The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-06 00:00:00

THE CLITIL WAR IN AMERICA. (Fieom the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Delirious joy, over-confidence, and the wildest expectation of victory continue to rule the hour. Wilmington is to be evacuated. The redoubtable Sherman--no longer mad, as he was asserted to be, but in the pride of superior sanity able to declare that his countrymen are " crazy about 'niggers," is march conquering and to conquer to Augusta, which he;is to capture as easily as Savannah. Thence he is to dash upon Charleston, which being ill-forti fied in the rear is to be abandoned at his approach. This done, he is to continue his triumphant progress to Richmond, where he will unite his veterans with those of Grant, and dare the " rebel" General to risk his last battle for the existence of the Confede racy. If such battle be fought, it is the common opinion that Lee will be routed, that ex-Preside nt •Da will esca p e into Mexico, and that the Union will be immediately restored amid a blaze of illumi nations and a thunder of guns in all the cities of the continent from the Lakes to the Rio Grande. Not th a t everybody believes in this final conflict. On the contrary, a large class of respectable people are of opinion that at the decisive moment General Lee, like the celebrated racoon in the Yankee story which held parley with the Western huntsman, and saga ciously refused to give so unerring a shot the trouble of wasting his ammunition, will handsomely descend from his tree and yield to the fate which it i s impossible to avert. Absurd as all this may seem in Europe, opinions even wilder than these are cir culated from mouth to mouth and feed the credu lous imagination of the multitude. The Americans are in a spasm of elation more violent than any they have yet experienced in the course of the war, and dream dreams that put reality out of countenance. They are so quick, excitable, and impulsive, and the very limited and partial education which they receive and the false moral which they draw from the facts of their brief history so fill their minds with conceit and presumption that they reallybelieve themselves to be the noblest and most virtuous people in existence, the peculiar favourites of Heaven, and the destined regenerators of the world. How many painful and humiliating lessons they must receive before they learn that the thirst of universal dominion in which they indulge after every' inconsequential victory of their armies or fleets may be as much a disease of Republics as it used to be of Kings, and that their rank in the hierarchy of nations may be many grades lower than their pride has placed it, is for the future to disclose, but no existing tongue or pen to prognos ticate. Meanwhile the hot fit is upon them with more than ordinary severity, and visions of peace with the South, to be followed in due time by war with some great European Power, dance before their waking eyes, and make them appear to cooler judgments than their own as " crazy" as General Sherman believes, though for a totally different reason. Mr. Blair's two visits to Richmond, the despond ency of one portion of the Southern press, the viru lent opposition of another to the policy of Mr. Davis, and the proof of Southern desperation supposed to be afforded by the appointment of General Lee toa kind of military dict a to rs hip ; the reinstatement in command of General Joseph E. Johnstone, whose supersedure by the Southern President in favour of General Hood led to the whole series of recent Con federate reverses; andithe belief of the majority of the Northern people that the South is well nigh exhausted of men and hope—all these things com bined have led to the prevalent over-confidence of the last week that peace is close at hand, and caused in Wall-street a fall in gold and stocks great and rapid enough to be best described by the single word " panic." Whether Mr. Lincoln, with his better means of judgment, shares in the exaggerated hopes of his people, may be matter of doubt ; but if his con victions are to be ascertained by his acts, it would appear that he considers himself and his position to be strong enough to justify him in inaugurating a less partial, sectional, and, if the word can be used in his case, factious policy than he has hitherto pur sued. Pending his re-election, and while the event was still doubtful, he relied, as it was natural he should, upon the support and the advice of the party by whose votes alone he could secure the renewal of his Presidency. Now that he has four years of office before him, and neither hope not chance a third term, he seems to develope a more catholic and uni versal spirit, and to admit that the opposition to the conduct of the war, and especially to the civil ad ministration of his Government, was not so entirely unfounded and unjustifiable as his violent friends have always represented it to be, and that there was no small amount of truth as well as of patriotism in the attitude assumed towards him by the Democartic party. Within the last six weeks it has been observ able that he and some of the more prominent mem bers both of his party and his Administration have been gradually adopting, or re-adopting, the prin ciples and policy of the Democrats and Conserva tives. Prior to Mr. Lincoln's re-election the most opprobrious epithet that _could be directed against an enemy of the Government was " Copperhead." If any one disapproved the acts of General Butler, or denied that" he was either a great soldier, a wise statesman, a courteous gentleman, or a perfectly honest administrator of other people's property, he was written down in Republican newspapers and talked down in Loyal Leagues as a " Copperhead." Mr. Lincoln has, after some trial of his patience, adopted the Democratic opinion of the great General Butler, cut short his military career, disgraced him as completely as Henry VIII. disgraced Wolsey, and must, so far, be considered worthy of taking a high place in the Copperhead party. In like manner it was factiousness, disloyalty, treason, and Copperheadism to complain of the military oppres sion exercised b y suc h genera l s as P a y ne a nd Bur bridge. Very recen tl y M r. L i nco l n an d hi s Secre taries have come to the conclusion that the com plainants had right on their side, dthatPayile and Burbridge were damaging and and not aiding the cause they were appointed to serve. They have con sequently deprived the one officer of his command, and ordered a military tribunal to inquire into the i conduct of the other. Before his re-election _i\ Seward's boast to Lord Lyons that, by the ringingr. of a bell on either side of his chair, he could con s i gn any man in the United States to Fort Lafayette or Fort Warren, was maintained by all the Republicans to be no more than a strong expression of an anoma lous but wholesome state of things, necessary for the salvation of the Republic in a troublous and ex ceptionable time. All who asserted the contrary were held to be enemies of their country—seces sionists, rebels, and Copperheads. Mr. Lincoln and I ‘ ll % Seward have resolved to ring the little bell no more, to discourage arbitrary arrests of every kind, to trust to the ordinary action of the laws in all cases, and to govern upon strictly Conservative 'P rin ciples. Emboldened by such high encourage ment the Hou se o f R epresen t a tives has instituted an inquiry to ascertain forwhat persons are held in custody political or military offences m the old capital prison at NV trial before the 7 ashington with a view to their immediate ap parently well proper tribunals if there be any ap immediate foundedcharge against them, and to their with dismissalreference if there be not. A simi lar inquiry Lafayette and othefrerßence' to the prisoners in Fort recommended of the same descrip tion is also recom m influential quarters, Repeupbuliblicans. and not opposed b y the e R Copperheadism, if the application can leaders were pre- This is also viously correct in their flooding the country So also, when Mr. Chase was of the term. and Mr. Thaddeus with inconvertible paper money, Stevens was aiding that now excellent Judge, but then fanatical financier, in a vain endeavour keep down the premium on gold to 20 p erCe t : t penal enactment, all who disapproved Mr. C.l by 1 and considered Mr. Thaddeus Stevens to b . e ' laße _, in a financial point of view, an utter ignoramus or a ' presumptuous simpleton, were accused of that worst kind of disloyalty which could only be described as Copperheadism. But this despised and maligned faith the Cabinet and both Houses of Congress have duly studied, and guided by experi ence have come to the conclusion that in financial as well as in military and social affairs the Copperheads were right. The work of conversion has gone on so bravely that Mr. Lincoln is the arch Copperhead of the day, and Copperheadism is no longer a heresy 1 or a crime in the estimation of the Government. But the greatest triumph of the Copperhead urs e ru rh m ea o dparty has not yet been achieved , though the the subject of peace, if true as regards Mr. Lincoln's and Mr. Se - ward's ideas upon the proper mode for the restoration of the Union, go far to show that even this crowning victory may yet be reserved for it. The main, the fundamental principles of " Copper headism" was that slavery, whether good or bad, right or wrong, politic or impolitic, was according to the law and Constitution, a thing with which the Federal Government had no right to interfere, and that if it were to be abolished the slaves could only be legally and safely emancipated by the people and the Legislature of the several States in whsch slavery existed. To this faith, also, Mr. Seward has, it ap pears, been converted ; and to this faith, in like manner, Mr. Lincoln is rapidly tending, in spite of the obstructions which he cast in his own path by his proclamations and edicts of emancipation and his Niagara letter (dictated by Mr. Stanton). But not even that great consummation would complete the circle and secure the final victory of Copperheadism. Copperheadism has a foreign as well as a domestic Policy, and however much the European world may approve its ideas upon the habeas corpus, upon per sonal liberty, upon State rights, upon the American Constitution, and upon the true character, moral and political, of General B. F. Butler, it can hardly ap prove its principle that North America belongs to the North Americans, that North America extends from Panama to the Arctic Regions, that there are no other North Americans than the people of the United States ; and that, consequently, Spain must receive notice to quit Cuba, England to give up the West Indies, Canada, and the whole of the British possessions north of the St. Lawrence and west of Cape Race; and that the Emperor Maximilian must pack up his portmanteau and leave Mexico to be overrun and annexed by the all-conquering and irresistible Yankee nation—first alike in courage, power, honour, glory, wealth, and extent of terri tory—the grandest empire on which the sun ever shone, and destined, at no very remote day, to make an end of the effete monarchies of the Old World, and inaugurate the reign of universal liberty, uni sal corruption, and universal shoddy ! It must be said, however, that Mr. Stanton has not approached quite so closely as Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward to the faith or the practices of the Cop perheads, with whom it is a cardinal dogma that there should be no interference with the freedom of the press and that if the proprietors and conduct ors of any journal commit an offence against public decency or safety, or attack the character of individuals, the law and the tribunals, and not the strong hand of military power, should take cognizance of their mis deeds. Mr. Stanton thinks differently. In the New York. Daily News, of which the Hon. Benja min Wood, member of Congress for one of the dis tricts of the city, is editor and proprietor, and which under his management has been conspicuous for the bold, unflinching, and able advocacy of peace with the South, even if peace can be secured by no other method than the recognition of the independence of the Confederacy, there every day appears a long string of advertisements called " personals." These " personals," in the absence of postal communication between North and South, serve as a means of intercommunication between families. Parents and children, husbands and wives, the dearest and closest relatives and friends whom the hard fortune of the war has found or retained on different sides of the line called " Mason and Dixon's," which is supposed to divide the North from the South, have been thus enabled in a perfectly open, honest, candid, and one would think natural and laudable manner, to tell each other whether they were in sickness or in health, in prosperity or in adversity, what young lings of the flock might have been removed by death, or what elders and patriarchs of the family had yielded to the inevitable doom of all who live. Mr. Stanton fancies he sees treason in these affectionate letters, which are duly copied into the Southern papers, and has given imperative orders to Gen. Dix to prohibit their publication for the future, under the penalty of the suppression of the Daily News if it disregard the order, and the trial of the editor and proprietor by court-martial. Mr. Wood was yesterday summoned into the presence of Gen. Dix, who, being a gentle man and a scholar, did his spiriting courteously. Mr. Wood had no alternative but to yield the point. It is folly to argue with the piaster of legions, even though a man be a member . of Congress and a more important citizen than the one before whose excep tional power he is asked to succumb. This morning, therefore, the Daily News appears without its "per sonals," and hundreds of families, both in the North and the South, are deprived of that little but grateful alleviation of the miseries of war which was derived from this innocent and sole means of communion between people who have not of necessity ceased to love and respect each other because the chasms of civil strife have produced a physical, but not a moral separation between them. I enclose four columns of these " personals" from a recent number of the Daily News, containing many simple and affecting announcements, in which none but a malignant of the worst kind would seek to discover treason. If there be persons, either North or South, whose object is to communicate military or other dangerous infor mation under the disguise of family announcements, they will not be thwarted by the suppression of this department of the courageous peace advocate. It is not difficult to communicate in cypher, and, as the Daily News observes, it would be quite as easy to convey treasonable information in an advertisement for a lost horse or dog in the Herald or the Tribune, as in a family notification of a birth or a marriage, an attack of sickness or a d ea th . Th e suppress i on is more like an act of spite than of statesmanship. It inflicts as much hardship upon Northern as upon Southern families, but as it deprives a fearless oppo nent of a lucrative source of revenue it is to be supposed that in that its main end is accomplished and that Mr. Stanton is satisfied. Infantry Reliefs in 1865. The period has now arrived when the movements of regiments during the year 1865 may be antici pated with something approaching to accuracy. With respect to the foreign reliefs we indicated a p ra la. en n ts last August by which the seven infantry regi ments outtansdtriincgtl y i first n forf their foreign tn service thout mightobi obliging to the same station. This o p m lan ln those that last returned w cli ii a l to proceed again substantially followed by the authorities in 87th, and sfoiunnd theirto b ar rangements for the y ear. The 32d, Mediterranean,29th,whichheatdheth3e2droasntear7, 78th in in proceed ke th liho t o h d e relieve at these toGi f b o r u a r lt r a e r gi , manedntsththeatB4tthhey will replace and 29th to Malt a . The stations will be sent—two to Canad e at o o d of foreigneve the Ist battalion 17th and 63d, w h ose p service has more than expired, one t o the Cape t o replace a corps to be sent to India, and one to the Mauritius to replace a battalion also goin g t o I nd i a. It is likely that the 4th battalion of the Rifle Bri gade will go from Gibraltar to the Cape, taking the place of the 96th ; the 2d battalion 7th Fusiliers from Malta to Canada, relieving Ist battalion 17th ; the 2d battalion 15th from Gibraltar to Canada, reliev ing the (3d ; and the 2d battalion Bth from Malta to the Mauritius, replacing the 2d battalion 24th, going to India. The foreign moves may be thus summed up :-32d, Ireland, to Gibraltar, vice 4th battalion Rifle Brigade, to the Cape, vice 96th to India, vice 44th home ; 84th, Ireland, to Malta, vice 2d batta lion 7th Fusiliers to Canada, vice Ist battalion 17th toEngland; 78th Highlanders, Ireland, to Gibraltar, vice 2d battalion 15th to Canada, vice 63d to Eng land ; 29th, I r eland, to Malta, vice 2d battalio n Bth to the M aur iti us, v i ce 2d b a tt a lion 24th to India, vice 72d Highlanders home; 26th to India, vice 54th home; 41st to India, vice 56th home; 49th to India, Vice 2d battalion 18th Royal Irish home. The em barkations fotrhethe Mediterranean will commence expected in Julabout June, in the spin. , will' return two arrivals from Canada may be July or and those from India now on their pass bat talions two d b 6 a 6 t t t h a , lie will ais. from Before these last, seven India, of which five are 85,titand their reliefs sent out ; and two more, the lieved, in consequence of thaen diminution of the Euro nuot beerere pears forces in Bengal by rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1865. ments now on passage from India will be quartered as follows on their arrival, whichjwill probably be in the following order :—The 28th at Devonport, the 52d at Dover, the 48th at Shorncliff, the 71st at Edinburgh, and the 81st at Portsmouth. Of the seven battalions next to embark for foreign ser vice, six are withdrawn from Ireland, and the following are likely to be sent to supply their place :--The Ist battalion, 2d Queen's, from Devon port ; the Ist battalion, 3d Buffs, from Sheffield ; the Ist battalion, Bth, from Manchester ; the 2nd battalion, Ist Royals, from the Channel Islands; the 37th from Dover ; and the Ist battalion, 24th. The 73d will probably go to the Channel Islands in place of the Ist Royals. The following battalions are likely to be moved up to Aldershott in the course of the spring and early summer :—The 92d from Glas gow ; Ist battalion, 13th, from Dover ; 69th from Portsmouth ; and the Ist battalion, 21st, from Portsmouth. The early departures from the camp will include the 2d battalion, 60th Rifles, 59th, and 73d ; and later in the season, the Ist battalion, 14th, 62d, and 39th, which were sent up to the camp im mediately upon their arrival from abroad, may also expect a turn of service in a garrison town.—Army and Navy Gazette. Naval and Military Intelligence. Admiral Edhem Pasha and the officers of the Turkish squadron now at Portsmouth have issued cards of invitation to a ball on board the Turkish screw line-of-battle ship Kossooa to-morrow evening. The Fox, screw store frigate, Staff-Commander Henry A. Moriarty, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Mediterranean. Her dates of sailing are —Malta, Jan. 20 ; Gibraltar, Jan. 27. No vessels were'spoken on the passage. Strong westerly gales were experienced. The officers and men comprising the remainder of the crew of her Majesty's late ship Bombay arrived at Portsmouth dockyard by special train from Liverpool at 1 a.m. on Saturday. The train on arrival, passed through the terminal station of the London and South-Western and South Coast Rail way Companies at Landport, and finally drew up on the railway jetty in the dockyard, where the Bombay's crew alighted, and embarked immediately in boats for the three-decked training-ship Duke of Wellington, Capt. John Seccombe, to which ship they will be temporarily attached until the conclu sion of the court-martial, which will assemble on board her Majesty's ship Victory in a few days to inquire into the recent destruction of the Bombay by fire off Montevideo. Rear-Admiral Sidney Col poys Dacres, C. 8., the present Commander-in- Chief of the Channel Fleet, will most probably fill the office of President of the Court. The Urgent screw troopship, Capt. S. H. Hen derson, sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday, with naval and military supernumeraries on board, for Plymouth and the Western Ports. She returns to Spithead. The old sailing ship Hindostan, 72, was removed on Saturday from Hamoaze to the Devonport dock yard, to be fitted as a dormitory for naval cadets and attached to the training ship Britannia, 8, Capt. Richard A. Powell, C. 8., at Dartmouth. The lighter Hamoaze, J. Patten master, left Devonport on Saturday with stores for Pembroke dockyard. The engines and machinery of the iron screw steam troop hip Meginra, 6, Capt. Montagu B. Dunn, were tested outside Plymouth breakwater on Saturday under the instruction of Capt. Edmon stone. The trial was considered satisfactory. Gen. Sir John Burgoyne and Gen. St. George, with the other members of the commission ap pointed to inquire into the circumstances attending, the position, construction, storage, and general ar rangements of the gunpowder magazines through out the kingdom, have been engaged during the past week on their special duties in the south western military district. On Friday last the com mittee, attended by Col. Gordon, R.E., and Colonel Elliott, R.A., commanding respectively the Royal Engineers and Artillery in the district, and by Principal Military Storekeeper J. Row land, visited the Marchwood magazines, near Southampton, the largest establishment of the kind in the kingdom, and on Saturday they were engaged in inspecting the magazines at Tipnor, at the northern extremity of Ports mouth-harbour, and also the magazines and labora tory at Priddy's-bard, opposite Portsmouth dock yard, and the shell magazines, &c., at the Gunwharf, Portsmouth. The Marchwood magazines, seven in number, average a storage throughout the year of, as nearly as possible, 2,500 tons of gunpowder. They stand on the western shore of Southampton water, about two miles distant from Southampton pierhead. The buildings are distributed in a trian gular form, the seven magazines, with their exami nation houses, cooperage, &c., occupying two sides of the triangle, the base being formed with the guardhouse, offices, &c. The general plan of the magazines is a thick wall with a light timber and slated roof for each magazine, which is again en closed by a grass-grown courtyard and its massive outer wall ; and, as a further precaution, each maga zine is isolated from its neighbour by earthen tra verses, 21 feet in height, 40 feet thick at the base, and 5 feet at the apex. Under these condi tions, should one of the magazines at Marchwood ever explode, in all human probability the force of the explosion would be expended upwards through the light roofing, and without setting on fire the ad joining magazines, or damaging the buildings or other property in the neighbourhood. The explo sion of any one of the Marchwood magazines would be, in fact, but a similar " blow up" to that of the Federal powder-ship in front of the bastions of Fort Fisher. The Marchwood establishment stands on about 17 acres of ground. The Tipnor magizines stand on a strip of salt marsh jutting into the nor thern extremity of the waters of Portsmouth-har bour, almost within the shadow of the monster cen tral forts on Portsdown-hill, and are about two miles distant, measuring in a straight line from the centre of Portsmouth dockyard. They are bomb-proof, and therefore possessthe destructive explosive powers lately exhibited at Erith. Their average storage is 580 tons. Priddy's-hard magazines and laboratory are the receiving and discharging warehouse for her Majesty's fleets at Portsmouth. It stands half a mile distant only from the northern building shed in Portsmouth dockyard, and is only separated by a narrow creek from the large naval victualling estab lishment of the Royal Clarence-yard. It contains three magazines, one bomb-proof and the remainder splinter-proof. The average storage is about 2,100 barrels. The laboratory, 106 yards distant from the nearest magazine and 180 yards from the furthest, is almost constantly at work, and the magazines are as constantly open. Hence, the greatest care has to be exercised in the supervision of the establish ment to prevent the chance of any accident ever occurring. The Gun-wharf shell magazines have upon the average about 8,000 shells stored in them, but, as each shell is securely capped and enclosed in its own separate box, there is not much danger of any serious accident ever occurring to them. A visit to the Gun-wharf Armoury, which is now undergoing a rearrangement and receiving numerous a7t in er mi w sshiioenh'sslirab John at hnß P ur o g rr n o e u a t n h to dh a is interesting additions o f anc i en t armour , b ro ught the c conclusion, colleagues left by Saturday' s a ft ernoon tra i n for London. Col. Elmhirst, who has lately been in command of the Depot Battalion at Colchester, has been ap pointed Deputy Quartermaster -General at the Cape of Good Hope. The depots of the 63d and 84th are expected to arrive at Colchester this week. On the breaking up of the 9th Depot Battalion a rearrange ment of the camp accommodation is to be carried into effect ; the 10th Depot Battalion will occupy A, B, and C ranges, and the 4th Depot Battalion D, E, and F ranges. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. George W. Osmond to the Niger ; Lieut. Arthur J. Villiers to the Formidable ; James Cole, master, to the Jackal ; Sub-Lieut. Charles S. Broome to the Niger ; Edmund W. Bust, midshipman, to the Black Prince ; Wm. W. Dove ton, naval cadet, to the Niger • the Rev. James Robin son to be chaplain of the Meander, vice Hind ; Thos. Potter, second master, to the Niger , • Gordon Jack son„rsurgeon (additional) to the Asia for the Enchantress ; John F. Rule, assistant paymaster (additional), to the Asia for the Enchantress; John R. Hancock, first-class assist.-engineer (additional) to the Cadmus ; and Charles J. Cock, second-class assist.-engineer (additional, to the Megera. The Volunteers. Col. M'Murdo has been unanimously elected to the honorary colonelcy of the Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers, which he has been pleased.to accept, The " inauguration" of the new head-quarters and drill-shed for the Tottenham (33d Middlesex) Rifle Volunteers took place on Wednesday evening last at Tottenham. At a dinner which followed the cere mony Lord Enfield presided. In reply to the toast of " the Army, Navy, and Volunteers," coupled with his own name, Colonel M'Murdo referred to the event which led to the organisation of the volunteer force. He said—ln 1859 I happened to be in Paris, and I was staying there among friends who had influence with the French army and the French press. I be came aware of the most extraordinary feelings of hostility towards this country. These feelings were not shown in newspaper articles—the Emperor took care of that—but in what is called society. In Paris there existed a desire to go to war with this country. (Hear, hear.) I was at dinner with one of the lead ing French journalists, and in the course of conver sation he said, " I am sorry for it, and I hope that you will be prepared, but we shall invade you." I asked what on earth we were going to fight about, to which he replid, " I will tell you. It is on account of your weakness." I saw that the feel ing was gaining ground in Paris, and I went to Mr. Sidney Herbert, who was then Secretary of State for War, and told him what had come under my notice, leaving him, as War Minister, to consider what steps should be taken for the defence of the country. But before the Government had time to consider what should be done it came into the hearts of the people themselves to prepare for war, and to train themselves for their country's defence. The people did not want the army increased, and so they formed themselves into that army for home defence which now in 1865 has vastly increased its organisation and numbers. I am going to Paris again on Monday, . and I will pledge my life that I shall not hear a word of what I heard in 1859. I know that the movement has done its work, but let no man rise up and say, " The danger is past, why should we continue soldiering ?" The danger has not passed ; the danger is always there. People are well aware that at the time of which I have spoken they could not have called upon the Go vernment to resist invasion upon these coasts with anyhope of success. At that time our army estimates amounted to £16,000,000, and we all know what 14d. in the pound income tax means. The tax is now down to 6d., and we would rather keep it so ; but we cannot increase the army and keep down the taxes, and if the army is to be kept down we must look to the people to main tain this movement. Last year our army estimates amounted to upwards of £14,000,000, so that our saving in the past was very little, and little the sav ing will be while we have distant little wars. Col. M'Murdo concluded his speech by proposing the toast of " Success to the 33d Middlesex," and in doing so made the important announcement—which was received with loud cheers—that the Secretary of State for War was considering about assimilating the Wimbledon and Hythe systems of targets. He expressed the hope that the regiment would so increase that he should have the pleasure of an invitation to dinner on the enlargement of the drill hall, when he should hope to see them with a gymnasium, where the young men on coming ho m e from the city would be able so to exercise the mse l v es as to become able to cope with any Zouave who might show himself in the country. • On Monday evening last the annual general meeting of the 2d Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers was held at their headquarters, Pembroke-hall, Lambe-lane, Hackney. Lieut.-Col. Walker took the chair at 8 o'clock, supported by Col. M'Murdo, Major Samuda, and the officers of the regiment. The report was read, from which it appeared that this regiment had during the past year added over 46 to its efficient strength, but that the battalion had increased in numbers over 100, thus showing great progress in the recruiting department. Unfortu nately, an injunction had been granted against the use of the butts situate in the Plaistow Marshes, and this had caused an expenditure of some hun dreds of pounds. The council, however, had no doubt they would get assistance in raising the sum. Colonel Walker congratulated the corps on its recent increase, and expressed his opinion that if an appeal were made to the inhabitants it would be met by a liberal sum being raised to meet the exigencies of the legal proceedings. Major - Samuda, in seconding the adoption of the report, stated that he thought legislative measures should be urged so as to protect all rifle corps in the use of their butts. Colonel M'Murdo, in refe rence to the butt question, said he was happy to announce that the Secretary of State for War was heartily with them in getting relief from Parliament. He doubted whether, looking at the immense amount of business already on his ha n d s , h e cou ld undertake the introduction of a bill ; but of this h e felt certain, that one would be int ro d uce d so as to put these questions of danger, &c., at rest. Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments in the Civil Service. (From the Civil Service Gazette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE.--Mr. C. B. Robertson has been ap pointed to a clerkship. THE PosT-oPricV.--11r. Admiral Denman has been ap pointed a clerk. CONVICT SERVICE.—Mr. Alexander Young has been ap pointed a clerk. CUSTOMS.-Mr Henderson Skaif has been appointed an extra clerk, London; Mr. James M'Culloch has been pro moted from the third to the second class of clerks in the tea and East India deparment, London ; Mr. Robert Lacey has been promoted from the fourth to the third class of clerks in the tea and East India department, London ; Mr. R. F. Lacon has been appointed from the fifth to the fourth class of clerks in the tea and East India department, Lon don ; Mr. John Gatley has been promoted from the sixth to the fifth class of clerks in the tea and East India depart ment, London ; Mr. M. J. Seymour has been promoted from the fifth to the fourth clerkship, Cork; Mr. David Barry has been promoted from the sixth to the fifth clerkship, Cork ; Mr. George M. O'Neill has been promoted from the seventh to the sixth clerkship, Cork; Mr. Donald Lennox, out-door officer, first class, has been promoted to be exa mining officer, sixth class, at Glasgow ; Mr. Wm. Francis, out-door officer, fourth class, at Belfast, has been promoted to be examining officer, sixth class, Glasgow. LNLAND REVENUE.-Mr. John White, clerk, second class, secretary's office, has been promoted to be clerk, first class; Mr. Thomas Clarence Roberts, clerk, third class, secretary's office, has been promoted to be clerk, second class ; Mr. John S. Purcell, clerk, fourth class, secretary's office, has been promoted to be clerk, third class ; Mr. William Buller Heberden, clerk, fifth class, secretary's office, has been promoted to be a clerk, fourth class. Stamp and Tax Branch—Messrs. Richard Coomber, Robert Jewell, and John Aiken, have been appointed to be assistant sur veyors of taxes. Excise Branch—Mr. Robert Macbeth, supervisor, Wishaw district, Linlithgow collection, has been appointed supervisor of Dundee district, Dundee col lection; Mr. Donald Durran, supervisor, Dundee district, Dundee collection, district,:Linlithgow colle c ti on ; M r . Th o mas Rendle, officer, has been appointed supervisor of Wishaw Bromley, Ist division, Middlesex collection, has been ap pointed to be an examiner ; Mr. Edward Hoar, office; Donne division, Sti rlingcollection, has been appointed officer of Glasgow, 25th di v i s ion, Glasgow collection ; Mr. John Ansell Blofeld, first- c l a ss assistant, Campbelton, 18th division, Campbelton collection, has been appointed officer of Howden ride, York collection ; Mr. William Edward Cheese, office; Jedburgh division, hasbeen appointed officer of Bromley, I st div ision, Mid dlesex collection. Haddington collection, THE EAST INDrEs.—Mr. G.M. Ogilvie has been appointed an assistant-commissioner of the third class in the Pun jaub, and posted to the Umritsur district ; Mr. T. Roberts has been appointed an assistant-commissioner of third class in the Punjaub, and posted to the Sealkote district ; Lieutenant R. P. Nisbet, assistant-commissioner, has been transferred from the Umritsur to the Jullundur district; Lieutenant C. A. De Kantzow, assistant-commissioner, has been transferred from Ferozepore to the Delhi district; M. r. E. Harrison has been appointed an assistant-commis sioner of tho third class in the Punjaub, and posted to the Goordaspore district. M. F. de St. Jean, a retired merchant of Havre, who died there three days since at the age of 76, has left a will by which he makes that town his universal legatee on two conditions--the first, that 300,000 fr. of the property should be devoted to the founding of an asylum for necessi tous Protestants at Havre ; and the second, that a similar sum shall be given from it for the same purpose to a town in the north of France. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITRNALS. THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE MEETING OF PARLIA- MENT.—Parliament meets on Tuesday in a time of utter political lassitude. So far as appears on the surface the country is careless whether it meets or not, expects nothing, hopes nothing, desires nothing —is only wearily curious to see what a reactionary House of Commons, which rejected a Reform Bill but passed a law making all policemen gamekeepers, which sympathised with the South but did not sym pathise with Denmark, which has sat longer than any Parliament since 1831, and has accomplished ess will do before it dies in the wheeziness of its old age. There is some languid curiosity as to the Budget, for Mr. Gladstone has a surplus, a faint flutter of theoriesas to the effect of the speech which he must pronounce upon railway administration, and some little irritable speculation as to the possibility of a small Reform Bill, introduced to redeem pro- mises, and give old Whigs a chance in doubtful boroughs, but there all visible interest ends. If the Queen had judged herself able to do her duty for herself, the country might have raised its head at all events to look on a great spectacle, but a Parlia- ment with nothing certain before it, to be opened in a cold speech read by deputy, and then to betake itself till Easter to preliminary business, can excite no enthusiasm and does excite no interest. The country is languid with a languor which has in it as much of cynicism as content, lacks entirely that power of fixing its gaze upon its representatives, which, like the master's presence in a factory, makes all the wheels appear to move round more rapidly. And yet Parliament is not without work to do, and work of a most interesting and important kind. Wholly apart from any new topics which the Queen's speech may contain, it is easy to furnish a list of subjects to which, whether the Ministry advise mention of them or not, the housep must imme diately attend. The first of these is Canada. It will be scarcely possible to avoid some allusion to the constitutional change to be completed this session in British America, not possible ,o evade at least one discussion on the terms of the important treaty—for it is a treaty—to be concluded between the mother country and Acadia. It is not likely that the discussion will be either long, or violent, or minute. Mr. Card well's style orspeech, always the same whether the topic be the birth of a new nation, or an alteration in Australian tariffs, would take the picturesqueness out of any event however great, and Parliament knows well the limit of its capacity. It will accept or reject Federation as a whole, without demurring to details, and the country, though interested in the project, has about it only three convictions—that the scheme is in its principle wise and feasible, that if the Provincial authority is not limited it will break down, that whether it succeeds or fails the Acadians must be suffered to do as they please with their own country—and none of these ideas tend to exaspe rate debate. Then there is the notice as to the ter- mination of the Reciprocity Treaty. Parliament must give an opinion as to the policy to be pursued in that matter, whether at least it is wiser to main tain a great and therefore provocative force upon the Lakes, or to allow Acadia to hold her " Medi terranean in snippets" for herself, or to reserve and accumulate all strength against the day when the power of both countries may be taxed to the utter most. There will be long, possibly angry, discus sions about those Lakes, for their defence involves the great question whether long precautions do not exhaust us more than sudden displays of energy— whether the Duke of Wellington was right or Sir Cornewall Lewis. Next there are New Zealand debates to come off. Parliament has to decide—to decide now, and to decide once for all—whether it intend to rule the Anglo-Saxon colonies in great emergencies or to allow them to rule themselves. It has granted self-government during ordinary times, but it seems strangely disposed to suspend it during confusion, and the determination of the New Zea landers either to manage their own war their own way or to leave England to pay for it has brought the difficulty to a head. Three courses are open to the House of Commons—to allow the colonists to direct the English army, or to abandon the defence of New Zealand against the Maories, or to compel Mr. Cardwell to recall Sir George Grey, and each of these courses is sure to find eager and irritated advocates, supported by considerable sections of the llouse. Then a malt-tax discussion cannot be averted unless indeed Mr. Gladstone includes reduction in his budget, for the farmers are seri ously annoyed at what they consider the injustice with which their claims are treated, and just before an election Tory and Liberal will strive alike to explain their position upon the subject. Reform is sure for the same reason of its fair amount of acri moniousdiscussion, though not upon an official pro posal, still upon one brought forward by a private member, and we trust that the principle of represent ing minorities will find advocates high enough in public favour to force the consideration of that great problem upon the existing constituencies. After malt Lord Westbury has a bill enabling Government to appoint stipendiary magistrates in districts which require them, sure to arouse the country gentlemen, perhaps bring on the whole question whether the government of the poor by the rich is the exact equivalent of self-government, a subject which may one day have to be discussed with practical meaning. Then there is this immense railway question, which has acquired every day new weight from the marked tendency of the country to give to the proposal of State proprietorship a fair and candid hearing. That ruinous jealousy of the State qua State, whether controlled by a person, a caste, or by the people themselves, which has impeded so many great enter prises, seems to be dying away, and with it the greatest obstacle to the one imperative need of Eng lish society—a dead lift of the masses of the English people towards a decent level of physical comfort. If this empire is to endure, an official statement that one-fifth of the population is underfed must cease to be true, and it cannot cease until the jealous dislike to employ the aggregate strength of society on be half of its component parts has finally died out. The reform of the poor law which is inevitable will perhaps be postponed once more, though the Law of Settlement is ripe for :abolition, but Parliament is certain to take some action upon the ecclesiastical point, the construction of the final tribunal in spiri tual affairs. It is said that the grand project so loudly heralded by the Tory journals has dwindled down to one for the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the expediency of revising the law, but even in that form the discussion is sure to be sharp and eager. If the Erastian party are awake to their position they will resist even that demand, as contrary to their great principle that the council of the nation is supreme over the doctrine as well as over the formulas of the National Church, and in any case the younger members are certain to hail the opportunity for one more attack upon those who assert in the face of the nineteenth century that the section of society called the priesthood has rights over the whole of society called the laity. And finally there is the Budget, the distribution of a surplus with which Mr. Gladstone may give a fresh impetus to trade, or may relieve the well-to-do from the only State burden they really feel, or may remedy the intolerable double burden which now falls on the lower middle class, or finally may break up the Tory ranks and seat himself as Premier of the nation by proving to the farmers that the chosen leader of the free traders is not indifferent to the cry of agriculture. There are smaller questions without number likely to be brought forward—a new Bankruptcy Law and a new Foreign Enlist ment Act, a bill on prison discipline and a demand for some attention to Ireland, a project for relieving India of some of its military burden, and endless suggestions for improving and accelerating naval administration. The Cabinet itself may have ideas, though one expects them nowadays only from Mr. Gladstone ; but whether Government be active or stationary, whether the people be languid or eager, the inevitable questions we have mentioned are enough to give to the House topics and to the nation food for political thought. THE 44 LONDON REVIEW" ON THE Loss OF THE BOMBAY. It is now some days since we were startled by the news that her Majesty's ship Bombay had been destroyed by fire near Monte Video ; but beyond this brief announcement that there was no thing to satisfy the painful curiosity it was so well calculated to excite. We have now before us the despatch of Captain Colin A. Campbell, who was in command of the Bombay • but though there is much in this docum en t that will be read with the deepest interest, it fails to throw any light on the cause of the disaster, which has thus far baffled investigation. We learn that on the 14th of December the ship left Monte Video Roads at 6.15 a.m., and in the fore noon arrived at a point between Flores Light and the English Bank, where the crew exercised at general quarters, firing at a target. In the after noon, at about 1.45, they again went to quarters, and beat the retreat shortly after 3 p.m., keeping the foremast lower deck guns exercising. At about 3.30 George Noble, who with another seaman was stationed on the platform of the hold to pass up shell, saw flames and smoke issuing from under the starboard foremast handing-room of the after maga zine and platform adjacent, " and immediately rushed up and rang the fire-bell." Beyond this point the fire cannot be traced backwards. The lights in the after light-room were put out, the magazine was secured, and they were in the act of putting out lights in the fore-light rooms, when the alarm was given. It was ascertained that there was neither flame nor smoke in the light-room, and that all the lights were burning excepting one. But the fire, once discovered, spread with such extraordi nary quickness that, from this fact, and from the intense volume of smoke and flame, Captain Camp bell is led to suppose that the spirits were ignited. How they came to be ignited he does not attempt to say, and he is obliged to dismiss this part of his subject by the candid avowal that he has not been able to ascertain how the fire originated. Here is the succinct history of its progress in the " times" taken by the master while on the poop. " Fire-bell rung, and after-magazine reported on fire at 3.35 p.m. Quarter boats ordered to be lowered, and sick passed into them, as the fire was gaining, 3.50. Commenced getting boom-boats out, 3.52. Men forced from below by flames and smoke ; hatchway and skid covers put on, 3.55. All boats out, except second launch; fire coming up hatchways and skids, forcing every one over by heat and flames, 4. Mainmast went over the side, 4.15. Mizenmast, 4.40. Foremast, 5.5. After magazine exploded, 8.25." We can express no surprise at the scene which followed upon the discovery of the fire. We are too much accustomed to the calm and collected heroism with which Eng- lish soldiers and sailors meet their disasters arid obey orders in the very face of death, to feel any astonishment at the perfect self-possession displayed by the officers and crew of the Bombay upon this dreadful occasion. The men at once went to their fire-stations, and those who were in the orlop-deck remained at their posts in spite of the dense smoke and flames which were coming from the after-hold, where the fire proved to be, till many of them had to be carried up insensible. In 17 minutes after the fire-bell was rung, those who continued below were forced up by the heat and smoke, and they had not long gained the deck before they were forced over the ship's side and forward; the flames spreading in every direction, and the top-sails and rigging in a blaze. Some une" to the anchors, cables, bow sprit, and ropes which were hanging by the sides of the ship • and hammocks, gratings, and whatever else would float, were thrown overboard to assist those who were in the water, of whom, however, it seems to have been ascertained that 91 perished. Such of the crew as had found safety in the boats, at the imminent peril of their lives, stood by the ship rescuing those who were holding on to the ropes under the bows. Nor was there one man that day who stained the character of a British seaman by a word of impatience or an act of selfish ness, or the slightest sign of fear. " The officers and ship's company," writes Captain Campbell, " behaved exceedingly well throughout under the trying circumstances in which they were placed. Every one went to their stations with alacrity, and worked with the greatest zeal and cheerfulness ; there was no confusion even ; when the order was given to get the boats out, not one of those ordered to remain at the fire and pumps left their station till they were absolutely driven away by the flames." Only for this admirable conduct, the loss of life must have been greater than it was. But while repeating this tribute of praise to men who have so well deserved it, we are anxious to repudiate an ungenerous passage in a leading article of one of the daily journals, which, with the case of the Surrey Theatre before it, insists that soldiers and sailors, though not naturally more brave than other men, are, from their dense of duty, more trust worthy and collected in the hour of danger. It may be true that the audience at the Surrey fled precipitately upon the alarm of fire. But for a just judgment between the ship and the theatre we must compare the officers and crew of each. If we do so, we shall not find much to choose between the calm and collected courage of either. All honour to both. The crew of the burning ship stood at their posts till the flames drove them away. But they displayed no higher sense of duty, no nobler self-devotion, than the clown and pantaloon, the sprite and the stage-manager, who would not stir from the theatre till they had placed scores of frightened women and children beyond the reach of danger. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW " ON THE KING AND PARLIAMENT IN PRUSSIA.—The King of Prussia ap pears really to wish for a reconciliation with the House of Deputies, if only he is allowed to have his own way. The success and revived popularity of the army have put him in good humour, and dis posed him to indulge in the curiously sentimental mode of thought which seems to belong to his family. His predecessor was often laughed at for his fanciful theories and romantic language, and it was hoped that the present King, who never affected to be a scholar or philosopher, would be simple and straight forward in word and in deed. The illusion was dis turbed by the determination to be crowned with ancient pomp at Konigsberg ; and, since the first rupture with his Parliament, he has habitually in sisted on a Divine right which must have been mysteriously entailed on Frederick I. and his de scendants at the beginning of the eighteenth century, an age not otherwise fertile in miracles. Few private laymen enjoy the satisfaction of believ ing that every person who differs from their opinions, or opposes their wishes, is guilty of pro fane resistance to Divine authority ; and the infalli bility of kings themselves had gone out of fashion until it was revived in modern Prussia. William I. apparently believes in his odd little creed, as far as it is possible to believe an incredible crotchet. His religious enthusiasm overflows upon his favourite in stitution, so that he has persuaded himself that the valour and discipline of his army proceeded from the extraordinary piety of the soldiers. Indeed, the present popularity of the army is but a tribute from a devout community to the virtues of the saints in uniform. " The great thing," says the King, in his reply to the address of the Upper House, "is that everything has been done on that principle which, by the blessing of the Almighty, can alone insure a durable success, namely, the fear of God. This fear of God is uppermost among our soldiers, and has been the cause of the sympathy of the people, who are ready to make sacrifices for the army." There is something strange in the dreamy excitement of a commonplace elderly prince. It is difficult to sup pose that such doctrines or phrases can gratify a highly educated nation, especially as the royal thanksgivings are intended to reflect indirectly on the contumacious Deputies. The fear of Godwhich is cherished in the ranks of the army, and the con sequent sympathy of the people, are, in the King's mind, dependant on the organisation which he has resolved to maintain. If the Parliament also wishes to share the credit of the general piety, it must pro vide the necessary funds for three years' service. Although foreigners are not competent judges of ad ministrative details, there is reason to believe that in the original matter of dispute with the Parliament the King exercised a sounder judgment than his op ponents. There is no difference of opinion in Prussia on the necessity of maintaining an efficient army, and as the national finances are flourishing, the country could well have afforded the additional outlay which might have been caused by an extension of the term of service. The officers of the army are, however, unpopular with the middle classes, as the military profession is the exclusive resource of the poorer members of the aristocracy. The King was suspected of an undue leaning to the nobility, and he violated the a privileges of the House by incurring consider able expenditure without previous Parliamentary sanction. The ground of controversy was shifted from military expediency to constitutional right, and among Englishmen there has been little difference of opinion as to the merits of the quarrel in its later stages. Experience shows that Continental As semblies are almost always unable to assume the political supremacy which has belonged for nearly two centuries to the House of Commons. Generally based on a wide suffrage, they provide a less perfect representation of national interests and opinions, and they find themselves in the presence of kings who command great standing armies. No English Minister could refuse deference to a Parliamentary decision in favour of a special military system ; but it is perfectly intelligible that, in Prussia, preroga tive and privilege maybe adjusted on different prin ciples, and that the Crown may have, in fact as well as in theory, the absolute control of any army which it is authorized to employ and to pay. The power of granting supplies, on the other hand, seems to be the indispensable function and inherent right of, every re p r esentative body. Even under the French Im perial system the Legislative Body votes taxes and loans • and, in Austria, the Council of the Empire is at this moment urging a reduction of the army as the consideration for adopting the official budget. Almost all recent Constitutions have been estab lisned under financial pressure by Governments which found themselves unable to raise sufficient money, although they might be strong enough to suppress resistance. A Parliament which can be pledged to expenditure without its own consent is but a useless fiction, and it seems that even the Prussian Minister admits in words the financial authority of the Deputies ; but he informs them, at the same time, that it is useless to discuss the King's military reforms, as they have been definitively adopted. THE " EXAMINER" ON THE QUEEN'S LETTER TO RAILWAY COMPANIES.—On the 27th of December a letter of admonition was, by command of the Queen, addressed to the principal railway companies, exhorting them to greater care of the public safety. Considering the eagerness there is both to learn and to communicate any act or concern of her Majesty, it is very remarkable that the public heard nothing of this letter till the middle of last week, almost a month after date, and even then it would not have come to light if it had not happily happened that a provincial company, the Sheffield and Manchester, could boast of exemption from disaster, and conse quently could hear the letter read without wincing. The total suppression of it, so far as regards the public, by other companies is full of significance. In the days of the First Napoleon a soldier of the to Army boasted that the Emperor had spoken to bin?: "What did he say to you 2" asked his comrades' and le after fencing with the question, the fellow at last s a, " Well, if you must know, his Majesty said, ' Be e ' gone, scamp.' " Now the railway companies, ha a v i g been more discreet than this fellow, and greal' a ' the honour of a letter from her Majesty , they hale not only refrained from boasting of it, b u t from any mention whatever. Was there no c ompanY _ g in London that could read the letter with the e, conscience of the Sheffield and Manches ter ? lines l course, with the greater traffic of the great , centring in London, there must, even with the he 4" care, be a liability to accident proportiona te to the tu traffic, and even so well managed a lin e as Great Northern has not been wholly exempt from disaster. Companies may fairly say that they ca:1Id; not give to all travellers the security they provi 0 specially for the Queen, as in her Maje,stys le they make surety doubly sure ; and if they did ~t , same for the public generally they could nothingr- half a dozen trains a day. But, achn i ,7 this, they may reasonably be required to 6 : the public the benefit of similar precatitinn-1 though not carried to the same extent. For instance! when the Queen travels there is for many train on the same line before her Majesty's tram, nor behind it, and collision is actually in l l 3° . si 4; The Queen's safety does not depend on sign - e i though signals are used to indicate the clear ad upon which for many miles before and behind 1 1 0 train has been permitted to move. Here is the I. „ of safety of long intervals between trains, and wj + t +0 out asking so much as is provided for her MajeV a r re Ales I . l u security, the public may fairly demand a larger su if of this precaution than is now granted to it. at nothing follows or precedes her Majesty's trainur an interval short of 40 miles, or in time an 11 , ° , l ; may not a quarter of the space or the time be iads claimed to improve the public safety ? But aenure regards Royalty there is a gradation of this rilea 6 th e of precaution, and it appeared in the inquirY into of disaster upon the Ascot day that the Pr in c e lier Wales's train had not the clear road secured fOLolit Majesty, and that any unforeseen stoppag e ,%s' 's have left no space to spare. His Royal H i g nll o f train had more margin for safety than the tran t i the general public, but not so much as make s sur 'ost doubly sure for her Majesty. There is one . 4. 11 ,; o f important precaution for her Majesty's safe' at. which all her subjects might also have the berieja Thb Queen has always the means of communi cat i ll , with the guard or the official in charge of the tra 0 , and can cause the train to be stopped at all 111 ,0 ment, or may give any directions that circunastanays may require. We believe also that there is lathird n ays an extra look-out on her Majesty's trains, a we, official, besides the driver and stoker, on the eng t he to see to the road and the signals, and to lea°, to drier and fireman, relieved of those duties, freoie attend wholly and solely to their engine. ginner arrangement ought to be extended to all pad cap trains, for it is impossible that the driv e mi o be, watch the road and signals as they ought n ' t of watched, and attend atso to the managetn„ e ' oo rr their engines. Some day a disaster will be tn e ,„ big sequence of a driver's compelled attention v" $33 engine when his eyes may be wanted to discern obstruction or signal of danger on the road. COUNTRY MARKETS YORK—SATURDAY. r 0d To-day the weather is again of a wintry charge - T hel our market was consequently but thinly attended. 14 01 was a moderate show of wheat, but trade -Was cl , ll o l3,„g u e „ prices rather in favour of buyers. White wh eat from 40s to 445, and red from 35s to 37s per 36 steloc'Aio deliveries of barley have been much on the saln e n s c iiita ° during the two previous weeks, and there wa s 11 " in the New price. 3SS white wheat, 40$ to 45s ; new red, 36s 0,000 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 28s to 30$ per qr ; 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 20s to 22 s p er Beans, 40s to —s per 38 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. e _,,,,,0 0P 1 At this corn exchange to-day there was a ia" . ting of wheat on offer from the growers, the show co ns? .s p e arl red and white descriptions: Since last week there LTativeli a great change in the weather, and it is now con' de ye t mild for the season. Out-door work has of late mat little progress. The demand for wheat wa s slow the rates of the week previous. De p Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; old red, 395 to 4 1s 134 0 ,," white, 41s to 458 ; new red, 37s to 41s per 36 ston e ' t", ley, new malting, 28s to 34s per qr ; old grio dbag 'to 91)5 ' 27s ; new, 25s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25e ve o 6 naw, 22s to 25s ; old foreign, 24s to 26s per stone. old, 40s to 43s ; new, 37s to 39s per 38 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY . to-day, t t hi ra s de lt rtl e dull at the prices of this day se'night. There is noda;„;t• tion to note in the state of the barley trade, all goo „ o rt' ing qualities being taken off on full terms. while otilf po re' met a fair demand at late rates. Oats, beans, and r mained at former quotations. , Po" White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 448 to OS s itia ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 388 ; bes t cl it h t° barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 330 ; (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditt° ag s, f gs mg 521 b to 531 b), 84s to 28s ; oats, 24s to 2 68 ; 1 4 60 to .., to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr ; flour, 4 49 le 6d. Average—wheat, 2,000 qrs, 3 3 s 4 d; barley, 3 29s 2d ; oats, 32 qrs, 26s 7d. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. 0 ; r o ;. Old white wheat, 41s to 458 ; old red, 3 8 ! , t °,oe. P r 30 white, 40s to 43s ; new red, 37s to 40s per 3 0 ,7, 308 P t e i Al e , ley, malting, 30s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 2 8 , 0 r 24 Flom ley, Oats, old, 24s to 26s ; new, 25s to 2i g 't s Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 3' DIIBLIN.—FRIDAY. StIP P" • d die There was a small attendance at market, an , r atet jt er of wheat almost nil. Oats and barley were n ic n i to ~';o11 the demand for both not brisk; still no occas ° ts , the quotations of last week, except for black ° a l ittle, o r were 3d to 6d higher. Flour and wheat in Vitt, P ° mand. Maize the same, and few millers at mar' - a was in steady demand for consumption. Aa .re - ,dt• Currencies :—Whte wheat, 23s Od to 250 v 21s Od to 22s 6d; grinding barley, 12s 6d to I ° s l ,lo l " ing do., 14s to 15s 6d; white oats, 20 11s to 1 lOs 6d to lls 3d. . Foreign Mail Packet List. ..reP . 0 , Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. • , e p, ~ Ditto, via Marseilles '',, ,D . o ' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao.et f., 4i , ;',.: Ditto, by British packet .......... .. . H... 1....... 1: :e 0 , I V ., Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and , St. h e en t a o . n .• !,.. „ China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sow p .•kielp, 4, It Faik p la it n t Fe 15. d o, ivsilaanbidasir.i.l.le. s . ................................. Gibraltar, is Southampton ....... .. •• • ~,o, , India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Scuthampton.....D, id' Ditto, via Marseilles •Y' It • ........... .-•• • • •,„D, ~ India (Bumbay), via Southampton.. ................ .r; e1) , , 1, Ditto, via Marseilles .. ..................... •• . ;.0). 1 6, Mauritius, via Southampton .................... 3 0 i'6, Ditto, via Marseil ....................... • **-0" - ~ Newfoundland ............ Feb a Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ............. . 0, United States and British North America, 1 , 1 131. ..... tish packet... ... . ..... Ditto, by United States packet, via Southatur ton ... ........................... io . Ditto, via Cork ................. .......... .gel) 1 0, Ditto, by Canadian packet, via LondonderrY*.relP West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe•••9, West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas , Cu ' . Feb , tl• and Mexico .................. ................ .feD' 0 Bahamas, via New York. ......................... ge b 4g' Bermuda, ditto ..................... . ...... . ...... .reD. Cuba and Mexico —•••• , .... . .., 4 a I'.lllo vit all AO e b.o,. [ADVERTISEMENT.]. —Holloway's Ointmen t e rg, - a . The Knife Superseded.—All afflicted with uico res, tO t of the bone, inflammation of the joints, sh nit hettli n g u tre e ,,,? testimonial to the curative powers of these " o ,lV: f ej purifying remedies. Mr. John Allen, 17, De n ore s d ti:0 1 '10 Leicester ',suffered severely from a bad foot for o tr ea ta j a during which long period he was under aurg i , e , oldie till without any perceptible benefit. He r esolut&J o pos' fo"i.4, amputation, which seemed the only . coure,,,,se 6,,0' providentially tried Hollowoy's remedies. - 1 -' - ' -- iili• ifilr,,, , great relief, and at last completely cure-frol e v ',I blemishes, sores, and shin diseases, ari 0 1 I I ' ll verished blood or a reckless course a lif Ding' ° moved by the judicious use of llolloway's Pills. _...................."/ _____..../ AM11•111•••.1.1MMOI...••••=1• 1 1 0 . ~.......... P °lls' Births. ° f f Is' Of LONG.—On the 2d inst., at Dublin, the sv.-/ 4° o. , i lf o Esq., Assistant Commissary-General , of t "tlie ,,,, *LEwis.—On the Ist inst., at Chigwell, Esse/r." r -' v, Sarni. Lewis, jun., Esq., of a son. t, 130 ,t,4 .11 MORRIS.—On the 3d inst., at Englemere, 14e° 'Pe A . wife of Mowbray Morris, Esq., of a son. , di , NEVILL.—At 29, Upper Grosve nor - s treet, J ` Nevill, of a son. „dot Marriages. the C 0,0; CADDELL--WAITIIMAN.--On the Ist • inst.l t ival v elle its )ll). Manchester, Walter Caddell, Esq., . ° , l l vi a i' .. 11 Dora Annie, second daughter of ffnu lt- ip - f CI , f c Esq., of Manchester. 0 50 il te STUART—WINTER.—On the 2d inst , a t St..A I P cltts s Benn. B. Stuart, Esq.,' R.N., to inst., Mr. W. B. Winter, of 5, The Circus, G reeu Sid Deaths. hee o, 0 EARLE , .—On the 3(1 inst at U r Bas t ..- OA Harry Earle, of the firm of Evans and St f fA,ge-'3141' Fish-street. scl.., et" FORD.—On the Ist inst., Edward Ford, 1 ,-4 0 of place, Lower Clapton, and 17, Few:3llloc' O f w oo 78. wel , t po LEB.—On the 25th ult at Flo nce, L ea, 0:0 re clo v V , Sir Francis G. C. Lee, aged 88. - o vrl ,. Dflq ~. NEALE.—On the 3d inst., at Brighton, J' of v' lete Major W. Payne Neale, formerly °- „ ' A . se, 16th Lancers. p I) el'' i ll, WINDEYER.—On the 2d inst., at Stonellon lir eOt - Windeyer, Esq„ aged 75. ode' WATSON.—On the 2d inst., at Berkeley I' Putney, Henry Watson, aged 64. 0 OP O. ill) il , A London • Pri Jted and Publibhed by WILLIt -- ,,Oce , otl of No. the .112, Strand, Painter , at T HE SO '' CP Strand, in the Precinct of the WO, i n Middlesex.—Monday, February 6, 1805,