The Express. — London, England, 1863-02-02 00:00:00

I N FIIN THIS WEEK, One Penny, Lord steoey, I'm off to Nana. iL".;:orLri;al - st . Almeasek and Dhq. Ptias UN" Cask EDUdocadik &C. Now ready, post handsomely bound paid in magenta cloth, gilt, price 4 ed.; ta, THE SECOND HALF-YEARLY VOLUME of TUN, with norms , one Engravings by talented artists, and articles by distinguished writers. The First Volume, uniform with the Second Volume, on sale. 011ica SO, Meetotteat. aZOOND-RAND PIANOFORTES. CRAM, DIAL; sad WOOD Dave a Dry smaortasent mid-Mad rissiolhorbes. by the moat ofteased makers, ai poses Mooed peloss.--IW.ltigsausaveg. SHIPWRECKS. - LIFEBOAT SERVICES. The following is a Bat of LIVES BAYED from shipwreck by some of the lifeboats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LI YEN iAT IN STITUTION during the past unwise :—Lifeboat at Whitby saved 12 men ilitydey, 4 : Thorpenesa, 4 : Ryellfeboat and other boats, 18 own and vessel Talgrunonth. 2: Plymouth lifeboat and steam-tug, 6 men and vessel; Padstow, 4 . Rude Haven, Brannton, 20: Portcaw, 10 : Cardigan • . Southport, 4 : Wham, I 32 men and 1 vessel . Kirkcudbright, men sod vessel : Thurso. S: and Buddownesa (Dundee,. 8 men and 1 vessel: making • total of 136 men and 6 vessels saved. Contributions in aid of the funds of the National Lifeboat In stitution will be thankfully received by all the bankers In the United Kingdom, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis , E N , at the Institution, No, 14, John-street, Adelphi. Ewe •xareoL. TO CORIZIPONDIXTIL drertionnonta Intended for Immo Tar, muAt Do at tho offico. 111. Dowel oo dock oo Um, do,r pablkotics. I" Lowden loomteg wlowitoot. by Two olyzirr TI IS EVLWIO. the ;rd and WA Ads of THE BOHEMIAN DIAL Messrs. W. Harrison and W. H. Weisa ; Misses Suomi and Louisa Pyna—And HAILEMVIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. .Conductor, Kr. A. Mellon.—Commence at ten minutes to 7. HAYILAI!X=, Tim ETUIPS. OUR AMERICAN 001/BIN. Mama Saban and Buckram ; ltra R. Fltzwillkun.—lLUSSlLAß PRINCR Or ABYSSINIA. Mr. Ooas and Silas L. Keeley.—And OUR MARY ANNL Mr. Clark and Mao Kageor. PLINCIIBBII.. Tan Mingo, LAW .. ioTek—ONIGOOD TITRE DRiEB.Vir ANOTHER. Mr. L loeby and Mies Any Poderwlek. - And YewWITH THE Turr ; or, Harloptdn and Hotbed 8121ptoa. L Kilaao, E. Power, and Mae A. Collinson. LYCZITY, i~rEtoug. A BITDDEr ATTACK. Messra. Widdlcomb, Gerden. and abar• ; Ramada and Mrs. Lea And ilia DVXXB MOTTO. Neon. Feekinr, 6. Visaing, Brougham. and 'Raymond Mimes C. Leclerc% I. Tanj and Esworthy. TiMS Erlmmo, the Pantomime , ARON HASSAN. Mrs. Lane ; Meows. Swans, Locals, Newham, sect Mdlle. Celeste Stephan Tom Sayers and his two performing Mules.—And MARY RDSlONsTaNlL—Ocionsebos at halt-pat b. WATIMAT LONDON DIJDOL. TWO Da i=l . lolliiii.7ktigiZT.T.ls;;TesT — in. 40a Xv-amazow—Marldnr. se. Os.....Afister" 24. lagle LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2. Tar advance in the Bank of England rate of discount to 5 per cent., to the probability of which reference was made in these columns on Monday last, has taken place, yet in every quarter there is an entire absence of perturbation. The commer cial public remain as calm under a 5 per cent, rate as they were four months ago, when the charge at the Bank was but 2 per cans. This calmness is a very satisfactory feature, and is occasioned mainly by the universal confidence which is felt in the general soundness of our financial position. But it is also due in part to a kind of incre dulity which lingers in the public mind. People see that the value of money has risen suddenly from 2 to 5 per cent., but they scarcely see any adequate reason for so sharp a change. Such reason is not to be found in the course of our internal trade, which remains in much the same condition as for some time past; neither has there been any sudden access of spe culation in a foreign direction, nor a large increase of imports, requiring to be paid for. Had an adverse change occurred in any of these points it would be easy to understand that the value of money must be permanently raised ; but in the absence of disturbing elements of adequate force the public appear disposed to doubt the perma nence of the advanced rates now attained. In so far as the present stringency has arisen from the remittances on account of foreign loans and foreign companies, we can see the end of our commitments, and we know that the total cannot, at the very utmost, cause more than a little temporary inconvenience. In so far as it remits from the habitual improvidence of the Bank of France, and from the necessity conse quently imposed upon that establishment of laying other markets under contribution for its relief, it is also easy to perceive the limit to the drain, since that limit must be the discharge of all debts due to France by England. If the process of drawing gold from England be carried beyond that point all the further remittances become a short loan, for which we must charge terms proportionate to the inconvenience inflicted upon us. It would be interesting to ascertain—did the full materials for elucidating the inquiry exist—to what extent the gold operations of the Bank of France in the London market have been facilitated, or otherwise, by the increased inter changes between the two countries which have been caused by the commercial treaty. The promptitude with which on the 15th January, within an hour after the receipt of news that the rate of discount at the Bank of England had been raised from 3to 4 per cent, the French Bank moved from 4 to 5, appears to indicate that the council of the latter establishment have expe rienced an unusual degree of difficulty in, so to speak, getting bold of our gold. Could the need ful supply have been procured without raising the rate of discount, but merely by putting in operation machinery which they have used before, we may be sure they would have preferred the latter course, as being much more congenial to the hand-to-mouth system which prevails through out the extravagant finance of the Second Empire. The Bank of England has now taken a further strong step of a protective character, and the French Bank hesitates to follow. For this heal tation there are, probably, two main reasons; first, the French Government and the Council of the Bank fear to arouse the apprehensions and susceptibilities of the commercial and industrial 1 classes, who have a good deal to contend with at present ; and secondly, an improvement of mode rate extent has within the last few days become observable in the position of the Bank of France, and this will naturally induce the council to wait, in the hope that it can be coaxed into continuing. Experience has shown that these recurring crises in French finance are of only temporary duration. Their effect upon our money market must be still more ephemeral, seeing that this country is, as we believe, not indebted to France in excess of the average amount. Let the French Bank once tide over the crisis of its difficulty and the pressure upon us will at once subside. It will then become questionable whether our trade is sufficiently active to keep the rate of discount up to its pre sent point. The public are too well versed in the financial facts of the day to let themselves be plunged into despondency by the gloomy predictions which are occasionally heard in some quarters. A contem porary who on the 16th December pronounced that "the symptoms are in favour of a quiet die " count market between now and the January " dividends, and of an increase of ease after that "date," and who declared on the lit January that " the new year commences with all the markets in " a quiet state, and without a single symptom of " prospective disturbance," has lost his be lance since the advent* in the value of money; has discovered that commercial affairs are unsound, and charges the public with nothing less than " mr.dness" in "surrendering themselves " to the company-mongers." The public, on their part, thcragh pretty confident as to their healthful condition, have noted their own pulse, and taken ever). other means they know of to detect symp toms of fever, but have not succeeded in finding any. They prefer, therefore, to retain • belief that affairs are in much the same condition as they were a month or two ago, and that events in the interval have not been sufficient to change what was sound into something very rotten. Unlike last year, which was marked by the inixoduction of so many foreign loans, including a Russian application for the trifling sum of 15,000,0001. (a request which, probably on account of its modesty, was backed by all the support an eminent contemporary could give it), the present year has, thus far, not been fruitful in foreign schemes. Now, it is only such projects as cause the exportation of capital that can seriously affect our money market. When • home scheme is brought forward, whether it be a bank, or an insurance company, or a mining company, or aught else, one of two things happens : either (which occurs in a large number of instances) it does not obtain subscriptions from the public, in which case it simply dies ; or it is received with favour and is promptly established, in which case there is merely a transfer of the amount of the first capital from some hands to others. Thus, Mews. GLYN and Co., or Messrs. Roman and Co., or the London and County Bank, or some other bankers, are made to hold more money, and other bankers hold • little less money ; yet the amount, whatever it be, is not consumed or locked up, but is available for temporary disposal, though perhaps not quite so freely as it was before. Foreign pro jects must be watched carefully in the present cir cumstances of the money market, because they mean an exportation of capital at a moment when the supply of capital on offer is less abundant ; but home projects, even if, to use a contemporary's metaphor, they come in the form of a " Bank of " Balls-pond," can affect neither the exchanges nor the Bankbullion—the movements in which have solely occasioned the rise in the valve of money. If public writers, instead of emptying the vials of their sarcasm upon so visionary an object as •1 " Bank of Balls-pond," would use their influence to expose living substantial instances of joint-stock irregularities, the community would be protected much more effectually. But the one course is easy and safe, while the other is difficult, and may entail occasionally much individual responsibility. We have been surprised to find in a mercantile circular which has recently fallen into our hands, a somewhat strange argument against the soundness of the condition of trade. It is stated that orders are being sent out too freely for foreign commodities, and as the prices now current here for most kinds of produce are alleged to be lower than they are in the ports of the exporting countries, it is inferred—and not unreasonably—that considerable losses will accrue. But why these losses should bring in view, as the writer appears to suggest, • repetition of the dis asters of 1857, we cannot imagine. Such mode rate losses as may be sustained will constitute the most effective check possible to any tendency to excessive importations. The low prices offered here for produce are suggestive to the public rather of confidence than distrust. The com mercial crises of 1847 and 1857 were preceded, I and in part caused, by the establishment in this country, under speculative impulse, of relatively higher prices for many descriptions of produce than those obtainable elsewhere, the effect being that imports increased, the exchanges de clined, and gold left the country. The process of cure, watched by the advocates of the Act of 1844 with a grim satisfaction, which was only alloyed by the breaking down of that Act, consisted in throwing down the prices of pro duce, under the successive turns of the screw, until prices were higher abroad than here, where upon produce went out of the country, instead of gold. Unhappily, this see-saw process was not completed until thousands of persons had been ruined. But, applying these lessons for guidance at the present time, we confess we are at a loss to imagine how low prices of produce—indicative, as they are, of an inactive state of speculation—can be regarded as a proof of commercial unsoundness. PRIVY COUNCIL—It it expected that her Majesty will hold a privy council at Osborne on Wednesday, the 4th inst., for giving the Queen', sanction to the royal speech on opening the session of parliament, and also for appointing the sheriff' for the Englieb and Welsh counties for the present year.7o6"erter. Lord Palmerston will give a grand dinner at Cambeidgehoass, Piccedilly, on Wednesday next, the 4th Mat% to elute party of members of the House of COM moss, sappartara al hi lordship's administration. The compsay will aceaprias the mover and seconder of the address is the lower haws Earl Granville, u ministerial leader in the Upper House, will give • parliamentary dinner oa Wad aesday mat, the 4th Met., at his residence in Bretoa-street, Berkeley-equare„ to • party of between thirty sad forty peers, ineledieg the mover end seconder of the address la the House of Lords. The address in answer to the speech from the throve is the House of Lords will be moved by Earl Dudley, end emended by the Earl of Ortheal. We understand the Hon. George Waldegrave, late secretary to the Right Hon. the Speaker of the Howe of Commons, bee been appointed private secretary to the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department, is the place of Mr. Loch, C. 8., who is selected u the Goreroor of the Isle of Mae. We are sorry to announce the death of Mrs. Harcourt, daughter of Lady Theresa Lewis, dater of Mr. Villiers Lister, and niece of the Earl of elareation. Mrs. Harcourt, who was the wile of Mr. Wm. G. Granville Harcourt, died in childbirth on Saturday evening. In coin sequeoce of the premature death of the lamented lady the Earl Ruasell's diplomatic dinner wee put oft Mr. George Campbell, of the Bengal Civil Service, has been appointed a Judge of the High Court at Calcutta. The mild weather has enabled the promoters of the proposed Soldiers' Mission-hall at Aldershott to get well forward with the preliminary works. The Sari of Shaftesbury is to lay the foundation stone, with the usual ceremonies, on Wednesday, the 11th inst., acid the con tractor's men are already busily engaged in preparing the foundation. A luncheon is to take place after the ceremony in the Assembly-rooms, and in the evening a public meeting is to be held, at which the objects of the new institution and its claims upon public support will be explained. On. Friday evening Mr. Dickens read paasages at Paris from his "Christmas Carol," with as great if not more emcees than his " Little Dombey." On each of the three occasions the roam, the largest, it is said. in the I Embassy, was fell ; and the result, no doubt, profitable to the excellent object far which Mr. Dickens has given the gratuitous &idol his incomparable talent both as • writer and a reader. Among the audience each eight were French and Americans as well as English, and the admira- tion d all three was ezpreesed with the same earneetnem. One wish, too. they all seemed to join in, and this was that, as Mr. Dickens has rendered so great • service to the British Charitable Fund and to the Lane:whirs operatives, he would give another series of readings on his own account, and where his auditory would be still more 111U0Sr0411. Ebe Court. -4.-- 081301117 F., BE. 1. . _ . The Queen, Princess Helens, end Prince Leopold attended Divine lorries at Osborne this morning, which was performed by the Rey. G. Prather°. The Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Princess Louise attended the morning eerriee at Whip pingham Church. _ _ A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon.C. P. Villiers. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial- Eike from the Governors of the West India Wands. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, and Bermuda. Her Majesty's paddle-yacht Victoria and Albert, in making an official trial of her machinery on Saturday, embarked from Osborne their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Louis of Hesse. After this the yacht's course was continued down the West Channel to Yarmouth Roads, when her head was brought round again for Osborne, where the Royal Priam disembarked, and the Victoria and Albert returned to her moorings in Portsmouth harbour. Her machinery worked unexceptionably throughout the trial. The weather was exceedingly boisterous. The yacht will fill np with coal to day, sod will leave Portsmouth in the end of the present month to convey to England her Royal Highness the Princes, Alexandra of Denmark. At a meeting of the Gresham Committee on Fri day, Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer proposed that the area of the Royal Exchange should be placed at the disposal of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of London for one day during the ensuing spring or summer, for the pur pose of au entertainment to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his bride, the Princess Alexandra, with a aka ner d to fourcheffe. In a similar manner her Majesty the Queen and his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort were entertained by the Gresham Committee upon the or casioo of the opening of that building ; and such an enter tainment wee proposed to have been offered to his Majesty the Emperor of the:French last summer, had he been able to oome to this country for the purpose of visiting the Inter n►tional Exhibition. The Danish landholders, among other costly gifts to the Prisons Alexandra on occasion of her marriage, will present her with a marble statue by Jerichau, the subject being our first parents before the Fall. Eve, suddenly sprung into being, is gazing wistfully on Adam, who sits on the earth, ►nd on whose left arm she is reposing. The Danmark states that se a state wedding gift the princess is to receive 100,000 Danish dollars, of which about 21,000 will be asked at the hands of Holstein, while the rest will be paid by the Danish realm. We read in the Danmark of Copenhagen :—" The German court Fainter Leached, who was despatched to this city to take the portrait of her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra, has now completed his work. She has been taken both en face and en projil. They will probaby be exhibited here for a few days, before they are sent to the place of their destination.* A grand children's festival was given at Berlin on the 27th alt. by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, to celebrate the fourth birthday of Prince William, their royal high3esses' eldest son. Their Majesties dined with the Crown Prince and Crown Prioress on the occasion, and remained to witness the entertainment which followed. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Colonel du Plat, and suite, honoured the performances of the Adelphi Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princem Mary honoured the Olympic Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. His Excellency the Italian Minister has returned to the residence of the Legation in Grosvenor•street from the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Cork are expected in town to-morrow from Manton Boom, Somorsotabirw The Earl and Countess Vane are expected in town in a few days. His lordship has taken a residence in Upper Grosvenor street for the season. Lord and Duly Egerton of Tatton come to town to-day from their mot, Tattoo Park, Cheshire. Lord Aahburton continues at Paris, too unwell to proceed to the south of France or to bear the fatigue of being removed home. Although ;maidend better, his lordship remains in very indifferent health. The Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who has been suffering from indispositkm for some days perk is now, we learn, much better. - The Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison will eerie at the right hon. gentleman's *facial madam at the New Palm*, Westminster, this evening, from their seat in Nottinghamshire. ENGLISH, SCOTTISH. AND AUSTRALIAN CHARTERED BANI.-(TBIS DAY.) The nineteenth ordinary general meeting of the proprietors was held, at noon, at the back, 73, Cornhill, Mr. EL P. KVINARD in she choir. The following report and halanos-sheet were read : . "The statement of amounts which the directors have on this occasion to present to the proprietors shows a favour able result ; the balance of profit on the transactions of the past half-year being 23,2511. le. 81. It is satisfactory to be able to state that no losses of importance have occurred within that period, and that the provision referred to in the last report to cover an est ima ted depreciation in the value of collateral securities, is considered ample. The directors have come to an arrangement whereby the office of colonial inspector will be discontinued, and a con siderable saving effected in the expenses of management; sad they avail themselves of this opportunity to express their high sense of Yr. Jackson's upright and honourable character, and of the seal with which he has guarded the interests of the bank during his tenure of office. The directors recommend the follow* distribution of the sum of 23,2611. ls. Bd., viz. :—To the payment of a dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum, free of income tax, on 500,0001., the paid-up capital of the bank, 15,0001. ; towards the reduction of bank premises and furniture accounts, 1,0001.; and that the balance at debit of preliminary ax. pewee be written off, 3,0801. Ba. Id.; leaving 4,1801. 15s. Td. to be added to the reserve fund, which will then amount to 15,4131.. Os. : Paid-cap capital, 500.6601. • Deposit a , 700,3721. (h. 7d.; bills payable and other liabilities, 1A9061. 4a. Bd.; circulation, 72,915 f.; reserved fund. 11.5121.135. 5d.; amount carried to profit endless account, 34,7711. 154.11 d.; total, 1.448,1991. 14a. 7d. Amite: Bills receivable (in cluding the estimated value of those overdue), loam on MR rity, cash at hankers, dm, 1,160,773/. 64. 6d. • specie and bunks, 222,904 1 . 16a. Bd. ; bank premises a nd furniture, 61,4411. Is. 4d. ; preliminary expenses, 3,0801. 6s. Id. ; total, 1,448,1991. 14s. 7d. 'Peat and loss account. —To current expenses in Mel- Sydney, and sub-branches, 8,5381. 15s. 10d. ; ditto ii on. including director' remuneration and income tax, 2.971 1 . 184. M. ; together, 11,5101. U s . 3d. ; t o balance, 23,2611. la. M.. total, 34,771/. 15s. 11d. By amount brought does, 34,7711. 15s. Ild." The CHAIRNAX, in moving the adoption of the report acid accounts, observed that the board had no explanations to make, and nothing unpleasant to conceal. The shares were now better estimated than they had been by the public and were now for the first time at a premium. (Hear, hear.) This was a great eocouragement to the directors, showing that the verdict of the public was in their favour. It was now proposed to extinguish entirely the item of pre liminary espenses—a work which at the previous rate of extinction would have required three years. The motion having boon seconded, A SHAREHOLDER wished to know why the deposits did not increase in an equal proportion with those of some other banks in Australia; also whether the large asset for the bank premises was • profitable one; and whether the discootionance of the services of the inspector had been well considered! nil CHAIRMAN in reply, said the depo e it a h a d i ncrease d t o the extent of 100,0001., adding that the increase Lad hitherto been restricted by the change of managers—a drawback which he hoped would now cease. An regarded the beak premiere he did not think there had been any extraraHaares and part at the premises had been let off. The dig contintiled of the inspectorship was simply an economical arrangement, and had not been determined upon without great deliberation. The arrangements made would, he believed. prove satisfactory. The late manager. Mr. Young, would render assistance, and the audit of the ac counts in Australia would be carefully conducted. The report having been adopted, a dividend at the rate of 6 per amt. per annum declared, and the retiring directors re-elected, the meeting terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman and his oollemines. ROYAL Fair HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—The slumber at patents relieved st this berpitsl daring the week mew lea. 31 was 3,363, of whisk 1,048 were new COMM THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGIINCE. (ittrm's AMERICA. THE CONGRESS AND THE MEXICAN WAR. PROPOSED DEMAND FOR THE WITH DRAWAL OF THE FRENCH. QUEE.NSTOWN, Fn. 2. The Royal Mail Steamship Africa, from Boston on the 21st, and Halifax on the 23rd ult., arrived here at 9 a.m. Sbe brings 33 passengers and 44,205 dollars . in specie. She lauded all mails and 4 passengers, and proceeded to Liverpool at 9.30 a.m. She was de tained 36 hours by a field of ice. NEW YORK, JAN. 19, EVIMING. (Per Attica.) Resolutions have been introduced in the Senate, declaring that the attempt by France to subjugate Mexico is hostile to the United States and to free institutions anywhere, and that it is a violation of international law and a violation of the faith of France, pledged by the London treaty of October, 1861, between France, Spain, and England, and repeatedly assured to the Federal government through the American minister in Paris. The re solutions further declare that it is the duty of the Federal government to require the withdrawal of the French forces, and now and always to lend such aid to Mexico as is required to prevent forcible European intervention in her political affairs. Pre sident Lincoln is requested to communicate to the Mexican government the views expressed by Con gress, and to negotiate a treaty with Mexico to make these effective. The resolutions will be dis cussed on the 22nd inst. NEW YORK, JAIL 20, Evmenta. The rumour of General Burnside crossing the Rappahannock has not been confirmed. Despatches from Fortress Monroe state that the Confederate authorities have ordered that Federal officers cap tured after January 12 should be delivered to the governors of the states where captured. General Halleck has ordered that no more Con federate officers shall be released on parole. President Lincoln has signed the bill for a fur ther issue of 100,000,000 dole. treasury notes for the payment of the army, and has sent a message to Congress urging it to restrict the issues of irre deemable paper currency, and to tax the circula tion of the banks. A bill has been reported to the Senate to autho rise letters of marque. The privateer Retribution is cruising off St. Thomas. NEW YORK, JAN. 22, Eviaratc. The Washington star states that General Burn side has issued an address to his army, and that General Hooker'a division crossed the Rappahan nock on the 20th. The remainder of General Burn side's army is now said to have also crossed the river, and his forces to be above and below Frede ricksburg. The New York Times contains a rumour that General Sumner's division had succeeded in flank ing the Confederate position and advancing two miles, and that General Hooker was mortally wounded. Longatreet's division was not with drawn into Tennessee, and General Lee's army remained intact to encounter Burnside. It is impossible to say if the above aceounta are accurate, and great public curiosity exists for more authentic details. The government has furnished nothing officially. The Southern journals conjecture that a storm upon the coast disarranged the Federal plans, and prevented their advance from Newbern. The Federal,' drove in the Confederate pickets 18 miles below Kingston, North Carolina, on the 16th, and were advancing 60,000 strong, with 20 days' rations. The Federal. have attacked Fort Caswell, guarding the approaches to Wilmington, without result. The Federal steamer Columbia ran ashore at Masonboro' Inlet, North Carolina, and her com mander and crew had surrendered to the Confede rates. The correspondent of the Philadelphia inquirer asserts that a mutiny has occurred among the troops in Fort Sumter, which has been subdued. Much general dissatisfaction was said to exist among the Confederates in South Carolina. The Governor of Jersey, in his message to the legislature, denounces the Emancipation proclama tion and the illegal arrests, and recommends peace upon the basis of the union of the states with their equality and rights unimpaired. Another Republican caucas has been held at Washington. General Fitz-John Porter has been found guilty of the charges brought against him, and dismissed from the service. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives appropriating 10,000,000 dolts. for the emancipation of the slaves in Maryland. The steamer Sacramento, Captain Boggs, will sail immediately in search of the Alabama. The Richmu,4 Inquirer says a new finan cial scheme has been introduced in the. Confederate congress proposing an amendment to the constitu tion, and legalising the issue of notes, to be legal tender during the war and five years after its ter mination. The scheme also includes a proposal for purchasing the whole of the Southern cotton crop, the present crop to be purchased at 10 to 15 cents. per pound. A steamer, supposed to be the Huntress, laden with 400 bales of cotton, was burned while endea vouring to escape out of Charleston. - - The excitement at Albany continues concerning the election of a speaker for the Assembly. The balloting has led to no result as yet. The civil authorities have taken steps to prevent any breach of the peace. The American press generally approve the senti ments of the resolutions introduced in Congress concerning the French expedition to Mexico, but consider the moment inopportune for their intro duction and the carrying out of them imprac ticable. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAs. 20, Ev EnsG. Money easy. Gold, 47i premium. Exchange : Bankers' bills, 163. Stocks steady. New York Central, 1181 ; Illinois, 94 ; Erie, 781. Cotton firm and active ; middling Upland, 75c. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JAN. 22. Advice@ have been received from Mexico to 20th December. The French troops were at Palmar, 30 miles from Puebla. The Mexicans were actively preparing at Puebla to oppose the French advance. The Mexican congress bad declared the acts and contracts of the authorities appointed by the French null and void, and that traitors will not be considered in the treaties which Mexico may con elude with France. FRANCE. The Moniteu► of this morning announces the nomination of W. Royer as first president of the Cour des Comptes. The Monifeur also says :—" The Emperor re ceived a deputation with the address of the Senate yesterday, and observed in reply :—' I receive with thanks the address by which the Senate gives its approbation to my policy. The expressions of devotion iwhich it contains touch me sincerely. The unanimity displayed in voting the address has also given me deep satisfaction, because it testifies • harmony which cannot fail to bring about happy results."' The Moniteur further states that according to a despatch received from Alexandria the party opposed to peace is in the ascendant at Hui. The Annamite Minister of Commerce has given Admi ral Bonard to understand that serious difficulties will be encountered in the execution of certain articles of the treaty. The admiral is taking to meet all emergencies. The Moniteur also oontains news from Mexico to December 27. At that date General Forey was still at Orhaba with the main body of the expe ditionary force, collecting provisions and ammuni tion, and preparing to march towards Puebla as soon as the necessary resources should have been brought together. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. ST. PETERSBURG, thas. 2. The Journal dc St. Petlrsbourg of to-day pub lishes news from Warsaw to the evening of the 31st of January, according to which GeneralSturler, who had been despatched by railway with troops and workmen in the direction of Bialystock, met on the line with General Bontemps, who had set out from Warsaw. The railway communication is, therefore, re-established. Many of the insurgents who have been taken prisoners state that they were compelled to take part in the revolt. All those who have been brought before the courts-martial declared the clergy to have been the principal instigators of the insurrection. THE BRAZILS. BIIISSOIs AYRES, Dee. 27. (Per Magdalene.) The statutes and contracts of the Great Southern Railway of Buenos Ayres have been approved by the government. Exchange on London, 66 ; ounces, 3961 ; we t salted ox hides, 43 ; dry hides, American, 34 to 38. Fine qualities of wool lower ; middingand ordinary without change. Tallow, 161. Lumber, 40. Flour, no demand. Refined sugar, 19 to 191. Imports dull, and without change. MONTE VIDEO. Imports extremely dull. Exchange, 411. Wet salted hides, 60; dry American, 48 ; dry German, 54 to 67. Wool, 6t : demand slack. Number of beasts slaughtered—Buenos Ayres, 4,000 ; Entre Rios, 1,500 ; Rio Grande, 20,000 ; total for the season, 80,180. THE COLLISION IN BRAZIL. LISBON, Frs. 1, Emma. Letters from Rio Janiero to the 9th ult. give further details of the late disagreement between the English minister and the Brazilian government, which happened thus : Some shipwrecked Englishmen were plundered by the inhabitants. The English Legation at Rio Janeiro demanded a pecuniary indemnity and the punishment of three officers of the Brazilian navy, who had not fulfilled their duty upon the occasion of the outrage. The Brazilian government having formally refused to comply with these demands, the English ad miral seized five merchantmen. An arrangement then took place, according to which the Bra zilian government will pay an indemnity the amount of which is to be fixed in London, while further details of the question are to be sub mitted to the arbitration of the King of the Belgians. Much excitement has been produced at Rio by these proceedings, but the agitation had partly sub sided at the departure of the mail. INDIA. BOMBAY, JAI .13. Shirtings firm ; cotton dearer. Exchange on London, 20i. Government securities :—Four per Cents., 91} ; Five per Cents., 105 ; Five-and-a- Half per Cents., 112. Freights advancing. CALCUTTA, JAN. 11. Grey shirtings and mule twist improving. Cop per quiet. Exchange on London, 2.01. Freights higher. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 28. The Menageries Impiriale steamer labourdon nais sailed hence to-day for Marseilles with mails from India and China. She may be expected at Marseilles on the 4th inst. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAIL The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : "The Mae. ilia and Valetta left Alexandria with the above mails at sunset on the 27th January for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. " The Valetta! may be expected at Southampton about the 9th inst. "The Behar and Sultan brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 26th January." FRANCE AND AMERICA. The Nord of to-day says :—" We are informed of a fact which though it belongs to the past is not the lees interesting, and which confirms all our previous intelligence on the mime subject. After sending to Washington the proposition contained in his note of the 9th of January, M. Drouyn de Lhuys considered it his duty to have an officious' interview with K Dayton, minister of the United States at Paris. M. Dayton did not raise any objection. Some days afterwards he was officially apprised of the despatch of the note in question. M. Slidell, agent of the Southern government, was informed of it at the same time. The French government hopes much from this step, the result of which, if successful, would be to give a turn to events which they much require." THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. It appears that the five opposition members of the French Legislative Corps and two or three in dependent members have given notice of their intention to discuss the paragraphs in the address relating to Italy, Mexico, finance, and various internal questions. It is stated in the Paris correspondence of the bidepeedasee that M. Thouvenel had not intended to speak in the Senate, but that Prince Napoleon had given notice that unless the ex-foreign minister gave some explanations he (the Prince) would speak very freely on Italian politics'. Prince, that the Papal Nuncio has been directed bl the Pope to assure the Emperor and Empress of t h t joy he would have "in himself causing the HQ, Spirit to descend upon the head of the child 4 e .. tined by Providence to wear the finest crown in the world." It is thought, however, that the ;m at age of the Pope will not permit a visit to Paris EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (RO)1 OINI Owl col PARIS, SaNDAT Errru. An extensive budget of news from Mexico, brought by the Southampton packet, arrived i n Paris from England last night. The Molut.ttr, which requires time to dress up its communications for the public eye, will probably have a long letter on Mexican affairs to morrow. Meanwhile, the o n l y intelligence of importance that has yet ouzel out is that the Propageur of Martinique has beet sm pended for two months, on account of news iron Mexico published in its number of December 24 . The dacree of suspension gives no clue whatever the nature of the news the propagation of whit. was thought to require such severe punishment. The Nation says it is not true, as had been re. ported, that the marines have been sent tack t ) Orizaba and Vera Cruz, but that they will slim, with the army in the fatigue and the glory of tle march upon Mexico. The same journal has been informed that Ge t Forey's intention, according to the rumours cur. rent at Vera Cruz on Dec. 31, was to make a direc 1 attack upon the Guadeloupe fort, and t ) blockade Puebla, and, by cutting off the comet.. nicationa of the enemy, to force the garris, e to surrender. That garrison is said to be inforced by all the Mexican troops driven out I Jalapa, Cordova, Orizaba, and Tampico. The et. peditionary corps had passed the Combres, bit It was not known at Vera Cruz where they nets exactly. The Nation makes the significant admission that " in the direction of Tampico the operations of tho war were advancing less rapidly ; " nevertheless the guerillas which sought to harass the French troops had been repulsed in all points. It is confirmed that Admiral Jurien de is Grani-re has resigned his command, and was coming home in the Berthollet ; but before leaving he proposed to visit all the points of the Mexican coast occu. pied by French troops. We hear from Italy that a cavalry regiment now in Rome has received orders to proceed to Mexico forthwith. Large reinforcements are about leaving Cherbourg. The Minister of Public Works has opened a credit of 87,000 fr. for searches for mines in Mexico. This confirms the suggestion long since throeu out that part of the Emperor's plan is to make the country a source of wealth by working its silver mines. M. Peruzzi, the Italian Minister of the Interior, in a circular to the prefocta, dated Jan. 21, 1863, observes that a foreign party hostile to the unity of Italy affects to give national names to the journals which it has started, and that the Fran' of Paris, the Napoli of Naples, and the Firette of Florence are all one concern. This is quit)' true, and the France is naturally very angry at the fact being pointed out. The protection by dr France of the Princess Barbarini, and the invita tion of the Bourbonist conspirators to the Tuileries are closely connected with the treasonable ma ncenvres of the Napoli and Firenze, which M. Pe rand instructs his prefects to combat. It is quit true, as the France lately said, that a great many Italian journals have lately been seized in tie French Post-office. I believe that the principal reason for the seizure was that they contained de• tails of the Muratist conspiracy, which does no: disdain to accept the aid of the Bourtemists. A critic in the Patric wishing to amount for the success of Mr. Dickens's lectures in Paris, says thz he is the most French of all English writers, an•i be lives in Paris during the greater part of even year. We have here an opinion and a fact. to the opinion, I don't agree with it myself ; th• assertion that Mr. Dickens passes most of >L• time in France is simply untrue. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) 11011/MY. FlMitrAlli 2, t La LL - W. WAY/. •W. LW. I*•ZI IT C I {I 6 I W.&W. W.B.W. SAW. 8.8. W. W.B.W. W.B.W. W.B.W. &W. &W. W.&W. W. &W. 8 W. 8.11. N.II. L lIL IL I b —•— - 0 i 5 0.231 4 • 3 o 10 0.51, b - —• 3 e!0 047 7 o 0 L 62 3 a 0.39 1 000 ,0 ✓ 4 0.22 4 m- o 11 0.91 o 0.08 6 -0.06 1 ✓ 6 0.25 5 is 8 0.4. 6 • 8 OA m e 0721' • ,0.96 2 • II '0.16 1 • 3 . 4 0.87 - i - _i_ _ I . TUESDAY. - AV B.W. to N.W., s gale, 800YLLIID. N. W. to N. E. slid Asa. slat Mit. strong, wow doss - TRILL-YD. W. N.W. to N.N.A. strong, unsettleil W.CINTRAL N.W. to N.N. E. awl back. strong. swab N.W.Fkakcr.. As unit above. ROME. The correspondent of the Paris Pruse at Rome says, with regard to the confirmation of the Imperial I B ii Nairn 119. n s I sows.= IL Leith 191147 1 Ardralean —Hart 4 4 0 I Yertruiti 11.114 1 ValentinOdwq . Amnia 1 queess. so.nso Holyhead 19.9 043 Liverpool 29.6 74* 1 Pembroke 20.10 98 Penance raferad Jamey I - ' Brod 89.1 18 L'Orient 30.10 tochefort 303 110 ny=uth 30. 00 49 Weymouth 28.98/9' Portamouth E 9.% tn Kew. YS.St; 47 London - 29.9047 Yarmouth 29.914 4 1, Scarborough ss.sassi Shields We, 47 , Heligoland - 1 29.97 1 40: fiZ Heide •= I 1 Bayonne - Lisbon W.P.M. to N.N.W.. with rain. &W. to strong. As above, some rain. S.W. to N.W. strong, B. W. ENOLAJED. W.N.W. to N. &natl.., freak NINNY. B.E. Ennt,MMA As next above. E. toast. S.W. to NA: and hs fresh, unaetttol. North cone In north and west this Monday. As nestaboe. 91M11 - ;r - tO - liaii above. In memory of the residence of Queen Kirk of Naples at Augsburg, a silver medal has been gnat , ' t' the female scholars in the St. nimbi Convest. The meld bean the inscription—" Souvenir of the visit of her Marif Queen Marie of Naples in the conventual school of ".t. Ursula. Augsburg, Jae. 3, liff.i." The nurse have receive] • copy of the medal in gold. The King of Denmark has finished his bunt in the woods of Fredeosborg. His Majesty killed 15 foim 8 roebucks, and other smaller pass, with his owe baud• The first atone will soon be laid of the new English Episcopal church in Stockholm. It is to be in the English Gothic style, 80 feet long and 441 broad. The out. aide will be of dressed sandstone, but the interior will Is faced with Swedish marble. Copenhagen is soon to see a social revolution. The old watchman with his long coat is to make room for brand.new police force, putly arranged on the Engieb model. Cu the Ist of April this new city guard will conk mane its duties, according to an act just passed in the Danish parli►ment. The Western Times, the well-known organ of advanced liberal opinions in the west of England, is &Loa to be published twice a week, instead of once, u at present. The free labour movement which has been c‘- tisesively but quietly organised in Eastern Neal Ovalle.. is understood now to be preparatory to so organisation of the government of the state, at a loyal basi■, so that North Carolina may accept, President Lincoln's policy of oneoP"' gated emaneipation.—Missouri paper. The project of dividing Texas into four state , , with eight senators to represent them is Congress, is met dl re coosideratioo, with a good prawn that the etemere be boat' agreed %Lima—Missouri Democrat. I