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liberty fo useertain tempt; the G iO roperty that ean be can ever, looked like the irresolution of fexe. The many fiss chat we are hardly prepared for a crime so wantod, an)

overament, with an indecision which, to Ameri- But we con-.

time capture j¢ be@ause, if 5 by sufivient inquiry whether ©

leyaily captured, it is impossible Luropean treaties which refer vo th's

ature, ight refer to if a8 pres outrage so flagrant and so unpardonable, us has _Junt exigtiog and merely regulate the exereise of it. All writers perpetrated under the orders of the Cabinet of Washington upon the ine of nations unanim: usly acknowledge it The Unless Mr. Seward be simply out of his senses with rage, greet Aiericat sarhori-y. Wont, treating upon the samey jean, and he!ples-ness.~ unles. be be intoxicared with lis ove ~ulject ti his Commentaries, says: —— Tre duty of self-pre-) boast!ulness till he rently belveves bis own statements — ive ser Variotl gi ves to helhyerant mations this right. The doctrine must be aware that Kog'and can, before a mouth - pass: d, of the Baghsh Admiralry Carts on the rig ot of visttarion destroy or take possessnn of every seaport in the Northern and acarch, and on the liwitation of the right, has been re- States, raize the blockade of the Southern coast, and sweep cogp ted in’ its fullest ex'ent by the Courts of Justice in this the seas clear of the Federal fig. Aad yet, with this know- country.” Se far ag the authorities yo, the testimony of lo- ledge, he has ventured on an outrage which ought to be ternational Law writers is ali ene wags that abelligerant war avenged by the immediate appearance of the British fleet in crutser hes the right to stop and visit and search any mer- the Chesapeake, bringing the altervative of ietant repara- chant ship upon the bigh seas. We quote these aurhoritie. ion or—war,

beesuse 1¢ is essential that upon a matter so important os ti at now before as the public miod should be well informed Bai it must be remembered that these decisions were given ; y : uutler eircadstances very: diferent trom those mina eles a very serious character. Yue facts are before the ahd eceur, ememdeé in theie dave did tot exist, and mail yes. Yisers of the Crow n, and upon their decision us to the legality sels carrying letters wherein all the nations of the world | Of the proceeding will depend the action of the eeerqanent. have igmdiste interest were unknown. We were fi hting it would be there’ore premature for us to discuss the conse- for existence, dud we did in those dese what we shou'd neither

quences of this important event, Our owa opinion is that ; ' ne Federal Goverament had a legal right to stop the Trent do ner allow others to do, nor expect ourselves to be allowed | '” Federal Goverument had a legal rig P to do, ia these days, Moreover, if we gave ‘ull scope to al!

and 10 sez: upon contraband of war, guder which definition, i “ olor: » eo . . , thin ansiquated. taw it reniaine sili to be asked whether the | ¥¢ believe. despatches belonging to the enemy are inc luded ' ; , But no such despatches were searched for, vor, indeed, did men who have beeu tsken trom beneath the protection of ov: |, eer 7 i Eig ho bore } . : — nk an “a he | the Frent co vey any. Four passengers Ouly, Why bore DO diag were liable to saizure, hey were pot cfheera of the . tak var a rn ul . » ship. s.my or of the nuvy of the Confederate States. They were fhe'al churacter, were taken out of the ship

We think dhp omatic Envoys, wanticg only in some formalities to be ‘hat this proceeding was = oa re Ambassadors th Kagland and Branee. We do not say there The opinion of the law cflivers will, however, very § tw ; wie es ce decide this question If we are right, the British Govern- is any provision to the law of nations which will entitle usto * ll el » bhe-eneithe se diiaauten teak Salida. ant enantaip that theit persous were sacred by reason of thei een eee ee : ; pores wisston; hat, on the other hand. we are not aware of any authority which wii! Show that these Kuvoys were contraband of war, if we bad recoguised the Confederate States we »p- prebend that weshou'd have been perfectly justified in takin, these Aunassadors on board our own ve-se!s of war and br ng- ig them to Kogland, without iv any way forfeiting our cha- racter aw neutrals. But, even if it wore necessary 0 admi: that these yet.tlemen were in w belligerent or coutrabund cha- intense exeiteaseut,—sury assing anything experienced since racter on board the Kayglish ve ssel, it in, believe, the) the Crimean war, People felt on Wednesday as if the great- optnion of very ewinent jarists that this was not a question © calamity that eould befall eee veptere ae "le ts be adjadieated on by a naval officer vnd four boats crews, S¢l¥e8 and our transatlantic someone tite ee nd. her The legal coarse wou!d have bern to take the ship itsel! into | [Ureday Shere Wasa calw, wext day the win rove ee : ; ee with fearful violence all over the land. When it became port and to ask for ber comiempation, of for the eondemna- known that the British Mail Packet Trent had been boarded thon Of the passengers, in a Court of Admivalty. oglit, wo doubt, bave been the same, but if the proeceding circumstances of discourtesy and menace, the werchants ov! Sas irrega'ar we have surely a right to demand that those prisovers shal! be restored.

(From the * Morning Post."’)

passeayers taken fiom auder our dag. Lf we are are wrong. of course we sball have to submit to the law. But we sbali not less keenly feel an affront which must prove to us how little the Pederal Government appreciate tie courtesy, dis erction and yenerosily wits which we have invariably acted

We

were inude of the must fery description, and advice scorned ‘because it counselled inquiry into the ase and an acquaint- hanee with the law of nations. jor two dissentient speakers eould not produce, was accom- plished by the Times, whieh baving examined all the features It requires a strong effort of seif-restraipt to discuss with of the cuse, showed trom Lord Stowell and others that huw- eoolness tbe intel genee We publish to-day. Ao Baglish ever outragevus and humiliating it might be for a vessel in Mail Steemer, sailing under the British flag, snd carrying the British service to be thasd alt with, there wus no remedy itera and pavsengers from @ Spauish port io Fagland, hae | T it.48 it was in conformity with the maritime laws of Great ~ ! s ' I . Britain and the United tates. This article cooled the fierce been stopped on the high seas and overhaweld. We PME OU and satiefied the reflecting ** Our first duty is,’’ said the of aight the accidents that the four geutlonen thus Kiduapped | 7ymeg, + to cali certainly not to inflame, the general indig- were accredited with a diplomatic misson from the Conted@ nation which is felt at the news.”’ ’ rate States of Awerica to the Cvurtsuf Eurepe, and also the) was praised, and it must have been a painful self-sacrifice on

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(From the ** Tunes."*)

PUBLIC. OPINION ON THE AMERICAN OUTRAGE

perempory manuer in whicn the Federal friyate acted in| the part of its conducturs to restrain the thunders uf Printing |

The intention of the F-deral Govern- Uouse Square.

making her se zure. [ : i : E In this position affairs stood until the following day, when

went «videutly Was '0 act upon their strict right, and to dou

sy in us little ceremoninus u mapner ss might be, If they

at variance with the decisions of Lord stowell and the English

ure just fied by their rights as belligerents io what they have | Qyuris, and shat there were features in the vutrage upon the

just been | cotton.

The Government of the United S:ates has taken a step of

iu reparatlon could be e@ mplete withou: the resd!utiou of the |

Wilner §& Smith siates that the last week had been one of

The result | at sea, and Messrs. Mason and Slidell taken from her uuder

Liverpoul held an ** indignation meeting,”’ at which speeches

But what the coolness of one |

Phe dignity of the Times

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an insult the whole country would have risen as one man to. demand striking eatisfaction.

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manded the list of passengers, which was fefused. Then the | soyuently reduced in e’rcumstances, and had e

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| ‘The Bermuda has arrived ut Havre with 1780 bales of ‘acknowledge their presence on board, and under the protee-

The Belgian steamer Congress from Havre for New York pat into Southampton, ih dirtress, on the 29th ult.

The Waterford Company's steamer Zepbyr from Liverpool for Waterford, came in collision with a French steemer off Paftin Island, and sunk her, the captuin, mute, and eig! the crew were lost,

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(From the Times «ity Article )

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

| Lonvon, Friday Evening. —Console opened yesterday morn- ‘ing ata further fall of 3 io 1 per cent. on the announcement of the law officers of the Crown having given An opinion that ithe proceedings of the Am rican frigate were posi 1 oe sequently the heaviness incressed, Do ee : we place at 1 percent below the Per et of Thars ay an , pe cent below the highest prices of W ednesday. Before the ter-

ery , sines out 4p reent.| with its own subjects mination of business there was a rally of abou 1 subjects. ' ' On the Paris Bourse yesterday there was @ further fall of | belligerent rights and concede the claim, but then all that| wise succeded tu freeing herself from bis

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names of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, the Confederate Commie- sionere to England and Franee, and their secretaries, were mentioned as passengers, aod Mr. Slidell stepped forward to

tion of the British flag. The captain refused to give them

ap, whereapon four boats’ crews of arwed sailors and marines ‘were brought on board, and, after an ineffectual protest from

Commander Willimmson, R. N.. the fonr gentlemen were

| isomers of war. Their wives and families have come on to bagiaad, and are now on board the + Naehville,’’ at South- ampton, England has always insisted on the ‘ right of search’’ on the part of a belligerent Power, and America bas as strong} | denied it, even to the extent of disputing our right to searc ‘slavers who audaciously hyisted the American flag. We do ‘not ¢are to complam uf the right to search, but what we are entitled to complain of is the mode in which the search was ,completed by capture. We puss over, as unworthy of con- | sideration in such a case, all mere technicalities as to con- ceding the right to a belligerent merely engaged in a contest We wish to pet it on the ground of

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whatever little property they possessed, in order va —_ the necessaries of life. They were brought to hat stare of poverty, that they hal barely enough food to suffice fet the day, and to procure that he had, on the ‘ous dey, to tond | some of his shirt collars to the wheter me this oj

stance is attributed the orig:n of this dreadful occur

On examining his shirt collars, ho stated that they

Were not

it of forced to leave the vessel, and goon board the frigate a8 | correet—that there were some of them m ssiog, aut hegarne

‘very angry. His sister-in-law, a womaa named P ye, him that he should not be so unreasonable, and that if hy ‘did vot believe that they sere all right, be could gu to the - wa-ffice, and see that none of them had been put astray is seemed to render him quite frantic with rage. and seia. ing a poker, be rushed upon her and inflicted » serious wound on her left temple. She ran from him him, and fled down the stairs. His wife interposed to pacify him, but he turned upon ber, and most savagely attacked her, cutting ber with the poker on she head in several places, aud about her per. son, Afer struggling with him for some minutes, she like. and ran

about § per cent. The United States three per centa, which the American captain was entitled to do was to eapture the idowa the stairs. He did not attempt to follow . and ig were quoted 76 to 78 before the news of the American out- vessel and curry her into a port, there to receive adjudication | seems that now the most tragic and melancholy feature of

rage, stood yesterday nominally at 73 to 74. Exchange yesterday the rates were a shade higher.

The Shipping Gazette believes there is a possibilit y—but a remote one—that the Federal Government may disavow the acts of Captain Wilkes and even zo the length of releas- ing the Southe, a Comm 'sstoners. But if demand be not com- plied with, declaration of war on part of Kaglaad is inevita- ble. If Bederal Government is resoi'ved at a'l hezards to force a quarrel upon Kngland they have eertainly @ good op- portuni y, bat they must be aciuated by something litle short of madness to avail of it. ,

The exports of Saltpetre and warlike stores is formally prohibired. Lt was stated that one ship with a large cargo of Salrpetre for America had beeu stopped, and that re'aud ing Warlke sores a'ready shipped had been required,

The Naval Voluvteers.were cffering to come forward to provect she honor of the British flig.

There is vo confirmation of the report that 10,000 troops were to be sent to Canada, but the day prev ous to the En rypa ~uiling from Liverpool, it was csusidered that such a predinmary step Was probable.

Consuls on the 29th opeved at a further fall of 3-4 ander the opiuion of law offi: rs of the Ceown, subsequen'ly heavi- bess increased aod transactions tok place at L per cent de- cline, and 2 per cent below quota ious, before news of Trent effair was received. At the close there was really about 1-2 per cent. Ln Railway and oiber securities the decline was 2a. 8 per cept. butthey also rallied towardsa close U.S fives which were quvted butore them at 76 a 78 are nom nally 70 a 7-4. | In di-count market general rate continues 24 per cent.

French journals universally look at the Treut offair ip interes 8 of Hoyland.

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The Manclesier Guard'an publishes statistics showing

liable to seiaure as rebels in the same way as contraband of war. It is almost clear that America has deliberately chosea the most offensive form in which to make her demand of a right. It requires the greatest forbearance on our part to allow arght to be so roughly exereised, but it would bea still greater blunder to treat the outrage as a casus bel/ii. We have no doubt bat that the rowdyism of the Atlantic Cities will be gratified by the details of this bullying business, but the thinking men of America, who are sure in the end to make their influence felt, will applaud our generosity in not making reprisals. At least Lord Lyons should receive an apology, and if not, we have it in our power to deal a blow which will be more felt than a declaration of war, by simply acknowledyin, the independence of tlre Southern Confederacy. TERRIFIC GALE IN TEE NORTH SEA.

Loss or axorugn Battie Steamer, anv Mone taan 50 Vessers Waxckep on tae Nota Coast or Eurors.—The ‘heavy gales which swept the vorth-east coast ou Weduoesday end Thursday se’unight appear to have raged with the most

north of Europe, greater than experienced on the Euglish shores. Among the more serious of the many wrecks is the tota! loss of the | Lion, steamship, 1,400 tons, trading betweea Hull and St. | Pe ersbargh, which took place near Ostergarn, on the Island | of Gotbland, in the Bultic, She was one of the many steamers 'wheh were ordered out of Cronstadt on Thursday in conse- ,quenee of wivter setting in, and all of them had to make quick work in getting up steam aod taXing tbeir depar ure.

I'he ship is a tutal wreek, but (ne crew were saved. It 1s /clieved that in her course in the Baltic she fell To wita the ‘dreadiul weather aud went ashore. She was a fiue first-class | vessel of 330-h ree power. She was to have brought a gene ‘ral cargo of Ruysian merchandizs, but it is not known whe-

that out of 46000 factory hands usually eaployed in the \ther she bad time to ship a large stock of tallow which w-s

Manchester distiict nearly 20,000 are either wholly unem- | Cousigued to ber.

ployed or work a short time.

at Liverpool.

The © Times” city article of the 30th argues that the fall of 2 per cent in Consols, and 4 to 5 in shares is not justified iby uature of things, and refers to the Russian war and

| postion of the Federal States, in a commercial point of view.

dove, the manner of doing it ia a mere questivn of good or ‘Trent which wade the case exceptionsble,—and states the }13 identical with that which was occupied towards England

bad taste. Lf @ tude fellow claime hig rights coar-ely we opinion of those officers, as given below. ‘Phe Tinee adds : must yet give him his rizbts; and if we would not find our- * lt is not for as to entorce ur modity & declaration which eely’s in the wrong we ma-t no qusrre! with him on account | comes from the ree gnized source, and by which the Govern of bs i} manners. We have ourselves estab) shed a system ef International Law which now tells against us. lo a h’g!. handed, and almost dew otic manner. we! ave in former days giaimned privileges over neutrals whch have at diferent times ‘ ' bunded al! the maritine Puwers of*the world agai:.st us. We ' She course of which it remarks :— bave ifsisied even upon stopping the ships of wor of ueutral pation, and takiug British +y' jects ont of thee, and an in- stave iggiven Sy J flerson in bis Memoirs in whieh twe uephews of Washington were impressed by our cruisers as teey were feturning from Europa. and placed ws common sea- Siem Wide? the discipline of ships of war. which may be cited On ths question are too numerous and te have the benefit. * © © too ud-torm as to the right of search by belligerent ships of vernment ts proved to have, through its officers acted tlegally, war over neutral merchant vessel*, to be dis, utd. ou b tremendous interests are at stake we fee! deeply the re- sp-wsibility of discussing a question like this. We eansos yet believe, although the eviience is strong, that it is the fixed determination of the Government of the Northern Stutes to farce s quarre! upon the Powers of Europe. hope, therefure, that our people will not meet this provica- mail steamer which plies between St. Thomas and Cuba, wi.l tion with an outburst of passion, or rush to resentment with. *p4re further svenes oi this kind.”

ut fuil consideration of ail the bearings of the case. Ou (From the Cork Daily Herald of Dee. 2 )

the other band, we appeal to'the reasouable men of the Fe- : Mok: Rsstit.c ¢ in :

dera!l 3 ates—and they have some ressonab!e men among thei ney“ high atipssslabia niece icp aap nate na snot to provoke war by such acts as these. Even Mr. Seward bigiself must kuow that the wieces of these Southern Commissioners, soguding from their Captivity, area thousand in theie own hands. tiraes* more eloquest in Londov and in Paris than they would plied with, Lord Lyons will bresk off diplomatic relations with have been if tuey bad teen beard at St. Jimes’s and the the Cabinet of Washington and retarn to this country. In Tutlerves. Questions of this kind in countries where the London the prompt, clear, and temperate expression of the people exereise power paas but teo quickly out of the hands French press on the American outrage was received with of inwyers and stateswen, and give irresisiible power to satiniaction, a8 it is believed it will have immense weight in

‘tad : . facilitating the adjustment, so long as the means of udjust- hetther the t eaculovii yan wu 5 ; s slimes wisest nor the peacvioving members of a comuu ment are still open. It ia scarcely doubted that the Guyern-

ment of France w))] act with ours in any course of policy that may be determined upon.

obtain universal assent."

[rentund taken ber intoa Federal port and detamed her tuere till the matter was settled by a Prize Court, it would have been legal. The Federal cruizer seems to lave erred.

from an eacess of forbearance, and this gives a feature ta the

We have seen enough, arising vut of this explosion, tu satisfy jus that the peace vf the two countries would be seriously jevpardized if many repetitions of the Trent affair occurred

Admiral Milne, on hearing of the outrage, had despatched

The Post confirms the announcement in the Times, and says the demand whieh Lord Lyons will make to the Washington

(From the ** Morniag Advertiser.’’)

We do not wonder at the se.sation which this circumatance thas caused am ng all classes here, nor at the fall of nearly | the Cunard steamer at Queenstown, and that Lord Lyons is three-quarie:s per cent. whieh it bas caused in our Funds, | instructed to demand an atonement proportionate to the it is a most uwtoward event at the present moment, and ean- vffence. An answer from the Federal Government cau scarcely not fail to prove productive of very serivus complications. Tue be expected befure Christmas.

‘ Cabinet Ce i : S fternoon ; ' a . ‘ ‘ A’‘Uabinet Council was held on Saturday a , Federalias will doubtless maintain that the Copsere comes | the Mer suys thas while the Government is preparing to

within the scope of the Treaty of the Right of Search, t>) act with firmuces in the maintenance of ite strict legal rights, which we made ourselves parties a few years ago [But there is nv disposition whatever to act in a manner which can whether or not the couduct of the Government of Pre-ideut be considered uniriendly towards the Goverament of tue Liucola in this matter be in consupance w.th internationa) United States.

law, oue thing is sufficiout'y clear, nam. ly, that the Fede-| The arrangements for inereasing the force in Canada are

Faiiets have commitied an act which is the reverse of cour- Dot yet complete, but avery few hours everything will bea |

settled. Lu the mesatime a large ship, the Melbourne, haa been taken up and is now being loaded at Woolwich’ with Armstrong guns, some 80,00 Enfield rifles, ammunition and vther stores. It is not impossible that this vessel will be 1 ‘ escorted by one or two ships of war. The rides are intended policy, there wiil not, we are certain, be two Opiuions either ‘for he Canadian militia. A s-rong reinforcement of field to England or ian Europe. To “ find oyt their misiake,” is artillery will be despatched forthwith. a favourite Awerican phrase. The Feders! Goverement will.) The Army and Navy Gazette says that with the overwhelm- ia all probability, be furnished with an experimental ilus- ing force we could despatch across the Atlantic, nuthing the tration of the import of the werds. Unless we greatly err, Americans could Sring against us would prevent our taking they will discover before long, that the proceeding in + uea- OF blockuding every war vessel belonging to thei. ‘ium is a8 unwise as it is cuirageous, Karl Russel, a few A telegram from Shields states that the Tyne naval reserve dsys ago, offciall y apprired Mr. Adams, the Ametican Mi- have voluntary offered their services to the Government to bister ia Loudon, that it the Fuderal Government stopped pang whe ear en es There are between 1200 and or overhauled any Boys! mail steam-packet, the fact would ae ee ee . hs eusidered ag an inoult to the British flyg. It is a re- a.conieer teen taakiada die nace mag : 7 ' es -, Cantaies a proclamation prohibiting the export or carria markabie circumstance that jutelligence sbould reach this of gunposder, sultpetre, mA of aula, end rlasatens, . cuuntry that the very coutingyucy hers contemplated aspos-| >t oe sibie shoa!d actually bsve ccc. red, | The Lapress says the clerks at the Admiralty were ordered fers to rema@ioa at their posts until the breaking up of the Cabinet : 1. | < rom the“ Morning Herald.”

/Council. On the return of the Duke of Somerset after the ' ane ‘ ; termination of the Council, the clerks were reheyed from “Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.” Phe eondyct | further attendance, the presamption being that Government r of the Auicricau Government has loug beew sach as, to Kuro- pad decided on taking no steps towards increasing the feet peans, scarcely seemed consistent with the supposition of its until the result of sue demande fer satisfaction will have been

beimg directed by them in full possession of their senses. received. Mr. Liuecola, oa his accession to power, was thought to be an| (ne hundred and twenty-five able scamen yesterday left bunest, vigorous, straightiorward man, whose firmuess of tem- the Qagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, for Portsmouth, under per might balance his itelluctual deficiencies, and whose res- orders received by Admiralty telegram. Anticipating the ct for Jaw wight atoue fur’ his aster ignorance of politics. object of their burried departure, they started in the highest

ubeppily, he has proyed himself not culy far more igno- 8'°°-

raotand upinteligeut thas any ope imegined bim, but utterly. wautwog. in deemon of clgracter, hesence to the constitution of which he was the appoiute wn. Sus impoteng isthe classic phrase which wost |

sceurstely déseribes both bis character and that of his chief !Vi0e '9 Switgerisud Lave peegiyed orders to assemble at Genoa | within a month. |

deous to this country. It would appear as if they were de- termined to irritare, by affronting, the Hnglish Goverument and the English people. We say nothing of ihe tase, whe- ther good or bad, of this sort of procedure, but as regards its

a tions at the close.

Cans; at : : Pas “ergesnt Keilly and | orporal Wi)Jiam Campbell, of the 79th of Koglteb witewon wie) bus made him equally weil uuder-| Highlanders, were calling the tattoo, on Saturday evening, | stood and despised i@ this country, We kuew that he had 30th inst., a private named Jacksun took up his rifle and de- proposes to “aunex” Cavgdas but the idea was to us, who /!berately shut at the Sergeant. ‘I'he ball passed through the,

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: know our strength aud the weakness of the United states, bets ees killing him dead, and thea entered the body uf the |

sv utterly ludierups jbat we bad not, a:.d could not, appreciate | ae oe wg to aries

the utter lly aud deeperate wickedgess of the man who! . A ™ost calamitous occurrence took place at Edinburzh a

could put & forward ss a serious proposal. Since then Mr. se ee after one o click on Sunday morning, in the eud- |

Woward, het dune-encrsthing in his power to inialt and esas. oy oe Seneety ae es in the lower division |

s@. Great Britain; be has encouraged the pira'ical ce, oh ne ee one ee

eae of our ships, he has ordered ‘the illegal arrest of aera - 13 es ee el * x o¢ 3 * * 3 . Lvitish subjects, he has directed bis envoys at foreign coutts | 5 : “

ty reve wud mevage us. All this we have bo. ne a little WO + We perf i “al 7 , ' perfectly understand the deep sensation this event has. Gwiely j the uation bas endured it with tbe patience uf cov- caused in Londvn ; for if we Fropeh Og tad seceived such |

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— by Kussia. ment must, in all cases, be bound; but we may say that the proposition seems so clear that it requires only to be stated to ‘in the Lundon G. zette Extraordivary.

Wilner & Smith has some lengthy commente on the cage,

* [tis admitted that had the Federal steamer seized the

according to & is Showing, nut from an execss of rigour, bat

The authorities affair of which the Washingtua Goverument vaght, at least, | Ot courae if the Poderal Go-

i ? it will make the amende honoredle,and be wiser in iature, | “°P ; ‘ When | iy iwere urgng his promotion: * that a naval officer had the |

We three steam frigates to Cuba to protect and accompany the |

Cabinet wil oe plaiw and bref, aud they will bold the iesue | It vur demands are net at once com-'|

The Glode states that despatches will leave London to catch |

The report of the Liverpool Cotton Market for the week | America in the case of Naples last year. The course of or ip conscientious ad- ®8o*¥e great irregularity i prices, with difficulty of resliza-. England is clear: to observe the strictest neutrality in this

Beanz, Noyember 30th.— All the Garibaldian officers now,

friend and ady ser. Mr. Seward’s want of common BeDse, | to Tefit,and we now elluw the Confederate ship, ‘* Nashville,” > — Fetieeuge, aud pringiple, bave long been notorious to Aweri-| Another murder has been committed at Aldershott. While | © ¥® in Soutbampton. In both cases we have simply dune - evept cirgumstances buve directed to him an steak | : what the law of nations permitted ; but we are now called

now she has greater power than ever before. Export of material of gunpowder prohibited by order o

PROMPTITUDE O¥ THE CABINET. hs despaieh fo. Lord Lyons, sent off the same eveu ng. honorable reparation fyr gn iliegal act. The Times bas bur _stmall hope of such disavowal, At the date of last despatches |} the act of the Captaio of the ** Sin Jactito” had been ac- ted by the Northern public. Tie New York journals

(8, i it to board a British vessel and carry off Reels is enough to ensure a storm of popularity.” By the time Karl Russell's

Perhaps the infurmation that comes to us through Paris, that! dexpatches arrive the multitude may have already declared

‘o ‘ke govern nent the treatmeut which Captain Wi.kes is to

ecive. Lt becomes us to be prepared for av unlortunate

issue. CANADA IN CASE OF WAR WITH THK UNITED STArEs.

The Times adverts to Mr. Seward’s recent instructions to

from which was that be was about to force a quarrel with Erg and.

The T’mes says the wisest coaree for Cauada wil be to | prepare ; to let her at once discipline her militia, and emulate the mother country by drilling « volunteer army. . \ ontreal

only wants stout bearts and zealous hands to be safe until the spring returns, when we can make it secure, The dan- ger to Montreal or to any other poiut of the Jroutier is less. Canada shouid not rely too much on us aud too little on her- self.

| Loypox, Sunpay.—The Odserver states that the Govern- ment demands of President Linoolna and his cabinet the res- toratios of the persons of the Southern envoys to the British flag. Yesterday afternoon, after five, her Majesty held a “privy council at Windsor Castle. Three of the Ministers, /lneluding the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War, travelled from Londoa to Windsor by spe- ‘elal train in order to be preseut, After the Council the | Minis‘ers quitted the Castle, and a special train couveyed them to London. Previous to leaving town the three Minis- ‘ters attended the cabinet Council at Lord Palmerston’s off- _cial residence. . | The Observer says a special messenger of the Foreign | Offive has beeu ordered to carry our demands to Lord Lyons, ‘and will proceed by the packet from Queenstown to-day. The public will be satistied to know that these demands for ‘apology insist upon the restitution to the protection of the Britieh flag of those who were violently and illegally torn | from that sacred asylum, The Odserver adds there is no (reason why they should not be restored to the quarter deck ‘of the Britisu Admiral before New York or Washington ‘itself, in the face of some ten or twelve British men-of-war | whose presence in the Potomac should render the blustering cabinet at Was ivgton as helpless as the Trent was before , the guns and cutiasses of the San Jacinto. Lt is no fault of ours if it should ever come to this,

~ AMERICAN OUTRAGE ON THE BRITISH FLAG.

The present Cabinet at Washington seems tu be bent on | reversing or setting aside the spirit of all laws, whether inter- national or municipal. We have already deplred the course of President Lincoln with reference to the liberties of Ame- _ricans, and it will be long ere the laws of the Federal States | are re-settled in all their ancient force, It may be permitted | to the American Cabinet to deal as it pleases with the law of | Habeas Corpus, and to place in durance the judges sworn to

udwinister justice. We cannot, and have no right to com- plain; but the matter is very different when the Cabinet | chueses to interpret in ite own sense, and as it suits its own | cOnvenienge, the international law. complain of the law of blockade, as laid down in the case of _the Scuthern ports, but it would be ungenerous in us to de- | mand as strict a compliance with the Jaw of nations as did

'internceine straggle, to exercise huspita ity ty the people of both Confederacies, without distinction, only refusing the use of our ports to the trade of privateering and prize-taking. We therefore permitted the Federal ship,the ** James Adger,”’

Taos. H. Dudley is offisially recognised as U. S. Consul,

in 1854 England was uuprepared for war, but |*

the Pi vy Council, held on Saturday the 30 bh, and pablibsed |

On Friday the Cabinet directed Lord Russell to pre; are U1 Saturday, the '’nisters met agaiu to revise and fiually settle iss terms, and it was Toe Times onderstuod sbat this | communication, though couched in the fimest langaaye, pre- suines that the Fideral Government will not refuse to make

We have some reason to.

If she kad shipped it ber loss will involve a very considerable amount, The ship aud cargo were partly insured.

Ono the coast sear Texel and Schelling some 15 vessels are reported to have been lost. A large Norwegian barque ‘called the Jasoa, Captain B ssesen, bound to Autwerp trom | Alexandria, was stranded near Texel. aud the ouly one on

t 2 i » » re s ngs P ‘nr } . . 2 . . . : i . y ; the Times discovered that the Law Officers of the Crown were | che grate of things in 54 in ilustration, and bolds that tho |00ard Who was saved was the pilot; the whole of the crew

‘are drowned, and the ship and cargo totally lost. A large | Russian barque, called the A’eyon, bound to Loudun from | Jacobstadt, was wrecked, having being blow ashure by the gale; the er.w were saved. A Prussian schooner called the

¢ Vorwaarts,iaden with bailey, bouad to Wisbeech,was straud-

ed, and soveral of the uufortuvate crew were drowned ; the ‘ship and cargo are telegraphed as lust. And the other vessels lwhich are reported to have beeu blown ashore by the storm lon the sume Vicivage of eoa-t are the schoover Pax, from D.eppe for Neweasiile ; the Danish schoouver Staalsrood, from tlorsena fur Gibraltar; the Ruma E.ier (Prussian), from Dubhnu for Pillau.

A catalogue of disas'ers has beencommnunivcated from He-

‘liguland, Cuxhaven, and uther places uear tbe imvuth of the | Kibe, where the weather is deseribed to have beeu very se- jvere The Schooner Calumet, bound tu Knylaud, was to- ‘rally lest on Gibsaud, near Nreadiep, and the Prussian echooner Cito, frow Limerick for Mewei, was stranded at a ‘point called Nie; the crew were fortunately preverved. Tue telegraphic advices from the Hague also turnish a long ilist of ca.ualties resulting from the rccent severe weather. | Several ships are stated io have. been strand.d The Blue Jacket, Captaiu Harg:ave, from Autwerp to Ispwich, which 'was blown up the coast by the gale, went ashore at Loods- 'winen and two or thee of the crew are stated to bave per- ished. Similar accouuts bave beea received from other northern ports.

Loss ozs Two Evty Sreamens anp Foorrern Lives. —

ed luss of two Hull steamers—one the Liou, one of the fiuest sieamers sailing from the port of Hull, aud a yeneval tavour- ite in the Baliic trade, has beea lust on the east end of the ‘Island of Guthland, vear the eutrance to the Galf of Finland, on her passage from St. Petersburg to Hull. She Jeft St. Petersburg on Wednesday se’nuight, and was driven during a heavy gale ashore on Ostergarhoim, ciose to the land, on the following Friday. She was under the command of Capt. Winthinger, and Capt. Kruger, the former muster of the Lion, who bas been staying at Russia for some time, was also on board, being on his returo to Hull. She bad a va- luable cargo of tallow, hemp, wool, ged, &e. The crew and passengers succeeded in getting ou the island, but the ship

Nov. 18, Wisby, favours the impression that the whole of crew bave goue to the Swedish side of the island, and will return by the mail steamers from Guthenberg. The other steamer just is the Kuchautress, belonging to Messrs. De- pledge Brothers, of llull. She was a fine steamer of about 300 tons, built at Paisley some years ayo, aud engaged since

destructive fury throughout the whole range of coast of the | The havoe amongst the shipping was.

In the Foreign | on the question as to whether these Southern gentlemen were | this territle occurrence took place. IReudered mad at being, -

as it were. thwarted io bis murderous attacks on his sister.

‘in-law and wife, he took up a knife, and eatehing boid of the “youngest child —a five boy of two years—named William, be loflcted a frightful gash across his throat, severing the head ‘almost from the body. Then seizing the oldest ebild, Arthur, ‘he, with the same instrament, eut his throat, bur the wound ‘did not cause instantaneous death. He now appeared to ‘have become conscious of the horrible deed be bad commited, for he immedvately cried out in the most as and fray. tic manner for help—weeping bitterly. Walsh, 117, B, met the wife, as she was proceeding along the siveet, erying out “ Murder,” and, on bearing from her what had ae he hastened tu the house, aod on eutering the room found the wretched man with a rug on his shoulders lesuing over his child, Arthur, who was still alive, and piteously culling for help, and, ia moarnful tones, exslaiming, * [ am ans ata sorry.’ He did not offer the least resistance to the eon-tab'e, but quictly resigned himself to his custody. He was broughs up at the hend police office, when the above facts were de- /posed to by the constable, wife, and aister-iu-law, sad the prisover was remanded,

Navat Paeearations in Lraty.—A letter from N. says :—* The atinost activity prevails in the dockyards of Naples and Castellamare. Ao order has arrived from Turin directing #il the vessels to be repaired an} re-armed. are required to be ready fur the spring, and M. Pho!nsane bas given directions that the workmeu ehould be employed even ou the Sunday.”

Tue Pore’s Heatta.—The Neue Preussische Zeitung says:—' We learn from a reliable source that the Popes bealth is daily becoming more impaired.” “

Liserat Triomen at rae Evections sy Prussia.—The elections of the persons quilified to vote for the retura of members te the Prussian Cuamber of Deputies took place on Tuesday throughout the Kingdom. The result of the elections in Berlin is decidedly in favour of the Liberals, Simi'ar results have been obtained in the provinces.

The Prassian Press continues to discuss with mich ani- mation the military expenses of the Kingdom. The Cologne Gazette aud the other Libera! journals denounce these ex- ponses as being excessive, and it is thought that unices the Cabinet take up the question of retrenchment, the anti-mili- tary movemeut will become anti-ministerial.