The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-29 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, FRIDAY EVE NING, NOVE VIB R 29. 1861.

THE BRITISH FORCES ON TUE NORTH
AMERICAN AND WEST LYDIA STATION.

Considering the present disturbed state of affairs in the
United States, it will be interesting to our readers to be
mado acquainted with the actual force under the command
of Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., on the
American seaboard, together with those on passage, which
has been carefully compiled from official sources, and com-
prises the number of ships, guns, men, horse power, ton-
nage, and the names of the commanding officers on the
North American and West India Station :

Ships. Guns. Men. H.-p. Tons. Corn. officers.
Nile
St. George
Immortalite
Mersey 4O 600 1000 3733 Capt. H. Caldwell
Diadem 32 485 800 2483 Capt. G. Randolph
Ariadne 26 400 800 3214 Capt. Vansittart
Challenger
Cadmus .. 21 270 400 1466 Capt. H. Hillyar
Jason 2l 270 400 1711 Capt. E. von Donop
Terror
Rinaldo. l7 170 200 951 Corn. W. Hewett
Racer ll 120 150 679 Cora. A. Lyons
Imaum .. 10 81 1776 Cdre. H. Dunlop
Desperate .... 7 170 400 1038 Com. J. Ross
Barracouta .. 6 170 300 1053 Corn. G. Malcolm
Bulldog .. 6 170 500 1124 Com. F. Al'Killop
Hydra
Spiteful 6 170 280 1054 Com. W. Wilson
Cygnet
Landrail
Nimble 6 50 80 428 Lieut. J. D'Arcy
Plover
Steady

Nettle
Onyx 2 23 20 211 gun-boat
Kite

Kingston .... harbour
Pyramus .... 4 920 receiving-hulk

Weymouth .. 6 826 receiving-hulk

Despatch .... sheer-vessel
Devonport.... anchor-hoy

Doterel — receiving-ship
Dromedary
Marianne receiving-ship
Medway convict-hulk
Safety receiving-hulk

Tenedos convict-hulk

Thames

-- convict-hulk

Total 506 6192 8260 37569
ON PASSAGE.
Conqueror 99 1070 800 3265 Capt. Sotheby

Donegal 99 950 800 3245 Capt. S. Osborn
Sanspareil 70 550 400 2339 Capt. G. Bowyer
Phaeton 5l 340 400 2396 Capt. E. Tatham
Himalaya 6 112 700 3453 Capt. J. Seecombe
Medea

Total 331 2317 3450 15533

The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official resi-
dence at the Admiralty last night from Mr. G. Tomline's
seat in Norfolk, his grace having been sent for by telegraph
in :order to attend the Cabinet Council to be held this
afternoon.

The Marquis and Marchioness de Beaumont,
Count Arnsteine, and the Baron Bejera, have arrived at
the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris.

Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont have left
town for Bretton Hall,' 'Wakefield, Yorkshire, in order to
be present at the funeral of the late Mrs. Beaumont, which
takes place to-day at Bretten church.
We ( Canadian News) believe we are correct in
saying that the whole of the mail in the North Briton
was saved, although some portions of it were so damaged as
to be almost illegible. Many of our papers testified to the
length of time the mail room must have been under water
before the bags were saved.
AMERICAN INTERFERENCE WITH A BRITISH
SILIP,—The following is important as showing the risks to
which our shipping is exposed by the war in America :
The ship Storm King, which arrived at Quebec on the 9th
inst., reports that she was run into in the Irish Channel,
soon after leaving Liverpool, by the American ship Ports-
mouth, bound from New York to Liverpool. The American
ship mistook her for another vessel of the same name that
left Liverpool for some of the ports in the Southern States,
with military stores. The American declared that it was
his intention to sink the vessel, which he attempted by
running into her, broadside, and again at the bow. The
Storm King experienced heavy weather throughout the
entire passage, and arrived severely damaged. The bul-
warks were carried away, and part of her bow. The other
vessel was slightly damaged.—Canadian News, Nov. 28.

SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner
for West Middlesex, held an inquest on Wednesday night
at the Portman Arms, Gnat Quebec-street, touching the
sudden death of a gentleman of fortune named John Mon-
tague Uperoft, 60 years of age, residing at 301, Marylebone
Road. Mr. Norton, the deceased gentleman's medical ad-
viser, deposed that he was found dead in his bedroom on
Saturday morning last. The cause of death was phthisis and
polypus of the heart and disease of the lungs. The deceased
was a man of large property, being worth at least £120,000,
and a large amount of money was found in his houo. As
no relatives had come forward to claim it the witness had
doomed it his duty to employ a Bolicti or to seal up and take
charge of the deceased's repository, and to tako such other
proceedings as the law d recto& In conformity with the
medical evidence, a verdict of death from natural causes
was returned.

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.—At an early hour
yesterday morning a fire broke out in the premises of
Messrs. Holland and Sons, cabinet makers, Ranelagh-street,
Pimlico. A very short time after tLo outbreak several
engines were in attendance. The flames spread with great
rapidity, and the premises, consisting of a series of work-
shops three storeys high, GO feet long, and 30 wide, extend.
ing from Ranelagh-street to Belgrave-street, were soon
one mass of flame. At 2.30 the building was gutted, and
valuable property to the extent of £30,C00, consisting of
costly sofas, tables, and bookcases, was destroyed, nearly
the whole of the furniture intended for the Grosvenor Hotel
being consumed. At 4.30 the fire was got under, but up
to the present time it is smouldering. The Messrs. Hol-
land are partly insured, but not to the full extent of their
loss. The salvage of the timber-yard is considerable. At
the commencement of the fire a number of valuable horses
were saved.

MEETING OF MINISTERS.—Viscount Palmerston
received Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right
Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and several other
members of the Cabinet, early in. the forenoon yesterday, at
his Lordship's official residence in Downing-street. After
the separation of the Ministers Lord Palmerston caused
summonses to be issued for a Cabinet Council this afternoon
at his residence in Downing-street, at 2 o'clock. Com-
mandcr Williams, R.N., the naval agent in charge on board
the contract mail steamer Trent, on his arrival in London
on Wednesday, at once proceeled to the Admiralty, and
was for several hours
,occupied with the members of the
Board in town.

GAMBLING IN PARIS.—A somewhat singular ease
was yesterday submitted to the Imperial Court on appeal
from a judgment of the Civil Tzibunal. A person named
V—, formerly a keeper of a tobacco-shop, claimed
12,000 f. from a M. C—, for, as he said, money lent, and
in support of his demand, he produced a number of bille ac-
cepted by that person, and which fell due in the years 1849,
1851, 1853, 1854, and 1859, but were not paid. M. C—
disputed the claim on the ground that the sum was part of
one of 20,000 f., which he had lost in playing with the
plaintiff at draughts, and that the money lost in gambling
cannot be recovered at law. The plaintiff did not deny that
he and the defendant had been for the space of 12 years in
the habit of playing almost every day at draughts in the
Cafe de Londres, in the Place de la Madeleine, but he
alleged that they had only done so for the things which
they took in the cafe, and that he had made advances to the
plaintiff partly for his persdnal necessities, partly to pay the
expense of lighting the cafe whop, as repeatedly happened,
their play was continued until a late hour in the night. To
this M. C— answered that ho was a richer man than
he could not have borrowed from him, and that the
latter part of the statement was not correct. The Tribunal
examined numerous witnesses who were acquainted with
both parties, and had seen them play, and came to the con-
clusion that the bills in question had been given for money
lost in gambling. It therefore dismissed the action.
Against this decision V— had appealed, but the Court
3 esterday confirmed the previous judgment.—Galignazzi's
Messenger.

CATTLE FOR USE, AND CATTLE FOR Snow.—Eng-
lish graziers eagerly purchase lean, and sell at the best
prices when fat, Highland and Scotch polled cattle and
Welch runts. Black-faced Highland and Cheviot sheep, for
half the year at least, fill the butchers' shops of London with
very choice legs and loins. In Lincolnshire and the ad-
joining counties you may see square miles of Lincoln sheep
feeding down turnips, and thus protecting what was waste
from returning to its original barrenness. But it is only by
exception that these favourites of the butcher appear on the
champ clos of the Royal Agriculturre. tournaments. Nor-
folk and Suffolk have a breed of polled cattle which the
dairy farmers of these counties highly esteem. There were
just six specimens at Leeds, all sent ly one locally patrio-
tic nobleman. Sussex boasts and highy values a breed of
large red long-horned ca tle, bearing the county name,
which seem like an enlarged edition of Devons. Like the
Devons, they are famous draught cattle, and are amongst
the picturesque features of the Sussex strong clay valleys,
as they slowly toil along before that inheritance from the
Saxon, the huge wooden turnwrest plough. In the great
metropolitan market—where, after years of toil, they come
fat—they are not despised by the butcher who has io feed
sailors and soldiers, for at least "they are sweet, and die
well"—look well in joints, and yield goal prices and a
fair share of inter nal fat. At Leeds five special prizes brought
from the same herd two specimens of Susses pride—a bull
and a heifer; while of the polled Angus, the ;pedal favourite
of the meat-merchants of London, the prodicers of the beef
that always head the price currents of Nowgete and Leaden-
hall carcase butchers, there was just one slecimen, bred in
Aberdeenshire and fed in Forfarshire. This is the kind of
cattle that will bear the bell at the forthoming Christmas
Cattle Show,—.4U the Da Roma.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

PER THE STEAMER CITY OF NEW YORK, Via
QUEENSTOWN.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15, EVENING.
There is no conclusive evidence of the occupation
of Beaufort by the Federals.

The Charleston papers of the 12th inst. deny that
the Federals have occupied the town, and state that
reinforcements had been sent thither by the Confe-
derates, who were preparing to defend the town.
Federals, however, have occupied Hilton Island, the
cotton crap on which was found to have been fired
by the residents before leaving.
The Charleston Courier says there is little cotton
stored at or near Beaufort.

The New York journals state that the Federal
Government has not determined whether Beaufort
shall be made a port of entry.
The Southern journals state that black flags have
been hoisted at Charleston and Savannah as an in-
dication that no quarter would be given, and that
none would be asked.

Eighteen Federal officers, prisoners of war at
Richmond, have been selected to be hanged, should
the Federal Government hang the crew of the pri-
vateer Savannah.

Confirmatory accounts have been received of
bridge burning on a most extensive scale by the
Union men of East Tennessee and Missouri.
The Federal army has evacuated Springfield,
Missouri, returning to St. Louis.
It is reported that an United States war vessel
has captured a large British steamer, supposed to
be the Fingal, laden with arms, at Key West.
Colonel Cochrane, in addressing his regiment at
Washington, urged the arming of the Southern
slaves against their masters.

The Secretary of War was present on the occa-
sion, and is reported to have fully endorsed Colonel
Cochrane's speech.

A despatch from Fortress Monroe reports the
arrival of the United States steam sloop of war San
Jacinto, from the coast of Africa, with Messrs.
Slidell and Mason on board.

The reported battle at Pikeville, Kentucky, was
very much exaggerated. There were no killed, and
the number of wounded and prisoners is reduced to
80 and 50 respectively.
The report of the capture of the Sumter has not
been confirmed.

The New York Herald of the above date publishes
various Southern accounts of the battle at Beau-
fort, all of which coincide in admitting the disaster
which has befallen the Southern arms in that quarter.
The Southern papers also confirm the fact that a
large amount of cotton must neeessarily fall into the
hands of the Federal army. The census returns
show that the Beaufort district contains 12,672 bales
of ginned cotton, of 4001 b. per bale. Of this amount
probably 10,000 bales are now at the disposal of the
Federal Government. The Charleston Mercury says
there is no doubt that the Union army would cap-
ture a large amount of cotton in the vicinity of
Port Royal, and that Beaufort itself contains an
mmense quantity of that staple. That the Union
Government intends to maintain Port Royal as a
permanent station, is evident from the fact that
orders were despatched to Now York yesterday for
the preparation of a large quantity of lumber for
the construction of buildings for a naval depot
there, intended for the manufacture of machinery,
and orders also to despatch at once a number of store
ships to be permanently stationed at Beaufort.

The Chief of Police of Baltimore arrived in
Washington yesterday. and stated to the SerretarY
of War that news had been received there, by the
boat from Fortress Monroe, to the effect that Gen.
Sherman had seized 2,000,000 dols. worth of cotton
at Beaufort, and that the loyal citizens in that
vicinity were soliciting arms to protect themselves
against the despotism of the Confederates.
It is said that the Secretary of the Treasury in-
tends immediately to appoint a collector for the
port of Beaufort.
Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, has issued
a message to the Legislature of that state, in which,
the II erald says, he admits that South Carolina is
discontented with the Southern Government, and
alludes to the intense suffering of the Confederate
troops.

Among the rumours contained in the Southern
papers is one that Colonel Corcoran, of the New
York 69th, together with three captains and 18
lieutenants, captured at Bull's Run, have been
selected from the prisoners at Castle Pinkney to be
hung, in case the crew of the privateer Savannah,
lately on trial in New York, were consigned to
death.

Everything remains in stutu quo in the army of
the Potomac.

From St. Louis it is stated that Gen. M'Kin-
stry, one of General Fremont's subordinate officers,
was arrested on his arrival in that city, it is ru-
moured, upon some charge of pecuniary malfeasance.
The Unionists in Tennessee have been doing
terrible damage to the railroads, over which the
Confederates might effect the transportation of their
troops. The splendid bridge north of Nashville has
been burned.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE;
NEW YORK, Nov. 15, EVENING.
Money easy. Exchange firm, and advancing.
Bankers' bills, 108 1081. Stocks declining. New
York Central, 80Z; Erie, 341; Illinois, &I!. Cotton
dull; middling upland, 24/c.
Flour in good demand for export. Wheat firm,
and advancing. Corn flat. Provisions quiet.
Coffee in demand ; sugar heavy ; molasses dull.

ARRIVAL OF THE JURA.

LONDONDERRY, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Canadian steamer Jura, which sailed from
Quebec on the 16th, has arrived. She landed all
the mails, except those for Liverpool, and proceeded.
Her news is generally anticipated by the arrival of
the City of New York, at Queenstown.
As it was thick, with a heavy snowstorm, when
the Jura was off Father Point, the despatch boat
did not come off; and when off Cape Race it blew a
gale of wind, which prevented her from getting
despatches there.

QUEBEC, Nov. 16.

The provincial tug steamer Napoleon 111. has
arrived in port from Mingan, where she had been
despatched on Monday last for the purpose of ren-
dering assistance, to the shipwrecked passengers of
the North Briton. On her arrival, a special meet-
ing of the Cabinet was held, and Captain Grange
was called before the meeting, and examined as to
the cause of the accident. Nothing further was
elicited, however, than what is already known. The
captain of the Napoleon 111. reports having spoke
three schooners in Mingau harbour laden with a
portion of the cargo from the wreck:
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29.
The Jura has arrived here.

The telegram from Boston states that the col-
lector at that port had received instructions from

Washington to stop the export of saltpetre and
gunpowder.
Colonel Cochrane's speech, urging the arming of
the negroes, was most violent in tone.

TURIN, Nov, 28 (Evening.)

A bill for the temporary occupation of the con-
vents by the military was brought forward to-day
in the Senate.

Urgency was demanded for the passing of this
bill, as it will shortly be necessary to provide lodg-
ing for 93,000 recruits.
Baron Iticasoli stated in the Senate that the rela-
tions between Italy and France continue to be of
the most cordial nature. He said also that the
accounts of brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces
were exaggerated, that the number of brigands in
the Basilicata does not exceed 250, and that a rein-
forcement of 2,000 carabineers would shortly be
despatched into that province.

PARIS, Nov. 28.

Tha supplementary election in the department of
Aube has resulted in the return of the Government
candidate by a large majority.
The Paris evening papers publish "under reserve"
a despatch from St. Domingo, dated November 9,
announcing that General Santana, who surren-
dered St. Domingo to Spain, had issued a pronun-
ciamento against the Spanish Government.
The case of the Ami de la Religion was heard
to-day. The editor was fined 500 f. He immediately
gave notice of appeal against this judgment.

TURIN, Nov. 28.
All the journals approve the recall of Baron
Tecco from Madrid.

The Armonia to-day publishes protests from the
Bishops of Umbria and the Southern Provinces
against the last circular of the Minister of Justice.
Signor Ratazzi will take part in the discussion of
the Roman and Neapolitan questions in the Cham-
ber of Deputies.

NAPLES, Nov. 28.

Brigandage is increasing in the province of Ba-
silicata, and the brigands are now concentrating
their forces for a great effort. Some brigand chiefs,
bearers of important papers, have been shot.

BERNE, Nov. 28.

France has afforded satisfactory explanations to
the Government of the Canton of Geneva in refer-
ence to the late violation of Swiss territory near
Geneva by French gendarmes.
An early settlement of the Villa la Grand affair
is likewise expected.

'MORN, Nov. 28.

It is asserted that a telegram from St. Peters-
burg has been received at Warsaw, announcing
that the Marquis Wielopolski bad tendered his re-
signation, and that it had been accepted by the
Emperor.

LISBON, Nov. 28.
The report, current here to-day, that the Duke
of Saldanha was dead, is unfounded.
The Duke's health has slightly improved.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 23.
Fuad Pasha will return to Constantinople imme-
diately.
Riza Pasha remains at Smyrna.
An issue of new small kaimes will take place
without delay.
Excellent relations prevail between the English
and French Embassies.

BOMBAY, Nov. 12.

(By telegraph direct from Alexandria.)

Lord Canning is about to extend the system of
permanent settlement to the North-West Pro-
vinces.

Disturbances have taken place at Nortgong (?):
[The above telegram ;eft Alexandria at 5 p.m.
on the 26th instant, and arrived in London at 10.32
a.m. on the 29th inst.]

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
La Patrie says that " it has been informed, from
a private source, that Rear. Admiral Milne (Sir
Alexander Milne, K.C..13.), Commander-in-Chief on
the North American and West Indies Station, had,
on hearing of the outrage committed on the Trent,
sent three steam-frigates to the Island of Cuba to
escort, until new orders, the steamer which plies
between the Havannah and St. Thomas's."

"It appears," says La Patric," that information
has been received at Washington by the American
Government that important personages of the
Southern States were continually taking that route,
and that the expedition of the San Jacinto would
be renewed. To prevent such a repetition Admiral
Milne sent the frigates in question.
La Patrie, commenting upon this affair, in an
article signed by M. Cucheval de Clarigny, says :

" The pretext that MM. Mason and Slidell were seized
as ' contraband of war' could only be admitted if the Envoys
of the South had wished to make use of the Trent to intro-
duce arms or ammunition into America; but they were, on
the contrary, leaving America for Europe, and there were
no arms on board the steamer. The emissaries or agents of
a Government have never been regarded as contrabrand
of war.' Consequently, there has been a manifest violation
of the English flag, and it is to be feared that it was ordered
by the Cabinet at Washington in its desire to seize, at all
risks, the despatches of which the Envoys of the South
were the Ix arers.

" Under any circumstances, the British Government can-
not dispense with exacting as a reparation the dismissal of
the officers of the San Jacinto, the liberation of the passen-
gers taken from the Trent, and an indemnity for them.
Will the Cabinet at Washington be able to make all these
concessions in face of the state of irritation in which the
press of the North keeps the population against England ?
It is, therefore, to be feared that complications of the most
serious nature may arise between England and the United
States, and we perfectly understand the impression the news
produced on the London Stock Exchange. Reinforcements
for Canada were already in formation, and they have been
ordered by the English Government to sail forthwith."
The Constitutionnel says :

"The arrest of an English mail steamer by an American
yes el of war is so serious a fact, that we may be justified
in believing that the officer who committed the act did so
upon his own responsibility, or that, it he was obeying in-
structions from the Cabinet of Washington, the latter had
not sufficiently weighed the consequences.
" In either case we hope that the American Government
will make a reparation and satisfy the claims of England.
We count upon it doing so in its own interests, which have
always served as a guide to its policy.
" In fact, it is impossible that the Americans should not
understand how irregular is the arrest of MM. Slidell and
Mason on board the Trent ; how contrary it is to the law.of
nations; and how prejudicial the consequences of this act
would be to themselves.
"It would be the consecration of the right of search,'
against which they have always protested, and which was
one of the chief causes of the war they themselves waged
with England in 1S 12—a right of search exercised not only
on commercial vessels but on ships of war, for the mail
steamers are Royal vessels, having on board a lieutenant of
the Royal Navy, and their officers wear tko uniform of the
British Navy.

66 By declaring contraband of war simple passengers with
or without a diplomatic mission the Americans strike a
mortal blow against the privileges of neutral States, which
it is to their interest more than any one else to see re-
spected."
The Opinion Publique says :

" We perfectly understand the deep sensation this event
has cau3ed in London ; for, if the French flag had received
such an insult, the whole country would have risen as one man
to demand striking satisfaction. We have, in fact, always
proclaimed respect for a neutral flag and the national
dignity would invincibly make us exact from others the
same respect we should pay to them. We must, however,
admit that the question is not quite so simple as regards
England. Great Britain has always been opposed to the
rights of neutrals ; and if in 1856 she made a concession
from her old principles, it was solely because she found an
ample compensation in the abolition of letters of marque.
England, as regards neutrals, is fully bound towards U 9
and all the rowers that adhered to the convention of the

15th of April, 1856. But the United States were not of the
number. The Washington Cabinet refused to admit the
new maxims proclaimed by the Pari;i Congress, because the
Western Governments would not go the whole length in
the path of commercial liberty by decreeing the complete
emancipation of trading vessels in time of war.

" It results from this double situation that England and
the United States have remained, in their reciprocal rela-
tions, under the empire of the ancient maritime law."

The Journal des Debats reserves its opinion until
it has studied the question more maturely.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 28.—The market during the early
part of the day was firm in spite of Steck being
again offered, and prices, which had at first slightly'
given way, again rallied. Within the last half
hour they have again receded, Threes being now
at 69£ 90c.

Three o'Clock.—S took has become more freely
offered in consequence of the affair between Eng-
land and America, and prices have further declined.
The following are the last quotations :-
4t per per Cents 95 90 Credit Fonder l2OO
Do. end month.... 96 —1 Belgian 4-} —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 45 ' Roman
Bank Shares 2975 Austrian -
Credit Mobilier.. , . 751 25 Spanish Threes 4O
Do. Account 752 50 , Home Debt -