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SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 17.
The United States mail steatiship Arago, Captain
H. A. Gadsden, with mails of the 2d inst. from New
York for tngland and. 'Pratte, arrived off Cowes
last night, and went on to Itivre.
Congressional proceedings on the Ist instant'
were interesting, in view of he facts that for the
first time the voice of California was heard on the
national troubles' through tie mouth of one of her
senators, and that Mesas showed her hand for the
Union through one of her roresentatives. In the
Senate Mr. Ten Eyck presented the resolutions of
the Legislature of New Jersey in favour of the Crit-
tenden Compromise, but tock occasion to dissent
from their sentiments. He did not believe that
they truly represented the feelings of the people of
New Jersey. A resolution ofbred by Mr. Trumbull,
of Illinois, providing for the appointment of a com-
mittee to co-operate with a committee of the house
in counting the electoral votes for President and
Vice-President, was objected to by Mr. 13igler, of
Pennsylvania, and laid over. The President's Mes-
sage was then taken up for further consideration,
and Mr. Latham, of California, proceeded to address
the Senate. He said :
" California was peacefully lying in the arms of
Sierra Nevada, removed from the immediate cause
of trouble, and wished to speak to-day with her
voice: Dif3llllioDrit word which Mr. < Calhoun
scarcely dared to utter, had now become familiar.
The vacant seats here show the evils upon us, and
we must palliate or overcome them as we may. It
was vain to try to persuade our Southern'
brethern that there was no danger. The South
does not complain so much of the acts that
have already been committed as the danger
they anticipate. They complain of any inter-
ference with their vested rights, and think it
best to meet the dangers at their threshold. He
conceded that there was some cause for their
apprehension, but never a greater paradox than the
constitutional right of a State to secede. It was
virtually saying that the Government was no Go-
vernment, and he would not discuss the right of
revolution, as he thought the senator from Georgia
(Mr. Toombs) had properly called the present
movement. The framers of the constitution did not
contemplate secession or coercion, as generally un-
derstood, and left the Goverment with the sublime
alternative to be just or perish He argued that the
continued agitation of the slaiery question was the
cause of the difficulty and agitation, and it will
continue, because it is the life of the dominant
party at the North. The Smith wants security
that will render it impossible ;o do them injustice.
Our Government is one ot mason, and can only
exist so long as it is true to itself, and it ceases to
be true when it employs fore. If the Southern
States were determined to fern a Government for
themselves, there was no force to prevent it ; and
yet he would not admit that the Government had
no power, for there was power adequate to put
down revolt in a State. Bu; when.. many States
rise in revolution, with the spirit of a mighty em-
pire, it is idle to talk of forte to subdue them.
' When 10,000,000 people rise in defence of their
homes, not all the armies since Caesar's can compel
them to live under the Executive they consider
hostile. The people fought at the late election on
no such issue as is now presented; the question of
force was not involved in the contest: The victory
of the Republican party was achieved by popular
delusion, which has become the ruin of the party,
never again to rise. He would say to the South
that much trouble was due by divisions among
themselves, causing the defeat of the Democratic
party. That party will stand up with them for a
peaceful solution of the question, and will recover
strength and crush the false idols set up for the
people. Allowing that there was danger, why should
the South separate from their Northern friends,
when united they might overcome the enemy? A
separate confederacy requires a standing army along
its hostile border, making a vast outlay, and the
North would be obliged to do the same thing, and
both would grow poor together. Seeembion is the
foundation of an endless civil war, under which the
Government would fall to a military despotism. If
we violently separate, we shall strike a death blow
to liberal institutions, and both, or many sections,
as the case may be, will be involved in financial
ruin. We should lose the name American, and be
known only as a tribe of Indians are. It would be
impossible to depict the desolation and horrors
which would follow disunion. He protested against
the hope of reconstruction after the Union is once
broken up. If war is once commenced, all hope of
reconciliation will be effaced, and in the end the
people will fly to a monarchy to save themselves
from anarchy and universal ruin. The people of
California breathe but one sentiment of loyalty and
devotion to the Union, and would ratify any settle-
ment which would satisfy the South ; and if such
satisfaction is refused, a large majority of the people
say 'Let them go in peace.' He would prefer a
peaceful separation to civil war. California, from
her position and oommerce, would remain with the
Free States; her destiny and theirs are indissolubly
connected. In the language of the senator from
New York (Mr. Seward), the people of that State
speak for the Union, vote for the Union, give
money for the Union, and they will fight for the
Union,' providing he can show them how such
fighting can maintain the liberty, fraternity, and
equality of our Southern brethren in the Union.
(Applause.) But, if he cannot perform that difficult
task, the people of that coast never—no, never !
will imbue their hands in the blood of their Southern
brethren. He said that they were willing to vote
for the propositions of the senators from Kentucky
or Illinois, but he thought the best and wisest plan
was that of his friend from Minnesota (Rice). The
people expect them here to do something soon.
Why should the Union be destroyed and all the
evils be brought upon us ? He appealed to senators
by all that was dear to their hearts not to turn a
deaf ear to the voice of the people, and let patriotism
rise above party. He was eager and proud to make
sacrifices to save his country."
When he had concluded, the Tariff Bill was re-
ported from the Select Committee, with amend-
ments, and the Diplomatic and the Executive and
Judicial Appropriation Bills were passed. In the
house, Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways
and Means, reported a bill authorising the Presi-
dent, before the Ist of July next, to borrow
25,000,000 dols., should so much be found necessary.
Mr. Kellogg, representative of Illinois, before a vote
was taken on the recommendations of the Committee
of Thirty-three, wished to offer resolutions as a
substitute. He had been constrained to the present
course by the disturbed condition of the country.
They are joint resolutions, proposing amendments
to the Constitution, to be ratified in the manner
indicated by that instrument, as follows :
" Art. 13. That in all the territory now held by
the United States situate north of latitude 36 deg.
and 30 min. involuntary servitude, except for the
punishment of crime, is prohibited while such terri-
tory shall remain under a Territorial Government ;
that in all the territory now held south of said line,
neither Congress nor any Territorial Legislature
shall hinder or prevent the emigration to said terri-
tory of persons held to service from any State of
the Union where that relation exists by virtue of
any law or usage of such State, while it shall
remain in a territorial condition; and when any
Territory north or south of said line, within such
boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall contain
the population required for a member of Congress,
according to the then federal ratio of representation
of the people of the United States, it way, if its
form of government be Republican' bo admitted
into the Union on an equal footing with the original
States, with or without the relation ofipersons held
to service and labour, as the Constitution of such
new State may provide.
" Art. 14. That nothing in the Constitution of
the United States, or any amendment thereto, shall
be so construed as to authorise any department of
the Government in any manner to interfere with
the relation of persons held to service in any State
where that relation exists, nor in any manner
to establish or sustain that relation in any State
where it is prohibited by the law or the Constitu-
tion of such State, and that this article shall not be
altered or amended without the consent of every
State in the Union.
" Art. 15. The third paragraph of the second
section of the fourth article :of the Constitution
shall be taken and construed to authorise and em-
power Congress to pass laws necessary to secure
the return of persons held to service or labour under
the laws of any State, who may have escaped there-
from, to the person to whom such service or labour
may be due.
" Art. 16. The emigration or importation of per-
sons held to service or involuntary servitude into
any State or Territory or place within the United

Mr. M'Clernand (Opposition), of Illinois, was
happy to see such a proposition coming from a
gentleman whose relations are so near to the Presi-
dent elect.

I\l r. Lovejoy objected to the reception of the
joint resolution, especially after the remark of his

colieagtie.
Mr. Kellogg said that in offering the resolution
he wished distinctly to state that, in view of the
disturbed condition of the country, he felt it his
duty to offer a proposition, hoping it might avert
an impending calamity. No other human being
was responsible for it than himself.
The resolution was ordered to be printed, and
subsequently the report of the Special Committee of
Thirty-three was considered in Committee of the
Whole. General Hamilton, of Texas, made an elo-
quent Union speech to-day. In the course of an
able argument against the right of secession he made
the new point that, by all the laws of nations,
Louisiana had practically declared war against
Texas, in cutting off her communication with the
home Government, by her ordinance of secession.
The General was followed 'by Mr. Stokes, of Ten-
nessee, who also made a telling speech for the
Union, An evening session was held for general
debate.
It appears from despatchce. front Washington
that the Floridians already considered themselves
in a state of actual war with the United States.
Lieut. James E. Jonett, attached to the steamer
Crusader, had reportedhimself to the Navy Depart-
ment
under peculiar circumstances. He had occa-
sion, while temporarily employed on the Wyan-
dotte, to go ashore at Pensacola, when he was
immediately seized by the State troops as a pri-
soner of war, but was subsequently released on a
parole of honour, with the understanding that he
was not to bear arms against the State of Florida.
He was then furnished with a passport, with which
he left the State and proceeded to New Orleans,
where he was again threatened with arrest'; con-
sequently he took the shortest route to Washing-
ton, where he awaited the commands of the Secre-
tary of the Navy. This outrage of the Seces-
sionists, however, does not compare in magnitude
with one contemplated at New Orleans, but which
was happily frustrated by the cautionof those most
immediately interested in its defeat. The Crusader
itself, it 'seems, was to be seized by the city autho-
rities, while the officers were being entertained in
friendly way on shore. The bait did not take, and
the Crusader still remained in the service of the
Government. There was a general expectation in
Washington, on the evening of the Ist, that excit-
ing intelligence would soon be received from
Charleston, but what this expectation was based on
did not clearly appear. It probably grew out of
the knowledge of the fact that Colonel Hayne had
received his despatches from Governor Hickens
relative to the proposed surrender of Fort Sumter,
in connection with the fact that preparations were
constantly going on in Charleston for an attack on
that fortification. The Diplomatic Corps, it
appeared, were generally of opinion that a collision
cannot now be avoided, and they had forwarded
despatches to their respective Governments to that
effect.
A Washington despatch of the Ist inst. to the
New York Times says :
" A gentleman called on General Scott to-day
and inquired if it would be safe to bring his family
here. The General referre&him to one of his aides,
who, it is said, replied that he thinks it is safe now,
the necessary points being all guarded. We are
playing a game of chess, and every time those who
contemplate strife here advance a piece we imme-
diately checkmate' it. The Louisiana delegation,
except Mr. Bouligny, retire from Congress on Mon-
day next, whether a certified copy of the ordinance
be received or not. Mr. Bouligny says he won't
withdraw until his district instructs him to do so.
Private advices from Charleston to-day show that
the Secessionists' preparations for war are much
more extensive than is generally supposed, involv-
ing expenditure enough to nearly beggar the State.
The plan for the attack and capture of Fort Sumter
is common talk among the citizen soldiery, and
they only await the signal from the leading con-
spirators at Washington to begin the. assault. So
imminent is considered the danger of an early colli-
sion that numbers of people are constantly leaving
the city. The plans of attack alluded to have been
fully communicated to the Administration by par-
ties personally familiar therewith. I am assured
that a witness before the House Treason Committee
testified to a declaration, by Mayor Berret, that if
Maryland seceded he would give up this city as far
as he was concerned."
Another despatch, of the Ist, from Washington,
has the following:—
"It is evidence before the House Select Commit-
tee on Treason that a variety of plans have actually
been discussed by those in the Soith who have been
determined for years to break up the Union. Ist, it
was believed that a convention of the two Houses
could be prevented on the 15th inst., when the votes
for President are to be counted, thereby avoiding a
constitutional count of the electoral votes. 2d, to
prevent Mr. Lincoln from coming here by assassi-
nation, or some other means, 3d, to take the Capitol
by violence and prevent his inauguration. It is the
testimony of several witnesses that these plans were
all seriously discussed and abandoned, upon the
theory that it would be within the category of
crimes punishable with death in the Union, and
would not in the end accomplish the object the dis-
solutionists have in view. After a full canvass of
the whole subject it was finally decided to resort to
the plan of secession which was immediately ini-
tiated by South Carolina."
The Democratic State Convention continued its
session at Albany on the Ist, and was addressed by
James S. Thayer, ex-Chancellor Wallworth, W. H.
Carroll, of Maryland, and others: A series of reso•
lutions was adopted urging the settlement of the
national difficulties 'by compromise, deprecating
coercion of the seceding States, and appointing
Millard Fillmore, Addison Gardner, Greene C.
Bronson, Erastus Corning, Horatio Seymour,
Amasa J. Parker, Charles O'Conor, and Samuel
Tilden as commissioners to attend the Convention
soon to be held at Washington. The speech of the
venerable ex-Chancellor Walworth opposing coer-
cion and depicting the horrors of civil war pro-
duced a great sensation in the Convention. On the
second resolution being read Chancellor Walworth
appeared on the platform, and his venerable looks
claimed instant attention from the Convention, and
he was received with an outburst of enthusiastic
applause. He said :
" Gentlemen of the Convention,—l am far ad-
vanced in years, and not in the habit of attending
Conventions of this character, but I could not resist
coming here to enter my protest against civil war.
I have seen the horrors of such a conflict. In the
war of 1812 my house in Plattsburgh was sacked
by the British. A battle was fought opposite my
very doors, and the bullets that were fired fell like
hailstones around my dwelling. In the casement
of my door remains to this day embedded one of
those bullets, a memento of the fight. In that
struggle I saw my fellow-citizens shot down by
my side. I know, then, the horrors of a foreign
war; and they are nothing as compared with the hor-
rors of a civil war. A civil war is a war among
brethren. We are all brethren in this Confederacy
of States—the people of the South are our brethren,
not only nominally, but actually our brethren. In
Georgia alone I have the names of 1,000 citizens
whose ancestors were the near relatives of my own.
In the same State alone are 100 relatives of the
family of Hillhouse, whose name is known as that
of one of the patriots of the Revolution, and whose
descendant now occupies a seat in our State Senate'
and so scattered all over the Southern State the
near relatives of the men of the North,
there is scarcely a member of this Conventiosn
South
has not some such ties in the States of the
moo
It would be as brutal, in my opinion, to send
States as I
an d Perhapso
butcher our own brothers of the Southern
Northern
it
States. We are told, however, that iit would be to massacre them in tth
is
There were laws
what laws are to to be enforced to, and we must, enforce the lapw. But why, and
can Revolution, and the British Parliament and
that were to be enforced in th.e time of the
Lord North North sent armies here to enforce them. But
what did Washington oily in regard to the enforce.

The most slatternly housewife in Europe is the
British Themis, the mythological personage who
presides over law and lawyers. If you go to a
house and find the door opene led d tclotho yoes u byd
clotted a dirty
maid of all work, with dragg an
hair ; if you find the rooms all in disorder and
everything out of its place, and neither comfort, nor
order, nor Cleanliness in the dwelling, you may
depend upon it that the occupants of that house
cannot do their business as it ought to be done, and
that they are muddling away a great deal more
money than if they made a respectable appearance
in the world and had their comforts about them.
This is exactly how justice is lodged in England.
She has about forty judges to supply with house-
room, and she quarters them in all the streets and
alleys in the metropolis. You will find the Lord
Chancellor any morning in a shed in Lincoln's-Inn.
The Lords Justices are sitting in another shed in
the same square. All these legal magnates may be
turned out at any moment and sent adrift to hold
their courts wherever they can find a roof to cover
them, for they are but tenants at will of their
squatters' wigwam. The Master of the Rolls may
be discovered up a yard in Chancery-lane. The
Common Law Judges are supposed to sit in. West-
minster Hall, but in what dingy roam, you will
find them, where they have squeezed the Nisi
Prius Courts on any given day, or how they
have managed to get rooms for the two Nisi
Prius Courts and one Court in Banco, which each
set of judges has sometimes at work on the same
day. not even ',the ushers can tell, You may rash
about all day looking for a Vice-Chancellor, and
sometimes find him in a garret towards the even-
ing. Sir Cresswell Cresswell has, properly
speaking, no Court at all. The Lord Chancel-
lor, when he took to the shed in Lincoln's-inn,
lent Sir Cresswell his Court in Westminster
Hall, where the Bar, the attorneys, the jurymen,
the witnesses, and the suitors crush and gasp as
though they bad come there to get a divorce be-
tween soul and body. The Admiralty Court is also
homeless, and if the Elder Brethren of the Trinity-
house had any nautical enterprise they would cut
out one of those empty frigates in the Medway and
moor her off Westminster-bridge as a better make-
shift than they now have. As to the officers, they
are in Quality-court, Staple's-inn, Southampton-
buildings, Lancaster-place, Stone-buildings, and
other discursive hiding-places. Sometimes you may
meet an elderly gentleman hurrying along the
Strand, red in the face, and in a state of haste dan-
gerous for a gentleman of his years. He is one of
her Majesty's Judges ; he has just stopped in the
middle of a case, and, sending jurors, witnesses, and
suitors away, is going to hear a mob of little boys
squabble over summonses and orders. He is on his
way to the Judges'Chambers in Serjeants'-inn, two
miles from the scene of his other judicial labours, and
thus wasting nearly an hour of the very heart of
the judicial day because there is no room for the
Judges' Chambers near the Judges' Courts. As to
the Courts themselves, they are fit subjects for the
interference of the Inspectors of Lodging-houses.
The Royal Commission say "it requires ocular in-
" spection to conceive fully how insufficient, ineon-
venient, and unwholesome they are."
Nobody ever pities a lawyer. There is a not
uncommon conviction that if the judges and
lawyers and the pestilent litigious people who
support them were all smothered together no great
harm would be done. But the odd thing is that the
lawyers do not pity themselves. It is a curious fact
that close lodgings and unwholesome air become
a habit that people come by custom to love. What
difficulties we have in making the lower classes ven-
tilate their lodging-houses ! How tyrannical it. is
considered to make householders drain their dwell-
ings! It is all the same with people of 30s.
a-week and people with £30,000 a-year. Rather
than give up an old habit any man is satisfied
to go on doing as he has done, to his own annoy-
ance, and to the annoyance of every one else, and
to " take his chance" of low fever and shortened
life. Judges have generally lived so long that they
laugh to scorn all that vapours with long chymical
names can do to mortals. Lord Chancellors, until
the wiser Lord Chancellor of present date, have been
as happy as backwoodsmen in their shed in Lin-
coln's-inn. Masters of the Rolls would not come
out of their yard even to live in a palace. come
out
toil through the jostling crowd of the Strad and
think it exercise; Masters of the different Otte
succumbing
die of dust and mildew and bad smelle,,
rh judges
contentedly as to a natural death.
have not, until now, very much from all
to the Bar, such Courts reosee t
,oeniphlaevained, and, as
nt when a cause is
reproach if they are not psi*
who are open to an
called on. To the attorneery
a,
action for negligence, p
slo po
Ise
atrh.e advantage of
The jurymen
this state of things is not
and witnessesalso may not easily find their advan-
.fianed for not being übiquitous, and in
tags in being
being smothered when once fairly boxed. But the
destroyinge every reason to be satisfied ; for by
destroy the energies of the Judge and jury, and
by making the presence or absence of counsel,
attorneys, and witnesses a hazard, this system has
a tendency to reduce the decision to an equal chance
on both sides, and to such an equal counterpoise
of possibilities of course no litigant ought to object.
Lord St. Leonards has seen with great alarm
that there is a proposition now coming before the
House to put an end to this ancient and much vene-
rated system. The Government is said to have
been struck by the idea that while reforming the
law it would be well to render it possible to carry
the law into effect, and to provide Judges and
lawyers with decent accommodation for the discharge
of their duties. To the north of Temple-bar there
is a labyrinth o courts and alleys known chiefly

PROPOSED INCREASE OF THE *EPISCOPATE.

Lord Palmerston has received a memorial signed
by the Puke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Marl-
borough, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of
Denbigh, the Earl of Carvarvon, the Earl of
Romney, the Earl Nelson, the Earl of Verulam, the
Earl of Effingham, the Earl of Galloway, Lord
d
Eversley, Lord Calf horpe, Lord Redesdale,
Leigh, Lord Ebury, Lord J. Manners, M.P. ; Lord
R. Cecil, M.P. ; Sir J. Patteson, Sir J. T. Coleridge,
Mr. Adderley,lll,l'. ; Mr. Sotheron Esteourt, M.P.;
Mr. Mownray, M.P. ; Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page
IVood, Sir W. Ileathcole, M.P.; Sir W.James, Sir
W. Farquhar, Sir J. R. Glynne, MY Hubbard,
M.P. ; Mr. Kekewich, M.P. ; Mr. J. J. Rogers,
; Mr. P. Wallington, M.P. ; Mr. Whateley,
QC. - Mr. R. l'almer, Q.O , and a large number
of other influential laymen, asking his lordship to
adopt measures for an increase of the Episcopate.
The memorialists state that the population of Eng-
land and Wales has more than doubled itself during
the last 50 years, but that the number of bishops
has been only increased by one since the middle of
the 16th century. In America and the British
colonies the episcopacy may be increased according -
to the needs of the population, and they hold that
it would be reasonable and just that a similar benefit
should be enjoyed by her Majesty's subjects at home.
The memorialists express their opinion that more
frequent personal intercourse than is now practic-
able between a bishop and the clergy and laity of
his diocess would promote unity and efficiency in the
labours of those who are endeavouring to advance
the moral and spiritual welfare of the people. They
proceed to direct his Lordship's attention to cer-
tain dioceses which seem to need subdivision, and
lin which there are already resources available for
the foundation of additional sees. The diocess of
London contains more than 2,000,000 of souls.
That diocess might be divided, and another see
might be formed by converting the collegiate church
of 'Westminster into a cathedral church, as it
formerly was, and by raising the Dean to the
dignity of a Bishop. Another diocess which re-
quires subdivision is that of Exeter • it is the most
extensive of any in England and Wales, and the
cathedral city of Exeter is distant about 145 miles
from the western extremity of the diocess. Another
similar instance may be found in the diocess of
Durham. Its population has increased with unex-
ampled rapidity in the last few years. The income
of the Bishop is £B,OOO a-year, which greatly
exceeds the average income of other episcopal sees,
Means might thence be derived for the subdivision
of that populous diocess, and for the erection and
endowment of an episcopal see in the town of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The memorialists, having
also called attention to the dioceses of Rochester,
Lincoln, and Glocester, conclude as follows :
" Other dioceses might be mentioned which need sub-
division. We consider, however, that tho inhabitants of
those dioceses are the persons most competent to express
an opinion on this subject, and that, it they are desirous
of such a subdivision, local contributions would not bn
e
wanting when once the necessary powers may haV9,
given by Parliament for the erection of additionai?,en,
With this view her Majesty's Commissioners for incituri2".!
h re-
into the State of Cathedral and Collegiatebill shoulde
commended in the year 1855 that a
be framed and introduced into Parliame ter _a.
jesty and
Act 31st of Henry VIII,, c. 9,emrwerinctiocese under cer-
her Majesty's successors tangyv de anon,
t and with the
Perrnissiv:imilhr to the
tain condons of territory Ropula;
s p posed to effect the
consent of the Bishop, This recommen-
.°among whom were
comma
the e bishop of London, and
elationdivisione
fb
herefor emts.hicesatvyo,sidanwcel7fsetilbeti::se,
the two Archbishop
of fYork and the Bishop of Oxford,
alists to deserve attentive considc-
understand, your lordship on a
and since,
expressedtarhapteropurrs,esetfeatA.clurcrhmbilisreshstefiep
an opinion, in which they entirely
recent occasion
question of episcopal extension ought to
idtheraetdanwrth reference to the country at large, they
meetly entreat your lordship either to introduce
tcoeonad,,,cuLea,
into Parliament, or to support such a legislative measure
as may enable her Majesty's subjects who desiro an exten-
sion of the opiscopate to profit by such an exercise of the
Royal Supremacy in constituting additional sees at home as
has already boon called into action, and is now in operation
with very beneficial results, secular and spiritual, in the
colonial dependencies of the British Crown:'
Lord Palmerston has promised that the attention
of the Government shall be directed to the subject.

The famous Doomsday Book of William the
Conqueror is now at the Ordnance Map Office, Southamp-
ton, for the purpose of being copied by the new process of
photozincography.
A BEGGARLY EMPIRE.—If, says Punch, Austria
ever studied finance in any particular school, we should
' say it must have been the ragged school; for not only is
she pauperised and beggared almost to her last kreutzer,
but her very bank notes are what a cook would call " done

to rags."
A ROYAL INCENDIARY.—A letter from Frosinone,
in the Nazione, of Florence, says :—" Count Trapani is
making experiments with incendiary articles. A few days
back he went with his wife and two other persons to a
place called Ponta Salaro, and there, at some distance from
the roadside, put on the ground certain ingredients, and
fired at them with pistols--each shot set fire to theoe things,
a thick smoke arising• The Cana, the Countess,
and their
two companions, all fired. The new discovery is, no doubt,
destined to burn the Italian fleet, but the poor FrillCO i 0
losing his time.