The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-04 00:00:00

,EIM. ----..~ 1 C..~ ; a4/4Le-e_Th ~/~ .-a-t.c_.'._ ItENTEMBER! WE WAIT SUPP E R k g! l'oft YOU, after the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fail • • „f2v.l, , ••••., 2, • , • litq r - 'lfi If" Nr & al • , • , 'Arklloll6,loQ * -4)* (,-ti l i t - 416 ` • 0 04 0 040 1.1 Ito. A 'OROLT. - - lei 4 DIE 1 -411 ,1111 u , The Eruption of Mount Etna• ABAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRA. pDTb .„his . celeb rated Old IRISHNDY WHISKY rivals the finest BRANDy, s are, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. the Till Bottles 35. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by in in the Princi pal towns in England; or wholesale G D _ "ENT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. k lu: a Te the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded LL The Naples Observer contains A th PL e E f s o , ll F ow eb. m. g 22 a . count s t in of ce th las e teruopetotiobnerofthAelonuenigt hEbtonuar hood of Etna has been frequently disturbed by repeated shocks of earthquake, which during the following days were experienced with increasing violence by the inhabi tants of the towns of Piedmonte, San Alfino, San Giovanni, and other surrounding villages on the more elevated portions of the volcano. " The crater during the entire month of January was surmounted by a dense column of smoke,which hung almost vertically over it. Towards the close of the month a surprising and marked change in the weather was experienced ; the appearance of the country was also quite changed, and the contrast from the severity of winter, to the mild ness of early spring, was somewhat startling and strange. The thermometer rose considerably, the days and even the evenings became particularly mild, and at times the atmosphere was almost suffocating. Besides these wonderful but not unusual phenomena of an eruption, a circumstance occurred which, though trifling in itself, is remarkable, as it caused mllnwh of h a crowded pe o pl e o f t h e coast to look forward to a repeti tionrTwudl of th e events o f 1852 , v i z., t h e very grea t quantitie s eiard outof shellfish—thetheirnooPks Peden andCcornre is_je - vices, and which are considered diminutive but re liable warnings of the approaching outbursts of Etna. N°. 22,685. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1865. PRICE 4d., STAMPED sd. t s .„I 3 ERSONS SEEKING L - A ND ED ORE fi- W AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, ,Itoptol‘,D AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND 4 ,t0 it"„ I IES GEN ERA.LL Y— h 'AD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls No . 6 p' c ?lit the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Office?, „%haneery-l‘ne, London, Messrs. M. and H. Lumley s L )4 land,,`, lt crkEllTY nEGiaTER," containing a varied selection • sobi i ,"`„,and house properties now in the market, from "v ( la — "Ws mansion, with its manorial domain, to the DigeQo4 with its few acres. ERg OP PitOpERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em rrcis DiMot tanity that the medium of this Reg,ister j'Reti e ' t ,"Y m selidino• the partici:Oars of their properties to the . I,l l▪ 11e.7„"ices, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. pler e f ) , 0 4 in most cases introduce immediate customers ih:e,Property is of an eligible chara ter, thereby avoid- Tent uit4 advantages of delay and its attendant incon ,4r4en 8 . tBb e i,',E RO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur ktiq then introduced through Messrs. Lumley 's Agency, 4,1 1 4 1 , Daly the usual moderate commission. and Land Offices, 67. Chancery-lane, London. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNIAL . HANDKL FESTIVAL. MESSIAH, Monday, June 26, 186 5 . SELECTION, Wednesday, June 28, 1865. ISRAEL, Friday, June 30, 1865. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. at the hands of the master shipwright's staff, in order to discover a serious leak in the locality of her stern-post. She will probably be detained in dock for some days. SIIATTERED IDOLS. "A remarkably clever, original, and interesting novel." —Post. "This work proceeds, we believe, from the pen of an ac• complished lady of t tle. It is one of the most exciting and attrsc lye stories that-have lately apreared, and will be per used by every novel reader."—U.S. Mag. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The Programme of arrangements, with the price of Tickets, and the block plan of Stalls, is ready for issue, and may be had on written or personal application, from and after Mon day next, the Bth of March, at the Festival Tick t Offices, Crystal Palace, and Exetei Hall. It may also be had at the principal Music Warehouses in London end in the Provinces ; and besides numerous other places abroad, at the offices of the Fouth-E,B ern, and London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way Companies, at Paris, Bt ussete, Cologne, Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Ghent, Antwerp, &c. The two Ticket Offices as above will be open from 10 a.m. on Monday, March 13, for the issue uf vouchers securing seats according to the numbered plans which will then be open to inspect ion. Written applications, containing remittances, and arriving at either of the Ticket Offices on or before the first post on the 13th, will be attended to alternately with personal applications. By order. Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall, March 3, 18135. The Government have now determined to arm the whole of the cavalry with carbines on the breech loading principle, and have selected in the Westley Richards' arm as the arm of the service. Its weight is about 61b., and the barrel, which is rifled on the Whitworth principle, is 20 inches in length, and is sighted up to 800 yards, at which distance it makes most wonderful practice. It has also a hardened projectile, which gives it greatly increased power of penetration. Two thousand of these arms are already in the hands of the troops ; they are much approved, and 20,000 more are now in course of manufacture at Enfield ; they will be finished this year. 2,000 infantry muskets on the same principle are also being manufactured for the Government by the inventors, Messrs. Westley Richards and Co., of Birmingham ; these will be served out to the infan try this year for an extended trial. This arm, like the carbine, is rifled on the Whitworth principle, and is sighted up to 1,000 yards, at which dis tance it gives an average mean figure of merit under 2ft. This principle of breech loading and its ammu nition have been before the public for the last seven years; in the course of that time it has been thoroughly tested by the Government, and has been supplied to upwards of 3,000 private - persons over all parts of the world for sporting and target purposes. It has become an article of consumption for which there is a steady and increasing demand, so that the Govern vernment incurs no risk of failure. Now ready at all the Libraries. in Bvo., with numerous Illus trations by F. W. Fairholt, 215., e egantly bound, HAUNTED LONDON. By WALTER THORNBUR Y. "As plea smt a book as well could be forming a very handsome volume worthy of being pi onounced an acquisition either for the table or the bookshelf."—Sun. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CHEAP EDITION, now ready, with Portrait, ss. bound, LIFE of the REV. EDWARD IRVING, in cluding his Journal and Correspondence. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. Forming the New Volume of "Hurst and Blackett's StAndard Library." METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILW A Y 0014, COMPANY. 'leei,'' ll I'M KBY GIVEN, that the SCRIP CERTI 4teefp`ti% will be delivered in exchange for the Banker 's the 1, and after WEDNESDAY next the Bth instant, " 4 cll ` e tnPorary O ffi ces of the Company', No. 41, Thread lieee-street, /110tgeta presented for exchange must be endorsed by the 11. EARLi, Secretary. 5. C L ERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 13 , St. James's-square, London, S.W. NOTE.—Persons preferring seats in any particular block are recommended to apply for them as early as I ossible alter the opening of the Subscription Books on the 13th of March. Even the Crystal Palace, with its vast space, has limits of ac...emmodati n which cannot be exceeded; and the demand at each of the three previous Festivals for seats in particular blocks having been greatly in excess of any possible supply, the necessity for the foregoing intimation must be apparent. "A truly interesting and affecting memoir. 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Admission—a:ea, 6d.; stalls and balcony, 18.; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Cant2rbury Hall Company (limited). HODGE PODGE, rid , 5591 , u tri of ,e$ C tl.s 1 6 • 9 , 31* ktor P ii ‘ e ; l 1,0, 00, 11 0 0. Sir t o res 32.fre 0, to n co' ( 2 , Mt/ ° Established 1824. The Fin ancial results of the Society's operations at,lncome exceeds the 4 nnual £201.000 „. VteZranne Fund safely investel is over Z1,146 000 o : Policies in the last year were 466, assuring £271,440 o„Th i aided to Policies at the last Division was .V 75,077 "'" %dating by Death paid amount to £1,962,629 toti qe °Wi fOll • es ng are among the distinctive features of the Cab; D SYSTEM.-On any Policy for the whole of Life, Cviale..,' age does not exceed (1), one-half of . the Annual 4(1 m ay ,a during the first five years may remain on credit, °l ratl either continue SS a debt on the Policy, or be paid Low Y tittle ' 4l ) , Ii ATES of PREMIUM for YOUNG LIVES, with kit ar ticipation in Profits. t r efiteTVIII4.:NT itYRANCES may be effected. without ,1411, Which the' Sum Assured becomes payable on the , 41 1 peiit of a specified age, or at death, whichever event I Itizvlet happ en. °the 7 nre l3, LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned 41 111111°1111, ased risk. ttY 43 'of ter - SETTLMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid proof of death. o l he 41„e'rersionary Bonus at the Quinquennial Division in T the p. 4 Zed 48 per cent., and the Cash Bonus 28 per cent., ‘1 le .,olitims aid in the 6 ears. ,' ate'. Division of Profits y will take place in January, tic 4 e o„ P e rsons who affect New Policies before the end of tiSersehveill be entitled at that Division to one year's ad en a bler are of Profits over later entrants. of t ti .,, Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of ) 3 ociety's Agents, or tat I li St GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Ac'uary and Secretary. ,ar nes's-square,_London, S.W. '4l (OPPD 'thit MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION , Itt,,,e , e) are authorised to offer 30,000 Shares of the Varna il)eeto? Company, on the terms of the following Pro v ARNA RAILWAY COMPANY 'uasti f „. (Rustchuk to Varna', '''ed by Statutes under the law of Turkey, with Limited Liability. / Concession 99 years. Share Capita', £900,000. ie r , a , arcs to bearer of £2) each, bearing a minimum 4 46 Ye "°f 5 Percent. per annum guaranteed by the Turkish is illistoent. Turkey,ave been taken, 9,000 of which are under offer according to the terms of the concession. t D e Price of issue ot the Shares £l2. i,b s toast on Application Xi, ditto on Allotment £2. 4 A ti tt i t 0 ez £2 10s. per S , are, at intervals of not less than three months. 4, l 4 l t i s i 4rice of issue Shareholders will re ceive Fi per cent. vyi n ,-„ , and interest will be allowed a- the ll same rate on aptgh-,1,!5• Shareholders may pay n will be redeemed atpar b b p a in sin e king fund gua 15!etc.4,the Turkish Government y y annual drawings, to /t . ",e 0 0 s h `tte year alter the opening of the line, viz. :- 1 44(1 aces during the first 33 years ; 20,000 during the "r) '4 Years ; 12,50) during the third 33 years ; total, • Nl , hole pp,: 4 di ?I' of each share drawn and paid off at £2 will re.: kegtii ear dead warrant entitling him to participate in all TO thethe Railw y in excess of the guaranteed kV "n remaining term of the concessio . Nite m ate the advantages offered to the Shareholders, in telt e; the minimum interest of 81 per cent., and the to t o -rived from the annual drawings at par, it is reces ttLPe",tbar the Railway is estimated to yi ld trom 10 ,N, - "u 0 1 00'. Per ann im on the entire capital expended, ot eeel'ef. ; of this amount £OOO,O 0 has been provided by oblievi at the rate of 74 er cent. interest, and theli t t e nking fund, likewise guaranteed by the lili"tet,,-overnment ;•the entire profits above the aggregate Will in consequence become divisible among the kce o „ ern, rep re ent ng a capital of £90 1 ,0)0, and taking h 14! i‘s o iit the price at which the Shares are issued, each e the s.l°t surplus profit earned on the total cost would earehoider an addition of nearly 4 per cent. on the iq i Nio ri r . 4 41 by him. h e t th,,,.„et Betts, and Crampton have contracted to con lt,-,setailway and Works. and provide rolling stock, for VOirilelli Will leave a suffie ent margin in the h nos of 'ti.ll" l / to pay interest during the construction, ,nd . to ,rPiatki,,continfrencies, thereby ensurieg that under no or- Shall the expenditure exceed .£2,000,000. te.,,,)ee• e-I,nray was commenced last June, and great r rp_re o ss l i4tse,l T , 4 :de in all branches of the works. Fifty miles 1 kit rtia d re ready for laying the r, entire contractors 1 11 ,44 1 a 1 , 2 e 4 rrangements to open the line in . the . Yek‘r.` 66 . For this purpose all the rails will be delivered s VP/,• DIRECTORS. Lrklt GLADSTONE, Esq, Chairman. k t i e. anon, Blake, Esq. ii. Q.l ll), ° i ,ljelson, Esq. London. ~Chleey. Esq.' i t o 4. Posno, Esq. 1,,e. tinerique. le, v.; -ranwels. Brussels. l 'ercelin-Monjot. CONSULTING ENGINEER. G. P. Bidder, Esq. ENGINEER. Wm. M'Candlish, Esq. CONTRACTORS. • Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Crampton. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Freshfields and Newman. BANKERS. Messrs. Roberts, Lubbock, and Co. • SECRETARY. J. F. Walsh, Esq. BROKERS. Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co. Oh l OFFICES. 15. Angel-court, E.C. I YaY will connect Rustchnk, on the banks of the ' ll ,ll 4 Lrav,,',.'t Varna, the principal port in the Black Sea, and . the se 8,, for the entire distance of about 13t English "tt;Drov - ", u st Populous districts in the province of Bulgaria. 'flee remitsyearly to the Turkish Government a hkie o , t ile of about one million sterling, and provides Con e) ti: r e ", e With cattle, limber, grain, and ther produc'. 1T,54r o-D4 attached to the Prospectus will show the route • 11 e, r- b .) o ° t l e b d Ralway. l and thegreat saving of time and I,lotietilttentehe2l_l.enef route e nd to aanndd. from m N g Vill form the shortest and the East. It will also itil l nte t t e 'LFn .. apest and mo.t d rect means of communica- ZR S Z u pe Moldo-WVa a c n itian Principalities and the e d the Port of Varna. The T e .o tr ng P n er t D o 'n Constantinople will be accomplished iye t , • - 41( e O _I Varna is 'one of the best natural harbours in from whence there is a larcre exportation of )1 1. th ( ~ s _ ner merchandise at all seasens"of the year. The 1 ee ),, .,„Tru ment are now negotiating with a company , % .. ‘etc:.E . r . uction of a breakwater and quays within the t c e it u e e se at a f re rmple e ted the Harbour of Varna will '4 1 1 1 1 . 11 qt 3' a Pier has u bee u n r gns . tructed, extending into 16 feet ~h;rl.lB\rater, where vessels of large tonnage may load and ' 4 ll. 4 1e c°lc olection with the Railway'. of the annual payments guaranteed by the 1) 1 1 1ree - e „" e _ r onient the entire Shsre and Debenture Capital • , titki - Ted with n the term of the concession. le r 4 11 w 8 o Government have the option of eurchasing to 2iti on aY on terms favourable to the Company, at the tc, Of 50 , rfb J ars. t ll 4 o t 00, er details reference is made to the original Fir th„ ention, Cahier des Charges, Plan for Redemption, Ob te ri dmts, which, with translations, are anie_tion st e ms Company's Office. jhs't„theerttii for Shares, in the annexed Form, to be left Ii :niters upon ayment of the deeosit of £1 per 1 , 1 e., ' 4 . otment is made the deposit will be returned 'Nor, til t: less number so shares beallotted then _is_ap. th tthe ( lePosit will, so far as required, be applied to hectii:Ylnent due on allotment. kk , )titt Of tL e S and Forms of application f - r Shares may be 4 tio ue Secrete of the Imperial Mercantile Credit 4 0.52 11 ie l l Y, T hr ted , 95, Rishopsgate-street; of the Brokers, , e adneedle-street ;or at the aloes of the Com- Ogel-ourt. Po lo . ' ll OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. 1 le s,etetieo Di rectors of the Varna Railway Company. I a paid to your Bankers, Messrs.Robart s, o h, the sum of , being a deposit shares in the above Com ttlfc'ea 4" request that you will allot hat number, • ot t o ` 0 s accept such shares, or any leas t number you he a nl ort the terms of the proepectu,s, and I agree ' e Posit due on allotment. Usual Signature Name in full ......... • • • • Residence n~EProfession uate ih yP eb 4 l .°Ti v e 4 l , lll ‘ l A RAILWAY COMPANY.— t,,,t6eßen t „, IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in consequence l'il,the e ,eti e "";:° , lB having been made to the Directors that kt l Z4ed, i7' need for receiving Applications for Shares was Veekr t e le LAST DAY for Applications is extended to et,ozie,,,7th March next, at Four o'clock, for London, -11tt Y the Bth March, at Twelve o'clock, for tr, By order, 41 0011 4 i l‘th• 28,1865. J. F. WALSH, Secretary. ()- A -tat hi 1 11 th e - ` 4 , PREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-r o ad, b. 111,4111,411111„.ediat e vicinity of the Great Northern nail l e . at nt,,—* 'king's-cross. I;4vattro-,,--livr Most Gracious Maje3ty the QUEEN. _ ; I:4l(l,lrrilis Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE I , KG MG 1,°14 1 , 4 4 0 ,,, -- ,, l iis Grace the Duke of BUCCL LUCA, . . I t' (1T brir'!4l iouridel in the year 1828, the first to estab- N:lrry w'cll/ie of free admission to the sick poor, wi thout l t111:40,44 difficulty of Governors' orders, is whol ly des ,ifel,moZo,sl3,l, Z t ViP ee ort on voluntary contributions an dlegacie e . p arnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE t e th of qtt rt4l;s remises of this Hospital are 411attej.eral hundred more beds, had the Co mmittee 4111iti0,_,448 relief to maintain them. quil e t . ) itr,L.etfieo a a ve l r ar a ge e n o u o m m T e r r o o t i patients, and, in f n attendance of the ;_t;oll4,lll.lMhas for a con , i g derable period averaged between I: 4l ap t Ibv o u j ee klY• lt ,li k , 14; 6 ,, 0 are received by the Treasurer. Edward Mas el elti,, pan dit ,rholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and Co. ; t i 4te lt ' ; rpA C°' ' Glyn and Co.' Herriers and Co. ; Ransom Co., Lid 6.).eott, Grote, and Co ' .; Smith, Pa yn e, and Co.; , v., 1 4 ,_ Co ; ,a,; , VC' dilates, Deacon, and Co.; q erend, Gur d - YerPc4)'?l:ll' h C e n ieoa ße i r ta n i, r ; 3 r - o s m tre g ; di 5 . • "1 BTANFDORD SMITE secretary. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption it ., effects arc truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepares °thy and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-W,lliam-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and three quantities in one, 28. Od. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, And Dining-room, consisting of anew and e.egant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful Inlaid Tables, Paper weights, duo., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, dm Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine. ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS , wh i c h will g reatl y facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, GEOLOGY , at 2,5, 1 0 , 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINN. SALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.O. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Honmeopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocos as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doo trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country there were to be obt ,fined no preparations of cocoa either at. tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, nomceopathic Chemist, was induced in the yeir 1839 to turn his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its co reposition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Eppa's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli cious aroma. Dr. Ilassall, in his work, "Food and its Adulterations," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of im portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again; "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined Vb., Ob., and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by all grocers, confectioners, and chemists.— [Aim.] TIMES.—At the close of the fourth year of the war the Federals have gained a victory which will recompense them for many labours and encourage them to pursue with renewed vigour the conquest of the South. Charleston, the cradle of the rebel lion, the focus of secession, the real metropolis of the Confederacy, has at last succumbed to the Federal arms, and is in the possession of a Northern army. This event seems not to have been unexpected even at the South. The tone of the Richmond journals indicated that some such catastrophe was at hand. There was an exhortation to resistance which seemed to be inspired rather by apprehension than confidence. The South thought, perhaps, that Charleston might be saved by a rising of the people of South Carolina. The event has shown that this judgment was incorrect, and the chief city of the rebellion has fallen as easily as New Orleans or Savannah. On the 13th of February the Federal army had arrived at Orangeburg, and the Confede rate forces fell back in the direction of Columbia, the capital of the State. The Federal forces pursued and in a very short time had succeeded in occupying this important though not extensive town. Of the actual evacuation of Charleston which followed we have but meagre details. It appears that the sur render had been expected by the Confederates, and that the more opulent inhabitants of the place had taken away their families and their goods and left the city ready for burning. On the night of the 17th of February the place was abandoned, and the Federals entered without resistance, two hundred pieces of artillery falling into their power. Part of the Federal troops crossed from James. Island in boats and took possession of the city without find ing any opponents, but the upper part of the city had been fired, and nearly 6,000 bales of cotton appear to have been destroyed. The influence of this -victory can hardly be exaggerated. Although the Federals may not gain many military advantages by it, although the blockade may not be more effec tive now that they possess the town than when they controlled the entrance to the harbour, yet the moral effect of the capture of this celebrated city cannot but be most powerful on the conduct of the war. Not only during the four years of the war, but during the long political struggle which preceded it, the people of the North have constantly looked upon Charleston as the metropolis of separatist opinions. It is against- Charleston that the most fervent apostles of abolition have inveighed, that the most eloquent preachers of negro rights have harrangued. At last the fortune of war has placed the hated city in their power. This third-rate town —for such it would be considered either in England or America—has been identified with the opinions of a powerful political class in the old time, and of late years with the success of an anti-national insur rection. It is natural to suppose that when the news reached the Northern cities that Charleston had surrendered without striking a blow they thought that .the crowning victory had been granted to their arms. The breaking of the blockade is at an end as far as regards the chief port of the Confederacy, and the assurance which was obtained by gaining the command of the harbour is made doubly sure by the capture of the city itself. After having cap tured New Orleans, Savannah, and Wilmington, the Federals could not have gained a more accep table prize than the city of Charleston, the taking of which rules their supremacy at sea, and imprisons the war from the resources which nature has gi v en them. It is not Confederates so h, however, rrithethcarry the on actual rY loss to the mu i c nthe i row n Confederates by the capture of Charleston which is of importance as the proof which the event gives that the population of the south-eastern States are no longer able to oppose the march of the Federal armies. The advance from Savannah to Charleston seems to have been as easy as the march from Atlanta to Savannah. The Federals have now several armies in the field, large in numbers, well disciplined, accus t om ed to war, well supplied with all the . necessaries of a campaign, and to oppose these the Confederates have only the obstinate courage of their population, who seem resolved to bear every extremity rather than return to their allegiance to the old Republic. How, then, shall they continue the struggle ? That they are deter mined to continue it Call hardly be doubted. The meeting the other day between • President Lincoln and Air. Seward on the one side and some Confe derate delegates on the other has had no other result than to make the people of the Southern States more resolute in their policy. What, then, is to be the new plan of defence ? We are told that the Confederates are ready to abandon the seacoast towns and trust their destinies to the defences of the interior. Undoubtedly this is now their best, and indeed their only policy. But whether they will be able to arrest the progress of the Northern armies by these means is very doubtful. The Federals by improving their means of transport, by gaining a knowledge of the country, and by being able to make their way unmolested by the diminished bands of the Confederates, have now the power of penetrating every part of the Southern States. That they will go anywhere, and during their march really hold the country in subjection, we must expect during the remainder of the war. The trust of the Confederates, probably, is that this occupation, like that of the British during the revo lutionary war, will lead to nothing. They think that the extent of their country is too great for it to be conquered and held. This confidence has been strik ingly manifested, at Richmond and at other places in the Confederacy, in the meeting which have taken place in consequence of the abortive negotiations between the two parties. At a time when it might seem that the courage of the South was failing, and that its successive reverses had disposed it to listen to fair terms from its adversary, there has been a new outbreak of the war feeling, and President Davis, whose assent to the negotiation of the other day was obtained through the influence of some half discontented persons in the Confederacy, has since the interview with the Northern President gained a new term of popularity and power. It would be useless to speculate on the ability of the Southern people to maintain the struggle they have so boldly challenged and so steadfastly carried on. They are hard pressed, but they show as yet no sign of waver ing, and we must expect new campaigns in the in terior before the decisive battle of this war is won. But the contest will now be waged under different conditions. Although the help given by European nations in spite of the blockade may have been ex aggerated, yet the cessation of supplies from the outer world which must be the consequence of the operations at Charleston and Wilmington will have an effect on the tactics of the Confederates. Hence , forth there is a war to be waged between a people possessing the uncontrolled command ofthe sea and intercourse another which,though debarred from all with the world or the possibility of efficient help, yet retains a considerable territory, and will doubt-- less continue to show in defending it the obstinacy which has been witnessed during the last four years. HERALD.—This is the Fourth Day of March, in the year 1865. It is a great anniversary for America. It is pencil-marked in the Book of her Constitution. Forty-eight hours hence a Senator will move, at Washington, that the United States, in gratitude for their prosperity and reputation do constitution ally acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being. r a trafficing in whwho dispenses dispenses with all Whom, however, do they obey this morning ? Once thought e gh A t Abraham a raham Lincoln, consciencebl o od upon butcherly battle - fields, and crowning hi m self King of the New World of Golgotha. The o fourth day of March is doubly significant in the American annals. It brings the hour of the Presi dent's triumph ; it was the day when, nearly two centuries ago, multitudes of red Indians assembled near the site of the present city of Philadelphia, moving through the woods in vast and dusky masses to ratify a treaty with William Penn. There, with out banner, or mace, or guard, or chariot, the Quaker conciliated the Sachems; and well might the Sachems marvel could they witness the horrors which blacken around the heads of their successors in the American land. Their own barbarism is eclipsed ; the civili sation which was to supplant it is already extinct ; the people talk vainly of God, and destroy His works without reason,. compunction, or remorse. They propose to recognise a Supreme Being ! And they deluge the soil with blood. Never was Chaos more profound. It is a huge wandering tumult from the shores of one ocean to the brink of auother. It is a savage and shocking degeneracy of the human race. The world has witnessed spectacles equally startling ; but where ? Nowhere, except in China, liindostan Egypt, and Tartary. Yet, this is a people which offers to legalise a belief in the Deity ! There is a terrible sarcasm in the measure just " tabled " at Washington ; and there is, moreover, a fearful rebuke to Yankee despotism in the anni versary of the fourth of March. Whether conclud ing a treaty or celebrating a constitution, how would the generations of America—the generations which fought through bitter wars, and founded an edifice of liberty which became a ruin before it reached its proper height—have felt could they have anticipated the circumstances and omens of thin day ? Would they have remembered William Penn and the Red skins, the will of George Washington, or the Pre sidency, grotesqued and brutalised by Abraham Lin coin ? Would they reflect upon the exaggerated eloquence of their statesmen, who one after another, have exulted in glorifying in their ears " the death less unity of a people" whose unity exists no longer? When Humboldt wrote his chapter on Cosmical Space, and suggested that America from a social point of view might some day be seen as an enormous wilderness " full of fighting atoms," he jestingly predicted a grim and fatal truth. All the genuine progress of the Republic has been checked ; she may appear to flourish, but is morally and materially, in her Northern territories, decaying in numbers, in commerce, in credit, in manufactures, and in money. The North boasted once that a thousand children of Europe came daily to its bosom, ministering to its opulence and power. When they land now, as they do from Germany and Ireland, to what destiny are they consigned if not to that of the wretched recruits whom a callous general ordered to the front merely "to absorb the enemy's fire?" And yet America is expected to be jubilant upon this fourth, and memorable, and glo rious day of March ! Some while ago a traveller wrote, with reference to America, to the effect that a book might be written upon it every six months by the same person, visiting the same scenes, and yet possess the charm of novelty. There are novel ties indeed in the New World—novelties of idea, of manners, of indecency, of law and warfare, of jus tice and chivalry—of all, in fact, which makes up the contrast between civilisation and barbarity. Look at the Americans now, at the date of their grand political celebration, and what do we behold ? Not even the solemnity of a civil war. Only fury, levity, and an atrocious dis regard of nature ; only a charlatinism which has ceased to dazzle ; only riot, destruction, and brutality. There is a legend extant which tells how the First Napoleon, into a dream invented for him by some artistic poet, felt wounded in his heart when he reviewed his dead legions in the Elysian fields of Paris ; but the pang his conscience felt must have been as nothing compared with the sting to Abraham Lincoln, were it credible that the representative rail-splitter ever had a conscience at all. This must be, to the President and his countrymen, a miserable anniversary. Happy are the Americans who dwell far from Washington and New York, engaged in hewing timber, in the haulage and floatage of it down the rivers, and in tasks not stained with blood. Happy they whose log-huts are perched among the remote creeks, who relish an untrammelled existence in the forest, who are lumberers and drudges of the raw field, and whose culture is, in reality, ten thou sand times purer than that of the Broadway. They may be afflicted by social animosities of their own ; they may have their feuds and factions ; they may remember the political preacher who ten years ago went among them exclaiming, " You will, when you attack the South, have a Dictator instead of a Presdent ;" but did they ever think that the sun would rise upon such a fourth of March ? They had been threatened with a servile war ; they had been told that, amid civil strife, the negroes would battle their way to freedom and establish an Arrican Government amid the sons of Japhet. They had been warned of disruptions between Oregon, California, and the United States. But did they ever believe that an American Federacy would go begging over the face of the earth for con scripts to slaughter American citizens ? To them, to the simpler denizens of the New World, as to the Christian and compassionate people of the old, the bloody tidings of each resultless campaign must come, darkened with hues of horror. Once it was said that the life of a Redskin in America was not esti mated as more sacred than the life of a buffalo. But, as if under a fearful Nemesis, the Yankees have bid against Nature, and their lives vanish by myriads, to the tolling of a great death-bell which for years has not been silent. Franklin used to talk of " wise heads and iron wills" as essential to the flourishing of his countrymen. Where are they now, when they are most wanted? A civil war, of horrible ferocity, spreads itself like a deadly exhalation over the land, and there is not a single American statesman in office competent or willing to guide his nation out of the disastrous abyss. America, as an American orator ejaculated once, is " England without a past !" This fourth day of March disposes us to ask her politicians upon what calculations they base their calculation of chances for the future. 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Tile Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasi g applications through the recent storms and less f life at sea, and to enable them eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime Country, which loses 2,000 saAors annually by casualties alone, without including those who may perish by war. Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill. R. SWEETING, Hon. Sec. CHARLES NASH, Sec. Naval and Military Intelligence. The editor of the Western Morning News has re ceived a letter from an assistant engineer of the Galatea, dated off Fort Monroe, the 15th ult., which explains the statement contained in an ex tract from the New York Herald quoted in The Sun of yesterday. The assistant-engineer says t)iat a boat and crew were sent after the boat which got adrift. It came on to blow hard, and the former were obliged to make for the shore, where they stayed all night ; but they returned on board next morning all well. Instructions have been received at Chatham dock yard from the Admiralty directing the construction at that establishment of another large ironclad fri gate of the improved Bellerophon class, to be named the Hercules, the building of which will be com menced as soon as the ironclad ships Bellerophon and Lord Warden, now nearly ready for launching, are sufficiently advanced to allow of the required number of hands being taken off them. The Her cules is to be built in the same dock in which the Achilles and Bellerophon were constructed, the lat ter frigate, which will be ready for floating out of dock during the ensuing month, being removed into one of the smaller vacant docks to be completed for sea. The order also directs the construction at Chatham dockyard of one of the new class of Ama zon sloops, from Mr. E. J. Reed's designs, to - be named the Blanche, of 1,080 tons, and 300 horse power; which is to be laid down in No. 7 slip as soon as the ironclad frigate Lord Warden, now building, is launched. By direction of the Admiralty Mr. J. I. Fincham, the master shipbuilder at Pembroke dockyard, has been on a visit to the establishment at Chatham for some days past, for the purpose of making himself acquainted wirh the system of iron shipbuilding adopted at that dockyard, the Board of Admiralty having decided on the immediate con struction at Pembroke dock of an ironcased ship, of the corvette class, to mount eight heavy guns, and to be propelled by engines of 600 horse power. From the programme of shipbuilding work to be undertaken at her Majesty's dockyards during the year 1865-6 it appears that Chatham and Pem broke are the only dockyards at which any new iron ships are to be constructed during the present year. With the exception of the ironclad frigates named, the only other vessels intended to be laid down at the several royal dockyards are gun sloops of the Amazon class, two of which are to be built at Deptford, one at Devonport, two at Pembroke, and one at Chatham. Although no new work is to be undertaken at Portsmouth dockyard during the present year, the return alluded to shows that the Royal Alfred, Helicon, Minstrel, Cherub, Minotaur, Scorpion, and Valiant are all to be completed for sea at that establishment, although, with regard to the last three mentioned ironclads, the return states that the time for their completion is " uncertain." At Sheerness dockyard the Minotaur, Star, Bellero phon, and Lord Warden are to be completed, the Belle rophon and Lord Warden being returned as " uncer tain." The vessels to be sent to D evonport for comple tion are the ironclads Lord Clyde, Agincourt, and Wyvern, and the unarmoured sloop Amazon. The official programme also states that it is intended to complete the Favourite, Prince Albert, Endymion, Niobe, Viper, and Vixen at Woolwich dockyard during the present year, the Viper and Vixen, however, being set down in the return as " uncer tain." A portion of the hands at Chatham and Pem broke dockyards are to be employed in taking down the ships' frames, the orders for the taking to pieces of which have been received from the Admiralty. The iron screw troopship Urgent, 4, Captain Henderson, from Queenstown, arrived at Plymouth Sound on Thursday afternoon, with the depot of the 28th Regiment. The screw corvette Niger, 13, 400-horse power, was placed in No. 3 dock at Chatham yesterday afternoon for the [purpose of undergoing a survey 1 he Great Fire at Constantinople. By far the most terrible calamity which has shocked the public mind of Constantinople for 30 years past happened at Galata on Monday night, the 20th of February. Shortly after eleven o'clock on the night in question a fire broke out in one of the wings of the Roman Catholic convent of St. Benoit, and, notwithstanding the utter absence of wind, the flames rapidly spread to the adjoining apartments, and thence to the thickly-clustering houses outside the convent enclosure. The fire quickly spread its own alarm, and within little more than half an hour after its first appearance nearly a dozen fire-engines, with a strong muster of toloum bajees, a numerous force of police, and a company of marines from the arsenal were on the spot. Hain Pasha also arrived promptly from Tophaneh with half a company of artillerymen, and the foreign gunboats in the harbour at the same time despatched each a fire-engine and a strong crew to work it. The intricate arrangement of the building, however, coupled with almost entire want of water, for awhile defied all attempts to reach the rapidly extending flames, which soon ingulphed the whole north eastern angle of the convent, and flinging their fiery spray across the narrow streets on either side, ignited the wooden houses along a line of more than a 100 yards. The first efforts of the salvors were directed to the large stone building in the corner of the quad rangle which formed the sleeping-quarters of the Sisters and the female pupils of the establishment. These were all safely rescued, but barely with the clothes they were able to wrap round them in the moment of escape. While this was being effected inside the enclosure, the fire was making rapid pro gress among the houses outside. The whole of these being of wood, and as dry as tinder, the flames literally licked up house after house till stopped in their progress, on the one side, by a pile of stone buildings down near the Armenian church, and on the other towards Tophaneh by a wide gap effected by the demolition of a row of hovels in that direc tion. In the meantime, however, the great disaster of the night had happened. Shortly after midnight a body of some 60 toloumbajees, with four engines, had stationed themselves along the outer wall of the high stone building in the corner of the convent quad rangle already mentioned, considering themselves sheltered by the wall from the flames within, and being well placed from that point for playing on the wooden buildings already ignited on the other side. The apparent safety of the spot had also collected on and around it several of the policemen and spectators, of whom, as is usual, a large crowd had by this time gathered from all parts of Pera and Galata. Sud denly, and without even a warning crack, the eastern and southern walls of this lofty building toppled outwards, literally cresting over the doomed crowd below like the curve of a breaking wave, and bury ing under their debris all four of the engines men tioned, with the whole of their crews, and a large number of the police and on-looking crowd. Not a man who had stood within the fatal shadow of the fallen walls escaped. Almost simultaneously a poi don of the western wall fell over on a small, densely inhabited house outside the convent limits, and crushing through its roof, killed, it is said, eight of its inmates, who were engaged in endeavouring to rescue their effects. For a time this terrible disaster paralysed all efforts to check the conflagration out side the convent, and as the remaining wall threatened momentarily to give way too, no attempt was made to reach the mangled and dying, whom the ruins of the other walls had partly hid from sight. Of these many were seen to make agonizing but ineffectual efforts to extricate themselves from the charred masses of brick and wood which only half-entombed them, and then gradually to cease the vain struggle as suffocation or other cause of death did its work. This part of the - scene was harrowing beyond any power of description. The vigorous play of the ships' engines from the inside of the convent quad rangle, aided by the calmness of the night, had in the meantime checked the spread of flames to the western wing of the building ; not, however, before the small circular dome and roof of the chapel on one side, and the dormitories of the female pupils and storerooms on the other had been seriously damaged. Outside, the fire was virtually unopposed, the disasters to their fellows under the convent wall having appa rently unnerved the other toloumbajees on the ground. There was, besides, an almost complete want of water. It was not, therefore, till the flames had burnt themselves out on all sides to the gaps made in their path by the pulling down of distant houses that the conflagration may be said to have been got under. This was about 7 a.m., by which time, beside the damage done to the convent, in all 42 houses and four shops had been destroyed. But for the providential absence of wind, however, this would have been but a trifling instalmen t of the wide-spread devastation that must have occurred for had the flames spread down on the one s t e old to wards Tophaneh, or on the other cro re ss h dyke higher up, the fire must have .h direction to far beyond the Yenitc a ' alace. The other from the Take' to the Russian p r s s p i and ad inn one t h the l a a t m 4 i t p y . s . believed to exceed 100. total number of victims u t p o t t i l l i l is yc gr ste ea r t da ca y 42 had been dug out of the debris, when the work in of the bricks and wa s discontinuedconsequence further exhumations.n walls being too hot to admit . of broken roof timber nearer the base of the fallen Among the killed is Ibrahim Bey, the chief of the Galata police.—Levant Herald. THE REPRESENTATION OF PERTHSIIIRE.—With regard a paragraph which we copi e d on Wednes dayfr to om a Crieff paper, stating that Mr. Stirling of Keir was about to retire-from the representation of the county, we are authorisekto say that the rumour referred to has no foundation in fact. Mr. Stirling will again offer himself as a candidate for the representation of the county, and there can be no doubt of his rettum.—Edinburgh Courant. Oa at t h e the 3 h o a t s h e o e f f t F h e r u n a m o e n n t h t w a e l i r t e t se e e b r e l f su o r e d d s e u n n y tvaekrinticg al ni c a o e lum h th n e s foefnnthiecfk w a a n te d ra al p i e n u o ta st : black ss issuinge t ke, mo continued all night. As morning dawned on the 31st Etna disclosed itself once again in the full working of a grand eruption, preceded by violent shocks and imposing rumblings like thunder. The long undisturbed apex of the mountain opened up, throwing out clouds of sand, ashes, and lava over the surrounding country. The burning stream then commenced to flow down the eastern side, the rapi dity of the stream being very great, for in 24 hours it had extended itself five miles. Though at first it continued in one stream, it soon divided into three, and these again into several others, the widest being about three miles broad. One of the most exten sive of these currents flows from west to east, and threatens the neighbourhood of the famous Cava Grande, and the world-famed Castagna di Cento Cavalli, which is said to be the oldest and largest tree in existence. It is to be hoped these natural antiquities, so interesting to the rambler in Sicily, may be spared the fiery stream, but the situation is certainly precarious. Another branch, said to be the smallest, soon flowed into a ravine, known as the Leap of Colaecchio, and from this it forced its way into the plains of Montearsi, burning the greater part of the large wood of pines, and invading theproperty of Signor Mudo on the plain itself. It has done damage which will be sorely felt by the poor peasants, who have thus, in a few hours, been despoiled of their all—homesteads, fields, cattle, and even their fathers' landmarks, the means of a living, all have been swept away. In the neighbourhood of Catania all are anxious about their property, and fear the encroachments of the lava. The eruption of the mountain is extremely grand, and is said to be not inferior to that of 1852. Of course its duration and what amount of damage it may do to the country are matters it is impossible to judge. " The movements of Vesuvius are apparently as limited as before. It is understood that Professor Palmieri, who, during the past few days, has been occupied in making scientific researches from the observatory, states that it is but a calm preceding a grand eruption, which we may expect to see before long." WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of Sir James Matthew Stronge, Bart., of Tynan Abbey, Armagh, has been proved in her Majesty's Courts of Probate at Armagh and at Lon don, and the grant issued to the eldest son, Sir Jas. Matthew Stronge, Bart. } the soleeleentor. Me a, tor succeeded to the title, as second baronet, in 1804 ; married, in 1810, Isabella, eldest daughter of the late N. Calvert, Esq., M.P., by whom he leaves a large family; was appointed Gentleman of the Privy Council in 1820, was High Sheriff of 'Tyrone 1822, and of Armagh 1823, and a magistrate and Deputy- Lieutenant for those counties. He died, in December last, at the age of 76, having executed his will in February, 1861. To his wife he leaves all property she held in her own right, including a sum of £5,000 which was bequeathed to her ladyship by her brother, and also much furniture and other effects. To the wife of his eldest son, on the decease of his (the testator's) wife, in case she survives her husband, he leaves an annuity of £4OO. To each of his younger children he has left specific pecuniary bequests, according to their circumstances and requirements, and where not otherwise provided for. The will of the Rev. Jeremy Pemberton, formerly. of Clare, Suffolk, but late of Burton Latimer, North ampton, was proved in London under £25,000, the executors and trustees appointed being Nathaniel Bridges, Esq., Red Lion-square, and the Rev. John Mayne St. Clere Raymond, M.A., of Belchamp Hall, Essex. The will bears date April, 1864, and a codicil November last; and the testator died in December. He has commenced his will by leaving £7,000 to be divided amongst the 14 following institutions :—The London Clerical Educational Society, Church Mis sionary Society, Church Pastoral Aid Society, London City Mission, Religious Tract Society, Protestant Church Reformation Society, Colonial and Conti nental Church Society, Female Aid Society ; Idiot Asylum, Colchester; Irish Church Mission Society, Home and Colonial School Society, Moravian Mis sions, Church of England Scripture Readers Society, and the Poor Pious Clergy Society. To the latter he leaves all his blankets and linen at the Pantechnicon, Pimlico. His estates he has portioned out between the Rev. 0. L. Raymond, LL.B., of Middleton, and the said Rev. J. M. St. Clere Raymond, and to them he has left his plate, which he deposited at Messrs. Twinings, and also appointed them residuary legs tees. There are ma n y liberal legacies to personal friends. All legacies are to be paid free of legacy duty. The will of Arthur Woodriff Jaffray, Esq., of St. Mildred's-court, Poultry, American merchant, was proved in the London Court of Probate under £40,000 personalty in England, the executors named being his father, John R. Ja ffra y , Alex. S. Petrie, and Alex. M. Barrow, Esqs., all of London ; and E. S. Jaffray, Esq. (his brother), and John W. 188,64.. that,h York. etciiw o m it: testato r House, near died on the ' 4 E th sci D " e l V h las o t f , N at ew ß should his property not realise what he anticipated, Reigate, bequests having liber e a x l e , cauntedd he states s w ta i t ll es Jul in y hi , the legacies are all to abate proportionately, and to legacy of £20,000 ; to his dau . ghter Lilian also be paid free of legacy duty.. To his wife there is a £20,000 ; liberal legacies . to his uncle, John R. Woodriff, and wife and children ; also to his niece, Jane Soley, and to his cousins. To the North Lon don or University College, £2,000. The residue to his wife for life, then to his said daughter or other children. THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE TURN-OUT.— The notice for a general lock -out in the iron trade, unless the North Staffordshire turn-outs resume work at the re duction is, as yet confined to Staffordshire and the North of England districts. 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