The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-06 00:00:00

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

At the Court at Windsor, 4th December, 1861, present—
the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. It is this
day ordered, by her Majesty in Council, that the Parlia-
ment which stands prorogued to Tuesday, 17th December,
be further prorogued to Tuesday, 7th January next.
At the Court at Windsor, 4th December, 1861, present—
the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. It is this
day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the Convoca-
tions'of the Provinces of Canterbury and York be prorogued,
from the day to which the same now stand prorogued, to
Wednesday, Bth January next.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 5.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John
Jack to the church and parish of Calton, in the Presbytery
of Glasgow, vacant by the death of the Rev. Allan M‘Lean.

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 5.
The Queen has been pleased to app pint Francis Hincks,
Esq. (now Governor and Commander-in- Chief in and over
the Islands of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Tobago,
and St. Lucia, and their dependencies), to be Governor and
Commander. in-Chief in and over the Colony of British
Guiana.
_ _

Her Majesty has, also, been pleased to appoint James
Walker, C. 8., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over the Islands of Barbadoes, Grenada, Saint Vincent,
Tobago, and Saint Lucia, and their dependencies.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint William
James Dunbar Moodie, Esq., to be ReAident Magistrate of
Blip Rirer District, in the colony of Natal, and Frederick
Simon Berning, Esq., to be Registrar of Deeds and Distri
butor of Stamps for the colony of Natal.

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Brevet-Colonel
William Munro, C. 8., to be a Member of the Council of
the Bermudas, or Somers Islands, in America.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Sir John
Thomas, Kt., to be a Member of the Executive Council of
the Island of Barbados,and David Cowie and Peter Caruth,
Esqrs , to be Members of the Executive Council of the
leland of Saint Vincent.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Thmas
Begg, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of
the island of Trinidad, and Andrew Munro, Wm. M'Ewen,
Henry Berkeley, and George Brooks Van Buren, Esqs.,
to be members of the Legislative Council of the island of
Grenada. _

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 6.
STAFF.

N. • J.... •
Brevet-Colonel Kennith Dou2,las Mackenzie, C. r. . ,
Lieutenant-Colonel half-pay, late 92d Foot, to be Deputy
Quartermaster-General in Canada, vice Brevet-Colonel
Napier, appointed Major-General on the Staff in North
America.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James Conolly, Major unat-
attached and Assistant-Adjutant-General in Canada, to be
Deputy •Adjutant-General in Canada.
BREVE I%
Brevet-Colonel George Thomas Conolly Napier, C. 8.,
Lieutenant Colonel unattached, to have the temporary
rank of Major-General while employed on the Staff of the
Army in North America.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Assistant-Surgeon Seth Sam,
from thA 60th Fp tt, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Henry James Rogers, placed upon half-pay.

BANKRUPTS.
The portion of the " Gazct te " containing the Bankrupts
had not arrived when we went to press.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

. _
Computed from the Returns made in the week ending
Dec. 3, 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : per cwt.
Muscovado, the produce of British America.. 23s 91d

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THrs DAY.
Amsterdam
=Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 12 1
Antwerp .... 25 521 25 60
Brussels — 25 521 25 GO
liamburgh — 13 8± 13 9
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 118 1181
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh

Berlin -
Nladrid

48
,8a

Cadiz
Leghorn — • 25 67f 25 75
Milan — 25 67f 25 72f
Genoa — 25 65 25 721
Naples
Palermo —118 f
Messina .. 1181 119
Lisbon — 52 521
Oporto —52 k
Foreign Gold in Bars (standard) .... ~ L 3 17 9
Nlexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons ..

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to t
cap. 32, for the week ending
of Dec., 1861:

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
on ,Wednesday, the 4th day

VISITE Dm
Notes issued ;......£28,938,190

XRTMIENT.

Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 14,288,19)
Sillier Bullion ....

£28,938,190

£28,938,190
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Sem-
tal £14,553,000 rities (including
Rest
Public Deposit s (in- nuity) £10,892,859
eluding Exche- Other Securities 16,224,428
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners of Na- Coin
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

851,573

c0unt5)5,206.334
Other Deposits 13,273,192
Seven Day and
other Bills

738,197

X 36,896,585
M.
Dated December 5, 1861.

£36,896,555
.RSHALL, Chief Cashier.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

•
MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Dec, 1
via Marseilles ... Dec. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec. 19.
via Marseilles Dec. 13.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Dec. 11.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 19.
via Marseilles Dec. 13.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. 11.
via Marseilles Dec. 5.
Lisbon
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 2.
via Marseilles Dec. 5.
Newfoundland .. Dec. 11.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec. 11.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Dec. 4.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Dec. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Dec. 19.
Mexico ....Dec. 30.
t All'parts of "West Indies, including Chili, Peru, Dec, 14.
California,and British Columbia..

Advices from Christiania, Norway, dated the
12th ult., mention that in the previous week the new Stor-
Hammer line of railway was partially opened for passengers
and goods traffic to Elverum. This is one of the feeders to
the trunk line, though the smaller of the two, as it is only
21 miles in length. It will not be formally opened till the
spring, as all the stations are not yet ready. The liongs-
vinger line, which is above 60 miles, may be also partially
opened, but it will not be finally completed before next
summer. Meanwhile, it is said, the trunk line is steadily
developing the resources of the districts within its influence.
The new traffic year has commenced under favourable cir-
cumstance% and the receipts show an increase on the' eight
weeks of nearly 12,000 dollars on the corresponding period
of last year.
The rate of exchange from St. Petersburg bag
fallen from 34d. to 331 d. The Government will therefore
probably find it necessary to cause some amounts of specie
to be remitted to London or Paris.
SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE Snow.—Three o'clock
yesterday afternoon being, under the regulations of the
Smithfield Club, the last hour at which agricultural imple-
ments could be received, the vicinity of the Baker-street
Bazaar, at which the show is about to Po held, presented a
scene of great bustle and animation, several of the locomo-
tive working machines which arrived, propelled by their
own steam, having attracted a vast concourse of spectators.
This year no less than 967 stands have been provided for
the exhibitors, being 100 more than last year, or on any pre-
vious occasion. The reception of the cattle and other stock
will commence this morning, and no specimen can by the
rules of the club be admitted to the show-yard after 10
o'clock to-morrow evening. The Prince Consort and the
Prince of Wales are both expected to visit the show this
year. It is started that some huge specimens of cattle from
the Florentine Exhibition will be admitted, although not as
competitors for prizes. The judges will examine the stock
and make their awards on Monday, on the evening of which
day the private view will take place. The show will open
to the public on Tuesday morning, the lOst inst., and con-
tinue open duxing that and the three following days.

MARYLEBONE AND ITS MEMBERS.

•
Lord Fermoy and Mr. Harvey Lewis, tbkaneinbet.s:
for this metropolitan borough, met their constitir-
ents last evening in Hall's Riding School, Alba+
street, Regent's Park, to give an account of their
stewardship. There was not a very large attend-
ance. Sir James Duke, M.P., presided.
The CHAIRMAN said he had felt some little hesi-
tation in acceding to the proposal that he should
take the chair, since both Lord Fermoy and Mr.
Lewis went further in their political opinions than
he did. He had always been a consistent Liberal,
but recent events reminded him and others most
strongly that Englishmen had the happiness of
living under the best of Sovereigns, and enjoying
the freest constitution in the world, besides which
they possessed the most enlightened and indepen-
dent press in the world. He wished to hold fast
these great advantages, and should be slow to sanc-
tion any interference with them. But, though his
opinions on some points might not exactly accord
with those of the two borough members, he had for
many years known his noble friend (Lord Fermoy),
of whose usefulness in the House of Commons he
spoke highly.
Lord FERMOY said an opinion had been industri-
ously circulated throughout the country by the
Tory party that the session of 1861 was a do-
nothing session. Now, though on many important
matters the short-comings of the Government had
been blameable and serious, still in matters of prac-
tical and useful legislation the past session had been
as rieh as any which could be mentioned for the last
20 years. First, the country had obtained a recog-
nition of the fact that the privilege of imposing and
continuing taxes on the people belonged to the
people's house, and that the functions of the House
of Lords consisted in registering the decisions of
the House of Commons on financial matters. (Hear,
hear.) Having in 1861 repealed the duty on paper
they had, as far as men could do, reasserted and re-
covered the rights which had been invaded in 1860.
By the consolidation and amendment of the crimi-
nal law a reform of the most useful character had
been effected. In some seven bills more than 100
statutes had been repealed or altered, and the
criminal law of the country had been placed upon
a sounder and a better footing. Then they could
point to the reform of the Bankruptcy law by which
they had practically abolished imprisonment for
debt, given to the creditors a speedy and cheap
means of obtaining possession of the debtor's pro-
perty, and abolished all distinctions between traders
and non-traders. (Hear.) Again, they had esta-
blished cheap and safe savings-banks for the people
which would enable thrifty working men to deposit
their savings securely when they were fortunate
enough to have any. The Irremovable Poor Bill
was a stop in the right:direction, reducing as it did
the term which gave the poor man a right to a
settlement from five years to three years. (Hear.)
This was not a very flashy, but it was a practical
and a useful measure. (Hear.) The Affirmation
Bill allowed in criminal cases a man to make an
affirmation if he had a conscientious objection to
take an oath, thereby furthering the ends of justice
while it also secured freedom of conscience
to witnesses. (Hear, hear.) Of the three
Indian Bills, one affected the Civil Service, and
admitted the natives of India for the first time
to employment in it ; another changed the
constitution of the Legislative Council, in which
natives were also to be admitted ; and a third re-
ferred to the judicial tribunals of India. He only
hoped that those who governed India would not
allow those measures to remain dead letters, but would
give due effect to them by allowing meritorious na-
tives to share in the public employments for which
Parliament had thought them fitted. (Hear, hear.)
Then came the Act regulating the voting at Uni-
versity elections, which he had been at first inclined
to oppose, but afterwards supported, in
,the belief,
as Mr. Henley declared, that it would lead to vote
by ballot. If the University voters were allowed
to exercise their franchise at Dublin, Cambridge,
or Oxford, while sitting quietly at a desk in York-
shire or Essex, he did not see why the poor man
was not equally entitled to consideration and protec-
tion, and why he should not be allowed to record
his vote by the ballot, without the risk of incurring
odium from his Tory customer or the frowns of
some tyrannical employer. (Cheers.) After highly
commending another of the measures of 1861—
namely, the commercial treaty with France, the
noble lord proceeded to handle the reform question.
Mr. Layard had recently told his constituents that
the Government had not given them a Reform Bill
because the people did not appear to want one, and
he said if they wanted reform why didn't they ask
for it ? But it did not lie in the mouths of the pre-
sent Government, who were put in office specially
to carry reform, now to turn round to say, "We
really don't know whether the people want reform
at all." (Hear, hear.) Mr. Layard would not have
made this statement without authority, but it was
an extraordinary argument to be used by the mem-
bers of any Government. They said in effect," We
believe reform to be necessary"—and this they
must believe, because they had expressed this
opinion in the Queen's speeches—" but we won't
give it to you, though we believe you ought
to have it, unless you kick up a row about
it." Why, it was like holding a sugar plum before
a child and saying, " My dear, you shan't have this
unless you cry for it." (Cheers and laughter.) He
had always thought that the statesmanlike maxim
was to make political changes when men's minds
were tranquil, and -when therefore there was a
greater chance of arriving at just conclusions. But
the new maxim seemed to be not to amend the re-
presentation unless there was general excitement
throughout the country, unless there were tumul-
tuoos meetings, and every constituency rose to
carry a measure which had over and over again been
promised from the throne. (Hear, hear.) Search
history through, and no doctrine could be found so
subversive of good order and good government as
the doctrine thus enunciated before his constituents
by a member of the present Government. (Hear.)
But as the Government had thrown down the
gauge, he advised the people to show the want of
truth in the Tory assertion that they had changed
their minds, and no longer wanted Reform. He
advised all great constituencies like that of Mary-
lebone, which had in their population hundreds and
thousands of non-electors well qualified to exercise
the franchise, to take the Government at their word,
and between this and the next session of Parliament
to hold public meetings and agitate this question.
When the Government abandoned the cause of
Reform in the House of Commons a sort of Bull's
Run was seen ; first the officers deserted, and then
the men. (Laughter.) The motions of Mr. Baines
and Mr. Locke Bing were rejected, along with Sir
7. Trelawny's Church-rate Abolition Bill. There
Was a retrograde movement among the Liberal
party, for when their leaders ran away the Liberal
rank and file had not the pluck to fight. One sub-
ject of considerable importance had been mooted
Hthe recess he
e believed that meant the Education Minute.
teachers were not e vested interests of the
Ben: cien.tly regarded in
that Minute. It
the Ministers who drew It right, however, that
up:honld have the
opportunity of explaining their vi
Lie comfortablerunon the sub-
ject in Parliament 0
NI
ample
that the Minute could not take effect uefineetilti March,
".
was
and before that time there would
oppor-
tunities of obtaining an explanation froma
Lowe, and of pressing upon him any amendmelnts.
which were deemed necessary. (Hear, hear.) The
noble lord then alluded to the Thames embankment,
which he thought a work of sufficient national im-
portance to justify an application to defray some
portion of the cost from the national Exchequer,
He went on to say that there was one subject which
pressed just now on everybody's mind—our rela-
tions with America. Now, he had always taken a
deep interest in the well-being and success of the
democratic institutions of America. His sympathies
had always been enlisted on behalf of the attempt
to govern a great country with as little pressure as
possible upon the masses. And therefore, when he
now unfortunately felt called upon to use strong
language he did so most unwillingly. If, however,
we were to believe what we saw and heard, the
Northern States of America appeared to have lost
of late any little sense which might have been left
them.
(bear, hear, and a laugh.) Their attempt

to assail the, right of asylum, which England had
always preserved iniaCt, was a gross outrage upon
the iaw. of nations. (" No !" and great cheering.)
iiie was no jurist, but reason and common sense told
him that the deck of every Queen's ship was as
much an asylum for the oppressed as any broad
1 acre in this kingdom. (Loud cheers, and a voice
—" The Trent was not a Queen's ship.") If it
was not a Queen's ship, what was it? It had a
Queen's officer in charge of the mails. Every offi-
cer wore the British uniform, and the glorious
meteor flag, which never waved save over the dis-
enthralled and the free, Ni as flying at the masthead.
The Trent was a Queen's ship. (Cheers.) If the
American Ministry had been mad enough to direct
and were mad enough to persist in this aggression,
he could not but believe that the Congress now
meeting would hurl them from power and would
not drive this country to extremity. On the other
hand, if redress were refused, we were prepared.
Let no one say that the honour of the English flag
was not dear to the heart of every Englishman.
(Cheers.) We might hope that our erring cousins
would consider their position, but if they refused
redress, and drove us to take vengeance upon them,
and sweep their navy from the sea, let the respon-
sibility be upon the aggressor, and not upon us.
(Cheers, and partial interruption.) Englishmen,
and Irishmen, too—(cheers)—would stand by their
country. She had a history of which few nations
could boast ; a constitution which, though it might
be improved, was one of which every Briton must
be proud ; a national honour which they had main-
tained through long and arduous struggles, and
which they would never allow to be sullied. (Cheers.)
Whatever might be Lord Palmerston's short com-
ings upon reform, every one must be glad that we
had at the head of affairs in the present crisis a man
who, for 50 years, had maintained the honour of
this country unimpaired ; who was not only a
thorough Englishman in heart and feeling, but had
the temper, forbearance, and coolness of a long-
tried statesman ; and who, if any man could do so,
would bring England out of the present entangle-
ment without plunging us into war. (Cheers.) If,
however, every effort failed to preserve peace, and
we were driven to the dire alternative of war, he
was sure that Lord Palmerston would carry the flag
of England throughout that war with greater
honour and safety than any statesman of the present
day. (Cheers.)
Mr. HARVEY LEWIS, in the course of his address,
regretted that the proposal to give an additional
member to Chelsea and Kensington had failed of
effect, and attributed this failure to the lukewarm-
ness of the Government in submitting the measure.
Passing over some of the questions touched by his
noble colleague, the hon. gentleman strongly
advocated the abolition of church rates, the
ballot, and an additional measure of reform,
Allusion had been made to Mr. Layard, but that
gentleman, in his opinion, had given extremely
good advice. Reform would be carried in the end
outside the walls of Parliament, and it was there
that the question should now be agitated and de-
bated. In a recent speech Lord Stanley said that
reform could never die, adding that it was a fallacy
to suppose that there was any Tory reaction. The
hon. gentleman emphatically reiterated this opi-
nion, and quoted from a pamphlet written by Sir
Eardley Wilmot, in 1858, enforcing the creation of
a 'new metropolitan constituency in Chelsea and
Kensington, with two members, and declaring the
necessity of an extended reform of the representa-
tion. Eulogising the Volunteer force, which he be-
lieved had done much to preserve the peace of Eng-
land and of the world, he said he was anxious that
this force should be independent of the Government;
but it might be a question whether the country
should not provide rifle ranges, which at present
pressed heavily upon the resources of the Volun-
teers. On the question of financial reform and
economy, he advised the constituencies to regard
brilliant speeches less than votes. But he would
never give a vote which would have the effect of
impairing the strength, the might, and the majesty
of England. (Cheers.) They owed this duty not
only to themselves but to those who had borne the
name of Englishmen into every part of the world.
If they permitted that sacred name and character
to be violated, adieu to the honour and glory of
England! His views were, he believed, in entire
accordance with those of Marylebone; but even
were they not, he would rather abandon the charge
of representing Marylebone than compromise the
honour of England. On the American question
he expressed his deep and :heartfelt indignation at
the insult offered to the English flag. (Cheers.)
There could hardly be a man in this country who,
looking at the facts, could come to any other con-
clusion than that it was a wanton, unprovoked
outrage upon our flag and upon the sacred
right of asylum which England had always
afforded, and which he believed she would always
continue to afford. (Cheers.) The English Go-
vernment had carried out in good faith with regard
to America the principle of non-intervention. At
first the greatest sympathy was felt in this country
for the Federal States, because it was thought that
they were going to war for a principle—the extinc-
tion of slavery ; but that notion was soon found to be
a mockery and a delusion. So far from wishing to
extinguish slavery, the North were willing to rivet
the chains of the slave more firmly than ever, for
they offered to give the South every material gua-
rantee which could be desired for the preservation of
slave property. (Hear, hear.) What, too, was the
condition of the negroes in the Northern States ?
They were not admitted to the rights of freemen.
They were not allowed to mix with the whites. In
even the prisons they were kept apart and had the
most loathsome cells ; in the hospitals they must not
occupy the same wards ; in the churches they must
not worship in the same pews with the whites. Did
such a people deserve our sympathy on the ground
of their regard for the slave ? No ; and if the South
had come forward, and nobly freed their bondmen,
they would have commanded British sympathy every-
where. (Hear, hear.) There had never been nobler
conduct by one nation towards another than by the
British Government and people towards America
since this contest began. Our interests lay on the side
of the South and not of the North. Before a month
elapsed from this time many a hardworking English-
man who sought for bread would find only a stone,
just because the North had, according to their own
version, illegally closed the Southern ports by a paper
blockade, thus sealing up a great commercial outlet
by which many of our starving fellow-countrymen
would otherwise have been fed. (Hear.) Neverthe-
less, the British Government preserved an honourable
neutrality, whereas from the first moment of the war
the Federal States had treated us with the most
marked insult and indignity. (Cheers.) A war with
England was openly advocated as a means of extri-
cating the North from their difficulties and a raid upon
the peaceable inhabitants of Canada was recom-
mended. Was this the conduct of a friendly people ?
While the Emperor of the French had been lauded
and bedaubed with flattery for pursuing exactly the
same course with ourselves, every species of insult
had been heaped upon Great Britain. (Hear, hear.)
Hitherto a noble consciousness of strength on her
part had enabled her to resist every provocati,,on,
and he still trusted that peace would not be dis-
turbed. But the Federals had in the mrest brutal
manner stopped a peaceable merchant..vessel, carry-
ing the letters of all nations, tradie,g, from one neu-
tral port to another,and sailing at the time in neutral
Spanish waters. It could
posed that a nation professedlyittardly have been sup-
so outraged the law
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people, amid while civilized would have
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that "peace at any price" wasP '
was
sure
nation. (Cheers.) The Federal
content with heaping indignities
not the desire of the
newspapers, not
upon us, trustea
much to party divisions is this country a. -
of preventing any war; but to sho"- • - 4 means
not reckon on this, he wo-, - - -f- that they need
~aid quote the words of
Mr. Disraeli. "It is very true,"
said the right
hon. gentlemki, "that there may have been
mo-
ments when, the spirit of party has allowed both
parties in the statB to do thing; which they ray

have regretted. But this I will say for both par-
ties in the State, especially when the honour of the
nation is concerned, that then there is no longer
party spirit and personal competition; and that
leading men on all sides, whoever may be the ser-
vants of Crown, are animated by one feeling and
one object—namely, to maintain the greatness and
the glory of their common country." (Cheers.)
Re agreed with his noble colleague that
England was singularly fortunate in having just
now at the helm of affairs one of the most ex-
perienced statesmen who ever guided our desti-
nies—one who had passed the greater part of his
life in communicating with foreign Governments—
who therefore well knew the feelings of those Go-
vernments, and who, moreover, was trusted by the
people of England. (Cheers.) Lord Palmerston had
as Foreign Secretary a nobleman who, if he had not
quite acted up to his old Liberal professions, had
yet made for himself a place in the hearts and affec-
tions of the English people. In the difficult times
which might be in store for us, Englishmen might
feel certain that with Palmerston and Russell in
the Government nothing would be done which did
not comport with the dignity and honour of the
country. (Cheers.)
Mr. WYLD, M.P., in moving a vote of confidence
in the two members for Marylebone, expressed his
regret that the men of the North—the countrymen
of Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington, were pur-
suing in this country perhaps the most extensive
system of espionage which the world had ever seen.
Northern spies were infesting our public meetings,
and he was told the agents of the Northern Go-
vernment had not been unmindful that the electors
of Marylebone were holding a great meeting that
night. Might not this account for some of the in-
terruptions which had been experienced ?
The motion was seconded by Mr. P. GRAHAM,
and was unanimously carried.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
proceedings, which were more than usually pro-
tracted.