The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-12 00:00:00

are but a small minority indeed—they reside also
chiefly in a few cities. The country districts, and
especially the great Western States, can have no
interest in protective duties, but rather the reverse.
They want a corn market in Europe as much as
the South wants a cotton market ; and we must
suppose also that New York, Boston, and the great
seaports of the Atlantic seaboard especially, cannot
view with patience a tariff which deprives them of
half their trade, and which will render all their
1 capital invested in warehouses, docks, and shipping
unproductive.

With high duties the smuggler also will not fail
to take his part in the business; with what unpa-
ralleled advantages a glance at the map will show.
What preventive service, of which the revenue to
be collected could bear the cost, would be able to
watch the boundary of the Northern Confederation
from Chicago, on Lake Michigan, all along the
Lakes, the St. Lawrence, and Canada, then along
the Atlantic coast, then again up the Mississippi,
and the line from east to west between the New
and Old Confederations. The attempt would be
an absurdity. It has been unnecessary hitherto
because the duties have been such as trade could
bear, and the risk would not be compensated by
evading them ; but once offer 30, 50, or 100 per
cent., and an illicit trade would grow up which no
preventive service could even check.
The new President was at Washington when the
last accounts arrived ; but, if the tales of some of
the American papers be true, he has had to flee
thither for his life. The telegram version was that
his life had.been attempted at Cincinnati by means
of an infernal machine. Cincinnati seemed to be far
out of the line of his movements at the time. The
corrected version is, that it was at Baltimore, in
the Slave State of Maryland, where a rather hostile
reception had been expected, the plot against his
life was hatched. Some of his friends in Wash-
ington appear to have been convinced that there
was serious danger, and to have planned to bring
him to Washington, passing by Baltimore alto-
gether. Old General SCOTT, we are told, decided
that either he must reach Washington by evading
the danger, or that a military escort must be sent
him. What the exact truth of the matter is must
be left to time to develope, but certainly the
desperate way in which the train which it was sup-
posed had brought him to Baltimore was besieged by
a mob of several thousand blackguards and ruffians
lends colour to the belief that there was some design
against his life. Unhappily the violence of slave
holders in their dealings with each other, as well
as with persons suspected of abolition sentiments,
makes such a frightful erime, as is said to have been
planned, quite credible. If a Southern senator
could almost kill his brother senator, Mr. SUMNER,
what could be too bad for common slaveholders
and their mob to plot against an Anti-Slavery
President ?

The new President soon found himself in the
same position as his predecessors, besieged with
expectant candidates for office. We are told that
almost every member of Congress thought himself
eligible for some post, that it had been under-
stood that firmness was to be Mr. LINCOLN'S
policy, and that hence all of them were
displaying their firmness in every debate.
Mr. SEWARD is, of course, the acknowledged
premier of the Cabinet, but the competition is
vigorous between one Mr. CHASE, of Ohio, who is
firm for the Chicago platform of no extension of
slavery in the territories, though he seems not to
object to the restoration of the old Missouri com-
promise, and a Mr. CAMERON, of Philadelphia, who
is quite a compromise man. The PRESIDENT is
perplexed, no doubt, by finding, not only so many
claimants, but that his party also is itself'
so divided. We trust he will give unity
to them by a decided rejection of any
compromise with slavery. The South has
never made any other use of compromises hitherto
than that of making them the basis of fresh
aggressions on behalf of slaveholding, and it will
be so in future. We trust that Mr. LINCOLN will
not disappoint the hopes of the civilised world on
the great question now at issue in America.
As for the new Confederation they begin to find
their prospects darker and darker. They are
without money, and utterly unable to raise a loan
on the Exchange at New York ; by Europe they
certainly would not be trusted with a penny,
several indeed of the repudiating States belong to
the new Confederation. They will for a time,
at least, find want of money their chief
difficulty. They have plenty of agricultural
produce—that is cotton and sugar, but,
like other agriculturists, no ready money ;
coin is the great want—so much so that as taxes
cannot be collected in produce, it seems almost
impossible to resort to direct taxation. On the
other hand they cannot rely on Customs for much,
since it would cut off their chief hope—free trade.
How they will overcome the difficulty it is not
easy to see. They have men for soldiers in plenty.
The idle vagabonds, called " the mean whites," who
will not do slaves' work, and who live by roguery,
abound everywhere; but where is the money to
come from to pay them for soldiering ? Want both
of money and credit, and the inherent difficulty of
any mode of taxation, seem likely to be the grand
perplexity of the South.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.—List evening, after
the performance of "Le Domino Noir," Mendelsshon's
charming little operetta, christened by the English librettist
" Son and Stranger," was given for the first time at this
theatre, and with all the success to which its musical merits
so justly entitle it.
SPECIE FOR INDIA.—SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.
—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Delta, sailing hence to-day, takes out for Bombay 501
boxes of specie, &c , value £160,684, of which £134,540 is
bar silver, £20,000 bar gold, £5,000 sovereigns and jewel-
lery, gold thread, &c., £644.
DESERTIONS FROM TIIE NAVY.—A return, moved
for by Sir J. Pakington, shows that the desertions from the
Royal Navy and Coastguard service afloat were 1,639 sea-
men and 241 boys in 1858, 1,688 seamen and 185 boys in
18'9, and in the first nine months of 1860 2,162 seamen
and 160 boys—in all, 6,075 in two years and three quarters.

OLD Sr. PANCRAS CHURCLI.—A staff of surveyors
and parish officials were on Saturday engaged inspecting
the ground about St. Pancras Old Church, preparatory to
laying down plans fur forming a drain and trench for sani-
tary purposes, in pursuance of an order in council just
issued, and a notice has been served on the parishioners,
requiring all those persons who have relations or friends
interred contiguous to the building, and are desirous of
removing the remains, to do so before the Ist of May.

PLYMOUTH, March 10.—The fishing boat Sarah
Ann, Captain Geering, of Hastings, came in from the
Channel this morning with 8,000 mackerel. On Friday, at
2 p.m., 23 miles S.W.•by W. of Start Point, wind westerly,
thick -weather, she spoke the ship Sarah Newman, 92 days
from Calcutta, and the German 800 tons. There were 20
passengers on deck. Both are bound to London. On Satur-
day, 30 miles S.W. of the Start, spoke the bark Ecliptic,
of London, two days out from Colic, with grain from Val-
padiso for Hull. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam sloop
Bulldog, 6, Commander Henry P. McK illop, from Ireland
entered the Sound this afternoon.

THE YELVERTON FAMILY.—A correspondent of
the Irish Times says :—I think the following facts will be
of some interest to the readers of your valuable paper. The
father of Barry Yelverton, who is the great•grand tuff e •
of Major Yelverton, was a wool-comber at Newmarke',
county Cork. The present Lord Avonmore is in receipt ( f
a pension of £4,200 a year as Chief Registrar of the Court
of Chancery, in addition to £l,OOO a year from another
sinecure, as Wine Taster for the province of Cork, or some
such place. Those offices were conferred in the year 1800,
in consideration of services rendered to the Government in
carrying out the Union job. Verily, this is a nice way of
supporting the honour and dignity of the Peerage. The
family motto, " 1 shall rise again," seems to have been over-
looked by the gallant expounder of " gentle blood."