The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 19, 1865, Page 1

Number ‘The Latest N ews. ‘ ' my Telegraph tothe ¥. ¥. Sun, (SAFE AT LAST! lavery Legally Abolished !! ‘dma ae by Secretary Seward 10.426 Provisional Governor Parsons y Relieved, xplosion re Ey Capitel. THE WHOLE CITY SHAKEN. 1 Several Persons Killed. , PROCEEDINGS OP CONGRESS, {mportant Business Transacted. SPEECH OF MR. STEVENS, )} THE EX-REBEL STATES. Extreme Radical Views. ATER EUROPEAN NEWS. The Wenian Trials. TWO MORE VICTIMS, Mexican Affairs. 0,000 AUSTRIANS FOR MAX, feath of the King of Belgium, &e., &e. BLAVERY LEGAL Y DEAD, Notification by Secretary Seward, Washington, Dee. 18. been issued Pore H., Beward, Secretary of State of the United taren, siltowhom these Presents may come, Greeting : now ye tha’, whereas the Congress of the Unit tea, on the first of February Inst passed a resolu. mn. which te in the words following, namely “A resolution submitting to the Lee The following notification e and House of Represen- esof Ameriea in Concress of both Houses concurring icle be propowed to the Leei«l san amendment to ¢ which, when rari- qf by three-fourths of eald Legislatures, shall be La iid te all intent and purposes as @ part of said jgostitation, nam QAnricie XILL--Section 1.—Neither slavery nor luntary servitude, except as a punishment for ame whereof the party shall have been duly con. tod, shall exiet within the United States or any 16 subiect to their jurisdiction ection 2.Congress shal! have Dower to enforce article by appropriato lagisiation nd, wherens, it ay from official doenments file in this Department that the amendment to Constitution of the United States, Teak, has been ratified by the Le States of Tilinots. Khode Island, Michigan, Mary- . w York, West Mids ie uains, | an pe Peschusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, pri, Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana. Minnesota, Wir- sin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North ‘ol | Creorgla, in all twenty-seven States; eas, the whole number of States in the States is thirty-six, nd wher Tose Lew as. the before sprcially named State ed the eaid preneced fourths of the whole atures have raj teain the Unit jae; ‘ow, therefore, te it known that I, William H ftate of the Uolted Staves, by ce of the second section of the wed the 2th of April, ISIS, en. “An Act to provide for the publication of the sot the United S:ates and for other purposes,” vereby certify that the amendment afoseenid bas \idtoallintent® and purposes ase part of tion of the United States estimony whereof 1 have hereunto ret my hand dd conred the eral of the Depart tof Btate to affixed, Done at the City of Washington, this th day of December, in the year of our Lord 65, and of the Independence of te United Staves America the 90th, Wa. H. ReWapn, Becretary of State, Alabama. rovisional Governor Parsons Kelleved, ‘dahinvfon, liee, 18.—The following has been bBressed by dir. Seward to Mr. Parsons: DerantMent OF STATE, } Weasnisaton, Dec, 1s, 1566.5 » Hia Excellency Lewis Ft Provisional rnor af the State of Alabi . niyomery, 4 Sir,—The time hae arrived, inthe judement we President of the United States, when the condnes of the poper affairs of the State ot A a may bo retnitted to the covatitutional authori- horen by the people thereot, without danver to peace and safety of the United States. By a of the Presidentot the Uaited States, there- um ere relieved from the trust wh w tcfore reposed in you as Provisional tate of Aiabama, Whenever the have acce duties Of LLe executive office. papere and property of the stare ty to His Pxcellency the Gove me capecial pleasure to convey to yout Ue acknowledysment of the fidelity, th discretion which have ma: tion, You will ploare give mea reply fay on which this communication ie re ened.) Ws. HM. Bewanp, overnor vernor elect ped and become qualified wo diecharee ou will transfer now in your TERRIBLE EXPLOSION, hington shaken To Its Foundations — several lersons Killed, pshington, Dec. 18.—An explosion took place jkern o , avout 2 o'clock, 1p @ smal! building Wied at the Arsenal, and in which workmen ‘q engaged in seriing ammunition, removing iigesjesc., Which Was most terri! e aud disus- in its . The force of the ex; losion was kK remo'e distances in the city, Beveral per- re reported killed and several ethers are #o hurt that their recovery ja deemed impossi Phey areal] employes, why have formerly been army, and who have beeu given work at the emolished and soon became a mase of flames, xertions of the fire.cen, who were soon at ne of she disaster, extinguished the flames ruined building, and thus prevented « con- Ma|. Phe house in which theexplosion took place | aol? Wcsconh em! A) emmunition The following parties are known to be willed: Jeremiah Mahony, Patrick Riordan, Tamme Moran, Michael McDermott, John Treaty, Marshel| Whiteley, John Mohan and Peter Gar. lehey, The 2idth Pennaylvania Regiment wae on duty at that post, and rendered valuable aaniat- ence, The bexties of some those injured ere torn in « horrible manner - | SAD NEWS Death of Governor Corwin. Washington, Dee 18 Governor Corwin died at balf-past two o'cock this afternoon. Present tn the chamber at the time of hie denth were, Ren- Store Davis and Guthrie of Kentucky, and Lan, of Indiana, and J.C Wetmore, Beq., and othere. Thomee Corwin was born in Kentueky, on the 2%h of July, 1704, Hie father, who after the birth of Thomas removed to Ohio, # farmer, and the fires twenty yeare of Corwin's life wae paneed In till- he sol, amd obtaining esongh schooling to ena- bie him, in the Winter of 181f, to abandon farming and enter apon th of In 1919 he was admitted to preeti lover was rie ne profession. In 1922 he wae o Leelslature, and im 183) yy hie constituents, He repreren hio} district molll 1840, when be wae rofthe State. In 1545 the Whigeln eof Ohio elected Mr. Corwin United States Benasor, and during the Mexican war, Senator Corwin “ied the opposition.” denouncing the war in terms. In 1560 Mr. Fillmore appointed Governor Corwia “Secretary of the Treasury.” Im 1558 Mr. Corwin was again elected to Congress. In is6) Mr. Lincoln apointed him UU. &, Minister to M+ xito, » position thet he held until quite recently, when he retnrow) home to resign hie office, and as % appeare to ead @ somewhat brilliant career, ™ tent fo Coneres the Warren [( POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE, North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C. Dee. 18 —The Logislature of this Biate adjourned this morning, to moet again on tle first of February next, No law wae passed or bil! presented for the government end protectian of the freeimen, California Sacramento, Dec, 16.—The Legislature to-dey elected Cornelius Cole U. 8. Senator, to succeed Mr, McDougall. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Thirty-ninth Session. BENATE. Washington, Dec. 18.—Mr. Grimes presented the petition of Vice Admiral Farragutand elevon hun. dred other naval officers, asking for an increase of pay, which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. A resolution was passed instructing the Secretary of the Senate to pay out of the Contingent Fund to Mre. Mary Collamer the amount due to Hon, Jacob Uol- lamer at the tine . th. Mr. Doolittle, from t mittee on Indian Af- fairs, reported a resolution, which wae adopted, for the expenditure of five hundred thoueand dollars for the support of destitute Indians in the Southern de- prndencies, and the purchase of agricultural imple- wweute for said Indiaus, the money to be taken fiom 8 fund of twelve hundred thousand dollars now in the the Secretary of the Interior for such Mr. Wilson offered a resolution providing for the *ppointment of an examining board to relieve officors of the regular army who have not rendered meritori- ‘ous service in the late war, and to fill their places by *ppointments from the regular army Veteran Resarve Corps and the volunteer force; which war referred to the Military Committes, Mr. Wilson explained the object of the above resolution, He said there were menin the regular army who had rencered no service, comparatively, during the war; while many, who had commanded corps and oivisions, would have to return to subor- dinate positions in the reeniar army, It was te object of the resolution to enable the country to sake ntage of the experience whi bh many officers in ‘ regular and voluuteer eérvice had obtained in the past four years Mr. Fessenden called up the Honre bill for the refurnishing and repairing of the President's House, which was passed. Mr. Wilson offered the following, which was adopted: Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be Instructed to inquire into and report upon the manner in which American vessels trausferred during the revellion to British owners, are now being refurn- ished with American registers, and, if the same be not ip accordance with law, what legislation, if any, is necorsary to prevent euch transaction, Mr, Doolittie introduced a bill in relation to the qualifications of jurors, and to writs of error in cer- tain cases, which provides that no person shall be held incompetent to act as a grand jerer by reason of having formed or expressed an opinion upon the mat ter in question, founded upon public rumor, state- ments of the public journals, or the common history of the times; provided he be otherwise compe eut, and it appear to the satisfaction of the Court that notwitheranding euch opinion he ca) nd will act | impartially and true preseutment mal ording to the evidence, It further provides th in triale for pubic offences against the United States no Perron shall be head incompetent to act as a juior on account of having formed ap opinion as alove. found. ed upon like imfolmation, if otherwise compeeus aud im partial, Mr. Foot presented the following, which wae adopted ‘The Joint Committee appointed to consider and report by what token of reepect and affec ion it nay Le proper to expreas the deep @eneibility of the nation to the event of the decense ct their late l’resi+ dent, Abraham Lincoln, have, accoraing to onder, had the eame under consideration, and. we the result of their de iberatious, report the following 1eso.u- tions, and recommend their adoption : Keaoieed, That the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, liaving occurred duriug the recess of Congress, and, the two Hource slaring in the genera! grief, and desiring to maniios! their sen ity upon the occasion of that public be: eavemeut; therefore be it Jienolved, Hy the Senate, the House of Represen tatives concurring, That the two Houses of Couerers Will Aswembie in the ttose of Mepreasniatives ou Mon the 12th of February next—thut being bie anoiversaiy birth-day—at the hour of 12, meridian, and that in the prereace of the two Louse there aesem bled, an sadiess upon the life and cuarseter of Abraham Liveoln, lave President ot the | uited Bates, be pronounced by the Hon, b, M. Stauton, and ‘hat the President oft the Senaie pro tem, and the rpeake: ot (he House ot Kepiesoutativer be re- que (ed to invite the Piesident ot the ( nited Stave tie Loads of the several Departmouts, the Judaes of the Supreme Court, the representatives of fovelen Govermimenia bea this Government,and euch oth. ce.e ol the @1tiy and Davy as have received the thauks ot Cong test, who may then be at the seas of Govern- MEL, W Le Piecoat OD the occasion; and be is ture | her | Kesolved, That the President of the United States be requested 10 trauemmit a copy of these | esolutions | tw Mie OD, UNG LO aasu.e Ler ot the piviouud tytupathy of tue Wwo Houses of Conwiers tor ber deep perecusl atthe ion, and of their miuccie Coudoleuce | dos the late Nalouw, bereavement, Mr Morguu iutroduced 4 bili to amend the laws | Felat ve to certain office:a at New York, which pro- | vide" for the appoiniment of appraisers by the Vreel- oft the Bepate, and | cent, with the advice and cous | Seeetant appraisers t ie Ducie y ot the Treasucy, one of whom, with special ref®rence to bie dit.es, eliall be an examiner of drugs and chemicals, [talso i that isstead of the clerks now eupioyed ior ination and app: sent of hoods, exami- ail be wppoluted, who eull receive their ap. pointments frow \he secresary of the lreasury, it turther provides that it «hall be unlawtuil for auy empioves of the Custom House to be emploved in ony mercantile or commerciu) Vusiness, The com- penegsion of the Appra: ie fixed et 34,000, and the Atsietant Appraiser et @3,000 per annum, payable monthly. The bill wae referral to the Commitves on Com- merce, Adjournea, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr, Reniamin 0. Harrie, of Maryiant Tan, Delaeate from Montana. and Wm famnel Me. ifod by taking the required oath flected to the Thirte-ninth © Coneresstonal istrict of Artanene the privile claim @ A representative Mr. Stevens, of Penneyltania and Mr Ohio, objer'ed to the introduction of the resolution, and Mr mith withdrew the question for the pre- sent referred to the Committers on Reconstruction, That no State recentiy in the rebellion ouahe to be en- titled 19 representation antll «neh State shell. by ite Leetsinture, or the properly ted author! ties, adopt the amend stitution, secucing payment of od repudiating the ' debt Mr. Washbourne, of Illinois, introduced « bill ree Pealing all lawa providing for fishing bountios, Kelerred to the Committes on Commeree Mr. Grinnell introduced @ bill providing that no commission shail hercafter be issued to any civil or military officer of the Government resident in U tab until he hae filed in the office where euch commission lenvowal of the doctrine and practice a au! that no cor “ensstion ehall be allowed to any ench officers in that Tercitory without ench die- avowal, The bill was referred to the Committes on dudiciary, On motion of Mr. Loan, it wae rerolved that the Select Committee on Fieecmen be instructed to inguire lute the expediency of some immediate lorisiation securing to the freedmen and colored citi. rene of the States recently in rebellion the political and ciqil rights of other citizens of the United States, ond that they report by bill or obberwise. Mr. Baker offered the following: Wherras, Class rule and aristocratic prine government beve buithened weil oigh all vith > iplee of PO rope au e®ormous public debt and @ standing army, which prose asa prodigions incubus on the people, Sbeorbing their substance, impeaing their enlinre, and papaiting their business ; and, whereas, the ciaee rule as an aristocratic element of slavehoiding which found a place in our Kepubiic, has proved it- wel! ike menner burtful .o our people by de (isting labor and prentecting popaley education ina argo section of eur country, by striving to rend our Union into fragments, by causing the blood of undreds of thousands of patriots to flow, and by compelling the people to im: on themetives « debt of Ruropean magnitude im defence of libe nationality aud civilization om this Continent; refore Be it resolved, As the sense of this House that once all we should have done with class rule and aris focracy ase privileged power before the a this , nO Tua\ber where or in what form they may appear, and that in restoring the normal relations of the States larely in rebeliion, it is the bigh and sacred duty of the representatives of a free people to Proceed upom the true as distinguished from the inive democratic principle, and to realize and secure the largest attainable liberty to the whole people of the Republic, irrespective of class or race Un motion of Mr Conkling, the above was r to the Conuulitee on Keoonstruction, Mr. Moulton ask@d leave to offer a resolution that, if not incompatibap with the public interests, tho President be requested to communicate to thie House the reasons why Jefferson Davis, enid to be confined 86 Fortioss Monror, hae not been tried tor treason Againas the Goveruwent; and if any, what obstecios are in thi y of bis trial ae a State criminal, Objection being made, the resvlution weat over under the rule rred Mr. Thornton, of Illinois, offored @ resolution de- claring that questions relative to the elective fran- chise should be referred to the several States. Tabled’ Mr, Orth, of Indiana, movoi that the President be called on to inform the House, or furnish the House with any information as to the application of the #0 called Mexican Empire to obtain a recognition from the United Biates Mr. Stillwell, of Indiana, offered @ resolution to the effect that the people who have been in rebellion Saeinet the Government, and who have submitied to the laws of the | nited States, and adopied arepub liean form of government, repealed the ordinances of recession, prasad the Conatituiional amendment forever abolishing slavery, repudiated the rebel debt, and parsed rotecting the freedmau in hia lib rty. the r entatives of the people elected to Jougrese having received their certificates of elec. tion from their yective Governors should be re. othe Thirty-ninth Congress al) take the teat oath. The above was refered w the Committee on Re- construction Mr, Hill, of indiana, introduced the following resolution : Reeolved, That the act of July 2%, 1862, preeeribing an oath to be takeu aod subscribed w by persons elected or appeinted to office under the Government of the United Sta'es, before entering upon the duties of such offices, ts of binding force and effect in all the departments of the public service, and should in ue lustanoe be dispensed with A motion was made to jay the resolution on the tabie, which was disagreed to by yeas, ¥¥; nays, 1.6 The resolution was then passed. A mossage was received from the Senate accom panied by a report from that body proposing appro. | priate action consequent upon the death of President Lincoln, The report was unanimously concurred in. Mr. Wash burne, of Illinois, from the select Com | mittee appointed to take action on the bill for the | relief of Mrs, Lincoln, ete, reported the same | with @ substitute, namely, that (he secretary of the | Treasury pay to Mre, Mary Lincoln, widow ot Abraham Lincoln, teent) -five thousand dollars, Mr. Wentworth moved that the sum of hundred thousand, instead of tweuty-tive thousand doliars, be appropriated This was disagreed to, and the bill pppropriating twenty-five thousand dollars, as above reported, was paseed, Mr, Wilson of Lowa, reported a bill from the Judicia- ry Commitee, extending the right of suffrage in the IMatrict of Columbia, On motion of Mr. Wilson. the Hones enepended the Tules for that purpose, and the bill was made the epecial order for the loth of January next Mr. Alloy, of Massachuretie, odered the following trnolved, That thie House cordia'ly concurs in the views of the Seeretury of the Treaury in rolation to the necessity of the contraction of the eurrenes, with } eo view an early resuinption of specie pay j & the business interests of the country will 1 ; and we hereby pledge co-op ration to that @eud as ep edily as possible the resolution was agreed to by yeas, 144 i On motion of Mr. Stevens, of eunsylyania, the House went into Cormmitieo of the Whole on the | Btate of the Union, on the Ireetdent’s aunual Mce- | sage. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania. ead : A candid examinationof the power and proper | prineipies of reconstruction can be offeneive to no ' nay TH. Hooper, Delegate from Utah, respectively, appeared and qnal- Mr Amith also offered a resolution and demanded the “pravions question,” that James M. Johnson, merees from the Third he admitiod to of the floor during the pendeney of hie Ashley, of Mr. Price, of lows, offered @ resolution, which wae one | | | j one, and may possihiy be profitable by exeiing inquiry. The President aesumes that uo one doubts, that the late rebel states have long iheir constitutional relations to the tion, and are incepible of representation in Congress, except by pertuiesion oO! the Government, [t matters but litte | with this admission, whethe ucallthem states cutotthe Union, and now «on que'ed territor or assert that because the Const tutsou lorbid thein to |do whut thy gid do, that they ae only | Gead aa to al! vations) aud politic! acon, and will reimaib sOuntil the Government shall bieathe into | | them the breath of jite auew, and permit them to | occupy their former porsou—in otber words, that (bey wre pot out ot the | n.on. but only dead coreass- leo lying within ‘ nion In either Jeme, it is very plain tat it requires the ection of Congres wo ¢ e them to form ® Riate (roverpiuent, we.) itt prereibatives to Cougre Nobody, Dbeijo sc oie ene that with their old constitutions and frys ics eoninoat, they can be permitted to clain, ther old riehte under the Constitution, They pare torn {heir constitutions into atoms @nd bullgon ‘bei: (ouncations fabsies of a totally aitferens characte) oi meu c&npot mice themselves, dead tares cannot restore their own Ox 186000 as it was, Wier eepecial duty is it todo it? Ip whom does the Consi'ution piace the powei? Not in the jadicial brancy of we (overpment, for it only edyu And dows nol prescribe lawe Not a te Kamulive, Gr ue oaly, Checules and 1865, Cannot make laws, Not in the commandar-inchief Stween two rckmowladeed Lolligerents, severed thelr origioans compacts and broke ali tee th the at Doni ™ tare eomdition of the con yieee power depouds on the iil of the conqaeror Hey must come in ee gew Btalen, oF remain as con qQuerei proviness. tees; the Senate and Howse gt Keprosentatives; with the concurrence of the President @ the only power that ean act on the mat ter Hat suppose, aa some dreaming theoriste ‘maging that there Slates have never been ous of the Union, tut heave only deatroved their | State governmenia, eo ge to be incapable of pollti- esl action, then the fourth ron ef the fourth tar applios, which e | nited Biates shall Uarantee to every Biate in the Union @ Kepubiican orn of government” Who te th ‘nited Statea? Not the ‘udiciary, not the President, but the sover flan power of the ple @xercleed through their towe: he ibe fw of the armies, for he can only hetd them wader military role. antil the sovrercien ireietative power of the conqueror shell give them lew. Thera is, fortan ly, no diMienity in setving the question There are teo prowisiona ip the Conetitetion tinder oue of ich the case mcs fail, The tour'h arsie'e j fare: “New states inay be edmiteed by | the Comeresa foto thie Union.’ In my nda } Ment thie ie the controtling prowiaion in ile case, ; UD eee the law of nations ie @ dead letter, the ate representatives in Congr with the concur. rence of the Riaecutive “Ns means the poll. Sical governemt, ihe concurrent setion of both branches of Congress and the Executive ihe separate action of each amounts to nothing either in admitting new Mtates or gnarantecing Kepubliean Governments to lapeed or outlawed States Whencesprioge the preposterous idea that either the Presdeut of the Senale, or the House of Kepre- feutatives, acting separately, can determine the Pent of States to send members or Kenatore to the onerese of tho Union? To prove that they are aud have been out of the Union for all legal pur- poses, aud are now conquered subjecta to the abrolute disporal of Congress, I will sugcest & few ideas and adduce «few authorities. If the so- called Confederate Svates of Ainerica were an inde. pendent belligerent, and were eo acknowledged by the United States and by Europe, or bed assumed and malutained an attitude which eutitied them to be considered and trovied as a belligerent, then during fuch time they were precisely in the condition of a foreign nation with whom we were at ir, nor need their independence ® nation to be acknowledged by us to produce that effect. Mr, Mevens then quoted from Mr. Juatice Grier, in the prize cares, ail the law on these pointe, Alter such clear and repeated decisions, be said, some - thing worse than ridiculous to hear inen of Fr: pecka- le standing attempting to barge the law of nations end deciare ihe Supreme Court of the United states i error, because, as the Constitution forbide it, the States could not xo out of the Union de facto, Afier propeeding further in his argument, be remarked, it is obvions that the first duty of Congress is to pase a daw declaring the coudstion of these outside or deiunct States, and providing proper civil goverument for them. Since the conquest they have bee feverned by martial law, Military rule ie mecessar y than is abroutely and ought not to exist lo: heceteary, As there are no aymptome that the keope of these provinces will be prepared to Participate tu a Constitutional Government tor some years, { kzow of no arraocome: as Territorial Goveruments, I) the principles of freedom, and rebeiliou under auch Governme Mr. Stevens continued his remarks in this epiris at considerable length, after which the Louse ad- journed, 0 proper for them ® they can learn the fruit of foul From Europe, Five Days Later News. Portland, Dee, 18,—The steamship Pernvinn, from Londonderry the Sth inetent, has arrived here. The Shenandoah put back to Liverpool on the Oth instant, with loss of ails and short of coals, Bhe experienced heavy gales, and only reached Longitude 25° on the 1st of December, when she was put about, ‘TAR FRNIANA, The trial of O'Leary, the Fenian, terminated on the 6th fnstant, with @ verdict of “guilty The prisoner addressed the Court, and denied thas he Waratraitor, He said that he owed no allogiance to the Queen of England, nor obedience to Rritteh laws He was not, he sald,eurprised atthe verdict, for a government woich had nately packed the bench had no difficulty in obtaining @ verdict from e jury. When he had heen convicted on such alight evidence, there would he no difficulty found in convicting all the rest who were tocome He de- elared thathe had been morally assassinated, and vointing ne of the crown counsel, designared im as “that miserable man Dante had placed treitors in the ninth circle of hie Inferno, but Daute had defined » traitor to bea man who be- trayed his king, bis country, benefactors, A® for him, Englan{t was not his country, and he was no traitor With respect to the sheiding of blood and the destruction of property, that was the necessary conatquence of all revolutions, and se it was of wars; but the persona who disturbed the couutry were not rebels, Bus avitators, Hampden and Elliott were traitors, and Jeffreys and Norbury were loval men, The Judge sentenced the prisoner w 20 years penal servitude. London, Dee, 8,—The third Fenian tris!, that of Micharl Moore, the pike maker, has been conclud- od, He was convicted of treason, and sentenced to ten yeara penal servitude, All the Fenian prisoners were removed on the night of the 2d instant from the jail whence Stephens, tle Head Centre of Ireland, escaped, to Kilmainham Jail,owlng to alleged disaffection among the officials at the Richmond Hridewell, Among the latest arrests of membersof the Fenian Brotherhood is the clock of an important Govern- ment funetionary in Tipperary. The London Timms congratulatesthe Irish Gov- ernment on being alle to secure successive con- vietions of lead'ng Feulana, with eo little difficulty in spite of everything that can be done for their defense, Iteuya: “It would appear that «fresh ry is erpannelied for each case, ao that every nyictlou representa the result of independent judgment by @ distinct body of men.” GENBUAL BNOLIGH NEWS, The London Times, in aunouncing an offi ia} investivation into the affairs of J ® Baya: That it ia due to Governor Pyre, no less than to puble opinion 1p England, thats full and search jog inquiry should be rade into the history of the Jatoaics rebellion, and we ‘earn with the utmoss savsfaction that such an inqulry # to be instituted forthwith. A numerous deputation from the DBaptiet Mir f# onary Bociety had ap interview with Mr, Card- wel!, the Colonial Becretary, to present » memo- ria! praying for an jaquiry into the proceedings in Jawalca, Ts is stated that there is tobe = new ceremonial in the opening of Parliament. The Queen, instead of using a State carriage,’ will occupy what is da ‘dress carriage,” and the robes of State, ot being worn by the Qieen, wil) be laid Upon the throne, The spew .self, instead of be- ng read by the Queen, will be read by the Lord aucellor, The case of Mrs, ¥.lyerton va. the Saruanay Review, for libel at Edinburgh, resulted in @ ver- dict tor the defeudants, the jury standing nine for them and three ayaingt then. The verdict was roceivel with “hiasing’? jn abe Court, The jury we wentex hours, FRANCE, General Bchofield's yiei, to Paris continued to attract attention, The Paris Pursam believes that whatever the tenor of Generel Schofield's instructions may be, the evacuallom of Mexicg is Likely to be the result, . on - a | ‘Thirty-Third Year: = 4 rie corraepondent of the Londen Groone General Bohoflald ta meted to he e r Nn @ political miesion from Waahi ad bad calle? on Deonen de L'Huys, and adde: “The Sr ypomed that the object of hie vialt lv for the pure } sap of soothing down some | ne teeenge of President for home service th also a8 in the impend+ onnaen, meant rather an for France" Geneve! pected to explain the appointment of | Lowan as Minister to Merion, acerediter us Fuarat General Logan in to start in search of @ Mexican President or Republican Court, and \4te report rourems ‘o that voyage of discovery. he Times Paria correspoed Mmestions the ar- of Gen. Bohofield and say 0 it rumored that he is charvet to treet for the tenasion of Meico by the French troops. The writer asve shat he hae rranon wo believe, fair authori ty. that the French Government hea not received any communication of the kind allude! to from the Atnerican Government, and thet there |e ae yetn to show or expect that it vik be male A Paris telezram of the Oth inat., states thes Geng Beofield 1e hot entrusted with cy political mie- sion, and thathe visite Europe for the ben fii of hie health with the intention of ie ened stay on the continent. sete dale The cattle plague in the shape of contegions “typhus ** fe anid to have been imported into the Jardin d' Acclimation, Paris, by two gerelien received from England An order hea | consequently been iamued prohi! ting the importes Hon of all animale into France, exc: 0 toules, asses aud doge, sili ie SPAIN, A Madrid letter, of the 84 inst, sage that the red Jection of metiation by the Spanish Governmrns in the Chillan diffleulsy is again announced in the eern|-official Correspondencia de Espana. The Madrid Ercoa publishes s note frem Armté ral Pareja to the Kuxlish Minister at Valparaiso. The Minister had written the Admiral ng thaw he could not believe thet Valparaiso would be blockaded, in whew of the rge amount of property owned ly foreigners in the city, The Admired curtly replied that if proper warning wi to neutrals to remove Fs % "ae tee coutestable right of bel! bardment. We therefore wave due warning AUSTRIA, The Hamburg papers state theta portion of tha Helivoland Rock, having bean long undermined by the sea, had fallen, and was engulphed in ihe waves. Out of five hundred |: land seventy aro anid to have ae auld TWO DAYS LATER, Arrival of the Cuba. Halifax, Dec. 18.—The steamship Cubs, frog Queenstown the 10th inst, has arrived at this ports THE FENIANG. The spectal commision for the trial of the Fee niab prisoners would adjourn in Dublin on the 18th inet., until the Oth of January, the interica being devoted to the trial of Cork prisoners. The trial of Malligan, an employe m the Ina Pror.s's newspaper office, in Prog™*ssing. The channel fleet !s ordered to w.. tr in Ireland, and the officers are not to be allowed the usual leave of absence. The Army amp Navy Garerns says there are between nineteen and twenty thousand of the regular army in Ireland, GENERAL BNGLISN rrEMs, The affairs of Jamaica continued to absorb greaw sttention. The Peace Society had addressed w memorial to Karl Russell on the subject. A depn+ tation from the Anti-Slavery Boclety was to wae op Mr, Cardwell, the Colonial Seoretarr, on the game subject on the day the Cuba left Liverpoots Sr Henry Storks, Governor of Malta, has | eo summoned to England, Reports say he! wil) he sent to Jamaica, with @ Commission of Inquiryy which will be composed of Sir H. Btorks, Bir F. Head, late Goveruor of Canada, and « legal gentle man, The weekly return of the cattle disease in Fogw land shows # continued increase. An official lnttew from the Consul General at Odesss states that the cattlo plague existe permanently on the Btepprr of Khereon and is cured by sudorifics, The Koval Agricultural Boclety have resolved that ite usual snunual meeting shall not take place unt! noxw year on account of the catile diseases. Captain Waddell, of the Shenandoah, remaine® in Liverpool, and will continue to do so until the extradition claim of the United States Governments is adjusted FRANCE, ‘The Patt Mave Gacerrer says that the message of President Jobnaon ia looked for in Paris with unusual interest, owing to the belief that it con- t paragraphs commenting on the acthon of France in Mexico, which will require explanation. ‘The Parire says that negotiations are progress~ ing between Austria and Mexico for the more spoedy evrollment of the ten thousand Austrians, who, under the original arrangement, were to be recruited in Austria in five years, ot the rat of two thousand men @ year. BPAIN AND CHILL Tho Paris Pareim says that President Johoron hes ordered the American Minister at Chili we offer bis good offices for the settlement of the H spano-Chilian affair, It adds that the friendly iutervention of England and France also affur is sroase to expect that the diffloulsy will be amica- 5 ly avjusted, SWEDEN, In the House of Nobles, the Government bil! for reform in the Constitution was adopted by {OL against 204, Lhe Chamber of the Clergy unanl~ mously passed the Lill, which b us gone through all the four Chaubera, 1 wee great rejoivg throughout the country over the eveut, aude vreat public festivity aud illumination ap Srewkbolia was preparing lu honor of it, Verg Latest per the Cuba, Liverpool, Dee. 101s ie wald that Austria and Mexico are neyotiatug for the more spoedy eu- rollment of the ten thousaad Austrians, whiuk wero to be furnished Mexico during five yoars The King of the Be)yians died on the 9th inst At eo Arcrican Banquet, given at Paris, Mr, Bigelow, the United States Minister, expressed very pacific sentiments, and Gen. Schof*!d pro- posed os @ toast: ‘Friendship between France aud the United Bates,” The Pararm says that Gen. Schofield is about wm proceed to England on a coufidential mission trom President Jobnson to prevent any difficulties aris- ing between Great Britain and America, Mr, Cardwell, the Colonia, Becretary, has prom- ised the Anti-Slavery Bociety that « searching in- quiry should be made into the late proceedings in Jamaica, Tho threo mates and boatewain of the ship Ant arctic, lying in the Mersey, bound for New York, have Leen lodged in jail, charged with killing the cook and s'eward, Bxu.'s Lives publishes an sccount of » comp!!- mentary dinner given Joho C, Heenan by the Victoria Club of London, prior to bis visiing Americes. The assent of Queen Victoria to the betrothal of (Cy inacd @m the tuna Rese.)