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London, England, 1861-11-05 00:00:00

THE' UN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE NIN6, NOVEMBER 5, 1861.

ANGLI-' SAGAMOTIIE'AN OFFICIAL OATHS
FOR ORPHANS GEOMETER COURT, 21 Jam 1.,
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Wel LI, inure ni 24 March- kzzi -29 Sept. nrrant' m financial
.-Treasury-date of TWC- Fishery-park Law-.
THE STAR'S-PERIGEE'AN-LONGITIYDE PHILOSOPHY, OR
ELECTRO-COMPASS GAP(•)PONTI SPIRIT-S-LEVEL.
VINQUE- PORTAL ARC' Rive-Dead-court.-In
V span-long giuq'kent 50 N. by Polar*above ,tz below dcclin.
soars...An astre-geograph .••: : to @over's * Arrow oil-
and-on' Drepp's-nouen to Lizard-Pt. o'er Ind.,„Quadra-
culmination Tropic-wend Vivrd Minorca's Langue (Week
40a H. Its state rope-lay Anchor ,t flag-tow'r pros-by Tyre
round the fixt earth, as of Titus Vespasian's meter, yr 79
on 1824-35 for Conchoid life-Burg-Efftreator Leet-crts.
The Bowloigne'd illegal Mixt-Comffn-negatta fate of
27-Bth, August'en A.D. 1861-as Eve sham'cl-on Aftermath
s'head'ng night of Ihen 9apte'ft'-issued 13th, old lam-
mass-day from the Strasburg Jag'ket office of Grand master-
mason of Malta's College, St. James'-st., on U. S. c. 33, § 7,
1800-2-13-off Amiens treaty-Nap-11, in dupelex, welkin
.Paul the eapsen-scholastic,' by Goal-law-Es in Ship way
seat' of 'traria Zonekirk's ? Earth-moving' error. So to-.
" Command oid words, that long have slept-to wake,
• Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spoke."
This Lang area BErnfin, outfiotf Mc,' key-loop as, Corn-
bill-st. mi-chsTd j 4. "Like GGG-father-131 Cowrzn-1712,
like GO G.tchildspri vi FALMERSTON 1861 -as of H.J.Temple
-cites the charter of Bristol L. P. 9 Annee, 24 July, for its
backwarn'ng to six, five, or four," comber- (on's in Lath'm
Over-span'sh Cabot 15')curvature a Latrinity-Hs., )'er the
sunk port, Q. inn Jet `M land wad-set's prior to Pope Nic.'s
tax 1291-97- Doge 91G,'s 9th, at ShoregAM, 18-21 pavillion,
Bright-helm-stone meridian of old London, Xtb-resumed
for" Carthage-mud port•-Coehon, Edict Comfn., of Review
in EgyptVlB2B," 9-10 W. gd, c. 15, for Lt. A.'s arc Bows-
sole, Hutruscan Arbitrat'm a*rate 'os Pontifiscum-(on
Rom 'll Ombra-latin persuasion ?), G' log 6sfaig 'twixt
Turkish ALL and Codrington, who in Claudian's sky-
metre upper X 9 conic letter-.d didn't-
" Scorn arbitration as a stain-
9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th.
Ist. So, no 1581's Earthrolling-bull's, with a Fixt earth
Langue@'oi c=.* o'er Hemi4Jet'famen'ys astral, See I Edw.
VI., c. 2, reee,enact 284-yr. in 1832 by 2-3 Will. IV., c. 92,
sec. 4,-entitled, The Submission of the Clergy if Restraint
of Appeals-as yet pending to Pombal's Brazil-9, in
Ilia' intervention, 25 Henry 8, c. 19, ¶3, Whereas divers
noblemen, and spiritual sylph'd fratres de 'eels' have
sent out civil-summons, in their own names, as in the
time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome,
contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes
of correction-probates of testaments under patronal oaths.
-Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes
by advocates or other will-court officers, of the King's
Highness, do bear th' E-Quoin-Knight-rider's fiscustom'ary
endorsement, as well as the ei Common-clerk's ' Mats de
co-quoin' seal, under citor's name in Maypolar ' vie pa-area'
astra-Jet x ou's roof'd meridian : : S a Rochester-bridge in
mans Antcec, N. Zaver-head Waithangi'd ' brother
and sister's 3-ty. as O. 5.200 n. of Azores (-) Verd' fulcrum-
ponticulus-hemispherte'm i Ist re-ponti-Philimore-Te'ad, as
the old longitude-bridge' Park-dance o'er the L'aide- ley
" In silence, till the cheerful Night-sun-rode
Has twice six months made its Star -wend run-node."
Thus-Lagantens-nota'ry's of Kent under syn-sideral-
lathe ilpoch for P. £' audits, to Bow tow ap 5140 N., fi prefix
over its L' tendon-wave'y bye Wall-in-id fcirsncester
Seven hundreds' on 34-HEN. L's Mile'r Rayliere Kt., to 1-4
Hen. 4's hogshead of wine Jus-" Ex-change A 1." as of
Pristol's lesa ',gigot; in Tenby's alt9mare meet, of Fresh
and salt water Admiral's Court, not of ' Co-mercer's fi. fa.,
i'srewing-sup,' on Jesuit'Z'ac ward books ca. fa. 6s Bd.,
WOT'ON deep, e'er ye tax-title nus,sel'd river ud-fontns'
2dly. Whence, by 1 2hilip & Mary, c. 7, "No man shall
exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailiff's
Silver-oar, of July, 1521, 81-now Utrecht's Indian-paddle
Treaty of 1713-6 g, as of Mexico's Philipine isle'd Bohan-
inspector of all , fiscal-f meter-Crts.), who like WOLSEY'S
Temple'r shall take on himself 'to direct and serve his own
pr 3cept.' Hence this negative ; since (by Rusan-Dutch loan
on Amerisa's 1614-double hdd eagle xoregk-1791's Min-
gan-mexi on 1832), pension'd Stuart-Swynfordes Church-
Queen's of a civil list tho' in O'er Xeftfacoe, have sensed to be
the tayle of Malcolm lII.'S G.o.a -son D ... monetary trust
in Zouch's c.A.-kin T., and at your peril disobey this law
-for one and all " as breast-high'd on Agricola's t'bot and
*lot hand-up lirmanA7 4 typic, on Cremes silver coinage
for electing the yearly Abkari cess phat's on 29th Sept., or
81mi-call-mess-magistrates, as Aberdeen's 1469, to 24th
March one, inn *Bed Indian w)-„Glasgo" murri nomine.
" To gain the race he eager plies ; his forfeit life's the stake."
27 Ang. '6l, unpaid Christ corpus martyr 19 yrs, London,
PETER Brant BASQUET, LI The flag-unien Jag, lst
a.m M p.m. Fruit- corn-hill-Tow' erd as Income-tax-
-A p-Buleatare freeman, Antipod'n crown-colonf chief
o Temple. of 1842, -The criminal law's Eitradi-
o
1) Labonehers. tion Gap, 3 -mile off-shore Sea-constable,
r 3 [2 March, '4l] bearing Kamerica's paddle of Admiral's
SH. M. Perley, court over Canterbury's de-Guizote set-
-3 Sept, '4l's tlement for New Zealand's deadprooffit
Gap I viz'r. Crt.' its Gial 31-repoy Stillord Warden
Capt O'Halloran. -tho' smelly set up a medal-gap VacuA-
v Gappenthal 'Exchekarire gentis imagines.' .* N.
CRA.RLIES ' ACIIRLEY, C. J. of Carib-isled f
Jethou'd EnGland, elect Aug. 29 1825 (by Ad- .•• : :
miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown-
rotary; Marcus Hill-SANDYS, Lay presbyters Ago.
on Can'ng's noly Alliance abolition, of King- A
clubs), the Standard weight-bearer of 1837, Lt. I
R.N. I pay'd double-oathied victim-supporter Si Peu,
of Mohawk PETER 10 yrs, by Red Indian Mary Qu' Rien
March's murder-tie 1820 -' habeas virginale S.P.Q.R.
tenerum corpus christe' transit, thro' Quebec's 'Jose '75
Hamilton-Dalhousie, in E. Elder' duty for His Toma '25
and own's State-•b'rth provision, as the Mon- BRANT.'
tagne Subsidy Ist-fruit loan 1814'20's on major Tre•csor-
Cartwright' s chief succossorial surrogat'cy, (to trove.
1322'99's red-turban' cl Hen. Quadra Manfre-
dnm'y de pecearin,' on 11. s's colona'd martin 5; l• V
to GostsALvr 1816 re solamento-159, by Pius 7th on
Scotch-Bailie Urban Bth's capacity-oath of 1749, Ad-
vocate STUART wortley-Newcomen's) en Gonfaloniere'
1824 passed in C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, sr.. 31,
as th" qoin'd Luther- Calvin, July 1521, for lay seignor-
age, over W. Russell and Stanley's Dead-hand (1683
yet-attaints), in secret propaganda (Sion Hill) agency.
To the yearly metro-set ' Councils General,' yet unsworn
under 1835's municipal and reform Acts for Mayor's local
supremacy (against New" Conlin Grippe-Jesus Christian
Clubs, 11 Geo. c. 55, male or female," as at the Burgh-
ports 1772's on the Shoreham resignation, aver-bulPsrun of
Clement 14th's Jesuit Jos. Abolition, by American Stras-
burg's liege murder-tie for Labrador Sir Phil. Francis 1769,
70-resume of life Moravian-act Qgarde)-over the yearly
Poor-law Guardians-as were plum-line'd-on the 1603's
church Canon in vestry'red lettered Transeptal succession
-on 11. 8 aft-Tow'ring, by Q. Eliza.'s P. c.-PutruLET-men
for 1861, Lyon Bowes & Aekerley, for sense-office. Hence
stop now-all pensions and ministers'-money (for works
public) wherebyall Sylph-creeds become self-supports.- So
be it-for civic Asia-Europe's constabulary 4,0 X entry, on
Jersey's 1614 in Longboro's Court, 1774-5, Ed. Atkyn
Chamberlayne, for 1820-25-37, on Stow's earth-sovereign
freeman sworn, for the incorporation of all governments.
" 'Tis thus that Heaven its empire doth maintain ;
It may afflict-but PAN, must not complain."
4. Ap-puire's-papal of fins-e minor (Exchange-house on
bkopointers for o.s. rixt-earth 4 Tow'r) 1582, in COWPER'S
Huitson 1671'x Chiliarchee'r ^ to St. Michael's PENN like
0' llCilloran's organ -run' of nidelburg. S m neligoland 3ty.,
Jan. 14, May-Copenhagen'd by C. xA. cf Daphne, 1814,
as the Montague letter 15 r.c. Crown-page before Embassy
FOSTER'S' Abpuv-locum tt' of Hanover Ex-mouth's 1816,
in Labouchere pa's clerk, Rothschild-nesse 10-marc 1 JAL
X Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and
Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051.
Survey Arbitrations.-By 9-10 W. Hi, c. 15, it is enacted,
" That merchants, sole-traders-(and all Antipode'ans' as
those under the Turk Padi;hm Fe Xindow tax, 1809-Dar-
d-e-anell'd 3ty,' 1841)-desiring to end all controversies by
arbitration, may agree that their submission of their suit to
an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on "rhony
Monthermer' ACKERLEY. Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),-of any
person, should be made "on Captain Cook's Cruz • mans in
tribal MAonr, right, on Admiralty red-lag' of Exchequer-
Courts of Record ; and in case of disobedience to such award
on Pa-tow'ring, the parties neglecting or refusing (X F. Q.
Review, Nov. 1829),-to perform the same, shall be subject
to penalties of contemning a Rule of Court, "as Patax mis-
sion'd on the Anglo-Saxon Mexi-Spanish trust, yet Cuba-
Philipin'd to 1763-4-state Grants, as reset 31 Jan. 1842-3,
on the Carib-micmag's l'nur's head, 'Twe'ed 4 Inn-fan- oe
and Out -G' -sustain-screw on N.-Berwick-law (withofit
further maddening poor PETER by exile cast from), family,
for refusing to give up America's Tribal flag stone lb. to any
church party, by Derby and Peel's orders (with Q4l. 'S papal-
marriage silver rose ? to Indian ladies) for la petite nation.
"Neath polar-star'd land Wehr-ring wolf to fawn,
And view with trembling whom they view'd with acorn.'

IL GUILTY (OR NOT GUILTY FICTION) ARBITER.
" The sea-WRIT original (now ' police-sheet root
Of' St. Peter's-key Cornhill), spring of civic-suit."
The "not guilty" when GUILTY is the free and accepted
for county-rate expenses, in all the courts—but, the guilty
on written confession to Female complainant, before hear-
log—is of right saved (50, E. 3) from a slaughter under the
twofold spiritual and corporeal capacity of the casting voice
of judge, as prisoner's Police arbitrator. The case in ques-
tion being betwixt Hoaxer-plaintiff, and Martyr-mule-
Defendant, to obtain a Nerioted St. AN Yrou Court-christian
Baillie-day's criminal fiat-papal'—as the October ' Laird
e'Cockpen's Ist usefruet, of the French (treaty Concordat
in the Marylebone Police-court on Wed., Oct. 2, " Bellew
v. Baillie ' committed for three calender months to the
Greyfriary cells omitting the real Rug'd-pursuer's name
in civil law table-turning, a Flemish-Balieu Order's note
into a police-sheet-charge) on Art. 1 and 9 Jan. 25, 1813.'
with forgiven Liverpool girl, on o'er-night Treakariitration
to hyintiff-rug-laundress 13, Frederick-street, for none
explain the kneelingu facts.' So in 8-SLANG I the Prison
Secret' ary will
4by sends a
propereur/ 'frnot see,' at Up-wimpole-street, 13,
,injustiee agent to inquire' on behalf,
to rectify the public
' washing-mg' trial "Walaingham?' this Cassandra hoax
for instant releass betweenanci mistress and servant—in order
Stapleton) reward, under Chief Justice. (Bruce-
Bellew Kt.-
.lescue's Statute 1442 H. 6 to
coldbath Vestalworne;
nun'ery-like prit/on, Vie,-111 o'er the (366, in Totkill
/cl.n2llegal Bench-warrant, as
genitive'd 'of', sth Victoria,
always, Yea! that,lie voila, N. case.
" Provided
Quakers or lady Quacks • if e'er
interfere,
Or take upon tht+m—,o,B4 a scholar'
' Prohibitory' writ should follow."

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The Warrior has gone out to look for a storm,
which the present state of the weather gives pro-
mise that she will not seek in vain. If her
success be as complete in heavy weather as it has
proved in Stokes Bay, we may well be proud of our
first ironsides. That she will roll heavily in a sea-
way there can be little doubt. Some ships may
make " better weather" of a gale than others, but
all must be influenced more or less by the action of
the ocean. The Great Eastern rolled like a log
when in the trough of the sea, although it was
fondly hoped by her admirers that the elements
would not affect her. The Albion, a two-decker, again,
when in the Channel squadron of evolution some
years ago, rolled so heavily that she could only
run out her maindeek guns, being unable to
open her lower deck ports, while the Canopus,
likewise a two decker, was able to fire her whole
broadside. Therefore, should the Warrior prove
herself to be a stiff and steady vessel, as she
has shown herself to be a fast one, it does not follow
that all iron-clad ships must be the same. So, on
the other hand, should she roll her masts out,
that will be no reason why other iron-sided ships
may not be constructed wherein such disadvantages
may be avoided. It is very foolish, not to say
presumptuous, to prejudge work 3 of which, from
their very nature and novelty, nobody has as yet
had the opportunity of testing the merits. Theory
is all very well, but as everyone has a particular
theory of his own on most subjects, practice must
eventually decide which theory is the most ser-
viceable. Regarding the use of iron versus wood
in the construction of ships of war, great contention
existed among naval men ; and it was not until it was
discovered that the splinters of the iron, when a shot
struck the side of an iron vessel, were more fatal to
the crew than the shot itself, that wood again came
into general favour, and iron was used only for
transports and packet boats. Armour plates have
now reopened the controversy. We speak of armour
plated ships, not those murderous in object and
absurd in reality, steam rams, invented by our faith-
ful ally, which to succeed in their object would re-
quire to carry a nautical basilisk on the prow to
charm the foe into inactivity to enable the mighty
ram to run her down. While yet the matter was
pending, before the Warrior had made her sea-going
capabilities known, even before her trial in
Stokes Bay, we • think, Admiral S.kIRTORIUS,
in an article in the United Service Maga-
zine, should not have made a comparison between
that vessel and the much lauded La Gloire.
While giving the gallant Admiral all credit for his
good intentions, we cannot understand why he
considers it necessary to condemn every attempt of 1
the Board of Admiralty to improve the navy.
That their shortcomings are many we admit,and that
they are themselves awake to that fact,the opportune
departure of Admiral Sir B. WALKER, when his evi-
dence was wanted by a Parliamentary committee,
fully testifies, but nemo niortalium omnibus horis
errat ; and now that an endeavour is being made
to keep pace with our warlike neighbours, we do
not consider that it is fair to condemn untried a
vessel which in her recent trial has proved herself
to be so perfect. Admiral SARTORIUS, taking
for granted that the Gloire is speedier than
the Warrior (which it has been proved she is
not), endeavours to show that she is in all points
a superior vessel. He tells us that because the
Gloire is only half the tonnage of the Warrior,
and that the Gloire having engines of 1,000 horse
power, and the Warrior engines of 1,280, the power
is in favour of the smaller vessel in the propor-
tion of about 3 to 2. Being built by one of the
first architects in France, and with lines for great
speed, he presumes that with her comparatively
greater horse power she will have the advantage
in speed. Trial has proved the contrary ; and the
basis on which the gallant Admiral has founded
his theory for every other advantage the Gloire
Was to obtain over her supposed antagonist falls to
the ground, and he will have to take up a new
Pt
the "end n before
s hecan make a fresh attack. At
article, which is cleverly written,
although founded th
d 1 s
inr oaui gvhi
co
tuut
ruepoofn
wf
ha laste
might principles,
hap-
pen,
he drawn b• ~,out •
beaten, our dockyards in flamres, ;Ana
provided our nev,-.. ~,e
Lund,,,in the I
destroyed, our army
I' ands of the French. We do not contemplate any 1 ,
such catastrophe. What Englishmen dare do when
at bay has been proved by our soldiers in many a
But what they will
do when
desperate defence.
their native land is invaded, the world has yet to
learn. We can fancy, as in olden times the beacon
fires roused the country, the electric telegraph
flashing the information throughout the length and
breadth of the land, that 500,000 French-

men were marching on London. Messrs. COBDEN,
BRIGHT, and the rest of the Peace-at-any-Price men,
who, by reducing our navy, and had suffered the foe
to land, and by reducing our army had rendered it
impossible to offer a successful resistance, would
then do well to hide in their cellars to avoid the
just indignation of the people whose confidence they
had abused. All the availabl'a forces in the country
would be concentrated in thea metropolis before the
enemy could reach it. But take the worst view of
the case, even Admiral SARTORTUB'S, grant all
the disasters which he paints to have taken place'
would England have been conquered ? Britons
have not become accustomed to periodical invasion
and occasional conquest like continental nations,
and will not readily exchange free institutions for
foreign despotism, or submit to dictation from men
whom their forefathers defeated both at sea and
on their own soil. No ; while England can bring
forward to defend her freedom five millions of able-
bodied men, not Europe combined would invade her
with impunity. We do not make these remarks
with any hostile feeling to our gallant neighbours,
but to express our contempt for those of our own
countrymen who cry before they are hurt, and would
make it appear that the ancient chivalry and cou-
rage of their native land are dead.

Cedant arnza togae, Mr. SEWARD may now fairly
write, as he contrasts his own performances with
those of the military men. The Secretary beats
hollow M'CLELLAN himself, and FREMONT, and
ROSENCRANTZ, and BANKS, and all of them put
together. Done so promptly, too. On October
the 14th Lord LYONS marches to the diplomatic
attack, manceuvring to the best of his skill; the
gentlemen learned in the law, who advise her
British MAJESTY'S Government, with our Foreign
Secretary and the Government of England to boot ;
it seemed a formidable muster—Potomac tactics
might have been looked for; a week or two taken
to muster a consultation with the Federalist law-
yers, and to lick an answer into shape, would hare
been but natural. But Mr. SEWARD was not a
United States general; no delay; on the selfsame
day Lord LYONS receives his answer in full ! The
explanations complete, and a warning to British law-
yers, Ministers, and Ambassadors to mind their own
business, were all on Lord LYONS' desk on this same
14th October, 1861. We repeat, looking at military
operations, Mr. SEWARD is entitled to exclaim with
as great a boaster as himself, cedant arms togae,
concedat laurea laudi.

The explanation given in regard to the two in-
dividuals of whose arrest Lord LYONS complains,
every Englishman must acknowledge to be satisfac-
tory. There was fair presumption of treachery to
the North in PATRICK'S case, and something rather
stronger in RAHMING'S. We do not see that either
of them had anything to complain of in the circum-
stances of a Government fighting for its very exist-
ence. Neither can we see that the Government is
much to blame for suspending the operations of the
Habeas Corpus Act. It has been done in England
in far less trying circumstances ; and it must be ad-
mitted that if the measure be necessary for self-
defence we can but respect the man who
is willing to assume the responsibility re-
quired by the occasion. Mr. LINCOLN'S weakness
has lain in the other direction. From the beginning,
instead of assuming the responsibility demanded
by the facts of the case, he has paltered with Se-
cession, ignored facts with the action they required,
stood upon the letter of the constitution, and weakly
dealt with the South, as if he must respect its
letter to his own overthrow. Even now his
refusing the responsibility of negro emancipa-
tion, has probably settled the great issue against
him. Whining over the iniquitous clause in the
constitution which sends back the slave to his

master, he has made all the negroes his enemies, or
at least the most useful coadjutors of the Southern
army, when he might have made them its weak-
ness. The goodwill of the negro was the turning
weight for the balance ; he threw it into the scale
of the South.

At the same time, Mr. SEWARD cannot maintain
altogether his assertion that Mr. LINCOLN has a
right to interpret the Constitution as he pleases, as
against foreigners. Much may no doubt be said
in extenuation of any illegalities towards foreign
residents in the States, if they are dealt with pre-
cisely as natives are. Still, much may also be said
for the view that documents like the American Con-
stitution are international, as well as domestic docu-
ments. Our own Acts of Parliament we must con-
fess to be so. If a Frenchman, here, were hung for
manslaughter, the Government having taken on it
the responsibility, for some temporary purpose, of
hanging instead of imprisoning all persons convicted
of that offence, M. THOUTENEL might, we think,
have fair ground of complaint. He might allege
that the law was a known condition of Eng-
lish life—that a Frenchman in coming to
England came relying on the regular, not the arbi-
trary administration of the law; he might contend
that if the natural subjects of the QUEEN tolerated
the illegal acts of her Ministers, that was no fair
reason why foreign Governments should tolerate
them to the wrong of their own subjects, and we
do not think it would be competent for Earl
RUSSELL to reply to M. THOUVENEL that he could
not accept the French Minister's interpretation of
legality and illegality in reference to English laws.
M. THOUVENEL might still rejoin that it was a
fair and reasonable subject for discussion between
the two Governments whether there was any really
illegal dealing with the Frenchman. He might ap-
peal to the true meaning of those laws which we
ourselves bad made the property not only of the
nation, but in a reasonable sense also of all who
sought intercourse with us. Viewed in this way we
strongly suspect that the committal of the two
British subjects was really illegal.

We do not, however, complain of their arrest
after the explanation given—and of one thing the
North may feel amply assured—of the determined
neutrality of the British peopir. We have no sym-
pathy here for British subjects who choose to take
part in a quarrel which belongs not to them. In
the liberal struggles of Greece, Spain, Italy, Hun-
gary, we did take an interest. We knew that if
the GARIBALDI volunteers were caught by the
BOURDON we could not interfere, but we sympa-
thised enthusiastically with the cause in which they
fought. This is impossible in the case of either the
North or the South. When one party is fighting
to uphold slave institutions on its own soil, and the
other to unite in support of them, England is only
displeased with any of her sons who dirty their
fingers with such work. To the negro proprietors
of the South or the negro haters of the North the
Union may seem a good thing or a bad one—to our
people it seems bad all round. No feeling is more
decided in England than that all who interfere
deserve whatever may befal them.
We have said that Mr. SEWARD might well
claim the prize for promptitude in comparison
with the military men, for it seems as if two things
were never to be wanting in American telegrams,
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of the supplies- for the army, the forage for the
cavalry especially, have come in small vessels up the
river. Now they can only steal past the Confederate
batteries at night, and that in such small numbers
that we are told a perfect Armada of small craft
with supplies are waiting below the Confederate
batteries to ascend the river. Occasionally an
attempt is made to tug them past under cover of fog
or darkness, but they frequently ground and are
captured. By the last accounts General BANKS
was said to be hotly engaged, about 22 miles above
Washington, with the enemy ; it will, we expect,
turn out to be but one of those numerous small con-
flicts which the South especially seems to like pro-
voking ; for what purpose it is not easy to tell
unless to keep their foes on'the alert and to impress
them with the belief that they are stronger than they
really are. At present M'CLELLAN is creeping along
by safe advances into the advanced posts abandoned
by the enemy, but keeps a safe distance from the
terrible Manassas.

The services rendered by the lifeboats are almost
incalculable, and during the recent gale their
powers have been called into full play on various
parts of the coast. After dwelling with interest
on the various details which chronicle the successes
achieved, it is sad to note one fatal event in the
wreck of the Scarborough lifeboat. Among those
who lost their lives in endeavouring to save the
crew of the lifeboat was Lord CHARLES BEAUCLERK.
Two gentlemen on the spot succeeded in throwing
a rope and dragging him to land, but it was too late,
and life was found to be extinct. It is, however,
a great source of satisfaction to his family and
friends that he should have lost his life under such
circumstances, and the general opinion of the pub-
lic will ratify the verdict of the jury—" That the de-
ceased Lord CHARLES BEAUCLERK lost his life
accidentally while generously and nobly endeavour-
ing to save the lives of his fellow-men." Such a
death is better than many lives, and no nobler in-
scription could be placed on his tomb. The details
recorded of the scene at Scarborough last Saturday
are most painful, and it is not often that such tem-
pests are encountered. The sea broke upon the
sea-wall with such terrific violence that the mas-
sive stones upon the parapet were dislodged ! It
is not to be wondered at that the catastrophe
occurred under the circumstances, and it was only
remarkable that no more deaths took place. Our
readers will rejoice at the signal services rendered
in so many places by the lifeboats at Lowestoft,
Bridlington Quay, Fleetwood, Banff, Portcawl,
Seaton, Carew, Stockton-on-Tees, many lives were
saved by the intrepidity displayed by the lifeboat
crews. With our dangerous coast, and the difficulty
of entering our various ports, the disasters that
befall shipping are so numerous that upwards of
seven hundred lives are annually lost. Notwith-
standing that within the last ten years upwards of
a hundred new and efficient lifeboats have been
placed upon various parts of the coast, this number
is quite inadequate to the requirements. The
National Lifeboat Institution have been of the
greatest benefit to the community, and it is earnestly
to be hoped that they will be more efficiently
seconded in their efforts to complete this work of
national importance. Among those who may be
mentioned as benefactors to the cause is
Miss BURDETT CouTTs, who has recently
given two hundred pounds, in addition
to her former donations. This lady has
always been conspicuous for her liberality,
and she could never employ it better than by fur-
thering the success and promoting the interests
of this noble society. It is one that appeals to the
feelings of all who, in this insular land, must
have friends who at one tithe or another' are
encountering the perils of the deep. When their
sojourn abroad is passed, when they return to their
families and friends, some tempest may arise that
overwhelms the homeward-bound vessel ; and then,
but for the Lifeboat Institution, all on board
would be lost. Those whose means enable them
to give bountifully, will do well to peruse the
accounts of last Saturday's transactions by the
crews of the various lifeboats, and then they will
surely be of opinion that thus bestowed
their riches will increase and fructify, and
many a mariner rescued from shipwreck
and many a family rejoicing, over the loved ones
returned from the perils of the deep, will be the
witnesses that their gifts have not been valueless
but have been the happy means of bringing benefits
and bearing blessings to humanity.

We have the best source of information to war-
rant us in positively asserting that at the last Cabinet
Council the question of tho propriety of breaking tho
blockade of the South American ports was discussed,
when it was agreed that no countenance could be given to
such a proceeding.—Court Journal.
Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duke and
Duchess Constantine of Russia honoured the establishment
of Mr. C. F. Hancock, the jeweller, of Bruton-street, on
Saturday last, with a visit immediately after their arrival.

The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint
H. R. Bag&hawo, Esq., Q.C., to be the County Court
Judge for the circuit No. 31, as the successor of John
Johnes, Esq., who has resigned the office on account of ill-
health. The Circuit Courts are held at 12 places in tho
counties of Cardigan, Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Gla.

morgan.

. SUPPOSED AMERICAN PRIVATEER IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN.—MALTA, OCT. 25.-official information
was morning from the United States
ConsurlecaetivAeld esessyinat,etrhdyaata very suspicious American three-
masted schooner had been for several days cruising in the
Faro, wAhout communicating with the shore. She had a
very large number of blacks on board, and there is good
reason to believe that she is a Secessionist privateer. This
news has caused great excitement, as there are a great
number of fine American ships engaged in trade with Sicily,
Malta, Smyrna, and the adjacent ports.
By advices received from India it appears that
the Oriental Inland Steam Company's new steamer Indus
had just been launched at Kurraehee, and by the departure
of next mail was expected to be plying on the Indus. It is
anticipated that this vessel will have a speed of 20 miles an
hour. Another steamer belonging to the same company,
and of equal speed, has arrived safely in Calcutta, and is
expected to be plying on the Ganges by the end of the year.
The steamer Jumna has also arrived at Calcutta. This is
by far the most powerful steamer ever constructed to navi-
gate the Indian rivers, except her consort the Ganges, be-
longing to the same company, the arrival of which in Cal-
cutta was daily expected. The train of barges which will
be towed by the Jumna will a, commodate 3,000 measure-
ment tons of cargo under hatches, and such vessels will
consequently be able to carry cotton and other bulky goods
with profit at a low rate of freight.
WHOLESALE FORGERY BY A SUPERINTENDENT
or POLICE.—There was a great general excitement in the
town of Epworth, Lincolnshire, on Saturday last, owing to
its becoming known that Mr. H. Tooms, superintendent of
police for that division of the county, who had absconded a
week or two previously, was about to be brought up on
numerous charges of forgery. The prisoner was unde-
fended, The first case taken was a charge of having
forged receipts to two bills, delivered to him by Mr. Ben-
nett, surgeon, of Haxley. He was committed for trial on
this and three other similar charges.—Leeds Mercury.
A CHILD KILLED BY A PIG.—On Friday a fine
child belonging to a poor man living at Killaloonty, adjoin-
ing this town, was attacked by a pig, and before assistance
was rendered the body was so dreadfully mangled that life
was almost extinct.
COLLISION OFF DovEa.—On Sunday night, at
9.30, as the Guernsey brigantine Orb, from Newcastle to
Dartmouth, was passing down Channel, she was run into
by a Russian steamer from London to Odessa. The vessel
was three miles off Dover Harbour when the accident oc-
curred. The captain and craw stood by her till she sank,
and as she was going down took to the boat. They were
unable to reach the harbour till nine next morning. When
brought to the Sailors' Home they were in a much exhausted
state; some of them were severely bruised on the wreck.
WRECK OFF OSTEND.—The Independance Beige
of yesterday evening says, during the storm of lost night
(Saturday) the English vessel Sarah Huntley, on its way
from Sunderland to Odessa, with a cargo of coals, was cast
upon the shore to the west of Ostend. The captain and
nine men perished in the waves. The car penter and the
cabin boy were the only persons saved, and the vessel was
entirely lost.

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NEWS.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

BRESLAU, Nov. 5.

The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day announces that
the Emperor of Austria will arrive here during the
visit of the King of Prussia, which, it says, will
take place on the 12th or 13th inst.
VIENNA, Nov. 5.
The Vienna papers of this morning contain the
following announcement :

"The administration of Hungary will be dele-
gated to a Governer, in the person of General Count
Palffy, whose authority will be subordinate to that
of the Aulic Chancellor.

"All the present Obergespans will be super-
seded.
" The Assemblies of the Comitats are to be dis-
solved, and military tribunals established through-
out the country."

THORN, Nor. 4.

According to news from Warsaw, the governor
has expressed a hope that a reconciliation may be
brought about between the Government and the
people.
It is expected that M. Dembowski will be ap-
pointed Minister for Public Worship, M. Krusen-
stern Minister of the Interior, and M. Hube Minis-
ter of Justice.

BRESLAU, Nov. 4.

The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day has news from
Warsaw, according to which a despatch had arrived
there from the Emperor summoning the Marquis
Wielopolski to St. Petersburg. It was generally
expected that M. Wielopolski would return to
Warsaw as Governor of Poland.

TURIN, Nov. 4.

An expedition, composed of 400 Bourbonists,
which was being organised at Malta, has been pre-
vented from proceeding by the arrest of the chief
accomplices at Naples.
At Salerno, some French engineers have fallen
victims to the brigands.

The Opinione of today says :—" Diplomatic
documents on the Roman question will be commu-
nicated by the Ministry to the Parliament imme-
diately on the opening."

PARIS, Nov. 4.
The Paris evening papers contain the follow-

ing :

" It is asserted that France has offered to enter
into negotiations with Switzerland on the subejct
of the Dappen Valley, in order to arrive at some
arrangement by which every possible guarantee
might be given to Switzerland in regard to the neu-
trality of the valley."
Belgium will recognise the kingdom of Italy on
the same conditions as it was recognised by France.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 30,
(via Messina).

There is no truth in the reports which have been
current here of a massacre of Christians in Pa-
lestine.
The Governor of Jerusalem has ordered certain
towns in Palestine to be militarily occupied, on
account of the inhabitants not having paid the
taxes.

MADRID, Nov. 4 (Evening).

An unimportant attempt at insurrection on the
part of the Republican party has been made at
Medina Colei. The instigators of this attempt
have been arrested. It was not necessary to use
military force.

POLAND.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
WARSAW, OCT. 28.

Things must be at their worst now in this unfor-
tunate country. When they will mend it is impos-
sible to say; certain it is that no nation could long
continue in the state in which Poland is at present.
With her King, the Czar, somewhere out of reach
in the Crimea or the Caucasus ; her Viceroy not yet
appointed ; her deputy Viceroy, Count Lambert,
absent; his substitute Suchozainet, a narrow-
minded, decrepid, despicable old man,. whase only
idaa of Government is to make men doff their caps
in his presence and give every sergeant in the army
power ever the lives and properties of the inhabi-
tants ; her ministers of education and justice, of
finance, and of public works sending in their resig-
nation ; her council of state and municipal and pro-
visional councils not sitting; her commander-in-
chief, Gerstenzweig, dying from the effects of an
attempt to blow his own brains out; the comman-
dant of the citadel in her capital, Lowszyn, and the
chief of her fire-brigade succumbing under an
attack of apoplexy ; all her places of worship, and
all her schools, without exception shut up, and the
students either imprisoned in the citadels or wan-
dering about without occupation ; a system of mili-
tary despotism fermenting the whole administra-
tion ; the best and noblest of her children crowding
the deepest and most unwholesome cells in her
fortresses ; her towns turned into camps, her citadels
into prisons, her private houses into barracks—it
would be difficult for the most barbarous of Eastern
tyrants to imagine a system of galling oppression
more resembling a hell upon earth than that which
prevails in Poland at the present moment. No one,
person or property, is safe; one's age, sex, or native
country has no effect in protecting him against the
savage attacks of the soldiery ; Germans, English-
men, and even Russians, have bad their share of
ill-treatment and outrage at their hands. Mr.
Geo. Mitchell, who was severely beaten and wounded
on the 15th, has addressed a letter to Lord Russell,
complaining of the ill-treatment to which he was
so gratuitously subjected; and Mr. White, Vice-
Consul at Warsaw, who was also maltreated by the
Cossacks on that day and robbed of his watch, has
taken steps for prosecuting his aggressors.
A commission was appointed with the permis-
sion of the Government, by the Rev. Mr.
Bialobszeski, Administrator of the Arch-diocese of
Warsaw, to inquire into the late desecrations ;
but its proceedings have been effectually stopped
by the wholesale arrest of the whole of its mem-
bers, together with those who formed the com-
mittee for the Archbishop's funeral, and some
members of the Archbishop's family, the latter
apparently for the sole reason that they bear his
name. These arrests took place on the night of
the 23d. The unfortunate priests were torn from
their houses, after the latter had been pillaged
of all the valuables they contained. On the night
of the 26th the soldiers and police broke into the
houses of Messrs. Wyszynski, Specki, Szlenker, and
Hiszpanski, all distinguished members of the
Council of Warsaw, and dragged them to the
citadel, first seizing all the furniture they could
carry and destroying the rest. Every species of
outrage is committed in the streets. General
Suchozainet makes every now and then a sort of
progress through the town, preceded by a detach-
ment of Cossacks, who knock off the hats and
bonnets of every one they meet with their pikes.
The wearing of sticks, no matter how thin or fragile,
is strictly forbidden. This absurdity is carried so
far that a lame man was deprived of his crutches by
the patrol in the street. The beastly outrages com-
mitted by the savages who are called Russian
soldiers arc so abominable, that
I will not offend
your ears by relating them. One example
will
suffice. A servant girl was seized by these drunken
wretches in tha street, who attempted to sacrifice
her to their brutal desires; she resisted so successfully
with a bottle she held in her hand that she escaped
their violence; but it was only to be subjected to
an outrage of another kind. She was accused
before the military tribunal of having thrown a

bottle at the soldiers while they were occupied in
the execution of their duty, and was sentenced to
sixteen lashes.

The head of the judicial administration is now
General Roznow, who has gained an unenviable
notoriety at Plock for flogging women. His last
achievement was the public flogging of three ladies
with rods in front of the church. It is of course
idle to expect mercy or justice from such a sangui-
nary ruffian ; and worthily does he second the sol-
diers in their brutality. The numberless victims
of the Kosciuszko Day that are languishing in
the prisons are treated most rigorously ; they are
shut up in narrow cells with the windows smeared
over, their food is wretched, and they are allowed
only five minutes for a walk in the open air.

General Lambert has left behind him anything
but a favourable impression. His spasmodic fits of
cruelty and leniency, the laissez aller nature of his
government, altering nothing in the lamentable
condition of the provinces, and leaving Warsaw to
govern itself; and, finally, the disgraceful attack
on the churches on the Kosciuszko Day, which is
universally attributed to his fear of the demands
of the municipal councils, have disgusted every one
with his rule. His policy was eminently a nega-
tive one, and appears to have been based on the
principle to let ill alone. As for his being the
temporary viceroy of Poland, he was so in nothing
but the title. He was merely Governor of Warsaw;
and he was hardly that, unless letting people do
as they like be called government. At last, when
he found that the natural consequence of his letting
go the reins was, that the nation went too fast for
him, he made the supreme effort to regain them.
He failed, after plunging the capital in blood; and
gave up the battle after his first defeat, leaving
murder and desolation, the consequences of his own
acts, behind him. It is now said that he has gone
to Rome to ask the Pope to order the Polish clergy
to open their churches—a piece of folly which is a
worthy pendant to his former deeds. If the Roman
Catholic churches are opened under Government
pressure, they will be empty, just as the Protest-
ant churches in Warsaw are.

The resignation of Marquis Wielopolski will not,
I hear, be accepted. Poles able and willing to aid
Russia in the government of Poland are too seldom
met with to be given up easily ; and there can be
no doubt as to the ability of Wielopolski, whatever
may be the impression at headquarters as to his
real intentions. His dreams of Panslavism are, of
coarse, highly unpalatable to the Government;
but perhaps they think that this is the mildest form
in which Polonism developes itself. At any rate, if
the objects of the Marquis and the Government are
different, they propose to arrive at them by the same
means. The first step, in the opinion of both, is to
subdue the Poles to Russian Government. Wielo-
polski looks upon this, and justly, as a sine qua non
before his favourite project, the union of Russia with
Poland and the other Selavonian States, can be ac-
complished; and Russia labours equally hard, and
by the same means, to assimilate the Polish nation-
ality to itself. Union is the object of both, although
not in the same sense. Wielopolski desires political
union ; Russia a national amalgamation and aboli-
tion of all distinctive marks between Pole and Rus-
sian. The Poles, who hate the very thought of.
any union with Russia, an, on their side, doing
all they can to divide the Russians from their
country out of pure disgust, that being,
in their view, the only chance of regaining
independence. Their success is demonstrated by
the unanimous opinion of the Russian Liberals, as
enunciated in their organs, the Wielikoms and
IColokol, that the possession of Poland only brings
them disgrace and pecuniary loss, and that the
sooner they get rid of such a bad bargain the better.
Under these circumstances, it will not be difficult
to understand that Wielopolski, as a philo-Russian,
and therefore a bad Pole, is perhaps the most un-
popular man in Poland. It is remarked with bitter
indignation that the Marquis only sends in his re-
signation when some one, such as Suchozainet,
whom he does not like, is placed in power ; and
that when hundreds of his countrymen and women
are butchered and brutally outraged before his eyes,
he either sits quietly by, without raising a .word of
protest, or pens one more of those bloody edicts for
the preservation of " order," of which the Govern.
ment of Poland has given us so many specimens.
There is a talk here of the appointment of Gene-
ral Abramowitz, one of the most cruel and uncom-
promising of the creatures of the late Emperor
Nicholas, to the Viceroyalty. It appears that in
his letter to St. Petersburg, asking for an appoint-
ment in Poland, he said, " Make me anything you
like—governor, minister, director of police, or
Viceroy—and I will undertake to bring back the
times of Paskiewicz in six weeks! He will find,
however, the Poles of the present day rather diffe-
rent to those of the times of Paskiewicz. General
Gerstenzweig is said to have exclaimed, on the
Kosciuszko Day, when he found all his efforts to
stir up the Poles to active resistance baffled : " I
know how to treat red republicans (les rouges), but
what can I do with these moderate rascals (la
canaille des 2noderes)?"

The Council of State, whose sittings have been
suspended during the state of siege, has done the
little it has, as usual, in the most perfect seeresy,
and with closed doors. The Government paper, the
Dziennik Powszechny, gives the following laconic
account of its proceedings :
" The Financial Department of the Council of
State in this kingdom has had under its considera-
tion the bill relative to mines laid before the
Council after the general meeting of the depart-
ments of the Warsaw Senate, and has made its
remarks thereon, The united legislative and finan-
cial departments of the Council of State have had
under their consideration the reports of heads of
departments for the year 1860 laid before the
Council, and have prepared motions relative
thereto; also the bill laid before the Council by
the Director of Education and Justice on the civil
rights of the Jews. The members of the general
meeting in the hall of deliberation have read the
reports of heads of departments. At the general
meeting of the 4th (16th) of that month, Marquis
Wielopolski, by order of the Acting Viceroy, Pre-
sident of the Council, prorogued it for three
weeks."

This is the way in which the farce of constitu-
tional government is played in this country. The
" Council of State," the Polish Parliament, is no-
minated by the Emperor, and deliberates fruitlessly
on bills presented by the Minister, and which al-
ways become law—with closed doors, as if it were
transacting affairs of the highest importance, or
indeed doing anything of the least consequence !
It would be very difficult to point out a single mea-
sure which has been altered in any important point,
for better or worse, by the Council, who have no
power either of initiation or decision. As for their
advice, it is listened to by men who have already
made up their minds.
Some signs of a martial movement in Poland are
beginning to show themselves already. Seven
carts-full of arms have been stopped on the Prussian
frontier; and one of the merchants here has been
arrested for sending money abroad for the purchase
of arms. What truth there may be in these ru-
mours I cannot say, but there can be no doubt that
the Poles will seize the first opportunity to strike
for their liberty. The Russians are, I hear, making
great warlike preparations on their whole line of
frontier, large masses of troops are being collected
along the Dniester and the Kalisz, the fleet is daily
increasing in numbers and strength, and Sebastopol
has sprung up from its ashes more impregnable
than ever. _ _

The state of siege is rigorously enforced in the
provinces. At Kole Lieut.-Col. Weimar, the mili-
tary commandant, fell with his troops on a carriage
which was passing through the town, exclaiming
" I am your lord, I am your king, I will thrash you
with sticks in the market-phce." And he was as
good as his word. He dragged the gentlemen out
of the carriage, and after savagely ill treating them
sent them to prison ; and the ladie:, who had white
ribbons on their black dresses (haw ine), had their
clothes torn to pieces by the soldiery.

SWITZERLAND.
The occupation of the Valley des Dappes by the
French troops has created no small sensation
throughout Switzerland.
A letter from Berne, dated Ist inst., says :--
"The Federal Council has decided that the events
which have occurred in the Valley des Dapper

shall be officially notified to the Governments of
all the cantons by a circular, and that a complaint
shall be addressed to the French Government on the
subject."

A letter, dated Berne, 31st October, says:—
_

" Official reports have been received, confirming
the news of the occupation of the Valley des Dappes
by the French, Yesterday, at 10 a.m., the Council
held an extraordinary sitting, in which reports
were read from the Council of State of the Canton
de Vaud, from the Prefect of Nyon and from the
Commander of the Gendarmerie of St. Cargues,
which announce positively that on the 28th of
October a detachment of soldiers and geEdarmes
penetrated the valley of the Dappes, on the
pretext of preventing the arrest of an individual.
The Federal Council has ordered President de
Migy, of Berne, the Vice-President of the C...nton
de Vaud, and Colonel Veillon, to proceed forthwith
to the spot to investigate the matter."

The Conatztutionnel has the following on the
subject :
" At the very moment that the difference between
France and Switzerland respecting the affair of
Ville-la-Grand was on the point of being settled, a
new conflict has arisen. This time it is the Valley
des Dappes, to which France has stated rights in
virtue of the final act of the Treaty of Vienna,
and which, a few years since, was the subject
of fruitless negotiations between • the Govern-
ment of the Emperor and the Swiss Con-
federation. In the centre of ' that valley,
which has no territorial importance, but which
intercepts the communications between Fort des
Rousses and the district of Gex, there is the little
village of Cressoniere. An individual sentenced
by the Court of Nyon to a punishment sought re-
fuge in that village, and the Vaudois authorities
ordered him to be arrested there; but the French
gendarmerie has occupied Cressoniere, and pre-
vented the Vaudois police from doing so.
" The Federal Council held an extraordinary
sitting on the Ist of November, in which it has
been decided to send a note to the Swiss represen-
tative at Paris to be communicated to' the French
Government. It is, moreover, inexact that the
Valley des Dappes has been occupied by our troops.
" This new incident only proves one thing, the
necessity of settling definitively this question of the
Valley of the Dappes, which, without having any
special importance of its own, is an endless source
of difficulties on that portion of our frontier, and
we believe that negotiations for that purpose hate
been opened with the Swiss Federal Council."
La Patrie says :

" Different foreign journals have published false
statements respecting the occupation of the Valley
des Dappes. For nearly 45 years France has
never ceased to claim that territory, which be-
longs to her in the most incontestable manner, and
we believe that an offer has now been made to
Switzerland for negotiations for an arrangement
which would give every possible guarantee to the
Swiss Confederation as regards its neutrality."

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THE SUN,
LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 1861.