The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-24 00:00:00

PICTON's Terra- firma Ind. Allies, on PITT' s ord n Cl., April 7th 1797—Trinidad, Mt' ague s t.-Luoia-void—' 96 , vac + in m Ghent's, Sept. 9, 1814, subject to t heir laws. Fds 89 931 Cromwels 15°N g ty 1655-8 v. S. Denis Kamerica, Car-3 o° 3.9.27 Deer FOOT day-6 II 6-h. tideile FIX CHRISTIAN-ORDER' SHIP-PIRATES ON 'Af3 s CORPUS RED-I.INE' FLAG HOIST. In re Anderson, by Gen. Lafoitt's b rimea ull Armed Neutrality on major Anare's-1780 ' Cow- chase' C'd-habitan's, by Lockhart's Cromwell Sty, 23 M. 1655-8. in 16 Car. n c 2. By 16 11. Bc. 3 Lege nhod' lib. iv., § x—for criminal law on Harburg sidera level—as Washington extradition In-Oc culation act, touching' La course fire-raz'ng as I of the four Crt-pleas of Crown-transit to Ci.ublin' 53' N. wick low. Mayor of Southampton, *rear-admiral of England's flag pinnace—JAufey's isl o wight's Galic-coq coastguard will record Ships Nashville sumter, for felony, I. G. I. e2§4, on American Spy-ship Harvey Birch, crosby,' by Sumpter hors't-aannebroq'-fair Dub)_men, about 19th Nov., 1861, under Dannebrog' ord.-xts. white +on red flag. In rota (a) 0 in universa ditioni supremus est rla'citem (not Uof placet-jesu). to the Navarchide/ tb sites of Rhodes on 1802's Amiens —ELsingre au'aurre'y in AD 1182, Kts., so p 59, BODIN'S lib. I on Dagobert's WILL x -s—, slaves of St. Denis, by Art. 19 1658'5-Nap-ecumeurs de mer, for papal men-vessels Ship'ng Act 1854, § 4, Jan. 6—Lon. Gaz. By (b) Terra-neufndland (Resvini -factor of Lisbon wine license Co's) newspaper set-off, on It. Junot-invasion, 1807, for England's Pompey'n marine vote en Bristolg's (liver-8- pool, longdon), admiralty kalendar super altum mare, cina3 flfcend. 9 et defcentgblique,' 13 - "er Placentia; O.S. So (c) Ireland's warrant of the I-JAR-cone-mare review to [Pertigal-way 530 comp/. upthought, for its Re'Lowley arB 37. x -'-sre-pbse], on' noly alliance abolition' Bienfai sance out'ng by *Hamond, SANDYS, on '. Signed PETER Brant BAstaurr, Maine's medal-Gaspe Saq°mO, {Nephew of 9-J. Brant, 1775-CABot-saqm ° on Peter Toma Brant, 1825-110, of N. Drunswic), Quebec'fCanada. Montague § C ' x' ACKEALEY, P.C., sworn in as 4 11.7 &B's (Final comfn of review, 1825-37), Executor-. Dormer-Oct. 28, 1790:§ -FERIA. L. WOTTON §BowEs, P.C. . ' A-ti ' ' , r-hd. N. gerwicklaw. [J'un, N ov . 16, '6l]. flnc'ter 9th, (dap-reality of Facts, no Neuter. TRIBAL-AMERICA'S * ULSTER' PLANTA TION-SHIFT, IN ESCURIAL WILL*TRUSTS. BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 W. IV., C. 92, § 4 5 qlc, c-39 ¢ 4, 1842, NAVE : . 9th Q. AN-B'srrar. 132 yr, so s , o etsrmiJetsam rota 'Legal:wet' our-flot-semi Pisa N. Wall nturem 24 March-4-29 Sept. wend - finangl 6 April A -jeulian 9 Cul de sac T v e-X-ed fishry-parklawsets, in conic sections 1200 Isospiral •g • • by Enke Juptr comet., r. (JAR/wt.-It is my EASTPORT Plagent 9 -pt. void-line 901. a -year R.N. unsought duty, as of 16 Car. u. c 6-to state, in o pposition to RupEßTii lawyers of British church, That the coastguard-map officers of San Jacinto & Santiago de Cuba, acted on the powsrALL'd Postmaster-Franklin Acts, 21st yr-award of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., viz.-No planter or these of Brazil's plata, can leave without a three week's market -notice of slaves-care, under a Justice pass. Ships aiding such Car. V.'s Malta-gift ? (Turin mason's of Danebrog order of Ile St. Thome. w.), open to ctrecht* *right of search' law G. I. c2,§4, to 1762 <76, • [R. Axaeno J. SoIITHWORTH , Cl. of synode GROWDMS, S9kr , Oct. 28,1701]-Re-form bill'd, 1832 - 38 , for Retro-websteed -'42 in CASS, by Palmerston, '57-8. So _COMPAss 3 EfirVIA GAP (-)PONTI SPIRIT- v -LEVEL. JAR-I -CONE* s PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY, ON NAVE CINQUE PORTAL LATITUDE, REPULSION CURVE, In g ing'nt span-long 50 9 by Polar* above & below declin. sear._,in /3 astre-geograph .• • : to (lover's .s. Arrow off and-on'Diepp's-Rouen -- , to Lizard-pt. 9 'r /3el'isle's Quadra culmination Tropic-wend Owrds minorea's Langue Q'ock 40e Its state rope-lay Anchor flag-tow'r prig-by Tyre round the fat earth, as of Titus Vospasian's March-night zone-meter of yr 79, in 1824-35's Life-Burg-E x chek 4 riar convolute-Leet-crts.-on America's cozen-south meridian 600 w. for its Turloch base N. line September evapora-like Xaraves mile-ccmetre'd lake (on :* 40. Plough-ken 3 Jaqo. 1.), of Vil-Bella'fack're-mento 1713 R. negro plot of l'Brazil, -C. Horn' d from my "'name' July 6, 1827- Sachims-The Illustr. London News, No. 1,119, p. 538, gives, Clarendon's 5-Georgia tr., carnineA. in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arm°rial /word scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the t ouc h, resolve of its Council e board' on Middletone's fons ars (' Fodinaa -regales, of James L's 72 xew River' share I_plug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on EnGland's royalty 36 ones £500) a-tested by Wotton &Mon tagne, so CAR. rt. ' Hyde's Swedish I colony grant 1662's in Hildrheim Abbess, 1672 -Foxy-Penn's 81-1701, in Quakers A ffirm act 1749 , on 77 Indn.'s Vectigal land rents, £lOO,OOO, on Can'ngs Rush-transfer by H. C. comite's (12 Feb. 1836, Buxton, for a Per Smithson's peguliarinstitution' of Quaker-Jesu patrons & advocates), with undersigned ¢ to Q-Ann's Oneida veto and Pombal D.P. Chapel'rys. See, Educa• coda of '33-em 4461 Aborigines-rep. 1837, for school-scale, 2d March 1841, Convention, Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, thro' D. Webster & Perley's 3d Sept., '4l, election of Indian Peter B. o'r 99 lifeless° 12 yr to run, not without Ackerley's name, on 14 Geo nr. 1774, Build'ng-in Saqm6 Brant (act on old John Adam's p lan terr's Quincy A. and H. Clay's Ghent note, Sept. 9, 1814), as Stow-tower'd, forfiladelph-Lancaster Duchy Crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins ¢ Ed gc umbe Chamberlayne as (Hugh Chamberlen Goldfmith Co's-r, N. R. proprietary) Steggles I plug. Saqm 9 s-The cause shift of Florida-semioles & Cherokee Creek indians of Georgia's trust (by 1802 Hudson-B. &S. Sea its. Co's 1000 m. of Mississipi, lodg'd sw. of Mt. Plea sant in rear of The i-bred white planers or build'rs, under Lancaster FRAME 1746-65 (Anderson, Lovel-Percival-+s Plasentia-pt. Ind. menan trust 1812-'43-61), Art. r xiv., for raixt Coe:tiffs,. Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as re-set on admiralty Role of St. Paul's, Bermuda 10 M, by Fhiladel's partizans, p 66, coloniza-off, Boston-Judge Jay May, 1853 GREY. Thus Deerfooes oyefellow scholar ship' Trinity e-Col., Cambridge, 1861, 8 Deo. Exhibition-re, Elliot's May '5l col. let.rj-the term negro for Indian not in 1726-new K. I. life-grant '32, in Adair fraud. So Galveston ' sew shire-Ere on Prench-british Andre Stye, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,' the soul of Abbot Laurence & Ashburton capitula 4 !n Spit head-(o• contrOler Sir Guir ame Penn)-Ackerley's sworn -in gwede-sponsor of Indian lady 1820-for Act 1843's Empery (0 Sept.lBl4) over cwt.-Texas-Hundred 6 & 6 partners, for England's law for outing the Jraftra St. John's xts., of Gothland'a Cilina Q. (in french 0E91.62 of Boromeo's Kirk men tax.-10ths & forage subsidy on Trent council), on Ruff's Mt. Mathew, Feb, 1807-8, in M. Pete' t's4. BvioT-1847, as Trent-The felon fix of Slidell & Ma son, panske-paPa/ vessels of Scarlet & Anton'lli, Dec. 18.53, wa s rigt, , t as live dispatches. S o God's imag'd Red Indian chief & trustee below, made the 40 years' scapegoed-fools of Luther-calvin's NOW Bern Swiss fraters de sac's on L'ui bronzed-i PEXsylvn-hos r> statue-not Qkr-pen son. APRlc'rs.-By pyre-Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), ¢4.9, subjects or su'ject, have equal Astr"- Jen'r rewards. Think on the Carib 3)5 vote-swamp, of your danger in joining Vaccinepx.-mark , d white faces or negur indian Fetish Berlin'rs, 1797 6, thus forbad noticing the late False Proclamation as headed in Times and Post of 16th Nov., " A britt'sh Convention between ENGAIKVI ?ranee, & Spain," dated Oct. 31, 1861, wherein [by its non inter-national Gibraltar-Ruk sELL's ' Sub-ministremus' met' frig forth], the common law is not for ' Indian right or High contracting parties,' by this its EnNeivenary registrario of Danwark's fair Elbe- 9-- T-A-polli 6-star, so :-' " Command old words, that long have slept-to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleich snake." I. My admiralty RED-flag, is th' Eneuter Gap -line-tiree one of water Hazits (the Flag Union of the cross es by 3rd Jacob° I. is a Christian Zollverein trade flag x and not for war by Micmac Ordnance issue) from Tower nave T 343, of Jan. 31 1842. The mer chant's jack, on board Car.n's Hotel-P.Offi. Trent, had no white border, Rome's transept- Church has no Necntee sea limit or neuter-flag. _ _ . 2. That the _Latin' d words Britt'sh- [Britain, St. George's on St. Patrick's Order, 17831-channel, for outing the word England from Log-wood 3ty' 82 Court christian rea charts, s et without Gran'Z' Breton's yr -Annona, in Justina , nlib. 4 T . 18, § 2, under the IC .spart., 4 vu'ero's Double .if-law of July, 1521 on 1764-72's trust—decided d. 2-gal ore lsumed gnor e s ineorperate - Texas Crts. as wrong, by (11 Geo. m, c 55),,itheY SPan'ah fraugo-britishers of Avi aon-rope of St. Delis, under the word " except Fran ce ara l ' a l l Narch 3, 1815, U.S. 3ty" prior to Blucher and . Wellington i 's signature [for reset of Vaucluse jesuits of the 2d order of Melchisidek on their Yet ' moving earth error'] June 17, 1815, the eve, of their battle of W a terloo's Brazil'd Pedro 2, 9B e l g ic Leopold-sesu ('2B-30)'s Brune-+oaillard'ng. 3. Saving my N. Z. Waitangi'd 512, by t-Bunbury-like Sir Gore Ouseley's foist on the 800 Sachims sign or-itr Gross rebels in my name , seen (by his VVabash'd Win Central America, for Bamberg-Sigismund life-tie 1047, to a Savoy nh° dfert), on 3 Governess Parquet','an's Teha i Ind, Napr .seizing of Mexico; from England—caused his papist envoy Aldham, to be shot by Indians, as sacrificing their tribes to g vaccine-priests iwoiv es ]m en—for an Umbilical- Nave-violation of sod's : : Acre in Ackerley's Peeral-pivot appointment of 29th Aug. 1825, for the ' State Counsel', on 1 £9O, for all, without note of creed or colour, including (the MortneP 4 doctrine as of sohun'd Phil. n.'s) Manila channel of official letter, which elected the Indian Peter—the law's font by Peel & Derby's Queen-kin-PUmerania'd Zoll.-Kt king of Prussia at Windso r Castl e , 1842 — as , of Poland's red " Russian Dutch loan act, 1832 yr 99, on Mingan's 9 /q r. NW. America ; now in secret use b y Canada's 1837 Rmcks-thaver rebels,. at Yankees' back without, My 9th sanction. 4. The null'd•Russell 31st Oct. ratification (of f London Gazeta x, Nov. 16, not within 15 days, is illegal by Extra- Dition 1842-Parliament), it being on a supplement of the nun's Mciu'ry-regents of Macie'smithsen Institution April, 1836,0 n Glad-Buxtone's H.C. comtee. U.S. f district Colum bia's midwife Congress '46, r Etertie 18-4-19, Art. 1. § 3. Sachims—This chain—to 1730-2's will-crt. of .A:.Astants, Scotch Cor. of 3. t. Oeorgia, proves the Privy Cabinets named on Oct. 31, '6l, a fe not on Rusn &CANNING's dictum, thus opposed t o th' En-N,ormanGie lace of Nations Standard unity measure of 1824 & 35, for Ge' r-- raising the revenue—on yearly election of aid laymen, under the People's ' Car tvret Grenville' Montague , t Le/arbiter, below—so (fllitEl) "Scorn arbitration S , 1696, ¢ corn its a stain— (g-T •11v) 13] To and 10th of William's reign." [nO 10th. , to f w-wheelo gist, for my Ennosigcen Monte z 'Tl T m h ft is -rYg r'' h a t money recognition of dues from America upon Ist cotonirtig T h [of the whites till Gov'nr. G. r. U. Royal Afric Co.'s E. St. ! Baptist pact, so Frn.PO theft of our 1730-4 re, B rue r" ,zchief, to my life], by a brother &sister love in future, under churches t-water se cts (as die-joined with t-rope, .8- ti i a l e rr ( l , inister's money) of the Ccel-A ' fi read-bA. •Gyredon, to fall-on-ern finite lace. ii: PETER BASQUET of N' te l e a.mIVI p tn. 34. 1 , corr \n i ry, t The flag-union Jak, email . , AT : t. ill-hill Income-tax :o, y-Bulo.rff'‹ fre of 1842, _ ... , r ae , d'n crown-colonl chief 94. Temple. , criminal law's Extradi ' Labouehere. tion Gap,3. t e paddle of Admiral's rn [2 March, '4l] bearing A mei l .L E : ) ,• ff-shore Sea-constable, '.3 H. M. PerleY, court over canter' pad r i e - ill ' tote set yt.wp. an . cl' . e , deadprooffit .... 4 ' l 3 Sept, '4l's tlement for Nev: Crt., its aid Gap i viz EGLI' a!-Ram' Semi- Capt O'Halloran. —tho' cruelly set a ,necianil lord Warden v fice for ' sin, by Ashburtonß ff. CHARLES' ' ACRERLEY, §C.S. of ce.rib-Ile I f. Jethou' d England ' S p ecial elect (Aug. 29 1825 ) - : : by Admiral G. co Dough t y Hamond, Stuart de 6rc'wn- R othsay Sec. Marcus Hill—SANnvB-,J. Trevor, .., on Can'ng's Holy A lliance abolition, of King- 1 -9u , flubs) Standard weight-bearer of 1837, Lieut. s i peu I t ,s . double- oathii'd 1-pay-victim —supporter Qte it i_ o f 3.fuhawli PETER 10 yrs. by Red Indian Mary 8 . p.a. ;" . ',Nrar,,ll'9 murder-tie (1820 in 'habeas virginale ' Jose , 75 tt norum corpus christe Transit, for Quebec's P.Toma,lB ji,,nditon-Dathongie, on his Daphne's. mide, '25-42 as Crown-Page-fikking-ride c'r Gotlandfound BRANT.' dues with ...dug. I. Foster), as Montague sub- in wortOn tidy uoeekild loan Hescript Jan. 14 May-1814- letter '2o's to Major Cartwrig,ht's surrogatecy [on , Tr. trove. 1 3322'991s red-turban'd Hen. 4th, on Hen. Y. s 1792 p liigismond life savoy'd gape-colona, Mart r in 5 8 's. 11,*cot V to fjonsalvi 1816 regolA- 159, b y Pius 7, on uan ch corporation on H. B's will 1749-K rfgs-Marib a LAdvocate STIS „km iwortit?v-Neweomeu's-en Gonfaloniere'-motu 18241 pass'd in e. A.'s Heligoland name act 1-2 W 4, tta V. , .f Julyls2l-72 LuiLler- calvin's man, as England's "T(isss), refused by Can;;;2s to Hamond, as it 4 1 lA. & junior officer did the hid duty. iSo Indian raartyr,tie, " Whose A._,,. ' X.-shield of sevenfold, (Hour) Inn-sb.r ; All' ALL safe, and makes him Mold, '' . Feb. 24, 1862 run d 8 Paid Christ-man mull 20 yrs), Lonaon. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 24, 1862. Another Federal success. After all its losses from bad weather, from vessels drawing too much water, and apparently imperfect knowledge of the navigation, the BURNSIDE expedition has also triumphed. Not, however, without heavy loss in the attack, in addition to the preliminary losses. A thousand men are reported by the telegram killed and wounded on each side; this, however, is probably one of the usual exaggerations. The part of the mainland now seized is in North Carolina, it is approached by a large branch of the sea called Albemarle Sound, at the entrance of which lies Roanoke Island. This was first taken possession of, and then after rectifying as well as they could the various mishaps, the expedition went up the Sound. In a direct line the places captured are not more than about 60 miles from the Norfolk ' Navy-yard, which is considered therefore to be threatened by General BURNSIDE. There is, how ever, one of the "Dismal Swamps" between Eliza beth City," which has been bombarded, burnt and evacuated, and the Navy-yard. It is remarkable enough that the Federals should so long have left this yard in possession of the Confederates, as they are making very good use of it. The workmen on it appear to be animated by a spirit very different from that of their Northern brethren—the latter do nothing except for exorbi tant pay. The blacksmiths and other artisans of the Norfolk navy .yard have offered to work extra time, without additional pay, to hasten the comple- tion of the Merrimac; they are willing to work free of charge till eight o'clock every night. If the poverty of the South work this spirit in her arti sans, it will become a truly formidable enemy. Indeed, such a temper can never be conquered, how ever the country may be temporarily subjugated. Portsmouth, Gosport, and the Navy Yard are almost opposite to Fort Monroe, lying up a large Virginian creek, yet ever since the burning of the old ships in the yard the Confederates have been left the free I use of the remaining buildings, stores, and naval Conveniences, and are, as we see now, using them South to pro v id e themselves with ships of war. If the F e d erals make a reasonable use of their present position , will ü b il e d and fit outparalysep shis the attempt of the htehy to of war in the old Nav y yard. The Confederates them selves are, it is said, alarmed at the success of BURNSIDE, and are trusting rather to swamps, dysentery, and fever, than to th e ir power to meet their enemies in the field. In .Lentucky also the Federals app:ar to be strengthenin g their position and the Confederates retreating, T h P l atter have The anniversary of WASHINGTON'S Birth-day, which was celebrated at Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday last, had several points of interest worthy of notice; but it is only due to the good feeling which dictated the spontaneous language of Bishop M'ILVAINE, of Ohio, to call special attention to the terms in whichhe spoke both of our Sovereign and her son, Having to introduce the toast of "The QUEEN,'' and having adverted to her as a Sovereign " who to official pre-eminence adds indisputable claims to affection and veneration not only upon the part of her own subjects, but on the part of all who know her name throughout the world," he went on to advert to the visit of her son to America, and to speak of him in language con trasting very gratefully to English hopes with that of a journal which on the death of his father caused such groundless anxieties to many loyal hearts. " When," he said " her eldest son, as her representative, visited America, he was received everywhere with manifes tations of esteem and respect for himself, but especially for his honoured mother. It was my honour to have him as my guest in my house, and I saw much of him in different places during his tour in America, having been brought perhaps into more near social relations with him than any one in our land, insomuch that when re cently he was departing upon his present journey he requested me to go to the Palace to take leave of him. I was exceedingly impressed with the very great judgment—l will not say propriety, for it is not a sufficiently strong term—but the great judgment and discretion with which he re ceived the attentions that were offered to him by such a variety of classes and under circumstances so entirely novel to him. I am persuaded that the spontaneous, earnest, and affectionate veneration which was offered through to him to his honoured mother still continues with una bated warmth in the bosom of all Ameri cans• I am satisfied that nothing has impaired those feelings, and I believe nothing will ever occur that can impair them. We, as Ameri cans, may at the present time claim to take place next to Englishmen in affectionate sympathy with the present sorrows of the QUEEN." We accept in the spirit in which it was offered, this testimony of a foreigner of high character and intelligence, to the probable future of our young Prince. His Mother will be gratified by it, and after the mysterious hints made so public a short time ago, all Englishmen will be pleased. "Judgment and discretion" are, above all others, qualifications for Royalty in con stitutional countries, they are qualities which, if any, our Prince might be expeoted to inherit from him whose loss the nation mourns, and we shall all cherish the pleasing hope that when advancing years enable him in a measure to supply his father's place in the closet of her MAJESTY, he will show that he is in all respects a Eon worthy of parents one pf whom has o'er been the o bj ect o f th e na- MR. and MRS. CHARLES KEAN will RE APPEAR at the Theatre-Royal Drury-lane, THIS EVENING (MONDAY, Feb. 24, in Shakspeare's Tragedy of HAMLET. On Tuesday, 25th, Louis XI. ; Wednesday. 26th, Hamlet•; Thursday, 27th, Louis XL ; Friday, 28th, Hamlet; and on Saturday, March 1, The Wife's Secret. With the PANTOMIME for the last six nights. RO ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. Misses Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, Patey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. IL, F., and H. Payne, 11, E., and S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. .10 HEA Y AL, HAYMARKET, Leseee, Mr. J. B. Baokstone. THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buckstone. ____ .- After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLIC MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosine. Commence a 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Feb. 24, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr A. Harris._ THIS EVENING, THE TWO POLTS. Mr.Widdicomb. After which, the new Mystic Drama, in four parts, entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott, Miss Fielding, &o. To conclude with IHE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 360th, 381st, 362 d, 363 d, 361 th, 365th Nights of the Engage ment of Mr. and Mrs. DION BOUCICAULT.—Last Five Nights of The Octoroon and The Dublin Boy. THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, S. Emery, Billington, Jamison, P. Bedford, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer, H. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington. Mrs. H. Marston. Miss Latimer, Miss Denvil. To be followed by THE DUBLIN BOY. Andy, Mrs. Boucicault. To conclude with MARGERY DAW. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billington, W. Smith, Miss Wool gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. THIS EVENING, A NICE QUIET DAY. Followed by the screaming Farce of CARNATION OF CARNATION COTTAGE. After which, the suocesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames Stanley, Payne, and Mason. To conclude with A CHINESE ROMANCE. Commence at half-past 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, Feb. 24, will be produced a Grand Eastern Spectacle, foriping one magnificent array of splen dour, introducing Mr. Bell's wonderful Performing Ele phants, the largest in England, entitled THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE. To be followed by a brilliant routine of matchless SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the most accomplished artistes of the day. Concluding with a favourite Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN, "the FLYING MAN," at half-past Nine Continued success of "THE ENCHANTED HASH " by Mr. E. Marshall, at a quarter-past Ten. Grand Selections from "La Circassienne" by Mdlle. Negri, with Band and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock. Also the following combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Har riet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. THE OXFORD. 6, OXFORD-STREET.- " LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQITES" HENRI (aged Eleven years), and PFAU (aged Nine years), From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, Whose Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze are unsurpassed for daring, skill, and grace, EVERY EVENING. Their performances do not in any way interfere with the Musical Entertainment, which as usual consists of Two Operatic Selections alternately from "I! Trovatore," " Er nani," "La Traviata," "Simon Boccanegra," " Macbeth," &c., by the entire Company, Full Band and Chorus—(Con ducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans)—And Varied Vocal and Instru mental Attractions, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, M. P. Foster, and W. Randall. Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 105. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 47m.—Afternoon, 10h. 35m. To-moRROW.-Morning, llh. 24m.—Afternoon, h. m. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, FEBRUARY 23, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53--highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 48—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.18 ; rising rapidly. WlND—South-Westerly; light, with hazy weather. Thick fog in the evening. FEB. 24. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49—kighest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 37—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.19. WlND—Easterly ; fresh and bitterly cold, with occa sional sprinklings of rain or snow. "e. 4* - 4 - " r rr; )rro N 4 24, 1862. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY left Bowling Green, one of their strong positions before the defeat of poor Zollicoffer ; while their victorious antagonists have seized on the bridge over the Tennessee River, on which Fort Henry stood, and have thus completely cut the railroad connec tion between Memphis, the Mississippi port, and the Confederates who are endeavouring to cover the North of Tennessee. These minor movements of BURNSIDE on the Atlantic, and BUELL on the Mis sissippi flanks of the Confederates are evidently felt by the latter to be of serious consequence to them. It has already weakened the Confederate centre, and will increase the difficulty of maintaining their posi tion at Manassas. Still the Southerns appear to be as determined as ever. We have mentioned the spirit of Southern artisans so different from that of Northern con tractors; and amidst all the troubles of war, the the South is actually "devoting much of its atten tion to the subject of new railroads." We read of one road completed since the war began, of voting a 150,000 dollars to complete another ; also a mil lion of dollars to construct another, in North Vir ginia and North Carolina, for military reasons. This looks as if they had something to vote which the workmen would take and could use as money. But as ever, the issue depends chiefly on the temper of the South. If as determined as it appears to be, the North could not, in many campaigns, re duce it to submission. It will be only a miserable prolongation of a war in which each side is deter mined not to yield except to exhaustion. The South from the begining has fought in forma paupers , and such litigants are by no means always the easiest to vanquish. Among the proposed new harbours and piers designed to be erected at different points along the British seaboard, there is one especially that we are rejoiced to see has received the assent— of course, upon " certain conditions"—both of the Board of Trade and of the Admiralty. We refer to the project of a Pier and Harbour at Hastings. There is another scheme that has received a similar duplex approval in the direction of the land's end, the scheme, that is, of a St. Ives' Pier in Cornwall ; besides which there is another for a new pier at Deal and Walmer. The pier at St. Ives is "proposed to be carried out 540 feet below high-water mark, and in a depth of 30 feet at time of high waters" while the proposed improvement at Deal is for " a pier on iron piles, 920 out at sea, with a general width of 20 feet, and at the head of 40 feet, height of plat form above high-water mark 13 feet, and an average depth at the head of the pier at low water spring tides of 10 feet, so as to insure landing and embarking at all times of tide." Both of which enterprises are manifestly worthy of every possible encouragement as calculated to favour so many advantages, here on the coast of Kent, there on the coast of Cornwall. But the undertaking that we ourselves cannot but regard with particular com placency is, as we have intimated already, the one marking out at last a new Pier and Harbour where it has so long been manifestly wanted—namely, at Hastings, and within view of its twin sister watering-place of St. Leonard's. This new Pier is sketched out according to the plans now ripe for carrying into execution " opposite the present fish market and beaching ground, com posed of iron screw piles, with stone hearting up to high water mark, commencing from the site of the old fort on the west, and 1,650 feet in a southerly direction, and then curving eastward 1,230 feet. Also," so runs the account, " a simi lar pier or breakwater 1,200 feet east of the other from the Rock a Nore ;' 1,650 feet in a line nearly parallel to the western pier. These works," we are informed, " will enclose a harbour area, at time of high water, of 67 acres, and secures a depth of 10 feet at low, and from 20 to 30 feet at high water, with an entrance at the south-east corner of 300 feet wide." The plan looks well in itself, and it is obviously one that it is very desirable should be carried out at that particular part of our coast line, Long since, satisfied as we have been that some such pier and some such harbour at Hastings, are advantages there earnestly to be wished for, we repeat that we are heartily rejoiced to find that the scheme we referred to has received at length the joint approval of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade. tion's love, while the worth of the other was hardly known till we knew it by his loss. From acknowledging the language of Bishop WILyAINE it would seem ungracious to notice too controversially other statements at the same meet ing. Nor was there much calling for remark of that kind. In the praises of WASHINGTON all Englishmen of all parties now concur. We all sympathise with the feeling of the village clergy man who was presen, and who lived in the place whence the WASHINGTON family emigrated to Ameriea vAsm Ha N d eT W oN e s li w ye o d uld th h e a r v e e , the memorials of the W interested us as much as they did the Rev. J. SIMKINSON. We did not understand exactly what the chairman meant when he observed that the Union "was throwing off the burden of a malign power which aspires to rule or ruin." We will hope that it was the South as a slave power, that the Bishop meant, and that his communications from England will impress on his American friends the ardour with which Englishmen would support the North in their contest, if they could but see the " malign" strength of that power, its fatal virus, to be that which the North aimbd directly to destroy. If the war were distinctly one for emancipation, England would find a way, regularly or irregularly, to throw herself into the conflict with irrepressible zeal. The United States Consul spoke well, but he must excuse us if we look on the Declaration of Inde pendence with eyes somewhat different from his own. It may survive, as he says, the ruins of our old world cathedrals and palaces, but as long as it exists side by side with slavery, it does but point, like the spires of a cathedral in a depraved neighbour hood, to a world above, which condemns what is passing in the unworthy world on which it stands. The world, where all men are born free and equal, and so forth, is not the world of the old thirty-four States. And if it be said that slavery is not to be seen in the constitution, the answer is No, because the fig leaves of a euphemism hide a fugitive slave law from view. Dr. BLIMBER'S old friends the Romans—those great enemies of the worthy Doctor's young friends —would certainly have counted it an evil omen, this singular and most inopportune accident to the Defence, upon her official trial of speed on Satur day morning near Spithead. It was one of the oddest contretemps, by the way, well imaginable. No foresight hardly could have guarded against it. It arose from a little casualty so wholely unlooked for in its way. According to previous arrange ment the Defence, 18, iron frigate, Captain R. A. POWELL, C. 8., was, at a given time early on Satuiday morning, to make her first official trial of speed at Stokes Bay—the usual rendezvous for that kind of experimental ordeal. Having duly got up her steam there, away moved the Defence, in every respect quite en regle, and with no seeming pro bability any where discoverable of the merest chance of a hitch. Shortly, however, before the time for starting, had arrived, comes an officer on shore with tidings that the Defence (apparently a sad misno mer, from her incapability of defending herself before even her speed could be tested), that the bran new iron frigate Defence was there and then lying disabled off Spithead ! And disabled, too, from a collision with a forty-horse rower gunboat, to wit the Fenella! The naval correspondent's account of the odd way in which things had fallen out, so as to aid in leading to this vexatious little catastrophe, is so clearly recounted by a few aptly chosen technicalities that we give his words verbatim. It had so chanced, then, " that the Fenella gunboat, doing duty be tween the harbour and Spithead, had, as will happen with vessels of this class, got under the Defence's bows as she lay at Spithead, and fouling the ship's anchor, had by some means got adrift the tumbler and shank painter, and the anchor, falling from off the bill board and being brought up suddenly by its stock suspended from the cathead, had swung with its flukes towards the ship's bow and delivered a blow at that portion of the vessel's bow imme diately under the cathead, about four inches above the water line, and some 14 or 15 feet from the pro jecting stem at the water line, making a hole through an plate which rendered the vessel's stay at Spithead impossible, even at anchor, and therefore putting an end to the trial for the present." Such a ludicrous anti-climax as it is, all things considered ! A hole driven through the iron plate of the new frigate by the fluke of her own anchor! Surely had the Fenella gunboat been an enemy's vessel in stead of our own, a telling hit like that delivered " first go" must have been set down, according to the term familiar among billiard players as an unquestionable " fluke "—on the part of the Fenella herself. As the only sequel that could be looked for reasonably under the circumstances at the tail of such an incident, we learn that the hole thus pro vokingly driven through the iron plate at the bows of the Defence, was, at once on Saturday afternoon, plugged up, just literally as a stop-gap, and the ill starred vessel taken round afterwards to Ports m3uth, to be more carefully examined and more deliberately doctored. It can hardly be matter of surprise to anyone to know that the whole of the injured plate is expected to require removal, with a view to the substitution of an entirely new one in its stead. The whole circumstance is, of course, merely a momentary baulk. But it is one so irri tatingly ill-timed as to be actually ludicrous. Next time, the officers of the Defence had better keep a sharp look-out ahead when they have got the steam up for testing the frigate's speed according to previous, arrangement—they had bet ter keep a right sharp 100k -out ahead to see that there are no lubbers loitering about there, and likely to hustle the ship's anchor off the bill board, as was done the other day by the bungling crew of the Fenella. Few of our charitable institutions stand so de servedly high in public estimation as the admir able establishment at Brompton for the relief of patients suffering from Consumption and other diseases of the chest. The great numbers who claim its assistance (the deaths from this class of diseases being stated by the Registrar-General to amount to one in four of the entire adult mortality of the country) render the Hospital one of especial importance, for it must be remembered that the benefits of the institution extend far beyond the the class of patients who seek its aid, by extending T our knowledge of thi s mysterious and fatal disease.he advantage of testi ng the relative merits of the various remedial agents employed has also proved of great advantage to the profession. We believe that this hospital was among the first to adopt the now uni sally applied remedy of cod-liver oil. The arrange ments most careful and considerate nature; ar ev e every theregard being had to the comfort of the patients, who, from the lengthened and fitful nature of their sufferings,iti and the feveri s h restless ness which they pass so many weary hours, stand esp ec i ally in need of the and languor alleviations of art. The change from the close room of some alley, with in su ffi c i en t and unsuitable food, and, very possibly, loneliness niluitable dismal city and parish doctoring, to the balmy air and fresh gardens of Brompton, with a ll the APpliances that science can bring to ao• Jthe and relieve his suffer ings, must, indeed , be an inestimable comfort to the poor, hopelP.ss patient who knows how heavily his support, '-aeagre though it be, presses on his struggling family, The kindness of Sir HENRY FouLls has attached a chapel to the hospital, from which the inmates derive the consolation of which, unfortunately, they often stand so much in need. In proportion to the relief and comfort of those admitted to the benefits of the institution must be the keen disappointment of the rejected ap plicants—rejected, not because their need is less urgent, their sufferings less wearying, their friends more able to maintain them, but because the wards are full, and the disease so prevalent in this country, that it has been called " the Eng lish malady," cannot excite sufficient pity among us to support more than a limited number of pa tients. The applications during this winter have been unusually numerous, and no less than 250 approved candidates are now waiting for admission. The managers have recently put up several extra 5 beds, to endeavour to meet the pressure, thus in creasing the number of in-patients to 212. This position of affairs has excited the sympathy of some valuable auxiliaries, whose assistance, we cannot doubt, will be of important service to the charity. The following paragraph describes the plan pro posed : "WANDERING MINSTRELS.--Many persons are doubt less not aware that under this very una!:uming title there has existed for some time past a society which com prises among its members nearly all the most talented and accomplished amateur musicians belonging to the higher ranks of society. These are all highly-trained and effioient performers, and are under the leadership of their president, the Honourable Seymour Egerton. The society, with that practical benevolence which distin guishes the English character, have most laudably desired to render their talents and exertions subservient to the cause of charity. They had first resolved to apply the proceeds of a concert to the Hartley Colliery Fund, but sufficient money having been subscribed for that purpose, as inti mated to them by the committee at Newcastle, they have selected the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, at Brompton, as a charity well entitled to public sympathy and support, A list of ladies patronesses, com prising the leading members of the nobility, attests the ap proval of the objects for which the Minstrels' have so kindly proffered their valuable services. The concert will take place on Tuesday, the 11th March, at St. James's Hall; and it is confidently anticipated by the committee of the hospital, as well as by the committee of management of the concert, that a very large sum will be realised by this attractive performance." The hospital will complete its majority this spring, having been in existence 21 years, and we cannot believe that the charitable public will suffer such an institution to flag ; appealing as it does so powerfully to the sympathies of those who have been bereaved by the agency of a disease which is truly no "respecter of persons," and to the gratitude of those whose hearths have been spaied so fatal a visitant. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY. Th 3 Cunard steamer Africa, from New York on the 12th, arrived off the harbour this morning. The Federals had achieved another success in the capture of Roanoke Island, after three days' fight ing. The following are the latest particulars:— BALTIMORE, FEB. 11. The Baltimore Clipper publishes an extra, stating that Roinoke Island was captured after three days' fighting. Two rebel gunboats were captured, and the rest were sunk or scattered. The people of Norfolk and Portsmouth are patio stricken. The news is confirmed by passengers by the Fortress Monroe boat. PHILADELPHIA, FRB. 11. A despatch to the _lnquirer of this morning, dated at For tress Monroe on the evening of the 9th inst., gives what purports to be additional particulars of the capture of Roanoke Island by Burnside's forces. By a flag of truce to-day I learn that the bombardment of the works on Roanoke Island continued during yesterday. About noon Commodore Lynch got his mosquito flotilla under way, and came down Currituck Sound to assist his rebel friend, General Wise, on the island. The Union gunboats then directed their fire upon the gunboats commanded by Lynch, and at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon three rebel gunboats had been sunk, two were captured, one of which had a commodore's pennant flying during the action, and the rest dispersed in every direction. The firing ceased at dark last night, but was recom menced with increased vigour and effect this morning, and kept up until about eight o'clock, when it is supposed the rebel forces on the island surrendered. A fireman on board the Selden said that the Union troops had been landed in large numbers on Roanoke Island, and that the Stars and Stripes could be seen at Elizabeth City flying over the rebel batteries. It was rumoured in Nor folk this morning that three regiments had recently been sent to Roanoke Island, and that, as there was no chance of escape, the probability was that they were all captured. The rebels acknowledge that the only obstacles of im portance to retard General Burnside's march inland and upon Norfolk will be the natural one of swamps, marshes, sickness, &c. The rebels feel their recent defeats very sensibly, and are growing desperate in their fear. The New York Times says:— We have no precise information as to the rebel force on Roanoke Island. Some three regiments are mentioned as having been recently sent thither from Norfolk, and the despatches intimate that the whole force was captured. As this neat stroke was quite within the scope of our resources we can readily believe it true. For it was only necesssary for some of cur gunboats, while the fleet was engaging the bat teries on the south side of Roanoke, to make a dash through Croatan into Albemarle Sound, in order completely to cut off the retreat of the rebels, insulating them both from the main shore and the banks, and cooping them up within the narrow circumference of the Island, to be bagged at lei sure. We wish we could encourage the hope that Wise has been bagged along with them ; but that he should thus voluntarily go into the trap is too great a blunder to ex pect even from him. It is understood that Wise had made his stand, with a force of 5,000 men, at Nag's Bead--which, it will be observed, is on the sand banks opposite Roanoke Island—with a view to bring suc cour to the force on the island when attacked, though it is not easy to see how it could be made available, considering that Roanoke Sound, which separates them, has a depth of from five to seven feet, and is from one to two miles wide, and would require extraordiaary facilities for crossing and re-creasing. The likelihood is, therefore, that Wise con fined himself to his coigne of vantage at Nag's Head, the advantage of which point, in having a good roadway on the beach direct to Norfolk, would not be lightly estimated by the valiant Governor. The probability is, therefore, that on the capture of the island, Wise made a masterly retro grade movement towards that city." Washington advices inform us of the arrest of General Stone : WASHINGTON, MONDAY, FEB. 10. General Stone was arrested on Sunday morning, at two o'clock, by order of the War Department, by a guard under the immediate command of Brigadier-General Sykes, of the Provost Marshal's force, and sent to Fort Lafayette by the afternoon train. The charge against him is understood to be treasonable complicity with the rebels in the affair at Ball's Bluff and subsequently. He was lately before the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, to answer charges made against him in reference to this, and also to some other later and equally suspicious actions; and it is owing to the revelations made by himself and others before the 'committee that he has been deprived of his command and committed to prison. The following is the substance of the charges under which he was arrested:— 1. For misbehaviour at the battle of Bull's Bluff. 2. For holding correspondence with the enemy before and since the battle of Ball's Bluff, and receiving visits from rebel officers in his camp. 3. For treacherously suffering the enemy to build a fort or strong work, since the battle of Ball's Bluff, under his guns, without molestation. 4. For a treacherous design to expose his force to capture and destruction by the enemy, under pretence of orders for a movement from the Commanding-General, which had not been given. A court-martial will be speedily ordered. The arrest excites great commotion in public circles here, and certain military functionaries are also greatly perturbed about it. It is rumoured that still other arrests will be made immediately. It is notable that Stone's strongest friends here are Secessionists and Semi -Secessionists of both sexes. The day for sending in tenders to the Bank of England for the next instalment of 40,00,000 rupees in bills on India has been changed from the Ist of March to the 28th of February. This alteration is understood to be in consequence of Sunday intervening immediately between the day originally fixed for receiving tenders and the Bombay mail day. As the bills are only deliverable on the day after they are paid for, the opportunity of the mail of the 3d would, under the first arrangement, have been Mat Lord Edward St. Maur comes to town to-day from Maiden Bradley House, Wilts. LATEST NEWS. MADRAS, SAN. 22. The first meeting of the Legislative Council under the new presidency, was held on the 22d inst. The Governor-General has published a minute. censuring the policy of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal in the indigo districts. CANTON, JAN. 16. Ningpo is still occupied by the rebels, and the streets of the city are literally strewn with dead bodies, The rebels continue to display moderation towards foreigners. The English missionaries have been ordered to quit Ningpo by the consul. Hangchow is reported to have fallen into the hands of the rebels. Mr. Parkes goes to England by this mail. VI ENNA, FEB. 23. At a meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank the proposals of the Government were ac cepted. The charter of the Bank has been renewed for a term of 25 years. The Government will obtain in return an unredeemable loan at 2 per cent. BERLIN, FEB. 23, According to trustworthy information, the reply of France to the Prussian proposals for a treaty of commerce between the two countries has arrived here. It is said that the treaty is on the point of being concluded. THORN, FEB. 22. All the councillors of the districts and towns of Russian Poland are to re-enter upon their public duties on the 15th March next. The Archbishop of Warsaw has visited the Jewish Hospital and the Asylum for Paupers. LISBON, FEB. 21, EVENING. The new Ministry has been constituted, and is formed as follows :—President, the Marquis de Louie; War, Viscount Sada Bandeira; Public Works, Senhor Horla ; Interior, Senor Bream camp; Justice, Senhor da Silva; Finance, Senhor de Avila ; Marine, Senhor Mendez Real. The members of the new Cabinet are of the same party as the preceding one. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Massilia, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. The Indus, with the heavy portion• of the mails, left Malta for Southampton at midnight on the 22d instant. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Delta, from Southampton on the 12th, ar rived at Malta at noon on the 22d, and continued her voyage at 4 the same afternoon. The Vectis, from Marseilles on the 20th, arrived at Malta on the 22d, at 7 p.m., and sailed again at 11 pan. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a letter from General de Montauban requesting the Emperor to withdraw the bill granting him an annuity, as it had met with opposition in the Corps Legislatif. " However small may be my income," says General de Montauban, " I should be much grieved to see the idea of the Emperor and the glory of the army turned into a discussion personal to myself." The following is the Emperor's reply, also pub lished in the Dioniteur " Paris, Feb. 22, 1862. a My dear General,—The request which you make to me to withdraw the bill of dotation is inspired to you by a sentiment which I honour ; but I shall not withdraw the bill. The Legislative Body may, if it pleases, not think worthy of an exceptional reward the leader of a handful of heroic soldiers who, amidst so many difficulties and dan gers, forgotten on the morrow of success, went to the end of the world to plant the flag of France in the capital of an empire of 200,000,000 souls; a leader who, while main taining the dignity and independence of his command, un derstood how to preserve the most useful and friendly re lations with our allies. " Every man is free to take his own view of the matter. As far as I am concerned, I wish the country and the army to know that, compelled to be a judge of military and poli tical services, I have wished to honour by a national dona tion an unexampled enterprise. Great actions are most easily performed where they are best appreciated, and de generate nations alone dole out public gratitude. " Receive, my dear General, the assurance of my sincere friendship. "NAPOLEON." BOURSE, Feb. 22.—The market has been heavy, and stocks having been rather offered, the business done has been for the most part at a decline on the closing rates of the previous day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. 30c. Railway Market also heavy, but previous prices pretty well main tained. The following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 100 10 Credit Foncier 1405 Do. end month.... 100 35 ; Belgian 41.. lOl 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 32f Roman Bank Shares 3050 I Austrian .. 72 50 Credit Mobilier.... 755 Spania. Threes.... 501 Do. Account 762 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1382 60 .. 1387 60 Northern New ditto 950 Lyons and Mediterranean 1082 50 .. 1086 25 Geneva 356 25 .. 360 Southern 727 50 .. 731 25 Western Eastern Sardinian 335 Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 161 c. ; mosey, 25f. 14c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 971 c. The Prince Consort's last gift to her Majesty the Queen, it is interesting to learn, was the very last picture purchased by his Royal Highness, namely, the " Lesbia" of Mr. Augustus Bouvier. This fact has been touchingly elicited within the last few days in consequence of the artist's very naturally expressed desire that he might be permitted to dis play this latest artistic choice of our lamented Prince in the forthcoming Exhibition. In answering this application, Sir Charles Phipps, by command of her Majesty, has intimated to Mr. Bouvier that his " Lesbia" being the last gift made by the Prince Consort to the Queen, her Majesty cannot think (even for a time) of parting with it. The honour of a refusal so exquisitely gratifying to the artist is beyond any that could have resulted to him from her Majesty's gracious compliance under other cir cumstances. A learned pundit, named C. N. Robertson, hap, we understand, been very recently giving, if he is not actually still giving, a course of instruction " constituting" (as his own printed programme has it) " Initiation into the Eleusinian and Osirian Mys teries !" In proof that the lecturer is at least to begin with a ripe scholar, the Rev. Dr. Major, of King's College, has written to him, and of him, under date the 19th October, 1861 : " Having listened with much interest to the explanation and results of your profound researches into Ancient Mytho logy, I have no hesitation in stating my conviction that you have obtained a clue to the unravelling of all the perplexities and incoherencies in which the subject (to a superficial ob server) appears to be involved." Coining from the authoritative hand of the Rev. Dr. Major, of King's College, these words are at any rate calculated to awaken the curiosity of those interested in these recondite studies. THE HARTLEY COLLIERY FUND. --The total amount received at the Mansion-house, by the Lord Mayor, in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the sufferers by the accident at the Hartley Colliery, up to Saturday evening, Was a b out £18,350, of which more than. £250 came to hand during Friday and Saturday. NUMBER OP STEAM SHIPS AND SAILING SHIPS. —A Parliamentary return states that on the Ist of this mon th, 525 steamships were afloat, there being 414 screw and 111 paddle; 38 screw and four paddle were building. The building of 13 others has been suspended. The num ber of effective sailing ships afloat was 110. !MORE GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA. (From the Melbourne Age of December 26.) The annals of Australian exploration will be largely en riched by the proceedings of the present year. It marks the date of important geographical discoveries, not only in east central and central Australia, but likewise on the west and north-west coast, and the tract of territory immediately in land from that coast. Within the last six months we have been called upon to chronicle not alone the successful labours of the persevering Stuart, but also those of the lamented Burke. And now we have devolved upon us a similar pleasing task in reference to the proceedings of Mr. Gregory, the commander of the north-west Australian Ex pedition. The official report of the expedition, addressed by that gentleman to the Governor of West Australia, which we publish this morning, opens up to view a magni ficent region on that part of the north-west coast imme diately facing Java, and the other islands which dot the southern fine of the Indian Archipelago. The newly ex plored territory is within easy reach of India. Indeed, whenever it becomes a settled country, which must be at no very distant date from the present, India will be as much within hail of its seaports as New Zealand is of our own ports or of those of New South Wales. The commercial importance of the geographical position of the newly-ex plored territory is, therefore, easily comprehended. And it cannot be too soon or too generally known that, owing to the elevated character of the inland coun try, this new region, though intertropical, is both habitable for Europeans and well suited for graz ing sheep and cattle on a vast scale. It would seem, indeed, frcm Mr. Gregory's account to be less oppressively hot than the more southern districts which are already included within the settled parts of Western Australia; and it will probably be found cooler than the Queensland country in the corresponding latitude upon the eastern coast. It was visited during the dry season. The rains prevail from November to March. The means at Mr. Gregory's command for conducting the expedition were very limited—part being supplied from England by the Geographical Society, and part being fur nished by the Government of Western Australia. And, in. consequence, of this and the advanced period of the season, he was not able to achieve the principal purpose which he had in view, on entering upon the work of explora tion. This purpose was the discovery of some clue to ascertain the direction taken by the waters which form the drainage of Central Australia. The most conflicting opinions have been advanced by eminent geographers and men of science upon this question ;—some maintaining that the waters flow inland to the centre, others, that they flow coastwise and discharge themselves into the sea, like the rivers of most other countries. Mr. Gregory hoped his expedition would throw great light upon the solution of this problem, if it should not enable him actually to solve it. But he was unable to do either, although he almost succeeded in getting within his grasp some positive evi dence on the point. Difficulties, however, greater than the means at his disposal would enable him to sur mount, intervened to baffle him in this object. But there is some considerable compensation in the fact of his having discovered a fertile and habitable region, which will soon become an attractive field for colonial enterprise. Mr. Gregory sailed on the 2d of May last, in the barque Dolphin, from Champion Bay, which lies on the western coast, in about the 29th degree of south latitude ; and on the 10th of the same month he arrived at Nickol Bay, which is in south lat. 21 deg., on the north-west coast. This place formed the base of his operations. Here the Dolphin lay at anchor whilst he and his party, numbering eight persons in all, proceeded inland on their exploration enterprise. They were engaged in their journeyings into the interior until the 23d of October, when they finally quitted Nickol Bay on their return, and arrived at Freemantle on the 9th of November. They were thus absent six months and one week, five months of which they were engaged in exploring the country. And short as the period was, it resulted in geographical dis coveries which are almost as important as those made by the lamented Burke in an equally brief space of time, and are certainly more accessible. The region possesses, there fore, a more immediate practical value for the purposes of colonisation at the present moment. The waters of the coast offer an especial commercial attraction in their copious yield of pearl oysters. Several tons of these had been col lected in their leisure hours by the crew of the Dolphin, and they were valued at £6OO, exclusive of some pearls of superior size and lustre, one of which was stated by a com petent judge to be worth £25. There were two main separate efforts made to penetrate the country inland, and in separate directions —the one S.W., the other S.E., from Nickel Bay. And in both they met with an abundance of water, in small and large river courses, and extensive areas of richly grassed land. The S.W., or coast route, which was the first entered upon by the expedition, was pursued to a point at which Mr. Gregory connected the new country, by triangulation, with the territory on the Lyons River, explored by him in 1858. It resulted in his discovery of a vast extent of rich pasture land, reaching some hundreds of miles inland, from the large opening on the coast known as Exmouth Gulf. To this fine district he gave the name" Ashburton," after a well-known British Peer. He also experienced some rugged and stony country, which so damaged the 'set of the horses that he was obliged to return without completing the full observation and examination of the territory in this direction. Had he had a better equipment, both of horses and of such materiel as horse-shoes, he would have been able to surmount the difficulties which beset him, and which would not have been reckoned of any moment by a better provided party. On the return route he passed through a broad tract of well-watered and fertile arable land, and through open grassy plains of limitless extent. He reached Nickol Bay on 19th July, and found a party of natives encamped there, and on the most amica ble terms with the Dolphin's crew. 780 geographical miles were travelled over in this trip. After eight or nine days' rest, and the horses being re-shod, the party again started for the interior ; this time towards the S.E. The country passed over is described as intersected with some very large, and several small, rivers. The soil in many places showed open grassy plains, good arable land, and sometimes elevated stony ranges. Water-fowl and fish (some like herrings) were abundant. The hilly region abounded in water-springs; and beyond it, to the east, lay a magnificent region of agricultural and pastoral land, watered by a large river named the " De Giey." Further on, they came upon another river—the " Oakover"— of which we have the fol lowing notice given in the report :—" The scenery in the vicinity of this river was truly pleasing. Undulating plains of waving grass extended far away to the northward ; while the banks of the stream, which was here two hundred yards wide, were overhung by a broad belt of cajeput trees, the rich umbrageous foliage of which afforded us a most agree able shade during the many days we afterwards followed the picturesque windings of this fertilising stream, upon which was conferred the name of Oakover.' " Keep ing still in a southern and eastern direction, they arrived, on the 2d of September, upon an open plain of red sand raised into high wind-ridges. And although there were indications of a large river some forty or fifty miles off, which, if followed up, would, in Mr. Gregory's opinion, do much to solve the question of the drainage of Central Australia, he was obliged, from the loss of some of his horses and the worn-out condition of the others, to commence his retreat to the coast. This great question of the physical geography of Australia, then, still rests in its former obscurity, notwithstanding the efforts made on this occasion to arrive at its solution. Return ing by a northern course they found that the " Oakover" forms a junction with the "De Grey," and runs northwards to the sea in a combined chan nel, from two hundred to four hundred yards wide—.. a magnificent stream. On this new route they also passed through an abundance of goood grazing and agricultural land. Another confluent of the "De Grey"—the " Shelley" —was also examined to the southward, and the exploration here, too, showed equally " good country." They returned to Nickol Bay on Oct. 17, having on this trip travelled 985 geographical miles. The total area traversed in both trips was 1,765 geographi cal or 2,040 statute miles; and for the most part this large tract was found suitable for a numerous European popula tion engaged in pastoral and agricultural pursuits. The country rises inland in vast terraces of many miles extent rising one above the other; and Mr. Gregory is of opinion that in the parts he visited there are about three millions of acres fit for pasture, and about one -tenth of that good agricultural land. Amongst the indigenous fruits they found in abundance a sweet plum, "very palatable" ; the wild fig, also excellent ; a kind of bread-fruit tree ; very large melons (sweet and water) ; and a small gourd. To bacco was growing wild ; and, in many places, the ground was richly carpeted with strange and beautiful flowers, interspersed with noble palms forty feet high. There were ducks, pigeons, and cockatoos seen, and a few swans and emus. The alluvial flats are described as being well suited for the growth of cotton; the upland country for cereals, and pasture. The natives were not numerous nor troublesome. And thus, whilst we here in this south-eastern corner of the Australian continent are contriving measures to repel population from settling upon our soil, as though it were the last scrap of unoccupied land on the globe, a fertile region of millions of acres on the north-west coast, and within a few weeks' sail of us, is thrown open to our gaze, as if to shame the majority of our law-makers into an abandonment of their narrow-minded and ruinous land pclicy. The adjudication in the case of Mr. Scott Russell, disputed by him, has been confirmed by Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, after a protracted examination into the facts and argument on the law by counsel on both sides. 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