The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

THE PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mule prem.,
and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling.
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4:61 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13s. 6d. per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1081 to 109 per cent., which, when compared
with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the
exchange is against England, But, after making allowance
for loss of interest and charges of transport, the present
rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold to the
United States.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862.

PEBRITARY.

Lincoln ..

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I. $ LONDON,
.t 3107i7 FY ilf ARKET AND CITY NEWS. SHARE MARK E T-(1 1 ESTERDAY). BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
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Share Railways.Clostu g
CITY, Two o'CLocx. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Paid.' Price. Business done
As usual on Christmas-day, the Bank, Stock - _
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Exchange, and all other places of business have Share, Railways. Paid. Closing. Business Business
done. stk I Bom„Baroda&•Cent Ind
i ( G. 5 per .... 100 981 991 100
been closed. - I . 18 Dou Do. • B all - - 0
201 Bufralo and Larse Huron all 31 44 d
50 ;Belfast and Nor. Coon •,' all ' - -
- 13.14 Bits, Wol., and Str. Val. all I 71 8 204 Do. New - -
BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. 25 ; Blyth and Tyne - - 10 Do. Preference ...... all 51 61
Buffalo,Brant&Godrich 100 - _lO 'Bost,Sleat„and Mid CD all i 6 64 61
YESTERDAY. at ,Bristol and Exe'.-er ; 100 i 94 06 no (.6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
Bank Stock* - -
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 904 ,_ 1 i
10 Carmarthen & Cardigan; all I - _
„100 Do. do. June L ls:s 100 - -
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities - 5 ,Cleritta.&S. Eastn. (I. i ) all 44 5
20 ICape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim )
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 904 11.4 4 i 20 Cork, Blrock, & Passagel all •--i
20 20 Cape Town & Dock Seri! 16 1 id:
India Stock -
Do
I 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 71 - -
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Itiil 6p c.p an.has; 11 - .. 171 Demerara all - -
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent - 10 Do. B been paid to B. 4 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. spa c all 191 20 d 20
J)itto 5 per Cent. 965
, 50 Dublin & Belfast JuncH all 40 42 stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 1001 100 101 1011
Ditto 51 per Cent
18'a 20 Do. I` Shares Ext.,.,. all - -
' 100 18 19 2O Do. Jubbulpore all - -
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1563 984 st East Anglian
100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs. all 98 100
Ditto ditto April, 1864 981 ilOO Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864- all 99 101
Di' 1 Donds £I,OOO
,L,Coaulanat,leAs .a.t.a.c.ka;
110000
47501
50614 511 2
at Do Bdo do 1 100 32 34 100 Do. 1865-1870 all 100 [Ol 1004
' ) '0; under al.ooo .. - - stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 18 19 184 19
Consols for Account, Jan. 9 9ll 1 4 st East Suffolk ; 100 - -
, 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 53 58 56 8
ndia Stock for AcCount - at Edinburgh & Glasgow., 101 88 90_ 100 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. all 40 60
It d a Stock. for Account, 5 per Cent
st lEdin., Perth, & Dundee' 100 284 295 29 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 28 32 32
' ..1 4
10 'Forth & Clyde Junction all - - 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .all 34 38
March. Jun 3. st :Furness 1 100 - - 100 Do. do. 1867.. all 27 10
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 912 11 11 pm at (Alava and S. Western ; 100 97 99 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 27 30
Ditto £5OO - _ 10 GreatNrtlin of Scotland all - - .. stock Gt. IndiaPenln.gua.sp.c. 100 994 1004 101 1001
I
Ditto Small at Great Northern... I 100 1114 1121 113 124 20 ! Do. New gua. sp. c... 10 1 1 d
FOREIGN FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. st Do A stock
st Do II do
;
: 100 130 132
guaranteed 5 per cent. 160 981 991
1 YESTERDAY. at Gt. S. an W. of Ireland 100 101 103 20 Do. do. all
at Great Western ; 100 671 681 681 1 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 81 91 94 1
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto Ps per Cent, 1860
12 Irish South Eastern _ ; all - - 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all - -
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent - st Lancashire & Yorkshire' 100 1054 1064 1064 4 7 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 c 0... all - -
a! i 0 Account - -
Mexican 3 per Cent - at Lou., Bright ,& S. Coast 100 115 116 stock Madras guar., 41 p. c... 100 88 90 21
Ditto Aeco nt .. 274 8744 4 4 st Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 41 46 stock Do. do. 5 per cent .... 100 981 991 99
at Lou.& North Western 100 914 92 923 4 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 91 93 911
Pei 'avian 4.'1 per Cent .. -20 Do. 5 d 0........ all - -ct
! Otto Affount
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 18,53
471 61,
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '6O 46 8
Stir dinian 5 per Cent. - Lou. & South Western 100 924 931 931
25 L'derry & Coleraine . 1 all -
25 L 'derry •& Enniskillen..l all 9 11
st Ilan., Shef., & Lincoln.; 100 441 45 444 51
50 Maryport and Carlisle. all - - stock Melb.Corp. 6p. a Buda. 100 - -
20 Newßrunswick it Canda
Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6llo
Class A Capital Share! all 5 7
i Ditto Account - - .. Do. do. Land d 0........
Spanish 3 per Cent - 10 Metropolitan 74 51 6 64 20 Do. do. B Capital do. .. all 4 6
Ditto Account
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Ditto New Deferred 42 6.4.0 DO New ..1 2.14. 11 31p p - Dude (Limited) ........ - -
S stock;Scinde .......... 4...: 100 1004 1014 1011 2
st Do Birming. & Derby 100 97 99
panish Cert. of Coup. not funded - - 20 Do. Punjaub .... Ls tl 15 1d 1 d
Turkish 6 per Cent. - 25 Do. 4 shares - - 20 Do. Do. ........ as ? all - -.1
Ditto Account - - stock Do. Indus. St. Flo gsgi 100 j 95 100
Ditto New Loan - - 10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip..! 1 4 1d ;
Ditto Accoontloo Newcastle and Carlisle all - -
691 81 91 81 a 10 Ne 9 - FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Ditto ,EIOO Bonds
20 Newry, Waanpt, & Ros., all - - .. 20 Algerisu - - i
Eitto Gearanteesl. 4 per Cent.
1' enezuelau 3 per Cent
...... all - -p
D:vidends on the above payable in London. st Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 100 - - 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7p.c. 15 41 d 144 1
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
1 ,
till 6 pc. has been pdß; 100 - - 20 Beziers to Graissessac.. all - --
THREE O'CLOCK, at Do B stock j 100 - - Carmeaux Mine & flail 30 10/ 111
Consols, Money - at Nth. Eastern-Berwick I 100 981 991 t 9 4 100 Copiapo ................ all -4 _B5
d
Ditto Account
st Do Leeds I 100 55 56 561 4 20 Dutch Rhenish ........ 16 1 4 151 4
st Do York ; 100 874 881 20 Eastern of France .... all 21/ 291
at North I ondon 1 100 94 86 THE ) ANKER , 20 Grand Rus Guar. 6p. c. all -
'ID b: OF I.HE QU_ES7IO.2Ir.
10 Do new 1 5 - - 20 Do. do. s
alt
- - -
as• 19.16.1 North Staffordshire 174 51 42 d 20 Great Central of a ranee all - -
Scene : The Coffee-room of Radley's Adelphi Hotel, Liver- 10 N. and S. W. Junction:l all 104 101 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. sirs.., all 84 9 84 9
sett Not. Gran. Gscran,t..3Rrild.
.&stCocaknali;
100100
9858
9970 20 Italian Junction . . all - -
P 001. 10 Peebles 1 all - - 20 [Jerre & Turnhout ....1 all - -
Mr. Nahum Q. Bounce, a Citizen of the Modern 20 Portsmouth I all - - 20 Lyons & Geneva. ...... all - -
10 Ithymney I all - - 20 Namur & Liege ........ all 81 (4
Republic. at scottish Central 1 100 122 124 20 Do. 6p. c. Pref......... all 20 21
Mr. Brown, a Briton. st Scot. N. E., Aber. stock; 100 37 39 16 Northern of France.. - all 38 39
Brown-So you really believe that Lincoln will refuse to shrews. and Welchpoo-1! all - - 18 Do. New Shares ..... 15 - -
1010 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 7 9
give up Slide-11 and Mason? at Shropshire Union lOO 451 464 20 Parls,Lyons, & Medi ter. all 39 40 40
10 Sittig„ &Sheer Sheer all - - 20 Paris & 0r1ean5........ all 50 62 52 Bounce-Yes, sir ; unless they're hanged afore Russell's
at South Devon lOO 36 38 1 Recife &S. Fran. (Perna
despatch reaches Lyons, in which event, perhaps, our Pre- 25 S. Durham & Lanc.Un all - - 20 glut. 7p. ct. 1im...... 17 51 41‘1
eident may tell your Ambassador to say, with his compli- st South Eastern -
t-
et South Wales
meats to the British Government, that they're welcome to sS. York. and River Dun 100 95 97 5 [loyal Swedish ........ all - -
the rebels' corpses, if they'd like them. 20 a taines,Wok„andWok. all 51 6 4 1)o. 7 per cent. Pref.... all - -
25 Stockton & Darlington all 36 38 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... all 61 7
Brown-Come you're joking. We have suffered a gross 25 Do
10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref..... all 8t 94
outrage, and ask for simple redress. Is it possible that the S.'s Do New, 1860 2O San Paulo, lim, as 7 p.c. 4 44 i
s! Taff Vale. _ 1005 -44 -54 p
, President of the United States will persist wilfully and2o S.Aust &Lomb Venetir 16 1 4
at Do Pref. No. 1 - - 20 Soothera of France.... all 251 164
knowingly in wrong ? 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 - - 20 S. East Portugal 7 p ct. 4 - -
Bounce-Guess our President can't do no wrong. We 50 Ulster
. 25 Do 2O 26 35 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference .. all 94 10
won't let him. 12.10 Do
I Brown-Why, he must if he adopts the wrong done by at Vale of Neath 1 100 80 65 20 Western of Austria.... 6 - -
his officer. st Victoria sta. and Pim I ICO - - 20 Western of Switzerland all -- -
st Waterford & Kilkenny! 100 - - 6 Wiesbaden i all - -
Bounce-What cfficer and what wrong? 50 Water! ord & Limerick. all - - 6 Do. 8 per cent Pref... ! all - -
Brown- What wrong and what offic r ? Why, Wilkes, 20 West Cornwall all 51 61 20 Zealand 'l
all - -
20 West London - -
and his monstrous act of piracy. The idea of taking envoys, 10 Do Ist class - - BMTIS.s MINES.
accredited to our neutral Government, out of our own neu- 20 Do 2d class - - . - ,Alfrea Consols(Phila.ck); 3.2.10 1 1
st W. Hartlepool Han&R , 100 - --- 10 I British Iron
ttal vessel, bound from one neutral port to another, Why at West Midland Ox!ord 100 46 47 - Clifford
the Confederates might just as well seize Mr. Adams or Mr. st Do Newpor 1 100 43 45 43 - Devon G. Cons. (Tavists 1 360 370
st Do Hereford 100 89 91 - East Bassett (Illogan) 130 65 60 54 24
Thurlow Weed, or any other Federal diplomatist or am- - East Caradon ...... .... 1.14.6 281 681 284 9
basseador, under just the same circumstances and on the LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. - E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) 7.4.0 21 14
same pretence. - Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen.) 551 18 20
- Great South Tolgus.... 17s 31 44
Bounce-Wal ? !. Leasing Closing Business - G.Wheal Alfa(Philack`
Paid - -
Railways.
Brown-Well ? What would you expect us to do if they Co. s Price. Done. - G. Wheal Vor( elston) 40 6 7
I
- Grenville 6.8.6 11 11
refused to surrender them ? -
Bedfordan
dßletchley
100 all D
Bone Ln,.0.&&1‘1:17- Herod's- It ' 8.12 37 19
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Bouce-Avenge the insult offered to the British flag Birkenhead
54 86 - Hingaton Downs 1 4.11.6 14 IE
-••• right slick. Histe the Union Jack alongside of the Stars Buckinghamshire.... 100 Do. Lady Bertha lllO 6 1 4
Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do 94 96 a- Margaret (tiny Lelanta 94 40 (2
and Stripes, and proclaim war to the bowie-knife with Jeff 53 54 - North Downs 2l 44 54
Do. 51 per cent 100 Do.
Davis. Do. 5 „ 100 Do. - North Frances (Mogan) 114 2 1
- N. WWI Basset (1110 ;an) 1.14.0 21 31
Brown-Yes, but suppose we were already at war with Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 - North Wheal Crotty ..' 9.18.9 14 24
Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&10.0 63 65 - Par Consols (St. Blazey)! IA 7 8
Abe Lincoln. E. Lincolnah. ,a; apr c. 100 G %North. 133 136 20 Providence(Uny LelntS 10.6.7 38 40
Bcuucc-Vv'al, then you'd have North and South upon E.Union,DarwichSks all E,Counts. 4 44
-- Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 1 i V
Do. Woodbridae.... 100 • • • •
you at Duce; you'd be in a double-barrelled difficulty, and
Gls.Barn&Ncils:Drct. 100 Cale.don .. .. - South Caradon(StCleer); II 310 :20 ;
would have to fight your way out of the fix on both sides, or Do. new I 100 Da ....... • • • • - S. earn Brea (Illogan).. 3.9.6 4 41
1 S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. all 1
else Igoe:; under and cave right and left, Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. •.
• • • - S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan),18.10.0 971 1021 110 ,
Hull and a elby all Yk.N. Mid 110 112
2719. 29 31
Brown-In the meantime our flag has been insulted by Do. halves ' all Do. - Stray Park
5 Tamar Silvat Lead Alin 4l 1 11
the North only. Haven't we as much right to demand rep- Do. quarters 1 all Do.
Lancaster & Carlisle! 100 Lu.&N W 1193 198
ration from the North as you own we should from the South? - Vale of Towey (Carm.);l3s Id 1 4
Loudon & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 61 63 61
- West Basset (Mogan). a 11 14 15
Bounce-No doubt on it. You've a right to eh mend what Do. Preference
- W. Caradon (Liskeard); 5 43 50 48
you please. What you're like to get's another concern, Lon.,Tilb.& Southend 100 peto & Cod 83 85 84 5
- West Seton
Lowestolt gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk .. .. .. - Wheal Basset (Mogan); 51 85 90: 1
Brown-Well, but, my good sir, what do you call Slidell Do 6 per cent lOO Do. _••
• •••
- Wheal Buller(ltedruth), 5 75 85
and Illson f Belligerents or rebels? lkinc.,Bxbrser Matlock all LNW& :. 31 34 - Wheal Edward (Call.)' 74 I 21 3 1
Mid. Bradford Prefer- - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant), 1.7.2; 41 55
Bounce-Whichever you please, Sirree. ence stock - Wheal MaryAnn(Men.)! 8 16 17
Brown-Then let us say they are belligerents. They are Newmark., Bur Ex 15.5. 6. E Counts. par 4 p - Wheal Treiawnev (Lis.); 7 16 17
therefore, as regards us, just what French enjoys would be Nortg'rlins.47=lA Ir. ..
c. all Do.
with rrspect to you in co se England were at war with France. Do e • cent..... all Do.
Bounce-That's a fact. Do. sp. c.... all Do.
N. E• [artlepool 1, 0 N. E. Ber. .. .• 1 BonAccordCopper,Lim, 17.6 Rd' M 4 4
Brown-Now tken suppose a United States packet, Eng- No: trn
land and France being at war, sails, having two French r L&N.W
,Wyre. all &L. yk. 43 45 5 Do. Land and Miningeo. all 11 14
1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo. I - di,
ambassadors on beard, for New York, starting from some ' 10 Cobrel Copper all 35 37
A. all Do. •• • • ..I
other equally neutral port, say Leghorn or Genoa ? ..te'llat Shop. 100 GeNorth. 133 136 - ;Copiapo _ 16 6 8
& Hereford WO T Brassey 118 122
Dc. so.
Bounce-Gc-ahead. se
2 ;Fortuna. I all 11 2
I
Brown-The Frenchmen are under the protection of the South Staffordshire .. 100 Ln.&N.W .. • . 20 ;General all 23 24
American flog, are they not ? Wilts and Somerset.. 103 Gt. West. 92 94 921 31 2IGt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 1 4 p 11 1 IWimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brgtn 81 94 l4 'Kapunda (Limited) 1 1 14 p
Bounce-I calculate they air situated beneath the tootee 1 I Linares all 7 8
2 4 Pr
lary shade of the Star-spangled Banner. PREFERENCE SHARES.
!111. uasrii tqaani it
aa n
. Brown-Suppose, then, that Captain Snooks of the Royal ' 1 ,N.RhineCopofS.Aus.L..l 4 2 4d C
~., Closing Business 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead;
Navy boards your ship, and takes them from under that share! Railways. Paid Prices. Done. 1 Minims and Smelt... Ia 11 2 4 C
same bit of hunting. Is it a parallel case ? I 5 Port Philip 1
10s. 4 Ipm 1 11 14 14 1 4 i
Bounce-On all fours. Just cut on, old hoss. 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) ;
Brown-If you will have it that the Southern Envoys 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c.
all al11•81 United Mexican , ail 71 8 81 1 t
pref. issued at £5 .... - - , 1 Worthing (Limited) ; all 1 4
1
are rebels, is rot their case exactly the same as that of at Bris. & Exet. 4p. c. at_ 100 93 95 I Do
.. .- -
Smith O'Brien and Meagher would have been, if Meagher 20 Do. shares - -
at Caledon. ZlO, 44 p. cent. 100 - - COLONIAL COVERNMENT SECURITIES.
and Smith O'Brien, during the Irish insurrection that at Do. quar. shares, s is. 2 100 - -
ended in the cabbage garden, had been seized by a British 61 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. all - - - Canatov. 6 p.c.Ja. ar.l uly I
cruis; r, on board of one of your vessels which they had em- 20 Cornwall. 5 percent.... all 201 21/ - 1877-9 lOO 105 ICB 106 74
- Do Op. cent.lBBo-21 100 I - -
Larked in from Havre, carrying despatches from the Pro- 64 Dun.l'erth, &Aber.Jun. all 6 65
10 Do. Ist Class Pref all - - - Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4; 100 ' - -
visional Government of Ballingarry to the Cabinet of at E. Arian. ClassA, sp. c lOO 101 103 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Auna 100 104 107 I
i 'Washington ? - at Do. Class B 6 per cent lOO 112 117
st Do. Class e 7 per cent lOO 110 116 - Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept.; 100 104 (07
- Do. 5 per cent j 100 94 96 95/ 761 6 f
Bounce-Quite so. Wal ? at E. Conn. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 100 104 110 -- Cape G. Hope, 6p c,lBBo] 100 106 108 e
st Do
Brown-I say, what would your Government have done st Do. new 6p.c. st No.
2 100 100 108
100 123 125 124 - Do. 1890' 100 106 108
- N.B.Gov. 6 p.c..la.&July 100 102 101 4
ic cue of our officers had seized either the French bellige- at Eastern Union, 4p. c- 100 81 83 - Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct! 100 - -
rents er the Irish rebels ? at Do. sp. c. guar lOO - - - N. S.W. Gov. sp. c., 18651 100 98 100 C
st Erlin.&6las.s p.c. shares 100 111 113 - Do. sp. c.. 1871 to 1876 100 97 99 1
I ounce-Dome ? Jerusalem 1 What would they have st Do. 4p. c. guar. S. & - Do. p.c.,1888 &upwds 100 96 98 98 74
done ? Snakes ! Laid an embargo on every British yes- st Edin.Perthat Dan. 4 p.c lOO - - - Nova Scotia Go n. 6p. c. D
st Furness, 5 per cent lOO - - stering, 1875. : 100 103 105 105
sal in the American ports. Swept the British flag off the st Glas.& S.West gu. 5 p.c lOO - - - S. Aus,G6p.c.iB7a& up..; 100 - - C
. ocean. Bombarded Portsmouth, and then steamed up the st Great Northern, sp. c lOO 115 116 - ,Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c.Jastaltlyj 100 - - a
st D 0.5 p.c.ftedm.lop.c.pm lOO 110 112 - 'Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&0ct....1 100 C 2 104 ; 1035 24 31
Thames and laid London in ashes. Then, after havin' at Do. 45 p. c. do lOO 102 101 t
vindicated cur honour, granted peace on condition Palmer- at Deop.c.Redmatsp.c.pm 100 107 109 DOCKS.
f
10 Gt. Nh. of scot. Ist pref. all - - stock 'Commercial I too I
stun begged for it on his marrowbones, consented to pay us at Gt. Sn. &W. (Ireland) stock I Do. 4 per eent.Pref.Min I 100 - 1
double the cost of the war, and cede Canada, Australia, and 4 per cent lOO 97 99 stock East and West India .. ; 110 123 125
Indey. 50 Great West. (Berks and stock London..
Hants Ext) 5 per cent 6 - - stock ;St. Katharine. ' 100 59 62
Brown-And why, then, shouldn't we do the like of all st Do. redeem. 15 p. et.... 100 98 100 100 stock ISouthampton lOO
th;,s to you? st Do. redeem. 4p. et.... 100 88 90 stock ; Vietoria ........ - lOO ;98 100 98 t
•at Do. irredeem. 4p. ct.. _ 100 89 91 20 i Do. New .- - --se 2 ;ld pr
Bounce-Because you can't. st Do. sp. c. redeem. ref. 100 102 101 a
Brown-You might experience a corresponding difficulty. 8 Do. Birm. pref. shares., all 94 10 JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
I Put do you seriously hold that might is right ? 10 Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs all 17 '8 - f
too AgraAllnitedSery ice Bk 50 - - 1
10 Do. Chester spc pf alas all 101 11 40 !Australasia all - - 1 C
bounce-We air a serious people. We air a thinkin' at Do. Birm. guar.. .stoCk.. 100 75 77
people. There ain't no right as we owns to but what is 264 Do. Chester shares all 20 201 25 I Bank of Egypt all 201 21:1
100 !Bank of London .....
voted sitch by the majority of our free and independent 134 Do. do
20 Do. do all 10 104
all 15 151 20 I Bank of Turkey 3 * pr N
citizens in Cacus and Congress. We air the only free and 100 Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. pref 60 - - 50 j British North American all - -
10 IChtd.Bank of India, &c. all 195 20 r
i independent 'citizens on airth. Our will is law-inter- at Lan. & York. 6 p.c. atock 100 MG 134 136 25 ; ClaMer. of la. Lon.& Ch. all 31 33 .
at Do BarnsLat£s2s 10d c 100 - - t
national law and all other. Captain Wilkes is the great in. atloo City
Do.. 6p. c. (East Lan.).. 100 - - 100 Colonial . ... - - a
ter Teter of international law. Slidell and Mason had to at Do. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pun 100 101 103 s 0•11 Com. Bank of Canada.. all - -
. be took, right or wrong, and he took 'em. We say he was, at ton.&Bri, sp.e.i.gu. No.l 100 112 115 100 Commercial of London . 20 - - r
lat Do. 5 per cent do, No 2 100 112 115 20 Eng,.. Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 174 174 174
I
right. We air an almighty nation-an everlastin' people, st Do. 6 per cent. - -
st Di o. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 100 112 115 20 'Lon. Ch
Austral all 231 24 t
Don't preach consistency to sitch as we. Our supreme
1/o. 4/ per cent. do. ... 100 - - 20 Do. new l5 31 31
I democracy ain't agoin' to be slaves to their ownlaws-don't 5 Do. 41 p. 0. pref. shares all - -
stso London and County
Do. 7 per cent pref. stk 100 152 155 50 London; Joint. Stock
you think it. st Dail p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) 100 127 130
Brown-Well, you don't think small beer of yourselves. st D 0.4 p c.st.(div.def.lll'6s 100 73 75
And so, of course, you consider war inevitable ?
Bounce-No, I don't. Your Government may submit st Do. 4 per cent. prof .... 100 - -
at Lon.CliatanDov. sp.c.pf. 100 90 92 iOl
10 Do. West. Ex., B, 6p. c. all _ _ 20 'Loudon and S. African lO 1 id
100 ;Louden & Westminster 20 67 69 671 8 i
100 : at. Prov. of England 12 - a
20 ;Do. new .. ... 12 - - E
s
t
50 I Nationalßank - - i and eat dirt. I shouldn't wonder if it was to. It won't be 10 De. Metrop. Ex. ti, IN p.a. 35 __ _
1 st 'Lou. &S. W., Coy. & 21 INe , South Wales all - -
the first time, I realise. Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 100 111 113 25 I Orient. B. Corporatin. all 49 SO 50 4 (
Brown-England will swallow any insult, you think? at Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. 20 I Ottoman Bank
Bounce-Rather than fight amost I seculate. You st. late 3d shares .... 100 -
i 1 ' 100 1
, pst Do. per cent - -
10 Do. new .• • all - - t
Britishers du set a considerable valley on your lives; your 2s 6d Do. (Prtsm. perpl. anus. 25 I South Australia .., - all - -
sojers' and sailors' lives as well as your own. You don't of 2s 6d - __ 25 , Union of Australia ..... all 138 39 38 i
50 tin i of London . l2 ; 275 281 274 f
121 Londondy. & Cole. 1 shs alt - ..._
like riskin' them without you're forced to, and you ain't at 121 Londony. & Ennis./ sirs all 134 14 100 Unit, Mutual.. .. 60 1 ..- - t
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Buckinghamshire lOO Do. 94 96
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Do. 5 „ 100 Do.
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Loudon & Greenwich 100 S. Easterr 61 63 61
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10 Antwerp & Rotterdam I all 61 CI
20 Ardennes.... all —p
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20 Beziers to Graissessad all --
Carmeaux Mine .' Rail 30 103 Ili
100 Cupiapo all _si
10 Ditto Extension all 4
20 Dutch Rhenish l6 * 151
20 Eastern of France all 21a VI
20 Grand Rue Guar. 6p. c all
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20 Great Central of 1 ranee all
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. sits all 8/ 9 8i 9
20 Italian Junction . . all
20 Lierre & Turnhout .... all
20 Lyons & Geneva, ...... all
20 Namur & Liege ........ all 81 (4
20 Do. 6p. c. Pref. ........ all 20 21
16 Northern of France.— all 38 39
16 Do. New Shares .... 15
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref.. all 7 9
20 Parls,Lyons, & Medi ter. all 39 40 40
20 Paris & 0r1ean5........ all 50 62 52
20 f Recife & S. Fran. (Peru.)
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20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 13.8.
20 'loyal Dani5h.......... all 11 13
5 Royal Swedish all
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all
20 Sambre & Meuse ...... all 63 7
10 Do. 54 per cent. Pref..... all 8t 95
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20 S.Aust &Lomb Venetir 16 1 4
20 sc:inner-a of France.... all 251 4'61
20 S. East Portugal 7 p ct. 4
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10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference.. all 94 10
20 W. & N.N. of France .. all 20 21
20 West,rn of Austria.... 6
20 Western of Switzerland all --
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Par Consols (St. Blazey)l 11 7 8
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1 S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim • all 4 4
S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 971 1024 110
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10 Tin Croft 9 7) 84
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West Seton
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Wheal Buller(itedruth) 5 75 85
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Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 1.7.2 44 53
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Wheal Treiawnev (Lis.)! 7 16 17
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20 Brazil St.J.del itey,Linr 15 48 60 491 60
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1 Worlhing(Limited) all a

THE LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1861.

2HE NAVY.

The Hannibal, 90, screw, Capt. A. Farquhar, was
paid out of commission at Portsmouth yesterday.
Her crew, the greater part of whom are continuous
service men, have been granted a week's leave on

shore.
The Edgar, 89, screw, flagship of Rear-Admiral
S. C. Dacres, C. 8., under orders for Lisbon, was de-
tained yesterday at Spithead by a court-martial held
on board the Victory on one of the Edgar's petty
officers, the particulars of which were of no public
interest. Sne is expected to sail to-morrow.
The Sutlej, 51, screw, fitting for commission at
Portsmouth, has received her armament, and is now
completing the equipment of her Armstrong battery.
Her rigging is ratlined down, and her hull is re-
ceiving its final coat of outside paint. She is
drawing now 20 feet water aft, and from her ap-
pearance as she lies in the steam basin, promises to
he the handsomest auxiliary screw frigate in her
Majesty's Navy. Her sails and provisions have
yet to be put on board, and a goad deal yet remains
to he done in her internal stowage.
The Severn, 51, 500 horse-power, screw frigate,

is to be furnished with the proper armament from
the stores at Chatham :—One 100 pounder Arm-
strong pivot gun, six 40-pounder Armstrongs, and
fourteen 32-pounders, on her upper deck ; and four
70-pounder Armstrongs, eight 8-inch guns each of
58 cwt., and eighteen 32-pounders on her main
deck.

The Orlando, 50, screw-frigate, Captain Francis
Scott, C. 8., left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday morn-
ing for the North American and West India station.
It is said that she will call at Gibraltar.
An additional number of workmen have been
employed upon the Caledonia, iron-cased screw-
frigate, now building at Woolwich, and which is in
a forward state for launching.
The Vigilant, screw steam-sloop, Commander
Pike, shipped her screw propeller yesterday. She
will be ready to be undocked about Friday next.
A number of men have already joined her.
The barge Defiance, of Chester, was yesterday
brought alongside the anchor wharf at Chatham,
and commenced discharging about 70 tons of angle
iron, intended for the immense iron frigate Achilles,
building in No. 2 dock. The iron was from the
factory of Messrs. Mare and Co., of Blackwall.
The Lee, 5, screw dispatch gun vessel, 80 horse-
power, having failed very signally in both her
recent trial trips to the Maplin Sands, is ordered

to be docked at Sheerness, in order to enable the
officials to ascertain in what her defects consist,
after which she is again to be taken out and
tried. At her former trial trip scarcely nine
knots an hour could be got out of her under the
most favourable circumstances.

The Snipe, 5, screw gun vessel, is ordered to
be furnished with two 20-pounder Armstrongs in
lieu of two 24-pounder howitzers.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
have ordered the recall of all the men who have
had one month's leave of absence, to join the
Formidable, commanded by Capt. W.'G. Luard.
Her Majesty's steam sloop Rapid, 11 guns, in
basin at Woolwich under fitment for North A me-
rica, got her masts on an end and was radially
rigged yesterday afternoon. A demand was made
for her warrant officers.

The steam store ships Rhadamanthus and Dee ar-
rived at Woolwich yesterday from Portsmouth, con-
veying victualling stores for Deptford, and the
launch, pinnace, and other boats for the Defence.
The Rhadamanthus entered the fitting basin to
land her stores last night.

The Lyra, 7, screw, Commander Alexander, ar-
rived at Spithead on Monday morning from the
Cape of Good Hope, last from Purtlan d Roads,where
she put in for shelter from the prevailing north-east
gales on Wednesday evening, as already reported in
The Sun. She is ordered to the eastward to be paid
off, but will be unable to proceed until the present
breezes have greatly moderated.
The Pandora, 6, screw, in the first-class reserve at
Portsmouth, has been brought down the harbour
and berthed alongside the dockyard, to complete her
armament, &c., for sea. She is ordered to proceed
round to Liverpool, and will be stationed in the
Mersey for the protection of the port.
The Devastation, 6, paddle, Commander M'Crea,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning on her way
to the Pacific. The order for her further shipment
of Armstrung guns at Spithead is cancelled.
The Chanticleer 17, screw, Commander Ce Stirling,
remains on special duty, anchored off Osborne.

' vessels are generally at anchor, and where the mor-
ter vessels built during the Russian war now lie
moored. Considerable difficulties have been expe-
rienced in preparing the foundations for the works
on Bishop's-marsh, but the works in connexion with
this battery will be finished and fully armed withi❑
two years. Up to the present time very little
has been done towards the erection of the fort on
Folly-point, but now that the most difficult portion
of the operations have been accomplished, no time
will be lost in proceeding with the Folly-point
battery.

The wooden model of Capt. C. Coles's cupola, de-
signed to prove the feasibility of working two guns
within the interior of one cupola of a certain area,
is being fixed by shipwrights e,n the deck of the
Hazard, old sailing sleep, in the steam basin of
Portsmouth dockyard.
The steam transport Mauritius, having shipped
her stores and passengers from Woolwich for Ame-
rica, as det.:iled in The Sun, went down the river
by last night's tide for Greenhithe to adjust
compasses for sea. A gang of seamen riggers
were ordered to go down from the dockyard this
morning to assist in swinging the vessel so as to
hasten her departure. Col, Low and Major Mayne,
of the 4th Light Dragoons, will embark at Green-
hithe, and proceed in the Mauritius, having been
appointed to organise the Canadian Militia. Capt.
Shakerley, R.A., will also go on board at Green-
hithe, to join his battery,ordered to embark at Cork.
In shipping the war stores care was take❑ to place
the battery of Armstrong guns uppermost, so as to
be available should any event occur during the voy-
age out to require their being called into action.
Messrs. Clement Royds, Pierce G. Evans, and H.
Bingham Wynyard have been nominated to naval
cadetships.

The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
last evening :

Master—John Phillips, to the Vigilant, vice Mongan
Samuel Braddon, to the Phohe, vice Veitch.
Engineer—F. Brockton, to the Vigilant.

Assistant-Engineers—C. Jackson, acting first class, IV.
Hammond, second class, and J. Jenkins, acting second
class, to the Vigilant.

Naval Cadets nominated—Clement Royds Pierce, Ger.
vais Evans, and Henry Bingham C. Wynyard.

THE ARM Y

One hundred and twenty non-commissioned offi-
cers and men of the Chatham division of Royal
Marines, detached for duty at Deptford dock and
victualling yards, were yesterday ordered to return
to the headquarters of their division to replace the
detachment despatched to Mexico.
A detachment of Royal Engineers, non.commis-
sioned officers and privates, are under orders to
embark on Saturday on board the screw steamer
Victoria for Canada, where they will be employed
in laying out 400 miles of telegraph for military
purposes.

The London Rifle Brigade has forwarded toMajor-
General Eyre, commanding the Chatham district, a
donation of £lO for distribution among the troops
of that garrison.

The new temporary- tiller for the Warrior iron
frigate at Portsmouth was got aboard on Monday
from the smiths' shop. It weighs 2 tons 5 cwt. The
stated time for the completion of the Warrior's work
at present has received a further extension, the end
of the year being now named as the time. The
clang and preparation for war are increasing daily
in the dockyard, hut the lion's share of the work is,
to all appearance, taken by the Warrior and Black
Prince, on which a couple of hundred men make
but little perceptible progress. It will be an excel-
lent thing for the other work in the yard when both
ships are got fairly away to sea.
The gunboats in the first-class reserve at Ports-
mouth are ordered away to the following stations,
for the protection of the coasts and harbours, in the
event of war with America :—The Highlander, to
Kingstown ; Escort, Blazer, and Rose, to the coast
of Ireland ; and the Amelia and Raven to Greenock.
They will be commanded by lieutenants from her
Majesty's ships Victory, Asia, St. Vincent, and Ex-
cellent, and manned by crews told off from the same
ships—all of whom have been named for service in
the boats for some time past under the " gunboat
flotilla" regulations. The second-class gunboats at
Portsmouth have been taken in hand to be brought
forward as first-class reserve at the port.
Operations for completing the chain of fortifica-
tions and batteries now being constructed on either
side of the entrance to the Medway, near its con-
fluence with the Thames, for the better protection
of the two important naval establishments at Chat-
ham and Sheerness, still continue to be carried on
with the utmost vigour. Notwithstanding the nu-
merous difficulties experienced in the progress of
the undertaking, in consequence of the treacherous
and shifting nature of the soil on which the princi-
pal fortifications are to be erected, these have now
been entirely surmounted, and the piles on which
the substructure will be raised have been securely
driven to the required depth. The greatest pro-
gress has, however, been made with the massive
semi-circular battery at Garrison-point, the founda-
tion of which is now almost entirely completed.
This battery is, perhaps, the most important of the
entire series intended to be erected between the
Nore and Chatham, as no ship attempting to enter
the Medway will be able to escape its range of
fire. As the heavy granite walls which will pro-
tect this battery are now about to be erected the
whole may fairly be expected to be completed
during the ensuing year. According to the pre-
sent plan this formidable tower—for such it really
will be—will mount a powerful armament of 65
guns; chiefly Armstrongs, of the very heaviest
calibre, ranging between the 40-pounders, 70-
pounders, 100-pounders, and even 200-pounders, if
those of the latter description are finished for use
by the time the fort is completed. Nearly opposite
Garrison-point but rather higher up the river, on
the opposite shore, two other equally formidable
batteries are beginning to rise on the Isle of Grain.
These batteries, the erection of which is being
pushed for ward with the greatest energy, will
mount as formidable an armament as those on
the opposite side of the river. The batteries now
building, in conjunction with those already exist-
ing, will securely guard the entire approach to the
Medway, which will be protected by the two bat-
teries on the Isle of Grain, on the north ; the bastions
and batteries now existing at Sheerness, on the
south; and the almost impregnable fort at Garrison
Point. Should, however, a hostile ship succeed in
accomplishing the almost impossible feat of passing
the guns of the batteries named, it would still have
to encounter after rounding the headland of Darnet-
ness the batteries of Folly-point, and Bishop's-
marsh, a short distance below Chatham dockyard,
the guns of which will be so mounted as by their
fire to rake the ship fore and aft. The selection of
the headland at Bishop's-marsh for a battery is most
judicious, the position effectually protecting the
entrance to Yantlett-creek, in which a squadron of

The detachment of non-commissioned officers and
men of the Army Hospital Corps who have been
placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness
for embarkation for Canada have been medically in-
spected, and it is expected will leave Chatham about
Friday next.

RO7/AL ARTILLERY FOR CANADA.—Major J, C.
Child's 7th battery of the 10th Brigade Royal Ar-

tillery, with Second Captain Brown, Lieutenants
Harman, King, F. Galloway, and C. J. M. Pro-
thers, are under orders to leave the garrison on
Friday next, and proceed by raihvay to Liver-
pool, for embarkation on board the steamship
Canada, for Halifax. The H battery of the 4th
Brigade is under orders to embark at the Royal
Arsenal-pier for Canada during the present week.
'I he battery comprises the following officers viz.:—
Captain H. A. Smith, Second Captain W. J. Hall,
Lieutenants E.. H. Wickham, A. H. Maclean, and
E. Clayton.

A WINTER CAIIPAIGN IN THE CON-

FEDERATE ~TA2ES.

A Southern journal, the Richmond Enquirer, of
the 2d inst., has the following timely remarks on
the prospects of a winter campaign in the Confede-
rate States:—

One of the greatest of popular delusions is that
of supposing winter campaigning at the South to
be a feasible thing. The North have had to aban-
don many fallacious notions and to sustain many
chastening disappointments since the beginning of
the war ; but this idea of making long marches
through the South in midwinter is one which they
still cling to with great fondness, and which is des-
tined to lead them into much grief. it has been
said that "going into winter quarters" is an obso-
lete and exploded idea in Europe, and perhaps it is
so in these modern times, when the roads over that
whole continent have come to excel the best streets
of American cities in fineness and excellence. Per-
haps it is so in densely populated Europe, where
every Equare mile of territory has provisions for a
regiment, and where a thorough system of agricul-
ture can supply a moderate army with provisions at
every step of its progress. The necessity of" going
into winter quarters" has ceased in Europe only be-
cause their roads have been brought to perfection,
their population has become denser, and their agri-
culture has rendered every acre of surface prolific
of human and animal food. But very different is
the case on this continent.

A winter campaign in the North would be far
more practicable than at the South ; compared with
those of Europe, their roads are indifferent ; but
the continual frost of winter renders them as firm
es a pavement. The winter, too, is more intensely
cold than at the South ; but the low temperature is
continuous, and there is the constant dryness of
atmosphere, which freezing weather produces; con-
tinuous ice and frost are far more propitious to
army health and transportation than alternate rains,
snows, thaws, and freezes, &c. Invasion of the
North in R inter, therefore, would be comparatively
a feasible performance, rendered more so by the
mere dense population and the more general distri-
bution of food and supplies over the whole surface
of territory. In all these respects the case of the
South is different.

The Northerners are destined to encounter much
more in a Southern winter campaign than they
dream of in their philosophy. The agricultural in
dustry of our section is employed in the production
of food to but a partial extent. Our great staples
of cotton and tobacco employ two-thirds of our
labour. Few planters are in the habit of raising more
than their own consumption of food, except in the
districts unadapted to cotton and tobacco. Take th•
South as a whole, leaving Kentucky and Missouri,
and it does not more than produce its own food.
To invade the South is not, therefore, to invade a
country dotted all over with magazines of provi-
sions. The invading army must bring along and
carry with its entire supplies both of rations and
forage. What the difficulty of doing this in a coun-
try where the weather is always soft, and almost
constant rains keep the roads in a state more fit for
navigation than travel, was experienced by the
English during the Crimean war, when, at a dis-
tance of only 30 miles from abundantly stored ma•
gazines on the Black Sea, their army was starving.
The invasion of the South must be made, if at all,
by land, over the deep limestone mud in Western
Virginia and Kentucky, or the bottomless loams of
the Mississippi Valley. In no part of those regions
of country are the roods passable in rainy weather
after the waggons and artillery of a single brigade
have gone over them. The town and city residents
of the North, who speak so flippantly of invading
the Southern States, have little idea of the
obstacles which bad country roads interpose
against the movements of an army. In no part
of the South, except where Southern treachery
has let them in, have the enemy succeeded in pene-
trating 25 miles into our borders with their
armies during eight months of the driest weather
and best roads of the year. We think it hardly
probable that they will do much better during the
season of rains and mud, when the highways are
absolutely impassable. But the deep, boggy roads
are not the only obstacles to oppose an invader.
The climate of the South during winter is greatly
more unfavourable to the health of green troops
than even during the fever months of summer, The

peculiarity of Southern winters is their sudden, ex-
treme, and frequent changes of temperature—their
almost constant dampness, and their great quan-
tities of rain, which are the very conditions that
tell most hurtfully upon the health of troops.
Used to the dry, bracing weather of the Northern
winters, and the tight rooms and hot stoves of their
Northern homes, the Yankee soldiers will find our
Southern climate more severe and trying than they
could he induced to believe before actual trial. It
is a source of felicitation with the South that their
foe has taken it into his head to conduct a winter
campaign against her. We venture to predict that,
if persisted in, it will prove one of the most disas-
trous campaigns to the invader that can be found
on record.

The invasion of the South overland, we make
bold to say, is a thing impossible. The only chance
of the enemy to injure or annoy us before spring
will be by corning down the Mississippi in boats,
and by keeping up a system of naval assaults upon
weak points along the seaboard. We have little
fear of their getting down the river; and their
naval squads can accomplish little else than now
and then a piece of successful thieving. As to a
second battle at Manassas, it is scarcely practicable
for the enemy to get his army that far forward un
opposed. They would be whipped without firing a
gun if required to stand still and wait for supplies,
It is given out that M'Clellan intends ro conduct
the war chiefly with artillery. If his strength be-
fore Manassas consists mainly in that arm, there is
no possibility of a fight, for besides the difficulty of
getting a multitude of cannon over 20 miles of deep
mud, the ground is too soft to admit of using them
in battle. Although it has often been attempted, the
South has never been successfully invadad at any
season, and it is not to be supposed that the impos-
sible feat will be performed now in the very worst
season that could be chosen for the purpose. The
enemy might, with much better chance of success,
brave the fevers which protect us in summer than
the impassable roads and pluro-pneumonia which
protect us more effectually in winter.

COLONEL FULLER ON AMERICAN

AFFAIRS.

On Thursday evening Colonel Fuller, a gentleman
well known as a journalist in America, delivered a
lecture on the present state of affairs on the Western
Continent. The large room at St. James's Hall was
taken for this purpose, but the attendance was very
small in proportion to the ample space at command.
There were, however, several persons of high sta-
tion and influence present, and the audience may be
said to have made up in " quality" for what it cer-
tainly lacked in quantity. Mr. Yancy, one of the
Southern Commissioners, was among Colonel Ful-
ler's hearers. The chair was taken by 1)r. Charles
Mackay, who entreated a patient hearing for Col.
Fuller, and said that, so far as he understood the
purpose of that gentleman, it was to state facts
within his own experience and observation.
Colonel Fuller introduced his remarks by saying
that the Trent affair had turned attention forcibly
to the subject of disruption between the Northern
and Southern States of America. He had watched
the progress of events on both sides of the line of
separation ; but he approached his theme literally
in fear and trembling, and felt that he must begin
with a personal explanation—nay, an apology—for
attempting to discuss so difficult and dangerous a
question. H 6 was an American citizen—a native of
the North; a native of New England; of a place
near that rock where the little band of emigrants
landed from the Mayflower in the memorable win-

ter of 1620. He had lived in friendship with Web-
ster—had stood by him when he died at Marshfield,
and had seen him laid

" In his sepulchre there by the sea."
Since the destruction of Jerusalem was foretold by
the inspired seer he did not think that words more
prophetic had ever been uttered than those which
Webster had employed in looking fory and to the
present period of disorganisation among the con-
stituent parts of the American republic. That re-
public had been accepted as a type of good govern-
ment and national stability. Paeans had been
chanted in its praise, and Longfellow, its laureate,
had thus apostrophised it
" Thou, too, sail on, 0 ship of state;
Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great
Humanity, with all its fears,
With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate."

As a journalist of long standing, he could not be ac-
cused of Southern predilections. He had belonged to
a party called in derision the " Union-savers," who
followed Webster and Clay as their guiding lights,
and looked upon Fillmore, Everett, and other lesser
orbs, with admiration. In Congress and out of Con-
gress this party had laboured to avert secession.
Colonel Fuller then proceeded to review the posi-
tion of affairs as it now appeared. There w ere
20,000,000 of people on one side and 10,000,000 on
another, the South asserting a right which the
North denied. On the point of abstr set right he had
little to say. Enough to know that the people of
the South believed in that right, and fully proved
their faith by their works. (Cheers and hisses.) A
plain statement of a fact ought not to give offence.
It was his purpose to give a candid record of past
events. The causes of disruption he considered to
lie deep, and to extend far back into the past. In
the first place the American system was an anomaly.
It was inconsistent with its principles, an absurdity

in terms, and a contradiction in fact. In a coerced
Union the very spirit of all union departed and was
lost. He looked back for the cause of the present
conflict to the deed of the 41 pilgrims in the cabin
of the Mayflower. Those men had thought to ar-
range all matters of future government after their
own narrow ideal. While the North, however, had
been settled by Puritans, the South had been
planted by Cavaliers; and in this radical fact were
the seeds of perpetual antagonism. The Puritans
were they who had slaughtered Indians, hanged
Quakers, burnt Baptists, burnt witches, got rich in
the slave trade, and then turned abolitionists.
(Laughter, and sounds of disapprobation.) He did
not wish to impeach his ancestors. The Pilgrim
Fathers had among them men of heroic nature; but
there was an original and radical difference between
them and the people who colonised the South. This
difference was one partly of climate. The wines of
different countries did not vary more than their in-
habitants. Look at Franco and England, only
separated by a narrow channel of salt water. On
one side was a nation, sparkling, piquant, volatile;
on the other a people steady, sturdy, substantial.
As there were temperate, tropical, and frigid zones
of the earth, so were there corresponding distinc-
tions of the human race. Even had the origin of
American citizens been the same, 200 years of
diverse occupation and ways of life would have
placed a bar between them. The North worked hard
to gain wealth; the South led a dolcefar nientc
existence, eating their bread in the sweat, not of
their own brows, but the brows of/their negroes.
The policy of the opposing sections was as distinct
as theircustoms. The North was for protection to
manufactural interests ; the South leant to free
trade. (Interruption, and cries of Free Trade in
Negroes.) The South demanded free trade for their
agricultural produce. (Renewed disturbance, in the
midst of which the chairman rose and said that no
discussion had been invited ; and that it was not a
practice among Englishmen to get up a warm con-
troversy in the presence of ladies.) It was true that
the democratic party had just one plank of free trade
in their political platform, which saved it from going
to pieces. The severance of the American Union was
attributable in one word, to absolutism; Abso-
lutism had caused the war, and secession preci-
pitated it. It was not the principle of abolition
that the Lincoln administration advocated. They
opposed the acquisition of fresh states—why ?
Simply because there would be more votes against '
tariff laws, navigation laws, and various other laws
enacted solely for the benefit of the North. As to
the freedom of negroes, that was not much thought
about. The true social abolitionists were insigni:
ficant in number. South Carolina, a state which,
from geographical position, had little to fear for her
negroes, had been first to secede, because she wanted
the silks of France, and the
paygoods
cotton. Were the North to purchase every slave
at the highest market price, there would still be the