The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-02 00:00:00

INPERNATIONAL COURTESIES.

The following correspondence between Captain
Mason, of her Britannic Majesty's ship Curagoa,
and. Captain Levy, of the United States' ship Mace-
donian, has been published :

" Her Majesty's ship Curagoa, Gulf of Smyrna,
Oct. 27, 1858.

" Sir,--4 cannot think of parting company without ex-
pressing my gratitude to yourself, to the officers and crew
of the United States' frigate Macedonian, for the effective
co-operation cheerfully given to her Majesty's ship Curagoa,
under my command, in geting her from a very awkward
position on the Pelican Shoal; without such assistance we
must have experienced considerably greater delay in getting
afloat.

"I know that my feelings on the subject are shared by
all the officers and men under my command.
" In bidding you farewell permit me to add that I enter-
tain great respect and regard towards yourself personally,
and shall at all times be glad to hear of your welfare.—l
have the honour to be sir, your obedient servant,
" TitomAs H. MASON, Captain.
"Captain U. P. Levy, United States' frigate
Macedonian, Gulf of Smyrna."

" Unlied States' ship Macedonian, Gulf of
Smyrna, Oct. 28, 1858.
" Sir,—l have made known to the officers and crew of my
ship the very flattering terms in which you have been
pleased to acknowledge the service rendered to her Britan-
nic Majesty's ship Curagoa.
" I assure you that such assistance as we could afford you
was rendered not only as a cheerful duty, but also with that
peculiar pleasure which animates those who, grateful for
important favours, are permitted by circumstances to evince
their sense of obligation.
"We have but emulated and followed—at an immeasur-
able distance—the generous conduct of those British officers
and men who honoured themselves and humanity by their
devotion to the sick and dying on board the Susquehanna.
If we could we would not wish to repay that debt. It is
pleasant to be under such an obligation.
" I hope that I shall have the pleasure of meeting you
again. Your,cheerfulness and alacrity during the time the
Curagoa was in her awkward position—jvhere she had been
led by a treacherous chart of a treacherous harbour—have
won me on the one hand, and your gentlemanly bearing on
the other.

" You have the best wishes of the officers and crew of the
Macedonian; and of, very truly yours,
" U. P: LEVY, Captain.
"To Captain Thomas H. Mason,
•
H.B.M.'s ship Curagoa."

" United States' flag-ship Wabash, Genoa,
Jan. 7, 1859.
" Sir,—l have the gratification of transmitting to you a
letter from the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, and also a copy
of a letter addressed to the Hou. Secretary of State by Lord
Napier, expressing the grateful sentiments of her Majesty's
Government for the cordial and efficient assistance rendered
by you and your officers to her Majesty's steam sloop
Cura'goa.—l am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
• "E. A. F. LAVALLETTE, Flag-officer commanding
Mediterranean Squadron."
" Captain Uriah P. Levy, United States' Navy,
commanding United States' ship Macedonian,
Alexandria, Egypt."

"Her Britannic Majesty's Legation Washington,
Dec. 5, 1858.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to con-
vey to yon the thanks of her Majesty's Government for the
cordial and efficient assistance rendered by the captain and
officers of the United States' sloop Macedonian to her Ma-
jesty's steam sloop Curagoa, which had grounded on a shoal
in the Bay of Smyrna in the month of October last.
" The Macedonian anchored close to the English vessel,
and did not cease to afford her the most zealous co-opera-
tion until she was got afloat. _ _

" May I request that you will have the gcodness to con-
vey to the Secretary of the Navy an expression of the grate-
ful sentiments of her Majesty's Government, and accept the
assurance of the high consideration with which I have the
honour to be, your most obedient humble servant,

• NAPIER.
" The Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of State, &c."

" Navy Department, Dec. 15, 1858.
" Sir,—l have the pleasure to transmit herewith a copy
of a nate ' addressed to the Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of
State, by Lord Napier, conveying the thanks of her Ma-
jeSty's•Government for the cordial and efficient assistanoe
rendered by the captain and officers of the Macedonian to
her Majesty's steam sloop Curagoa, which had grounded
on a shoal in the Bay of Smyrna in October last.—
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
"ISAAC TOITCEY.
" Captain U. P. Levy, commanding United States'
steamer Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron."

THE DIVISION ON THE I?E'FORM BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—ln your report of the debate on Thursday
evening the result of the division is expressed in
these terms :---
For the second reading of the bill
For Lord John Russell's resolution 330

Majority for the resolution 39
As this mode of stating the case is calculated to
give an erroneous impression as to the real meaning
of that division, I beg your permission to correct it.
I am one of the 330 who voted against the Govern.
ment, but I did not vote in favour of Lord John's
resolution. I simply voted against the question
put by the Speaker—" that the words proposed to
be left out " (i.e. that " this bill be now read a
second time ") should " stand part of the ques-
tion." In saying " No" to this proposition, I did
not say " Aye" to any other; consequently I did
not affirm Loi d Jo'in's resolution. Indeed, as soon
as the first division was "over I left the house, in
order not to vote upon it at all. That resolution was
put in a substantive form after the division on the
Ballot, and was carried without a division. I have
thought it neeosgary to be thus explicit,- because I
well know that great misconception is apt to occur,
not only in the minds of the public, but even in
those of their representatives, as to the precise
meaning of the questions" put by the Speaker,
and of the divisions ' consequent thereon. I have
frequently seen members in the utmost perplexity
as to which lobby they were to go into, from not
having formed a distinct idea of the meaning of the
question" proposed to them.—l am, sir, your obe-
dient servant, X.

TO .TILE 'EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.
Sir,—When Lord Derby was defeated in 1852 it was by
a compact entered into by the Whigs with the L ish Bri-
gade (and the Russian war was the result), who I believe
number at present about 40 seats; and it will be well that
the people should. see on_the present occasion, if they have,
or how many or them, banded with the new firm of John,
Pam, John, and Co.,* for a similar purpose, and I hope,
sir, you will give your readers a list of them separately to-
morrow.

In 1852 they voted to " a man" against Lord Derby ;
Len, as now, no defeat, but a factions manceuvre.—Yours,
April 1. ANTI-DESPOTISM AND JESUITISM.

* John liussoll, Pam, John Bright.

APOTIIECAItIF.O HALL.—The following gentle-
men, having passed the necessary examinations, Vere•ad-
mitted Licentiates of the Society of Apothecaries at a meet-
ing of the court of examiners on Thursday, the 31st March!
—Messrs. Edward Cheshire, Birmingham; Claude Clarke
Claremont, Camden Town ; John Alfred Illingworth,
Mainder, NeWport, Monmouthshire; Edwin Sparhawke,
Jotham ; Alfred Lewcr, Merley Hall, Winiborne, Dorset-
'shire; David Henry Ogden, Skipton-in-Craven ; John
Cooper, Quennell ;. George James Symes Saunders, Char-
mouth ; Charles Joseph Oliver Smith, Keyworth, Notting-
ham ; Francis Smith, Walter Stephen Smith, Sheffield ;
Arthur Edward Woolrych; and Otho Francis Wyer, Lea-
mington Priors,. .
At the Court of Common Council, yesterday, it
was announced that the Emperor Napoleon, asamarkof his
appreciation of the flattering reception which his Imperial
Majesty and the Empress Eugenie .experienced on their
visit to the city during c, the shrievalty of sir H. M
goridge
and Sir C. D. Crossley; hadlestowed on these gentlemen
the cross of tile Logien ottionour.