The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-09 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

I_tOYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancir, Mons. Espinosa.
First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan-
seuse of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre
Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every
night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening.
TIIIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH..

After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11.
J. Byron, called JACK TAI.; GIANT K ILLE ; or, I Earle-
quill King Arthur and the Knights of the Bound Table,
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Panta-
loon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams- Clown,
Mr. A. F. Forrest.

NEAV THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPIII
Sole Proprietor cud Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

Holiday Attractions.— The Christmas Carol and the New
Spectacular Extravag•anza, by 11. J. Byron, Esq., the Nymph
of the Lurlyberg; or the Kni2-ht and the Naiades.
THIS EVENING, TEI E C [IRIS TMAS CAROL. Messrs
J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billinzton, C. J.
Smith. Romer: Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billin,gton, Mrs. Chatte-
rley, Miss Laidlaw.
After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLEYBERG;
or. The KniLlit and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford,
Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K.
Kelly, Laidlaw.

Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment arc strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the I'ark being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.

THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C.
Young.
Followed by MAGIC TOYS, support :A by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Cassc,
Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.
Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven.
To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND
JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia hompson and the Cors
de Ballet.• Clown, Harlequin, Colu"l' mbine, and Pantaloon and
the wonderful Performing Dogs. ,
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
The Great Christmas Novelty, " Harlequin Toni Moody,"
triumphant.
THIS EVENING, the entertainments will commence at
7 o'clock with the droll drama of DOMINIQUE THE DE-
SERTER. Dominique, Mr. G. lmore. After which. fine
and exquisite Riding Evolutions by the Star Artistes, Miss
Emily Cooke, Mr. John Henry Cooke, and other first-rate
professors. Concluding with the really successful Holiday
piece and Sporting Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM
Mof4Dy ; or, Old Towier the Huntsman and the Goddess
Diana, introducing, among numerous new and splendid
effects, the Derby Day of 1800, by the Astlean Racing Stud
ancrialever jockeys ; also the wonde ful Salamander Horse,
enveloped in a body of real fire. A Grand Day performance
of the New Comic Pantomime, and very superior novelties in
the ring, every Saturday, at Two o'clock, during the Holidays.

Stage Manager. Mr. K. Phillip;

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
?VERY EVENING. Sterudale Bennett's MAY
QUEEN.

-And a Grand Selection from Mcyerbeer's new opera of

Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George TIo Non (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. I'. Critchtield, and E. W. llackney.
Several interesting Pictures arc added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BON HEU it' S celebrged PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is ope i from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE IVE.ITHER.SUN OFFICE, JAN. 8, 1860.
THEB.3IOIfETE.R, IN THE SHADE.
43—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

Be ROMET ER-30.29.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine wintry weather,

JAN. 9.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—highest since noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day at noon.

BAROMETER— -30.20.
WIND, South-Easterly; light, with thick, foggy weather.

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tilts ])AY.—;Morning, 2h. 5m.--Afternoon, 21). 29m.
To-momtow.-Morning, 2h. 51m.—Afternoon, 3h. 17m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 9, 1860.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

We have an abstract of the American Presi-
dent's Message from Queenstown, by electric tele-
graph. Its chief import is decidedly unfavourable
to liberty. The President says :—" I cordially
congratulate you upon the final settlement, by the
Superior Court of the United States, of the ques-
tion of slavery. The right has been established of
every citizen to take property, including slaves,
into the common territories, and have it protected
under the Federal Constitution."

And yet in the next sentence he says
means have been employed, and shall continue to
be employed, to execute the laws apinst the Slave
Trade, and those engaged in the unlawful enter-
prise have been vigorously prosecuted."
We shall not quarrel with men who seem so de-
termined to lave their own way, be it right or
wrong ; but we will ask them whether they mean
to carry it out by fair or by foul means? If the
United' FJtates think that they (avowedly Libe-'
rals) ho pe to Carry out a system of slavery
in cl- .sguise, they will have to pay
dearer for the game than they reckon on.
Slavery is so repugnant to humanity that those
who a' ttempt to practise it, and hope to make a
miser.l ble living by the sweat and anguish of their
fellow- men, ought to be dealt with accordingly.
S uppos '2 a war with America to be precipitated by the
overweening folly and presumption of men almost
drunk with the excess of liberty, who would ar-
raign I le just policy of putting arms into the
hands o f the slaves that they might vindicate their
rights a 3 brother-men of the human family ?

The rt !al question seems to be, Shall the United
States t e a free community or a slave-trading
packinin of vilianous character ? In either case
we fear t Ezvir doom is fixed. Barning for access
of torritot .1,-, they know not what to do with their
present. 'o, ;sessions. Born out of rebellion
they yet ser m to doubt their own legitimacy, al-
though a owledged by the existing powers of the
world. a `llv s it is that people may have too much
of a good tt ing, and ultimately be heart-sick of
their •
Oaths. 2 'he Americans are on friendly terms

with all the world, save Spain ; and the reason
seems to be that the United States covet Cuba,
which the Span:ards will not give up to
them. In fact, if Spain were disposed to sell
Cuba for a fair price, as the President phrases
it, we of England, and perhaps he of France,
would not by any means consent to the
transfer of the Queen of the West to such
huckstering hands as those of the " United States."
By and bye we shall hear of a strange story, wherein
the now united will become a very disunited com-
pact of mercenary people.

Americans are at least consistent. They inherited
slaves, they say, as a legacy from us ; but, like some
very conscientious legatees, they have used the
legacy with far more consistency than the former
possessor. Slaves were badly used enough, in all
consqience, as we too well know, before our planters
were compelled to accept the twenty millions ster-
ling, which went into the pockets of our GLAD-
STONES and other English mortgagees, and left the
islands bankrupt of capital; still even the slaves
had legally some rights, and free persons of colour,
albeit as black as ebony, had the rights of all other
free subjects of the British Crown. Nor would
Englishmen easily perceive that there was any
inconsistency in this. If the man was a subject of
the Crown, if he paid the taxes the Crown was
authorised to levy on other subjects, if he was
amenable to the laws enforced in the name of the
Crown—it seemed consistent enough to treat the
man in all-respects like white persons who were in

(THIS DAY.)

the same position.
These, however, were but the unenlightened
notions of an old country living under antiquated,
aristocratic, and monarchical institutions. Our
more enlightened descendants in America adopted
two grand principles—one as the basis of a glori-
ous Rebellion, the other as the foundation of a
glorious Republic. They rebelled because " taxa-
tion without Representation was tyranny ;" they
founded a Republic became "all men are born free
and equal." These elevated political and social
principles they had to apply to the subjects
of the several States, and to the Union
as best they could. They began by acknowledging
that slaves were persons, that they were "persons
held to labour" according to thelaws of some states.
They were, therefore, to be sent back, if they ran
away, to the cartwhips, cowhides, and cat-o'-nine-
tails by which they were "held to labour." It was

discovered, however, when cotton grew more valu-
able, and the price of human flesh and blood rose
high, that slaves were not " persons," they were
but "things," "chattels," and fit to be advertised for
sale with cattle and sheep, pigs and pigs'-troughs.
Hence education was an absurdity for slaves, the
admission of their testimony equally so ; indeed,
the property of the master was as unconditioned in
his slave as in his house or land, or the balance at
his banker's. And Christian clergy-men proclaimed
from the pulpit that all this was holy, just, and
good,—the perfection of human wisdom ; indeed,
far more than that, it was the will of GOD, the
doctrine of the Gospels, the fulfilment of that
glorious prophecy—"Cuss'd be Canaan !" When
CHRIST or his apostles said" Bless and curse not," they
did not mean that we were to abstain from cursing
Africans, or, according to American theologists,
Canaanitcs, with the cultivation of cotton, for if
they were persons, cursed persons they were.
So it was settled in regard to blacks purchased,
given, or inherited. But this ,v% as not quite enough.
These blacks did not, at least in any very direct
forru, pay taxes. They paid the sweat of their

brow to their masters ; they paid, or had stolen
from them, their liberty itself, but that was not the
payment of dollars into the national treasury, so
these untaxed ones could not complain of being
" taxed without ltepresentation ;" and as to laws
made without their consent, why that was the case
with the million also in the mother country. The
difficulty now arose what to do with persons of
colour who had been manumitted, or had bought
their own freedom, or been born free. Some of the
States have nude, so far as their own territories are
concerned, very short work of it. They have refused
to allow a man of colour to be a free man at all
within the limits of their precious sovereignty. His
master cannot manumit him. He cannot purchase
his freedom in the State in which he was born. if
before this law of perfect equality for negroes was
enacted, ho were free, he must migrate at once to
Canada or Liberia or to somewhere out of the State,
or he wonid be sold with his wife and children, and
all that was his, and the money devoted to "pious
uses"—perhaps to building a vicarage house for the
clergyman who preached oftenestardmost eloquently
from that beautiful verse " Cuss'd be Canaan."

The Lord Chancellor
Earl Shelburne
Earl Stanhope
Sir Henry Holland, Bart.

For some time various kind methods were devised
for helping free men of colour out of the land of
their birth. We believe that if a Canaanite bQcame
a Jew among Jews and was circumcised, he was
thenceforth dealt with as a Jew—but nothing simi-
lar avails with American Christians. The unfortu-
nate man of colour may become a Christian and be
baptised, but he is a son of Canaan still, and as the
Bigelou papers tell us--

Tho Right Honourable
Thomas Babington
Macaulay,
Baron Macaulay of Itothwell,
Born 25th Oct.,
1800.
Died 28th Dec.,
1859.

"John P.
Robinson, he
Says, they didn't know everything down in Judeo."
Whence American Divines, and Judges in the Su-
preme Court, by way of mending on the mistakes
of inspired Hebrews, declare that in no way can a
man with a trace of African blood in his veins be
put on a footing with the descendants of European
white men. The white blood may predominate so
much that an Englishman would take him for a
Yankee ; yet while, if the glove be taken of, a trace
of colour can be found at the nails, the man may
not be treated as a social equal, much less as a
Christian brother. No American Christian will
sit by his side in an omnibus or on a steamboat, or
even in the same pew, or the same part of the
church, to worship God !

This social " ignoring" had lung been going on,
but the final touch was given by the legal decision
that a coloured man has no rights which a white
roan is bound to respect !! " He cannot be an
American citizen ! The manners and education of

some persons, ono of whose ancestors some genera-
tions back came from Africa, may be of the highest
character ; it may be the person is a lady, brought
up elegantly, and with every accomplishment, as a
planter's daughter, whose remote parentage none
of the uninitiated would for a moment suspect, but
even the " chivalry" which has always plumed it-
self on respect for the sex shows none for her ; her
innocence, her beauty, her charms all plead in vain.
Well for her if, though freed by her father's will,
or free-born, she be not seized, carried off, her
claims to citizenship sacrified for a few hundred
dcllars, and herself converted into the mistress of
a brutal member of the Great Republic where all
are born free and equal.
These remarks have been drawn from is
which the details appeared in it
by an outrage—w e can
2n7oteosthwezr
onf
alTrei—dayof,
under the heading, "Disabilities of American Per-
sons of Colour." There is no room for misrepre-
sentation here, as we have the fact from the Hon.
Mr. DALLAS, and from the American Legation
itself. An American coloured lady, probably of
little colour, little different from that of many
Londoners, obtained a passport in the year 1858
from the Foreign-office in the United States, and

it bears the signature of Mr. LEWIS CASS, the
States' Secretary, himself. She wishes to travel
on the Continent, applies to the United States'
office in London for the necessary visa ; and, in
brief, is told by Mr. DALLAS that the "indispen-
sable qualification for an American passport—that
of ' United States' citizenship'—does not exist in
her case, and that he is compelled by instructions
received in 1856 to refuse it !" On his final refusal
the indignant lady reminds him that he has laid
down the rule that American free-born persons,
who have borne all the burdens of the Sate, who
have even contributed to the taxes out of which the
salaries of its Ministers are paid, are to be refused
the aid, when they need it, of those Ministers. If
in the face of this really free country, an ambas-
sador of the United States can perpetrate so gross
a crime against all its sentiments, habits, and man-
ners, as well as against reason itself, we may well
sicken at the thought of the insults to which per-
sons of colour are liable in the great Slave
Republic.

FUNERAL OF LORD MACAULAY.

This afternoon, in Poet's Corner, Westminster
Abbey, there has been laid in the dust, with the
customary ceremonial, all that was mortal of one of
the greatest writers in the English language. The
solemnity of these funereal rites was in some slight
measure (at any rate in intention) worthy of Eng-
land and of her Historian. It has evidenced, at
least, in an affecting manner, the national
grief over this irreparable calamity the pre-
mature demise of the first and last Baron
Macaulay in the midst of his herculean labours in
building up a monument at once of our later annals
and of his own genius as one of the glories of our
literature.
The funeral took place at 1 o'clock precisely. The
cortege moved from Holly-lodge, Campden-hill,
Kensington; the residence of the deceased nobleman,
at 11 o'clock. The procession consisted of a hearse
and six horses, with three mourning coaches.
It had been proposed that the coronet should be
carried before the hearse on a cushion ; but this
piece of pageantry was set aside,in deference to the
known opinions of the deceased upon such matters.
The chief mourners were the Rev. J. Macaulay and
Mr. Macaulay, jun., Mr. C. L. Macaulay, and Mr.
George Trevelyan, who occupied the first carriage.
Mr. S. F. Ellis, Mr. E. Cropper, Mr. J. Cropper,
jun., and Mr. H. Holland occupied the second car-
riage. The other carriages were filled with the
principal domestics of the deceased.
Throughout the whole length of the High-
street of the " Old Court Suburb," as poor Leigh
Hunt loved to call Kensington, scarcely a single

tradesman failed to have the shutters up as a
mark of respect to the memory of the deceased
nobleman.

The procession haling passed down Campden-

hill into Kensington, along the Kensington-road
through Knightsbridge, proceeded to Hyde
Park-corner, where it was joined by the car-
riages of the noblemen and others desirous of
paying their last mark of respect to the de-
ceased. The procession then continued down
Grosvenor-place along Birdcage-walk, through St.
James's Park, and by way of Great George-street to
the Abbey.

On arriving at the Abbey the body was received
by the pall bearers and numerous other literary
and political friends of Lord Macaulay, and the
coffin was carried up the nave to the choir in the
following order :

Bailiff of Westminster,
The Almsmen of the Abbey,
Sixteen Boys of the Choir,
The Sub• Dean,
Canons Renton, Jennings, and Cureton,
The Dean (Rev. T. Trench),
The following was the printed list of
The Pall Bearers :

Lord John Russell
Duke of Argyll
Sir David Dundas
The Dean of St. Paul's (Dr.
Milnian).
But, among the number of those really bearing
the pall this morning, in the Abbey, we noticed the
Bishop of Oxford.
The service was read by the Rev. the Dean. As
the coffin was borne onwards to the choir the chori-

sters sung, " I am the Resurrection and the Life,

When arrived at the choir the Psalm " Lord, Thou
hast been our dwelling-place" was chanted, and the
Lesson appointed for such service read. The An.
them was from Spohr's " Last Judgment," " Blessed
for ever are they that die trusting in God." This
portion of the service having been concluded, the
coffin was carried to the grave, the choir sing-
ing the anthem of Purcell, " Man that is born of
woman." Handel's Funeral Anthem, composed for
one of the Georgian Queens, the words altered to
suit the occasion—
" His body is buried in peace,
" But his name liveth for evermore."

" The Dead March in Saul" was also performed by
Dr. Tunic) on the organ during the ceremony.
The outer coffin was formed of polished elm, and
enclosed a leaden coffin and shell. The lid was
divided into three compartments ; the upper one
contained, on an engraved plate, the arms of the
deceased peer. The shield born two arrows and
two buckles, and had two pelicans as supporters.
The crest was a boot with a spur, surmounted with
the usual coronet. The motto of the coat of arms
was " Dulce Periculum." The second compartment
contained the following inscription :

Conspicuous among those in attendance at this
solemn ceremonial, who evidenced the most deep
emotion throughout, was the Lord-Lieutenant of

Ireland (the Earl of Carlisle) : his excellency
being frequently moved to tears. Scattered
among the crowd of known and unkown, illustrious
and obscure huddled together in Poet's Corner, were
recognisable many familiar forms and faces thaw
of distinguished men from both Houses of Parlia-
ment. statesmen and diplomatists, orators and men
of letters, artists, warriors, critics, and men of the
most varied reputation. Yonder was Mr. Glad-
stone, there Lord Stanley—there towered above the
heads of all about him the stalwart form of " Jacob
Omnium"—there, almost as lofty in stature, one of

the master novelists of our age Mr. Thackeray.
Sprinkled among the concourse here and there
were observable several ladies, oddly, incon-
gruously (scarcely decorously) in the gayest colours,
flaunting in red, blue, and yellow, with "all their
trumpery." Indeed, on our way down to the Abbey,
along the road traversed by the funeral processicn,
we noticed at the corner of Grosvenor-place, a
very stylish open phaeton drawn up by the kerb,
in readiness for the sight—the fair occupant of the
carriage displaying in her apparel almost as many
colours as there might be found in the pattern of a
kaleidoscope.'

Upwards of three thousand applications, we be-
lieve, had been made for cards of admission to the
Abbey, but the space in Poet's Corner being so very
restricted, it was found advisable to issue merely a
little over one thousand—Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., being
thus constrained by necessity to make a selection
from among the throng of applicants.
Besides the eight distinguished pall-bearers,
comprising among them a Prime Minister (the now
Foreign Secretary, Lord John Russell) and a Lord
Chancellor (the present occupant of the woolsack,
Lord Campbell)—there were present to-day among
those grouped around the grave of Lord Macaulay—
Lord Palmerston, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Stanley,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir G. C. Lewis,
Sir C. Wood, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Arg,yll,
Lord Berners, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Chief Baron Pollock, Mr.
Justice Willes, Mr. Justice Crompton, Earl
of Shaftesbury, Lord Glenelg, Lord Mont-
eagle, Lord Belper, Lord Brougham, Lord
Cranworth, the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons, Right Hon. E. Cardwell M.P., Right Hon.
Charles Villiers, Beresford Hope, M.P., Mr. Rich,
M.P., Mr. J. Mills, M.P., Sir H. Douglas, M.P.,

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Mr. J. Locke, M.P., Mr. T. Gregson, M.P., Mr.
J. Martin, M.P., Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr. Hard-
castle, M.P., Mr. Adeane, M.P., Mr. M. Milnes,
M.P., Mr. W. Ewart, M.P., Mr. B. Cochrane,
M.P., Mr. T. Hankey, ALP., Mr. E. Buxton, Mr.
J. Wyld, M.P., Mr. Tite, M.P., Captain Jervis,
M.P., Lord R. Montague, M.P., Sir S. Shaw
Lefevre, Sir W. Page Wood, Sir Roderick Mur-
chison, Chevalier Bunsen, General K lapka,
Sir J. Palgrave, Baron M. Van de Weyer
Marochetti, Lord Henry Lennox, Samuel Warren,
Esq., Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq., Edwin James,
Esq., QC., M.P., M. J. Higgins, Esq., Professor
Stanley, Sir J. Lawrence, Hon. ,Capt.lllanbury,
M.P. ; Mr. Mangles, of the India Board;
the Rev. T. B. Murray, of St. Paul's ; Dr. Haw-
brey, Provost of Eton; the Dean of Canterbury;
the Dean of St. Paul's; Charles Knight, Esq., W. M.
Thackeray, Esq., Tom Taylor, Esq., Shirley Brooks,
Esq.,— Longman, Esq., the head of the eminent pub-
lishing firm in Paternoster-row ;R. Bentley, Esq.,
Burlington-street; Lovell Reeve, Esq., J. Forster,
Esq., W. Charles Kent, Esq., George Grote, Esq.,
S. C. Hall, Esq., G. A. Sala, Esq , and Sir W.
Alexander, &c., &c., &c.

Thus has one of the most distinguished of the
great authors of this century—"the orator, poet, and
statesman, who ran through each mood of the lyre,
and was master of all "—been to-day laid in that
cemetery which for ages past has been consecrated
to the remains of the best and greatest of this land.
Poets' Corner to-day has added yet another to the
long list of its illustrious dead, when,the latest and
greatest of the great men which the last year has
torn from us is committed to the earth. The little
spot selected for the resting-place of a man whose
fame now fills the world is at the innermost part
of Poets' Corner, at the very foot of Westmacott's
monument to that genius whom Macaulay de-
lighted to honour—the mild and gentle Addi-
son. It is only the monument, however, which
is here, for Addison himself sleeps far away
from the great Essayist of the nineteenth cen-
tury, in the north aisle of Henry VlL's
chapel. Closest to the coffin of Lord Macaulay
is that of the celebrated Dr. Parr, who in his life-
time possessed, perhaps, even a greater amount of
learning than our brilliant historian, but who,
unlike him, went down to the grave without leav-
ing a single record of the vastness of his intellectual
stores behind. Almost by the side of the grave
which was closed to-day rest the remains of him
" who died friendless and lorn," the still more
gifted Sheridan. By the side of the latter are the
graves of Samuel Johnson and David Garrick,
while at the foot, and almost overlooking the dark
aperture opened for the late Lord Macaulay, is
the monument to Campbell—at whose funeral
Macaulay was himself a pall-bearer. Close beside
it, also, is the Gothic monument to Chaucer,
facing which is the slab which marks the resting-
place of Spenser, with the half worn-out inscrip-
tion :—" Here lies, expecting the second coming
of our Saviour Christ Jesus, the body of Edmund
Spenser—the prince of poets in his time, whose
Divine spirit needs no other witness than the
works he left behind him." Undistinguished by
monument or tablet of any kind lie tie remains of
Beaumont the dramatist. Not far ffom Macaulay's
grave is the small pavement (not the original, which
was worn out, and replaced some time since), which
bear, what we may call the words and the title
" Oh rare Ben Jonson !" while a little more distant
is the monument to Cowley. The graves or monu-
ments of Pope, Prior, Gay, Dryden, Milton, Butler,
Mason, Davenant, Camden, Congreve, and others,
though all in Poets' Corner, are more distant from
that where the poet and historian was laid to rest
this day. The sublime words of the burial service,
the historic memories clustered about the locality
where the grave was dug, the glorious music
rolling from the organ and from the chiming voices
of the choristers, and reverberating through
that most august, majestic, and venerable edifice—
these were the affecting and effective accompani-
ments to-day of the Lord Macaulay's sepulture.
Remembering these we are anxious to
lose all recollection of the absolute want of any
order whatever in the martialling of those who were
assembled to do honour to the memory of this Great
English Worthy —Poet, Critic, Orator, Essayist,
Historian, Statesman.

SIR,—In the vast number of Great and Small
Men of the Empire who speak or write so strongly
in favour of the Great Rifle Movement, the ques-
tion is frequently asked, why Englaid should not
become a rifle-shooting nation as those of the Con-
tinent P In doing so it does not seem to have struck
anyone how wide is the difference between us and
them on the most essential point, perhaps of all,
the means to acquire Rifle Practice. That any real
good can be obtained from the short time that the
busy population of our country can possibly devote
to it (luting the six working days of the week, I
hold to be impracticable. In order, therefore, to
put us on a par with continental nations, we should
employ the Sunday evening in that (as I think)
most rational and noble exercise of rifle firing, in
conjunction with various innocent amusements.
Who, for instance, has passed a Sunday evening at
Geneva, the cradle of Calvinism, the seat of intense
The Plualitneu er
religion, could reasonably object to what he there
ss
Palais, and its vicinity,
spreaditne
ecreation and pro-
priety observable everywhere. But to pass from
Switzerland into Germany. There the system may
wo7:e r with s—recreation
be still more observable ; for there are seen Protes-
tants and Catholics mingled together without dis-
tinction of creed. Whenever a change takes place
in the mind of England, on the point I have ven-
tured to allude to, then will she become a rifle-
shooting nation—but not till then—Yours faithfully,
A MILITIA COMMANDANT AND
OLD SOLDIER.
Welsh Hills, Jan. 7, 1860.

The next Cabinet Council will be held on Mon-
day. Like its predecessor of Tuesday last it is expected
to be a full Cabinet, the Ministerial Councils growing in
importance and interest as the opening of Parliament ap-
proaches. The Earl of Elgin, Sir George Grey, and others
of the Ministers, travelled long distances in order to be pre-
sent at the last Council. —Court Journal.

'1 he wedding-day of her Majesty and the Prince
Consort (the 10th of February) will be celebrated at Wind-
sor Castle, and therefore the return of the Court to town,
for the season, cannot fairly be anticipated before the middle
or latter end of that month.—Court Journal.

It is expected that her Majesty will arrive in
town on the 23d inst. On the 24th the Queen will open
Parliament, and on the same afternoon return to Windsor
Castle.—Court Journal.

It may not be generally known that the Victoria
Cross, when bestowed on an officer, gives him a right to a
step in promotion the first opportunity.—Court Journal.

AMERICA.

The Earl and Countess Granville are still domi-
ciled at Brighton, the health of her ladyship, though very
greatly improved, not being considered, as yet, thoroughly
re- established.— Conn' Jonrnal.

Lord Palmerston gives a grand State banquet
on the 23d, at Cambridge House, to a numerous party of
his influential supporters in the House of Commons. Earl
Granville, as Government leader in the House of Lords,
gives a similar banquet to Ministerial Peers, at his residence
in Bruton-stceet.— Court Journal.

THE Vt,LUNTEER MOVEMENT.—We learn that,
at the proposition of Sir Moses Montefiore, the clerks of the
" Alliance," of which the worthy baronet is the chairman,
will join the Rifle Brigade, the office bearing all the ex-
pense.—Jewish Chronicle.

------
- The report of the Bank of New South Wales,
presented at Sydney on the 26th October last, stated the
available balance to be £70,912, out of which I:50,000, was
appropriated to a dividend at the rate of 20 per cent, per
annum, and £14,025 to the reserve fund (which is now
raised to £205,000), leaving £A2B7 'to be car. ied to next
half-year. The allotment of new shares was to be wade on
the fallowing day at the rate of one to every two now held.
APPOINTMENT.—CoIoneI the Hon. St. George
Poky, C. 8., who has been acting as Military Secretary to
Major-General Straubmzee, at Hong Kong has been ap-
pointed British Military Commissioner at the Head-Quar-
ters of the General commanding the French expeditionary
corps to China.—Army and Navy Gazette.

DsoN's WIDOW.—We have much
pleasure in stating that her Majesty has been graciously
Pleased to apportion a suite of apartments in Hampton-court
alace to Mrs. Hodson, widow of Major llodson, of " Hod-
son's Horso."—Anny and Nary Gazette.

Lieutenant Harmer, 81st Regiment, has suc-
ceeded Lieutenant Coupe, 15th Regiment, as recruiting
officer at Omagh. Lieut. Fagan, 4th Regiment, has been
moved from Cambridge to Reigate, and Lieut. Lockhart,
92d Ilip;filanders, from Reigate to Cambridge.--Army and
Navy Gazette,

LAR MAILS.

LATEST NEWS.

THE PRESIDENTS' MESSAGE.
QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 9.

The Royal Mail Steamship America arrived here
at 1 o'clock a.m., she left Boston on the 28th ult.,
and Halifax on the 30th ult.

The America brings 37 passengers, and 5,000
dols. for Havre; she landed the mails and sailed
for Liverpool at 2 a.m. All well.

She brings the Presidents' Message, of which the
following is a summary :
" Although no Speaker had been elected the Pre-
sident delivered his Message on the 27th ult.
Alluding to the excitement in the south, he said,
" I firmly believe that the events at Harper's Ferry,
by causing the people to pause and reflect, would
be the means, under Providence, of allaying exist-
ing excitement, and to prevent in future a fresh
outbreak. I cordially congratulate you upon the
final settlement, by the Superior Court of the
United States, of the question of slavery. The
right has been established of every citizen to take
property, including slaves, into the common terri-
tories, and have it protected under the Federal
Constitution.

" All means have been employed, and shall con-
tinued to be employed to execute the laws against
the Slave Trade, and those engaged in the unlaw-
ful enterprise have been vigorously prosecuted.
" The wisdom of the course pursued by Govern-
ment towards China has been verified by late events.
Our treaty of peace and commerce with that Empire
was continued at Tien-tsin on the 18th of June,
1858, and was ratified by the President, and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, on the 21st
of December following. The ratifications of the
treaty were afterwards, on the 16th of August, ex-
changed in proper form at Pietsang. As the ex-
change did not take place till the day prescribed
by the treaty it is deemed proper, before its publi-
cation, again to submit it to the Senate.

" Our relations with the great Empires of France
and Russia, as well as on the Continent of Europe,
unless we may except that of Spain, happily con-
tinue to be of the most friendly character. In my
last annual Message I presented a statement of the
unsatisfactory condition of our relations with Spain,
and I regret they have not materially improved.
Without special reference to other claims, the pay-
ment of which has been ably urged by our Minis-
ters, and in which more than 100 of our citizens
are directly interested, they still remain unsatisfied,
notwithstanding their justice, and though their
amount, 128,655 dols. 54c., has been admitted by
the Spanish Government. I need not repeat the
arguments which I urged in my last Message in
favour of the acquisition of Cuba by fair purchase.
My opinion on that measure is unchanged. I again
invite your serious attention to this subject. With-
out a recognition of this policy on their part it will
be almost impossible to institute negotiations with
any reasonable prospect of success.

" Until a recent period there was good reason
to believe that I should be able to announce
to you on the present occasion that our difficulties
with Great Britain, arising out of the Clayton-
Bulwcr Treaty, had been fully adjusted in a manner
alike honourable and satisfactory to both parties.
From causes, however, which the British Govern-
ment have not anticipated, they have not completed
treaty arrangements with the Republics of Hon-
duras and Nicaragua is pursuance of the under-
standing between the two Governments. It is,
nevertheless, evidently expected that this good work
will soon be accomplished; while indulging the
hopes of that, no other subject remains which can
disturb the g. od relations between the two woo-
l/DE UNTEER COR P I tries.

" The question arising out of the adverse claims
of the parties to the island of San Juan, under the
Oregon Treaty of June 15th, 1846, suddenly as-
sumed a threatening prominence. In order to pre-
vent unfortunate collisions on that remote frontier,
the Government was instructed that the officers of
the territory should abstain from all acts on the
disputed ground which are calculated to provoke
any conflicts. As far as it can be done without em-
ploying the concession to authorities of Great Bri-
tain of an extensive right over, the title ought to
be settled before either party should attempt to
exclude the other by force, or exercise complete ex-
elusive sovereign rights within the fairly disputed
limits. Much excitement prevailed for some time
throughout that region. Serious danger of a colli-
sion between the parties was apprehended. The
British had a large naval force in the vicinity,
and it is an act of simple justice to the ad-
miral ou that station to state, that he wisely
forbore to commit any hostile acts, but determined
to refer the whole affair to his Government and
await their instructions. This aspect of the mat-
ter, in my opinions demanded attention, to pre-
vent any act of hostility from taking place
Lieut.-General Scott was despatched on the 17th
of September last, to take command of the United
States' forces if necessary. Considering the distance
from the scene of action, and in ignorance of what
might have transpired on the spot before the gene-
ral's arrival, it was necessary to leave much to his
discretion ; and, I am happy to state, the event
proved that this discretion could not have been en-
trusted to a more competent hand. General Scott
has recently returned front his mission, having ac-
complished certain objects, and there is no longer
good reason to fear a collision between the force of
the two countries during the existing negotiations.
" I regret to inform you that there has been no
improvement in the affairs of Mexico since my last
Message, and I am again obliged to ask the earnest
attention of Congress to the unhappy condition of
that Republic. Outrages of the worst description
are committed on persons and property. There is
scarcely any form of injury which has not been
suffered by our citizens in Mexico during the last
few years. We have been nominally at peace with
that Republic; but, so far as the interests of our
commerce or of our citizens who have visited the
country as merchants, shipmasters, or in other capa-
cities, are concerned, we might as well have been at
war. I recommend to Congress to pass a law autho-
rising the President, under such restriction as they
may deem necessary, to emplY military force against
Mexico for the purpose of obtaining indemnity for
the past and security for the future."

LATEST FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
Some snow storms had interrupted the mining,
and caused some damage to property.
Advices from Vera Cruz report continued dis-
turbances.

NEW YORK, DEC. 27.

Exchange heavy. Money, 6to 71. Stocks, un-
changed. New York Central, lower. Ashes and
Cotton, unchanged. Breadstuffs, nominally un-
changed. Beef, quiet; pork, declining.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

THE OUTWARD BOMBAY AND PENINSU-

The Ripon, with the outward Bombay mail
of the 27th of December, put into Vigo on the

sth inst., for coals, having'experienced a succession
of heavy gales since leaving England.

From the same cause, the Sultan with the Penin-
sular mails, which left Southampton on the same
date, did not reach Vigo until the 7th inst. She
reports " All well, and will proceed immediately."

PARIS, JAN. 7.

Count Lallemand (now in Paris on leave of ab-
sence), who in his quality of First Secretary has
been appointed Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the
French Embassy at Constantinople, has received
orders to proceed immediately to the Turkish capi-
tal. M. de Thouvenel will embark for France after
his (Count Lallomand's) arrival.

VENICE, lAN. 7.

The theatres of this town, which, as a politica'
demonstration, were no more visited by the inha.
bitants, have been closed by the directors.

ROME, JAN. 7.

The news of Count Walewski's resignation has
produced a very painful impression on the Pope.

Yesterday, after the celebration of the sacred
ceremony of St. Epiphania, his Holiness called
together the principal members of the Sacred Col-
lege, and declared to them that he would never
fail in the mission which God had intrusted to him,
and that, like his predecessor, Pius VII., he would
rather suffer exile, and even martyrdom.

MADRID, JAN. 3.
The Spaniards have advanced on the road to
Tetuan without being attacked by the Moors.

J.N. 4.
General Zabala has recovered from his illness.
The Spanish loss in the action at Castillegos was
73 killed and 481 wounded.

JAN. 5.

The Spanish army continues its movement on
Tetuan.

Yesterday the Spaniards were attacked in the
Valley Negro by 2,000 Moorish cavalry and 2,000
infantry: They were dispersed by the Spanish
Artillery, who had five killed and 19 wounded.

The health of the troops at the encampment of
Serallo is improving.
The English brig Eting has been wrecked near
Cadiz.

General Almonta has been appointed Ambassador
of Mexico at Madrid.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY.
A letter from Paris says :—" According to a
letter I have received from Vienna neither Aus-
tria nor the Pope refuse to send their represen-
tatives to a Congress. The history of the late
delay appears to have originated as follows
Prince Metternich and the Papal Nuncio received
orders from their respective Governments to impress
on Count \Valewski the necessity of assuring the
Cabinet of Vienna and the Vatican that the famous
programme pamphlet was not to be the policy of
France at the Congress; but that the basis of all
discussion should be the treaty of Villafranea, and
embody the spirit of the despatches sent to Vienna
and Rome from the French Foreign-office, all of
which, it was maintained, favoured the restoration
of the Princes of Central Italy, and the restoration of
the revolted dominions of the Pope. Count Walew-
ski, says the letter before me, encouraged Prince
Metternich and the Nuncio to suppose that he would
be able to satisfy their demands and allay their
fears. Austria and Rome, therefore, took up an
attitude of expectancy which delayed the meeting of
the Congress as proposed in the early days of
January. But neither Austria nor Rome haTo up to
this day positively said they will not send Plenipo-
tentiaries to Paris. The advisers of Francis Joseph
and Pius IX. appear to be sadly perplexed to know
how to act. They see France drawing closer and
closer to England's views. There are 50,000 French-
men in Italy, and a native army of Central Italy,
to support the will of the people of Tuscany, Mo-
dena, and Parma, and Garibaldi ready to take the
field. They know also that foreign intervention
would be met not only by the native forces of Central
Italy but by France and Piedmont. If no Congress
takes place it is expected that the annexation of
Central Italy to Piedmont will be agreed to between
England, France, and Prussia, and probably Russia.
Or if a kingdom of Central Italy be decided upon
such a decision would be equally fatal to the aims
of Austria and Rome. Turn the question how they
may Austria and Rome will not gain anything
by keeping away from the Congress, whilst they
might secure something by their presence, sup-
ported by the smaller Powers of Europe. It is
therefore the belief of the gentleman who writes to
me that, although some delay may take place, even-
tually the Congress will meet, and Austria and
Rome send their Envoys to Paris—not willingly,
perhaps, but rather from imperious necessity. I
transcribe a closing remark of the letter before me :
Our Cabinet (the Austrian) do not feel surprised
at the sympathy which England expresses towards
the Italians ; for years past almost all the Ministers
of Great Britain accredited to Italians Courts have
protected the Constitutional party, and written dis-
couraging despatches about the governing system of
Rome, Tuscany, and the Neapolitan dominions. The
press and people of England were sure eventually to
become anti-Austrian ; this was anticipated at
Vienna, although Lord Aberdeen and his friends
gave quite contrary assurances at the commencement
of the war. I must, however, assure you that it is
not England which Austria fears, but France. A
person near the Emperor said the other day, Eng-
land's word-sympathy for Italy will do us no harm ;
the French army quartered at Milan is what we have
to look to.' The reports which reach Vienna from
Hungary are causing much anxiety. The Hunga-
rians do not appear to be inclined to make friends
with Austria on any terms, although the aristocratic
element of Hungary is declared to prevail over de-
mocratic ideas."

PARIS BOURSE.—The market has been more
buoyant, and large purchases of stock having been
made, prices have improved. Threes, after having
been done at 68f. 60c., improved to 68f. 80c.
Mobilier varied from 755 f. to 775 f. ; Lyons, 915 f.
to 922 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,385 f. to 1,95 f. ; Southern,
505 f. to 510 f.; Lombard, 565 f. to 567 f. 50c.; and
Austrian, 545 f. to 547 f.

The following were the last quotations
per Cents. 96 50 Credit Foncier.... 615
Do. end month 96 Belgian 41 . —
3 per Cents 6B 901Piedmonteso (5) .. 84 50
Do. end month 6B 95 Roman B2
Bank Shares 2820 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 775 Spanish Throes
Do. Account ..... 780 Home Debt 421