, to the con-
duct of every European State; and the arrival in the
Southern States of vessels laden with arms and ammunition
from England.
Mr. Seward then proceeds to the case of the "Trent,'
from which ship the two insurgents had been taken. He
affirms that no instructions were given to Captain Wilkes
which authorised him to act in the manner he had done.
Neither had the United States Government committed
itself with regard to any decision upon the character of that
act. The Government would wait for any representation
the British Government might make before coming to any
positive decision. He desires that, if Mr. Adams shall
think it desirable, this despatch shall be read to me, and
alse to Lord Palmerston.
In answer to Mr. Adams, I touched upon most of the
points treated of in the despatch. I did not think it neces-
sary, however, to recur to the case of Mr. Bunch.
With regard to the Confederate privateer, I said that I
could not see that our conduct had been different from that
of France and Holland, or of Spain. The Sumter had been
refused coal from the Government stores at Trinidad, but
had been allowed to get coal and provisions from private
merchants. The same thing had taken place at Martinique
and at Curacoa. I did not find that the rule of twenty-four
hours had been observed in practice, but there would be
little difficulty in coming to an agreement on this point.
In regard to the export, of nip-, and ammototion to the
Confederate Mates, I had lately lead the opinion of the
Attorney-General, and believe it wco in entire t;onforrnity
with the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act
—warlike equipment of a vesucl was prohibited;
the loading a ves.iel with arms and ammunition
was not prohibited. But in point of fact, a much greater
amount of arms and ammunition had been sent to
the. Federal States, where there was no obstacle to the
export or the import, than to the ports of the Confederate
States which were blockaded. Mr. Adams admitted this to
be the fact, and said he had refrained from pressing a more
rigorous compliance with the Foreign Enlistment Act for
this reason.
I then stated to Mr. Adams the substance of the two de-
spatches I had written to Lord Lyons on the subject of the
Trent.
I told him that in a private letter I had directed Lord
Lyons to talk the matter over with Mr, Seward two days
before reading to him the despatch. Mr. Adams asked
whether the direction to Lord Lyons to leave Washington
in seven days was in the despatch to be read. I said it was
not, and that in case Mr. Seward should ask what would
be the consequence of a refusal on his part to comply
with our conditions, Lord Lyou3 was to decline to answer
that question, iu order not to have the appearance of a
threat. 1 said that 1 thought the explanation that the Go-
vernment had not authorised the seizure would stand in
the place of an apology.
But the essential condition was, that Mr. Mason and Mr.
Slidell should be given up to Lord Lyons.
Mr. Adams said that if the matter was stated to Mr.
Seward in the manner I had explained, he hoped for au
amicable termination of the difference ; he thought that if
the Government of the United States insisted on maintain-
ing the act of Captain Wilkes, the United States would be
abandoning their doctrine and adopting ours.
Mr. Adams asked me a further question, which he said I
might decline to answer; it was whether, if Lord Lyons
came away, a declaration of war would be the immediate

consequence.
I told him nothing was decided on that point ; we should
wait for the reply from America, and then decide upon our

course.
I stated to Mr. Adams the substance of M. Thouvenel's
despatch to M. Mercier as I had heard it from M. de Fla-
hault.

Mr. Adams said that the French Government had always
been very consistent in their maintenance of the rights of
neutrals. He addEd that he could not pay our Government
the same compliment,
I said I would dispense with compliments if this matter
could be amicably arranged.
We parted on very friendly terms.

I am, &c.,
(Signed)

RUSSELL.

EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS.

Foreign-office, January 11, 1862.
My Lord,—ln my despatch to you of the 30th of Novem-
ber, after jamming you of the circumstances which had
occurred in relation to the capture of the four persons
taken from on board the Trent, I stated to you that it thus
appeared that certain individuals had been forcibly taken
from on board a British vessel, the ship of a neutral power,
while such vessel was pursuing a lawful and innocent
voyage, an act of violence which was an affront to the
British flag, and a violation of international law. I
concluded by directing you, in case the reparation, which
her Majesty's Government expected to receive, should
not be offered by Mr. Seward, to propose to that
minister to make such redress as alone would satisfy the
British nation, namely, first, the liberation of the four gen-
tlemen taken from on board the Trent-, and their delivery
to your lordship, in order that they might again be placed
under British protection; and, secondly, a suitable apology
for the aggression which had been committed.

I received, yesterday, your despatch of the 27th ultimo,
inclosing a note to you from Mr. Seward, which is in sub-
stance the answer to my despatch of the 30th of November.
Proceeding at once to the main points in discussion
between us, her Majesty's Government have carefully
examined how far Mr. Seward's note, and the conduct it
announces, complies substantially with the two proposals 1
have recited.

With regard to the first, viz., the liberation of the pri-
sonei4 with A. view thcin being again placed under British
votet;tion, ; find that the note concludes by stating that
the prLunete will he cheerfully liberated, and by calling
upon your lurdehip to indicate a time and place for receiv-
ing them.
No condition of any kind ie coupled with the liberation of
the prisoners.

With regard to the suitable apology which the British
Government had a right to expect, I find that the Govern-
ment of the United States distinctly and unequivocally de-
clares that no directions had been given to Captaia Wilkes,
or to any other naval officer, to arrest the four persons
named, or any of them, on the Trent, or on any other
British vessel, or on any other neutral vessel, at the place
where it occurred or elsewhere.

I find, further, that the Secretary of State expressly for-
bears to justify the particular act of which her Majesty's
Government complained. If the United States Govern-
ment had alleged that although Captain Wilkes had
no previous instruction for that purpose, he was right in
capturing the persons of the four prisoners, and in remov-
ing them from the Trent on board his own vessel, to be
afterwards carried into a port of the United States, the Go-
vernment which had thus sanctioned the proceeding of
Captain Wilkes would have become responsible for the
original violence and insult of the act. But Mr. Seward
contents himself with stating that what has happened
has been simply an inadvertency, consisting in a de-
parture by a naval officer, free from any wrongful motive,
from a rude uncertainty established, and probably by the
several parties concerned either imperfectly understood
or entirely unknown. The Secretary of State gJes on to
affirm that for this error the British Government has a right
to expect the same reparation which the United States, as
an independent State, should expect from Great Britain, or
from any other friendly nation, in a similar case.
Her Majesty's Government having carefully taken into
their consideration the liberation of the prisoners, the de-
livery of them into your hands, and the explanations to
which I have referred, have arrived at the conclusion that
they constitute the reparation which her Majesty and the
British nation had a right to expect.
It gives her Majesty's Government great satisfaction to
be enabled to arrive at a conclusion favourable to the main-
soave p t 1 most ftionclly nista') between the two

In the meantime it will be desirable that the commanders
of the United States cruisers should be instructed not to
repeat acts for which the British Government will have to
ask for redress, and which the United States Government
cannot undertake to justify.
You will read and give a copy of this despatch to the
Secretary of State.—l am, &c,,

(Signed) RUSSELL.

EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LYOXS.
Foreign-office, January 11, 1862.
My Lord,—Your conduct in the important matter of the
"Trent" is entirely approved by Her Majesty. The dis-
cretion and good temper you have shown have contributed
greatly to the success of our operations.

- In order to give your lordship, by a public document, a
proof that you have acted strictly according to the instruc-
tions you have received, I inclose an extract, annexed to
tlhstisodfispate
dispatch,
Decembero l of
a private letter I addressed to you on the
last.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) RUSSELL.

Extract of a private letter from Earl Russell to Lord
Lyons, Dec. 1, 1861.

" The despatches which were agreed to at the Cabinet
yesterday, and which I have signed this morning, impose
upon you a disagreeable task. My wish would be that, at
your first interview with Mr. Seward, you should not take
my despatch with you, but should prepare him for it, and
ask him to settle with the President and the Cabinet what
course they would propose.
" The next time you should bring my despatch, and read
it to him fully.
" If he asks what will be the consequence of his refusing
compliance, I think you should say that you wish to leave
him and the President quite free to take their own course,
and that you desire to abstain from anything like menace."