The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-28 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1860.

more and more clearly that but one single and I
very simple course indeed now lies before the
Anglo-French Generals and Plenipotentiaries.
That course leading, in fact, directly in a straight
path to the seizure and occupation of the city of
Pekin, and the dictation there and nowhere else of
the final terms of Pacification.

L A T

S

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
PARIS, Nov. 28.

The Moniteur contains a decree appointing
Count Flahant Ambassador to the Court of St.

James's,

Loud, and ludicrous as loud, have been the shouts
for disunion from the Southern States. Once in the
course, we may say, of sixty years, they have been
thoroughly beaten in what is equivalent there to a
general election here. And, unlike the country
from which they sprung, they do not know to put up
with a great political defeat. Slaveholders, by the
aid of the great Democratic party, which may be
said to have been organised by JEFFERSON in 1801,
have ever since been increasing, consolidating, we
may add, and abusing their power in the Union,
till they know no bounds. They have forced
Presidents, and an army of officials, to do
their bidding, on the too patient north ;
they have got fugitive slave laws, DRED

TURIN, Nov. 27.
Victor Emmanuel was to leave Naples for

Palermo to-day.

It is believed that King Francis 11. will quit
Gaeta in a few days.

The right of constructing railways on the Ligu-
rian frontiers has been awarded to a company repre-
sented by the Credit Mobilier and several
commercial houses of Italy.

NAPLES, Nov. 27.

The departure of King Victor Emmanuel for
Sicily has been deferred on account of bad weather.
The offices of Councillors of Lieutenancy without
portfolio have been suppressed.
The General Consulta has been convoked for
the 2d December.

SCOTT decisions, and even repeals of their own

compromises, issuing in all the local and Federal
atrocities of Kansas—till at length the North could

Tranquillity prevails everywhere.
The Sardinian General Pinelli has entered
Avezzano, the district surrounding which has been

bear it no longer. The twenty-one millions of the
Free States could not submit to be transformed
into Slave States. They have awaked and
told the seven and a half millions of the South—

pacified.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Naples is expected

We have done with you and slavery for ever.
We proclaim FREEDOM, not SLAVERY, the basis
of our Federal Constitution ; we interfere not
with you in your domains, but we solemnly pro-
hibit you from spreading further the curse and
blight of your sectional institution.
At one thing we do not wonder—the despair of
the South. Till this Month it has been the head
of the Union. It gave law to the whole, admini-
stered the government, ruled in the Church, com-
pelled society to do it homage—now, all is gone !
hopelessly gone ! Slaveholding is a villany—yet,
while attired in the robes of power, and dispensing
all the favours of the State, its fascinations beguiled
even those who ought to have known better; but
once strip the DIIESSA —expose the filthy hag, as
what she is, and her power to enchant has
vanished, and can never be regained. Slavery
will now be looked at in its own repulsive
nakedness. No prestige'of the Presidential chair,
and universal domination, will dazzle the unre-
flecting, or bribe the time-serving. It will step
down in American eyes to its true position—that
of a loathsome social abomination, of which it will
be an honour to be rid—a disgrace to retain it. To
mention the Slave States now, will not be to speak
of a power of which all stood in unaccountable awe,
but to name a defeated section on which all the
intelligence and power of the land will look down
with contempt. Virtue or liberty fallen may arise
the hundredth time—an anti-human institution,
like slavery, once fallen, is prostrate for ever.
How utterly absurd are the ravings of the South,
a very few figures will show. The States which
are making most noise are Georgia and South
Carolina. Their relative population of white men
and slaves stands thus :

here.

The public funds are firm.
The deputation has presented the address from
the Sardinian Parliament to the King.
His Majesty received with satisfaction the expres-
sion of the national sentiment.
The rumour that Francis 11. has fled from Gaeta
is widely circulated here.

ROME, Nov. 24 (via Marseilles).

Sardinian customhouses will be established
round Rome on the Ist December. Although the
duties will be light, a general rise has taken place
in the prices of merchandise.
Two French regiments are preparing to depart,
but it is said that others will come to replace
them.

Slaves. Whites.
South Carolina
Georgia 446,546 .. 577,373

906,598 .. 904,065
So that these two loud talking States would, if
left to themselves, have more than enough to do
to watch their slaves ; indeed, remembering that
the "miserable whites" form the majority of the
free population, the slaveholders, have but a wretched
minority really interested in the preservation of
slavery. Nor is that all. The more populous and
thriving States which still are, legally, slave States
are fast losing that character, and will never, in

any question of emancipation, cast in their
lot with the wretched slave States. Of these slave
States with rapidly increasing white population,
five refused to vote for BRECKENRIDGE, the
Southern man ; four of them voting for BELL, the
Union candidate, and one, Missouri, for DOUGLAS.
Look at their population :

Votes. Whites. Slaves.
Kentucky
Maryland
Tennessee
Virginia
Missouri 9 .. 735,573 .. 95,397

Total
Remaining Slave States 64 .. 3,465,794 2,609,135

From these few figures the reader will see at a
glance that, population alone regarded, the whites
in the Slave States avowedly favourable to the
Federal Union, States, too, which are daily
approaching the time when they will gradually
abolish slavery, are a considerable majority, and
that the slaves in the remainder bear a most dan-
gerous proportion to the whites. To talk of
secession under such circumstances is, indeed, to
talk of a fatal and servile war, of the ruin of the
seceding States by the insecurity of life and pro-
perty, and of their utter extinction as civilised
communities.

If we read, therefore, of all kinds of valiant
defiances of the North by South Carolina and
Georgia, we may be sure that it all means and
can mean nothing. Burning Mr. LINCOLN in
effigy is the sort of bth of November display we
might expect ; it looks a little more grave when
Federal officers resign in a body, when assemblies
vote a convention of the people, when Governors
recommend retaliation and reprisals on the Free
States, when Slave State after Slave State holds
meetings at which " Secession" is the watchword,
when at Washington itself secession is talked of as
probable, and it is proposed to give the seceders
rope enough to hang themselves. We should
not,, indeed, be at all surprised if some of
these foolish States should vote for secession,
but the certainty that they would soon be obliged
to nullify their own vote would merely exhibit their
folly to the Union and to the world. They will,
in fact, have no basis for action till some attempt is
made on their sovereign or federal rights, and
certainly it cannot be among these, that they
should nominate the President and Executive of
the United States for ever.

When to all :this we add the enormous wealth,
energy, and power of the Free States, in all of
which they surpass the Southern States fully as
much as in population, and that the South is deeply
mortgaged to the wealthy North, whose mortgagees
will firmly enforce their pecuniary claims, it is evi-
dent enough that the former cannot part connec-
tion with the latter. There will probably be no
end of wanton freaks of impotent rage, both in
Governmental and Legislatorial proceedings, and
in popular displays, but the odds are too great.
Seven millions of Southern pauper whites, ham-
pered, too, by four millions of slaves, against twenty-
one millions of Northerns, free to act as they please,
and with all the sinews of war in their power, are
the elements of decision, and they leave no doubt
as to what the ultimate decision must be.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Granville, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John
Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sydney
Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Duke of Somerset, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley
of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.
His Excellency the Portuguese Minister has
arrived at his residence in Gloucester-place, from
her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

TILE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.

The Empress Eugenie arrived at Birnam Hotel,
Dunkeld, at 2 p.m. on Friday. A Dunkeld cor-
respondent writes that her Majesty intended to
have proceeded to the west on Saturday morning,
but that she was so delighted with the locality that
she intended to remain there till Monday. On
reaching Dunkeld, she posted to Blair Athole,
where she was received by the Duke of Athole, who
conducted her to view the romantic scenery of the
Pass of Killiecrankie. She stayed at Blair Castle
all night, and then left for the north. The Empress
was on Saturday at Taymouth Castle, visiting the
Marquis of Breadalbane. On Monday morning
she left Taymouth Castle, and, accompanied by her
suite, travelled by Sma' Glen and Crieff to Stirling,
arriving in the afternoon, about five o'clock, at Mr.
Campbell's Golden Lion Hotel. She proceeded
afterwards to visit Stirling Castle in a private car-
riage, accompanied by his Grace the Duke of
Athole and others, followed by a second carriage.
On her return from the castle she was loudly
cheered at the door of the hotel, and gracefully
bowed her acknowledgments. At the castle she
was received with all honour by the military au-
thorities, the guard being mounted, and as her
Majesty left the gates she was followed by loud
cheering.
Her Majesty left Stirling by the usual north
mail train at 7.20 p.m., in a saloon carriage, reach-
ing Glasgow city by the Dundas-street terminus of
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, at nine o'clock.
On alighting her Majesty was received by J. Boyd
Thomson, Esq., superintendent of the Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway. Her Majesty was conducted
to a carriage, leaning !on the arm of the Duke of
Athole, and drove off to the Queen's Hotel, where
arrangements had previously been made for her
accommodation, amidst the loud huzzas of the few
persons who happened to be at the station at the
time. The cheering was continued all the way to
the hotel, and by the time her Majesty had alighted
a considerable crowd had assembled, whose conduct
was most exemplary. A broad carpet of matting
was laid down from the hotel hall to the carriage
door, and without the assistance of the police or
any person in authority the passage marked by the
carpet was carefully maintained quite clear. A long
and loud welcome was given her when she alighted
from the carriage—such a welcome as a Scotch
audience alone can give.
We understand that to-day (Tuesday) her Ma.
jesty contemplates paying a visit to the cathedral
and other places of interest in our city; and we
suppose that the Lord Provost and magistrates will
seek au audience in order to present an address.—
North British .Mail.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT THE
WAR-OFFICE.

Yesterday morning, at an early hour, an act of
self destruction of an extraordinary character was
discovered to have been committed on the premises
of the War-office,, adjoining the Ordnance Office, in
Pall-mall, under the following circumstances :—lt
would seem that amongst the employees engaged
on the premises of this department of the Govern-
ment was a man named George Stiller, who had
acted as messenger for some time past ; he was 47
years of age, and much respected as a good ser-
vant. At a few minutes after midnight one of the
parties whose duty it is to inspect the premises at
night, proceeded to that part of the building
known as the Lower Book-room, and there to his
horror was found suspended from one of the
shelves of a large bookcase the unfortunate man
Stiller. An alarm was at once raised, and the
body was cut down, and every means used to re-
store animation, but without avail, and on the ar-
rival of Dr. Miller, of 27, King-street, St. James's
(who had been sent for and arrived in a few mi-
nutes), that gentleman declared life to be quite ex-
tinct, and gave his opinion that the man had been
dead some four or five hours. The peculiarity of
the unfortunate case is, that the deceaged was
suspended by the neck with a very thin piece of
string, the other end of which was tied round one
of the shelves of the bookcase, and passed through
an opening at the back, used for the purpose of
brushing the dust out. Looking at all the circum-
stances the greatest determination seems to have
existed on the part of the unfortunate man in put-
ting an end to his existence. Information was yes-
terday morning forwarded to Mr. C. St. Clair Bed-
ford, the coroner for Westminster, and an inquest
will be held on the body at St. James's Workhouse,
Poland-street, where it was conveyed in the course
of the morning. At present no cause can be as-
signed for the commission of the act.

THE FRENCH INSTITUTE.—The Rev. W. Cureton
D.D., canon of Westminster, and rector of St. Margaret's,
Westminster, the eminent Orientalist and Syriac scholar,
has been elected a foreign member of the French Institute,
Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, in the room of
M. Lobeck, of Konigsberg. M. Lassen, of Bonn, has also
recently been elected a foreign member of the Institute, in
the room of Professor Horace Wilson.
DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM WINDSOR.—
According to the present arrangement, her Majesty the
Queen, the Prince Consort, and Royal family, will leave
Windsor Castle for the Isle of Wight either on Wednesday,
the sth, or Thursday, the 6th proximo. The Court will
remain at the Isle of Wight about a fortnight, and then re-
turn to Windsor for the Christmas holidays. It is expected
that before the Empress of the French takes her departure
from England, her Majesty will pay a visit to the Queen,
either at Windsor or Osborne ; but, as the Royal visit must
necessarily be of a private charaeter, it will most probably
take place at Osborne.
THE LATE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA.—A statue to
the memory of the late Marquis of Anglesea, the result of
public subscription, was on Saturday last raised on the
column already erected on a commanding site in the Isle
of Anglesea, opposite the great tubular bridge over the
Menai Strait. The column itself, 100 feet high, was
erected after the campaign of Waterloo, as a memorial of
the late Marquis's military achievements, and is on the
summit of a rock 250 feet above the level of the sea ; so
that, with the statue superadded, the entire monument is
upwards of 360 feet above the sea level, and is now a con-
spicuous object for many miles round.
THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—The retirement
of M. Fould is due to the impossibility of his continuing to
be received at the Tuileries. These are the facts :—On the
death of the Duchess of Alba, M. Fould refused all official
participation with the Court, and nothing in the funeral
ceremony recalled the near relationship of the deceased to
the Ruler of France. The Due d'Alba complained to the
Empress, who, in extreme anger, said she would never
more receive d. Fould or any one of his family. The Em-
peror replied, " All very well ; but as a Minister you must
receive him." The answer was, " Then I will henceforth
receive no Minister." Since her Majesty's return she has
received no Minister. But M. Fould discovered, or thought
he had discovered, a manner of Ultramontane plot in favour
of the Pope, at the head of whichhe thought fit to place the
Empress. The consequence of all this was scenes of the
stormiest description. Her Majesty left for Scotland, and
M. Fould has yielded his place to Count Walewski. No-
body believes, however, that M. Fould's influence is lost,
for he has underhand connections with the party of the
Princess Mathilde, who is just now very influential.—
Manchester Guardian.
INUNDATIONS IN YORKSHIRE.—The recent heavy
rains have caused the Derwent and its tributaries to over-
flow their banks, and on Friday and Saturday the vast tract
of country watered by that river and the smaller streams
was laid under water. In many places the waters rose to a
height of four feet, and even more, the hedges having for
miles quite disappeared. The consequences of the inunda-
tion will prove most destructive to the lowland farmers,
the unusually rainy season having already done much in-
jury in retarding the sowing of the wheat crop, which will
now be rendered quite impossible. Many thousands of
acres will thus be thrown under spring crops. The after-
math in the grass lands will be quite spoilt by the deposit
of sand and mud, and the cattle will now be totally depen-
dent upon the scanty root crops. Several stooks are
floating down the stream, one farmer alone being said to
have lost upwards of 20 acres of oats. In the marshes se-
veral boasts are reported as having been found drowned.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about 1 per mine emium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.171 per £ sterling. On comparing these rates
with the English mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for
standard gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per
cent. dearer in Parisithan in London. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 424/ r,er mark, and the short
exchange on London is 13.41 per £ sterling. Standard gold
at the English mint price is, therefore, not quite 1-10th per
cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of
exchange at New York on London for bills at sixty days'
sight is about 107 to 1071 per cent., which, when compared
with the mint par between the two countries, shows that the
exchange is against Englanc: ; but, after making allowance
for charges of transport and difference of interest, the pre-
sent rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold be-
tween the two countries. The exchange market at New
York was very unsettled at the time of the last advices
leaving, and even lower quotations than the above .are
given for some descriptions of paper.
SUCCESSFUL EXTRACTION OF A RIFLE BALL FROM
TAE HEAD OF A CRIMEAN VETERAN.—Mr. Ferguson, her
Majesty's Veterinary Surgeon in Ireland, recently extracted
a bullet from the head of a brown charger, received at the
battle of Balaclava. It had entered th forehead between
the eyes. The external wound shortly healed, but occasion-
ally there was a fetid discharge from one nostril, always
preceded for some time by a whistling noise in accelerated
breathing. In the course of time one side of the face
swelled, as frequently observed in cases of glanders and
farcy, and the upper lip became partially paralysetl. Mr.
Ferguson extracted the ball through the nostril of the
affected side, to accomplish which he made a passage for its
exit through some of the thin bony structures within the
nose. The paralysis ot the lip rapidly disappeared, as did
also every other symptom of disease and inconvenience to
the animal.
MIS.; AYLWARD IN PRISON.—This Roman Catho-
lic heroine lives on the fat of the land, and holds her levees
of friends in Grangegorman prison. Even Dr. Cullen has
paid his devoirs to her martyrship, and while he condemns
kidnapping in his pastorals, sympathises with the kidnap-
per in her pleasant confinement. No doubt Miss AhylwarJ
and her numcroue company of consoling priests laug at the
mockery of her nominal punishment, erglook to the joyous
passing away of the six short months of ratulations atndo
compliments. But we ask, what has been done with hd
impounded documents, which the Lord Chief Justice stall
were, or should be, handed over to the Attorney GFnetr.a ,
that he on his part may eater proceedings for a combination
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or conspiracy to make away with the child ?
no
ther steps to be taken to enforce the production ofthechAr?
I Are all kidnappers to escape after the manlier of D.. 1.1.0
Martyr Aylward.—Eoniug Dace.