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PRIZE CAT! LE SHOW of the Smithfield
Club. The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds,
Roots, Implements, &c., commences on Tuesday Morning and
closes on Friday Evening, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Decem-
ber.—Bazaar King-street and Baker-street. Open from day-
light till Nine in the Evening. Admittance "One Shilling.
Last year at the Bazaar.

AIR: AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS
" HOME,"
At Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket,
Every Evening (except Saturday), at Eight o'clock.
Saturday Afternoon at Three.
"REMINISCENCES in Eight Chapters."
Part 1. "The Romance." Part 2: "The Reality."
Prices of Admission :—Dress Stalls, ss. ; Dress Circle, 4s. ;
First Circle, 3s. ; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Private Boxes,
£1 Is. No extra charge for booking. Private boxes, stalls,
and places may be secured at the Box-office, which is open
daily from 10 till 5, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33,
Old Bond-street.
Doors open at half-past 7—commence at 8.
Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past 10, and to prevent
any crush at the entrances an additional door is opened for
the Pit.

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e all his life made constitutionaNistoll ank
law his study, and his opinions may always be
counted upon in favour of national and individual
liberty, it would have been difficult to find at any
period a more profound knowledge combined e-ith a
more judicial mind than are united in Sir Coruewall
Lewis, and in the Lord Chancellor the Government
has an adviser whose reputation as a jurist is second
to none in Europe. Furthermore, it may be stated
that the Cabinet has continually availed itself of
the assistance of the Law Officers of the Crown,
and that the course it has resolved upon is in ac-
cordance with their mature and reiterated opinions;
The public will therefore feel that in supporting
her. Majesty's Government they do but assert a
claim that is founded in truth and justice. We
may
say, then, that the Cabinet has come to the conclu-
sion that the act of the Captain of the San Jacinto,
in seizing passengers upon board a British vessel
and carrying them forcibly away, is a clear viola-
tion of the Law of Nations, and one for which re-
paration must be at once demanded. in all proba-
bility the next steamer will carry out a despatch,
instructing Lord Lyons to demand reparation for
the ill-advised act of the San Jacinto in seizing
Messrs. Mason and Slidell while under the pro.
tection of the British flag. Should this just de-
mand not be complied with, we cannot doubt that
Lord Lyons will, under the instructions of his Go-
vernment withdraw with the British Legation from
Washington.
We believe that the Cabinet has taken a view
of the matter which will be satisfactory alike to the
patriotism and the reason of the country. Without
questioning the right of a belligerent vessel to stop
and search our merchantmen for contraband of war,
our Ministers entirely deny the claim which was
asserted in this case, and• which would permit_ a...-
--fl reign officer to .take persons qt his own discretion
from under the British flag, on the pretence that
they are rebels or citizens of a hostile State. The
law which governs the stopping; the seizing,lhe
judging, and the condemning of neutral merchant
ships is clearly laid down, and being, at the. best,
highly oppressive to neutrals, it must be strictly
adhered to. This law, even when interpreted by the
'‘harsh practices of a bygone age, contains nothing
!which can justify the carrying off of persons in the
Isosition of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who were at
qhe most civil servants of the hostile Power, and
were-travelling from one neutral port to another in
a neutral vessel. If the Government of Washington.
holds that the Confederates are belligerents, then.
Ads bound by the laws of ,war, which treat only
Military and naval persons travelling for bellige-
rent purposes as contraband, and even in that case
direct that the contraband character shall ba
duly established in a Prize Court. If, on the
other hand, •it declares that Messrs. Mason
and: Slidell e were seized as rebels by virtue of
its-Municipal Law, then the right of asylnni hes
been- clearly violated. Indeed, on the latter-plea
the -Federal Government might etationea Aop
in the Channel to board theePever;anl-rolkistbne
steamers- dailys and carry off every Southerner whO
might 2be found. The principle on which Qur
Governfne,nt rests its demand is, that a British
'shin muSt—untihher violation of *teal rights is
fully proved—be held to beßritish ground, as much
as it she were an actual piece of, British soil, and
the right to protection of all persons on board is as
valid as if they Were oir -British territory. Now,
no such violation' has been proved; or has been.
sought to be proVed, egainSt the Yrent,an'd conse-
quently the seiatire of the four personeawho were
forcibly draggedirceeihea decks was entirely illegal.
We hear there is allossibility that the seizure
'ytis the act of the'Ainerican'cOfiamarider, and was
not expressly directed by his Government. Lieut.
Fairfax, of the Sin. Jacinto, said, we are informed,
on board the Trent that his commanding officer
acted on his own responsibility. We fear, however,
that the Federal Government had deliberately de-
termined to seize the Southern Commissioners. That
the 'James Adger came to Southampton with the in-
tuition of stopping the last West India steamer was
stated at the time and cannot now be doubted, and
we are informed that General Scott has declared,
since his arrival at Paris, that the seizure of the
Southern Commissioners had been the
_subject
Cabinet diseases-leen- at -WaeLlugtou long before lie
left. In confirmation of this opinion we may add
that, though the Federal Government has a consul
at Havannah, and though the fact that Messrs.
Mason and Slidell were about to leave for England in
an English steamer was well known, yet no intima-
tion was given to the English company that these pas-
sengers would be looked upon as contraband of war,
or otherwise subject to seizure. The object of the
Washington authorities was apparently not to pre-
vent the sailing of their enemy's envoys, which they
had an opportunity of doing by warning the Eng-
lish steamer at Havannah that their presence on
board would subject her to seizure and forfeiture by
a Prize Court ; it was to get possession of the envoys
themselves, and for that purpose they made no re-
monstrance, as they were bound to do, against
taking them on board, but secretly planned the
outrage for which we are now asking reparation.
How necessary it is to uphold our strict rights in.
this controversy will be seen by a recent occurrence
at Panama. While the Federal Captains are as-
serting their right to seize Secessionists on board
neutral vessels, Federal Generals are asserting their
right to hold them prisoners on neutral territory.
The Orizaba, a steamer from San Francisco to
Panama, had on board three gentlemen who were
"suspected of Secessionist principles." General
Sumner, commanding the United States' land forces
in the Pacific, arrested them the day before the
steamer reached Panama, and determined to carry
them across the Isthmus. The three gentlemen de-
manded the interference of the New Grenadian
Governor to protect them in neutral territory, and
the Governor sent to demand their release. This
" was declined by General Sumner peremptorily."
The police officer, " with a force of 40 men could not,
of course, offer resistance to 500 United States
troops, and General Sumner was at liberty to
take his prisoners with him." The Governor
protested, but in vain, and the Minister of New
Granada -will probably be as unsuccessful in his
remonstrances at Washington. Here it will be seen
there was no question of an enemy's Envoy, or of
persons engaged in the military service of the
enemy. The prisoners were mere suspects, who
were thus carried by main force through a neutral's
territory in spite of an official demand for their
liberation.
All that now remains for us is to adjure the Go •
vernment and people of the Northern States to de,
us justice in this matter. They must by this time
know us and our unwillingness to draw tee sword.
against them, or to take any part in their unhappy
quarrel. Indeed, our patience and long-suffering
have not improbably led to the series of insults of
which the outrage on the Trent is the last and most
offensive. We have maintained the most rigid.
neutrality in their dispute ; during the year whieh
these troubles have lasted the Americans cannot
complain of alsingle unfriendly act on our part;
and at this moment we are permitting our industry
to suffer in deference to a blockade so ineffective
that it is daily violated. We appeal, then, to the
moderate and enlightened of the Northern people.
Let them be assured that the pretensions which
their Government has made cannot be allowed by
any State which respects its own dignity, or even
its own safety. Let them be assured that the for-
bearance of this country has not been dictated, as
their ignorant politicians tell them, be- any dread.
of their power, and that, though NN-e can disregard
much petulance, we will not sit down under au
injury.