The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

MR. and MRS. CHARLES SEAN will RE APPEAR at the Theatre -Royal Drury-lane. THIS EVENING (THURSDAY), March 6th, n HAMLET. On Friday, 7th Merchant of Venice ; and on Saturday, Bth, Louis XL W . O YAL ENGLISH OPERA , COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. Misses Louisa Pyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and T o pham; Messrs. Santley, H. Hgh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, P a tey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. H ai arrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. H., F., and H. Payne, IL , E. , and 5. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. T HEATRE• RU YAL, HAYMARKET, LgEmee, Mr. J. B. BaOtstorte. THIS EVENING, to commence with THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Miss M. Oliver, &c. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buckstone. To conclude with THE LADIES' CLUB. Messrs. Farren, Cullenford, Clark, Compton ; Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Henrade. Commence a 7 I t i 3 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, March 6, the new and original Drama , entitled. PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs 'Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Mil pone! ; 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 Vose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters br Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. .as usual. Doors open at hall-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-offlce open daily from 11 tlll5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new Mystic Drama, !in four parts, 'entle THE ANGEL OF MINIGT. . , Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdic D omb, H Mr Ryder .M &c. ; Miss arriott, 311iss Fielding*, &a. After Which, WORKING nib; ORACLE. To conclude with THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Prol;rtetor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE CENSUS. Mr. J. L. Toole. After which, THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bouo i cault , M essrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell. C. J. Smi Laidlaw.th ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. Harland, Mrs. H . Lewis, Miss To conclude with THE PRETTY HORSE Ig BREAKER K. Kelly, Messrs. J. L, Toole , P. Bedford ; Misses Wooar, Laidlaw, Mrs. H. Marston, Commence at 7. . NT E w ROYALTY THEA TRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. TILTS -EVENING, CARNATION COTTAGE. Followed by THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL, in which g r. J. 13, Dale Will appear. A Ballet Divertiosement After which, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI AGE AUX LANTERN ES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames stanley, Payne, and Mason, To conclude with A CHINESE ROMANCE. Commence at half-past 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Triumphant success of the New Eastern Spectacle and the wonderful Performing Elephants, pronounced by the Press and the Public) to be the most sagacious animals ever ex hibited. To-NIGHT THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, with new and gorgeous scenery, dregaes, and appointments, introducing the two colossal Asiatic Elephants, whose astonishing feats on the stage, ft and aerwards in the circle, have met with the most unbounded admiration. To be followed by brilliant and daring feats of Eques trianism by the unrivalled Troupe of British and Foreign Artistes. The whole concluding with tag a laughable afterpiece. Se Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. VICTOR JULIEN, "THE FLYING MAN," at half-past Nine. Last Few Nights of "THE ENCHANTED HASH " By Mr. E. Marshall, at a quarter-Past Ten o'clock, Performed upwards of sixty nights with immense success. G ran d Selection from " La Circassienne, " by Mdlle. Negri, with Band and full Chorus. Comic—Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Marshall, and Musiiss Harriet Coveney. Mcal Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, 18. T HE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. — EVERY EVENING. HENRI and PFAU, in their intrepid Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze. Two Operatic Selections alternately from " Ernani," " Macbeth," "II Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas sienne," &c., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus--(Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmans.) Violin Solos— Mr.Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac tions. The Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey and French .(the Nerves), Wood and Son, E. Marshall, and W. RandalL Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 108. Bd. A Grand Morning Entertainment every THURSDAY, at which HENItI and PFAU and the whole of the Company appear. Doors open at Two o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T H ig DAY.—Monaing, sh. 11m.—Afternoon, sh. 25m. To-monnow.-Morning, sh. 44m.—Afternoon, 6h. Om. 4 ~....--_ THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, MARCH. 6, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. B A RomirrErt-29.87. WIND —Westerly ; light and variable, with dull weather, ,ffe „ "-• (11 THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1862, The completeness and importance of the Federal success at Fort Donnelson only appear more clearly now that we have fuller details. As yet we hear of no exaggerations in the first statements, and we are inclined to believe that they may be regarded as trust -worthy. It will be seen by the accounts of the attack and defence, which we publish to day, that the fight was a most severe one ; it will also be apparent that the long time of inaction has been not unprofitably spent, for the Federal troops ap peared to be well in hand, and the officers to knew their work. Neither was courage wanting. This was not an artillery battle, at least on the side of the Federals. Their gunboats and battalions suffered apparently much from the powerful artillery of the fort ; but the chief of the work was done by the bayonet. The Federals have shown themselves, both at Fort Donnelson and at Roanoke Island, worthy of their British descent in their use of this weapon. At this latter place the Volunteers atoned for the misbehaviour of their class at Bull's Run ; the Con federates had placed a strong force on the island, and the complete triumph there was in great part owing to the dash of the Volunteers with the bayonet. The position of the Federals has been wonder fully changed since the battle of Millspring ; a writer from America thus deseribee it ;--,• To sum uP our successes since the 9 th of la st Januar y —we have destroyed or taken 25,000 of the enemy, in eluding three of their best generals ; we have taken 179 pieces of cannon, 30,000 muskets, an immense quantity of material, and great numbers of horses and cattle ; We have captured or sunk 20 armed ships ; have taken possession of several towns in North Caroli na ; we have compelled the enemy to abandon every pla ce in Kentucky except Colum bus, and the whole of Mi sso uri ; we have torn Ten nessee from the Confederacy, and have added it to the Union ; and vie have resto re d fromthe trade between the interior of Secessia U n ion, as and thea large lot of tobac co has reached Si, L ouis of the value of 100,000 a c a. .• which Alabama will be good news to the French. This is a pretty good 40 days' .;"" work, I think." And, so far as we can „., Jge the Federal troops in Kentucky and Tennessee must o largely out-number those of the Confederates, while, as the late battles prove, they are superior to them in fighting prowess, that we look for a steady and successful advance of their forces east. ward from the Mississippi, on the Carolinas and Virginia, and perhaps southward also, to Memphis or New Orleans, Columbus, on the Mississippi, in Kentucky, is said to be strong, and to command the river, so as to obstruct gunboat expeditions southward, but it is;now isolated, and it is not likely that when the Confederates need it they will find it - a dimeult task to take it. The question which will now be asked most anxiously here, is, what will be the effect of Federa' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY! ill VE MN% M ARCH 6, 1862. successes on the policy of the Government. We confess our fears predominate. Mr. LINCOLN is not an anti-slavery man—rather the reverse. His policy is to keep negroes as much as he can • out of the Free States. He has no kind of objection to a fugitive slave law, as it tends to keep the blacks in the South, and he would rather not have them in the North. Like the Kansas men, he would vote them out of the States if he could. As he cannot do this, his next best thing is to keep them in the slave States. Politically and econo mically he well knows the slave system to be a souree of disturbance to the Union, and a dear mode of cultivating the soil. But we believe him to be thoroughly sincere in his professions of friendliness to slavery in the South, and in his willingness to give every guarantee on the subject a Southern can desire. He is hostile, indeed, to the introduction of slavery into the territories, and to giving permis sion to bring slaves into the Free States, but this is quite compatible with his desire to leave slavery and the internal slave trade where it is in the South. We apprehend that nothing on earth would iuduce him to proclaim emancipation for the negro were it placed entirely in his power to do so. These are our impressions from the numerous in cidents in this contest which bear on the subject; but they are not ours only. One of the most intel legent of the American correspondents, a man of intelligence and calmness, the very reverse of '' Manhattan," gives it as his deliberate opinion that the anti-slavery cause never was at a lower ebb in the North, than it now is. • That there is quite a reaction—" To all appearance," he says, " the North is becoming more pro:slavery in its notions thans than ever it was before, and would grant about all that the South would ask, provided that peace should be restored and the Union be re constructed. There is as much anti slavery feeling now, perhaps, as ever there was, but the sup porters of true freedom are not united, while the friends of slavery form a compact mass, and seem about to get control of most of the free States. This is what I mean when I say that the North is retrogading on the subject of slavery ; for the governing power of a community, even though it represents but a minority, must be held to speak the sentiments of that community rather than the majority, who waste their strength on internal squabbles, or retire disheartened from the conflict. The anti-slavery men of the Republican party declare that Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWARD are as much devoted to slavery, and as ready to uphold the rule of slaveholders, as ever were Presidents PIERCE and BUCHANAN." We confess that this seems to ns a highly pro bable account of the actual state of things. We observe, indeed, that some correspondents who have left England to write home again, colour their representations of Northern feeling by their own anti-slavery sentiments ; but we think the native American view to be much nearer the truth. Eager ness to restore the Union will offer almost any terms to the South. Magnanimity will be the watchword, and it will mean, of course, a magnani• mous sacrifice of a noble opportunity to abolish the great disgrace of the Republic. The South, we imagine, has little need to fear that Mr. LINCOLN will exact any other terms than loyalty to the Union and keeping their slaves at home. Ultramontanism is doing its best to disgust all the intelligence and liberalism of Europe. In this country it is certainly giving far more of posi tion to Mr. WHALLEY, successor to Mr. SPOONER, than ever he could procure for himself. The priestly election at Longford will do more to render ultra- Popery detestable to Englishmen, and to arouse their deep-seated aversion to what they, rightly or wrongly, have for centuries regarded as a disloyal superstition, than any bitter lectures by Protes tants against Popery. Orange lodges and Pro testant institutes, and such proceedings as the attack on Mr. TURNBULL, are distasteful to all liberal minded men. They awaken sympathy for the objects of bigoted assaults. But when those with whom we would sympathise show that the very spitit which equipped the Spanish Armada still animates their bosoms, they must not be surprised if Englishmen recoil at the sight. If there be any part of the policy of the present Cabinet which has commanded the hearty appro bation of this country, it is that which related to Italy. The Marquis of NORMANBY seemed to be alone in his displeasure in the Upper House, and Sir G. BOWYER in the Lower House, in uttering sen timents hostile to Italian unity and independence. And, if there be a name honoured by Englishmen, it is, above all others, that of GARIBALDI. Yet, what do we see now at Longford—the name of GARIBALDI received with groans, and one of the most re spectable of Irish members ejected because he has taken a subordinate office under the Government which gave its moral aid to the liberation of Italy. Now we warn the priests who made last Sunday the opportunity for an altar canvasing on behalf of the hero of Spoleto, and who taught the people to groan for the great Italian hero, that they could not take a more effectual course to call for English groans for Irish priests, and for their religion too, in the light in which they exhibit it. Let them re member that while the sentiment of equality for all creeds is becoming the political faith of Britain, they are taking the very course to destroy that faith, so far as they can do it. From the time of the Tudors to this day there has been a growing desire on the part of mere intelligent Englishmen, to efface the general impression that religious loyalty to the POPE was incompatible with political loyalty to liberty and to the British constitution. We have preached with no little success the doctrine that Catholics were as good liberals as other English men. But the Catholics themselves have proved themselves the worst enemies to this doctrine. They have exalted the POPE'S temporal power above the rights of human beings to self-government. They have shown that their concern is not to be the conscientious worshippers of his Holiness, as CHRIST'S Viceroy on earth, but to see this Vieeroy of CHRIST a secular prince, a despotic prince, and a prince with his foot ou tho neck of his unfortunate subjects. Now,Englishmen must loathe this degrading incon sistency. Catholics here are free men. They take, as at Longford, what political course they please, exposed only to the penalty of publicity for their folly. They revel in their freedom, abuse the Go vernment, and turn out the QUEEN'S servants for becoming her servants. We do not grudge them this liberty, but we do ask them to do " as they would be done unto:" We know they do not like the Bible, but we believe they acknow ledge the commandment referred to. What, then, have they to say to the Romans, who ask nothing but the very liberty which the Popish P r i ests of Longford enjoy themse l ves , b u t deny to t h e Romans, while they are furious with Lords P ALMERsToN and RUSSELL, for a neutrality in which tk e y h ave tem poral pofolptEaliinanclueradead. given thei r moral support to the nelpaion, the slaves of the tern of liberty run mad in Irel an d, are fanat i ca l f or These ' priestly exemplifiers keeping the Papal yoke on the necks of their brother Catholics in Italy. Andall for what ? F9r that silliest of whims—to see th e successor of the Fisherman and the professed Vicar of Him who disclaimed all pretensions to territorial domi nion, a petty temporal despot ! Our English Catholics should take care. We do not know what influence they have elsewhere; but were Cardinal WISEMAN to show half the interest in civil and religious liberty in Rome, in Spain, in France, which he shows in pointing out to his flock how much flesh, fish, lard, and eggs, they may eat in Lent, he would be doing far more to render English Roman Ca tholicism an object of respect. We believe the Irish Papal magnates would not thank him for his interference, yet he might do worse things than let them know that they are doing their best to League. e l l t ie i e s e q es uit m e a p y os b s e ibl a e s th g a re t a M t r a . e o ; R t E w m as ri a 's t cre ate among English politicians an anti-Popery ultimate Spoleto. The state of affairs in Poland has long been a source of deep regret to all right-thinking and feelin g men. The spectacle of an ancient people cherishing an ardent love of national independence and of their peculiar constitution writhing under the strong hand of a foreign domination has unhappily not been without parallel in modern Europe. The una nimity, high character, and fervent patriotism of the Poles, their heroic struggles to preserve their nationality, and the unprincipled manner in which the rights of nations were disregarded by a few unscrupulous potentates, has rendered them more especially the objects of sympathy. Their cause was felt to be the cause of oppressed peoples ; their leaders the representatives of injured patriotism; their fall the triumph of ruthless despotism and grasping cupidity in high places, upheld by the sword— " And Freedom shrieked when Kosctrsxo fell." Of late years, however, the warm sympathy awakened by the position of this ancient kingdom, though not forgotten, has been suffered to languish in the presence of events of more immediate ex citement in Europe. That the condition of the people was a standing reproach to the Govern ments which had tamely looked on at the sacrifice, no one doubted; but the more recent misfortunes of Italy and Hungary naturally engrossed atten tion. The accession of the Emperor ALEXANDER, too, gave rise to hopes of amelioration in the rigour of the Government, and great expectations might naturally be formed from the Sovereign who pro jected such a bold design as the emancipation of the serfs. It was not long before these hopes were extinguished ; but it remained for the events of last year to arouse once more the sympathies and indignation of Europe in behalf of the op pressed Poles. Those incidents are doubtless fresh in the memory of our readers, but they have recently been again brought prominently under notice by the publication of a series of letters, ad dressed to her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary by an English gentleman who came in for a share of Cossack politeness last autumn. The declaration of Mr. GEORGE MITCHELL, forwarded to Earl RUSSELL by the British Consul General at War saw, states that that gentleman on the fifteenth of last October was walking quietly along the Rue du Miel, in company with a Polish friend, when they were suddenly surrounded by a detachment of Cossacks, commanded by an officer, who assaulted them with their lances. The Pole managed to escape into his own house, which was adjoining, but the Englishman was less fortunate. In vain he appealed to two Russian officers — they only encouraged the cowardly attack. He was struck to the ground and severely injured by the blows he received. They had disobeyed no order, and done nothing, by word or gesture, to provoke such an assault. The offence appeared to have been that they had entered a street in which there was a church. Mr. MITCHELL justly asks whether he could have anticipated such an order from the Christian Governor of a Chris tian city. "I might," he says, " b ave thought it possible that such acts could occur in Syria, under a Turkish Governor with Mussulman soldiers, but not under a Government which had any pretensions to be considered European or civilised." Unjustifia ble as was the attack on Mr. MITCHELL, however, it was trifling in comparison with the wrongs com mitted on the unhappy Poles. Troops of Cossacks rode furiously through the streets, striking all they met ; even entering private houses and maltreating the inmates. Those found inside the churches were beaten till their blood stained the altars at which they had taken refuge. Daring the night of the lath, 2,000 persons were.arrested ; 400 having been detained to be tried by court martial for the crime of praying in the churches. The particulars give n by Mr. MITCHELL,* as eye-witness of the scene described one sufficient to excite the warmest indignation. He solemnly declares that there was no tumult nor anything which could in the least degree palliate the barbarities of the Cossacks : I need hardly inform you that all the churches and syna gogues are closed in Warsaw ; nor are they likely to be opened, as the Russian Viceroy will not give sufficient gua rantees in the official journal, that the churches shall not be math again the scenes of such sanguinary outrages as were perpetrated in them on the night of the 15th of October. On that occasion, when the Russian troops forced an en trance into the churches, they found in the front rank the women on their knees, and behind them the men. The women were flogged and beaten, and the men struck down and trampled on. The latter were taken wounded and bleeding to the citadel, and during the whole way they were unmercifully beaten. At the citadel they were divided into parties of 60, and placed in dungeons. Count LAM BERT announced his intention,that 10 taken by lo tfrom each division of prisoners should be shot, without any form of trial. General FANSELAWE, an Englishman, who has been 60 years in the Russian service, and is a Senator of Poland, happened to walk ont on the 15th of October, without being in uniform. He was surrounded by Circassians, who gave him a most severe whipping. An eminent Polish phy sician had a small gold -headed cane taken from him by a Cossack, at which time the Russian General KROULOYF happened to pass. The physician appealed to the General, who had been one of his patients, to order his cane to be restored to him. But General KROULOFF ordered the Cos sack to lay his whip about the doctor's head, which he did in the most cruel manner. I was walking in the Place de Saxe on Sunday, the 20th of October, where I saw a Rus sian officer in uniform, with a young lady in deep mourn ing leaning on his arm. He was surrounded by a party of Cossacks, who desired him to tear off the white border at at the bottom of the lady's black dress. Black and white together are forbidden colours in Warsaw. The officer told them that he was Colonel HOLDE, and that the lady was daughter, and in mourning for her mother. The Cossacks insisted on his removing the white border from her dress, and he had to tear it off on the public place. His late wife was a Princess of Hesse of Darmstadt, and cousin of the Empress of RUSSIA. Such tyranny as this is sufficient to rouse a tamer people than the Poles, and truly, as Mr. MITCHELL observes, entail shame and disgrace upon the com munity of Christian nations. When will the Rus sians learn the madness of their proceedings P When will the EMPEROR see that to maltreat the Poles after the fashion of IvAN the TERRIBLE is to for feit his claim to rank among enlightened and civi lised sovereigns, and to turn his people back to that state of barbarism from which his other acts show an earnest wish to emerge. We should rejoice to see the reign of a young and able sovereign sig nalised by an amelioration of the state of Poland. Let him learn the lesson which is being taught in succession to all despotic Governments. Let him * Letters addressed to Bart Russell respecting the late gvputs at Warsaw and in Poland. By Ciegrge Mitchell, heed the warning, and give before the coveted boon is wrested from him by the strength of an uproused and indignant people, supported by the moral force of the civilised world. There were some vague reports in the Stock Exchange yesterday of a new loan for Canada being in con templation, but they are believed to be totally without foundation. The state of the provincial Treasury gives no ground for them. _ _ _ Reports continue to circulate of the probability of a new Russian loan, but they have not assumed any de finite shape. According to some opinions, it is to be for a nominal amount of £10,000,000 or £11,000,000 sterling. The recent remittances of gold from St. Petersburg have been in connection with the payment of the dividend on the 4 per Cent. circular notes or bonds issued by the State Bank, The advices from Buenos Ayres to-day state that the present packet brings £30,000 on account of the next dividend. Political affairs continued with a very favourable appearance. The greater part of the " Garde National" employed in the late victorious campaign had returned to Buenos Ayres and had been sent to their homes, but Rosario and Sante Fe would continue to be militai ily occu pied by Buenos Ayrean troops until the organisation of the new national Government. General Urquiza remains for the present at the head of the province of Entre Rios, hav ing submitted to all the just claims made by General Mitre regarding national property and other points. Many per sons, however, doubted if he would find it practicable long to maintain that position. HANDSOME PRESENTATION TO A SHIP CAPTAIN. —Yesterday the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, through their Secretary, presented a handsome telescope and £lOO to Capt. Williams, of the Imogene, as a mark of their approval of his conduct in rescuing, in July last, the distressed crew of the brigantine Recompense, to gether with the widow of the captain of the brigantine, who had been washed overboard and drowned. Captain Wil • Hams having fallen in with the Recompense, in a very dis tressed condition, sent his mate on board and relieved the crew, who eventually took the brigantine into Queenstown. The Recompense, which had a valuable cargo on board, was insured by the Thames and Mersey Company. Captain Williams is well' known for his humanity and bravely, and had previously been presented for a similar act with 4 gold chronometer by the President of the United States. A prospectus' has been issued of an undertaking which has been'contemplated for some time past, to be called the London Sufferance Wharf Company. The pro posed capital is £300,000 in shares of £lO each, and the ob ject is to erect' a sufferance wharf and bonded warehouses on the north bank of the Thames on a site of about 26 acres, having a river frontage of 1,000 feet near the Victoria Docks, and in direct communication with the North- Western, Great Northern, Midland, Eastern Counties, and Blackwell Railways, The warehouses will be detached so as to promote the classification of goods, and obviate the danger of fire, and to secure in consequence an important reduction in the rates of insurance. The board of directors is respectably constituted. WEST INDIA LOANS.—The annual account laid before Parliament shows that of the sums advanced, under the act of 1843, for granting relief to some of the West India Islands, Antigua has repaid £70,000, leaving £30,000 still due; Montserratt has repaid £8,049 of £23,000, and Nevis £7,160 of £12,000. Under the act of 1848, for grant ing relief to the island of Tobago, and aiding British Guiana and Trinidad in raising money for the promotion of immigration, Tobago received £20,000, and has repaid all but £7,831; Trinidad has repaid £26,000 of £64,073 ; British Guiana has received £70,000, and repaid no part of the principal. _ _ _ The suspension has been announced of Alderman Sir Henry Muggeridge, representing the firm of Sir Henry and Edward Muggeridge, cornfactors. No expectation of the event had been entertained until within the past two or three weeks, strong st&tements of solvency having been made up to a late period, and the most conflicting opinions are now expressed regarding the prospects of the unsecured creditors. The total claims covered and uncovered are esti mated at abort £150,000 or £200,000. The accounts, it is feared, are in a very confused state, and the general im pression seems to be that the result will prove unfavourable. Sir Henry was an unsuccessful candidate last November for the Mayoralty, for which dignity he was the next in rotation. He was also one of the founders and a director of the Bank of London, but he has resigned his seat at that establishment. THE STOCK OF COTTON. — The movement of cot. ton at Liverpool since the commencement of the present year discloses very remarkable results, as will be readily seen on an examination of the annexed figures showing the weekly fluctuations of the stock :- 1862. 1861. Bales. Bales. Stcck, Jan. 1 " " 10 ~ ~17 • 24 31 .. .. „ Feb. 7 „ „ 14 .. If If 21 28 I The stock held at the close of last month amounted there fore to only about 53 per cent, of the quantity on hand at the corresponding period of 1861. The quantity of Ameri can was reduced to 170,880 bales as compared with 693,540 bales last year; and while 387,000 bales were last year at this date on their way to Liverpool, this year there are only a few chance waifs and strays en route, To the end of Feb ruary only 125,321 bales have come to hand this year from all sources, against 648,399 bales in January and February, 1861. Facts such as these demonstrate the severity and gravity of the present crisis. THE COAL TRADE.—The coal supply to the metro- polis, both by rail and water, still continues depressed, and for the two months ending Feb. 28 the tonnage entered by railway was 240,081 tons Bcwt, against 285,509 tons for the corresponding period, showing a decrease of 45,427 tons 12cwt. Sea-borne coal shows a diminution of 1,786 tons, as also do the canals. The following quantities were brought up by the respective railways named (luring the month of February, viz. :—London and North Western, 49,542 tons 3cwt ; Great Northern, 33,972 tons 17ert ; Eastern Coun ties, 12,582 tons 19cwt ; Great Western, 6,964 tons; Mid land, 5,912 tons ; London, Tilbury, and Southend, 54 tons; total, 109,027 tons 19cwt ; corresponding nonth last year, 148,608 tons 16cwt ; decrease on the montli, 39,580 tons 17cwt. The sea-borne coal has been entered as follows : From Newcastle, 119,728 tons; from Sunderland, 98,897 tons; from Hartlepool, 74,046 tons; from Wales, 10,993 tons ; from Yorkshire, 3,176 tons ; from Seaham, 12,966 tons ; from other sources, 13,864 tons _; total, 336,664 tons. The quantity entered from Hartlepool, as contrasted with last February's tonnage, shows an increase of 100 per cent., but for this the sea-borne tonnage would have declined con siderably more. LIBERATION OF MR. WILLIAM BEWICEE, of THREEPWOOD.—The public will learn with the greatest satisfaction that Mr. William Bewicke, of Threepwood, who has been for upwards of a year suffering from the effects of a vile, cruel, and too successful conspiracy, was liberated from prison on Tuesday. Mr. Bewicke had been taken back to Newcastle Gaol at the close of his evidence against his wicked accusers; and at a few minutes after one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the governor of the gaol received from the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment an order for his immediate release. It is hardly necessary to state that the order was at once acted upon, and Mr. Bewicke left the prison in a cab. He proceeded immediately by train from the Central Station to Threep wood Hall, where be was received with great manifesta tions of gladness, there being a large concourse of people, with bands of music and banners, to welcome him as he left the train.—Newcastle Journal. THE NORTH RIDING ELECTION.—Capt. ley, of Hovingham, has issued an address to the electors of the North Riding, in which he says :—As a Conservative I am resolved to stand by our constitutional land marks, even though Ministerial Conservatives, dragged on by ultra-Liberal support, were ready to remove them. As a Reformer, I am prepared to strike at real abuses, though protected by so-called Liberals. I am prepared to vote according to my conscience, for whatever tends to the good of my country, without reference to personal ambition or party schemes. When I call myself an independent Liberal Conservative, I mean the thorough English mean ing of those three words. lam more a Conservative than a Reformer, because now a days, thank Heaven, an Eng lishman has far more to be proud of and uphold than to complain of. My independence will be founded upon yours. If, as I believe, my Opinions are in accord with those of the greatest part of the constituency, I shall well acquit myself of my duty to you by following my own con science. Thus, it was your late lamented member earned your love and confidence; and that I may attain by the same course to the same end is the highest ambition of my life. QUEEN ANNE'B BOUNTY.—The annual account of the governors for the year 1860 has been laid before Puha. ment. The receipts of the year from first-fruits and tenths amounted to £13,504, and the income from capital was £83.908, making together £97,412. Gifts in favour of parti • cular benefices, and benefactions for the augmentation of livings (exclusive of the value of houses, lands, and stipends granted to the governors), amounted in the year to £19,784, besides endowment trust moneys, £14,920, toge• ther with £7,946 Bank Annuities, and £7,750 railway stock transferred to the governors. On the other side of the ac countNve fi in nd sa tB tre o )706 described a s paid to the clergy, £6,490 absorbed and office expenses, and £1,209 paid for solicitors' charges,„,,,side s th a t £4lO cos t s an d charges were 1 allowed as incurred by incumbents upon sales during the year of bounty lands belonging to benefices, and producing £37,061. The sum of £48,118 was received in the year f ro m mortgages paid off, and £57,550 was lent on mort gage in the course of the year to build, 8;c„ glebe-houses, £19,878 paid for the erection of residence houses, and £23,382 invested in the purchase of houses, lands, ground rents, and tithe rent-charge. Stock of the value of £37,861 was sold for general purposes, and stock co,ting £60,763 was purchased Tor general p ur p oses . Th e au ditor de-scribes the account as examined aUd found correct," whatever that may n0e4 1, 1. Mere is no statement :of the assets, ap propriated and unappropriated, of this great corporation. THE GLASGOW STEAMSHIP.—The Inman steam ship Glasgow sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York. Besides a ship mail she took out about 20 cabin pas sengers and a fair amount of cargo, consisting of manufac tured goods. A telegram was published on the 13th ult., in San Francisco, at 11.30 a.m., which was sent from New York at 1.30 p.m. on that day. Thus the message arrived at the Pacific city from the Atlantic city, two hours ahead of time. The longitude of San Francisco is about 50 deg. west of New York. COPYRIGHT IN WORKS OF ART.—The bill intro duced into the House of Commons by Mr. Massey, the At. torney-General, and Solicitor-General, for amending the law relating to copyright in works of the fine arts, and for repressing the commission of fraud in the production and sale of such works, has been printed. It provides that the copyright is not to prevent the representation of the same subjects in other works. Assignments, licenses, &c., are to be in writing. Penalties are inflicted on infringement of copyright, and on fraudulent productions and sales. The importation of pirated works is prohibited. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.—The contest for Long ford county has resulted in the return of Major O'Reilly. At the close of the poll, yesterday, the " hero of Spoleto" showed a majority of 576 ; but, if half of what the Dublin .Daily Express tells Us of the brutal conduct of the priest ridden rabble of Longford be true, a petition on the ground of intimidation must prove successful. At the nomination for Canierbury, yesterday, Major Lyon, the Liberal candi date, obtained the show of hands. ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.—The fifteenth anniversary of the foundation of this very valuable charity was cele brated at the London Tavern on Tuesday. The Lord Mayor presided, and was supported by Mr. Sheriff Twenty man, Mr. Alderman Rose, and Mr. Alderman Abbiss. His lordship pointed out the special claims of the institution upon public sympathy, and described the advantages it had conferred upon society by restorinz to the practical duties of life many who had been supposed to be hopelessly imbe cile. The subscription list of the evening showed a return of upwards of ximo, THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BILL.—It has been determined by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to withdraw for the present the bill which they had deposited before Parliament for the purpose of obtaining powers to raise and expend L 1,000,000 for the extension of gritting dock and other accommodation at the north and south extremities of the port. This resolution has been adopted in deference to the representations of the steamship owners. It was not come to without a good deal of dis cussion, and a considerable amount of opposition from some members of the Board, who contended that, as the graving docks at the south end formed a portion of the scheme, it could not be abandoned. SERIOUS COLLISION AND WRECK IN THE RIVER. —Yesterday afternoon a serious collision took place in the River near Gray's, Essex, between her Majesty's screw steam vessel Rapid and a collier vessel deeply laden with coals. The Rapid was returning up the River from a trial trip, accompanied by the Monkey, steam vessel, and whilst passing between two collier vessels it was found that she did not readily answer her helm. A strong wind and under current prevailed, it being at the time high tide, and the Rapid struck one of the vessels, carried away the bow sprit and masts, and in fact so completely smashed her timbers that she filled with water and went down instantly. Fortunately only one of her crew was on board at the time of the collision, and this man saved his life by cling. ing to the rigging, and was taken off by the Monkey steamer. The Rapid sustained no *jury, but the collier ship is a perfect wreck. An addition of £167,000 is about to be proposed to the capital of the Indus Steam Flotila Company, but it will not be offered to the public. The object is to give effect to an arrangement entered into with the Secretary of State for India for the transfer to the Indus Steam Flotilla o selected steamers and barges belonging to Government now on the Indus, the prices of which the Secretary of State has agreed to take in shares or stock of the Indus Steam Flotilla. A reference has been made to India as to the transfer by the Government to this company of workshops and other appli ances at Kotree and elsewhere. THE GAME LAWS,—At the County Court at Mansfield, held a few days ago, before Mr. R. Wildman, the following remaikable case was determined :—Two poachers named William -Place and George Sansom sued Mr. Superintendent Wimant, of the county constabulary, for £4 195., the value of two nets, 24 partridges,' and one rabbit seized by the defendant and his officers. From the evidence adduced it appeared that the plaintiffs, with a man named Evans, were coming down the Southwell-road on the 2d of September last, at about 4 o'clock in the morn ing, and when about a mile from Mansfield were met by the defendant and six police officers, who took them into custody and searched them on their arrival at the station. On Evans were found seven birds, a rabbit, and a net When these were taken from Evans he said to defendant "Wimant, I shall expect you to make them good," upon which Wimant replied, " Put it on me, for we have plenty of money." Some time afterwards the defendant was asked to restore the property, but he refused. Mr. Cursham ap peared for the defendants, and contended that his clients were warranted in apprehending the plaintiffs, who were convicted poachers. Mr. Wildman, in giving judgment, said if the men were poachers and had each been convicted 50 times that would not justify the police in stopping and taking their property from them. After condemning the practice of poaching, he ordered the amount claimed to be paid forthwith. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.—On Tuesday evening Mr. Bedford, the coroner, held an inquest at the Pineapple Tavern, Westbourne-street, Pimlico, on the body of Eliza beth M'K ew, aged 32, who lost her life in Wednesday week by falling into a cistern at 19, Belgrave-square. Mrs, Susan Kerts, the housekeeper, said that deceased was a servant at the same address. On Wednesday last the de ceased went upstairs to clean a room. The witness called her and could get no answer. She then went upstairs her self and saw the steps in the closet, where the cistern was, and a duster lying on the top. She was frightened, and called for assistance. Deceased was then discovered in the cistern. She was taken out quite dead. She had not been sent to clean the cistern, and had no occa sion to stand upon it for any purpose. A man named Turner, a painter, employed on the premises on Wednes day, said that he found the deceased in the cistern and drew her out. There was about five feet six inches of water in it at the time. Her head was downwards. William Brooker, 287 B, said, on Wednesday last he went with his inspector to the place where the accident had happened. He examined the cistern, and found that when the lid was drawn forward an opening 12 or 14 inches wide was left, through which any one might fall in, Mr. John Charles Turner, surgeon, 30, Wilton-place, said he had made apost mortem examination, and had no doubt that the deceased died from drowning. The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," with a re commendation that the covering of the cistern be at tended t.),' A SILK MILL BURNT.—At an early hour on Wednesday morning, the 19th ult., the Hurst Mill,situated at Biddulph, in Staffordshire, between Leek and Congleton, was totally destroyed by fire, together with its valuable contents of silk and machinery. The mill was occupied by Mr. W. Harthan, who was in London at the time, and who six months previously effected an insurance in the Man chester Fire-office for £l,OOO on the silk and machinery. The building, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Holt, vicar of Bad dulph, was not insured. In the course of three or four days after the conflagration Mr. Harthan sent in his claim for the full amount of his policy. During the investigation of the claim, from certain grave rumours, and the unusual mystery enveloping the origin of the fire, a night watchman, named John Lockett, a workman in the said mill, was ap pointed to protect the premises. While going his rounds on the following Saturday night, at about 12 o'clock,he noticed in an old stable, situate only a few feet from the mill, a large ' flag placed over the spot where he had seen Edwin liar than, son of the proprietor of the works, digging the day be fore the fire, He accordingly removed the flag and bored into the ground, which appeared to have been recently dis turbed. Having convinced himself there was something concealed he kept his own counsel until Monday night, and communicated the fact to the owner of the mill, who lives only at a short distance. Superintendent Bohana, of the Congleton police force, was forthwith sent for, and he, along with Mr. Hill, the Congleton agent of the insurance company, and a police-constable, named Bate, proceeded at once to Biddulph, a distance of four miles. The son of the proprietor, who was sitting at the time with his father, in the house, was taken to the stable, and in his presence the soil was removed from beneath the flags, when two bags containing upwards of 100 lb. of China thrown silk were withdrawn from a hole about a yard square. Young Har than, who is about 23 years of age, was then taken into Custody on a charge of robbing the mill, and afterwards setting fire to the building. Superintendent Woollaston, of the Leek police, received the prisoner into custody on the following day, and on Wednesday last be was brought up before the Leek magistrates and formally remanded until Monday. On Monday the prisoner was brought up for exa mination, when Mr. Badnall, of Leek, appeared to prose cute, and Mr. Cooper, of Congleton, for the defence. The only witness examined was Lockett, who substantially proved in evidence the particulars stated above, and on ap plication for a further remand until Monday next, the bench complied.—. Leeds 111ereury. THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THE RIGHT MAN.— Supposing it were necessary to remove Dr. Jenner from Trafalgar-square at all, we think some more appropriate locality might have been selected to have carried his bronzen remains to. If we had been consulted on the sub ject, we should have given it as our advice that for the dis coverer of vaccination the best place in the world would have been Cowes.—Punch. THE TOWN CLERK OF MANCHESTER. The long vexed question relative to the salary of this official was settled yesterday by the rejection of the resolution, stating that £1,500 was a sufficient remuneration. The numbers were for the resolution, 19; against it, 39, SUGAR AND MOLASSES.---A return shows that for the year ending Sept. 30, Isql, there were used in the brewing of beer 83,618 cwt. of sugar; and in the distilla- . tion of spirits 5,906 cwt, of sugar and 227,€19 cwt 9(1A04 'lasses, LATEST NEWS. PARIS, MARCH 6. The Moniteur of this morning says : "The Council of State has commenced its delibe rations on the bill which was announced yester day to the Corps Legislatif in the letter to the Emperor. " According to this bill an annual rente, the amount of which is not yet fixed, would be inscribed in the great book of the State to reward, by pensions or dotations, distinguished acts on the part of gene rals, officers, and soldiers, as well as to recompense exceptional services rendered by them in times in war. Imperial decrees would constitute these pen sions or dotations, and would fix the conditions of their enjoyment er reversibility, should the latter take place." CADIZ, MARCH 5. Advices have been received here from Vera Cruz o Feb. 8, stating that the preparations for occupy ing Orozabo, Cordova, and Jalapa are progressing. The Mexicans were disposed to offer resistance. Senor Rubalcaba had returned to Havannah. The candidacy of the Archduke Maximilian to the throne of Mexico was ill received. The Monzteur contains a letter from Vera Cruz, dated Jan. 31 : " The Mexican Commissioner had ascertained that the Powers would not allow themselves to be diverted from their purpose by offering to Mexico the means to emerge from the anarchy which has prevailed for the last 50 years. The Commanders of the Allied forces had agreed not to modify in any shape their former resolutions. "As soon as the troops are ready they will com mence to advance. "News from the city of Mexico demonstrates the impossibility of the maintenance for any length of time of the actual state of things. " The wishes for the success of the intervention and the desire to see the troops of the Allies arrive are almost universal. "The people hope for the establishment of a power which, from its nature and form, would respond to the ancient traditions and the nationality of the Mexicans." THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MARSEILLES, MARCH 5. The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived here at 8 a.m. to-day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 6. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived off the Needles at 10.25 a.m. to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. At the opening of the sitting of the Legislative Body to-day the President read the following letter received from the Emperor : " Palace of the Tuileries, 4th. " Mon Cher President-1 sincerely deplore the misunderstanding which appears to prevail between the Legislative Body and myself. The spirit of our institutions and my well-known sentiments for the Chamber ought to have preserved us from it. In fact, conflicts are now almost impossible ; the laws are discussed for themselves, and not as to the maintenance or the overthrow of a Ministry. (Hear hear, that is true.) When the Government has clearly expressed its intention, the resolutions of the Legislative Body are the more free, as in ordi nary cases disaccords cannot in any way dis turb the progress of affairs. (Approbation.) According to this incontestable system, the refusal of the Chamber to pass the dotation bill would doubtless have been painful to me, but it would not have had any influence on my sentiments and on my conduct. I nevertheless comprehend, according to your explanations, that an incident, slight at first, should have become, from the circumstances connected with it, serious enough to place the majority in a sad alternative— (movement)—which caused a great number of De puties, as you have told me, "to prefer a law com prising in its ensemble exceptional military serviees. Adopting this idea, I have resolved to present a new bill, which, submitting to the Chamber the appreciation of a general principle, will allow to be secured within just limits to all striking services, from the Marshal to the soldier, recompenses worthy of the grandeur of the country. (Marked movement of adhesion.) The Legislative Body, which has always given me such loyal co-operation, which has aided me in founding the Empire, and the institutions which must survive us, will, I am willing to think, see with pleasure that I eagerly adopt the means of re-establishing mutual confidence and of effacing the traces of a disaccord always to be regretted between powers, the issue of the same origin, and conscientiously labouring for the same object. " Accept, mon cher President, the assurance of my sincere friendship. " NAPOLEON." BOURSE, March s.—The market has been firm, with a fair amount of business doing, at an im provement on the rates of the previous day. Threes for the Account, are now at 70f. 20c. The Railway Share market has been also well maintained, and several of the lines even show a slight advance. The following are the closing quotations :- 4f per per Cents ... 99 70; Credit Foncier 1430 Do. end month.... 100 Belgian 4} 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 90 Roman Bank Shares 3050 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 752 50 Spanish Threes 5l Do. Account —lHome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l3Bl 25 .. 1387 50 Northern Nev. , ditto * . -- . . Lyons and Mediterranean 1080 .. 1083 75 Geneva — • — Southern 738 75 .. 745 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian - LOW bard 542 50 .. 645 THE DUBLIN COURT -MARTIAL.—The press gene rally has refrained from expressing an opinion on the pro ceedings of the court-martial at Dublin, on the principle which usually actuates it in such cases. We shall maintain the same reserve, although any remarks we might make on the subject must come too late to influence their course ei sway the decision, But, though deferring a review of the proceedings, we must call attention to piints of the cast which require some elucidation. The charge against Capt Robertson rests on a quarrel about his family tasks arising out of his marriage settlement. Colonel Dickson s t o w h i f i e m , t a h n e d insulting i ngt e language, mil i i t s a ry one n e e t f i t n b i wh trusteeso applied his a civilian. What we wish to see cleared up is whether ery officer who is addressed in insulting languagl, or threatened with violence, under such circumstances, is bound either to call out the offender or submit Es family affairs to the investigation of his brother office r s. Certainly this law of honour is not a military tradition, nor does it accord with our military code, but, on the con trary, is directly at variance with it. We cannot foget that it was a family quarrel which led to the duel betveen. Colonel Fawcett and Captain Munro. The former was killed, and the latter dismissed the service, and tred at the Old Bailey for murder, while the colonel's widm was refused her pension because he had fallen in a dtel. If Captain Robertson had called out Colonel Dickson be would have infringed both the regulations of the service and the laws of the land ; if he had submitted his family affairs to the investigation of his brother officers he must hive retired 1 ; from the regiment. Beyond doubt, it is of the Highest im portance that not a breath should rest upon an officer's honour, and this cannot remain unsullied if he sit down under insult. But his way to do himself right should be so clear as to admit of no doubt, and not so beset with diffi culty that any course he might take will equally lead to ruin. At present, any officer may be destroyed by a per sonal enemy any moment by a mere threat of horsewhip ping him at some indefinite time. We say nothing now of Captain Robertson's relations with his regiment—though it is plain that the. colonel would have been better pleased with his room than his company; but it is really time to publish a key to our regulations when such a case as his row with Colonel Dickson is made the ground of a court martial.— Unitec? #ervice Magazine. AMERICA LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail steamship America, Captain Moodie, has arrived with .advices from Boston to the 19th, Halifax to the 21st, and telegraphic ad vices from New York to the evening of the 20th ult. She has 50,840 in specie. She experienced heavy weather. On the 22d ult. she passed a steamer, supposed to be the Canada, aLd on the 3d inst. the Africa. Flag-officer Foote had telegraphed the following despatch to the Navy Department, giving an ac count of the attack on Fort Donnelsola : " UNITED STATES FLAGSHIP ST. LOUIS, NEAR FORT DONNELSON, NIA PADUCAH, Saturday, Feb. 15. " To the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. " I made an attack on the Fort Donnelson yesterday, at 3 o'clock p.m , with four iron-clad gunboats and two wooden ones, and after one hour and a quarter's severe fighting, the wheel of one vessel and the tiller of the Louisville were shot away, rendering the two boats unmanage able. They then drifted down the river. The two remain ing boats were also greatly damaged between wind amd. water. This vessel alone received 56 shots, and the other about half that number each. "There were 34 killed and wounded in the attack, which we have reason to suppose would in 15 minutes more, could' the action have been continued, have resulted in the capture of the fort bearing upon us, as the enemy was running from.: his batteries, when the two gunboats drifted helplessly down the river from disabled steering apparatus, as the re lieving tackles could not steer the vessels in the strong cur rent. When the fleeing enemy returned to the river bat tery guns, from which they had been driven, they again.. hotly poured fire upon us. "The enemy must have brought over 20 guns to bear upon our boats from the water battery and the main fort upon the hill, while we only could return the lire with 1Z boat guns from the four boats. " One rifled gun aboard the Carondelet burst during the action. " The officers and men in this hotly-contested but unequal fight behaved with the greatest gallantry and determination. all deploring the accident which rendered two of our gun— boats suddenly helpless in the narrow river and swift current. " On consultation with General Grant and my own officers—as my services here, until we can repair damage by bringing up a competent force from Cairo to attack the fort, are much less required than they are at Cairo—l shall proceed to that place. " I have sent the Tyler to the Tennessee River to render• the railroad bridge impassable. (Signed) "A. H. FOOTE, Flag-officer Commanding Naval Force, Western Divishjn." " CAIRO, FEB. 17, 1862. " Hon. Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy, " The Carondelet has just arrived from Fort Donnelson, and brings information of the capture of that fort by the land forces, yesterday morning, with 15,000 prisoners. " Johnson [not Albert Sydney "Johnston, but Bushrocl Johnston, of Tennessee] and Buckner were taken prisoners. "The loss is heavy on both sides. "Floyd escaped with 5,000 men during the night. " I go up with the gunboats, and as soon as possibly, will proceed up to Clarksville. " Eight mortar boats are on their way, with which I hope to attack Clarksville. " My foot is painful, but the wound 10 not'dangerous. " The army has behaved gloriously. " I shall be able to take but two, iron -clad gunboats with me, as the others are disabled. " The trophies are immense, "The particulars will soon be givtn. "A. IL FOOTE, Flag-officer." " CAIRO, FEB. 17, 1862. " To Major-Gen. M'Clellan. "The Unioß flag float's over Fort Donnelson. The Caron delet, Captain Walker, brings the glorious intelligence. "The fort surrendered at nine o'clock yesterday (Sun day) morning. Gens. Johnston (A. Sydney) and Buckner, and 15,000 prisoners, and a large amount of material of war, are the trophies of the victory. Loss heavy on both. sides. " Floyd, the thief, stole away during the night previous, with 5,000 men, and is denounced by the rebels as traitor. lam happy to inform you that Flag Officer Foote, though suffering - a, ith his foot, with the noble characteris tic of our na'y, notwithstanding his disability, will take up immediately two gunboats, and, with the eight mortar boats which he will overtake, will make an immediate attack on Clarksville, if the state of the weather will permit. We are• how firing a national salute from Fort Cairo, Gen:Praia - es late post, in honour of the glorious achievement. • (Signed) " GEO. W. CULLUM, Brig.-Gen. Vols., and U.S.A., and Chief of Staff and Engineers." HEALTH OF LONDON _DURING' THE WEEK. The return issued by the Registrar-General states that the deaths in London were 1,322 in the week that ended last Saturday. They exhibit a decrease on the number in the previous week, which was 1,415. The mean temperature of the air, which had fallen to 36.2 degs. in the second week of February, rose in the third to 45.4 degs., and fell again in the last to 37.4 degs. The average number of deaths in the correspond ing weeks of ten years 1852-61, corrected, is 1,397. It will be seen that the mortality of last week was less by 75 deaths than it would have been if the average rate, as found for the same period of the year, had prevailed. It is satisfactory to observe that fatal cases of typhus have not become more numerous lately, but that last week the number has rather declined, It was 61; and that of scarlatina, which likewise is not so high as it was a few weeks ago, was exactly the same. Small-pox was recorded in only 2 cases, measles in 12, croup in 21. .There were 5 deaths from typhus in the sub-district of St. Margaret Westminster. Nine occurred in the London Fever Hospital. To bronchitis the deaths referred in the week were 151 (the corrected average 185); while to pneumonia there was hes than half that number. Phthisis carried off 148 persons. There were 20 death; from diphtheria, Four deaths from malignant diphtheria occurred in the sub-district of the village of Lewisham, of which three were in one family, .hat of an innkeeper at s place called Southend. Th 3 registrar adds that five deaths from diphtheria hase occurred in the same family within a fortnight; and the mother, Wh o sustained so great a loss, lad informed him that about two months ago part of a large pond near the house had been emptiel; and that when the same pond was cleansed about two years ago typhus raged to a frightful extent is Southend, a hamlet containing 300 persons, and es many as 40 is that small population were affectet by it. A needlewoman, aged 27 years, died on th e 28th ult. at 14, Mint-street, Borough-road, from " privation." Certified by nedical attendant. A . child, aged 5 months, died fron an overdose of syrup of poppies. The two oldest persons whose deaths are returned are a man, aged 96 years, and a widow 98. Last week the births of 965 boys and 940 girls, in all 1,905 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61, the average number (corrected) was 1986. BALLOT 8 °CIE i . At the weekly meeting of the executive committee, held on Tuesday last, at the offices in Guildhall chambers, the Rev. W. H. Bonner in the chair, Mr. Whitehurst, Elt, Mr. Bontems, Mr. Sydenham Nodes, Mr. Harris, Mr. Clowes, Mr. Le Maitre, Mr. Man, &c., present, a long dis c took plac e on t h e subject of the recent p o licy of th e the committee with reference to elections, which has been censured by some of the friends of the ballot in and out of Parliament. The committee agreed to the following reso lution :—" It having been reported to this committee that some members of the House of Commons who profess to be friends of the ballot, but appear to be more friendly to the return of Whig candidates, have complained of the advi c° which this committee has given to the supporters of th e ballot, in places where elections have lately occurr ed, namely, that they s h ou ld a b s t a i n f rom vo ti ng f o r caw' didates who were opp ose d t o th e b a ll o t, thi s com mittee desires to express it s conv i c ti on th a t th e po li cy i t h a s pur sued is that by whi c h ever y o th er i mpor t an t ques ti o n be' been carried, and, the only one by which th e ques tion of t he i ballot is likely to be settled ; and thi s comm itt e e we' ll ,. remind those who object to its policy, th a t it s a ction h as regard solely to the cause of the ballot, and not to the exigencies of party, and would ask whether even those e 5 - 1 1; gencies are not produced and aggravated by a system which holds nearly all the counties and small boroughs of the e 73 : 1 . : pire in a thraldom more complete than e ver was known . 1 ": the old borough-mongering times, and whi c h makes the representation of the people not a question of o pinion er t principle, but a question of the longest purse o r thegreateo extent of territorial power. This committe e , therefore, ca lls upon the friends of the ballot in the North Ridi n g of -31.°riv, • shire to follow the example so recently set them in Oxford shire and at Grimsby, and abstain from voting for any candidate who is unfavourable to the ballot." The City of Baltimore, f rom N ew Y or k, / (1112 £60,000, is now nearly a week overdue, and the Pre °l fox insurances upon her has advanced 40s. .