The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN'. CONFEDERACY. (From the times' Special Correspondent.) RICHMOND, Nov. 21. POSTAL UNCERTAINTY. Circumstances have come to my knowledge which make it almost certain that my letter from Win chester, dated Oct. 15, has been intercepted, and has never reached its destination. At the risk of wearying the reader with the repetition of a narra tive relating to incidents now so remote in point of time, I will endeavour to re-write such portions of that letter as may, even now, be not devoid of in terest. My two companions and I started from Richmond on October 7 for Staunton, a pretty little town situated in what is called the Valley of Virginia, which comprises the table-land between the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains. Staunton is the nearest point upon the Virginia Central Rail road to Winchester, in the immediate neighb )ur hood of which town General Lee's whole army was at that moment lying. Staunton is divided from Winchester by 92 miles of road, which, luckily for us, proved to be one of the finest rea cadamized highways I have ever seen in America. We expected to have been compelled to traverse these 92 miles on foot, but by the courtesy of the Quartermaster• General at Staunton an ambulance was placed at our disposal, in which we started from Staunton on the Bth of October, and found that no slight patience was requisite before we could hope to come to our journey's end. The days were intensely and oppressively hot; the nights (as is usual throughout all the States of the old Union down to the Southern boundary of Virginia in the month of October) were cold and numbing with heavy dews. We had no alternative but to camp out with the other partners of our march, and the advantage, which is universal throughout Virginia, of being able to get abundance of wood, enabled us to establish roaring fires, and to sleep, lightly fur nished as we were with wraps and blankets, in comfortlble warmth. The third night, which was beyond expression tempestuous and wet, we suc ceeded, after desperate efforts, in getting under a roof, and in escaping from our ambulance, which was leaking through the top like a sieve. But the first two nights gave us some idea of camp life, such as it is in the Confederate States, and it may at once be noticed that there are two circumstances which make the whole of Virginia a magnificent campaign ing country—the first is the inexhaustible abund ance of firewood ; the second the frequency of the finest springs and runlets of water. For at least nine months out of the twelve a campaigner's life in Virginia is pleasanter and healthier than any other life that could be led, and the testimony of hundreds of sickly, puny boys, who never had a day's health before this war began, and who have now gone through a year and a half of its trials and have hardened into sinewy, vigorous men, might be quoted in evidence of the healthiness of an open air life in Virginia. THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. As we advanced the road was thickly crowded by the refluent tide of sick and furloughed soldiers. Such gaunt, wan, bony, famished skeletons, many of them shoeless and hatless, almost all in rags, the flame of life burnt down to the socket, and eyes deep-sunken and lustreless, the hair matted and tangled like a wild beast's, it had never been my fortune to encounter before on earth. It is true that I have seen waifs and strays from the Federal armies in the North who matched in emaciation and misery the worst of the Southern sufferers; but the Federal soldiers were well clothed and well shod, and had rarely many miles to walk in their debilitated con dition ; but, suffering and reduced as most of these poor fellows were, never did I hear one faint-hearted or timid word in reference to the war escape from their lips. Everywhere there was the most frenzied abhorrence of the Yankee. There are persons in England who preach that it is every man's duty, and especially the duty of writers in the press, to endeavour to assuage the bitterness of feeling now existing between the two incensed sections of the old Union, and to mitigate the animosity which has blazed into so fierce and irresistible a flame. No man who has passed ten days in the Confederate States could fail to discover how hopeless would be such an attempt. For months past the Federals have carried on this war as though their opponents were to be crushed under the iron heel of a despotism which it was not worth while to conceal or mask behind any attempts at conciliation. Plundered houses, outraged women, stolen slaves, gutted cel lars, rifled libraries—these have been some of the chosen instruments by which the Federals have thought to draw back a dozen recalcitrant States into the meshes of a Union which is valueless unless representing a federation of harmonious units. Could any Englishman justify to his own conscience the attempt to make these Confederates look lov ingly and forgivingly upon their ruthless and tyran nical oppressors ? Could he say to the father, in presence of the dishonoured daughter, "Forget and forgive ?" It is not in such an atmosphere as this that such mean-spirited advice would be for a mo ment tolerated. CAMP LIFE. As night fell and the bright bivouac fires of our encampment sparkled like a string of rubies, it was interesting to watch the various incidents of camp life,- and te-b4canae_timiliaK, with ~the sights and sounds to wilielvandarime pp4ion ,the inhabi tant of:The"Confeilerater . Soles_ have;.long become habituatea, • acpaSiOnarlii: "fiom around some camp fire a prorlariconrk of the lour would break the silence or 11184-hti g hi;'ilina' soilie'such words as the following would strike upon the ear:— Ho I all ye sous of Freedom, Come join the Southern band ; We're going to fight the Yankees, And drive them from our land. Jeff. Davis is our President, With Stephens by his side, While Jackson leads our hosts afie'd, With Lee his steadfast guide. As the night deepened and sleep settled down upon the wearied campaigners the tremulous ripple of the stream became prominently audible, while at intervals the shrill ory of a,pight bird called the kildeer, interspersed with the piercing chirp of the locust, becoming each night fainter and feebler as the weather became colder and rawer, gave tokens of the existence of animals belated like ourselves. Rarely, from the dense neighbouring forest, the whoop of the large white owl struck like au un earthly scream upon the ear, reminding one of the many stories told of Western life in' the early days of Kentucky and Tennessee, when wild midnight onslaughts of Indians burst upon encampments of adventurous white settlers, the Indians guiding each other through the darkness by mimicking the scream of the screech-owl, with whose cry the woods a round, in every di rec ti o n seeme d t o b e voca l b e f ore I „" wily savag e b urs t u p on hi s unsuspec ti ng f oe . f 4ll t h° mor d ui ting approached, and the heavy dews 41 1 1 and thick, the least agreeable p a rt of a camp ltwea persons experrence had to be gleaned. Few h rice during the not camped out in North Arne tell what ablee 't 'e'onths of October and November can of day, shootingnnog the v " th presence of the glorious orb as hringi: g, w hi le eastern hills is regarded dampness are dissolveTists, and exhalations, and b efore his r ; y s . C o ld, rheu matism, chills, dejection instantaneously for gotten ; the camp is all life. f t : e e t h e wretched break fast seems, at least for gosbe inviting. The fall value of a bright, sparklin morning cast o nly be estimated beyovercast contrasting ih ,:3 l : l ll with the It was misery of a dark and our fate to try them both during our shoratyt:r Staunton to Winchester; the contrast it farisilf'aeni possess ade quately any power of language that I quately to paint. T.FIN TOWN OF WINCHESTER.! On the morning of the fourth day we made the little town of Winchester, in ordinary times, before the war, a cheerful, prosperous, agricultural town, now filthy and begrimed by the pesssge through it of more than 100,000 Confederate soldiers, not to mention the Federal forces, which have frequently for mouths together occupied the town. After the recent battles, which resulted in the headlong over throw of General Pope's forces before Washington at the end of August, Winchester was held by a Federal Gerte - ral named White. Upon hearing of the Federal disasters he hastened to evacuate the town, blowing up a large magazine on its out eldrts, by the explosion of which he shook the little town to ifs foundations and applying the torch to a large quantity of commissariat stores, the bare, roofless walls of which give evidence to this day of the destroyer's presence. The town itself '_s as bitterly Secessionist as any pot in the Confederate States. Here once stood he home of Mr. Mason, for many months past the Southern Commissioner in England. The house was an un pretending country residence just on the outside of the town of Winchester, but the grounds were filled with beautiful trees, conspicuous among which was a picturesque row of sycamores, some fine locust trees, and a curious mulberry. It is hardly necessary to say that the house and grounds have not escaped the ruthless visitings of the in vaders of Virginia. The house is roofless, the doors and windows torn out, the rats running about over heaps of rubbish, the kitchen and out houses, which, according to the ordinary Southern fashion, were detached from the dwellinghouse, levelled to the ground. It is said that Mr. Seward, visiting the grouse and grounds after they had un dergone the manipulations of bis soldiers, brutally exclaimed that he wondered that the rebel senator did not keep his grounds better. If anything can console Mr. Mason for the desecration of his favou rite home, he will find it in the obvious affection and respect entertained for him among his neighbours. If the reader will take a large map of Virginia he will find a small stream running a little to the east of Winchester in a northerly direction until it joins the Potomac River rather to the west of Shephards town. It is called Opequan Creek (pronounced Opeccan), and along this little stream, between Winchester and Martinsburg, the whole of General Lee's army was encamped for many weeks after its retreat across the Potomac from Maryland, which followed the battle of Sharpsburg, fought on the 17th of September. The extreme left was as usual held by General Jackson's corps, who was during most of the time established at a little place called Bunker.hill, about 13 miles from Winchester. Gen. J. E. B_ Stuart with his cavalry was in the extreme advance, rather nearer to Shephardstown, at a Vir ginian country house named the Bower, which I have described in another letter, distant about 20 miles from Winchester. Gen. Longstreet, with his powerful corps d'armee, made up of most efficient fighting men, were posted about five miles from Winchester. About a mile from Gen. Longstreet, in about as inconvenient and uninviting a spot as could well be found, were pitched the few unpre tending tents which constituted the head-quarters of the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Robert E. Lee. It is difficult for the traveller who, after infinite difficulty, wins his toilworn way into the presence of men whom events have made so famous as Gen. Lee and Gen. Stonewall Jackson to resist the ine vitable tendency of human nature which prompts him to idealise and set upon a pedestal the plain, unpretending men whom he sees before him. It is true that he cannot be long in Gen. Lee's presence without discovering a plain, unaffected simplicity which would lead him to dread a newspaper pane gyric more than a wound, and inspires him with the most obvious horror of being described. Gen. Lee must pardon me if, through my agency, the veil which shrouds him from the European public is for a moment lifted. It is inevitable that he should be called on to pay the penalty which in all ages of the world great and good and modest men , have never been able to escape. GENERAL LEE. General Lee is, I believe, between 50 and 60 years of age, but wears his years well, and strikes you as the incarnation of health and endurance, as he rears his erect soldierlike form from his seat by the fireside to greet courteously the stranger. His manner is calm and stately, his presence impressive and imposing, his dark brown eyes remarkably direct and honest as they meet you fully and firmly, and inspire plenary confidence. The shape and type of the head a little resemble Garibaldi's, but the features are those of a much handsomer man. On the rare occasions when he smiles, and on the still rarer occasions when he laughs heartily, dis closing a fine unbroken row of white, firm•set teeth, the confidence and sympathy which he inspires are irresistible. A child thrown among a knot of stran gers would be inevitably drawn to General Lee first in the company, and would run to claim his pro tection. The voice is fine and deep, but slightly mo notonous in its tone. Altogether, the most winning attribute of the General is his unaffected childlike guilelessness. It is very rare that a man of his age, conversant with important events, "nd thrown to the surface of mighty convulsions, retains the im press of a simple, ingenuous nature to so eminent a degree. It is impossible to converse with him for ten minutes without perceiving how deeply he has meditated upon all the possible eventualities of the campaign in Virginia, and how sound and well-considered are the positions which he ad vances. It is obvious that the most entire and trust ing confidence is placed in Gen. Lee by his subor dinate officers, whose respect and affection he seems thoroughly to have won. The General is still crippled in his hands from the effects of a fall which he sustained so long ago as the 30th of August. At dawn of that day he rode across the historical stream of Bull Run, and, observing a patch of herbage, he dismounted and allowed his horse to graze, recollecting that the animal had carried him the whole preceding day almost without food. The General himself sat down on a stump. There were only a few cavalry pickets of Confederates between Gen. Lee and the enemy. Suddenly a charge of a large body of Yankee cavalry drove in the Confederate pickets, and came close up to the spot where Gen: Lee was. The General ran forward to catch his horse, and, grasping at the rein as his horse sidled off, he fell heavily forward entangled in his cloak, upon both hands, and jarred the nerves of the arms right, up to the shoulders. His horse was caught by one of his staff, and the Yankee cavalry, not knowing what a valuable prim was close at hand, fell back without approaching more nearly. The General rode throughout the whole of that eventful day, the 31st of August, but for many days and nights he suffered agonising pain; and even now, on the 21st of November, he is far from having wholly recovered the full use of his hands, though not for one day or hour has he permitted himself to be at , - sent from duty. A similar abnegation of self is visible in every thought and act of General Lee. "If only I am permitted to finish the work I have on hand, I would be content to live on bread and beef for the rest of my life." " Occasienally we have only beef, occasionally only bread ; but if we have both to gether, and salt is added to them, we think our selves Sybarites." " Upon this occasion it was ne cessary to stop and procure food for some of the younger men." These are some of the characte ristic utterances which struck me as they came from General Lee's lips. In reference to the last, it would seem as though the ordinary demands of human appetite were in him subordinated and sub jected in presence of the imperious exactions re quired from his brain. In all the varied attributes which go to make up the commander-in-chief of a great army, it is certain that General Lee has no superior in the Confederacy, and it may fairly be doubted whether he has an equel. General Lee has three sons in the army—the one a General, under General J. E. B. Stuart; the se cond a Colonel; the third, a lad of 18, who is a private attached to one of the batteries of General Jackson's corps. In reference to the last, Gen. Lee told me a story which seemed to me, for the first and only time during many conversations, to have elicited from the narrator faint traces of emotion. u Most ce r t a i n ly it was difficult to listen to the story without one's self experiencin g s uc h emo ti on . I t pear s th at at the most cr i t i cal moment of the Battl e nefvSharpsburg, when General Lee was order ing p every o f a b r t al artillery h se parressing on th e cen t re , h e o b serve d a in the day, andvvhieh h a d b een engage d ear li er been L:immediately or d ere d she roughly h an dl e d b y the Federals. G eneral-Lc dto the f ron t, com i ng close to the spot wh ere postilio n on Lee gun to the fro n t. As it was standing, he recognised in the leading horses his young son, Themounted on th e boy turned and smiled brightly on his father, exo a l ining, `S I s ee that you are sending us in n coin?, it ` is o I pleasure to add that, although slightly .9„„,,,,a.„1. the boy lived to come safely out of the terrible en gagement. GENERAL " STONEWALL" JACKSON. THE FINANCIAL STATE OF FRANCE. At a distance of seven miles from General Lee's head quarters, near the little village of Bunker hill, were the head-quarters of the hero of heroes of this struggle, General " Stonewall" Jackson. We had been taught to expect a morose, reserved, distant reception; we found the most genial, cour teous, and forthcoming of companions. A bright, piercing, blue eye, a slightly aquiline nose, a thin, tall, sinewy frame, "made all over of pinwire," a great disregard of dress and appearance—these are the characteristics of General Jackson's exterior. There is also about him a very direct and honest look. The disappointing circumstance is, that his voice, which is rapid in its utterance, is weak and unim pressive. Passionately attached to the Valley of Vir ginia, which has for so long been the principal scene of his achievements, idolised by the inhabitants of Winchester and of the Valley, Gen. Jackson has acquired such a fame in that entire neighbourhood that it is sad to think what would happen if the one life round which such prestige clings should yield to a stray bullet or to the chance of disease. Sinewy and wiry as the General seems, it is impossible not to fancy that he is wearing himself terribly by his restless, sleepless activity, by his midnight marches, and by the asceticism of his lire. The respect and consciousness of his presence, and what that presence means, exhibited by h:s staff, impressed me very strongly, and seemed to exceed the respect exhibited towards Gen. Lee. He spoke a few hearty words of admiration of Gen. Lee, saying that he never should wish to serve under an abler commander. But his heartiest and most enthusiastic utterances were in admiration of the Cathedral edifices of Eng land, and notably of York Minster. He dwelt with great animation upon the vibration of the air pro duced by the deep notes of the organ in York Minster, and which he bad never heard equalled elsewhere. it is rare to find in a Presbyterian such appreciation and admiration of Cathedral magnifi cence. The following is a full translation of M. Fould's Report of the financial condition of the French Empire, the substance of which has already appeared in our columns : " REPORT TO THE EMPEROR. " Sire,—The Council of State is actually termi nating the examination of the ordinary budget of 1864. The ' extraordinary' Estimates of the same budget will be shortly submitted to it, so that the Legislative Body may be enabled early in the Ses sion to study the financial questions. My depart ment completes summing up the elements of the projects de loi (Bills) which are to furnish the sup plementary credits not provided for the year which just expires. I therefore think that the moment has arrived for completing the observations which I had the honour to submit to the Emperor three months ego. I will endeavour to give a brief summary of the ensemble of our financial condition. I shall fol low the sime order in which the financial facts will be brought forward, and shall examine succes sively : "The probable results of the budget of 1862 ; " The previsions for the budget of 1863 ; " The bases of the ordinary and extraordinary budgets for 1864. "I. " The report that I had the honour of submitting to your Majesty on the 6th of last October expressed the hope teat in the budget of 1862 the receipts would balance the expenditure, in spite of the heavy charges which resulted from the credits opened be fore the adoption of the Senatus-Consultum of the 21st of December, 1861, and in spite of the expenses of the Mexican expedition. I t was not possible at that time to estimate with sufficient precision the total to which those expenses for the entire year 1862 would amount. lam now able to give a state ment of that total. "The credit carried to the amended budget of 1862 for the Mexican expedition and the supple mentary credits accorded by a special law, passed before the separation of the Corps Legisli tit', amount together to 59,000,000 f. The Minister of War thinks that he will have to ask the Legislative Bedy for a fresh sum of 6,000,000 f. for his department. The Minister of Marine estimates at 16,000,000 f. tee supplement he requires. This increase i❑ the expo lases of 24,000,000 f. will raise to 83,000,000 f. the total expenses of the Mexican expedition dur ing the year 1862 ; to this will be added a credit of 11,000,000 f. that my department will have to ask for to provide for the premiums paid upon the exportation of sugar; these two sums (together 35,000,0001.) appear to represent the total defi ciency of the receipts for the budget of 1862. The previsional statement that I shall have the honour of submitting to your Majesty as soon as the final results of the year are known will justify this cal culation. There are such endless stories about Gen. Jack son that to repeat them would fill a volume. Stories of his being wrapt in prayer in the midst of a fierce engagement—stories of the unaffected earnestness and piety of his life in tent, and of his black ser vant saying that when his master, who invariably prays morning and evening, rises also in the middle of the night to pray, he knows that peat and criti cal events are imminent. A most undemonstrative, reticent man, doubtless, in all that regards his voca tion of a soldier. There is every reason to think that, when the war is over, Gen. Jackson will be the very first man to bury himself in the deepest obscurity of private life. Throughout this war it has been the practice of Gen. Jackson to throw him self, disregarding his own inferiority of numbers, upon large bodies of his enemy, and the day is ordi narily half-won by the suddenness and desperation of the attack. His usual policy then is to retire, upon which the correspondents of the Northern journals, who upon the day of Gen. Jackson's on slaught, have been half-frightened out of their lives, announce with their usual fanfares a great Federal victory, and joy and exultation are uni versal. In a few days, however, when the Federals have reached some spot where it suits General Jackson to attack them, he pounces upon theca again, and frequently the very fame of his second approach drives his opponents to a precipitate re treat without fighting, if the ground admits of such a possibility. The upshot of nearly a year and a half of General Jackson's conduct of the war, fre quently at the head of no more than a handful of men, is that no permanent foothold has been gained by the Federals in the Valley, and that, at will, General Jackson has run his opponents, sometimes including at once two or three Federal Generals of rank, out of the Valley. As there are many conflicting reports about the origin of the name " Stonewall," it may be interesting to repeat the true circumstances under which it was given. In the first battle of Manassas, on July 21, 1861, General Bee, of South Carolina (himself subse quently killed in the same action), observing his men flinching and wavering, called out to them to stand firm, exclaiming, "Look at Jackson's men ; they stand like a stone wall!" In his official report of the battle, Gen. Beauregard employed the same ea r. ession in connection with General Jackson's com mand, and the name has clung to General Jackson ever since. " The Minister of War has been able to provide by temporary arrangements for the most urgent un foreseen expenses which fall upon his department. As regards the Naval Department, the extraordi nary expenses of which, incurred at 2,000 leagues from France, are paid by draughts on the Treasury, the vote of the Legislative Body will be given at the proper moment to grant the supplementary credit asked from it. This measure will be sub mitted to the Legislative Body early in the session, conformably to the rules and spirit of the Senatus Consultum of Dec. 21. " In fact if the expenses in Mexico have exceeded by nearly 24 ,000,u00f. the special resources which have been granted, it is scarcely necessary to ob serve, on the other hand, that your government found itself in presence of one of those eventuali ties foreseen by the legislator. The reporter of the Council of State, in his exposition of the motives of the Senatus Consultum, and the President of the Senate, in his report, both agreed in placing in the number of such eventualities circumstances impos sible to be foreseen, such as a sudden scourge, or events abroad, which would exact the immediate development of our naval and military forces.' As regards these unforeseen circumstances which do not correspond with any previsions of the budget,' the President of the Senate declared, without hesi tation, Under such circumstances government is only possible on the condition of providing for such wants by exceptional measures.' " The reporter of the Council of State even anti cipated the case where various circumstances, among which distance is reckoned, would not allow the exact amount of outlay incurred to be ascer tained except after a long interval. This is what has happened as regards the outlays which fall upon the navy with regard to Mexico. 'lt must not be overlooked,' said the reporter of the Council of State, that there are certain expenses the amount of which cannot be ascertained till they have to be settled, and the payment of which is made, not in the last months of the year in which they are incurred, but in the last months of the budget to which they belong. In this case and in this species of outlays the Legislative Body will take them into consideration as soon as it meets.' " The Session of the Legislative Body will open in a few days, and it will not refuse its sanction to the estimates that will be at once brought before it. An assembly animated by such patriotic sentiments will not challenge the right of the Government to have acted, under circumstances which no one could have foreseen, and which admitted of no delay. The honour of our flag, engaged in a distant land, the safety of the brave soldiers who, at 2,000 leagues from France, uphold the glory of our arms, made it the duty of the Government to act without one moment's delay. The reso urces a t h an d an d t h e proximate opening of the Session rendered needless an extraordinary convocation of. the Legislative Body. "The present year will thus have to put to the most rigorous and most decisive proof the new finan cial regulations established by the Senatus Consul tum of the 21st of December, 1861. It is now de monstrated that the abandonment of the preroga tive of opening credits by decree has not deprived the Government of independent means of action, and that those stronger guarantees with which your AL,jesty has thought fit to surround the pub lic finances, even at the cost of one of your Majesty's prerogatives, has not in any way prejudiced the progress of public affairs. Everything combined to render the experience as complete as possible. This first year that might have been regarded as a period of transition, had to support, as I have above said, heavy charges created before the opening of the Senates Consult um. To this burden has been added a distant expedition, undertaken with the co opera tion of two powerful allies, and which we have been obliged to pursue alone. " While this expedition was suddenly assuming proportions which could not have been foreseen a few months before, the civil war which distracts America continued to a deplorable rebound in the suffering of several branches of our industry, which it was necessary to assist. In spite of this combi nation of unfavourable circumstances the transfers which have become necessary amount, for all the Ministerial departments, to only 14,000,000 f. Nearly all of these transfers have been effected by means of the savings realised, so that there will be no necessity to appeal to the Legislative Body. " Doubtless your Majesty will not deem these de tails and these figures unnecessary, showing, as they do, that the generous sacrifice your Majesty has made of a prerogative exercised by preceding Governments has in no way compromised the pro gress of affairs. It is equally necessary to point out the difference between the present position of things and that of last year at the same period. The supplementary and extraordinary credits which were added to the budget of 1861 amounted to 345,000,000 f., of which 261,000,000 f. had been opened by decrees. During the year 1862, on the Contrary, with the exception of the fonds de con cours, and the reports in respect of which the option given by the Senatus-Consultum has been made use of, no credit has been opened by decree ; the credits added by Legislative sanction to tho budget have been 196,000,0001., and a supplimentary credit of 3&,000,000L, which will be applied for in the Legislative Body, will be sufficient to sette the unexpected expenses of 1862, Mto the trans- THE SUN, `LONDON, TUESDAY EVENENG, DECEII3ER 30, 1862. fers necessitating an application for credits, they do no exceed 1,200,000 f. " I will now briefly ex :mine the budget of 1863. I That budget was voted with an excess of receipts of 8,300,000 f. It we assume that the product of the taxes and of the revenues will reach in 1863 the same total as in 1862, the estimated excess of the receipts will be exceeded by, at least, 60,000,000 f. It will be increased also by 5,000,000 f., which figured in the budget for the reimburse ment of the Bank, and which, by the term of the convention of the 21st June, 1857, cannot be demanded before the expiration of the privile..,e of that establishment—viz., in 50 years. Reckon ing, in addition, some other savings that may be effected in the interest on the floating debt, I have estimated an excess of receipts of 80,000,000 f. There is no presumption in supposing that the con stant progress of the public revenue, which for the last ten years has been about 38,000,000 f, a year, will not stop in 1863. Even though it should be only 30,000,000 f. for that year, the excess of re ceipts would not reach to much less thanllo,ooo,ooof, and would allow us to meet the expenses of the Mexican expediti;n in 1863, as well as the unfore seen expenses that might be required at home. Without wishing to anticipate the future, it may be conjectured that the Mexican expedition will not occasion in 1863 the grave expenses of trans• port and victualling which have weighed so heavily upon the budget of 1862. In fact, the expeditionary corps is now upon Mexican soil ; it is furnished with all requirements for a forward march ; and from the commencement it will find itself in a re gion where the provisioning will be easier and less onerous. Whatever the issue of this hope, the ex• eess of receipts, the source of which has just been indicated, justifies us, under any circumstances, in expecting that theequilibrium of the budget of 1863 will not be disturbed. " 111. "Allow me now to ask your Majesty's permis sion to explain upon what basis the ordinary and extraordinary budgets of 1864 have been established. " Your Majesty had expressed the desire that the ordinary budget of that year should be maintained, as far as possible, within the limits of the credits accorded for 1863. This budget will be presented with an excess of receipts exceeding 4,000,000 f. ; and, moreover, it will leave available a sum of 20,000,000 f. for the benefit of the extraordinary budget. This latter sum will be deducted from the liquidation allowance, which, carried entire to the expenses of the ordinary budget, will appear among the receipts of that budget with a reduction of 20,000,000 f. only. " As to the estimate of receipts, they have been calculated upon the principle which served as a basis for the estimates of 1863—viz., according to the known results of the last 12 months expired ; that is, from the Ist of December, 1861, to the Ist of De cember, 1862. This regulation, which the Corps Legislatif has approved in the most explicit manner, offers complete security. Everything justifies us in expecting, that, with the continuance of the order and of the internal tranquillity which we enjoy, the progress of the Treasury receipts will not diminish. At the end of 24 months—viz., at the end of 1864—this excess of the public revenue can not fail to represent a considerable total. " The most delicate part of my task has been to establish the extraordinary budget of 1864. I had reckoned, in aid of that budget, upon a portion, at least of the excess of the estimated receipts for 1863 ; that excess being required to meet the expenses of the Mexican expedition, prudence commands me to prepare other resources. " The demands of my colleagues were in the first place to have been confined within the limits of the extraordinary budget of 1863, which amounts to 121,000,000 f.; but that sum exceeding the estimated resources, your Majesty has reduced the extraordi nary budget of 1864 to the level of the sum avail able, that is to say, to 104,000,000 f The receipts of this total are composed as follows : "Payments by the Lyons and Orleans Railway Companies, 3,000,000 f.; for reserve of the liqui dation fund, 58,500,000 f.; liquidation allowance deducted from the ordinary budget, 20,000,000 f. ; payment by the city of Paris for land, 3,500,000 f. ; fourth annual payment of the Chinese indemnity, 7,000,000 f. ; sale of a part of the Bois des Dunes, 12,000,000 f.; total, 104,000,000 f. To obtain this last sum of 12,000,000 f., I propose to put up for sale in the course of 1863 4 a part of the resinous woods of the Duns, and to specially apply the proceeds of the sales to the extraordinary works of 1864. Tho plantations along the coast have created a con siderable source of wealth which is increasing. There is not less than 90,000 hectares of wood, of which 19,000 may be disposed of. In fact, one of the consequences of the American war has been to quintuple the price of resin. The landowners in the maritime departments eagerly ask for the sale of the resinous woods, as they are able to purchase them, and in their hands they would be more pro ductive than in those of the State. These sales, which would not confer the privilege of clearing, would in no way compromise any interest, and would be a real service to the trades in which resin is employed. c, iv. "The receipts of the extraordinary budget of 1864 will be, in spite of this resource, less by 17,000,000 f. than those of the extraordinary budget of 1863. I can only hope that this diminu tion will be merely temporary ; that the advantage ous disposal of the woods, the sale of which will be ordered, and the decrease of the reimbursement of the expenses of the Mexican expedition will allow us to restore to the extraordinary budget of 1864 all, or a part, of these 17,000,000 f. But it was indispensable to begin by conforming with the sanitary regulation established by the Senatus Consultum of the 21st of December, by which grants are measured by the resources really availab:e. By enjoining ua all to respect this rule, your Majesty insures goad order in the finances, and the stability of credit, while putting a stop to the continuation of deficiencies. " I have already made known to yoar Majesty, in my report of the 6th of October, that the total of the former deficiencies amounts to 848,000,000 f. With respect to those of 1861, which amount to 158,000,000 f., they are balanced by the result of the conversion, which has produced an equal sum. But for the extraordinary expenses which have weighed upon the current year, and the effects of which will continue to be felt during 1863, it would have been possible to return to a completely normal position at the commencement of 1864 ; this desirable result is only adjourned. Besides, the total of the fresh deficiency within the limits in which it is now em braced does not exceed the resources that can be furnished by the floating debt, without that debt exceeding the proportions it has several times at tained during the last six years. We may, then, dismiss all idea of the necessity of appealing to cre dit. It is an assurance that I repeat with con& deuce to your Majesty, and which will be welcomed with satisfaction by the country. "I remain, Sire, with respect, your Majesty's most humble and very obedient servant and faithful subject, " The Minister of Finance, "Paris, Dec. 27, 1862." " ACHILLE FOULD. THE MARSHALL HALL PHYSIOLOGICAL TEST FOR STRYCHNINE.—It is related of Dr. Marshall Hall, in his biography, that at one time the number of cri minal poisoning cases, and the conflicting evidence in re gard to the employment of strychnine in some of them, set him thinking on the subject. His long series of experi ments on the nervous system had rendered him well ac quainted with the action of strychnine upon the frog, and it occurred to him that the extreme susceptibility of this animal to the influence of strychnine would constitute it the most delicate test of its presence, thus substituting a physi ological for a ohemical test. Aided by Mr. Bullock, of Hanover-street, he performed a series of experiments, by which it was at last satisfactorily demonstrated that a young frog might be rendered tetanic by the 5,000 th part of a grain of strychnine I These experiments were communi cated by him in detail to the Lancet in 1856. This ingeni ous suggestion of our great English physiologist has re cently been acted upon at North Shields in the post mortem examination of Mrs. Gillespie. It is stated in the Times of Nov. 8 that a drop of an acidulated solution of the residue front the stomach and duodenum brought into contact with the skinef ayoung frog produced violent convulsions. Three or four alditional drops were applied, with intermissions, and it died at the expiration. of half an Dour,—Lancet. GENERAL LONOSTREET. It remains for me to say a few words respecting one other of the most valuable officers of the Confederacy —an eminently combative man—Gen. Longstreet. His frame is stout and heavy, his countenance flarid and cheery, and eminently English in appearance. In every position which he has occupied—first, as commanding a brigade; secondly, as command ing a division; thirdly, a corps d'arntee—he has grown in the affections of his men and in the confi dence of his commanding officers. As brave and imperturbable under fire as in his tent, remarkable for his promptitude in thinking correctly when in the greatest danger, his value to the Confederacy can hardly be over-estimated. A review of some 10,000 of his men took place when we were at Win chester. Among this body there were no shoeless or barefooted sufferers ; a finer or more spirited body of men has never been assembled together on the North American continent. In conclusion I can safely say that, although I saw much suf fering, great want of shoes, frequently very in adequate clothing among the men of General L , _e's army, I was astonished to observe how confident was the spirit pervading the entire body. No such army has ever yet been assembled to fight for the Confederacy. Any battle into which these men enter is half won when the first shot is fired. A.,ain and again they have joined issued under most unfavourable circumstances with their opponents, and have gained victories. It is not likely that the tide will be turned now that the Federals arc every day fighting with less and less appetite, and now that the experience of 18 months of war has given such confidence to the Confederates in themselves and in their commanding officers that the day of battle is surely and triumphantly looked on as ne cessarily the day of victory. THE SOHO MANUFACTORY.--The demolition of the celebrated Soho is determined upon to make room, we understand, for improvements in the neighbour hood. In a few weeks this renowned manufactory will be swept for ever from our view. It has had its day, and a good day too. Erected by Matthew Boulton, that enter• prising and talented supporter and encourager of arts, science, and mechanics, in 1762-63-64, it has gone on crowned with unparalleled success through all the storms and trials of the English trade for nearly a century. Here it was that Matthew Boulton gathered around him the talent, the skill, and ingenuity available in Europe. Here the great Watt brought his steam-engine to perfection. Ilere Rennie studied and worked, and also the cele brated sculptor Flagman, and Wyon. Egiaton, the glass stainer, who executed that beautiful altar-piece at our St. Paul's Church, was brought out by Mr. Boul ton, and to him was entrusted the secret invention of copying picture in oil. This secret died with Francis Egin ton. Nor must we forget Murdock, the ihventor of the first locomotive steam engine and the discoverer of the gas • light. It was at this stately pile, then lying embosomed in plantations, that this useful and beneficial invention of Murdock's was first publicly exhibited, in celebration of the peace of Amiens, and many of our oldest inhabitants may recollect this illumination, as well as one which exceeded it in grandeur in 1814. Here, too, that most beautiful and per fect machinery was invented, constructed and used for mak ing the various coinages in Europe. The Soho penny piece —the Boulton's penny--was success beyond expectation. Before its introduction many and many a peer fellow lost his life on the gallows for forging bad money. Matthew Boulton's new mint almost put a stop to the fearful scenes which were enacted after every assizes at Waswood- heath and at the cross-roads. Well might Dr. Darwin. in his work on botany, say, " If a civic crown was given in Rome for preserving the life of one citizen, Matthew Boulton should be crowned with garlands of oak." James Watt was introduced to Mathew Boulton, at Soho, by Dr. Small, in 1772, and in 1733 he entered into partnership with Boulton. They commenced the great revolution in distributing power by means of steam ; then the greeeeet of England's benefactors assembled at this venerable spot. There might be seen monthly, on the night of the full moon, in close conclave, the brightest stars of ingenuity, science, and art, discussing and proposing all the great theories and prac tical calculations which have brought England to what it is—Priestley (by the side of Benjamin Franklin some times), Dr. Small, Dr. Black, Mr. Edgworth, James Watt, Matthew Boulton, Mr. Kerr, Dr. Darwin, Mr. Baskervillo, Dr. Johnson, and others of the Lunar Society. This shrine of science, school of art, and temple of mechanics is now doomed, and in a few weeks' time all traces of the venerable 70 n r d e s v 'n u el ganeZill be swept. away; but its fame will live —,utontnynam Post SIGHTLESS. (From the Examiner.) Sight-seeing is now the word in every towns man's mouth, and as we write curtains are rising on the costly glitter of a crowd of pantomimes. A great feast is prepared for the eyes, yet there sit at our social table some who are sightless, and who have a claim to be remembered now because (through nobody's il:-doing, be it said at once), they happen to have been deprived of some of their bread for the convenience and pleasure of the town. At 127 Euston-road there is a little brush and basket and matmaker's shop, at which are sold the goods of all descriptions made by free blind workpeople of London. It is the shop of an " Association for the Welfare of the Blind," established and sustained in a great measure by the beneficent energies of a blind lady, the daughter of the Bishop of Chichester, and sup ported in part by a subscription list, in part by customers, A blind workman cannot possibly compete in speed of workmanship with one who sees, and for this reason alone the bind men's shop, if it is to feed the workers who supply it, cannot be absolutely self-supporting. But there is more done at the little house than mere shopkeeping. Everything that can be devised for the aid of the blind poor, not only by leading them out of enforced idleness into ways of honest indus try, but by circulation among them of books printed for use of the blind, by social gatherings, by friendly counsel, it is within the scheme of this Association to work out. An active superintendent, blind him self, is placed there, who gives his thought to the introduction of as many trades and forms of work as are within reach of blind labour. Some fifty varieties of industry, we believe, this gentleman has introduced, and these—mat, brush, and basket work being, of course, the chief—are taught to blind uninstructed men and women on the premises. So it is that, by the agency of this institution, blind men and women have been sought out and with drawn even from hopeless beggary upon the street, taught to work, and supplied with their share of public support to their industry. The shop in the Euston-road is in fact a sort of co-operative store, wisely and generously managed, of which the whole profit, with something added from a sub scription list to make up for the abatement made by physical infirmity in rate of work, goes to the worker. The advantage of what trade there is all the blind operatives share in fair proportion. When the trade fails all suffer. Now it happens that, for the great convenience of London in the construction of the new Under ground Railway, the traffic of the Euston-road has, during the last year, been seriously impeded, and for a long time this little shop of the blind workers, a fflicted, as in a different and much more terrible way Lancashire is, by conditions not of its own making, lost its trade to the very serious amount of twenty pounds a week. The mana gers of the association faced and struggled with the difficulty as they could, and they are indeed now endeavouring to form a West-end settlement. But the sightless labourers, whose power of earning their bread was thus under mined, are now actually being supported through the winter by a generous sacrifice of the capital of the Association, not in gifts, but in ad vances on the profits of the better days that may return next summer. If any of our Christmas sight seers should pay a visit to the little shop, they will be shown through the instruction room,the library, containing every book and appliance printed or manufactured in this country for blind readers and writers, and see much more of the good work that certainly ought not to thrive the less because we have the railroad the more. A return of customers, a few more annual subscriptions, above all, a little personal attention and interest where that can be spared, will very soon undo the hurt that has acci dentally been done to this honest, unostentatious, and hitherto successful institution for the aid of those who would account, in these Christmas holi days, no sight so precious as the simple power of seeing, on its way to their mouths, the bread that is now being lent to them. The Manufacture of Ice in India. (From the Bengal Hurkaru.) We published last year the official correspondence (which had been placed at the disposal of the press) between the Military Finance Department and the Government of India originating in a suggestion made by the former to intro duce the machine for making ice into this Presidency, with a view to supplying that luxury, or, in this country, ne cessary, to the European soldiers in barracks and in hospi tals, of better quality and in larger quantity, also with more regularity, than is obtainable by the plain process of manu facture in vogue in the Mofussil, and which process, being liable to be affected by the weather, was admittedly uncer tain. The correspondence, it may perhaps be in the recol lection of our readers, closed for the time with an order from Government to the Finance Department to institute inquiries as to the stations at which the machines, if im ported, could be turned to the best account, not only in the supply of ice to the European soldiery but to the community generally, European and native. The result of the inquiries made by the several authorities who were ad dressed in the matter by the finance department, having been submitted to Government, the latter has declared its willingness to import these machines, to be set up at Alla habad, Lucknow, and Mean Meer, these stations being considered to afford the fairest and best field for their use. If the trials at these places prove remunerative to Govern ment, as the department believes they will, then the ma chines are to be sot up at others also, should private indi viduals not be willing to do so themselves. The cost of the machine and the charges for importing it being heavy, the experiment is to be made first at Lucknow only, and an indent has been despatched to the home authorities for a No. 1 machine, which is capable of turning out four tons, or 8,9601b5., or 4,480 seers of ice daily. Ihe cost of the machine is estimated at £1,365, but as it is worked by steam, it will have attached a 10-horse power engine, with gearing complete, the boilers of the engine being adapted to burn firewood only, which is the only fuel pro curable at Lucknow. A supply of 15 cwt. of ether (which is used in the manufacture of the ice, the amount being equal to a year's consumption) and certain extra articles have also been indented for. These—that is the engine, ether, and extras—are estimated to cost £550. The entire cost, therefore, of the machine, its appendages and appur tenances, will be a little over £1,900. Ten per cent. on this amount is estimated to cover freight, insurance, and transport charge to Lucknow. It has been ascertained that the machine requires to be attended to by a prac tical mechanic, one who understands its peculiar con struction and working; and to prevent any breakdown in India from ignorance of these matters it has been suggested to the home authorities to place two men of the Sapper and Miner corps at the service of the inventors of the machine, who have expressed their readiness to instruct the men in the details of the machinery. On the article being put up in this country, these men will in struct others in the manner of its working. On arrival at Lucknow it will be placed under charge of Captain Cham berlain, superintendent of Thuggee. The daily cost of working it is estimated at 22,8. At this rate, and with the daily out-turn of ice as 8,9601b5., the rate of sale will be 6-2-9, or three seers per pice, thus placing ice within the means of the poorest who from sickness may need it. To utilise the experiment as far as possible, it is proposed to send ice during the seven hot months of the year, by relays of bearers, or by Government cattle, from Lucknow to Roy Bareilly and Seetapore (stations in the neighbour hood) for the use of the troops, and such of the commu nity at those places as wish for it. It is estimated, that after setting apart a fair proportion of daily out-turn for the consumption of the troops, full one-third will be avail able for the public. THE SHOE PINCHING.—The import duty of foreign white paper is 30 per cent., which under the pre oat rate of exchange is prohibitory. And it is only in consequence of this ditty that our own papermakers are able to take advantage of a scarcity of rags, and by combining together to force prices up to their present enormous rate. But for the duty publishers could resort to the foreign market, and by intt educing a new clement of competition keep prices here within reasonable bounds. Bat under the existing tariff such printing paper as we use could not be imported and sold here for less than 22 cents a pound ; our manufac turers, therefore, feel quite safe in fixing prices at or even above that figure. This bears not only upon newspaper publishers, but upon book publishers, consumers of writing paper, and everybody who uses paper of any kind. The Government itself will suffer losses to the amount of hun dreds of thousands of dollars in consequence of the present enormous price of paper of all kinds which they are com pelled to use. The tariff on paper meantime yields the Treasury no revenue, because it prohibits imports. It in flicts immense injury, therefore, up on th e great mass of theo an rea di ng co mmunity, while it d oes no good to anybody but papermakers, the few whom it a id s i n their exactions y upon th e public We hope Congress will give some at tention to this s large, matter as one of very great and pressing in terest. There is no sound or substantial reason why they should not at once repeal the import duty on paper, and thus give all consumers the benefit of access to the foreign Tn , olcPt —N ew York STATE OP TRADE. BIRMINGHAM.—The trade of the town has this yea' maintained a degree of steadiness, and, up n the whole, of_ activity, such as has not been experienced up to Christmas' for several years. The home trade will, it is mast likely, be quiet until the middle of next mo n th, when the fattens' travellers resume their journeys. In all the autumn trade' there has been a good average amount of business done:, The tinplate workers have not been quite so busy of later but for other descriptions of hollow ware the orders hay° kept up well. The various rolling mills have been at work full time ; the tube makers report business steady. ja the jewellery department there has been more business doing', and stocks are less than they were at the correspond in ; period of last year. The numerous robberies, accompanied by personal violence, which have taken place of late, have resulted in a great demand for "dirks," of which a la r g e number has recently been made here and sold as rapid l y' The orders are still also kept up for pocket breech-load ing revolvers for the London market. —Birmingham Journal. SHEFFlELD.—Christmas being generally observed - a ° holiday throughout the country, as well as on the conti nent, an almost entire cessation of business operations I ° the consequence. The only good which can be derive d from the Sheffield custom of permitting excessive over' work to be done in the week immediately before Chr ist ' mas is, that it allows manufacturers to clear off wa ll rapidly the orders on their books. We learn from comine r. vial travellers, who have just returned from the cotter; manufacturing districts, that the belief is gaining gra il° r that the worst is past, and a more satisfactory gate a' uffairs, at least to limited extent, may now be ° l 7 l petted. Sanguine hopes are entertained that we shall do a good business with the chief continental connote at the commencement of the forthcoming year. The sales of the retail shopkeepers in the town have this CbristrSa° not been equal to last year ; the principal decrease bell amongst the clothiers and woollen erapers. The ara° llll , paid in wages this Christmas, taking into account the P a Y t ments made on Saturday, is a little in excess of the aul° 4l/ paid last year.—Shellield Independent. OOUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—DEc. 27. best A rather limited attendance to-day, and prices of samples of wheat may be quoted is above last week's rate All other articles a slow trade, and last week's quotau° 0 unaltered. 360 Wheat, white. 46s 52s Beans, Mazagan ..3 48 .. 42s 48s middle & 5ma11.3 63 1 red 4s Barley Oats GLOUCESTER--DEc. 27. hie ll To-day there was a fair supply of English wheat, w . generally advanced is per qr on last week's rates. Forellag:t wheat brisker, although the prices remain the same 08 week. Barley, peas, beans, and oats were dull. CHELMSFORD—DEC. 26. for lhe trade in wheat to-day at our market was firm, 9 32- hor . good samples is per qr advance was obtained. Fin e . 0 01 ley rather dearer. In beans and peas very little bus' - doing. 400 Wheat, old white...37s 53s Yeas, Partridge.... 3 i , s 00 new ..37s 50s White ......39s 430 old red....42s 49s Boiling .. ....... 408 3SO new 38s 47s Dun ......3 08 ,A Barley .. 2s 35s Ditto new ..... • - - s 390 Chevalier 2Bs 38s Beans, Tick, old . . 3 48 ~...0 Grinding 22s 30s new. • - -s 400 Malt.... 6ls 67s Harrow Ticks .. 3 us ~.s Chevalier •.. 64s 69s new. • --5 589 Oats 20s 28s Mazagan ..... ..30s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—DEC. 27. Ode A moderate supply of grain at market, and the inactive, with prices generally in favour of sellers. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First.... 355 Od 18s Od I 18s Od Second .. 38s Od 25s Od 21s Od Third ....Ms Od —8 Od —s Od COAL MARKET. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the mark et ' 0. d. s. d. , Bell's Primrose l3 6 .. / 0 Buddle's West Hartley 14 6 Hetton Walls End. IS • . ..... i s _ Carway and Duffryn , South Hetton ......... ;,/ (_, Malting 22 0 Braddyll's Hetton ..... ii y . Do. Anthracite 20 0 r Russel's Hetton. .... .16 ; Eden Main l6 6 , Haswell ........ .15 6 Byass's Bebside West !James ............... 14 Hartley . .. 14 6 1 Law50n..... ..... ...16 5 Carr's Hartley 14 6 1 Wharnclifie ... . ..... 16 0 Lambert's West Hart- Belmont ........... .16 ~ ley l4 6 Framwellgate ...... •. 1 7 y, Cowpen Hartley ..14 6 iCassop ............... 1 / ; Tantield Moor Butes ..13 6 Hartlepool.. ....... ...19 6 Davison's West Hart- South H ar tl e pool.... ley ..14 6 K elloe ..... .. .. '.O . 17 u, North Pelton Gas 14 0 Heugh Hall ......... .17 1 , Walker Primrose 13 0 South Kelloe.. ..... .... 1 6 2 Craighead Steam 14 0 Thorpe .......... Ships at market, 152; sold, 110. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Auf•lralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. . • - i „,„ 12• via Marseilles . drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ....... Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. D ec. b. ./.. China, Penang, and Singapore, via S o uth a mpton. 11. via Marseilles .• • '4.3n ?• 4. Falkland Islands . • ..I, t ; . • „..o. Gibraltar, via Southampton ee. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, v i a S ou th am pton •D ~,„. via Marseilles • 10. India (Bombay), via Southampt on ..... •J ¢ n,4. . . . .. . . Jo via Marseilles 4 , . a, Portugal ........... jar ,, Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... J a m via Marseilles ....... 4' Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. • by U.S. packet..• % To '; fi. by Canadian packet' jo . DZ . W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ........ N . 10. 11 ' 9 Bahamas, via New York Mexico De°' 2 , .... ••• All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru) jpe°' California, and British Columbia.. .......... PULPIT ORATORY IN AMBRICA.—By the ..„16e te os ja.nrgribvaadl takenr'rom A pl m ac e e r a i t c e i w t appears york,to th ra a i t se a ; l r a o.n r e g etly e y r ioe r r - v, t e t g e f relief ß of distress in Lancashire. The Rev. fis rooklyn, speaking in favour of the object, said -'the for h labouring classes were with them in the strugg'jer liberty. He would just as soon let their own soldiers e;eo n the hospitals as their allies in the Old World. l' et v t fill up the ship which had been offered for the 01' 5 00 of provisions, fill her up to the decks, send aloft t-J3 f . g al° and stripes, and despatch her off in the very trac k ° th° m ac e c r u s r e s y e , d rig p h ir t a u t p e, in th th e L A iv la e b rp am oo a l: w L h e e t re th , em send s e r t2r.nE f int 01, ; 00 ti o ; Cr in t i ° o 000 were subscribed in a single week to he l l e p st D s a u v r7 s n? conspiracy. Send the ships up to the magnificent " 1 "„ - , c 'ir t° Liverpool, and then let her open her batteries and Letv"i tier play—not her batteries, but her " butteries. h t oe' open her " butteries," and discharge them into ele t T ii - goa r (Applause.) Then let her bombard the city vi4 l 7,rdei l : barrels. When the whole city had been thus bere'"hterd let it be sacked with sacks of corn. (Cheers and 19"-oJet He told them then, that, after they had done there Pc! generous, Christian, American act, if JGhn cesp e ' conquered, it was because there was no merit in gunnery. (Laughter.) 'llsi CieA e DVEßT l SEMENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and cfel„,o11- 11 1 3 . — Sufferers from rheumatism need not 2 e rdies. tilla r trial has been given to these restorative JO' Fomentation with warm water, and friction with woe" t valuable Ointment are the surest antagonists to r•L'e y i eld ism and gout. The inflammation of the joints soOlnton!, to this treatment. After rubbing in HollowaY' s a iPr and taking his Pills for a few days, the throbbing roes, heat, and swelling begin to subside, the fever decrde,iceP and the patient feels he can move without agont, , con' calmly without dislocating starts. Holloway's Pills to rs' tribute to dispel the rheumatic principle from the,l fraectuilrnitateofawnadruetOrengtll the the present and recov e erz ler su fi c e c xt es h s i f t u it l y ly upon the injured joint. Births. CUNLIFFE.—On the 27th inst., at W oodford, Mrs. Viva' Cunliffe, of a son. DAVISON.—On the 28th inst. the wife of J. 13„ De 1I Esq., 10, Queen's -gardens, 9 y d e -park, of a datigh`i 9 HONYWOOD.-011 the 27th inst. , a t Evington-plaoe, :ell Lady Honywood, of a eon, 'or HEAD.—On the 28th inst.; at 6, Park-road, Stoke Isresyl ton, Mrs. Henry Head, of a son. - ._ Marriages. re lit, of Sur Y Sr Captain the 27th inst., at Twickenham 0 1 7, 0 o f Captain Georg& Sim, R.E. (Bengal), ounges,t 8 ,'",00 to i' -- , 1 ,1e, Coombe -wood, rey, daughter of the late HenryYoung,f R ivers- - ' Twickenham. 3' Es(l-, 0 John Sim, Esq., arie li SYMONDS —BAILEY,—On the 27th inst. at at the P - i e i , calchurch Associate of King's College, London, to .0.1 1 , - ,,_ ol the . __ second daughter of the late 'Mr. Francis 13ai v. i Aldersgate-street, city. Deaths. , Cap t. ADAM.—On the 28th inst , Thcobe, re lict of the if" Robert Adam, aged 52. 4 DOI CLARK,—On the 27th inst., at ags o .-13 Bit t ark l SurreY2 Clark. lid , of HEADLAND,— On the 27th inst., Chapman ge„tuliell''3l3id" 23, Rochester-square, N.W., and Gutter-laneL'l-`- E.C., aged 45. -a- 07 D h r LAw,—On the 28th inst., at Bath, the Rev. A-Le i li t . - 6 ;kwer , rector of Little Downharn, Cambridgeshire, and vi ar of Standon, Herts, aged 82. Es` BAMPLIN.—On the 27th inst , at WaltharastoW,t clop tree f Mrs. Elizabeth Pamplin, .formerly of High -0 0 0 ham, aged 81. "17 , WALKER.—On the 27th inst., at his residenooler, 1',5(1 ., Quebec-street, Portman-square, Thomas Wall( aged 71. - --- - " -- ;cc' —- - 0 111" London :Printed and Publishe d by WILLIAM li-- ~ ee' pp t Y Orn of No. 112, Strand , Prin ter, at TUE SUN he Cep 112, Strand, in the Precinct o f the SavoY, ill t ' of Middlesex. Tuesday, December 30, 1862. T HE (Inc: each shall of his sub: Guarani eorapletioi 2600,00( dent ono The Rigl Upper S CURTIS and Co. Chairma George : (Messrs. G Francis Park. John P( 33r itish ani John W Chairman Edward Samuel (Messrs. ( William ley, and C Edward (Director ~Company, vainpany) Captain G. P.I tter (Dire( Company, ngineets W. H. Zoard on Chairman William British Ai Joseph Professc Professc In Low Bank of ] Chester. 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