The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-21 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. ----- THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. Mis , es Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyre, Jessie M`Lean, and Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, Patsy, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. 11., F., and TI. Payne, H., E., and S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. RHEA TR I AL, HAYMARKET, Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buottitonc. THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buckstone. Alter which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLR MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Longlev,s. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosine. Commence as 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Feb. 21, the new and origin al 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 Shamrcck. 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 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. 1.1 YA I, PRINCES S'S THEATRE.- ' Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, a new Mystic Drama, in four parts entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, M-. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. NI I iddicomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott, Miss Fielding, &c. After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WITPITINc- TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobboi and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opeliin, invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer. '' The Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq ; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq ; M e ssrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast ings. Raymond ; Dick Whittinp,ton, Miss Maria Harris ; Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ; [ Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. NEW TH RATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPFII.- Sole Froprletor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 358th Night of the Enzazementof Mr. and Mrs. DION BOUCICAULT. THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Bouc'cault, 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. Bouc'cault. 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 succesful 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. A SrLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. TO-NIGHT, Feb. 21, and during the week, first appearance of Rumsey and Newcomb's Double Troupe of Ethiopian Min strels, late of the Crystal Palace. To be followed by NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, by Madlie. blazotti, Madlle. Goldsmidt, Mons. Goldkctte, and Mons. Gerard Goldsmidt. Concluding with a screaming Farce. On Monday, Feb. 24, will be produced a gorgeous Eastern Spectacle, in which Two of the finest Performing Elephants ever seen in this country will appear. 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 GYMNASTIQUES" 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, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis Di .—Morning, 6h. 16m.—Afternoon, 6h. 40m, To-MORROW. -Morning, 7h. 7m.—Afternoon, 7h. 38m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, :FEBRUARY 21, 1862, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest tnis morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.95. WlND—Southerly ; light, wi h very fine warm weather, rnE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1862. PicroN's Terra-firma Incl. en.PITT'S ord n Cl., April 7th, 1797—Trinidad, M' ague void st. Lucia—'96 ;on Ghent's -e 9th Sept., 1814, s ubject to their laws.' Fds 89 93 7 1 Cromwels 15°N gty 1655-8 v. S. Denis Samerica. Car-ab, 3.9.27 Deer FOOT day-6116-h. tideisle Menan. F IX cif RISTIAN-ORDER' SHIP-PIRATES ON s CORPUS -NAVE RED-FLAG HOIST. In re AndersOth by Gen. Lafoitt's bull Armed Neutrality on major An-tre's-1780 Cow-chase' victim Crimea'd-so, by Lockhart's C r omwell 3ty, 23 M. 1655-8, in 16 Car. n c 2. By 16 H. Bc. 3 Leg Elrod' lib. iv., § r—for criminal law o nf Harburg side of sea level, as Washington extradition act —touching aller en course Fire-raz'ng as rof the four Eft pleas of Crown-transit to iublin' 53 0 N. wickTiow. Mayor of Southampton, *rear-admiral of England's flag pinnace—JAEley's isl o Wight's Galic-coq 31 coastguard will record Ships Nashville Sumter,' for felony, i. G. r, c 2 § 4, on American Spy-ship Harvey Birch, crosby,' by Sumpter hors't-cannebroq'l;Air Dub,:,men, about 19th Nov., 1861, under Dannehrec' ord. Kts. white ÷on red flag. By rota (a) 0 universa ditioni supremus est Pla'gitem (not Uof placet-koi). to the Navarchide'l 1 sites of Rhodes on 1842's ELsin= , au'ourr6'y (in AD 1182 F. PiCkii, p. 291 sop 59, BODIN'S 1 , b. l on Dagobert's WILL r-g), Slaves of St. Denis, by Art. 19 1658'5-Nap-ecumeurs de mer for papal vessels Ship'r g Act 1802-54, ¢ 4, Jan. 6—Lon. Gaz. On (b) Terra-Neuf-9-land (Rexvini -factor of Lisbon wine license Co.'s) newspaper set-off, on Kt. Junot-jus-invasion, 1807, for Englands marine sway Pompey'n vote, en Bristol's (3 Liverpool gBeg London), admiralty kalendar ' super altum mare, qua) afcendsi° et defcenteblique,' O.S. So (c) Ireland's warrant of the I-JAR-cone- marl review to [P( rtigal-way 530 comp/. u, thought, for its ne'LowiPv ar6 37* N -Ise-pose], on' Holy alliance abolition' Eienfai- Fance out'ng by *Hamond, SANDYS, on '. Signed PETER Brant BASQUET, Maine's Medal-veto Saq'mo. Nephew of Jo. Brant, 1775-CABot-saga" in Peter Toma Brant, 1825-£lO, of New Brunswick), Cars Gaspe. *11.7 & B's Montague §C'5 ' ACKERLEY, P.C., sworn in as (picton Stuart's Final comfirn of Lucia review, 1825)-37, Executor's § Dormer-FERIA, ¢ L. INOTTON BOWES , P.C. : : • A-ti' r-hd, [See The Sun, Nov. 16, 1861]. Enn'uter 9th, Gap-reality of Facts, no Neuter. TRIBAL-AMERICA 'S + ULSTER' PLANTA TION-SHIFT, OF ENNOB'L WILL*TRUSTS. § BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 w. Iv.. C. 92, § 4 vlc c-39 ¢ 4, 1842, NAVE : ; 9th Q. AN-B'NTY. 132 yr, so Q , 'TNNi Jetsam rota LAgan-09 onT-fiot-remi cz N. Wall)-mur4n3 24 March- -29 Sept. wend- finang/ 6 April A-jeulian' Cul de sac Tv fishry-park/awsets, in conic sections 1200 /sospiral ••0• • o by Enks Juptr comet. , r. CARIBS.—It is my EASTPORT void line Pleasant -pt. £9O a-year unsought R.N. duty as of 16 Car. 2, c 6, to state, in opposition to RUPERT land-lawyers of British church, that the coast-guard officers of San Jacinto & Santiago de Cuba, acted on the Po wigALL'd-resident Acts of 21st yr of Penn's Regulus parliament award, Art. .x., by which no pl anter or three of Brazil's Plata, can leave without a three week's market notice of slaves-care, under a Justice pass, the ship aiding such Malta ? Tuscan'Peto persons (of bri tish Danebrog order of Ile St. ThomA. W.), open to utrecht* *right of search' law iG.I.c2, 4, to 1762 X Z 6, • • • [lt. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWORTH, Cl. of synode GROYMON, spkr, Oct. 28, 1701]-Re-form bill'd, 1832-38, for itetro- - webster'd -'42 'n CASS, by Palmerston, '57-8. So— -COMPASS -3 ErVIA GAP(.)PONTJ SPIRIT -0-LEVEL. JAR- KONE s PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY, raN NAVE CTNQUE PORTAL LATITUDE, REPULSION CURVE, In ginq'nt span -long 50 0 by Polar* above & below declin. sear„,in 9 astrs-geograph . • • : : to Gover's 4 Arrow off and-mfDiepp's-Rouen to Lizard-Pt. Q'r flel'isle's Quadra eulminaoon Tropic-wend t°wrds minorga's Dengue G'ock 40. N. Its state rope-lay Anchor J flag-tow'r pres-by Tyre round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night zone-meter of yr 79, in 1824-3.5's Life-Burg-r x ehek 4 var convolute-Leet- crts.—on America's sown-south meridian 600 w, for its Turloch base N. line September 4vapora-like Xarayes Nile-Q-metre'd lake (on :* 4. Plough-ken 3 Jaqc. s.), of Vil-Bella'/ack're-mento 1713 R. negro plot of r Brazil, Horn' d from my `"game' July 6, 1827-.1,-28. Sachims—The Illustr. London News, No. 1,119, p. 538 g i ves , Clarendon'! 5 -Georgia n., carnineA in Philadeph'; pensylvan-armorialfword scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, 'resolve of its Council e boarce on Middletone's fons i)re (6 Podium -regales, of James . l.'s 72 New River' share 1- p lug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on EnGland's royalty 36 ones £500) a-tested by Wotton &Mon tague so CAR. 11. Hyde's Swedish colony grant 1662's in Hild Abi;ess, 1672-Foxy-Penn' 81-1701, in Quakers affi act, 1749, on 77 Indian responsors, of m , acenat* or mill-grist Vectigal land rents, £100,000,. Can ngs Rush bribe transfer by Tr. a. counte's (12 Feb 1830, Gladstone & Buxton, for a Percy-bastard Smithson reguliarin . stitution' of Quaker-Jesu pa t r ons & advocat, s , i th undersigned , §to Q-A n n's Oneida veto and P o mh P Chapel rys. See, Educa. code of '33-0N 44 1 Ahorigines-rep. 1837, for school -scale, 2d march 1841, Convention, Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, tbro' Webster & Perley's 3d Sept., '4l, election of Indian Peter B. o'r 99 lifelease 12 yr to run, not without Ackerley's name, on 14 Geo no. 1774. Build'ng-in Bacmo Brant (act on old John Adam' s p lanterr's Quinc y A. and H. Clay's Ghent note, Sept. 9, 1814), as Stow-toweed, forfiladelph- Lancaster Duchy Crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins § Edgcumbe Chamberlayne as (Hugh Chamberlen & Goldfmith CO'S-I, N. R. proprietary) Steggles t plug. Sacinags—The cause shift of Florida-semioles & Cherokee Creek Indians of Georgia's trust (by 1802 Hudson-B. &S. Sea us. 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--4-s Pleasant -pt. Ind. Innen trust 1812-'43-61), Art. r xrv., for mixt Co.nifn Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as re-set on admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda 10. M, by Philadel's partizans, p 66, coloniza .off, Boston—Judge Jay —3l May, 1853 GREY. Thus Deerfoot's i gyefellow scholar ship' Trinity e-Col., Cambridge, 1861, 8 Dec. Exhibition-rs, Elliot's may '5l col. let.:] —the term negro for Indian not in 1726-new B. MO. G. 1. life-grant '32, Sec. Adair fraud. So Galveston New shire-ere on rrench-british Andre 3tys, 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 Spit head-(9. controler Sir Guir amePenn)-Ackerley's sworn in Swede -sponsor of Indian lady 1820—for Act 1843's Empery (9 Sept.lBl4) over cwt.-Texas-Hundred 6 & 6 partners, for England's law for outing the jru:/m St. John's Kts., of Gothland's ef tina Q. french-Malb[e-placet (in 03g1.62 of Boromeo's Churchmen tax-10ths & forage subsidy on Trent council), for vote-swamp in Lopez Luisana'd Vaemark on Rule xt. Mathew, Feb. 1807-8, in M. Peto+Kt's4. Evior-1817, as Trent—The felon fix of Slidell & Ma son, Dar:Am-papal vessels of Scarlet & Anton'lli, Dec. 1853, was right as live dispatches. So God's imag'd Red Indian chief & trustee below, made the 40 years' scapegoad-fools of Luther-calvin's New Bern swiss fraters de sae's on L'Zil t bronzed-IPBNsylvn-hosp. P" statue—not his Qkr son. AFRlc'rs..—By pyre- Odic longitude Aces on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), Y 4.9, subjects or su'ject, have equal Astr°- Jen'r rewards. Think on the 3in 5 vote for Carib, of your danger in joining the Vaccine px.-mark#d white faces or negur indian Fetish Berlin'rs, 179 z 6, thus forbad noticing the late False Proclamation as headed in Times and Post of 16th Nov., " A britt'sh Convention between ENG‘axv't .France, & Spain," dated Oct. 31, 1861, wherein [by its non inter-national Gib'raltar-tribe Sub-ministremus' -Teind's seeing forth], the common law is not for Indian rights, or alien's of High contracting parties—by this its En-Novenary registrario of Danwark'!lfa.ir E lbe-crsr-star, so :—' " Command old words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake." _ _ 1. My admiralty RED-flag, is th' Eneuter Gap:line-H/-6'e one of water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses by 3rd Jacno I. is a Christian Zollverein trade flag x + x and not for war by Micmac Ordnance issue) from Tower nave T 343, of Jan. 311842. The merchant's Jack, on board Car.n's Hotel-P.Offl. Trent, had no white border, ' Rome's transept church has no ' Necuter' sea limit or neuter- flag. 2. That the Latin'd words Britesh-f . Britain, St. George's on St. Patrick's Order, 1 7 83 1-channel, for o England from Log-wood 3ty 82' Court chris_liting the word an . s.ea charts, g et witbout Gran'r Breton's yr-Annona, by Justtnan lib. 4 T. 18, § 2, under the X •span. - cvu'era's Double - c ptd'd. n.. Fsi a l R -law of July, 1521 on 1761-72 's trust — decided by San Texas Crts. as wron g , b y (11 Geo. in, c 55), the assumed P franeo-britishers of Avignon's Ineorp°rate -310re-flamm'd eon-Pope of St. Penis, under the word " except France in March 3, 1815, U. S • 3ty" prior to Blucher and Wellington's s i gn ature [for reset of V aucluse jesuits of the 2d order of Melchisidek on their Yet ' moving earth error'] June 17, 2815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Pedro 2, 7selgic Leopold-Jesu ('2B-30)'$ Brune--i-cai/lard'ng. 3. Saving my N. Z. Waftangi'd 512, by t-Bunbury-like Sir . Gore Onseley's foist on the 800 Sachims sioa for Gross rebels' in PT name, seen (by his Wabash'd Walker-ite in Central America, for Bamberg-Sigismund life tenure 1047, to a nappe Savoy Rh'dferi), fora Parquee, t an a is 4 Indian Naps-seizing of Mexico, fromEneland—caused his papist envoy Aldhara. to be shot by Indians, as sacrificing their tribes to 3 vaccine-priests iwolves i men—for an Umbilical- Nave-violation of God's : : acre in Ackerley's Pt eral-pivot appointment of 29th Aug. 1825, for the ' State Counsel', on 90, for all, without note of creed or colour, including (the MONROE A doctrine as of Rohun'd phil. rt.'s) Manila channel of official letter, which elected the indian Peter—the law's font by Peel & Derby's Queen-kin-Pdmerania'd Zoll.-lit.- king of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842 —as, of Pidand's red Russian Dutch loan act, 1832 yr 99, on Mingan's 9fqr. NW. America ; now in secret use b y Canada's 1837 Hmcks-tharer rebels, at Yankees's back without, my 9th-ken-tie. 4. The nall'd.Russell 31st Oct. ratification (of § London Gazetct n , Nov. 16, not within 15 days, is illegal by Extra- Dition 1842-Parliament), it being on a supplement of the nun's Mau'ry-regents of Macie'smithson Institution April, lina,on Glad- fluxtone's 14.0. coratee. U.S. i district Colum bia's midwife Congress '46, 1 ' Sertie 18-4-19, Art. 1. ¢ 3. Sachims—This chain—to 1730-2's will-crt. of Assistants, Scotch Cor. of J. T. Georgia, proves the Privy Cabinets named on Oct. 31,'61, are not on Rusx dr CANNING's dictum, thus opposed measure, toth'En-Norm an cie law of Nations Standa rd unit y of 1824 & 35, for Ge' i - -- raising the revenue — on yearly election of said ' laymen, under the People's ' Car teret Gre uv in , f . ,„ ~,, (.' _Montague St /..zfeia.rbiter, below—so 1'6 1 9 `5 , '"$ ' l3l , r ` 6 ' s l corn arbitration as a stain— (p-i 15v) This Ursa pi . th and 10th of William's reign." [nO 10th. °;D m. -wheelo gist, for my Ennosigcen Monte rum rt-right, i s upon Ist colonizott• money recognition of dues from America the whites till Gov'nr. G. t. rt. Royal Afric Co.'s B. St. Thomas 01ir173 0-461 rul B ruce -chief pact, so prn.PB theft of love in future, und er En 1 1. , to rev lire], by a brother &sister %and (as die-joined with - I'. Pope, 41 . - churches f-water sects of the Ccel-A afi read-ba -Gyreion to the Conn money) Ti a.m.mp __.,..m. 3 -J.1., co; ti I', PETER Brant' B AsQut , r a f o, l 'otl-on-4re finite law. The trade flag-union Jak, corn -hill- Income-tax- - .6 p ..13u10.r.;-* K freeman, A ; Tenaple. of 1842, --it':''l'n crown-colonf• chief I criminal ° Lab ushers. tion Gap, 3 . rni , _ o ,_ nal law' - I , '.xtrar/i- es 4. u -shore VI [2 March, '4 1] bearing K.americ4,. s _ea f, • Ible, ~,-F. H. M. Perley, court over canterb ur , P ,V al , o of Admiral's 4 6, 3 Sept, '4l's tlement for New Zeal;wrouizote set ; Gap ; v t z 9,6 LT • Crt., its Oial w•WPoY Stil'ldoeadprooffit Capt O'Halloran. —the' cruelly set R medal bar- rd Wardell r fice for ' Sift, by Ashburtonß a 'n Ram' Sacri ., ng-3ty .5 N . 1. CETATMES ' .t.' ' ACKERLEY, SS C. J. of Carib-lie • • • .1 . e thou' d England' Special c! et ;Aug. 2 9 1825 , / by Admiral G. c , 'D Doughty Hamond , Stuart de Cre . ,,,,- no thsav Sec. Marcus Hill — SANDv s-J. Trevor, •.. 4 C I an'ne'x Holy Alliance abolition , of Kin g - i -g". Qn • clubs) Standard weight-bearer of 1837, Lieut. siren, R.N. double-cfaliii'd 4-1 :1Y- vic ti al—support cr Qte Rien of vrob awl: PETEU 10 vrs by 'h Red Indian Mary s.r.o.n, t l , fie (18 20 in a beas v;rginale ' Jos6 '75 :IN farrli s mur , “ r- , tenerum corpus chrisl6 Transit, fir Quebec's E. , Toma, 18 Hamliton-Dalhousic. on his 1):. ulnae's. Hide, 2.5-42 41-• no•-ride "''r Gotland/bund BRAN'.' as Crown-rage-fi ' , O , eines with Aug. J. Foster), . as Montague sub- in Norton sirly Rosekild loan RescriPt Jan. 14 bloclB-leter '9o's to major eartwri,bt's surrogy [on Tr. trove. a:322'99 red-tUrban'd Hen. 4 t h, on Hen. V.'s 1792 ? Sigismond i;fe savoy'd gape-colona, Martinas, Scotch 1. V to Gonsalvi 1816 re,.;015.-159, by Pius 7, o n Crha 8 corporation on H. S's will 17-19-Krigs-Maria [Advocate STIT Aarr iwortle -New 'omen's-en Goufaloniere'-motu 18241 p as ,' din C. , ' • . ..9 W 4 no AC. A s Helt oland name act 1 .., , 54-, i VJIIIy I S2I-72 . L h g. ' En g land's ut er : cal 's man, as Peer( l e B B), refused b junior- officQr did the id y h Cll' aing to Han, 1 ond as his Lt. 4 duty. So Indian martyf-tie. Feb. 21, 1862 (unpaid Christ-man rETER2O yrs), London. r r; • • THE S UN. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1862. What shall we say of requiring Gloucester and Wakefield once more to send representatives to our Parliament, as legislators for the Empire P What will they represent ? Will it be their own purses, or the men into whose purses they empty their own P It cannot be said that they will repre sent the predominant political, or even municipal opinions, of the really respectable, the unpurchase able portion of the constituency. The majority of this portion may be supporters of Lord PALMER STON or Lord DERBY, it matters not which for our argument—all honest Englishmen wish that the members returned by any constituency should re- present the political opinions of the majority of the electors. That principle is assumed by us all, whether we prefer a restricted or a liberal franchise. At Gloucester, and at Wakefield, too, whether his shall be done is the merest chance. The turning votes are confessedly those of whichfour hundred, it is certain are directly purchasable; and, probably, almost as many again, more or less directly. That the returned members are quite as likely, therefore, to represent the minority as the majority, of the unbribed constituency, is perfectly clear. The question therefore seems almost to come to this, shall Gloucester and places like it possess the privilege of having agents for local business, in the House of Commons, who shall be elected wholly irrespectively of their political opinions ? Probably any member, returned by any means, would attend to the local business in the House, in which any considerable portion of the inhabitants of the city took any in terest. It is an easy way for any member to earn, at a cheap rate, the good will of the citizens. But is this our notion of an English member of Parlia ment ? Is he only, in regard to the Imperial Par liament, what the deputies of the Metropolitan Par liament are to the Metropolis ? or, are we right in our ordinary supposition, that his most important function is to approve, or to disapprove, on the part of the majority of his constituents, of the Imperial policy of the Government of the day; including, of course, their Legislative policy P We presume our legislators have no doubt on this subject. They are proud to regard themselves, not as mere deputies for a locality, but as legis lators for the empire—as the supporters or the opponents of some public policy. But of what use for suc h a purpose are five hundred Glaucesters and Wake fields P If the foregoing remarks cannot be con troverted, and we do not see bow they can, boroughs lik e these are worse than useless. We cannot und erstand to vote on political what title these members have subjects at all. Th e i n telligent classes in th em who feel an interest in public affairs can have no kind of certainty that they shall not be misrepresented. Indeed, we almost wonder that they should care to have mem b ers a t all, it being so certain that they may be anything but representatives. Hence, we really d o not see that it is Any great hardship on the immaculate portion of the electors that they should remain dis franchised by the non-issue of a writ. If it does issue, it is a mere toss up whether they shall not be disfranchised by the sovereigns of some Alderman CARDEN, of some BERKELEY, or PRICE. All that can be said is, that they have a chance of represen tation, but they have an equal chance of just the reverse. But what -means the total absence from Mr. BERKELEY'S speech, as well as from his motion, of all allusion to his justly favourite remedy for the old state of things at Gloucester ? We wonder our contemporary, who is so hostile to protected voting everywhere and at all times, did not pro pose a medal of merit to Mr. BERKELEY for silence on the Ballot. Perhaps the hon. member for Bristol thought a motion that the writ should issue, accompanied with a proviso, that a short bill should be first passed to take the election by ballot, might be fatal to the writ issuing at all. Possibly it might. But if we are right the old city would sustain no material injury; certainly none which it does not richly deserve. Such an old offender deserves something more than two years' suspension of its Parliamentary certificate. Is it to go for nothing too, that it sends a member to the House of Lords ? Although, it is a rather curious coincidence, that episcopally represented cities are generally amongst the most politically corrupt, and need the Ballot more than any other. It is, indeed, wonderful, that with no cathedral in it, Wakefield can make itself such a worthy pair with Gloucester. We acknowledge that the Ballot would have had but a poor trial in either of the two constituencies just released from political penance ; yet, so con fident are we of its merits that we should have been content to risk all the disadvantages for the sake of even an unfair trial. We have a pretty clear oon viction, that even in these hitherto incurable con stituencies, it would work marvels. Head-money is more easily talked of than worked. The danger of betrayal, and the comparative ease of detection, when a majority must be bought wholesale, are too great to be lightly run. The possibility of a Commission of Inquiry is the same under one system as under the other, the hazard of perjury as great; while the uncertainty of the bidder gaining any advantage, by what ought to be made highly criminal, would paralyse his exertions. As to the purchase of single votes, that is, under the Ballot, out of the question. Purchasers are not wont to throw away their money at such as uncertainty respecting a quid pro quo. We certainly think that Mr. BERKELEY was bound, for his own credit's sake, while descanting so humorously on the electoral history of Gloucester, to contrast what it had been with what it might be under laws which place in the way of bribery the only obstruction for which it seriously cares. BERKELEY on electoral corruption, with out a word on the Ballot, was, to use the hacknied illustration, " Hamlet" with the part of HAMLET omitted. If the writ was to be moved for in this fashion, better for the consistency of the member for Bristol that he should have put the motion into the hands of some of the steady-going patrons of bills to evade the ballot; and to prevent, not as th©y pretend, electoral corruption, but to prevent adoption of the only known prevention. Of one thing we are perfectly sure, that the House of Commons would have but one reason for refus ing to try the ballot in these two boroughs—that it would work too well—so well as to compel its uni versal adoption. We often hear sanctimonious bewailings of the effect of the ballot on the veracity of eleetors— they would make promises and break them—they would give votes and deny them. We should be sorry to believe this, but we should lay the chief blame on the political highwaymen who intimi dated honest men in to being guilty of falsehood, to avoid injuring themselves in the latter case, or their country, in the former. It seems, however, that lying, and even perjury, by wholesale, are certainly fruits of the present system. Mr. BERKELEY'S pic ture of the election proceedings atG loucester was con fessed to be correct. What then shall we say to this ? —it relates to the petition against Sir R. CARDEN : The petition was heard before a committee of the house, and a number of the working classes came forward and swore directly to the acts of bribery by the agents of CARDEN. Some of the trading classes swore exactly the contrary. It was a case of fustian jacket against broad cloth. Broad cloth won the day, and it was with great difficulty that the committee was prevented returning the petition as frivolous and vexatious. The agents of CARDEN returned to Gloucester very much glorified, and the adherents of the petitioners returned very much disgraced and exasperated. When the committee sat it was proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the parties who had been examined had told the truth, and that the class above them had sworn that which was un true. Yet those who hate the ballot support the system so fertile in perjury ! We should like to know from Lord RUSSELL whether he thinks the ballot could work worse deceit than this. 'Yesterday our readers may have remarked in our columns another of those soul-stirring speeches, delivered from time to time in this free country of ours, upon the cruel wrongs inflicted upon his own outraged and all but annihilated nationality, by the illustrious General Count ZAMOYSKI. Now that Poland has unhappily lost, within the last few years, the powerful advocacy before all Europe — in London, of the late Lord DUDLEY STUART— in Paris, of the late Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI— the one cut off so prematurely and the other at so venerable and patriarchal an age, each by his death inflicting upon the cause with which his name had come to be absolutely identified a loss altogether irreparable—now that Lord DUD LEY and Prince ADAM have alike disap peared from the scene as the champions of the injured interests of Poland in the two foremost capitals of Christendom, we turn always with a profounder interest than ever to listen to every syllable that falls from the lips of the Count ZAMOYSKI upon that same "high argument." His is, beyond a doubt, the greatest name left to us, or ra ther to his oppressed compatriots, among the exiled Polish nobility. His heart is ever open to respond with sympathy to the impassioned yearnings for redress ever, more or less, audible among the scat tered patriots of Poland. His tongue is ever ready to give eloquent and pathetic utterance to their aspirations for brighter days, aspirations that mingle with their every prayer, and constitute no inconsiderable part of the religion of their lives. Let but the opportunity be offered during his life-time, as offered that opportunity will inevitably be to the Poles sooner or later— and tho sword of General Count ZAMOYSKI will again, we may rest absolutely assured, be as swift to leap from its scabbard and as keen to assault the arch foes of his fatherland, as ever his thoughts have started to utterance upon his lips, now that an appeal to the final arbitrament of war is yet impracticable, as ever during this protracted compula9ry peace and endurance for himself and his compatriots his poignant irony, winged with wit and barbed with scorn, has been directed against the mightiest of the oppressors of Poland. Never yet has Count ZAMOYSKI spoken more directly to the purpose than he did upon this last occasion of his public appearance upon a platform in England to raise his earnest and impetuous accents in that sacred and beloved cause his voice has so often and always so impressively advo- I cated. The meeting, as our report of the proceedings of yesterday has already shown, was one which took place in the Assembly Room of the Corn Exchange at Preston in Lancashire. The Mayor of Preston was himself to have presided over the assembly, but that functionary having been engaged by his re sponsible office as Foreman of the Grand Jury at the Assizes at Lancaster, upon the day pre viously announced for the Polish demonstra tion, the chair was ably filled in his Worship's stead by the Rev. the Vicar Canon PARR. The sacred profession of the Rev. Canon PARR, in fact, accord ing admirably well as it happened with the holy cause the assembly was gathered together in order to express sympathy with ! With admirable force and truth to the chivalrous recollections of modern history did the Rev. Chairman avow in the course of his openingremarks something to the effect, that he could never think of Poland, he could never utter the name of Poland, he could never look in vain for the name of Poland obliterated from the map of Europe, without remarking that the people of Poland at one of the most supreme crises in the history of Europe bad stood forth as the armed champions and defend3rs of the imperilled liberties of Christendom. As to Count ZAMOYSKI'S speech, a speech which consti tuted the glory of the whole of this Demonstration at Preston, it was as comprehensive and instructive as it was impassioned and enthralling. " Com menting," the report of the proceedings has already told us, "upon the petition to Parliament which had been in course of signature, and which was signed by nearly 1,000 persons, he said he had read it carefully through, and felt very much gratified at finding how very well informed those who drew it up were in the particularities of the past history and present condition of Poland, and its relative situation towards the rest of Europe." Afterwards, we read " Going through the paragraphs seriatim, he (Count ZAMOYSKI) delivered a concise history of Poland—its partitions, the intrigues in reference to it, the cruelties which had been practised upon its people, and the violations of treaties and arrange ments which became a dead letter." Earnestly, by the way, we do hope that this speech of Count ZAMOYSKI'S may, before the present Session of Parliament has much further advanced, be printed at length in a pamphlet form—a copy of which publication might be judiciously placed in the hands of every M.P. both on the side of the Government and on the side of the Opposition. We throw out the suggestion to the Polish Society with an eager hope that the hint may be acted upon be times. For we cannot imagine to ourselves anything that could more directly forward the in terests of the glorious cause the Society has so well at heart, at this exceptional crisis in the history of the still living though mutilated and half-buried Polish nationality. With what force did not Count ZAMOYSKI in the midst of his oration at Preston upon the wrongs of Poland quote those memorable words of our now Premier, Viscount PALMERSTON: " Not only had the partition of Poland been the great crime of the age, but since 1815 the three partitioning Powers (Russia, Austria, and Prussia) had been guilty of a series of shameful violations of the treaty !" Hence in effect the renowned out burst of 1830, when Poland was in arms, and when amongst the foremost of her heroic chiefs was General Count ZAMOYSKI himself, Another, and with GOD'S blessing it may be a more eminently-successful outbreak than the last, appears at this present juncture very imminent, indeed, if it be not already visibly inevitable. The tocsin is even now inaudibly ringing at Warsaw. The inconsistent policy of the Czar ALEXANDER 11. seems to render altogether unavoidable the descent upon his western frontiers of that long-delayed retribution which so many wise and cautious statesmen have forseen more or less clearly ever since the execrable triple partition. Among the many Enigmas that have sat upon the throne of All the Russias in the persons of successive Autocrats one of the most inscrutable is assuredly the present suc cessor of PETER the GREAT—that bewildering ALEXANDER 11., who, while emancipating the serfs with an air of magnificent magnanimity, is at the same time dealing eat with a lavish hand a series of infernal cruelties upon the unoffend ing Poles at Warsaw and elsewhere. Atrocities so hideous, so persistent, and so flagrantly unprovoked can never, we may rest assured, pass unpunished. As certainly as Russia and her successive Autocrats have acted with inhuman barbarity to Poland and the Poles, so certainly the day of vengeance will arrive when Russia will bite the dust at the feet of Poland _Redivivus ! The Duke and Duchess of Rozburghe and Lady Charlotte Innes Ker have returned to the Clarendon Hotel, from Brighton. The Duke of Rutland is entertaining a select party at Belvoir Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have arrived at their residence in Stratton. street, from Ireland. The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., leaves Melton Mowbray to-day, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle. The Earl and Countess of Belmore arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, from the Continent, on Wednesday, and left for town the following day. The Earl of Roden has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. The Earl and Conntess of Tankerville have ar rived at Claridge's Hotel from Heron Court, Christchurch. The Earl of Mornington arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday. Viscount Bangor has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Brighton. The Bishop of London entertained at dinner, at London House, St. James's-square, on Wednesday evening last, the President, Deans, Assistants, Librarian, and Fel lows of Sion College ; the Rev. Dr. Magee, formerly of Quebec Chat el, Portman-square (now rector of Ennis killen) ; and a few leading persons being invited to meet them. Lord and Lady Lyveden arrived at their resi dence in Saville• row, a few days since, from Farming Wood, Northamptonshire, for the season. SUITORS' FUNDS.—The annual account - of the suitors' fund, suitors' fee fund, and a small reserve or gua rantee fund, has been laid before Parliament, and is cf in terest, because these funds form the chief source from which it has been proposed to build the new courts of jus tice between Lincoln's-inn and the Strand. Reliance has been placed upon the gradual diminution (to the extent of £2,000 a-year) of the compensation annuities originating in the Chancery reforms; but unfortunately the fund is liable to fresh charges for salaries, pensions, and compensations. The result is that in the year just closed these funds have had to meet demands amounting to £217,350, which is only £l,OOO less than the charges in the preceding year, though £ i,300 less than the year before that. The Chancery fees, which form a main part of the supplies, amounted to about £94,000, but they reached a rather higher amount in both the two previous years. THE YELVER - TON CASE.—On Wednesday Lord Ardmillan pronounced an interlocutor in reference to the pursuer's motion for adjournment in order to obtain the evidence of Richard Sl oane, a w i tness to the a ll ege d mar rilge at Rostrevor. Ills lordship, in respect that no minute bad been lodged for the pursuer, as appointed, and that the pursuer did not now insist on the charge made against the defender or his agents in putting Sloane out of reach as a w it n ess, and in resp ec t that the pursuer had not claimed at th e proper stage of the case any compulsitor of law to en force the attendance of Sloane, and closed her proof in chief without reserving right to examine him, refused the pursuer's motion for further adjournment, and, on the mo tion of defender, continued the case till Saturday, with a view to closing the case. TUE COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN ROBERTSON, 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS. —DUBLIN, Thursday.—The court assembled to-day. The defence of Captain Robertson was submitted to the court, and the preeeedings were adjourned. LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. (PER CITY OF WASHINGTON via QUEENSTOWN.) NEW YORK, FEB. 7, EVENING. Seven Federal gunboats, under the command of Commodore Foote, attacked Fort Henry, on Ten nessee River, on the 6th inst. After one hour and a quarter's severe firing from the gunboats, Fort Henry, with the Confederate General Tilgham and 60 prisoners, surrendered un conditionally. The fort contained 20 guns, and offered a strong resistance. The boiler of the Federal gunboat Essex ex ploded, killing 30 persons. The Federal land forces did not arrive until after the termination of the engagement. The Federal cavalry are reported to be in active pursuit of the retreating Confederate forces. Fort Donnellson is also about to be attacked by the Federals. Forts Henry and Donuellson are considered im portant points, as they guard the railroad con nection of Memphis and Columbus with Bowling green, and their capture would open the navigation of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. The Burnside expedition is anchored at Pamlico Sound, preparing for a forward movement. General Beauregard is at Nashville. It is rumoured at Fortress Monroe that a riot had occurred at Richmond, at which cries were raised for the Union. The Senate has passed the Bill appropriating 10,000,000 dols. for the construction of iron gun boats. The Senate has also passed a Bill autho rising an additional issue of 10,000,000 dols. of demand notes as a temporary relief until the Trea sury Note Bill can receive the consideration of the Senate. The House of Representatives has added an amendment to the Treasury Note Bill, making the payment of the interest on Government Bonds optional in coin or paper. The amendment is con demned by some New York journals, and its pas sage through the Senate is considered doubtful. The New York Times says that the Secretary of the Treasury has proposed to the banks to take from them their surplus demand notes upon ten days' notice, giving them in exchange certificate deposits bearing 5 per cent. interest. FEBRUARY 8, MORNING. The House of Representatives has passed the Treasury Note Bill with the legal tender clause by a large majority. The report sent by the Europa, that the legal tender clause had been rejected, was incorrect. The mistake occurred through a telegraphic error in an Associated Press despatch which was received just as the Europa was sailing. The New York Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution to the effect that no system of taxation bringing less than 150,000,000 dols. annually is adequate to meet the exigencies of the Federal Government. It is supposed that General Price will await an attack at Springfield. The New York Times considers the admission of the Sumter at Gibraltar as h gross wrong to Ame rica, and says, "The rights of the Sumter under the proclamation of neutrality were void after the burning of the vessels she j!ad captured. No cap ture at sea is, according to international law, legal without the decision of a Prize Court. The Sumter was therefore a pirate." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, FEB. 7, 6 P.M. The passage of the Treasury Note Bill, and the favourable war news received yesterday, created great buoyancy in the Stock-market, and a general rise in securities. To-day stocks have continued very firm. New York Central closed at 83i ; Erie, 35. The 7 30 per cent. Treasury notes were offered at 99. Money easy. Exchange extremely firm, at 1141 to 115 for bankers' bills. Gold, 3. 1 prem. Illinois, 57k. Cotton dull; middling Upland, 30c. Flour tending downwards. Wheat rather firmer. Corn improving. Provisions quiet. (Per Anglo-Saxon, via Londonderry and Portland.) NEW YORK, FEB. 8. Burnside's expedition has sailed for Roanoke Island. Exchange continues very firm at 1141 to 115. Gold 4 per cent. prem. Money abundant. Stocks flat; New York Cen tral, 831 ; Erie, 341 ; Illinois, 57. Cotton dull; middling Upland, 30c. THE CAPTURE OF FORT HENRY. A victory had been achieved by the Federals on the Tennessee, resulting in the capture of Fort Henry. The following is the official despatch of General Halleck : ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, Feb, 7. The following is announced from Head-quarters : " Fort Henry is ours I The flag of the Union is re-esta blished on the soil of Tennessee. It will never be removed. " By command of Maj.-Gen. Halleck, 44 W. W. SMITH, Captain and Aide-de-Camp." The naval despatch is fuller : WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, Feb. 7. Secretary Welles has received the following despatch : " U. S. Flagship Cincinnati, off Fort Henry, Tennessee River, Feb. 6, 1862. " The gunboats under my command—the Essex, Com mander Porter; the Carondelet, Commander Walke; the Cincinnati, Commander Stembel ; the St. Louis, Lieut.- Commanding Paulding; the Conestago, Lieut.-Command ing Phelps; the Tyler, Lieut.-Commanding Gwinn ; and the Lexington, Lieut.-Commanding Shirk—after a severe and rapid fire of one hour and a quarter, have captured Fort Henry, and have taken General Lloyd Tilghman and his Staff, with 60 men, as prisoners. The surrender to the gunboats was unconditional, as we kept an open fire upon the enemy until their flag was struck. In half an hour after the surrender I handed the fort and prisoners over to General Grant, commanding the army, on his arrival at the fort in force. " The Essex had a shot in her boilers, after fighting most effectually for two-thirds of the action, and was obliged to drop down the river. I hear that several of her men were scalded to death, including the two pilots. She, with the other gunboats, officers, and men, fought with the greatest gallantry. " The Cincinnati received 31 shots, and had one killed and eight wounded, two severely. " The fort, with 20 guns and 17 mortars, was defended by Generel Tilghman with the most determined gallantry. " I have sent Lieutenant Commanding Phillips and three gunboats after the rebel gunboats. (Signed) " A. H. FOOTE, Flag Officer." There are some details from Cairo:— " CAIRO, ILL., FRIDAY, FEB. 7. " Fort Henry, on the Tennessee River, surrendered yes terday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, after a most deter mined resistance. The fight, which lasted one hour and 20 minutes, was conducted bythe gunboats Cincinnati, Essex, and St. Louis. The Cincinnati fired 125 rounds, and re ceived 34 shots from the rebel guns, but only one man was killed. The St. Louis fired 110 rounds, but received no damage. The Essex was disabled after firing 10 rounds by a ball striking her boiler. Thirty-two persons on board of her were scalded to death. Capt. Porter, her commander, was badly scalded, but not dangercusly so. Two rebel generals, one colonel, two captains, and 100 privates were taken prisoners. The fort mounted 17 guns. The land forces did not reach the scene of the action until two hours after the surrender of the fort. The Memphis and Ohio railway bridge, 15 miles above the fort, has been taken possession of by our troops." The Cincinnati. Gazette and Commercial have correspondences : " Yesterday, at half-past 12 p.m., the gunboats Cincin nati, St. Louis, Carondelet, and Essex, the Tyler, Cones tago, and Lexington bringing up the rear, advanced boldly against the rebel works, going to the right of Painter Creek Island, immediately above where, on the east shore of the river, stands the fortifications, and keeping out of range till at the head of the island, and within a mile of the enemy, passing the island in full view of the rebel guns. We steadily advanced, every man at quarters, every ear strained to catch the flag officer's signal gun for the commencement of the action. Our line of battle was on the left, the St. Louis next, the Carondelet next, the Cincinnati (for the time being the flagship, having on board Flag Officer Foote), and the next the Essex. We advanced in line, the Cincinnati a boat's length ahead, when, at 11.30, the Cincinnati opened the ball, and immediately the three accompanying boats followed suit. The enemy was not backward, and gave an admirable response, and the fight raged furiously for half an hour. We steadily ad vanced, receiving and returning the storm of shot and shell, when, getting within 300 yards of the enemy's w trks, we came to a stand, and poured into him right and left. In the meantime the Essex had been disabled, and drifted away from the scene of action, leaving the Cincinnati, Caroudelet, and St. Louis alone engaged. " At precisely 40 minutes past one the enemy struck his colours—and such cheering, such wild excit ernent, as seized the throats, arms, or caps of the 400 or 500 sailars of the gunboats can be imagined. After the surrender, which was, made to Flag-officer Foote by Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, who defended the fort in a most determined manner, we found that the rebel infantry encamped outside the fort, number. I ing 4,000 or 5,000, had cut and run, leaving the rebel ar tillery company in command of the fort. "The fort mounted 17 guns, most of them 32-pounders, one being a magnificent 10-inch columbiad. Our shots dis mounted two of their guns, driving the enemy into the em brasures. One of their rifled 32-pounders burst during the engagement, wounding some of their gunners. The rebels claimed to have but 11 effective guns worked by 54 men, the number all told of our prisoners. They lost five killed and 10 badly wounded. The infantry left everything in their flight. A vast deal of plunder has fallen into our hands, including a large and valuable quantity of Ordnance stores. " General Tilghman is disheartened. He thinks it one of the most damaging blows of the war. In surrendering to Flag-officer Foote, the rebel general remarked, ' I am glad to surrender to so gallant an officer.' Flag-officer Foote replied, you do perfectly right, sir, in surrendering, but you should have blown my boat out of the water before I would have surrendered to you.' " In the engagement the Cincinnati was in the lead, and, flying the Flag-officer's pennant, was the chief mark. Flag officer Foote and Captain Stemble crowded her defiantly into the teeth of the enemy's guns. She got 31 shots, some of them going completely through her. " The Essex was badly crippled when about half through the fight, and crowding steadily against the enemy. A ball went into her side-forward port, through the heavy bulk head and squarely through one of her boilers, the escaping steam scalding and killing several of the crew. _ _ " Captain Porter, his Aide, L. P. Britton, jun., and Pay master Lewis were standing in a direct line of the balls passing, Mr. Britton being in the centre of the group. A shot struck Mr. Britton on the top of his head, scattering his brains in every direction. The escaping steam went into the pilot-house, instantly killing Messrs. Ford and Bride, pilots. Many of the soldiers, at the rush of steam, jumped overboard, and were drowned. "The Cincinnati had one killed and six wounded. The Essex had six seamen and two officers killed, 17 men wounded, and five missing. There were no casualties on the St. Louis or Carendelet, though the shot and shell fell upon them like rain. " The St. Louis was commanded by Leonard Paulding, who stood upon the gunboat and wrought the guns to the last. Not a man flinched, and with cheer upon cheer sent the shot and shell among the enemy." • A letter from Paducah states that a party of the victors had started in pursuit : " Paducah, Kentucky, Friday, Jan, 7. .. _ " General Smith on the west, and General Grant on the east side of the Tennessee River, are pursuing the retreat ing rebels. It is reported and credited by some of our officers that the rebel troops at Fort. Henry were not true to the rebel cause, and took advantage of the opportunity offered by an attack to run away from a fight that was dis tasteful to them." The achievement has caused great exultation in Washington. Mr. Sedgwich caused the despatch from Flag officer Foote to Secretary Welles to be read to the House of Representatives, and it was received with great demonstrations of applause. The New York Times describes the fort and its strategic importance thus : " Fort Henry, situate in Tennessee, upon the Tennessee River, and a short distance from the northern boundary of the State, was constructed last summer by the rebels. It is an earthwork, and stands in the river bottom, about the high-water mark, just below a bend in the river, and at the head of a straight stretch of about two miles. It, therefore, commands the river for that distance down stream, and very little else. The land around it is a little higher than the fort, and a portion of it is covered with heavy timber. On the opposite side of the river are three hills commanding the fort completely. The armament of the fort, according to Commodore Foote's report, was 20 guns and 17 mortars. It consisted, we understand, of two 64-pounders, eight 32- pounders, 4 12-pounders, and the rest 6-pounders, most of them smooth bore. It was also supported by a battery of two guns, planted on the commanding,hills on the opposite side of the river, but of whose capture we have no record. A small creek, setting into the Tennessee just at the South of the fort, forming a pond or marsh. Across this a bridge or causeway has been constructed, giving communication by means of a military road recently cut directly back to Fort Donelson, at Dover, on the Cumberland river. From a point on this road, back of the pond, another road has been cut, leading around under the bluffs, back of the bottom land to the Pine Bluff landing, six miles below the fort. The chart of the Fort will furnish an idea of the position of the guns of the battery on the west side the Tennessee, and of the relation of Fort Henry to Fort Donelson, which, at latest accounts, was still unreduced. " Until lately, the garrison of the place was but one regi ment, the 10th Tennessee, 900 strong, and composed mostly of Irishmen; but, since the fort was menaced, reinforce ments of two Mississippi and one Louisiana regiments have been sent, and likely also some additional Ten nessee troops. The Memphis Appeal of the 12th January said that the rebel authorities had taken into consideration the criti cal condition of Fort Henry, and that vigorous and ener getic preparations had been made, by land and river, to meet our advance. The whole force was placed under com mand of General Lloyd Tilghman, of Kentucky, a graduate of West Point, and reported an able commander. He is now a prisoner in our hands, and this most important and strategical position is in possession of the United States troops. _ WASHINGTON, FEB- 4, 1862. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF GOVERNMENT BONDS. The following official notices were to-day promulgated by the Treasury Department : " Holders of the Bonds of the United States, payable three years from date, the coupons of semi-annual interest thereon being due on the 19th inst., are hereby notified that provision is made for the payment in coin of all such coupons, agreeably to their tenor, at the office of the As sistant-Treasurer of the United States, in the city of New York. All such coupons must be presented at the office, accompanied with schedules showing the number and amount of each coupon, together with the aggregate sum of each parcel, three full business days for examination and verification before payment. Notice is hereby given of the readiness of this Department to redeem the Treasury notes payable in one year from date, authorised by act of Con gress, approved December 23, 1857, and the Treasury notes payable in 60 days from date, authorised by an act of Con gress, approved March 2, 1861. The interest on the Trea sury notes of the above issue will cease on the 7th day of April next by the teams of those acts respectively." CALIFORNIA AND THE NATIONAL TAX. The Secretary of the Treasury received to-day tha fol lowing telegram from the Governor of California : " SACRAMENTO, Jan. 31, 1862. " I am instructed by a resolution of the Legislature of California to inform you that this State will assume, and pay into the treasury of the United States, the direct tax of 254,538 dole. apportioned to this State by act of Congress. " LELAND STANFORD, Governor of California." MEXICO. The Madrid journal La Epoca„of the 15th inst., publishes the following correspondence from Vera Cruz:— Vera Cruz, Jan. 14. The three nations have presented their several demands, each in a separate form. Those of Spain are-1, The nomination of a Mexican representative at the Court of her Catholic Majesty, charged to give suitable satisfaction for the insult offered to the nation by the expulsion of its ambassador since the assumption of the supreme Government in the capital of the Republic by the present President; 2, The immediate fulfilment of the Monelmente treaty ; 3, Indemnity for the losses caused to the Spaniards on several points, of which mention has been made, but which the person from whom we receive this news has not present to his memory. 4, indemnity to the amount of 40,000 piastres for the destruction of the Spanish frigate Concepcion. In case General Count de Reuss and the French Vice-Admiral Jurien de la Graviere absenting themselves from here, the English Commodore Dunlop is to remain in quality of governor-general in the name of the three nations; and M. Mendiena is to be placed under his orders as deputy governor. The period granted the Mexican Government to reply to the ultimatum is four days, from the mo ment of its delivery into the hands of the President by the commissioners of the commanders-in-chief of the allied troops; the commissioners, nevertheless, are empowered to grant a further delay of two days, if they deem it necessary. The following is the text of the proclamation ad dressed to the Mexican people : Mexicans,—The representatives of England, France, and Spain fulfil a sacred duty in making known to you their intentions on their arrival upon the territory of the - epublic. The faith of treaties violated by the various Governments which have succeeded one another amongst you, and the per sonal safety of our countrymen incessantly menaced, have made this expedition necessary and indispen sable. Those persons deceive you who make you be lieve that behind su c h j ust pretensions are concealed projects of conquest, restoration, and intervention in your politics and your administration. Three nations that loyally accepted and recognised your independence have a right to be regarded as ani mated by more noble, more elevated, and more gene roa:, sentiments then the wish to deceive you. The three nations we represent, whose first interest seems to be to obtain reparation tar the grievances done to them, are actuated by a higher motive, and one of a more general and more advantageous scope ; they come to offer a friendly hand to a people on whom Providence had lavished all his gifts, but whom they behold with sorrow wearing out their strength and exhausting their vitality under the violent impulsion of civil wars and perpetual con vulsions. This is the truth, and we who are charged to set it before you, will do so only with a view to make you labour for your own future which interests us, and not for the purpose of making war upon you. It is you, you exclusively, without any foreign intervention, whom it behoves to consti tute yourselves in a solid and durable manner. Your work will be a work of regeneration, which all those will applaud who shall have contributed to it, some by their opinions, others by their renown, and all in general by their good faith. The evil is serious, the remedy is urgent ; it is now or never that you may achieve your own welfare. Mexicans, hearken to the voice of the allies, an anchor of safety for you in the midst of the tempest by which you are encompassed ; trust entirely in their good faith and their generous intentions ; have no fear of restless and malevolent spirits ; your resolute and decided attitude will suffice to confound them during all the time that we shall be impassive witnesses of the grand spectacle of your regeneration guaranteed by order and liberty. Such, we are sure, is the light in which the matter will be seen by the supreme Government to which we address ourselves; such will be the views of the illustrious men of the country to whom we speak, and in which good patriots will be forced to agree; it is, that instead of having recourse to arms, it is best to give the lead to reason, which alone ought to triumph in the nineteenth century. Vera Cruz, January 10, 1862. (Signed) CHARLES LENNOX WYKE, HUGH DUNLOP, E. JURIEN DE LA GRA VIERE, DUBOIS DE SALIGNY, the COUNT DE REUSS. FRANCE. Vely Pacha has arrived in Paris from Madrid. BOURSE, Feb. 20.—The downward movement has been for the moment checked, the market has become more buoyant, and a fair amount of busi ness has been done at an improvement on the clos ing rates of the previous day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f. 25c. Railway Shares also firmer. The following are the last quotations : ~ 4t per per Cents lOO 10; Credit Foncier ....1410 —. Do. end month 100 20 ) Belgian 4t .. ". 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 30 Roman .., Bank Shares 3050 —lAustrian Credit Mobilier.... 752 50 , Spanish Thre es — Do. Account 755 ; Home Debt ...... 48 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1377 50 .. 1376 25 Northern .... New ditto 950 . . Lyons and Mediterranean 1080 . 1080 Geneva.. .. Southern 725 .. 726 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 164 c. ; money, 25f. 14c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 971 c. ANOTHER FEARFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. LOSS OF FIFTY LIVES. As briefly announced by telegram in our evening edition of yesterday, an awful explosion occurred on Wednesday, at about 12 o'clock, at the Cethin Coal Pit, Merthyr-Tydfil, by which 50 lives have been sacrificed. Cethin, or Gethin pit, the property of Mr. Crawshay, the extensive iron-master of Cyfartha, is the largest in the district, employing upwards of 200 men, and is about equi-distant between Mer thyr-Tydfil and Troedyrhiw. At noon on Wednesday, the over-looker at the pit's mouth had noticed that something unusual had occurred in the pit, which was soon followed by information that an explosion of gas had taken place. Means were at once adopted to render assistance and to ascertain the extent of the cala mity, which, unfortunately, has proved to be the most direful that ever happened in that valley. Up to yesterday morning 44 persons were brought up dead, and three alive, but so severely burnt that one has since expired, and the other two are not expected to survive. About half of the number were severely burnt, but the rest had not a hair singed, having been suffocated by the choke-damp. The explosion must have been most sudden, for five men were found as if at their dinner, and one of the number had actually a piece of bread in his mouth when brought up to the upper earth. Some had evidently received warning of the coming storm of fire, for one was found with his little dog under his arm—both dead—and he wa3 no doubt endeavouring to escape. The recognition scene was most agonising. The young wife kneeling in speechless anguish beside the corpse of him she so fondly loved ; the daughter, on beholding all that was mortal of s beloved father, setting up a wail that would arouse the sympathy of a misanthrope. At Troedyrhiw was seen, as if in placid sleep, the body of a young man who was the sole support if his aged mother. We witnessed her agony and heard her mournful cry as she uttered in the sono rous. vernacular of th e country, " My son, my son, would God I had died for thee." This poor bereaved woman was called upon to play the part of chief mourner —but not for the first time—she had acted that part before, for she was a widow. As to the arigin of the accident it is as yet a mystery, none have lived to tell the awful tale, and two more have to be brought out who are known ta have perished, and for whom active search is being made. The explosion took place in the four-feet seam, and those engaged in the three foot vein escaped unhurt, the seam branching off in a con trary direction to the one in which the casualty occurred. The scene of the catastrophe has been visited by thousands, and all day yesterday there were hundreds at the pit's mouth awaiting the re covery of the last two bodies. The gloom pervad ing the place is of the deepest; the countenances of the men, women, and even children, wear an aspect of woe. MERTHYR TYDFIL, THURSDAY ETENING. Forty-nine bodies have already been brought up. One is still missing. The cause of the accident is still a mystery. Intense excitement prevails. THE BUDGET,--it will be seen by our Parlia mentary report that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced his intention of submitting his financial state ment to the house before Easter, I which falls this year ort the 20th of April. THE REVISED CODE.—Mr. Walpole has given notice that on the 11th of March he shall move that on a day to be then named, the House of Commons resolve itself into a committee of the whole house to consider the best mode of distributing the Parliamentary grant for education now distributed by the Committee of Council on Education. He added that he would, upon going into such committee , introduce certain resolutions as amendments to the revised code. EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.—The Sheffield Equi' table and Industrial Co-operative Society carry on their business at the shop 127, Devonshire-street, and the rooni over the shop is used as the society's office. About nine o'clock on Tuesday night the finance committee of the society were met together in the office for the purpose of paying the town accounts, and were suddenly alarmed 11 the report of a pistol, the smashing of one of the panes of glass in the window, and the entrance of a bullet. Th e window blind was down at the time, but persons in the street could see the shadows of those in the room. Irtsid ° the window are a number of iron bars, as a security again st thieves, and in all probability their presence has been the means of preserving the life of the secretary of the above society. He was standing near the window when the sh ot was fired, and his shadow could be distinctly seen en the blind. 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