The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1866, Page 1

New-Dork VORI XXVL... IW-YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1866. aribune, Accordingly the thing has been arranged, the {re- ‘“:m‘; mendons stakes of $30,000 a vessel have been de- Fieetwing and Vesta or MOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. ——— has been so changeabls there is an unusval amoun and what with the and the battle in t distress such as we the poor in Lond in large portions of iron districts, The prospect is a & richest city in the world, the war-star led wise men, the hills of Judah found th born for the healin us try to bear our burden manfu EUROPE. LANTIC CABLE TO DEC. 29, t of disease about, J P erigig in the mons ,F:""W at 1 p.m. from New-York he labor market, the have not had for many | Ame on and the | gether, grumble beeause the owners don’t sail, be- the coal and ad one in the night after seen either of took the cowrse to the morth, and the Vesta conrse to the the Henrietta., We kept the regular steamer Duriug the, Rist seven 3 of the passage we had cold, rough weather, vith alternate rain, hail, and snew—squally, with wind from the west. e i3 | happ, NEWS DY THE AT THE LONDON DEMON ! UNIONS IN ENGLAND— TRENHOLM AND C(¢ STRATION—TRAD BY TRLEGKATH TO THE TRIBUNE T BRITAIN. ~Consul Morse xhibits, as his justification for his action in settling the suits at Jaw by the United States zer Trenholm & Co., a written authority from ™ From Our Kpecial Correspondent. Loxpox, Dee, 15, 1566, able to report » of all suits an Trenholm & Co., tnight since, Mr. Loxtoy, Dec. 'k the whole distance. cted to have the compromi and the shepherds on ¢ child who had been he nations. Well, nlly, never los- against Fra- which, ;I*’l told vou (ibbe, with the help of the Consul- strong westerly ited, and the thres competing schooners sailed on MTTM for the money across the at Wintry se 0 KAIe WN- dyspeptic m‘fi:l who ara always nibbling at can manners, enstoms, poll « people to- cause the race is kept close, beeae they f yachts may be =old at a wood price here— all sorte of dreadfal points, none of wh hsiness of theirs or ours, The faet of t tents us, beeauso it is characteristic of Amevican restless energy that three pretiy should be started in the Christmas weather fi run across the ocean, We don't care who sails ti all ‘the doleful | or who doesn’t. 5o long as we seo tie childeen of the ble contradietions of | Vikings, *twice removed, il with this splendid the Treasury Department to arrange all Rebel elims in Europe. Dec. 201t has been decided that t will weet en the 5th of February It is now said that Queen Victoria will ing faith in the coming— tumbling int ined in our Conrt of Ch hth day eut she hove to for During the ve- neery. Nothing, 1. The great Confed- 1 take it, somewha s of their little bay- stead of pressmg —of the perfect day d waits, Christinas 1 time when grown men and sorrows resolutely oor struggling cen for which all ereation longs time always seems to me o should shut twelve hours in a heavy gale. mainder of (he voyage the wealher was mor moderate, vith topping reas. itile house are ) the sonndn The Henrietta passion for the brine in ther blood, which makes the send across the Atlantic with their pleasare- boats in December, * Ye gentlemen of England, who growl at home at ease.” do you know what the Atlan- tie is like in 8 nor-easter at Christmas tiwe? Some reasts, and do the best they hoti- | of you would be silent, aud tender about *sea-leas, behaved splendidly, and every person on board made the voyage as comfortably as if on a steamer. " There was no illness o brought wver all her spars and sails. The Hen- yassed the Needles under full canvas, and werit into Cowes safely and in good style. On the first day ont from New-York she pas andl, on the ninth day oui, in their own 1 issne—getting orders to cross-exam- estly can to '| Dudley, in the hope may say into a con the compromise was nego- other indications that they wopen Parliament in February in person. Orders have ween iesned for the return of two regiments of rezular troops from Irelaml. 1t is feared rhat ¥even of the crew of Ross Winans's cigsa stearaer have been drowned; a small boat bolonging to the vessel as been found capsized in the Thames, nnd the men hecome little children again in families—a time, too, when me little more out of the way to express and brotherhood which at least al name of Christ profess to acknowledge, So, as | this letter will probably reach you on the great fvlhi now tender to you and f twisting some- firmation of the to the bond of tiated, and " giving 1 we who bear the o not quite comfort imagine that the bar; made withont the privity o If it £hould be con hold, as it was firmed, and Fr feast day, let me if you were nluiplpwl with the Yankee crews to make this voyage in the littlo holiday sehiooners! Mxm‘y a British passeneer has * wished Christopher Colunbus had been crucified,” as he has performed the passage and its accompaniments on board the great I8, But nuless the little ships have good lack, they will through some water-frolics and s wing o ol h the rolling steady plunge of a Couard bt a ?Iw wind is ahead, with & heavy swell minnet. When hes | and the Winter night settles down on the griy and the steamship Cul the stamship Louis heartily all the best w say with what anxiety | whito waves with an extra howl of the g of your storm car, with what joy we I ket a cool £150,000 in beside all the pickings they have ‘e the war, and at least four val 3 wers, 1 should think their loyalty would be Wfe enough for the future, and they will be with the celebrated candidate who your readers most of the season, we have watehed during the past y seen wave after wave the side of your gall Oneof them was an Aweriean. A letter of Gen. Millen, jan MiFtary “ouncil ef he deneuances phens, C.6, 1 R, as a * hunbog” eal,” publshed in the Dublin pap s, has cre- ated a profound sensation among (he populrec It is regavded by some as a stratagem of dive British @overmaent to pat dowri the Feuian are missing. Duerniy, Bec. £6. President «f On the eleventh day out she passed the steamer Bremeu and packet ‘ship Philadelphia, She made the entire passage o' eae tack, and without the slightest accidont. The greatest day’s 1un was 280 mil least 113 miles, which was during a hea when she hove to for several howrs. SovTHAMPTON, Dee. 26— Morning.—The yacht Henrietta arrived at the Needles off’ Cow 345 o’clock last ovening; the Fleetwing ar ng, and the Vests a rough passage A zeamen Kelly wshed off the bowsprit while furling the jib. The wind was Flowing a male impossible (0 save the 1 of States, with seen you proving the shal- 1 falseness of all the prophecies of ssolution which ~the Be sure-that and, as I said Sam 1 revirences— bankruptey and di of freedom the years of the great struggle. in the sound heart of Engl above, we have a sound heart s jealonsy of your count progress stayed, scarcel In any case, 1 fear the ¢ ¢ ts to a snecessful issue, o the Rebel Govern- The fact that two nment actually it for a com- only through nt is serious! 1y, no wish to see your ly, even, a regret that, nepation or two, you must far ex- he old mother country i ock thizmor The Fleetwing h Captains Niehols and Woods, ¢ and Nelson, were a s of your G st their hands to this Gif they do i ping of their powers, will be the Conrt, and will act as Lospox, Dec. 26— Evening —Tho repulsod the oh fleet i1 the Comen 38 eenfirmed. Cochin Chine <o shore in wealth, in Our wish, our hope, our on the, torch with a migh leaving behind asserting youth, lessness. of | W% T tantly pressed a dvadweight at every s ernment will adopt their views, whole matter wil slight scandal, but st thing. 1 suppose we on may bear handed to yon and a higher purpose, you all the weaknesses o all vain-glorions Loastin Tec t, and making the name whic common a blessing to the whole e I fear 1 have been betrayed i so0 let me end United States Thereere exiting rumors of weil of 8té e on the subject ¥ OrgauizRion. 28~ The Mwta and Alsxan- dria Telegiwph Cabke is mot working. Anar vival from Alexandria ‘etates that adviees have beou receited there, i@ the Freuch fleet had taken the forts at Kaaghebow, and that: the City s in their possession. e at the time, and it wa The Vesta reports nothing else «of moment or All on board both bo: The yachts arrived before Commarlo who is expected to-day. A dispateh from London om the Fleetwing on the eighth «@ay out, while working on the jib- t withont some 7, which is some- the result of e to Washington by next : Ny , he hias done his duty It scems to me that it might be ve for your Government, under stances, 10 sy dissemeion iv the £ of the newa: Laowpos,t De nto sermogizing, thi a “God-speed the om the bottom of my hewt. ix men were lost We will not agvec C ST NEWS BY STEAMER TO DEC. 15. e The Royal Mail steamsbip Anstralasian, Capt. ook, which left Liverpool at 1p. m. on the 15th of | the € astown ou the afternoon of the | States as helligerents by an inperial The Henrietta was rveecived with ¢l pedles, Capt. Browne, the © tary of the Royal Yacht Club. went on boavd and offerad the hospitality of ilie Club fo the party. A public dinner to the yachtmen is pro- posed. The Captain of Her V Hector has offered the fa mouth Dockyard for repairs: but as none ar needed the offer las be The Board of Adm whelm a private firm, howeve Iate Rebel Govern woeeedings which no private firm ot them only give two skilled accountant with an arbitrator in ca swer to examine their hooks, —A Berlin newspaper eotitains 2 proclar ation recstablishing the province of Potmd in its rights wndes the British erowa. Dee. 98~The King of Hanover has veleased thecofficers of the werian army from their saths of fealty #o him- Many of them wilk et once take ~service Dee., and from Quee 16th, arrived here on Saturday morning. uship Tasmania, with the West India ved at Southampten on the 14th, with yel- low fever on board. There hud been 96 cases and 21 Bs o the passage home, confined to the eraw, wetor being the only exception. — GREAT BRITAIN. THE COLLIERY frernoon of the 13th inst. a fundul at the Oaks Col Ll latest, particulars, as far as ascertained, show that there were 350 nten and st when the explosion ocanrred. Of prought to the surface alive, but that sall number had sinee been redueed by 12 deaths. O the momingafter the explosion, whik: a numbe of men were exploring the workings, g seeond ex- psion ocenrred, eauxing, it was be il deaths. The party consiged of mining ¢ gen of the neighboring colli miteers endeavoring to rescae the former suf- one on each side, es, and we will The whole of the knowledge yresent with them. eate this knowl snggested. s0a5 to taat ix all werqui complain of any 1o extract s cotipromise without Seap in the d dent will sen these matters It they will communi 1 respeet fully dec gave ovders that every facility sheuld be rendered e yuchis by the officers on duty in th Cowns, Dec. sent @ cougratulatory lets upon the successful issue of the venture. The news of (the arrival of the yachis was sent ap at onpe 1o the Queen by her special request. e Reval Yocht Clab, England fired a salute of 11 guns in henor The «ow of the mauned the yards and dipped her colors in acknowledgment Large crows of curions ¢pee- tators are on the shore and others in boals heering' ike yachts. Mony -visitors ha erence as above unt to be taken, If not, they have no vight which may be ny Brewoy, Dec. 28 Ewvening.—Offic have been received to arrest Prassizn <2, Djeets about' &> emigrate Trom the kingdom fatending #o ev-de the national (landwehr) militic Engli¢h Cha very is amere Kk, which T apprehend the Pr V be prepared to sanction as he is not Tikely to consult me on’ the su 3 will mefraim fro i Our kome nolities bay r o the yachtmen ion teok plae IFPLonExcE, Pec. 27— Mazzini, the' Italian patriof, has issved:an address calfmg 7pon the peap'e of Rome to demand a republican form The ‘Parliament of i14aly has adoprd the address of King Victor Zmanuel by a flarge majority. 'k, Dec. 28-"The Ttaliaa Govarnment smanded indemnity of the Swblime Porte ring into an Italian steamer while plying dn ' Candian waters. It is not knmown what the Goyvernment of the Suk maks to the demand, but it is beli futn-e of the Easterns question willzhe mnch affected by its tone. ¥roreNcE, Dec. 20—The bad fecling be- tween Greece and Turkey is inereacing, and war between the ‘two powers ir. seriously This moming adiscussion o f, lm! sufticient 1o excte th aud true-blue Tories (the few that a them) as to whether the trades’ on the 3d was or was not a suceess, W, it wae'nt, and adwit that the trades idedd, that rveform drags, that the midd wetting terribly scared o5 No man_who las y “ 1 to speak with anthority here doubts that, what- | Bappen at this or that meeting, there is ing abroad among the st be made full citizens, and elay, and whether the middle At the same of government. £ the vwinner. her explosions oeenrred in the course of the sary tosuspend the search the vietims of the second of the 14th a polie it's month was startled to hear a slight the ecompliment. , what does it the least right we come | Cliss | Gireat interest has been felt in the y w generally discussed | People are mstonished at the quick paesaze made. Numerous offers of hos- pitality are received from varioas persons. Touespry, Dee. 2i—%30 p. m.~The mem- wers of the New-York YachtiTab now i En @and are being entertained @ dinner by the I Yacht Coab. The Royal v the Quecn an Huonse to-mmrow witk their gnests. On Satmday the wachtwen will attend a grand baiquet given by the officers of the town of Cowes ing Lomdon nervspapers have long-ditorials eom: plimentiary o the yachts and b took part in the great raee. aspecial report of the voy Panis, Dec. 6.—~The Ase sted in the brilbent.syccess of the ntibas given new Priineers and wedic nsconed, and after grent difficalty 8 s sl WTth & {air iops of [ ST ENNTR MG o ariue, oot b e Brown reports that he heard no alserved no sign of any other living ep and resolute fe among al! dasses. from all 1 ¢ Auother frightful explosien also ocen 4 3 demands of | the Reform League. All they want to obtain | in, that the cluss of persons who live { the resulis of the labor ! haee a far share in the repre | country. Any fair compromise would be readily Laceepted, a moderat i rfabsiumber of 4, amembers of the Roy. Yacht «Clab has tation of Dhe Puxis, Dec. 26~A coup d'etat in the Spanish Gaovernment is eaid 4o be imminent. Quen is unable to select a ninistry which has the confidence either of the Prezression- iste or the Churck party Maprip, Dec. 2.—Itis carrently stated that the Queen of Spain will dissolve the Cortes. gl Lot ey THE EASTERN QUESTION Puars, Dec. 22-A Belgian journal stood! to speak officially, declares that Austria medi‘ates an invasion of Turkey. Lo pox, Dec. 28—We have a repeiition of the sumor that the Christian Powers will in- tervene in the affaire.of . 1he Greek subjects of cdneationnl test, a lower- Lise to diflerent poiuts in dif- even o plain method which rstand for representing u OF eonrse they will not fast seseion. The sybilline book fered a second time in their orig moderate improvement ¢ now, whatever may Don’t, howerer, among the upper ally among the thoroughly suc- 1 the employer elass, wh ever else they may have done. overshehned with s ‘»rmu etter from Quecn crews which The Dublin Espress says: * We learn, on good llm_lll_\f that the Irish-Americans who hay th vln» Henrietta. gk s 1919 the case eix months I in Panis are and middle ¢ latter. The T satisficd as to 118 ntter bopeélessuess, The, themselves deterred not so mwueh by the presenc of troops in the countr] profess (o ke Atlantie: yacht rice. the Cherbourg ht-men i€ provesed by their little account of- sconcerted by the fact that these troops red about in every direction, and that the \ they had formied ar arveillanee exereised over the all who afford g gitimacy of their objects in , or remaining in, Ireland.” | 10 ths Ame: friemds in this ¢ Loxpoy, De etta declares hims 1f from any yacht on th MARINE INTELLIGENCE AREIVALS OUT. LIVERROGL, D6, 25.~The steamer Doy, from New- m the 14th, has arrived. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 28--The stean u, and the L'Barope, for Havre, nd Jeft for their dostination. —ap— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. AE LOWDON WONEY MAJLE LOXDON, Troe. 26— ¥ oon.—Consols are guaied ot 90c. for] nphlets, letters, art ut rate of wages in the and is founded s, wied eannot possibly he owner 6f y to.aceept a challenge is side of the Atlwtie. The Times of thie morning expresses the be- lief that a collision i daily growing less likely, but adds that if the Eastern question should come rp England will bedisposed to let events take their course without any effort 4o shape them &0 her wishes. Loxwpox, Dec. 30.—A Belgisn paper of charac- ter says that the Goverument of Framce has asked those of England, Apstria and Italy to form an alliance, in view of the troubles ap- prehended in tye matter of the Eastern ques- tion ; but it is aid that the Great Powers of Europe have no present intention of intexfering. Arnexe. Dec. 25.—A report from Canea, the eapital of Candia, by way .ot Syra, says another battle had taken place between the Turks and the Greek nsnrgents, in which the former were defeated with hea intain or even to i the point of to Belgium, ad in ther efforts to ma ] ; that capital is aking hewe i wi ette ws to the Jegality st for Tire- © tonehed bore, with reference to the rate of wages, o wimonnt of trath in all this. us we can afford f we cannot find h conspirators amon; to try them in due form of law. any evidence againet them, w them continue at large, at least, they are erous while deing nothing which can If they go to Ireland voluntanly, e dangerons, they will then ) ceted themselves to the consequenes he imprisoned on bare i ment cannot have intende on an Irish war portation to Treland and inprisonu egal remedy or protect s that such a rule fus i dron and =il work, and n { i other thin (1 wiages are yisin wts of Franee and Bel- ginm at a rate which threatens goon to over- | take onr own). Bat the more formidable the i nd |l|m more se- Loxnos, Bee. Uniged States Five-Terenties, 725 3Linois Geotral | shares, 79; Exie shares, 457 LoNDOX, Dee. 26—Evening.~he money auarket, is un- Comals close &t 90 for money are steady, except ivois Central shares, which have advanced. United Stages | Fi Central shares, 782; Erie shares, 45, Loxpox, Dec. 27 to sanction their ¥ their attendawt does this notion of withholding the suffrage We have this giant to deal wi «t moment to the future e dae found his 1 wl talk and think, and is sspectfully enougl that he and her to settle sneh mat- or and capital, national Is the middle class ant peder, and bang the door b hecwnld kick down with one o stroke of lis foat? 1 rather guess not. have geeathe vd mueh worse storms than this of the labor quesion, the Refory t there without 5 evident when one , MUPPOSIRE it 10 exist, must ch to Englishimen as 6o Ivishmen. Any his rank or his_innocenc g by aqvestions of the deepy —may by this p Loxpox, Dee. 30.—It is said that the Briiish ermment Wairi 08 " —u Minister in-Greece has been ordered to remon- vith that Government relative to the warlike acts of band of Greeks entexiug Thes- Noon—Consais are quoted st 90} for riein secnritier are fir. liuols Central sharcy LONDON, Dee. 27—Noon.—A United States FiveTwentivs, 7811 Erie shaves, 46. LoNDON, Dec. %-Noon.~Consols are steady. relations af - 1a Such a stretch et not in Irelsnd ale ¢ the Imperial P; n more reluctant to grant or tinue powers capable of so unexpected a constrnction. MEXICAN BONDS. press has not yet directly app: elic We find in the Skirmish line of The Standard, the following plea of & bondholder The present state of Mexi- to offer a few remarks to There can be rogative will have o bad of £ it is insisted on, it must m i going to shric { i e e whicl HUNGARY. Loxpox, Dee. 30.—During the eleetions in Hungary yesterday there were serious xiots. Tu oue place the oldiery were ealled ont, and one wan wes killed in a cavalry charge made 10 suppress the riot, pobis] SR MINORCA AND THE UNITED STATES. Panss, Dec. 28,1t is rumored that the United " States have entered into negotiations with the Spapish Government for the cession of the Island of Minorea. ——— THE UNITED STATES 8QUADRON. Pams, Dec. 28—Evening.—The United Btates fron-clad monifor Miantonomah and her con- sort, the steamer Angnsta, arrived at Gibraltar on the 224 instant, en route for the Mediterras LoNDON, Dec. 26~ Noon.—Awericancecuritios aredwtte ment and the pu United States Five-Twenties, 7221; Llisois Centralalarcs, 793; Erie shares, 46. LoxXDoN, Dec. 28—Evening.~The Money market és un- whanged. Consols closed at 90, ex-dividond. LoxpoN, Dee. %—Evening. fies, 723; Tlinots Central Blhures, 793; Eive Shares, 5. LONKON, Dee. 29—Eveuing.—Money saarket reawies qwet. Consols closed at % LosDoxN, Dec. 29-Evening.—American Securities - proved toward the close, United Btates Yive-Twentiog, %2§; 1linois Central Shares, 74 ; Erfe, 45. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKES. Taverroor, Dec. 26.—Cotton is steady at 1gd. for Mid- Aling. Estimated sales 15,000 hajes. LivereooL, Dec. 28—Evening— sales of Middling Uplands at 3440 ; eles fa the day | m question, and and I have no vear ba: wh s through, For United #tates FiveTyen- & sound aad caltiy heart juoall seetions of our prople jot, and a very i To ThE Eprron. con affairs induces b oméholders as to fi 1 1t 1wo solutions—either the French must keep it or s to allow Mexico to re r those who have trusted - o amount of braing Uigess 1 an mich deecived tho results of riacrships of judostry, i i wo kma zefs his shie in which eve of protits, and whi P 4|l\|'n|l;: %lu’ last ~ wstonish most people before long. Bat it _is s well bof to {:Tdu o in prophecy cithg dolef 1l o1 jubilant, so I will give you no wlings of mine, but return to the the Americans take it; to avarchy, and hand ove: the French protection to the tender m raise the execration of the world 4 nation, On the other hand, the United States have prevented the establishment of she empire, and ave therefore respousible to civiliza- tion for what may occur, as justice and the i tion of the nation tend toward taking possession of Mexico. This will be the real soluti | then withdraw with honor, and Mexiean bondholders © i secnre investinent. ‘ours obediently, THE OCEAN YACHT RACE. The Telegraph of the 13th had a racy article on the great Yacht race. After commentin of Yankees to put Western bigness wnemies would inst the French otfon rules steady ; ol these just at present is the tnian, of which one is re- DL AR | the Luteliors'shiops, as well as by the ol hundreds of fresh-looki The Clrigmas hooks searee’s out yet, fhongh of eourse Mr, mber of All the Year dy at eyery eorner, in- ) 3 Boy at Mughy s ditle, and ifs object to scourge, uto something approaching to de- ) shment rooms, The na- tion ‘will wish him snecess heartily, but 1 fear enins does not develop fo this divee- e {ar worse now, after 40 years of were when [ ore- of the fime refresl 1. France can iu ear approach of Chri 2~Noan~The Cotton murket fs firmer, with,_an_advance ; Middling TUplands quoted at 16, with sitles estimated at 25,000 bulcs. TAVERPOOL, Dée. 18—Evening.—Cotton i easler, wit sales of 10,000 bales at former quotations. LAVERPOOL, Dée. 268—-N0oi ~Cotten haw fallen off a1 (le upon thé Alscovery that the stock on hiand is 2,000 ks overtho estimated quaptity. Sales of Mg week, 71,087 Liverrock, . Deo. wiwdden appen A BONDHOLDER. PIEPPCTING THE OCEAN YACHT RAC' Cowes, Isle of Wight, Dec, 25, — Henrietta, Mr. James Gordou Bennett, jr., owner and commander, has won the great ocean race. 3he passed the Needles on the westerly end .of this island this afternoon at a quarter to 6, Bhe is now anchored in the Southampton channel, opposite Oshorn Houge, where Queen Victoria is staying for a few days; The Hen- rietta made the trip in the unpreccdented time of 18 davs and 22 hours, mean time. board are safe and well. A dispateh from the on the passion Dielpvuss <luisti ito everything, Rownd mecis ** Among other things the Yankees have determined, of late that this impra matckes has con ment on the old style of yacht ito vogue among us; sd men bave looked upon themselves as real salts at inst each other to Cherbourg or lymouth from Cowes. No sooner do our Transat- et wind of the idea, than asnsnal, they at it into their jolly heroies, Criise to Clerb or & «vp.’l .l“hT'“I“ ctirise merosss thie Lt with the high LiveERroor, Dec. 20--Eventng.~Cotton cloacd finn with { cupey onr ‘Tailway refre sales of 20,000 bales. Midlimg New-Orlchnk j& (fhoted last, for craising '!.Iv'rmmm BREADSTUPPS MARKY i raihway travelling, than we Jantiechildren s trees, § fear we shal! bave | guiis littdle insular Jocation for & wiuning post ! ale, and an extra savage whistle of the water, it wants some dol- Jars at Cowes to make things pleasant. Aund when st | every now and then a great hill of the lumm‘; hrine comes bodily on and the look-out men holding on forward wonder when they shall ]pxo'. anything to Vreathe exeept salt water, it isn't al ether child’s play, whoever may be on board. There are plenty of hardy nations who face this sort of weather for their livelihood, and take it as it comes, in vessels little and big, but we only know two that make a Dbold pleasure of the peril, and like it better the worse it grows. These twe are the English aud Ameri- cans, and, if for nothing else, there onght, therefore, 10 be o solid good-feeliug between us, expecially o Jong as there is such o lot of salt water in the world.” SUIT OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST A FRENCH SHIP-BUILDER AND OTHERS, = The Paris correspondent of The London Daily News wives the following account of a remarkable lawsuit now pending in one of the French Courts: A l‘:wmn( extraordinary, of very great interest, I reliminary stage before ne, presided o by M. Andrew Jolmson ard _&:mkrfln_v in a the Civil Tribunal of the Se Benoit Champy, The plaintiff i President of the United State 1 ants are M. Arman, the great ship-buil deaux, & member of the Corps Legislatif, The cireumstances of the case fully appe deelaration filed by the President of States, which is a8 follows: Whercas in the course of the year 1861 several States be- longing to the Republic of the United States of America took up arma agatnst Federal authority, and attempted to form a separate eonfederation un o denomination of Confederate Btates of the South; aud, whercas the overnment did, it )8 true, recogrize the said Jaration,published #61; but whereas srom the the United i the Monitewr Universal, of June 1 the suid derlaration positively prohibited Freneh citizeps from taking any part Whistsoover i the iuanaing or & m- ok of amy ship of waror privateer belonging ta cither , il moreaver strietly enoitied 2l Excieh sabiects {0 mefrain from any act W which, in violition Both of the laws of the Empire and of the 1% s of nations, might be considered as n hostile act toward cither party ntrary to neutrality; and whereds in defianee of the “ teris of the above deelaration, aud of the virions apon which it was gronided, an the risk of most riously esmpromiu French teatrality, a_joint-stock coupany for the purpose of supplying vessels of wurto the wocalled Confederate States was formed in France under The inspiration and dircetion of the defendant Arman of the one part and the defendants Voruz, Joilet, Babin, Dublzeon wu Mazelie of the other part; and whercas b Verbi conventhoms agrecd wpon in Paris ‘on April 15, 1963 M. Arman contracted with one Bullock, a Confederate agent, a8 well 0 baild in his own docks £wo ships of war for the Confedernte Statex, 1% to obtain from MM, Voruz, Joblet, Bibin, Dubigeon und Mizeline o contract for the constinetion of tw imilar ships; and i ar ships aforesiod Wi fised at 1,500,001, , 0F 729,000 i all, the oty 10 he piyabl in Parts; and wheteas, it being impossible that these contricts okl be: vtherwise tha provislonal so king ws perialston for the <ailing of these wmed ships wak not obtained, M. Arman @i, on Jnue 1, 1863, solicit the Minister of Mudwe for permiesion’ to take away the shipe aforesuid, arwed with from twelve ta fourtecn guis, Alleging 1hat they had heen ordered of him for the ot of @ foreien merciunt, who wanted them for o et sle paeket serviee i the Pacifie and Chinese Scas e pver, looked forward to the possibility u" - selling “wa whipe of war to China_or Jupay; An wl required, on June 6 ainl Whereas, on the Very i crizd wathorizatic 0z comnind 1 assimed the irmed th o preced thils ratiicatio Paris, and and wh Jusie 9, M. Erlay agent for the pret Tk, for & commission of five per cent (o KA Arnin the payment of the first two-fifths of the st Latesd price Tov the adiesion af MM, Voruz & ¢ 15 was obtained by M. Anoa ulants reeeived accoidingd st 1861, eX ) obtained fro «d upon the faith of whi 1S On We 1id were made to Ary detendants ; and whereas it appes from thie above stated that Arman and hi uts nre now title of i holders, without any lnwdul righ and which sun rument o ) 1 he particnlar he duration of the Rebell cantrib- credit the helief that the seh Government | use of the Southern Stutes, and Wis even uting t favored t about to 1 in t o distinet utionalify whereas t rnment of the United States is th Justitied in sutng the defendants jointly am i for the damage done as theost to any i for or for lavger sims which they may be proved recelved ot necount of the skl shipa. The interlocutory motion nude yest Lacan, connsel i o defendants, was o « that President Johuson, as a fore m a Freneh conrt, should gi costs (Judicatum soivi is the Frenel losing the action. The only question before the conit was what that amonnt shonld he npon this the | unsel on either si liffered widel iwas cantended that r try dues of tiw various ships m question n sold, onght to be provided for by the while, on the other, i aid that it wonld be 58 of Freneh <“at more tha gave the defenda and “condernned ” iited Srates, an bel upon the assnmn to fix the security for . The Court, however, most sum they asked fo; v Johnson—condemned being no doubt the natter-of-course and appropriate word—to pay 150,000 franes ($30,000). info Conrt. Twight hero dismiss for the present the report of clébre, were it not for some observations, not bearing upon the matter in issue, v h ho counsel for the plaintiff, Andrew i were thonght extraordinary by the who listened to them, and which I apprehend will exeite surprise m other quarters. ;. *E. v VISIT OF THE EMPRESS TO ROME. | This journey is said to be fixed for the 20d instant, Of conrse it i asserted that the visit has no palitieal. significance, whichmay be good to tell to the marines, It is said Her Majesty will remain in Rome four days, Perhaps the most rensonable explanation of it is that it keops the Pope in Rome until éénciliatipe influe ences ean be bronght 10 oar upou him, and at the sume time excreises a pressure vpon Italy in the di- rection of compromise. MAXMILTAN. | A Brussels dispatch says it is now adumitted that the mission of General Casteluau was to, obtain the abdi- cation of Maxmilian, THE MONITEUR AND CANDIA, Itis not of mnch consequence what the French organ says upon foreign wmatters. But as it has anni- hilated the Cretan ins:rrection and handed it over to Garibaldians, it is worth while to note how it pro- gresses with the story, 3 The Moniteur says: *The late revival of {hie Cretan insorrection is due to the insafficient number of Ottoman eruisers, ‘Tl foreign agitators who have created disturbance in the island have been able to disembark freely with amunition and prov It now appears, howr eye the aspe wirs will nndergo g ol sihce thé Ottoman ave heen reénforced certain number of small steam gunboats, Visconnt Treillard has been appointed F ister to Colmmbia, i cl »ili E FOUR CE Gen. Ladmirault has been nominated to the dig- nity of Senator. Tt is reported that the Paris papers have bees rs take the hint ecle remarks that it iy ** only system with modera and say nothing. The a scheme,” and has not el Ches 17 dditional discipline. says the nation does 1ot need ad t loudly agaihst the ng that the exposs has not shtisfied The .dvewir National apeaks ou » hesitation in say public opinon. is not a single family in Pranes whose d exts ave not affected by ongider that having already she is asked for an army of 1. figures before hex let her meditat reflect on the past.” this plan. It is for a bindpet of $:0044 < son the fatie and n asks how it ie that with ah arney to send and maintain The only difficuity to os in the nuwber of the ly greater o the e estimees make as 60,000: while the most mo reform to be acco 1 could not the echarges, which it isin npose upon the count: War Administ in _a still bigher degreo The point is less of 420,000 men it is impossible wodd the frontier. «d in the matter lies i which is infinite men uot of use, snch ainy tha in proportion ? to call for amendinent than the persous concerned. t is ouly one of mouey, roportion to the ine W organization of use which the War Department cpairs and construets every whieli require a great pumber of wen for tection ! Does that hianch of the service prodnce ctuies muder the direction of and economi- o articles it man expensive superintends y a8 private establish happen that, while all the countrie America_have reduced their mil tions to the two branehies only of the I the Board of i inents could litary administia-* by side with the 3 pinisters and W engaged i a waltitude of wanutaetuves I he following is from : * For ourselves, wo positively 0 necessity of * di ing the whole nation, will not admit_that it should b autions against the disaster of an ngures. 1 the frontiers, aund we londly protest that, nation at present is, it may boldly defy 1 who should place his foot i & willion of soldiers, bt women, of the aged, and of k beyoud onr on, Woe to him 2 56,000,000 of men, « i children who would rise to hurl him bael DEPARTURE OF FRENCH TROOPS. The Panama sailed on Dec. 13 for France with the 50th Regiment of French troops. The Canada has airived, and will ship the train of artillery. A PAPAL BLUE BOOK. 1t is rnmored that the printing press of the Vatican and that on the 15th will be pablished asort of blue book containing, ments, letters from the Emperor of the French most ising to maintain the temporal power. by order of Hiw among other docu- solemnly prom! Bat as a palace is being prepared, b Holiness, for the reception of the Empress Eugenie, who is to pass the Christmas here, it is probable that the publication will be put off. THE PARLIAMENT, The Chamber of Deputies have done nothing be- vond effecting an organization of the body. The first sitting for the election of the different committecs will he held on Sunday. DIVIDENDS OF PUBLIC RENTES. A The Nazione denies a rumor eurrent here that‘tho Government had suspended the payment of the divi- dends of the Public Rentes due to eeclesiastical srovinces, and says it has only 'u)| the name of ave been sup- hodies in the southern been ordered that the those religions corpo pressed shall not 1 RISING OF THE UNEMPLOYED IN SARDINIA. ,ances have broken out at Nuore, in the rmed bands have been formed der. Troops have been dis- .| island of Sardinia. A for the purpose of plu patched to Cagliari. This rising has arisen amorg people driven to extremity by huuger, niisery, and want of work. TS, iested the cantonal anthorities in the Valais to execute the decrees of t the Jesnits residing in comimuni- te persons in the eanton of Vala s order the expulsion of the Jesuity The Federal Conne 1547 and 1551 The aboye deeree CONSTITUTION FOR NORTEERN GERMANY. Comneil was held aft of a Constitution Dec. 14, at which heNorth Germanio eived the Royal assent. The draft was to he laid before a Conference ef Pleripoten- tiaries of the Governuents, which would meet on SIGN POLICY OF PRUSSI al North German Gagette say v ke and convineing argu- ! Europe was, at f the Polish iusurrection, preserved from @ Even Austria, recognizing the dangee lencies of the Poles, adop Y, somewhat late, a policy o 1k the high st | ments of Prince Gorel NAV ,The statement upon naval affairs shows that tla Government is encrgetically developing the fleet and thalers have been complete State work s added to the port of o expenses for enlar estimated at 9,500,000 t of-war has been ordere THE CABL . Dee, 28.~The intelligence received nee to the Newfoundland lines is to v have been prostrated by the tes- wdnesday for miles in extent. The Company, however, is encrgetically at wozk, 4nd the hope is expressed that in the course of a few days tho gain be in order. and distinet line (ranning in a less ex- posed direetion) is also being pushed ahead with energy, and will be ready for use early in the Spring, estemund (Hanover), g and fortifying Kiel are’ ers. A thivd iron-clad w the effect that th ——— BYMPATHY WITH THE CRETANS. Y TRLEGRAPH T0 THE TRIRUNZ. : G b “;J"Al';l in!odrmnl m':‘-cx-:ing of gentles men was leld evening, and A committee t S Tadharaira . A0 of the Chctana, In thelr ssrustlh. the Turky. 15 Chalrmau Rea s WY TRLRAARK TO THE THINE WasizGron, b, L The amonnt of =sun ¥ for the week ending Satunluy, From ths i g retnrned. including wom-outy, leaviug in actual «iwulne of publie wone, rrency recelved rom the prntes a Faruiin, 850,000 ; Natiousl Banks, §.22,000, 70,000, Auoind of [ractioual curreuey il The dishursaents of the Treasury on aceount s Tollows : War, Wi, ol Bevenue for Satinky ¢ the totad peceipts during e BOARD OF TRADE CORKENCY CONTRACTION, followin, £ k adopted by o mk‘l‘ jous werm. That this Board is decidedly of the upld contraction of the eurrency of prosided for by law would be very dot; fus, 10 the business intervsts of 11 OPPOSEL T