The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1861.

EA TP-5t.310 'I AL, HAYMARKET.
Lowe, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the Ballet, BACCBVS AND ARIADNE.
Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclerocis, Mr. Webster, tfrc.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND
MY LADY ; or, It Might have n Mbere Worse. Mt. C. Mathews,
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, s.s Mathews, Mrs.
Wilkins, &c.
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
Mathews.
To conclude with TITRICING THE TABLES.
Commence a 7.

EW • THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
-11 Sole Proprietor and Mainzer, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE HOP PICKERS. Supported by
Messrs. D. Fisher, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Miss
woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, arc.

After which, ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. Benj.
Webster and Miss H. Simms.

Followed by THE MIDNIGHT SPECTRE. Messrs. J.
L. Toole and Paul Bedford.
To cone'ude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole
and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.

THIS EVENING, and during the week, the new and suc-
cessful comedy, WOMAN ; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray„
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with, each evening, a new and original farce
entitled THE FETCHES; or, The Onconvanience of Single
Lite. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer; Mary O'Brady,
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

CAN rERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO
IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh-
mans. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor-
dinary comic duet, " The. Nerves," by Harvey and French,
Mr. Marshal in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina
Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every
Evening.
Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND
FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL, the
Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance
since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of
September. Admission--Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls.

H E

O X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
Open Every Evening.. Selections from "La Traviatg,"
" Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., by Mis% Russell, Messrs. C.
Greville, fforley, Tivoli, and H. Herbert, with full band and
chorus. Other vocal and instrumental music of the highest
order, and varied attractive entertainments. The Comic
portion by Messrs. M. P. Foster (in his " Life Sketches"),
Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall,
and W. Randall. Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one
shilling. Private Boxes, 105. 6d. A grand selection from
Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boccanegra," produced on the
most complete scale, with additional principals, and aug-
mented band and chorus, will be presented (tor the first time
in England) on MONDAY next, arranged and conducted by
Mr. Jonghmans.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1861.

Another Proclamation from President LINCOLN !
It is called an important one. Let us see how
far this may really be the case. How far this
last proelamation issued by the American Presi-
dent may be regarded as important, or, in other
words, as formidable by those who set his autho-
rity altogether at defiance—that is to say, by the
leaders of the Confederated States of the South.
The proclamation is dated from the city of Wash-
ington, the 16th day of August, in the year of
our Lord, 1861, and, as the document adds with
a flourish, " of the Independence of the United
States the eighty. sixth." It is duly signed as a
matter of course, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and is
countersigned, Wm. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
It sets forth with the ordinary kind of preamble—
is measured out according to rule in so many
paragraphs—No. 1. beginning " Whereas ;" No. 2.
" And whereas ;" No. 3. "Now, therefore, I, ABRA-
PIAM LINCOLN, &C. ;" N 0.4. (and last) "And I hereby
en join"—the whole document being drawn to a close
with, "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand aad caused the seal of—(What ?)—the United
States to be affixed." And now in a word or two,
what is it all about?

Well, then, in the first instance, as may be de-
duced from what has already been said in
reference to it, the proclamation is addressed
quite as much to the North as to the South—that
is the tone of authority it maintains throughout
it. President LINCOLN talking as authoritatively
in every word to the citizens of Alabama, Louisiana,
Arkansas, and Tennessee, as to those of Missouri
or Ohio, of Connecticut or Massachusetts. Inas-
much as he does that, of course all is just as it
should, just as every rational or dispassionate ob-
server might have expected that it would
be. But while couching his proclamation
thus in the language of authority, and issuing it in
a tone of command intendfd to vibrate as sono-
ronsly, southwards down to the River Bravo del
Norte and to Cape Punta Fancha, as, northwards,
up to the shores of Lake Superior and to the coast-
line of the Bay of Fundy—President LINCOLN sets
out nnnece
satttilY, and therefore tediously, in his
"Important Proclamation" this wise. He announces,
to begin with, that " Whereas, on the 15th of
April" (he is writing now in the present instance,
recollect, on the 16th of August), he " the Presi-
dent of the United States, in of ma
insurrection against the laws, constitution,
and the Government of the United States,
which had broken out within "—he then goes on
to enumerate the seven States that were first . in-
surgent, viz.--" the States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and Texas." Hereupon he reiterates his authority
for acting upon the 15th of April aforesaid ; add-
ing, " And in pursuance of the provisions of the
act eiatitled, [we all know the title so deplorably
well already l] an Act to Provide for Calling Forth
the Militia to Execute the Laws of the Union, Sup-
press Insurrections, and Repel Invasions, and to
Repeal the Act now in force for that purpose, ap-
p,ovcd Feb. 28, 1795, did"—[that is lie, the Presi-
dent, did,—for we are beginning to lose the gram•
matical construction of even Mr. LINCOLN's first
paragraph]—" did call forth the militia to suppress
such insurrection and cause the laws of the Union to
he duly executed "—Here might surely come a full
Atop.

But Mr. LINCOLN appends in recognition of
a deplorable fact, a slovenly conclusion to the
sentence, thus—" and the insurgents have failed to
disperse by the time directed by the President."
Then follows the second series of intimations con-
stituting the second paragraph of this new
(and- important) proclamation. In -which second
Paragraph it is that President LINCOLN men-
tions the
extension of the insurrectionary move-
ment
to four South, that is more cf the States in the
to the States of Virginia, North
Tennessee and Arkansas. Having "pro.
Carolina, Ten
claimed" Which very stale news in this particularly
solemnly manner from Washington,
alination lead off its third and
thus does the
document under emt
most " important" paragraph :" Now, therefore,
I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United
States, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed
July 13, 1861, do P.erehy declare—tmark this !]—.
the said
that the inhabit; Intl of States of'

[here they are, of course, all over again—every one
of the eleven !] Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida. . . .
. . . are in a state of insurrection (!) against
the United States," and so forth. First of all, how-
ever, where a certain hiatus in the above quotation
is marked by dots, it should be remarked that there
occurs in the original Proclamation a parenthesis
of a very portentous character, which we have taken
the liberty to eliminate. Regard per se, it runs
thus—" (except the inhabitants of that part of the
State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany
Mountains, and of such other parts of that State,
and the other States hereinbefore named, as may
maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the
constitution, or may be from time to time occu-
pied and controlled by the forces engaged
in the dispersion of said insurg•ents)."
Otherwise than with those moderate exceptions,
the whole of the eleven Southern States, already
more than once enumerated in this Proclamation by
name, are thus formally proclaimed as we have seen
to be in a state of insurrection ! They are, there-
upon particularised as States that are to be
treated accordingly. President LINCOLN inti-
mating, for example (though everyone knew
this preiiously), that " all commercial inter-
course between the same and the inhabitants thereof
with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of
other States and other parts of the United States,
is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such
o
insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed."
He announces, however, that "all goods and
chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from any
of said States, with the exceptions afore-
said, into other parts of the United States,
without the special license and permission
of the PRESIDENT, through the Secretary of the
Treasury, or proceeding to any of said States,
with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water,
together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the
same, or conveying persons to or from said States,
with said exceptions, will be forfeited to the United
States." Here, however—at last—comes the gist, the
pith, the marrow of the whole of this " important"
document, namely, in these words—" And that
from and after fifteen days from the issuing of
this proclamation all ships and vessels belonging in
part to any citizen or inhabitant of any of said
States, with said exceptions, found at sea or in
any port of the United States, will be forfeited to
the United States." We draw breath, and pause.
That then is the deadly bolt that has
been shot through all this long rolling crash
of thunder ! And now—as to its "importance !"
Well, what possibly can be said but that in one of
our old•fashioned cookery-books, written by BAR-
DANA HILL, the Quack, under the assumed name
of Mrs. GLASSE, there is that familiar little serio-
comic scrap of advice prefixed to the receipt for
Hare Soup—" First cateh your hare !" So absolutely
is it, here—after all, this "sound and fury" of the
President's important Proclamation. " Sound and
fury" really (in the absence of a good cause to fight
for in the North) just "signifying nothing !" If but
the North would see its advantage ! So visible to us
all on this side of the Atlantic ! If but the North
would recognise its opportunity ! Were they at
length to proclaim themselves (that whole race of
the Northerns) FOR FREEDOM, in Truth as well
as in Word, AGAINST Negro Slavery, FOR the
Emancipation of the Blacks—the New World
would soon have a Republic worthy of it. A Re-
public One and Indivisible. A Republic the sym-
bolical standard of which might be a banner
filled with stars, and without a stripe to dis-
figure it. A Republic the national air of which
might be something a trifle better than Yankee
Doodle.

The authoress of " Uncle Tom's Cabin" is entitled,
if anyone be, to a hearing on the subject of the pre-
sent war in America ; the more so if she thinks that
the party to which she belongs is wronged by Eng-
lish opinion, or even if the Northerns generally are
misunderstood by us. Her letter to Lord SHAFTES-
BURY was possibly called forth by the remarks
which he made at a meeting to present a testimo-
nial to Dr. CHEEVER, the great Abolitionist minis-
ter, who has lately been travelling in this country
and in Europe. His lordship then observed
that there had been• very little feeling on the
subject in this country, because we did not be-
lieve in the sincerity of either side. The North,

in this struggle, never thought of putting an end to
slavery ; rather, from the North the slavers went
forth who defy our cruisers ; that Northern gen-
tlemen held mortgages on slave estates, and derived
profits from them; that in the last PRESIDENT'S
Message the subject of slavery was not mentioned,
not even under any of those euphemisms in which
American public men delight to veil their shame—

indeed, his only allusion to the subject was the in-
direct one that, when Union was restored, he in-
tended to govern the States according to the old

(slave) constitution ; that there could be no feeling
in this country in such a state of things. This was
the tenour of his lordship's remarks, and might well
ba the cause of Mrs. STowE's appeal to the British
public through him. We should have expected,
however, if she had actually seen them, more defi-
nite reference to them.

Mrs. STOWE hints that the impression is likely
to go forth in America that our comparative indif-
ference is due to the " moneyed interests" of this
country being affected by the war, and that hence
"financial interests prevail over moral principle."
Mrs. STOWE may rest well assured that this, so far
as it extends, is a pure American fancy. On the
contrary, with the vast majority of Englishmen,
" moral" indignation against slavery renders
it difficult for them to tolerate what seems to
theta the 46 moral" indifference of the North
to it. With insignificant exceptions, we regard
g Property of human beings as an act so cri-
minal,
and a system so infernal, that we cannot
l vre comprehenddistinctly
see t he present
attitude of the North.
two things. Ist, That the North
,
has not in this war the abolition of slavery for its
object ; 2dly, and perhaps worse still, that it covets
returning to the old position of a great slavery con-
federation, with all the old slave-hunting laws in
full force ! Our "moral principle, to which Mrs.
STOWE app
merevolts at this readiness to combine
with, and to protect, slavery. We forget, in fact,
finance for principle.
Mrs. STOWE puts the best phase she can on the
war, by representing it as the ultimate result of
the movements begun by our CLARKSON and WIL-
BERFORCE, and carried on ever since with more or
less energy by a noble band of philanthropists on
both sides of the Atlantic. She thinks the same
activities which abolished slavery and the slave
trade in England have been bringing about the
present crisis in America. We are not very sure of
the historical truth of this representation; but, even
admitting it, the character of the struggle is alto-
gether different from what ours was. Philanthro-
pists lcd in England; politicians, not very willingly,
obeyed the impulse ; and the people were willing
to pay twenty millions sterling rather than bear
longer the national guilt and disgrace of slavery. In
America politicians take the lead, and from purely
political motives. Philanthropists stand by and
hope the result will be the abolition of slavery; but
they do not eves pretend that the politicians are
aiming at that. The North said nothing whatever

about slavery at first. Slavery never stirred its
anger against the South. But the instant Fort
Sumpter was attacked we had the "sublime," the
"magnificent" uprising of all the North. Appa-
rently slavery might have lived on for ever, and
negroes have groaned till we heard them in
Europe, and the North would have taken it
very complacently ; but as soon as the great-
ness of the Union was attacked, that Moloch to
which so many hecatombs of slaves have been
offered—all the North was in a blaze. We fear
the broad facts of the case speak little indeed
for the " moral principle" 'of the North, deficient
as Mrs. STOWE pronounces England to be in it.
We really yet have seen no principle in the North
more respectable than that which leads Austria to
seek the amalgamation of Hungary, despite of law
and right. So the North " goes in " for a big
Union, one big enougji to bully the world, despite
all the just rights of man, and the laws of God and
Christianity.

We are sorry to see Mrs. STOWE imposed upon
by the high-sounding nonsense of the PRESIDENT in
his last speech respecting the world-wide import-
ance of the American struggle. She, too, writes
of it as a contest for the highest political liberties
of men—for civilisation—for an issue far transcend-
ing that of the emancipation of the negro race
specifically. And what is this grand issue ? Why,
in plain English, to show to the world that the
device, in many respects so clumsy, of American
Federalism was capable of an eternal existence !
The Americans are so foolishly proud of their Con-
stitution, that they think the whole world is in-
terested in seeing it proved to be meant for per-
petuity!! But really the world cares little about
it. We are sorry to tell Mrs. STOWE that nothing
has done more injury to the Liberal cause in
England, and to liberty in Europe, than the
example of America. The pro-slavery tendencies
of even the Free States, their mob tyranny, their
habitual exclusion of all the ablest men from high
office, their compelling the better part of society to
stand aloof from politics, their domination of the
least informed at home, and their insufferable arro-
gance and rudeness in their diplomatic intercourse
with other nations—all these things have made
American Republicanism the quiver from which
Toryism and Despotism thaw their sharpest
arrows in their resistance to Liberalism in Europe.
We are quite confident that, in England, the ex-
ample of America has done more than anything
else to make the middle classes averse to the exten-
sion of popular liberties.

We are pleased to know that not only Mrs.
STOWE but WENDELL PHILLIPS are satisfied that
the question of slavery is bound up with the pre-
sent contest. They both may be trusted, beyond
most, for desiring to see the end of the abomina-
tion. Their hope gives us hope. But they both
distinctly confess that the North is not aiming,
as we feel that it ought to be, at the extinction
of slavery. It seeks its, own political supremacy,
which seems, to many, to necessitate the ultimate
overthrow of slavery. Now we care not a straw
for the political supremacy of one-half or the
other half of the Union ; and hence the indiffer-
ence which annoys Mrs. STOWE. Let the North
make their second object the first, and England
would be hearty enough in the cause.

THE ARREST OF MR. MIIIR.—Mr. Robert Muir,
of Charleston, who was arrested on board the steamship
Africa just previous to her departure from New York, is a
naturalized American citizen, and in consequence can make
no claim on the British Government for protection.

PRESENTS FOR HER MAJESTY.—PORTSMOUTH,
Wednesday.—lt will probably be remembered that some
two years since her Majesty sent out a yacht named the
Emperor, as a present to the Emperor of Japan. In return
he has sent home, in her Majesty's ship Furious, most
valuable presents to the Queen, contained in 40 packages of
considerable dimensions. As a matter of course, no person
knows the contents of the packages, but it is surmised they
contain large quantities of very elegant articles of lacquer
work, together with the general products cf art from Japan.
The packages were taken out on Wednesdayzith the'greatest
care. They left the dockyard in a properWnveyance, and
were taken to the Portsmouth Railway station for London.
DEATH OF THE MARCHIONESS OF BREADALBANE.
—We regret to announce the death of the Marchioness of
Breadalbane, which mournful event occurred at 10 o'clock

yesterday morning at the marquis's town residence, in Park-
lane. The lamented marchioness had been ill during the
last few weeks, and for the last fortnight no hopes have
been entertained of her recovery. The deceased lady was
the eldest daughter of Mr. George Baillie, of Jerviswood,
N. 8., by Mary, youngest daughter of the late Sir James
Pringle, Bart. She was born 29th of June, 1803, and
married, 23d November, •1821, the Marquis of Breadalbane.
The marchioness was sisfer of the Earl of Haddington, the

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Countess of Aberdeen, Lady Polwarth, and the Countess
of Ashburnham. By the demise of her ladyship several
families of distinction are placed in mourning.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—During the autumn re-
cess, which will extend from Saturday, the 31st inst., to
the 7th proxim inclusive, several important alterations in
the arrangements of the objects in the various departments
of the national collection will be carried into effect. In the
ethnological department an improved arrangement, and to
some extent a new classification, has been undertaken by
Professor Owen and his assistants, in order to include the
additional specimens comprised in M. du Chaillu's African
collection and the contributions of other recent discoverers
in the study of natural history which have found place in
the galleries. The mosaics from Carthage, which have
hitherto been only partially displayed in one of the base-
ment rooms, are to be exhibited to the public ; and further
alterations will be effected in the disposition of the casts
and sculptures in the Athenian galleries, Increased facility
is to be provided in the reading-room for reference to the
volumes of the old catalogue which have not hitherto been
labelled and arranged in divisions, and additional copies of
the printed catalogue are to be supplied for the use of
readers. The proposed changes will be carried out to the
utmost extent the short period allotted for the autumn va-
cation will admit.

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF AN IRISH
GIRL.—An Irish girl, who gave the name of Bridget
Dokay, was recently examined before one of the New York
justices on a charge of dressing in men's attire. The New
York Herald gives the following as the story of the girl,
who was apprehended while engaged in a row at a drinking
saloon—" At the age of 13 years she became enamoured of
a lad named Kelly, and the pair resolved to get married.
The parents of the children, hearing how matters stood, re-
solved to separate the youthful lovers, and it was arranged
that young Kelly should be sent to sea. Accordingly, he
started for Liverpool, and in a few days afterwards he was on
his way to New York. Bridget, after pining a week or so in
sorrow, determined to follow her sweetheart. At Dublin she
procured a suit of sailor's garments and crossed over to
Liverpool and engaged herself as a cabin boy on board a ship
bound for New York. No one on board/suspected her real
character. On her arrival in this city she assumed the name
of Edward Johnson, and in common with the other sailors
put up at a well-known boarding-house in Cherry-street.
After roaming about New York for several weeks in search
of her lover, she determined to go back to Liverpool and see
if she could hear anything about him there. Still she was
unsuccessful in her efforts, and at last she was compelled
to give up the search. .Having acquired a taste for the
sea, she made several voyages to France and Holland,
and finally started for New York again in the ship
Resolute. All this time she was completely successful
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in disguising her sex, and was quite a favourite with the
officers and sailors. Her quiet, modest demeanour won for
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promptitude. Bridget had kept her
secret inviolate fol• three long years, and without doubt
would have received a mate's appointment before she had
accomplished many more voyages. In an evil hour, she
made an unfortunate sally into Water-street, where she was
invited to treat the crowd. Sailor like, she complied with the
request, and the bottle passed merrily round. Soon one of
her companions became boisterous, and insisted that they
should hay.: another round of drinks. But Bridget was
averse to drinking any more, and rose as if to leave the
company, when the drunken sailor caught her around the
waist and swore she should not depart. In the struggle
which followed the girl unveiled her sex. The magistrate
and spectators heard her story with evident sympathy, and it
was resolved to be as lenient with her as possible. The pli-
Boner was arrayed in a suit of women's clothes, and sent to
prison for safe keeping. She seemed quite pleased at the
change in her position, and says she will be contented to
remain under Miss Foster's care until some suitable em-
ployment can be procured for her."

ROEBUCK'S ORATORY.—We should say that lately
there has been a trifle too much of what the Yankees would
call "the spread eagle" about it.—Punch,

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PARIS, AUG. 29.
The .Moniteur of to-day announces that the
Emperor and the Prince Imperial left Paris at 7
o'clock yesterday evening direct for Biarritz.
The Emperor presided yesterday at a Council of
Ministers.

PESTH, ArG. 28.

Count Apponyi, Judes Curia 3, and Count
Mailath, have received leave of absence for three
weeks. The resignation of the latter is considered

imminent.

CRACOW, AUG. 28.

Yesterday General Lambert, Governor of Poland,
received the authorities of Warsaw. No speeches
were delivered on the occasion. The gendarmes
and the police have been withdrawn from the
streets. All the bivouacks have also been drawn
off.

TURIN, AUG. 28.
The Opinione of to-day again circulates the re-
port that General Della Rovere will take the port-
folio of war, and thit General Brignone will replace
him in the lieutenaacy of Sicily.

TURIN, AUG. 28.

Several journalsannounee that fresh reactionary
expeditions have :eft Rome for Naples, in conse-
quence of a speed pronounced by Francis 11. at
the Villa Patrizi, it which he boasted of large pro-
mises having been nade by the Emperor Napoleon,
and declared that hewas convinced of the certainty
of the early triumph of his cause.

VIENNA, AUG. 23.

An animated discussion took place to-day in the
Lower House of the Reichsrath, in reference to
the address to the Emperor.
Dr. Smolka, a Galician deputy, denied that the
communication which had been made to the
Reichsrath emanated from the Emperor, and de-
clared that the ministry deserved a vote of want of
confidence for their policy in regard to Hungary.
Count Clam proposed a counter address favour-
able to decentralisation:

AMERICA.

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QUEEN STOWN, AuG• 29.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Kangaroo, from New York on
the 17th inst., arrived here this morning.
She was boarded off Cape Race, and brings tele-
grams from New York to the 51st inst. Political
affairs were unchanged.
No further collision had taken place.
The cotton market was quiet. Wheat was firm.
Sterling exchange, 1071.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

The United States mail steamer Fulton, Capt. S.
A. Wotton, which left New York on the 17th inst.,
arrived off Cowes this evening, shortly after 8
o'clock, and went on to Havre, after transshipping
mails, &c., for this port. She brings 31 passengers
for Southampton and 84 for Havre.

President Lincoln had issued the following im

portant

PROCL AMATION.
" WASHINGTON. Aua. 16, 1861.
"BY THE PRESIDENT OE THE UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA :
" A PROCLAMATION.

" Whereas, on the 15th day of April, the President of the
United States, in view of an insurrection against the laws,
constitution, and the Government of the United States, which
had brokenout within the States of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and
in pursuance of the provisions of the Act entitled an Act
to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws
of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions,
and to repeal the Act now in force for that purpose,' ap-
proved Feb. 28, 1795, did call forth the militia to suppress
said insurrection and cause the laws of the Union to be duly
executed, and the insurgents have failed to disperse by the
time directed by the President;
" And whereas such insurrection has since broken out and
yet exists within the States of Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, and Arkansas; and whereas the insurgents in
all the said States claim to act under authority thereof, and
such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the person
exercising the functions of Government in such State or
States, or in the part or parts thereof, in which combina-
tions exist, nor has such insurrection been suppressed by
said States;

"Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress passed
July 13, 1861, do hereby declare that the inhabitants of the
said States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Florida (except the inhabitants of that part
of the State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany Moun-
tains, and of such other parts of that State, and the other
states hereinbefore named, as may maintain a loyal adhe-
sion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be from
time to time occupied and controlled by the forces engaged
in the dispersion of said insurgents) are in a state of insur-
rection against the United States, and that all commercial
intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof,
with exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States
and other parte of the United States, is unlawful, and will
remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or bas
been suppressed ; that all goods and chattels, wares, and
merchandise, coming from any of the said States, with
the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United
States, without the special licence and permission of the
President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or pro-
ceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid,
by land or water, together with the vessel or vehicle convey-
ing the same, or conveying persons to or from said States,
with said exceptions, will be forfeited to the United States,
and that from and after 15 days from the issuing of this
proclamation all ships or vessels belonging in whole or in
part to any citizen or inhabitant of any of said States, with
said exceptions, found at sea or in any part of the United
States, will be forfeited to the United States.
" And I hereby enjoin upon all district attorneys, mar-
shals, and officers of the revenue, and of military and naval
forces of the United States, to be vigilant in the execution
of the said act, and in the enforcement of the penalties and
forfeitures imposed or declared by it, leaving any party vho
may think himself aggrieved thereby to his application to
the Secretary of the Treasury for the remission of any pe-
nalty, or forfeiture, which the said Secretary is author:sed
by law to grant, if, in his judgment, the special chem.,
stances of any case shall require such remission.
" In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

" Done in the city of Washington this 16th day of Au-
gust, in the year of our Lord 1861, and of the Independence
of the United States the 86th.

" ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

"By the President,
" W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State."

By arrivals from South American ports we learn
that the Southern privateers are actively engaged
in that quarter, as well as about the West India
Islands. Several of them have recently been seen
off Pernambuco and Rio Janeiro. The Jeff Davis
ran into San Juan, Porto Rico, on the 26th ult., for
provisions and water. She had been overhauling
American vessels in that neighbourhood for some
time previous.