The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-16 00:00:00

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the folio wing being a summary statement of the condition the late session for t ose por . .
Iltates of prudence closing
as well as the obligations of law, instead
of the Department : Tiadic
" The revenue from all sources during the fiscal year, of transcending, I have adhered to the act of Congressae. I
to
f
ending June 30, 1861, including the annual permanent fa'si confiscate property used for insurreclitiobnary pu o
appropriation of $700,000 for the transportation of free a new law upon the same subject shall
mepursot bpoesnedistssi.i: ero:
mail matter, was $0,049,206 40c., being about 2 percent. lessiZpriety will be duly considered. The P ree
Wethan the revenue. .' and hence, all disposable means must be employed .
" For 1860,the expenditures were thirteen millions six hun- . should not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme
dred and six thousand, seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars measures, which may reach the loyal as well as the disloaal,
and eleven cents, showing a decrease of more than eight per b
•are indispensable. The inaugural address at the beginning
cent., cent., as compared with those of the previous year, and of the Administration, and the Message to Congress at
leaving an excess of expenditures over the revenue for the- tate special session, were both mainly devotedlto the domes-
last fiscal year of over five hundred and fifty-seven thousand
~, tic controversy out of which the insurrection and con-
fourodd hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-one cents. s sequent war have sprung. Nothing now occurs to
The gross revenue for the year ending June 30, 1863, is esti- -2 or subtract to orlfrom the principle, or general purposes
mated at an increase of four per cent. on that of 1861,' • stated and expressed in these documents. The last ray of
making eight millions six hundred and eighty-three thou- hope for preserving the Union peaceably expired at the
sand dollars, to which should be added the earnings of thee: assault on Fort Sumter, and a general review of what hat,
department in carrying free matter, viz., seven hundred ' : occurred since may not be unprofitable. What was pain-
thousand dollars—making nine million three hundred : fully uncertain then is much better defined and more distinct
and eighty-three thousand dollars. The total expenditures now, and the progress of events is plainly in the right direc-
for 1863 are estimated at twelve million five hundred and ;lion. The insurgents confidently claimed a strong support
twenty-eight thousand dollars, leaving an estimated de- from north of Mason's and Dixon's line, and the friends of
ficiency of three millions one hundred and forty-five ;1-. the Union were not free from appehension on the point.
thousand dollars to be supplied from the treasury in addi- This, however, was soon nettled definitely and on the right
tion to the permanent appropriation. . side, South of the line noble little Delaware led off right
" The present insurrection shows, I think, that the eaten - - from the first. Maryland was made to seem against the
sion of this district across the Potomac River at the time of Union, our soldiers were assaulted, bridges were burned and'
establishing the Capital here was eminently wise, and con- s railroads torn up within her limits, and we were many days
sequently that the relinquishment of that portion of it which at one time, without the ability to bring a single regiment]
lies within the State of Virginia was unwise and dangerous. • over her soil to the capital. Now her bridges and railroads))
I submit for your consideration the expediency of regaining are repaired and open to the Government. She alreadyl
that part of the district and the restoration of the original gives seven regiments to the cause of the Union
boundaries thereof through negotiations with the State of`, and none to the enemy, and her people at a
Virginia. :'• regular election have sustained the Union by a
" The report of the Secretary of the Interior with the i-• larger majority, and a larger aggregate vote than they ever
accompanying documents, exhibit the conditions of the before gave to any candidate or any question.
several branches of the public business pertaining to that' Kentucky, too, for some time in doubt, is now decidedly,
department. The depressing influences of the insurrection,;sand I think unchangeably, ranged on the side of the Union.
have been especially felt in the operations of the patent and "Missouri is comparatively quiet, and I believe cannot
general land offices. The cash receipts from the sale of public again be overrun by the insurrectionists. These three States
lands during the past year have exceeded the expenses of •
s of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, neither of which
't' our land system only about two hundred thousand dollars s would promise a single soldier at first, have now an aggre-1
(200,000 dols.) The sales have been entirely suspended in 4'
:a-gate of not less than 40,000 men in the field for the Union;
the Southern States, while the interruptions to the business,. while of their citizens, certainly not more than a third num-
of the country and the diverting large numbers of men from a.
ber, and they doubtful whereabouts, and doubtful existence,
labour
to military service, have obstructed settlements in the Y
sa are in arms against it. After a somewhat bloody struggle of
new states and territories of the north-west. %y
months, winter closes on the Union of 'Western Virginia,
" The receipts of the Patent-office have declined in nine Is: leaving them masters of their own country.
Months about 100,000 dole., rendering a large reduction of .:• a
"An insurgent force of about 1,500 for months dominating
the force employed necessary, to make it sell-sustaining. ''''' the narrow peninsular region constituting the counties of
" The demands upon the Pension-office will be largely in- a
Accomac and Northampton, and known as the eastern
creased by the insurrection. Numerous applications for pen-
-- shore of Virginia, together with some contiguous
sions, based upon the casualties of the existing war, have al- s-
parts of Maryland, have laid down their arms, and thel
ready been made. There is reason to believe that many who.,"
people there have renewed their allegiance to, and accepted
pp y are now uon the pension roll and in recei t of the bount
the protection, of the old flag. This leaves no armed insur-
of the Government, are in the ranks of the insurgent army, •
rection north of the Potomac or east of the Chesapeake.
or giving them aid and comfort. a
a
" The Secretary of the Interior has directed a suspension 4 "Also we have obtained a footing at each of the isolated
p
of the payment of the pensions of such persons, upon proof points on the southern coast of Hatteras, Port Royal, Tybee
Nof their disloyalty. I recommend that Congress authoriselsland, near Savannah, and Ship Island ; and we likewise,
that officer to cause the names of such persons to be stricken-
have some general accounts of popular movements in behalfi
from the pension roll. aief the Union in North Carolina and Tennessee. Thesei
'A
things demonstrate that the course of the Union is advanc-i
" The relations of the Government with the Indian ti ibes. ' '
. ing steadily southward.
have been greatly disturbed by the insurrection, especiaLyi
in the Southern Superintendency and in that of New Mexico Since your last adjournment, Lieut.- General Scott has
y
The Indian country south of Kansas is in possession of the retired from the head of the army. During his long life they
nation has not been unmindful of his merit, yet in calling tol
insurgents from Texas and Arkansas. The agents of theaf.:
United States, appointed since the 4th of March for this tlmind how faithfully, ably, and brilliantly he has served the
superintendence, have been unable to reach their posts, •,country from a time far back in our history, when few of the
While the most of those who were in office before that have 4now living it ad been born, and thence forward continually,l
espoused the insurrectionary cause, and assume to exercisel cannot but think that we are still his debtor. I subrnitl
the powers of agents by virtue of the commissions from the'iZtherefore for your consideration what further mark of recog-•
insurrectionists. It has been stated in the public press that° Inition is due to him and ourselves as a grateful people.
4 portion of these Indians have been organised as a military With the retirement of General Scott came the executive
force, and are attached to the army of the insurgentsJ duty of appointing in his stead a Cameral. in-Chief of the
Although the Government has no official information upon/` army. It is a fortunate circumstance that neither in coun-
the subject, letters have been written to the Commissioner ;61 nor country, was there, so far as I know, any difference
of Indian Affairs by several prominent chiefs, giving t. of opinion as to the proper person to be selected.
assurance of their loyalty to the United States, and express- - The retiring Chief repeatedly expressed his judgment in
lyg a wish for the presence of the Federal troops to protect ..'-favour of General McClellan for the position, and in this the
them. It is believed that upon the re-possession of the st nation seemed to give a unanimous concurrence. The de-
country by the Federal forces, the Indians will readily ceaseOgnation of General McClellan is therefore in a consider-
all hostile demonstrations and resume their former relations ...t
t able degree the selection of the country and the Executive,
With the Government.
and hence there is better reason to hope there will be given
"Agriculture, confessedly the largest interest of the union, ,shim the confidence and cordial support thus by fair implica•
has not a department, nor a bureau, but a clerkship only .•, tion promised, and without which he cannot with so full
this
signed to it in the Government. 'While it is fortunate that - efficiency serve the country.
this great interest is so independent in its nature as not to : saidthat bad -
„ It has been
have demanded and extorted more from the Government, I '...
good ones, and the saying is true,
,if taken to mean no
respectfully y ask Congress to consider whether something ss more than that an army is better directed b a single
more cannot be given voluntarily with general advantage, as '.
;mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at
an annual report exhibiting the condition of our agri- -
at variance and cross purposes. And the same is true
cultural, commerce and manufactures, would present a fund ,
in an joint operations s wh • those
engaged can have
_
of information of great practical value to the country. '
none but a common end in view, and can differ only as
While I make no suggestion as to details, I venture the ss to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no ono on board
°Pinion that an agricultural and statistical bureau might '.. can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go,,
Profitably be organized.
"-- down together because too many will direct, and no single,
"The execution of the laws for the suppression of the '-'f mind can be allowed to control. It continues to developel
African slave trade has been confided to the Department of . that the insurrection is largely, if not exclusively, a war upon
the Interior. It is a subject of congratulation that the efforts s the first principle of popular government—the rights of the
Which
, have been made for the suppression of this inhuman ','' people. Conclusive ev dence of this is found in the most
....tra Mc have been recently attended with unusual success. - grave and maturedly considered public documents, as well asi
ive vessels being fitted out for the slave trade have been in the general tone of the insurgents. In these documents
seized and condemned. Two mates engaged in the trade and we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage, and
°he personin equipping a vessel as a slaver have been convicted the denial to the people of all right to participate in the se-
and subjected to the penalty of fine and imprisonment, and one • lcction of public officers, except the legislative body, advo-
captain for taking a cargo of Africans on board his vessel has 'r•cated with laboured arguments to prove that large control of
been convicted of the highest grade of offence under our -..' the Government by the people, is the source of all political,
laws, the punishment of which is death.' evil. Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible

-MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
During the past week there were symptoms of
improvement in several branches of business in thel
manufacturing districts. At Manchester more
• inquiry was experienced for goods suitable to the
'lndia markets, bnt the home demand continued
quiet. At Leeds the operations were to an ave-
rage extent, but the approach of Christmas, with
the usual preparations for stock taking, caused a
limited amount of business to be transacted. At
Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield, the dealings
have been in a great measure restricted to spring
goods for home use. The hosiery trade at Lei-
cester has been very dull, and at Birmingham,
Sheffield, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, no mate-
rial change can be recorded.
About £28,000 in gold was taken into the Bank •
on Saturday.

The -Wellesley has been announced this morning

from Australia, with £307,800 in gold.
A meeting of the Colonial Bank proprietors has,
been called for the Bth proximo, for the purpose of
receiving the directors' report and for election oft
directors, &c.

The half-yearly interest on Peruvian 41 per cent,
Bonds will be paid on and after the Ist proximo ;
and the dividend on New South Wales Government
• Debentures has also been announced for payment.
The traffic receipts of the Great Western Rail-
. way of Canada for the week ending the 29th ult.
Amounted to £9,958, being an increase of £1,628
compared with last year.
A dividend of 20f. per share, and of 7f. 50e. per.,
`obligation fully subscribed, will be paid by the!
Royal Portuguese Railway on and after the Istl
January. Interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per an-1
.aum will be payable on the 16th proximo on the
shares of the Ottoman Railway, and the half-year's
interest on the Great Luxembourg Railway Com-
pany's obligation is also announced for payment.
The demand for money is steadily maintained,
but notwithstanding the recent increase in the
•supply of commercial bills on offer, the market re-
tains a quiet and easy appearance. The continued
abundance of floating capital, and the moderate'.
character of the requirements of the mercantile
community, prevent any material alteration in the
rates; and although rather more firmness is now
perceptible than there was a week ago, transac-
tions are still recorded at Ito per cent. below
the minimum of the Bank of England.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday
!business was dull, but prices were unaltered. The '•
!sales were about 4,000 bales.

An adverse movement has been produced in the
Stock Exchange Markets to-day by the death of
the Prince Consort, and the unsettled feeling pro-
moted by the advices from America, which in'
speculative circles are considered unsatisfactory.
Consols have declined about -} per cent., the latest
quotations being 891 for money, and 891 90 for
the account. Business has been recorded at per
`cent. below these prices, but rather more firmness is
In ow perceptible. The New 3 per Cents. and the
!Reduced have declined to 891 ; Exchequtr Bills
(March) are 12s. prem. ; ditto June 12s. to:lss.
'prem. ; Bank Stock is heavy at 232; India 5 per
'Cent. Loan is 1021 1.

A general decline has also taken place in the'
foreign market, and the dealings have been of a
limited character. Turkish bonds have been parti-
cularly heavy, the Old 6 per Cents. being 75 to 76,
or a decline of 2 per cent., and the 1858 Loan, 651
to 661, being about 23 per cent. lower. Mexicans
have receded to 261 1, Dutch to 64, and Venezuelan
to 201 21.
In the Railway Share Market there has been
considerable depression, caused by the pressure of
4peculative sales in connection with the liquidation,
and the unfavourable character of the advices from
New York. Caledonians, Eastern Counties, and
South Easterns, have declined 15s. ; Great Westerns,
£1 ss. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North Wes-
tern, £1 10s.; and Midlands, £1 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in a
;cry limited favour, and the few bargains realised
were at further reduced rates. Antwerp and
Inotterdam brought 6/ ; Great Luxembourg, 8i ;
!San Paulo, 51 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 991 100,
Ind Cape Town and Dock 15.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares barely
iustain previous values. English, Scottish, and
Australian Chartered realised 171 ; London and
(County, 361 ; Crystal Palace Stock 33, and Electric
telegraph 93.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9iilll
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities B9l it f a
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. 96/ 51 6
Ditto 51 per Cent
102
Ditto Dpeibtteontures,d4upteor Censt,'..A.,Op.cr.tii.: .
11.88.68.43. 998812 k
Ditto 1859
' a onsola for Account, Jan. 9 89 90 89/ 90 89i
India Stock for Account 222k
Ditto 5 per Cent.
March. June.
exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 15 12 pm
Ditto , £5OO ...... 12 9 15 12 pm
Ditto Small l5 12 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent ... ..
Dit to 41 per Cent, 1860
Greek
\lexicon, 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
',,ruviun 41 per Cent 9sk
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 3 por Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '6O 451 5
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St 93k 71
Ditto 41 per Cent.
ardinian 5 per Cent
'panish 3 per Cent 5Ol
Ditto New Deferred . 411
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
rurkish 6 per Cent...
Ditto New Loan ....
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
\ enezuclan 3 por Cent
Ditto Account ..........
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil 64

refuge from the power of the people. In my present position:
could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning
voice against this apppoach of returning despotism.
" It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument.
should be made in favour of popular institutions, but there
's one point with its connections, not so hackneyed as most
others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to
place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labour,
in the structure of government, It is assumed that labour
is available only in connection with capital ; that nobody
labours unless somebody else owning capital somehow by
the use of it induces him to labour. This assumed, it is
next considered whether it is beet that capital shall hire
labourers and thus induce them to work by their own con-
sent, or buy them, and drive them to it without their con-
sent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded •
that all labourers are either hired labourers, or what we call
slaves, and further it is assumed that whoever is once a hired
labourer is fixed in that condition for life. Now there is no
such relation between capital and labour as assumed, nor is
there any such thing as a free man being fixed for
life in the condition of a hired labourer. Both of these
assumptions are false, and all inferences from them
ire groundless. Labour is prior to, and independent
lef, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labour, and
could never have exised if labour shad not first existed.
'Labour is the superior of capital and deserved much the
higher consideration. Capital has its rights which are all
worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied
that there is, and probably always will be a relation between
tabour and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is
in assuming that the whole labour of the community exists
within that relation. A few men own capital, and that few
ovoid labour themselves, and with their capital hire or buy;
another few to labour for them. A large majority belong to
.neither class; neither work for others, nor have othersi
working for them. In most of the Southern States a majo-
rity of the whole people of all colours are neither slaves nor
masters, while in the Northern a large majority are neither
hirers nor hired. Men, with their families, wives, sons
and daughters, work for themselves on their farms, in their
houses and in their shops, taking the whole product to
themselves, and asking no favours of capital on the on
;hand, nor of the hired labourers or slaves on the other
It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons
mingle their own labour with capital, that is, they labour'
with their own hands, and also buy or hire others to
labour for them ; but this is only a:mixed,:and'not a distinct
'class. No principle stated is disturbed by the existence of
this mixed class.

" The territories of Colorado, Dacotah and Nevada,
oreated by the last Congress, have been organised, and civil
administration have been inaugurated therein under auspices
especially gratifying, when it is considered that the leaven of
treason was found existing in some of these new countries,
then the Federal officers arrived there. The abundant na-
tural resources of these territories, with the security and pro-
!ion afforded by organised government, will doubtless
,
'mate to them a large emigration, when peace shall restore
the business of the country to its accustomed channels. I
attismit the resolutions of the legislature of Colorado, which
!vine() the patriotic spirit of the people of the territory. So
far the authority of the United States has been upheld in all
the territories, as it is hoped it will be in the future. I com-
mend their interests and defence to the enlightened and
generous - care of Congress. I recommend to the
favourable consideration of Congress the interest of
the District of Columbia. The insurrection has
been the cause of much suffering and sacrifice
to its inhabitants, and as they have no representative in
Congress, that body should not overlook their just claims
aPon the Government. At your late session a joint resolu-
tion was adopted, authorising the President to take ram-
'litres for facilitating a proper representation of the indus-
trial interests of the United States at the Exhibition of the
Industry of all Nations, to be holden at London, in the year
1862.
. ccl regret to say I have been unable to give personal at-
tention to this subject, a subject at once so interesting in
itself, and so extensively and intricately connected with the
material prosperity of the world. Through the Secretaries
at State and of the Interior, a plan or system has been de-
vised, and partly matured, which will be laid before you.
" Under and by virtue of the act of Congress, entitled an
act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes,
approved August 6th, 1861, the legal claims of certain per-
-80118 to the labour and service of certain other persons have
become forfeited, and numbers of the latter thus liberated
are already dependent on the United States, and must
be provided for .in‘ some way. Besides this, it is not
haPossible that some of the States will pass similar enact-
ments for their own benefit respectively, and by the opera.
tiou of which persons of the same class will be thrown upon •
them for disposal. In such case I recommend that Congress
Provide for accepting such persons from such States, accord- ^,
iag to some mode of valuation in lieu prstanto of direct
taxes, or upon some other plan to be agreed on with such
States respectively, that such persons on such acceptance by
the general Government be at once deemed free, and that in.
any event steps be taken for colonising both classes, or the
one first mentioned, if the other shall not be brought into
existence, at some Place or Places in a climate congenial to- " Again, as has already been said, there is not of neces.
them. It might be well to consider, too, whether the freer city any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed for'
coloured people already in the United States could not, so':_ that condition for life. Many independent men everywhere,
far as individuals may desire, be included in such colonize- il! in these States a few years back in their lives were hired.
ti°n• To carry out the plan of colonization may involve the‘'' laborers. The prudent, penniless begins the world by labor-'
acquiring of territory, and also the appropriation of money{ ing for wages awhile, saves a surplus by which to buy tools'_,
beyond that to be expended in the territorial acquisition'or land for himself, then labors on his own account another!
having practised the acquisition of territory for nearly sixty ,::rwhile, and at length hires another new beginner to help him..i.,
Years, the question of constitutional power to do so is no "This is the just and generous and prosperous system which 1-7,
longer an open one with us. ~ opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy
"
The power was at first questioned by Mr. Jefferson,
rho, however, in the purchase of Louisiana, yielded his and progress and improvement of their condition to all. No
eLs:
: men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who IT:
scruples on the plea of great expediency. If it be said that;• toil up on from poverty, none less inclined to take or touch
that the only legitimate object of acquiring territory is to aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them'
furnish homes for white men, this measure effects that ob.' :beware of surrendering a political power which they
ject i for the emigration of coloured men leaves additional already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely be, - SPAIN.
•room for white men remaining or coming here. used to close the door of advancement against such as they.
:rf The Madrid journals of the 10th publish long
" Mr. Jefferson, however, placed the importance of pro— and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till
ofanother days' debatein the Congress
.:# reports
l'
caring Louisiana more on political and commercial grounds, all of liberty shall be lost.
`the Address in reply to the Queen's Speech. The
than on providing room for population. " From the first taking of our national census to the last, Z
nrincipal speakers were M. Rivero, the Minister of
"On the whole proposition, including the appropriation are 70 years, and we find our population at the end of the : . .
et money with the acquisition of territory, does not the ex e- period eight times as great as it was at the beginning. and M. Gonzalez Bravo, but the d'
The,, the Interior,
4iency amount to absolute necessity, that without which the increase of those other things which men deem desirable has,'" sion presented no interest. Three persons had been
flovernment cannot be perpetuated. The war continues h.been even greater. We thus have, at one view, what thee . arrested in a coffee-house in the Calle Santa Barbara
1...., i.!
4 considering the policy to be adopted for suppressinglpopular principle, applied to Government through the for having raised cries of " Hurrah for the Re-44
ttle insurrection, I have been anxious and careful thamachinery of the States, and the Union, has produced in a public ! " The Captain-General of Catalonia had,
the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not de-given time, and also what, if firmly maintained, it promises on account of the stagnation in the cotton manufac- ,
enerato into a violent and remorseless revolutionary for the future. There are already among us those who, i .tort' of that province, been authorised to employ
struggle. I have, therefcre, in every case thought the Union be preserved, will live to see it contain 250,000,000.
it persons in works distressed '
of public utility. It is
proper to keep the integrity of the Union promi- The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day. It is
stated by the .Regeneracion that the well-known
tent as the primary object of the contest. On our} for a vast future also.
Part, leaving all questions which are not of vital milit " • firm reliance •
ary, With a on Providence, all the more firm Carlist chief Tristany has been appointed by King
---.
importance to the more deliberate action of thei.Legisl t •'•-; dearnest, let in task which
a urelaan us proceed the great
In t
he exercise of my best discretion, I have adhered to the -have devolved upon us. ' that he is now at the head of 300 Spaniards, " occu-
block f?." Castle yesterday morning to receive the necessary coin-I
I
.ade of the pot* held by the insurgents, instead of put- - ' " ABRAHAM LINCOLN. pied in organising the royal troops in that pro-P'mands in regard. to the funeral a his late Royal Highness
lug inl
force by proclamation the law of Congress enacted at " Washington, Dec, 3, 1861." c-:_vince. the Frinee (enslrt,
q . ,

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.

PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN LIVERPOOL.

Yesterday, a short time before the churches opened for
morning service, intelligence was received in Liverpool of
the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The
sad information, which spread with considerable rapidity,
was announced in some of the churches, and wherever the
melancholy news was made known it created profound agi
tation. The Royal Standard was raised to half-mast in
front of the Town-halls, and flags at half-mast were dis-
played on most of the public buildings and on many of
the churches in town. The reading-rooms were much
thronged during the mid. day hour by gentlemen anxious to
learn the leading particulars connected with the sorrowful
,event ; and on all hands expressions of deep sympathy with
our gracious Sovereign in her heavy bereavement were
uttered by men not easily moved to such demonstrations.
It is also worthy of note that as soon as the news became
generally known, the inhabitants of the leading streets
pulled down their window blinds in token of respect. Prow,
the deep grief felt in all circles, it is more than probable
that most of the intended public entertainments of the week
will be p, stponed. It is also feared that this melancholy
event, combined with the thickening American difficulties,
will have a most prejudicial effect on the intended Great
Exhibition, if it do not actually cause its postponement.—
Liverpool Albion.

TBIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

I• LONDON, Dec. 16.—Wind this day at noon—Wes'
Ito North- West ; moderate breeze, with dull, cloud)
;weather.

I QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
lEdinburgh, screw steamer, from Liverpool, and left fo.
INew York.

PonTsmouTn, Nov. 15.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived-
,Solway, from London for Melbourne; her Majesty's shi
Dee, from Woolwich.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind W.; weather foggy.
Arrived, Dec. 15—Demegada, from Terceira.
Arrived, Dec. 16—Island Queen, from St. Michael's ;
Moselle, from Antwerp.
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DEAL, Monday Morning.
Anchorod—Fairy Rock, from London, for Barbadoes ;
'Azoff, from London, for Trinidad ; Pride of the West, from
Shields, for Callao.