The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-17 00:00:00

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MAO. —Proleuer HUtoo.—Aad MAIM GOlNlA.—Ommeme at ballast O. MOD WATIZ AT LONDON-BMW& TO DAT llarldis, 51 Sus.....Allserxmi, TAL lam to-sealmi Ilaski, 61 las.....Allarsece. 515415. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 17. THE money market continues to show increasing ease. Although ou Thursday there was • tempo rary augmentation in the demand for discounts, owing to the approach of the holidays and the consequent necessity of providing for the engage meats maturing on four several days, it had no effect whatever upon the general rate of interest. The supply of money, compared with the amount of bills offering, remains unusually abundant, and bids fair to increase now that the public dividends have been paid. Already it is a matter of con jecture which week, this or the mixt, the Bark rate will be lowered ' • that • speedy reduc tion is certain is disputed by no one. It will not be • very satisfactory circumstance to record, aims, as on the lest occasion, it proceeds from diminished activity in trade. Nor is it per fectly clear that the lowering of the rate to 3i per cent., followed in all probability by a further decline to 3, is likely to give that impetus to com merce which is so sadly required after the pro- traded crisis of 1864. The fact is that there is an entire want of general confidence. This is essentially exemplified by the state of the produce markets. There can be no adequate reason for sugar, rice, etc., standing et a lower value than • year back ; nor does the success ful progress of the Northern armies warrant a dif ference of some 50 per cent. in cotton. For the former articles there is, as there always must be, a steady and remunerative demand ; nor are we menaced with any sudden glut in the supply from some new and unexpected source. As regards cotton, the is case somewhat different. The open ing up of the Southern States must inevitably bring some quantity of cotton into the market, and the only question that arises is what will be the amount. Taking the most favourable estimate, it cannot be of that magnitude to depreciate the value here by one-half. There can be no doubt, on the other hand, that the stock must be comparatively very small, both from the destruction caused by the war, and from the necessity of cultivating instead other and more indispensable products. Hence there appears no adequate ground for the extreme depres sion now prevailing. If there bad been no ex ceptional causes of difficulty in 1864, it is probable that the produce markets would have remained tolerably steady, while in cotton there would have been only a moderate and easily borne fall. Unfortunately, the excessive speculation that took place in the latter article resulted in • natural revulsion, and a certain un easiness at once began to be generally felt. The successive rise in the rate of discount turned this uneasiness into positive alarm. It was becoming daily more and more difficult for traders to obtain accommodation, not from the actual de- ficiency in the supply of capital, but from the disinclination to lend. Houses struggling to maintain their position were compelled to part with their stocks of produce and cotton at ruinous sacrifices, since as each supply was offered in • fall ing market, buyers were less ready to come for ward. Failures necessarily took place, and, of course, increased the prevalent disquietude. By many it was anticipated that • commercial panic like 1847 and 185 7 was at hand. The weekly accounts of the Bank of England were scrutinised with far more than ordinary care, and the continued decline in the re serve was noted with no little apprehension. Long and anxious months followed, when no man knew bow far be could trust his neighbour. Money was at 9 per cent., and it was predicted might possibly go very much higher. A certain reaction then followed. The accumulation of their resources, forced upon merchants by times of difficulty, gradually increased the supply of capital, and the rate of disoonnt began to fall. But the shock given to confidence by the events of last autumn was too severe to be soon recovered from. It was well known that other failures would almost inevit, ably occur, and that further supplies of produce would be thrown on the market, either to prevent stoppages, or perhaps on account of them. Hence there has been no corresponding recovery in this department of trade such as might have been looked for with the reduction of the rate of dis count. - It is to be doubted whether from this particular point of view it would not have been better if there had been a general collapse last year, instead of the protractedhalf-crisis which was actually experienced. One advantage in the former case would have been that a mercantile failure would have lost much of its stigma. In ordinary times it is almost fatal to • merchant's credit to stop payment, and he can hardly ever hope to entirely get over its effect. A firm will therefore take every measure in their power to escape such a calamity, sell at an enormous loss, and involve themselves perhaps deeper and deeper, to the actual prejudice of their ultimate crediting. In a panic it is different. No one is blamed for succumbing to the difficulties of a period so com pletely exceptionaL Of the failures that took place in 1857, perhaps one-fourth or one-third were justly attributed to this gauge. A house THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL IT, with large assets, but realisable only pi t• dation that would leave them with in the pound to meet their liabildinsOne nevi recommended to suspend paysight:T-if did A and ultimately paid its onglifull. then an actual panic predine4`ll‘ 50510.4. Igloo Ina not necessarily associated with mercantile dishonour. In the put year, on the other hand, hardly one instance can be pointed out where the creditors will be paid in full. It is therefore in this manner that • semi-crisis is often more pro ductive of loss than a genets' convulsion. The admirers of the Bank Charter Act claim that in the peat year only it has been thoroughly tested. What pounds there can be for this assumption it is impossible to imagine. How was the Bank Act more thoroughly tested in 1864 than in 1847 and 18671 It is nom} matter of conjecture, but of absolute fact, its relaxa tion in the latter period stopped the crisis. It is equally • matter of fact that the re laxation was universally demanded by the trading world, and that it was proved to be necessary by a demand for notes which could only be supplied by exceeding the statutory limit. It is also equally certain that the currency was not depre ciated one farthing by the additional issue, a five pound note being equally worth five sovereigns, on the 15th and on the Ist of November, 1857. The avowed object of Sir Roaray Pau. in panting the Act of 1844 was to prevent the currency issued on the credit of the nation from becoming de based. Since the relaxation of the Charter did not canes this result, how can it be said to militate against his prinelples, assuming even their correct ness t No argument has or ever can be brought for ward to contradict the practical proof of the ill working of the Act, shown by the events of the autumn of 1857. So strong, however, is the power of & crotchet that it serves to countervail 'he lessons taught by practical experience of mercial affairs. Camels Cooacm—A Cabinet Council is UM mooed for Saturday afternoon, at Viscount Palmer eton's official residence, in Downing-street. Sta Colin. WINDSOR CASTLE, Aesn.ls. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena, walked aad drove in aka polka& yeatakday ~nom Prisons Louise also walked Is the groawlm. attended by Lady Churchill. April . l6. The Queen, Prism Alfred, Prisons Helene, Penang' Louise, Prince Leopold. Frini.vn Beanies, and the Doke of Cambridge. and the Ladies and Geatienss in waiting, at. sanded Divine service this mends( is the priests chapel. The Hon. and Very lien. the Dean of Wisdom Minna tired the sacrament of the Holy Osniannion. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prisms Louis, drove over to Dropmore yesterdny aftersooo, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bras end the Has. Ivey Kerr. Major Omani Seymour ass also in sneakers es bereebeck. Fines Alfred and Prisons Helena went out riding, at. ended by Lady Churchill, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, sad Lieutenant Haig. . . Priaooes Brericie took a wrier drive. TM Cake ci Cembridp, &Medea by Lientemat-Colonid H. Clifton, mined at the Guth yesterday. A donut:Hoe from the Goma Medical Council, as to =sodomite in the Medical Act, ronsistimg of Dr. Burrows (president), Mr. Arnett, Dr. =drew Wood (Estinbargh), Dr. Stokes (Dahlia), Dr. Hawk= (registrar), aid Mr. Ourry (solicitor to the unseen►, traamotal basin= at the Hoene-on= co Saturday. The Right Rev. she Bishop of British Guiana had as interview with the Right Hee. Edward Oardweil, at the Oolooisloake. oa Sxturday. Deepstches were received on Saturday at the Colonial. cake from the Govern= of the Weet ledis Islands and Cased*. Deepstobes were meet to the Caveman of the West ledie Islands, British Oelumbis, the North =Grimm Provisoes, and Bermuda. The Right Hoe. the Chao:eller of the Exchequer left town on Saturday for Brighten. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by Count de Moarkorke, Dr. Swig, sad suite, will, accord ing to the latest armagerneats, Lave Windsor Castle to , morrow afternoon for the Cooties:it. The King will remain fee the night at Dover, sod embark for Brussels the next day. His Royal Highness Prince Al'red, attended by Lieutenant Haig, visited the Chapel Royal of St. George yesterday afternoon, sad rumbaed during the whole of Divine service. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left Gloucester Hama, Pi.'csdilly. on Saturday, oa a short visit to her Majesty at Windsor Coatis. The Earl Cowper takes his departure for Den mark at as early hoer this morning ca his manioc to pre eget the Order of the Gasser to the King of Denmark from the Queen. Attached to the menial are the following pr ances :—visoount Remitter,. the Hoo. James Stain Wortley, Colossi Towers (of tie Caidatraun Guards), the Hoe. Evelyn Ashley, sad the Hoe. Edward Soott Gifford. Sir Charles Young (Garter), Mr. Albert Woods (Leacastar lierakl), sad Mr. William Coartharpe, (Pcienivant sad Registrar), will also aceonepaay the noble earl as officers el the Herald's collage. The Earl of Sefton, accompanied by Major-Ge neral Lord Hairy Perey, Coked the Hoe. Dadisy Carleton, sad t►e Rev. Freak Hopwood, will have town today for Portsmouth, to embark ea hie minion to Lisboa, to preen to the Sian of Pornapl the Order of the Garter from her Majesty the Queen. The sable earl is expected to be ab. seat about six weeks. _ . . . Field-Marshal his Highness Prince Bariatinsky sad the Prise= Bariatioaky have left Cluj**, Hotel for Combs Royal, &nth Devoe. The Marchioness of Kildare and her infant daughter are both going oa favourably by the Intact accounts from their seat in Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Derby have been detaised in tows by the iadifferent health of Lady Cm stenos Staaky. Her ladyship was much better yesterday. The Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christian Maple have left Chridge's Hotel for Breckia Castle, N.B. The Earl Bathurst is, we are informed, in very useatishotory bast b. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are our roustled by a seises badly party M Brookes Hall, Harts, lociuding Mel:Jonah= et Shaftesbury sad the Wks Ash/ay, Viesountees Jecells, and Has. Min Jocelyn. Viscount Hamilton, M.P., returned to town on Saturday from visiting their Hoye! Highomme the Prince tied Prises. of Walls at Ssedriertuun, in order to mom. pany the Earl Cowper on kb missive to Copenhagen. I The Bishop of Oxford, who has been unwell for some time, left tows as Saturday for the month of Prima by the desire of bb medical advisers. The Right Hoe. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday for Brigirkm. By the death of . vice-Admiral Sir J. Wriouga, 8.C.8., sad the coweequent promotion to gag rash of Captain Charles Wise, Captsin•Soperintwaset at Skew wise, there is a maw mow the naval aides-de-eamp In the Goma. We (Obserrer) understand that Mr. Thrraitee, chairman of the kleiropolitaa Board of Works, will nodes I the hamar of knighthood on the acresioa of the wig of the peat opt= of intereoping WPM ors both blahs et the Mamma ROYAL Rounentstrzat. Gomm. venial show of melees and wing Gomm tail shoe ea flatiarday, st the oosesty's geediwo, Beath Kensinews. The diephry wee awamelly ketßiest. seems at the mein both eat and is pole brag of acheardienry beeakyand hernase. if. boa of the 2ed Life Orme performed dewing the mliwnessi. Some al the steams far ON eerie, ealibillea of noshrtnre wen abewly is pesition. Ameopt this visitors were Lady Preby, the Oseniters a/ liseringiew, Omani Morey, his lb willeasy the Dmish ladder, Vise. Admiral fgr F. W. Ossy, Admiral Bab.. he. L&TEST INTELLIGENCE. I , Ni E rrskrnaosaia.) , . 1 : 7 F CE. 144T10N eir HE ADDRIpMI OF ISE CORPS LEGISIATIF. • SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR. PARIS. APRIL 17. The Emperor received the deputation with the address of the Corps Legislatif at 2 p.m. yester- I I day. His Majesty thanked the deputation, and i I added :—" Every year you defend with firmness the fundamental laws which maintain a just equi librium between the powers of the state. The country is grateful to you for this. tinder the present regiir.e its life is being developed. It sees administrative obstacles disappear, progress is ensured, and security guaranteed. By the electoral movement and the voice of the tribune and the press it feels that it is free. Thus, far from wishing to out down the tree which has borne good fruit, the mass of the labouring classes, the clause who possess, the men who remember, and those who hear and read, fear the abuse of liberty even more than the abuse of power. Continue your labours, the object of which is the moral and material im provement of individuals by the education and labour of the commune and the department, and the extension of their powers. Without inces t sandy wishing to change everything, let us be content with daily bringing a fresh stone to the edifice, the foundation of which is broad, and can / not be raised too high." • His Majesty's speech was received with applause. pigeon-hole at Torn, for believing dish if France permits Vithor Emmanuel to reign in Wilde she will carve out for herself a very large slice of Way. The balance of flower is a time-honoured phrase which in its *Fe has done far more dileult emu vice thai ofiktimling a few disclaimers of the Cols. stitutionne/ of any hankering of France towards further aggrandisement at the expense of Italy. M. Rouber exhorted the Italians to give up all thoughts of Borne, for fear they should get themselves into trouble ; but, as if fear ing that he might have got too far in the execution of his instructions, he added hastily that he did not mean to threaten but only to advise. He gave the clerical party no hope that the convention would not be executed ; but, at the same time, keeping up the farcical equivocation so well exposed by M. Jules Fevre and M. Prevost Paradol, said that the catholic amendment was un necessary, because all that they wished to say about the temporal power was contained in other terms both in the speech from the throne and in the address Resit. The catholic', not satisfied with these assurances, mustered the formidable number of 84 votes in favour of the amendment supported by M. Thiera. Baron Benoist, however, one of the signers, declared himself convinced by M. Rouher's speech, and said he was now convinced that the Emperor would never desert the Pope. The amendment e;pressing sympathy with the United States was supported shortly by M E. Pelle tan in a few eloquent words which will be remarked on the other side of the Atlantic as well as the coarse and insulting isterarptions of the majority. I sub join a translation of the Moniker's report : H. EUGENE PILLITA tf —ln the preeest step of the de hate I should be very creel to the assembly, and still MOM cruel to myself, if I were to make a speech in »immix on the death-bed (as I fear it will be) of our lost =modems (Laughter.) I had but a word to say to repair an omis rim The speech from the throne weed over Amerisa in silence; your draft address maintains the same were; the yellow book itself C3oilllilll on this subject ootbiog but • pore white pep. Now it memod to us that the Ai:inclose question was one of sulkiest importance to be treated of otherwise than by renames. However, there is now no 003116011 for dismission, Wan» while I am speaking to you the sews arrives that the victorious swords of Great and Sherman have settled the question. Richmond is takes. (Interruption.) A Votcr—So much the worse. M. Prisms s—Tee pro.alxvery »hellion is crushed and the American republic is restored in all its majestic unity. (Further interruption.) President ScHxzniza—Gentlemen, by your isterraptioes you only lengthen the speech. N. Pr.irrss—Do sot murmo• so loud, I cosjore you ; I they my hear as on the other side of the Atlantic. (Exclamations sod noise.) Several VoicrA—Hake an end of it. PILLITAN —For the last four years North America has born* the burden of the most terrible civil war that ever ravaged a nation, and dories the whole course of this cruel trial she never for a siesta instant entertained the idea of suspending liberty. (Ah, ah.) She never dreamed of in voking the principle of public safety or opening that door through which all political crimes make their way. But more ; it has renewed its executive power under—we may almost say—the very fire of the enemy, and that without violence and without disturbusee—(iaterruptioe)—and it his dose this so orderly and calmly that this page of Ameri can history is the page of honour of the 19th century. (Oonf used and increasing noise.) V. PEW Tra-V—Pnsidest Lincoln— (Crime of "Divide, divide.") _ . . Other Vorcee—Fleem the speaker. Y. PlLLUTAll—President Lincoln felt that he held the fate of the New World in his hands, and he lifted up his heart to the height of his destiny ; he has abolished alavery—(redoubled cries of "Divide")—and he has re. stared the glorious American republic. ("Divide, divide." Confused and tumultuous noise.) A Mirmace—gefores silemie, Mr. President President Souteinen—List the speaker try to get a hear in& GLIINIZR P.tors—lf people would only listen, the speech would have been does by this time. Several Voicm—Divide Y. SCHICEIDOI—I cannot deprive IL Pelletan of his right to go on. It is for the chamber to listen—(exclama. time); but, at the same time, it is for him to speak in such a way as to iodises his auditors to hear him. IL PILLITAX—The President asks a Mimi!s of me which lam not able to work. It did appear to me that wherever in the world anything great and noble was does, Frames was present and an approving party, and I would that my vole, this day could be heard oe the other aide of the Atlantic with an address of congratulation to the Pre sident of the linikid States. (Tumultuous exclamations of dissent) I 'asset struggle against your determination not to hear me, and I shall sit down. The amendment rallied 24 votes—a respectable minority, considering that only 15 voted against the address as a whole. I give the names of the 24 friends of the North for the special information of your American readers. They are—MM. Betbmont, Count de Soigne, Carnot, Dorian, Jules Fevre, Gamier Pages, Glais Bizoin, Gu4roult, Haeutjens, Ravin, Henon, Javal, Viscount Lanjuinais, Magnin, Marie, Martel, Morin, Pelletal), Picard, Pieron Leroy, Marquis de Pird de Rosnyvinen, Planet, and Jules Simon. The abstentions on this vote were very flume roue, and in the list I note the names of Smile (Meier, Darimon, Thieve, and Count Welles de Lavalette. The following are the names of the hfteen ttho, on the final division, after a debate of three weeks, voted against the address :—MM. Bethmont, Car not, Dorian, Jules Fevre, Gamier Pages, Glais- Bizoin, H4non, Leopold Javal, le Viscomte Lan. junais, Magnin, Marie, Pelletan, Picard, Jules Simon, and Thiers. It will not escape attention that M. Thieve, whose opposition speeches heretofore have fre quently not been followed by his vote, was one of the fifteen. M. Jules Favre is the only opposition member upon whom the duty is cast by lot of presenting the address to the Emperor. I know of no rule or usage to prevent him from having a cold on the day when the deputation waits upon his Majesty. M. Mama' Lair STENCIL—The Indecpendance Beigeoherseterien IL Thieve' last eppearnae is the follow lag term As regards Y. Thine, we an only ormakier hie 'peen is the light of • political testament. As there us certain mos who deny the whole of their past lives by eallieg the what to their death bed, so Y. Then. the VoHeiress of yesterday, sad the *took levee el the revolution, tares towards the Pepe sad gives to the temporal power, that is be may, to the irreameileable sassy of liberty sad of the espeseiss of homes roma, the kits al repeateser. This saw Zo6Rotl. rette kin narks the skin is oar evince, el the pained career of the minder if Lane Philipps." AN INCIDENT IN TEE STRUGGLE AT RICENON D. — A morrespeades• is sensing Slierides's sehineemeals at Five Perim Mates the followisg:—" A wheel with • shin Ursa regissest game dews epos vs is • charge. The bayo nets were fixed ; the mem cease as with • yell ; their grey voltam* mewed blush mid the .mob ; their premerni wows. ton by grape sad bell, waved density : twin limy hated. sad paved is valleys, but eine as sena like the man heat the fag, depleted, but delinsised yet. is the het hese ef the earbissere, they reed a papaw se nee. Isla bat more calm, tad, while they premed slew, swept all the while by man* roller, • p pal beesemee task them is dank. It was ea awful instant ; the hewn so soiled; the elesegieg enema trembled like • rude thin. but at one the minis, with nee eimusissins. fell into • billow name, sail with maid inn of steel Mild our el tsar The lesentes sods need then ia yea ; di dame send brisk the elides smarm ustß est emeseted whispers pined is emir venom atria, aiskisig pas is thalr mast maks, sad Sim is their savories time the cavalry Unnamed dews. The rebehinald stand se men ; they reeled sod mesyst, and fell ben bail.. sod Wins ; an es the grand Voir calseel lay, main his ibrashisa with his lib." MIXICO. PARIS. Ann 16. Official despatches received here from Merit.° announce that the work of pacification in that country is everywhere complete. PORTUGAL. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. LISBON, APIIL 17. Meetings have been held by the opposition and the majority in the Cortes, the former yesterday and the latter the day before. The Marquis Bs di" Bendier& is considered unable to form a cabinet, and it is thought probable that the Count d'Avila will be summoned by the King. EASTER SUNDAY AT ROME. ROME, Aran. 16. To-day being Easter Sunday, the Pope officiated pontifically at mass, and afterwards solemnly gave the benediction, Urbi et orbi. The French and pontifical troops and an im mense number of people were present at the cere mony. Enthusiastic cheers were raised in honour of the Pope. The weather is magnificent. (ainnwei sxrass.i.) SPAIN. RESTORATION OF TRANQUILLITY IN MADRID. MADRID, Amu. 13. The eurresputukncia says :—" Madrid has now enjoyed complete tranquillity since the night of the 10th inst., and there is no ground whatever to suppose that public order will be again disturbed. In no quarter of the city are any military precau tions observable, and the people, with the mercantile and industrial community generally, follow their usual avocations as if noth;ng bad happened." The Bpoca states that the number of arrests made during the late disturbances was 128, of whom only five are students. " There was not," says that journal, "a single decent person among them, and they could have been very little concerned about the university question. They took part in the riot either from love of disturbance, or at the insti gation of some parties unknown." An act of great heroism took place during the riot in the Calle del Arsenal. It appears that the military were about to fire upon a large number of persons assembled at that point, when a priest suddenly threw himself before the people, and ex tending his arms entreated the officer in command to order his men to fire upon him rather than spread death among so many inoffensive persons, many of whom were women and children casually passing by. The officer, moved by the earnest appeal of the worthy priest and the sacred cha racter of the intercessor, desisted from his purpose, and the crowd quietly dispersed. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE A3fERICAN NEWS. EXCITING SCENE IN THE FRENCH CHAIIBER. (nos oos ows 0011/111P PARIS. SUNDAY EVISUG. M. Ronber's speech, in answer to that of M. Thieve on the Roman question, was for the most part uninteresting. He seemed to feel, what I be lieve to be the case, that N. Thiers' great object was not so much to do any real service to the tem poral power, whose condition he carefully made it appear was past praying for, as to damage the Em peror in the eyes of conservatives and catholics by showing that be suddenly waged war Against Austria in Italy from motives not convenient to avow ; but which necessarily led to a state of things—namely, the formation of a great Italian kingdom and the expulsion of the Pope from Rome—which it is now too late to remedy. Accordingly the first half of the speech of the Minister of State was devoted to a review of the attitude of Austria in Italy from the treaties of 1815 down to 1859, with the view of showing that there was good cause for the Italian war. M. Rouher had no difficulty in making out a very strong case against Austria as the oppressor of Italy, and with rhetorical art he glanced lightly over the facts immediately preceding the unexpected campaign of the spring of 1859, so as to betray no consciousness that Orsini's bombs might have bad something to do with it, or that General Ghillies invasion of Piedmont, which he insisted upon as an aggression threatening to France, would never have taken place but for the knowledge of the Austrian government—bened upon the memor able New Year's speech at the Tuileries, followed up by the concentration of an army upon the Alps —that the only ehance of saving Lombardy from the projected attack of Napoleon lIL was by taking the initiative of hostilities. M. Rouher's most important statement, and the one which I appre hend will give Italy and Europe grave cause for reflection, was that if the Pope should not succeed in conciliating his subjects (and M. Rouher's expensed belief that he will is evidently pro found only), France, without denying the right of the Roman people to ameliorate their form of _ . government, will deny their right to disturb the "balance of power" by annexing themselves to a' Ent clue nation. Here, in my opinion , we have a much more solid gro und than M. Mann's alle- ration of the existence of a secret treaty, signed, waled, and delivered, and deposited in a =lain 188 k, everything before them, capturing the works, gos , and all, and by 10 o'clock had reached the ap p . matter, and had invested Petersburg. si mi l e success attended the advance of the Second sad Twenty-fourth. The result was the capture of th, whole of the tenable portion of Lee's position front of Petersburg; 12,000 prisoners, gave, sat NEW YORK, Ann. 5. large quantities of material. All the accounts con The operations which closed yesterday in the our in describing the fighting as desperate * u s evacuation of Richmond began early last week, and *sample, and the losses on both sides are in fact still sooner, for Sheridan's advance up the quently terrible. Each side felt it to be the d a Shenandoah is now known to have formed part of sisive Wide of the war, and acted as if they a s k them. I believe it is generally understood that for it Lae and Grant were both on the ground s several months past Grant has been satisfied of his person directing the operations. Lee's troops as ability to capture Petersburg by a general assault acknowledged by officers who have come on from along the whole line, but has been prevented from 1 the front to have proved themselves worthy of this attempting it both by • desire to avoid the great re putation, disputing every inch of loss of life which was sure to attend it, and by his sad d e fending many points w ith th e herwste anxiety to have Sherman get up sufficiently near and clubbedi muskets. Those acute sa l him to bar Lee's retreat, in ease he should attempt i i m p a rtial writers in London, w h o are mine an evacuation. Johnston's failure to prevent Sher- that the United States is governed by the "N is man's junction with Schofield, as well as the ion- York mob," and that the Northern army is entirely pnnity enjoyed by the former in his march through composed of Irish and German II mercenaries," we. South Carolina, must have, however, convinced Lee doubtless be gratified by the way in which thus that his reaching Grant was only • question of d esp i ca ble h or des have acqu itt e d themselves. Cie. weeks, and rumours have been afloat for some I sidering that they have no interest in the time, which probably reached the Federal h ave all b een d rug ged an d kid na pp e d i n N ew yak headquarters in some trustworthy shape, that and been brutally treated ever since, and w i g the evacuation of Richmond might war dreadfully to get back to the banks of the Shanks any day. Grant, therefore, resolved upon forcing and the Elbe, the manner in which, titer k m it in his own time, and endeavouring to break up d iv e exposure t o d r i v i ng ra i n , sleeping every etsu Let's army in the process. Sheridan was sent up on muddy ground, they have carried earthwork!' d the Shenandoah Valley, and directed to cut all the most formidable kind, constructed with th e lines of communication to the West which he could greatest care, and garrisoned by some of the bat possibly reach, as well as to destroy all 'torah and troops in the world, fighting for hearths led then join Grant at Petersburg. These orders were ~ niggers," must astonish even their admirea successfully executed, and here-entered Grant's lines It must be confessed that the Yankees are very a fortnight ago, with 10,000 cavalry, well mounted, lucky to get such men to fight their battles for though somewhat fatigued. A few days were th em , w hil e th e y s t a y at home and whittle eta passed in resting, and various preparations were and chew tobacco. made, such as sending off all the sick and wounded The Southsids Railroad captured, sad th e from the field hospitals, betokening the opening of vestment of Petersburg completed, of canna th s the campaign in real earnest. It was probably Las's evacuation of the place became certain, and it ae• getting wind of them which led to the desperate cordingly took place on Sunday night after the attack on Fort Steadman on Saturday week, which fight, and was followed or accompanied by that el came very near being successful, and which, Richmond, which was entered at 8 o'clock on Mow bad it been successful, would have cut day morning by General Weitzel at the head of hI Grant's army in two, and possib l y have made his negro corp .. He telegraphs that "the people whole position untenable. It failed owing to the have received him with a good deal of enthnsi sesy steadiness of the troops, and things re- but I imagine this means the poor and the new s , mained in stain quo until Tuesday week, who must have suffered a good deal what with the when Sheridan left in the night with his scarcity of provisions and the dread of the ma whole cavalry force, to make an attempt to reach scription. Davis and his cabinet are said to hut the Southaide railroad. Most people imagined his left on Thursday last, when the serious chusche . destination was Burkesville, the point of junctio n of Grant's movement first became apparent His between the Sontlisidenand Danville Roads. He city was fired in one or two places in as attempt passed Dinwiddie Court-house on Wednesday doubtless to destroy the stores of tobacco, bat morning, all well; but it now began to leak out that there seems no reason to believe that the he was not going to Burkesville at all, but was aim- flames have not been put out by the Mask ply engaged in an attempt to turn Lee's right flank. Lee ban retreated along the Darville road will On Wednesday afternoon the rain set in ; the roads what remains of his army, and Grant left early ca in two hours were converted into a quagmire, and Monday morning in pursuit, doubtless hoping to so of course was the country round them. This de- cut him oft There is a very general impresses layed his march seriously, revealed the nature of h ere th a t Lee's arm y will comp l e t e ly b re d, sip en his movement to the enemy, and in fact precipi- the march, and that there will be no more fighting, tested the crisis. On the same day the whole army but this is, I think, too 'linguine a view of the of the Potomac moved out of its old position, ex- matter. There will be desertions on a great mils, cept two corps left to bold the entrenchments, and there is no doubt. Few of the Virginian troops, pushed off in the old style to the left, and and none of the North Carolinians, will go vary On bivouacking that night on the northward side of the with him, but I think it is safe to conclude dabs Vaughan-road. will leave the State with 20,000 men. It had by this time, doubtless, become apparent I despair of giving you an adequate idea of the to Lee where Grant was, and he made his preps effect produced in this city by the arrival of the rations to foil him with his usual energy. Pickett's news. It came about one o'clock, sad business ms division, one of the largest in his army, was sent instantly suspended in shop, counting-house, and to look after Sheridan ;it found him with trains workshop. The courts adjourned, the common stuck in the mud, his horses in much the same council adjourned, the brokers' board adjounocl, sad fix, the men living on hard biscuits, and drenched the whole male population poured into tee street& with twenty-four hours' rain. The fifth corps, Wall-street, the centre of money getting, was under General Warren, had been sent in support also the focus of the excitement. Stocks, hook, of him. It was to seize the White Oak road, bills, and invoices, were for the nonce utterly and hold it, while a brigade of the cavaalry pushed forgotten, and there followed a scene the like ci into the railroad at Five Forks ; but the infantry which has, I venture to say, never been winnow' did not come up, or was repulsed, sonic say owing to in any other city. Nobody who did not witness it the rain, others owing to Warren's disobedience of knows what the phrase "popular rejoicing" mama orders, or remissness. Sheridan evidently took the Staid, grey-haired merchants and bankers hugged latter view of it, for he relieved him of his one another, and positively danced on the ads command on the following day. As soon as it was walk. An immense crowd collected in front of the disposed of, the enemy flung the whole of Pickett's Treasury and cheered till they were hoarse, sada* division on Sheridan. The country was thickly great roar passed in waves up to Broadway sad wooded, moat of the ground impracticable for ca_ down to the river. When tired of cheering, sows valry, whose light carbines, if they were dismounted, one struck up the " Red, White, and Blue," at could do little against the Confederate rifles, thousands of voices song it in full chorus. lima Sheridan was pressed hard during the day, losing followed "John Brown," "The Star Spaaglei perhaps a thousand men sod a good deal of ground, Banner," "Rally round the Flag, Boys," AM and was only enabled to stop his retreat near finally "The Old Hundredth," that time-bonomei nightfall by the arrival of Custer with two fresh Puritan psalm tune, which is to every am brigades. So far the movement had not been very of Yankee blood what the " Ranz des Varies' prosperous. is to wee 8 " Ged save the Queen" to the Thursday was a comparatively quiet day. Little Englishman, or "Garry Owen" to the Irishase. There was probably not an American in the titian was done beyond skirmishing. Lee was probably i n massing his troops, w hile t h e F e d era l, to whom it was not the finest music he h ad eve occupied heard, the tune of all others round which mil were fairly mud bound. The fi fth cor p s held a position between Gravelly Run and Hatcher's associations clustered, and the spectacle of a vast Run, about a mile north of the junction of the crowd, at high noon, in the centre of one of Its Quaker road and Boydton road. At daylight on busiest haunts of trade, thundering it out as seer Friday morning a column composed of Wise's and song, was one not easily forgotten. When tired of Johnson's divisions, and one from Pickett's corps, singing and cheering, speakers mounted the stops flung itself upon it, nd drove Crawford and Ayre's and harangued the audience, many of them so ex• division in confusion from the field for nearly two cited that their remarks were utterly inochemut miles. They were not rallied till the afternoon, Every mention of Grant's name was the signal for and then only south of the Boydton road. The le freah burst of cheering — not mere °Manna offensive was resumed, with the assistance of the hurrahing, but indiscriminate yelling, in whin second corps, and after • desperate conflict the every man tried his longs and throat to thei r ll' enemy was driven in, and at nightfall the Federals most capacity. The houses were generally drama had advanced their position so as to hold the White with flags along the whole length of Broadway, ow Oak road. The telegram from General Grant to three mile% t he stars and stripes waved from the Mr. Lincoln, who was at City Point, giving the windows or the roof of every house. The °ha nk result of the day's operations, was not generally bells all ran& salutes Wen lined in the ivy fed, considered favourable. People looked on it as a and in the City Hall Park, lasting through the renewal of the game of give sod take, in which, whole afternoon, and at night the dubs and mazy even if neither side gained any decided a dvantage, private dwellings were illuminated. Preparations the Confederates would have the best of it, Gold ro se are being made fora general celebration on • gruel: . in the evening four per Bent, and New York began scale, to take place some day this week. 1 to feel very feverish . There was no news from 81;senlationa as to Lee's intentions are, of cow% Sheridan, and the rain continued. numerous. From the accounts which are cm ed On Saturday the weather had improved. Sheri- in of his retreat, be is leavin g a lar g e P c°9lati°l4 d am got b i t e eereei „i ee ti„ with Warren the his men, arms, and stores on the road behind his ; White Oak road ; Forks was seined and and meat people hers, as flare said before, WM ° h e ld, an d s t t wo i n th e du rum , „ m bi aa d his whole force will be broken up within a few days, attack was made on Pickett, rolling him up, cap- PwrtieularlY as Steeerea e l h some 80 1 ' t ur ing three b r i ga des en ti re , a waggon t ra i n , two 10,000 mounted infantry, is probably by this time batteries, and planting the Federala firmly on the la his front. They bad reached &me / in 14°4 Southaide road. So far all was well. It was known in New York before bedtime that a posed 100 miles frac' Danville, ark " he bas Prc. Carelina, on Monday week, and this point is about engagement wasimminent, and would probably mh o bably struck long before this. Grant thinb place in the morning, but under what circumstances Lee to Lynchburg ; but point and with what chances of mores few could tell. I Mum" fa pushing °a towards that The weather luckily was splendid. Saturday was with a heavy farce from Tennessee, it seems '"'" one of those glorious days of tbe early s p r i ng , and , Moir be w il l make all haste into North Oarolisa, the sun rose on Sunday morning in splendour in and that Johnston well break up from hell " that clear crisp atmosphere, of whine those who are only familiar with the skies of the old world can stick by them, they and Om Confederate °re ttS t i n a Sherman and join him, and that with such men m form little idea. There were prayers in many of the will make their way into Georgia, te receive churches for the ei ght and in the afternoon the cold hospitality of Governor Brown and his rackt hotels and the neighbourhood of the to By ph t who are more hostile to them than any other Pm* t office* were thronged by sere crowds. By one of the Soothers , Malaise, 'mein the Virginia ° o'clock the news of Sheridan's stream was known. to "air what Davis Ins " when 16° °am° as. An hour later came the news that at day- Bared dwoo , two Two Mo. that "be could carry ea break Grant had ordered an attack along under 1 1 whole line. The sixth and ninth corps, - - - - th e the war for twenty years in Virgin ias." Wright and Narks, pismed the enemy's line "Lm Propos de Labieens," the parapblst which simultaneously with an advance on the part of ' was emisemed ter CuesieeMeeal Wingate( Pada km Sheridan and Warren along the raPtoad, serried loom rissise Min by ear et ne laslise gewnemon AMERICA. THE CAPTURE OF RICHMOND. NARRATIVE OP THE BATTLES. PUBLIC EXCITEMENT AT NEW YORK. (nor Ooa SPZCIAL cozazaronzarr.) =gsox vou Mins D THE HUAI LOI4DON-BRID --- - A wry tell of rain in sw ami 94 daybreak by s fair, el at 6 Alba the sue shone oat Ity 5 °Welk a large DU a id OD L01a09.b14610, and l o om to the dialog, to witae o r tics eller soldiers, and I bye 3,000 to 4,000 people of al tap el the A diyis iou of ;50 dear the approach to the ( tho *Morns of which wawa! tile voltusteers hed be, te kierlere with the regular pi so, white was expected to seeldeed ettmetioss of the Tv of lases Woodsy. Th. eget 'dustier train w. sod at • few minutes after b s p e arls. or " Own") yombing with that light, sr" dardPlimed sad well•tesised open 66111 to be a pm. wse loudly 'haired os a.. 66 ease searched os to b e nd by the Zed Losdo Wielder Men's Carpi, Ti wad very Ann& and wa gismeers espy armed and / 01818 abs appraise" end Met weer by the Wintry re pesetised eye would have le g okkhrg it frees • well.appoi ma y, Next sacs the bate , pen. the sad Middlesex Art ups 400 wen, the lith Adm me). sod t h e 9th Tower Han IM fleet train, which left pu hake end corps departed Middlesex (Loam Irish, rig 40th ditto, 90th ditto, and Adedaistestive Battalion (T, eel Bth Tower Handeta tutored/se& creak rerun &ration from its swain e rsedy marching. At 7, sad 73rd Surrey, 2nd Aar.; acid 4th ditto, end the (Middlesex), took their dens led Essex Artillery, Lt H a mlets Eni4seire, and 14 alsr soaveyed the stregglen corps which bed previosel , were enlitelent to forma it a. arrasgemeste mad, the War-ollea to raped the railway authorities eat celerity with which arrived, were inarcised seseblembis improvement es* al 9,000 troops ee wMhta two boon there sentseles. Die due to the Event r force to say that altisoogb while sight. and travelled beer, they appeared as in pane keetkres, who had kW , rat sod a mach eh 'Me great majority of t Elea with " mestere con a. regular and extra t permegere. THE VIII A considerable number at ea early hour at the wit& tendons the waters dishicts a the is • took their decor lave Weeded the meet soldierly bearing were tb star (who llmeisted nee the South Middlesex, ti dicer:, sod the loudly cheered as ter The following are tl the Victoria tenders ; Brigade Middlesex Ark Middlesex (the Loaders (W•l 4 ididdINPDX), mkt 11 Matthew, 28th ditto (L< 44* ditto, sad Ist lit Middlesex (Civil Service) Weetmineter), 2nd ditto 36th ditto. About 7 large number of straggle who were too late to s meets. la all yearly 6,1 this statics with the as Wit, that characterised Bridge needing, and tb railway ortioials was well volunteers had been de desirous of attending lb. tray oontinned &martin, o'clock. Every one of t o'clock the regular haft Dismesnio Bo t 1••1, • number of perw.l Oat trip of the meson I smd latenalogtoo wore e , river Ayes, sod among from Berme. 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