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SIR JAMES FERCII7SSON AND THE
SOUTHERN STATES.

It may be remembered that the New York
Herald some time ago stated that Sir James Fer-
gusson, the member for Ayrshire, had acted the
part of a spy, and had conveyed messages from this
country to Jeff. Davis, the President of the Confe-
derate States, Sir James, who has just returned
home after a tour through Canada and the States,
thus rebuts the accusation :

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"Ayr, Nov. 12, 18el.
"Sir,—Since my return from America my atten-
tionavng has been called to the fact that a paragraph
from
i a New
carried York
despatches
e newspaper,spate h e
o rin
chargingtel
g me with
ence to or
h from the Government of the Southern Confederacy,
has been noticed by the journals in this country.
It even seems to have been imagined that I had
committed some acts which, in the present excited
state of public feeling in the Northern States, might
have subjected me to detention or annoyance. Had
I not the honour to hold an office in connection
with this county, which entitles the public within
it to an interest in my good name, I should not
have thought it necessary to notice publicly such
idle tales, nor shall Ido so elsewhere. But al-
though I feel confident that to all who know me
here no contradiction is requisite, lest any may
think it due I beg to state explicitly that, in the
whole course of my interesting andinstruotive tour,
I meddled in no way in the affairs of the Northern
and Southern States. Travelling solely with a
view to inform myself upon the momentous ques-
tion at issue, I committed no act which did not be-
become a foreigner and a private individual. I
complied with every regulation, however excep-
tional, and did not attempt to cross the frontier
into the Southern States till 1 had called upon the
Federal general in command of the department, and
obtained his free and willing sanction to my doing
so. It is not my fault that. a New York journalist
was incapable of understanding that a gentleman
could enjoy the confidence of the commanders on.
both sides without abusing that of either. I would,
however, add that the libel of the New York Herald
was the only exception to the uniform and remark-
able courtesy which I had the pleasure of receiving
from every person, of whatever rank, with whom I
came in contact, whether in the ' United' or ' Con-
federate' States.—l am, &c.,

" JAMES FERGUSSON."

THE GALES.

The returns received at Lloyd's show that the
gale on Wednesday evening told with serious
effect on various points of the coaet.l
An intimation has been received to the effect
that another storm may be expected to sweep the
northern part of the United Kingdom about Tues-
day nest, and the usual notice has been forwarded
to the harbour authorities in order that shipmasters
and fishermen may be warned.

A correspondent from Shields, on Thursday
afternoon, says :—The sea is rapidly rising on the
coast, and from the manner that small craft are
making for the harbour, bad weather is being ex-
perienced out at sea. The Britannia steamship and
about half a dozen small vesselihave.reached this
port. Yesterday forenoon about half a dozen small
collier vessels sailed hence for London—others of a
similar tonnage were ready, but it is stated that
their masters, from the appearance of the weather,
refused to go out to sea. There is a large fleet of
colliers lying in the Tyne ready for sea. The col-
lier vessels that left the Tyne the night before the
gale of this month, and have not since been heard
of,: were the Friend's Good-will, of North Shields
(not Whitby, as before reported); the William and
Thomas, of South Shields ; the Stella' of North
Shields ; the Perseverance, of Scarborough, and
the Emma, of Staiths. Not very far short of 40
hands of all sorts woald form the crews of those
vessels, and there is too much reason to fear that
every soul of them has perished. At any rate the
least thread of hope is becoming more and more
attenuated every day, and if no news come of the
poor fellows by the end of the week they will have
to be given up. And at eight o'clock he writes—
Since I sent of my despatch the storm has become
worse, and the sea has increased in violence. It
has been a fearful afternoon. At our harbour's
mouth, the Phoenix, of Aberdeen, with coals
from Hartlepool ; the Albion, of Aberystwith,
with wheat from Stettin; and a Dutch ves-
sel, the Anna Catharine, have been driven
ashore. The Tyne pilots, with lifeboats, at
great risk saved the crews of the two former
vessels, and the coastguard the crew of the
latter with rockets. All were saved except the
mate of the Phoenix and the mate of the Anna
Catharine, the two latter poor fellows being
drowned. The storm is as violent as ever. It is
likely to be an awful night at sea.
A correspondent from Hartlepool (Thursday)
says :—A strong gale from N.E. prevails. The
vessels Forsythe and Concord, of South Shields,
ashore. The crews safe. A schooner, name un-
known, down, gone and all hands lost, in sight of
the harbour. The billyboy Willan, of Hull, ashore
at Seaton Carew; crew saved by the lifeboat. Other
vessels are making for the harbour. The Euxine
brig, of Hartlepool, is on her beam ends, and the
crew is supposed to be drowned.
A Sunderland correspondent says about noon on
Thursday a brig was seen making for the harbour,
and she got up safely to within a short distance of
the entrance when a heavy sea struck the rudder.
The captain, who was steering, was pulled aside,
and struck with great violence by the tiller, which
hurled him against the vessel's bulwarks. Being
thus deprived of her steersman, the vessel was at
the mercy of the wind and sea, which immediately
swept her past the piers and drove her on shore a
little to the south of the entrance. She proved to
be the Messenger, John Snarp, master, of Sunder-
land, from Hamburgh, in ballast. A rocket was
fired by the Commissioners men, who were in
attendance with tho apparatus, but the line fouled
and broke. The crew then threw overboard their
life-buoy, with a line attached, and the buoy being
washed ashore a cable was made fast in the usual
way, and the men drawn safely to the shore. The
first man saved was the captain,
who was found to
be very much injured. His legs were broken, and
his head and body very much bruised. He was
conveyed to his ewn home. The vessel had her
hull and sails damaged, and was very much strained.

REJECTION 0.? CHURCH-RATE AT

717.171310ED1L127L

The proceedings at the Wymondham Vestry
meeting on the Bth inst., when a Church-rate was
rejected by an overwhelming majority, reflect
credit on both parties :—on the voluntary party for
mustering in such strength and displaying so much
union and determination, and on the vicar and
churchwardens for the conciliatoryaminn
and
epedactehabeslee
spirit which they evinced. We co
proceedings to the imitation of other parishes, far
and near, Let Dissenters be everywhere as prompt
and as outspoken, and Churchmen everywhere as
unwilling to keep up discord, and Church-rates
will be speedily abolished, to the great relief and
satfeacytioicnarofoafllmp,
yartnntioesaham will learn, as others
of his clericil brethern have learned, that it is not
to the interest of the Church of England to vex
andirritate Dissenters, nor is it consistent with
the generous and free spirit of Christianity for its
ministers to assume lordship, and ride roughshod
over other communions. Dissenters arc too strong,
and in regard to their fundamental principle of re-
ligious liberty, too much in the right to succumb to
intolerance, or to permit Churchmen to treat them
as an inferior caste. If in other towns Church-rates
IA ere as earnestly resisted as they were at WY-
mondham last week, Sir John Trelawny need not
trouble himself to bring in his Bill again—the
people would have accomplished for themselves
what Parliament has hitherto refused to do for
them.

WERE THEY PIPERS?—The Temps informs us
that " Six Scotch gentlemen who had the honour to receive
her Majesty the Empress during her trip to Scotland last
year arrived recently at the Palace of Compiegne, where
they were presented to the Emperor. They, as likewise
their servants, wore the national dress."
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