The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

~ AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Cunard Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, has arrived with advices from New York to the 15th. In the House of Representatives, on the 13th, Mr. Dawes, from the Committee of Investigation, renewed the debate on the Government contracts, in the course of which he said,— " The very first contract entered into by this Go vernment, after the troops had left their homes to come here, in April last, to defend the capital, by which they were to be fed, was a contract entered into for cattle. It was not made with a man:whose business it was to supply cattle to the market— not with a man who knew the price of beef in the markets of the country—but was entered into by the Government here with a man well known in this and in the other branch of Congress, for the last ten years, as an old stipendiary— one of the class of men who, in times past, made their money by such operations as buying the cer tificates of members for books at a discount, and then charging the full amount. The contract was made so that the first 2,200 head of cattle furnished was charged at a rate which enabled their original contractor to sublet it in 24 hours after to a man in New York who did know the price of beef, so that he put into his pockets, without stirring from his chair, 32,000 dols., and the men who actually fur nished the cattle in question put into their pockets 26,000 dols. more, so that the contract under which these 2,200 head of cattle were furnished to the army was so made that the profit of 58,000 dols, was rea lized over the fair market price. It takes a longer time for a thousand head of cattle to reach this city from the States where they are purchased than it takes the army to consume them. I ask the house, at this rate, to consider how long the most ample provisions of the Treasury would be able to meet the simple demands for the subsistence of the army. Sir, poorly as the army is shod to-day a million of shoes have already been worn out, and a million more are being manufactured; and yet upon every one of these there has been a waste of 75c. Three quarters of a million of dollars have been already worn out, and another three-quarters of a million of dollars upon shoes is now being manufactured. In that department of the Government contracts have been so plenty that Government officials have gone about the streets with their pockets filled with them, and of which they made presents to the clergymen of their parishes, and with which were healed old political sores and cured political feuds. Even the telegraph has announced that high public function aries have graced the love-feasts which were got up to celebrate these political reconciliations, thus brought about -while the hatchet of political animosity was buried in the grave of political eonfidence, and the national credit crucified among malefactors. We have reported to us the first fruits of these con tracts. A regiment of cavalry lately reached Louis ville 1,000 strong, and the board of army officers there, appointed for the purpose, have condemned 485 out of the 1,000 horses as utterly worthless. The man who examined these horses declared, upon his oath, that there was not' one of them worth 20 dole. They were blind, spavined, ringboned, afflicted with the heaves, with the glanders, and with every disease that horseflesh is heir to. These 485 horses cost the Government, before they were mustered into the service, 58,200 dole., besides over an additional 1,000 dole. to transport them from Pennsylvania to Louisville, where they were con demned and cast off. There are 83 regiments of cavalry to-day, 1,000 strong. It takes 250,000 dole. to put one of theee,regiments on foot before it moves. 20,000,000 dols. have thus been expended on these cavalry regiments before they left the encamp ments where they were mustered s into service, and hundreds and hundreds of these horses have been condemned and sent back to Elmira, and to Annapolis, and to this city, to spend the winter. Any day hundreds of them can be seen round this city chained to trees, where they were left to starve to death. Gangs of 200 - horses, in various places, have been thus left to die and rot, till the Committee on the District of Columbia have called for a mea sure of legislation to protect the city from the dan ger to be apprehended from these horse Golgothas. An ex Governor from one State offered to an ex- Judge of another State 5,000 dole. to get him per mission to raise one of these regiments of cavalry, and when the ex-Judge brought back the commission the ex-Governor takes it to his room at the hotel, while another plunderer sits at the keyhole, watch ing like a mastiff, while be inside counts up 40,000 dole, profit on the horses, and calculates 20,000 dole. more upon the accoutrements and on the other de tails of furnishing these regiments. In addition to the arms in the hands of the 600,000 soldiers in the field, there are numerous outstanding contracts made with private individuals—not made upon adver tisement, not made with the knowledge of the public, but made by ex-members of Congress, who know no more of the difference between one class of arms and another than does a Methodist minister. There are outstanding contracts for the manufacture of Springfield muskets, the first one of which cannot be delivered in six months from this day. There is a contract for the supply of 1,000,000 muskets, at 28 dole. apiece, when the same quality of muskets are manufactured at Springfield for 13 dols. 50e. apiece ; and an ex-member of Congress is now in Massachusetts trying to get machinery made by which he will b© able to manufacture in some six months ,hence, at 21 dole. apiece, those rifled mus kets manufactured to-day in that armoury for 13 dols. 50c. Providerce, before six months, will dis pose of this war, or He will dispose of us. Not one of those muskets thus contracted for will be of the slightest service in this emergency, or before the providence of God, whether for good or for evil, will dispose of it. I ask my friends, from the North and North-West how they expect to bene fit by an armoury at Chicago, at Rock Island, and at Quincy, when 1,092,000 muskets will, according to this contract, be thrown upon the country, and that after the war is over, and at such an enormous price, in addition:to other outstanding contracts for the manufacture, some time hence, of 272,000 En field rifles ? Besides these, 75,543 sets of harness are to be delivered by and by at the cost of 1,978,446. I have not time to enumerate all these contracts. When we appropriated at the last Ses sion of Congress for this purpose 20,000,000 dols., thirty seven millions and some thousands of dollars had been already pledged to contractors—not for the purchase of arms for the men in the field, not to protect them in fighting their country's battles in this great emergency and peril, but for some future use, for some future occasion, or to meet some pre sent need of the contractors, I don't know which at this moment. And not only the appropriation of last Session has been exhausted, but 17,000,000 dols. put upon it. The riot of the 19th of April in Balti more opened this ball ; and on the 21st of April, in the city of New York, there was organised a corps o f plunderers of the Treasury. 2,000,000 dole. were intrusted to a poor, unfortunate, honest, but entirely incompetent editor of a paper in New York to dis pense in the best manner he could. Straightway this gentleman began to purchase linen pantaloons, straw hats, London porter, dried herrings, and such like provisions for the army, till he had expended in this way 390,000 dols. of the money, and then he got scared and quit. (Laughter.) There is an appro priation, also, for the supply of wood to the army. This contractor is pledged the payment of seven dollars a cord for all the wood delivered to the dif ferent commands, wood collected after the labour of the soldiers themselves had cut down the trees to clear the ground for their batteries ; and then this contractor employs the army waggons to draw it to the several camps, and he has no further trouble than to draw his seven dollars for a cord, leaving the Government to draw the wood. (Laughter.) It costs two millions of dollars every day to support the army in the field. A hundred millions of dollars have thus been expended since we met on the 22d day of December, and all that time the army has been in repose. What the expen diture will increase to when that great day shall arrive, when our eyes shall be gladdened with a Bight 01 the army in motion, 1 do not know. Another hundred millions will go with the hun dreds more I have enumerated. Another hundred millions may b e added to th e se before the 4 th of March. What it may cost to put down the rebel- lion I care very little, provided always that it be put down effectually. But, sir, faith without works is dead, and I am free to confess that my faith sometimes fails me I mean my faith in men, not my faith in the cause. Th Treasury notes issued in the face of these imra: se outlays, without a revenue from Custom-hour e, from land sales, from any source whatever, is beginning to pall in the market. Already have they began to sell at six per cent, discount at the tables of the money changers ; at the very time, too, that we here ex hibit the singular spectacle of fraud, and of a struggle with the Committee of Ways and Means itself, in an endeavour to lift up and sustain the Government of the country. Already the sutler — that curse of the camp—is following the paymaster, as the shark follows the ship, buying for four dollars every five dollars of the wages of the soldiers paid to them in Treasury notes. I have no desire to hasten the movements of the army or to criticise the conduct of its leaders, but in view of the stupendous draughts upon the Treasury, I must say that I long for the day of striking the blow which will bring this rebellion to an end. Sixty days longer of this state of things will bring about a result one way or another. It is impossible that the Treasury of the United States can meet, and continue to meet, this state of things sixty days longer, and an ignominious peace must be submitted to unless we see to it that the credit of the country is sustained, and sus tained, too, by the conviction going forth from this hall to the people of the country that we will treat as traitors not only those who are bold and manly enough to meet us face to face in the field of strife, but all those who clandestinely and stealthily suck the lifeblood from us in this mighty struggle." Mr. Baker, of New York, reviewed the financial condition of the country, and advocated the passage of a tax bill to realise 100 million dols. The appro priation for continuing the coast survey, stricken out in committee of the whole, was restored by the house, and the bill was finally passed. On the 14th the house resumed the consideration of the bill to abolish the franking privilege, and after a lengthy discussion passed it by a vote of 107 against 42. In committee of the whole the bill making an appro priation of 35,500 dole. for the exhibition of Ame rican products at the London World's Fair was taken up, and a lively debate followed, from which we extract the following : "Mr. Julian (Republican), of Indiana, made a speech, maintaining slavery as the basis of the in surrection, and that national life and liberty can be saved only by giving liberty to all. " Mr. Conkling (Republican), of New York, said At the extra session a joint resolution was adopted, authorising the President to do certain things touching the World's Fair, and appropriating to carry out that resolution the sum of 2,000 dols. The bill now before the committee proposes to appropri ate 35,000 dole. in addition, to eventuate the pur pose of this resolution, End the amendment submit ted by Mr. Maynard forms and parcels out and de votes to certain specific purposes indicated the whole or a large portion of the appropriation. Now, for one, I am opposed to the original bill, and equally opposed to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Tennessee. If the question now before the house is a motion to strike out the existing clause, I am for the motion. I believe that, at this time, we have matter of much more importance to do with our money, whether it be the sum of 35,000 dollars, or any greater or less sum, than to send any commis sion to a fair in England, or to pay freight to Lon don on any articles there to be exhibited. We have a World's Fair now in session on this continent. We are all on exhibition before the world, and we are within the sight and within the hearing and un dergoing the examination of all Christendom. There is a competition going on here, a grapple for the mastery in the fine arts, and in the arts that are not so fine, and we are destined here, if deserving of them, without this appropriation, or any portion of it, to receive premiums and diplomas, and to have monuments erected to our national industry and skill, which will stand in very conspicuous places on the banks and shoals of time. There is a theatre here, abundant for the display of every species of national proficiency at this time, affording an oppor tunity to record, high up as any man desires to see it recorded in the Temple of Fame and on the page of history, American capacity. It is said that it might seem at this time like turning a cold shoulder to Great Britain if we were not represented at the coming carnival of industry of all nations. I do not think that the English Government—l do not mean the English people—has been at this particular time inclined to stand so very much on what I have heard called the high pints' of good behaviour, as she has been on some other occasions ; certainly not so much that we are called upon to devote 35,000 dols. to purposes of urbanity, if for otherreasons we ought not to do it. I think we have treated England exceedingly well. If recent reports in the papers are true, we have extended recently at least one marked act of courtesy to the British Government as to the transit of troops. If, therefore, we ought notior other reasons to appropriate this money, I think that considerations of politeness will not con strain us to do it. I hope that the amendment will fail, and that every proposition will fail to give, at this time, one cent. to send abroad from this conti nent, to find another theatre on which we may make on exhibition of any arts or sciences or powers tha we may possess. " Mr. Lovejoy, (Republican), of Illinois—l am very decidedly opposed to this bill. I think it is enough for us, in all conscience, to have been hum bugged, and dishonoured, and disgraced by the British nation, without now appropriating 35,000 dole. for the purpose of an American Exhibition there. " Mr. Kellogg, (Republican), of Illinois, inquired if it had been through the action of the British Go vernment, or of our own Government, that we have been thus dishonoured and disgraced? " Mr. Lovejoy—l understand how it was done. That disgrace was all that the nation could bear. We marched up to it sweating great drops of blood. We came to it as Christ went to the cross, saying, If it be possible, let this cup pass from us ;' and yet we are required to say that we did it cheerfully —that we did it gladly—and that we now appro priate thankfully 35,000 dols. to fit out commis sioners to appear at the Court of St. James's. In- asmuch as we have submitted to that disgrace, as we have submitted to be thus dishonoured by Great Britain, I think the least we can do is to acknow ledge it, and to stay at home till the time comes that we can whip that nation. Then I will be will ing to go and appear at their World's Exhibition. Every time I think of that surrender, the words come instinctively to me which dEneas used when requested by Queen Dido to rehearse the sufferings which had befallen the Trojans during the siege and capture of Troy—' Oh, Queen, you require me to renew the intolerable grief of that siege by re acting it.' Every time the Trent affair comes up, every time that an allusion is made to it, every time that I have to think of it, that expression of the tortured and agonized Trojan exile comes to my lips—l am made to renew the horrors which I suf. fered when the news of the surrender of Mason and Slidell reached us. _ I acknowledge it, I literally wept tears of vexation. I hate it, and I hate the British Government. I here now publicly avow and record that hate, and declare that it shall be un extinguishable. I mean to cherish it while I live, and to bequeath it to my children when I die; and if I am alive when war with England comes. and if I can carry a musket in that war, I will carry it. I have three sons, and I mean to charge them, and do now charge them, that if they shall have at that time reached the years of manhood and strength, they shall enter into that war. I believe there was no need for that surrender, and I believe that the nation would rather have gone to war with Great Britain than have suffered the disgrace of being insulted and being thus unavenged. I have not reached the sublimation of Christianity —that exaltation of Christianity which allows me to be insulted, abused, and dishonoured. I can bear all that as a Christian, but to say that I do it cheer fully is more than I can bring myself to. I trust in God that the time is not far distant when we shall have suppressed this rebellion, and be prepared to avenge and wipe out this insult that we have received. We will then sti r up I reland, we will appeal to the Chartists of Engla n d, We will go to the old French habitans of Canada, We will join the E h s a n s t d e s r n w it possessionsPr nc e of and that Russia proud to em t p a i k r e e sawn daywill take away the crown from that Government before we cease. I trust in God that that time will come. I trust the appropriation will be voted down. One of our commissioners, I understand, is the individual who writes those pleasant letters, asking us to sub mit to insult cheerfully—to smile at this bitter cup, drugged with the bitterest ingredients that were ever pressed to human lips, and not to make a face about it. I don't believe there was any necessity for this surrender. lam strongly inclined to believe that we should have been all the stronger for this difficulty with Great Britain, for it would have made us feel the necessity of making short work with the rebels. " After further debate the house passed the bill by a large majority.—Adjourned." The bill reported by the Committee of Ways and Means, making appropriations for the support of the army, provides for the support of the army for the year ending the 30th of June, 1863, as fol- lows :---- Dols. Cts, For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance .. .. For purchase of books of tactics and instruc tions for volunteers .. .. .. 50,000 00 For pay of the army .. .. .. .. 8,905,318 00 For commutation of officers' subsistence .. 1,574,186 50 For commutation of forage for officers' horses 283,414 00 For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants 180,000 00 150,000 00 71,630 00 Tor pay of volunteers under Acts of 22d and 25th of July, 1861 .. 147,283,282 00 For subsistence in kind for regulars and vo lunteers .. • • • • • • For the regular supplies of the Quartermas ter's Department • • • • For the incidental expenses of the Quar termaster's Department 16,000,000 00 For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses .. 3,913,680 00 For mileage or the allowance made to offi cers of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage, when tra velling on duty, without troops, escorts, or supplies .. 1,000,000 00 For hire or commutation of quarters for offi cers on military duty, hire of quarters for troops, of s' orehouses for the safe keeping of military storee, of grounds for summer cantonments, for the construction of tem porary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at estab lished posts • • •• •• For heating and cooking stoves For gunboats on the Western rivers For contingencies of the army .. For clothing for the army, camp, and garri son equipage, and for expenses of offices and arsenals 30,630,717 9, For the medical and hospital department For contingent expenses of the Adjutant- General's Department, at department head-quarters . For compensation of the clerk and mes senger in the office of the Commanding General .. For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding General .. • For supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war .. For amount of fortifications For the current expenses of the ordnance service • • • 732,600 00 For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies including horse equipments for all mount ed troops .. 7,380,000 00 For the manufacture of arms at the national armoury JO For repairs and improvements and new ma chinery at thenational armoury at Spring field, Massachusetts .. For the purchase of gunpowder and lead For additions to and extension of shop room, machinery, tools, and fixtures at arsenals .. - .. 58,429,170 80 .. 3,300,000 00 .. 3,500,000 00 .. 75,000 00 .. 1,000,000 00 .. 400,000 00 200,300 00 •• 200,000 00 300 00 .. 1,124,576 00 • • 1 , 620 , 500 00 .. 1,800, 00 00 .. 500,000 00 100,000 00 10,000 00 10,000 00 For surveys of military defences .. For purchase and repair of instruments .. For printing charts of lake surveys .. For continuing the survey of the Northern and North-western lakes, including Lake Superior .. .. 105,000 00 For pay of two and three years' volunteers 50,000,000 00 For payments to discharged soldiers for lAvtlaisafs sob drorwsa. _ _ _ For subsistence in kind for two and three years' volunteers .. 26,668,902 00 For transportation of the army and its sup- 50.000 00 plies .. .. .. .. .. .. 14,000,881 00 For the purchase of dragoon and artillery horses •• •• •• •• •• , , 1 661 040 00 For clothing, camp and garrison equipage 12,173,546 77 For the medical and hospital department.. 1,000,000 00 For amount required to refund to the Sates expenses, incurred on account of volun. teers called into the field.. .. 15,000,000 00 Mr. Cameron had retired from the Secretaryship of the Army. It is alleged that he did not agree with the President in managing the war on sound principles with reference to'slavery questions. Mr. Cameron was inclined to take the Abolitionist view of things, and advocated arming slaves. Therefore the President had permitted him to retire, and had placed in his stead a man who was presumed to be sound on these questions. The new Secretary, the Hon. E. M. Stanton, is a lawyer, and has been for many years a resident:of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylva nia. He acquired in his profession a reputation for great ability, industry, and administrative skill, and those who are best acquainted with him unite with those who know him by reputation only, in according the highest praise to his personal cha racter, honour, and integrity. Mr. Stanton is in politics a Democrat, of very firm principle. In ac cepting office under the President it is understood that he makes no compromise of his principles. The present necessities of the nation rise altogether above political distinctions and party names, and, while the President is a Republican and Mr. Stan ton a Democrat, both are agreed in devotion to the Constitution and the Union, and in approving a constitutional administration of the war. On the slavery question it is well known that Mr. Stan ton's view, like those of the President, are firmly opposed to any of the scitemes of proclaiming eman cipation or arming the slaves. Mr. Stanton was Attorney-General in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, at the close of the last Administration, and was then distinguished for the firm and patriotic course which he adopted. The appointment was said to be highly satisfactory to General M'Clellan, and the entrance of Mr. Stanton upon office would, per haps, be signalised by army movements which would show that the Commander-in-Chief had been no laggard in the great work. The Washington correspondent of the New York World alludes to other probable changes in the Cabinet : " The city is filled with rumours respecting the probablb retirement of at least two other members of the Cabinet. The Hon. Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, and the Hon. Montgomery Blair, Postmaster-General, are the gentlemen indicated by the gossip of the hotels. Mr, Smith, who enjoys in a high degree the confidence of Mr. Lincoln, will, it is said, assume one of the vacant seats in the Supreme Court, while Mr. Blair will decline any other appointment at the hands of the Presi dent. I'eople who profess to know say an un guarded letter to General Fremont, in which Gene ral Scott and other high officials are criticised, is at the bottom of this matter. Mr. Holt may fill Mr. Smith's place, and Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, Mr. Blair's, but of course nobody knows anything about it. The President has every confidence in Mr. Welles, and he is not to be disturbed." In a collision which occurred on the Bth inst., on the Michigan Central Railroad, Judge William T. Barron, of the Probate Court, in Chicago, met death in a most remarkable mariner. He was among the passengers on an accommodation train, which was overtaken by an express train near Hyde Park, and with the rest of the passengers in a rear car rushed forward to get out of danger, Just as he got on the platform of the car the collision occurred. The force of the collision (hove the platform of the passenger car under that of the baggage car, so that by some means Judge Barron's body was drawn beneath the platform of the latter, where it stuck fast, while his head was cut smoothly off and hurled along upon the snow. B o th h an d s were also cut off just above the wrist s , one o f w hi c h was found only after a long search. Wh en th e h ea d was picked up the eyes were open and every expression of the face was as natural as when in life. The Boston ,Journal of the 13th instant makes THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1862. the following complimentary remarks on British officers : "More than twenty British staff and field officers were at one of the principal hotels in Boston on Friday and Saturday last, en route for Canada. They were a fine-looking set of men, and by their absence of fuss and pretension put to the blush many of the minor officers of our Volunteers. From the tons of baggage which accompanied them it is presumable they intend to remain some time in the Can adas." General M'Clellan had recovered sufficiently to resume business. It was intended to organise and equip the Mi litia of the loyal States, attention being particu larly directed to the Artillery. Work in the New York Navy-yards had become slack, the " Mortar Fleet" being nearly fitted out. The expedition for which these vessels were in tended was expected to be the last of those about to be undertaken on the Atlantic seaboard, as the Government agents had ceased to charter or pur chase steamers and sailing vessels, ferry boats, canal boats, and whatever other variety of naval craft they could obtain. The New York ship builders were preparing proposals for the 20 gun boats, or, more accurately speaking, " iron. clad steam batteries," which were provided for in a bill before Congress. The specifications, most minute and elaborate, had been already drawn up. The principal dimensions of the boats will be 216 ft. 2in. in length, 48ft. in extreme breadth, and 13ft. 1 lin. in depth of hold. Each boat is to have two revolving turrets, worked on familiar mechanical principles, and each' containing a columbiad of the largest calibre, which, by the movement of the tur ret upon its axis, can be instantly directed at plea sure to any point of the horizon. The turrets will be 211 feet in diameter, and about 9 feet high, and will be composed of solid oak 10 inches thick, with an inside iron plating of 2 inches, and an outside iron plating of 3 inches. At the ends of the hull the plating will be 31 inches thick—for a space of 15 feet from either end 31- inches thick—and over the rest of the vessel 41 inches thick. The iron must be subject to a test equal to a tensile strain of 55,0001 b. on the square inch. The estimated eutire weight of the plates is about 6901 tons. It had " transpired" through letters from the Upper Potomac that the Confederates under Gen. Jackson, numbering from all accounts some 18,000, and having 18 pieces of cannon, had, after threaten ing Romney, countermarched in the direction of Winchester. They made their appearance opposite Hancock on the 12th, but at a considerable dis tance. On the 4th inst., we now learn for the first time, Jackson attacked some 500 Federal troops at Bath, who were forced, in consequence of their in ferior numbers, to fall back to, Hancock. A despatch from General Garfield, dated Points ville, Kentucky, January 8, reports his occupation of that place, after driving out the Confederates, and inflicting much loss upon them. On the 24th ult. the Federal cruiser Gem of the Seas burnt the British schooner Prince of ',Vales, of Nassau, off Georgetown. On the 31st ult. the Augusta captured the schooner Island Belle, of Nassau, laden with sugar and molasses, about 12 ged with shot. schooner miles h oo 1: 1 t s h- u r e r a e a n t d o e f B r ed u I s 1' sls he was lan d d a l m i g a h t. Before the The remaining portion of tho Burnside's expedi tion left Fortress Monroe on the 12th. Advices from Cairo report that on the 14th the Union gunboats Essex and Tyler made a reconnais• sance down the river to within a mile and a half of Columbus, and fired several shots into the Confede rate camps there. The fire was returned, but with out effect. No obstructions in the river nor masked batteries on the shore were discovered, although both were reported to exist. General M'Clernand's column moved in the direction of Blandville, Ken tucky, on the 14th, and General Paine's force ad vanced from Bird's Paint. The 2d Regiment of the Douglas Brigade arrived at Cairo on the evening of the 14th, and the 7th lowa, Bth Wisconsin, and 45th Illinois Regiments were expected there next day. From Port Royal our advices are to the Bth inst., the vessel which brought them to New York having a quantity or cotton uu board. Nothing of import ance has transpired. In the United States District Court on the 14th the case of the British prize vessel Cheshire was heard. The District Attorney called on an order to show cause in this case why the cargo of the above vessel should not be appraised and sold, and the proceeds paid into court, to abide the final event of the suit. Mr. Edwards on behalf.of the claimants, opposed the application, and submitteclaffidavits against it. United States' Assistant District Attorney Woodford replied, urging that the affidavits showed the cargo to be perishing, and that un der the circumstances it was unjust alike to the claimants and the captors to allow the cargo to waste away pending the lingering delays of an appeal to the Circuit and thence to the Supreme Court. He admitted that much favour should be shown to the private claimants of the cargo, but added that the naval officers who made the capture, in their efforts to enforce the blockade, were also entitled to consideration at the hands of the Court, and especially was this the case when the Court by its pronounced opinion had held this vessel and cargo to be lawful prize. The Judge, after hearing the arguments, ordered the sale, and directed that the entering of the final decree be stayed until the xecution and return of the order of sale. SPOTTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'-YESTERDAY. The appearance of the room this afternoon gave evidence of the increased interest infused into the sporting circles by the open nature of the weather, and the advent of the re maining spring handicaps. Many of those who favoured the Corner with a look in came, no doubt, more for the pur pose of gleaning the on dies than with the intention of com mencing active operations, caution promoting a reservation until after the acceptances are declared. Speculation was occasionally indulged in, and in several instances with some spirit; but upon the whole the subjoined list was col lected with some difficulty, and must, in a measure, bo taken as nominal, layers in every instance exhibiting the greatest caution. THE Two THOUSAND.—For this important event Sir R. Bulkeley's colt was in great demand, his opening price being readily taken, and at the cicse 4 to 1 to a "monkey" was noted down by a first-rate speculator. Caterer was also inquired after, and 13 ponies were booked about him. The CHESTER. Cur this year appears to oppose endless obstacles to the talent in selecting a favourite. The prin cipal books now opened upon that all-important spring en gagement offering 33 to 1 on the field, when this time last year half those odds were taken about three. Agag upon the first blush of the handicap was made the favourite at 40 to 1, since which Umpire has been elected to that posi tion, and in the city as also hero this afternoon was strongly supported at 33 to 1, having evidently the call of Godding's representative, who did not appear in such good odour. Brown Duchess was inquired after, but her market price did not meet with a response. Zodiac, sister to Stafford, and The Vest colt were supported at 40 to 1 each, but more for the purpose of testing the actual price than as an in vestment, and Rubicon and Frailty from the outside division were mentioned for small amounts. THE DERBY.—The favourite, Buckstone, did not appear quite so firm as his admirers could wish. After some trifling fencing his opponents appeared to gain heart, and at last half a point more than his quoted odds were laid, 17 to 2 to .CO, but which we doubt could have been obtained at the close. Old Calabar was firm at his price, and 13 to Ito some money was taken about The Marquis. Wingrave and the Typee colt were supported by their respective stables, but the latter was in most demand. Lord Stamford's colt Athleta was also in great force, and 30 to 1 to all that could be got on was invested. Zetland and Neptunus, from the northern division, Were touched upon at 40 to 1 each, and Star of the West from Vantage was returned at 50 to 1. CHESTER CUP. 33 to 1 aist Umpire (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Aga... (offered) 40 to 1 agst Vest colt (taken) 40 to 1 agst Zodiac (taken) 40 to 1 agst Brown Duchess (taken) 40 to 1 agst Sister to Stafford (taken) 50 to 1 agst Rubicon (taken) 50 to 1 agst Frailty (taken) THE DERBY. 17 to 2 agst Buckstone (taken) 10 to 1 agst Old Calabar (taken and offered) 13 to 1 agst Marquis (taken) 25 to 1 agst Typee colt (taken) 25 to 1 agst Wingrave (taken) 30 to 1 agst Athleta (taken) 40 to 1 agst Zetland (taken) 40 to 1 agst Neptunus (taken) 50 to 1 agst Star of the W est (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agst Old Calabar (taken) sto 1 agst Marquis (offered) 13 to 1 agst Atbleta (taken) 13 to 1 agst Caterer (taken) THE DREADFUL COLLIPRY ,4 CCIDENT IN NOR7IIUMBERLAND. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MONDAY MORNING. At half-past 3 o'clock yesterday morning the work of bringing up the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers was ended. At that time 199 bodies had been recovered, and after a very careful search through the workings of the middle seam, no more could be found. Notwithstanding that the venti lation of the further workings is still very incomplete, two or three daring men penetrated to the " staple" which communicates with the lower seam, where they found that the water had risen in the lower workings to the height of 18 feet. It will therefore be impossible for some time to get at those whose retreat may have been cut off in the lower seam. The body of the overman Amour, who would take the command of the party below, and in whose courage and experience and fertility of resource great confidence was felt, was one of the earliest brought, and in a memorandum-book in his pocket was found the following touching, but consolatory record : Friday afternoon, half-past 2.—Edward Arm strong, Thomas Gledson, John Hardie, Thomas Bell, and others, took extremely ill. We had also a prayer meeting at a quarter to 2, when Tibbs, H. Sharpe, J. Campbell, H. Gibson, and William Palmer. (The sentence is incomplete.) Tibbs ex horted to us again and Sharpe also." From this, which is all the intelligence that is likely to come to us from below of the dreadful scene, we learn not only the resigned frame of mind in which the poor fellows met their fate, but also that the gas had begun to take effect on them at an earlier period than was supposed. Amour's watch was stopped at 10 o'clock, and as he was one of the most powerful men of the party, it is permitted us to hope that the majority, if not all, were stretched in their last sleep by Friday night. All the bodies were buried yesterday in the presence of an immense concourse of people, who flocked in from all parts of the district. Their graves were dug hastily in a small plot of ground sloping down to Earlsdon churchyard, and to this spot yesterday afternoon a long string of country carts, each with its freight of two or three coffins, might have been seen making its way along the narrow roads. There was scarcely a house in any of the three villages in which the men were lodged which had not contri buted to this ghastly procession. From some two, three, and four coffins were brought out ; arid as I passed by the open door of one cottage I saw in the middle of the floor a pyramid of seven. In this case the poor woman had lost her husband and six sons- During the day various ministers of religion de livered suitable addresses from the pit heap, and both there and at the burial ground the people as sembled behaved with the greatest decorum. The following letter from the Queen was read by the clergyman of the parish : " OSBORNE, JAN. 23. " Sir,--The Queen, in the midst of her own over whelming grief, has taken the deepest interest in the dreadful accident at Hartley, and up to the last had hoped that at least a considerable number of the poor people might have been recovered alive. The appalling news since received has affected the Queen very much. " Her Majesty commands me to say that her ten derest sympathy is with the poor widows and mothers, and that her own misery only makes her feel the more for them. " Her Majesty hopes that everything will be done as far as possible to alleviate their distress, and her Majesty will feel a sad satisfaction in assisting in such measures. " Pray let me know what is doing. " I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient humble servant, " C. B. PHIPPS. " Charles Carr, Esq., Hartley Colliery." Now that the excitement of recovering the dead is over, and the last sad offices havebeen discharged, the next question which arises is what were the causes of the calamity, and who, if any, were the persons responsible. From all I have heard there is a much sterner determination to press for a pre , cise answer to these questions than has ever been manifested on similar occasions before. The feeling is not confined to the pitmen and others concerned in colliery operations, but it is fully shared by the general public here. The sickening suspense of the last ten days has created an intense excitement on the subject throughout the district, and I have heard very strong expressions used to which per haps it would not be altogether right to give pub licity. At first it was proposed that the miners should address the Queen, praying for a special commission to inquire into the matter, but the question is a very simple one, requiring little scientific evidence for its solution, and such an ex traordinary interference with the jurisdiction of the coroner seems totally unnecessary. For many of the colliery accidents, particularly those in volving questions of ventilation, a coroner's jury is, perhaps, as incompetent a tribunal as could be found; but there is nothing in this particular acci dent with which any 12 men may not deal. I was not here in time to attend the first inquest on the five men who were killed in the cage while ascending the shaft, but, from the reports I have read of it in the public journals, I think there will be a loud storm of disapprobation if the coming inquiry is not much fuller and more searching. The coroner seems to have brought a verdict of accidental death ready cut and dried in his pocket, to which the jury agreed with very little delay; but there have been such decided warnings given that so quick a despatch of the remaining part of the inquiry would not be tolerated, that it would be a sad mistake to neglect them. The facts, how ever, lie in so narrow a compass that there is no necessity for a protracted inquest ; all that is re quired is that none of the points should be slurred over. As everybody knows by this time, the work ings of the Hartley Mine were reached by a single shaft, the diameter of which was 12ft. For purposes of ventilation this was divided into two equal parts by a wooden partition, called in mining language a brattice, which ran down it from top to bottom. One side served as a downcast pit, by which the air was carried down to the workings, and, having been passed round them by the ordinary means, rushed to the surface again by the other half of the shaft, which thus become the upcast, For all pur poses of ventilation this arrangement appears to have been perfectly adequate ; at least, I have beard no complaints of the quantity of air furnished to the men. It was not a fiery pit—that is, none of the explosive gases were generated in it, and pro. bably some 20,000 cubic feet of air per minute would be all that was required. There were three seams of coal in the colliery—the upper, 240 feet from the surface; the middle or yard seam, 180 feet below that ; and the lower seam, 180 feet still lower—making the whole depth of the shaft about 600 feet, or 100 fathoms. Unfortunately, it was 'the lower seam which was being worked at the time. In the downcast were worked the cages for the passage of the men and minerals, and in the upcast worked the pumps, which were of great force. The pit is what is called a very wet one— that is, there is a large flow of water into it. The pumps were capable of lifting 180 tons of water at each stroke, and their average working was from five to six strokes per minute. The mine is but a short distance from the sea; in fact, from the pit's mouth you may see the masts of a small brig lying at anchor off the coast ; and as the water at the bottom of the pit is perceptibly salt, it is probable the sea is the principal feeder. The engine from which the pumps derive their motive power is placed close to the pits, and the great beam to which their "spears" or rods were attached projected over the upeast, and worked right over it at a consider.. able height. The water was brought up at two lifts, first to the upper seam, about 240 feet from the surface, and then to bank. There were, eonse- quently, two sets of pumps and two spurs —one passing from the outer endornose of the beam down the upeast t o th e p u mps fixed in the s h a f t, and the other fixed to the hinder end of the beam, which "staple" or narrow sha f t worked u p an d d o wn a communicating with the upper seam, and again, most unfortunately, with the upper seam only. Oa the morning of Thursday, the 16th, the beam, with out warning, snapped in two, slightly in front of its axis. It was just making an up-stroke at the time, and the detached half fell, nose first, right into the centre of the shaft. It struck first against that part of the brattice which rises above the level of the groUnd, without doing it much damage, re bounded against the side of the shaft, and then went down, carrying with it all the bratticing and most of the timber with which the sides of the shaft were lined. The cage which was ascending the shaft at the time was carried away, and the ruins stuck fast about six fathoms above the middle seam, thus blocking all access to the men below. No satisfac tory cause has yet been assigned for the sudden breaking of the beam. It is an immense casting, weighing more than 40 tons. Looking at its massive proportions, it is easy to see how little any one could have expected such a failure. It is well pro portioned, and the metal seems of excellent quality. The fracture has revealed a large hole in the casting, some six inches long and four inches deep, which at first sight appears to be a honeycomb, but which is in fact a natural shrinkage in the prccess of cooling, hardly to be avoided in castings of this size. All the engineers who have inspected it agree that it did not weaken the beam to any appreciable degree, and in fact that the breakage is not to be accounted for by an inherent defect in the beam itself. It has been suggested that one of the nuts on the lower part of the cylinder may have failed. Again, about a month ago it as thought desirable to fix in new brasses for the beam to work on. For this purpose it was lifted bodily, by hydraulic power, three inches out of its bearings. One of the hydraulics broke in the pro cess, and the beam came d own suddenly into the old bearings with a jerk. This, it is conjectured, first fractured the beam, though no marks of a crack ever" seem to have been discovered. My own opinion— and, of course, I only give it as the result of a com parison of a variety of statements—is that the first cause of the accident was the breakage of one of the spears or rods of the pumps—the spear which runs down the upcast and is fastened to the outer end of the beam. It may not be possible to bring it out in evidence, but I believe it is most probable that some stoppage took place in the action of the pumps. A sudden tension was put upon the rod which it was unable to bear, and it gave way. These rods are of pine wood, about 6 inches in diameter, and on exa mining the part where the fracture took place the fibres present the appearance of having been drawn out, and not snapped across. This favours the theory that the force was applied from below, and the break was not caused by, and subsequent to, the falling of the beam. The weight of the spears and the column of water lifted by the beam was together I believe about 40 tons. The sudden release of this great strain destroyed the equilibrium between the two ends of the beam, and the casting snapped im mediately at the axis like a rotten stick. This, I believe, is the explanation favoured by the most ex perienced men who have examined into the matter on the spot. The next point to be inquired into is, why a passage was not made to the living tomb in which the men were enclosed till after five days un remitting, and I may almost say unparalleled exer tions ? This is the most important point of all, for another beam like this may not break again for the next 50 years—in fact, such an accident has never happened before—but in pits worked in a similar manner the colliers may be shut up any day from a dozen different causes. Public opinion at once fixed upon the real cause of the terrible sacrifice of life in the use of a single shaft only, and it is of course evident that had there been a second shaft the great majority of these unfortunate creatures might have been brought safely to bank in a couple of hours. None need have lost their lives but those who were killed in the cage, and perhaps the few whose retreat was cut off at the bottom of the shaft by the fall, and whose bodies have not yet been found. I shall have more to say on the single shaft system, and will only now point out that the blame which has been lavished so freely on the owners for adopting it, and the inspector for tacitly acquiesc ing in it, is not altogether deserved. It is un doubtedly a barbarous system, and it is to be hoped it will at once be prohibited. If such should be the result of this accident, the friends of these poor fel lows will have the consolation that they did not die in vain. But both owners and inspector found the system in full operation, and, I am sorry to say, from ail I hear ; rather extending than falling into decay, for I am told that at least half-a-dozen pits not far from this have been recently opened and worked with a single shaft. A man who takes ad•• vantage of a custom of the trade—bad though it be —cannot be viewed in the same unfavourable light as he who wilfully neglects all the precautions which are taken by his neighbours. As for the inspector, I expect everybody knew that he looked upon two shafts as much safer than one—at least, if he put them on a level, he differs from his brother inspectors ; but if he had proposed, before this acci dent, to the Secretary of State to shut up all the pits in his district with a single shaft, he would have had a very unquiet time of it in the county of Northumberland, and would very soon have been obliged to retreat from his position. In justice to Messrs. Carr, too, it ought to be mentioned that borings were being made towards the workings of the old Hartley pit, close by, which, when the water had run off, would have effected a communi cation between the two mines, so that in a very short time there would actually have been two sh efts in ope ration. But a much less excusable feature in the case is the fact that, without the necessity of sinking a second shaft, a communication might have been very easily effected with the lower workings, which, for purposes of ingress and egress, would have been just as valuable, and would just as surely have saved all the men's lives. As I have said, there are three seams of coal in the mine. Between the lower and middle, a distance of 30 fathoms, there is a commu nication by means of a staple, or elongated main hole, furnished with a ladder, and it was up this that the men retreated to the middle seam from the lower, where they were at work when the accident happened. Between the upper seam and the sur face there is another staple, but there is no commu nication between the middle and the upper seam. The distance is 30 fathoms, and I am told that it might have been made at a very small expense; £2OO probably would leave a margin. If it had been there, all the men would have stepped to earth in a quarter of an hour safe and sound, and instead of the harrowing scenes of yesterday, the poor widows would still have had their bread-winners by their sides. It may be said that the profits o the colliery could not afford the expense of making a new shaft, but it is to be hoped that some expla- nation will be given at the inquest why so cheap, so obvious, and so efficient a substitute was not re commended and provided. Another point on which very clear evidence ought to be required is the state of the shaft. I am very much inclined to believe that, even in the absence of a second means of exit, had the sides of the shaft been securely walled in the accident would never have assumed such fright ful proportions, and the men might have been reached in time to save their lives. The mere ruins of the bratticing carried down by the beam might have been cleared away in a very short time. It was the immense mass of shale and sand brought away from the sides of the shaft which rendered the work so great. It appears that the shaft was walled in for a short distance, and that below that the sides were merely timbered up wherever it was necessary. These timbers were of course struck down by the beam in its passage in many plaees, the loose strata behind gave way at once, and made the mischief ten times greater. The shaft was so terribly shaken hat from its original diameter of 12 feet lam told that in one place it had opened out to the breadth of not less than 30 feet. The falls went on during all the progress of recovery, and the precautions which it was necessary to take to protect the sinkers consumed much valuable time. Every foot they gained had to be secured by strong "cribbing" behind them, and when ore looks to the dangers and difficulties under which they worked, sus pended in slings, with no secure footing beneath, the water pouring in from above, and the sides of the shaft crumbling away around them, to say nothing of the stifling gas which rose through the ruins beneath in the latter days, the wonder is, not that they were so long i n effecting a passage, but that they accomplished so much in so short a time. VENZILATION OF COAL 311.1VES. llt is agreed on all hands that better ventilation is the one thing requisite for the prevention of ,those dreadful mining catastrophes of which we are often hearing. In coal mines, while accidents of other kinds diminish, explosions increase. In 1856 sonar six score lives were lost at Cymmer pit, in South. Wales; in 1857 nearly 200 were sacrificed at Lund bill, in Yorkshire; in 18 1 8 we had several great explosions, which raised the aggregate number of deaths from this cause 215 ; aL'd after the sight re lief in 1859, in which year no very destructive ex plosion occurred, we have, iu 1860, a record more calamitous than in almost any previous year—we had the Burradon explosion at the beginning of the year, slaughtering nearly four score colliers ix the north country district, and before its close we , had the great Risca calamity in South Wales, re sulting in 142 deaths, and the Hetton, in Durham, by which 21 persons lost their lives. Mr. Hughes, of Hatton-garden, who has paid much attention to thissubject, has published a pamphlet in which he recommends a plan of subterranean ventilation, which may perhaps be usefully considered at the present time. To borrow the summary of the , Mining Journal--"` The object of Mr. Hughes's invention is to supply f r esh air to mines and other places by forcing it thereto and to the various parts thereof by suitable pipes or channels, under pressure, in place of simA" providing for its flow into and through the mine or other place to be ven tilated, as is the general prat,' ti,se. In carrying out his invention, the air to be sup7?2 ied is collected in a suitable reservoir, adapted to force air therefrom when required by suitable pipes or' Conduits to the different parts requiring fresh air; mcd he prefers for the reservoir apparatus similar to oas-holders of gas works, having moveable upper part or dome, and water, or flexible, or other suitable joints, forming retaining means or packit2g be tween such upper parts or dome and the .ease or frame ; such retaining means or packing being "adap ted to admit of the dome sliding freely, and yet - of preventing the escape of air therefrom at such parts. There is also a passage to such dome, adapted too admit fresh air therein when such dome is being moved in one direction, and to close when moved in the opposite direction. And there is another valve passage, adapted t 3 be closed by its valve when mo tion is given to the dome of the te. , :ervoir for the admission of fresh air thereto, and to open in the opposite directi o n, so that the fresh air collected in the reservoir may be allowed to pass away . by such passage when the dome is moved in the direction for that purpose. The ul per or moveable part of the reservoir may be lifted by a steam engine, or other suitable power, and its weight (which may be regu lated) may be the means of forcing the air there from through the desired channels, or such move able part may be moved in both directions by steam engine or other power. The air may be conducted down the mine and into the various chambers or pas sages thereof; or to such other places as desired, by pipes or otherwise, with outlets at various places, capable of being closed when not required by taps, valves, or traps also adapted to receive connexions for flexible or other branches, in order that currents of fresh air may be taken to the channels, galleries, workings, or other places where they are particularly required, and then if desired, closed or reduced when the occasion for them has ceased. The fresh air may w hen desired, be dried in its passage from the reser voir by passing through channels or chambers heated by a furnace or otherwise. Registering ap paratus, such as that applied to gas and other mete: s, may also be applied to the moving parts of the re servoir, which, by indicating the number of motions: thereof, will indicate the quantity of air communi cated in a given time. Thus may the amount of fresh air supplied to the mine or other place during any period be accurately measured and registered. Means such as herein described will be found useful in sinking shafts, forming tunnels, or other work ings, for the purpose of supplying fresh air thereto,, or air adapted to neutralise any unpleasant gas. arising in a particular locality; and in case of need will be found useful in conveying messages and even food or water, when an accident may have taken place. As it is well known that more miners are killed by after-damp than by firedamp, Mr. Hughes an ticipates that inasmuch as after an explosion the men not dead might go to the outlets of the pipes, and get the fresh air, there would be a diminution of 75 per cent. in the number of deaths from colliery explosions, and the apparatus would not get out of order by an explosion. The tendency of Mr. Hughes's system of ventilation is to disperse, and not to collect the gas, and by its use the gas in the coal would be driven in rather than drawn out- The air would always be fresh, as it would go direct from the surface to the man by whom it was to be breathed, and the air channels could be readily ex tended as the workings progressed. The holders may be made self-acting, and to work by steam or water. In case of fire in the mine the air-pipes could be used as water-pipes, and the fire thus speedily extinguished. The atmosphere would be rendered much more healthy for the miners to work in, and a supply of fresh air would be always at his commend, which could be applied at any required point by means of flexible tubes. The inventor confidertly believes that by the means he proposes the ventilation could, with ease and economy, be made so perfect that naked lights might be used with safety ; and that the merits of the invention would be particularly manifest in sinking shafts or wells, tunnelling, or for clearing the atmosphere after blasting. COUNT Rl' 211 A ItKi, z . l, GLOUCESTER -JAN. 25. An average supply of English wheat, and except for the finest samples the sales made were at a reduction of is per qr. Foreign less inquired for, and in some instances is lower. Barley and beans may be considered unaltered. Oats a slow sale. CH ELM SFORD-JAN. 24. A fair supply of wheat, which was taken off slowly, the best samples barely maintaining late rates, and inferior at is per qr cheaper than last week. Spring oorn of every description the shade lower. Beans down is, with little business doing in anything. Wheat, old white 29s 63s new 49s 69s old red 29s 52s new 54s 63s Barley 26s 39s Chevalier 26s 42s Grinding 22s 32s Malt 6ls 67s Chevalier . ..... 648 69s Oats 23s 308 Peas, Partridge- 37s 41s White 39s 45s Boiling . 4ls 47s Dun 36s 40s Ditto new .. —s —s Beans, Tick, old 378 438 new —s —s Harrow Ticks 37s 43s new —s —s Mazagan.., 32 35E1 COLCHESTER —JAN. 18. To-day a small supply of wheat, and late prices were supported for all samples. Barley maintains its price ; but not t.o plentiful. Beans and peas were dull, and unchanged in price. Wheat, white. s4s 688 Beans,Mazagan..36B 408 red 46s 64s middle & small.4os 448 Barley Oats KIRKCALDY GRAIN—JAN. 25. We had a good supply to day of oats, wheat, and bar ley. Sales ready, at previous prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....4os Od 24s Od I 20s Od Second ..54s Od 29 s 6d 2340d1 Third.,..4os 6d 33 s Od 27s 6d COAL MARKET. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the dose of the market s. d. I e. d. Buddle'slVest Hartley 16 0 ! Burnhope Gas 12 6 Carway and Duttryn I Cowpen Hartley 16 0 Malting Do. Anthracite 21 6 Tunstall Ships at market, 24 ; sold, 19. BIRTHS. BEGG.—On the 26th inst., at Abbey-gardens, St. John's wood, the wife of David Gray Begg, Esq., barrister-at law, of a daughter. HOPETOUN.—On the 27th inst., at Lubenbam Hall, near Market Harbro', the Countess of Hopetoun, of a son, who survived his birth only a few hours. MASTER.—On the 25th inst. at Caynham Court, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Master, sth Fusiliers, of a daughter. MuNtto.—On the 26th inst., at 27, Eaton-place, the wife of C. Munro, Esq,, of a son. MARRIAGES. BROMLEY—HANNEN.—On the 25th inst., at St. Stephen's Church, Westbourne-park, Edward Bromley, Esq., of South-square, Gray's-inn, to Mary Elizabeth, the s i x th daughter o f th e late James' Hannen, Esq., of Weir Cot. tage, Maidenhead. D'AncY—N EWMAN.—On the 24th inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Haze mere, Iligh Wycombe, the Rev. Hyacinth D'Arcv, rector of Clifden, co. Galway, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of John Newman, Esq., Brands House, Bucks. DEATHS. BAnINOTON —On the 25th inst., at 29, Hertford-street, Mayfair, Dr. Metcalfe Babington, F.R.C.P., aged 46. BROWNE —On the 2.5 th inst., at Wilton House, Black heath, George Browne, Esq., aged 67. COLLENS.—On the 26th inst.. at Clanfield, near Horndean John Collens, Esq., aged 63 . , ERTCRSEN.—On the 27th inst., at Chiswick, Eric Erich sen, Esq., aged 71. HORNE.—On the 27th inst., at Bloomsbury-square, the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horn e , 8 . D ., prebendary of St. Paul's, and rector of St. Nicholas Aeon, Lombard-street, city, aged 82 . POWLES.—On the 26th inst., at Barham-wood, Elstree, G. W. Powles, Esq., aged 39. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tim SUN Office, No. 112,Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy in the County of Middleaez Tuesday, January 28, 1862.