The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

THE CIV. AMERICA, (From the Times' Corresp&ndent.) NEW YORK, April 11. It must have been with a heavy heart that General Lee surrendered to his grim and successful opponent the brave and for four long years the victorious army of Northern Virginia. Oppressed alike with private and with public sorrows, for he had lost one son by death and another by captivity in the series of unavailing struggles against superior force which ended on Saturday last, he resolved to prevent the further effusion of blood, and to descend from the lofty position of hero and patriot, in which he formerly stood, and accept from his countrymen, and perhaps from the world, the lower but not in his case the disgraceful place of discomfited rebel. With the small remnant of force at his command there was no alternative that it would not have been foolish, perhaps criminal, to adopt. Whatever may be thought by the Americans, it is difficult for a foreign spectator of the great event to decide to which of the two Generals the highest meed of praise should be accorded for true nobility of character, in circumstances that might well have filled the mind of the conqueror with elation, or depressed that of the conquered with a feeling akin to humiliation. But the truly brave man is bravest in adversity, and even in our prosaic time, when heroism is rarely ex hibited and still more rarely recognised, there are few, whatever their political opinions may be, who will withhold from General Lee their sympathy and respect, or who will not indulge in the hope, if the American Republic is to be reconstituted on the basis of true liberty for all men, that the services of such a patriot and statesman as he should not be lost to his country. In surrendering the Army of North Virginia General Lee seems to have guarded himself against the assumptian of any powers that he may still con sideras rightfully vested in Mr. Jefferson Davis, as President of the Confederacy. Though Comman der-in-Chief of all the armies of ,the South, he surrendered to the enemy only the one army under his immediate control, leaving to his superior to hold aloft the banner of the Confederacy, if still able or disposed to do so, and to the other armies in the field under Johnston, Kirby Smith, or Forrest, or make or refuse such terms as the fortune of war recommends itself to the councils of the people, there will yet be a noble chance in the great and fertile regions that lie between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean for the perpetuation of a repub lican form of government. Foreign wars, which, at this moment, when the great civil war cannot fairly be considered so wholly at an end as to be beyond the possibility of revival, and the creation of a Poland or a Venetia in the cotton States, will but render this the moment of victory the moment of greatest peril to the stability of the Commonwealth. might present. There are few, however, in this _ _ city and throughout the North who do not believe that the Confederacy is a thing of the past ; that the rebellion is at an end, and the Union re-eAablished beyond the power of man to destroy or shatter it. There has been a vast amount of very natuaal re joicing over the result; but as, in the commercial parlance of this city, the surrender of Lee was " dis counted" as soon as the news arrived of the evacua tion of Richmond, there has been much less "bun combe" and fewer fireworks than were let off a week ago. The Doxology has again been sung in the streets, in the Corn-market, and even in the " Gold-room;" the guns have been fired in the Park and on the Battery, and orators have hurled the usual amount of invectives against European Powers, especially against England; but as yet all these cele brations have been but a comparatively faint echo of the sturdier and heartier jubilation which burst forth with irrepressible energy on Monday. With few exceptions, among whom such persons as Gen. Butler, Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee, and the unhappy Vice-President are scandalously conspicuous, there is a general inclination among men of all shades of opinion to act generously towards the Southern people and their leaders in this their day of sorrow. There is a disposition not only to mercy, but to magnanimity, and if some would except Mr. Jefferson Davis, and none but him, from the complete amnesty which the President is urged to offer, on the sole condition of the immediate dis banding of all the remaining armies of the Confede racy, even those who make the exception express the wish that he may not be captured, but may escape to Mexico, and thence to Europe, and so spare the Federal Government the painful necessity of dealing with him according either to civil or to military law. The proclamation so earnestly ex pected has not yet appeared ; but Mr. Lincoln is to make a speech this evening, which will probably contain some disclosure of his intentions, and inform the Southern people whether they are to expect such treatment as the Poles receive from the Russians, and the Hungarians from the Austrians, or whether they are to enter into the full enjoyment of equal citizenship. Mr. Lincoln being called for by an im patient crowd at Washington refused to make a set speech, on the plea that he was not prepared, and that he was bound to be cautious, inasmuch as every thing he said " got into print." 'With characteristic humour, he called upon the band of serenaders, whose harmonies had drawn him to the balcony, to play him " Dixie," the popular air of the South, adding that it was one of the best tunes he had ever heard, and that he considered it now belonged to the North, having been duly captured with other spoils of the war. The request was complied with, and " Dixie" having been given with all the honours, was followed by " Yankee Doodle," after which Mr. Lincoln withdrew to his own apartments, and the crowd with the musicians repaired to General Butler's hotel, with the object of extorting a speech from him, or some one else, if the President chose to be reticent. They were as successful as they expected ; and the General —who won no battle to give him a shadow of right to dictate terms to the vanquished—delivered a little speech, in such bad taste and in so truculent a spirit as to make it a matter of thankfulness to his countrymen, if not to the world, that not he, but a better man, is at the head of the Republic. The premium of gold fell but five per cent. yes terday morning on the news of Lee's surrender, or from 49i to 44i. It rallied again slightly in the afternoon, maintained the advance this morning and throughout the day, and closed at the hour of post at 47i, with every prospect of an advance to 50. In Europe, where the delicate and complicated machinery of the Constitution of the United States, as drawn up and agreed to by the men of the Washingtonian era, is but little understood, the victory of the North, if it be final, will be considered the victory over slavery. Doubtless it is that ; and slavery, if not dead on the North American conti- vent, is in articulo niortis, never again to be re- vived, or even to be galvanised into the semblance of vitality. But the victory is greater and more comprehensive, and one which must affect the whole future history of the white race as well as the black in America. It is a victory of the unity and cen tralisation of power, against which, in their horror of a despotism, the early fathers of the Republic took especial and, as they thought, effectual means to provide. It is a victory over the principle of State rights, which they imagined to be the surest safe guard of Republican liberty. By the triumph of the North—unless in the reconstruction of the Union the Conservative party should exercise a pre ponderating influence—the Republic will become such a Republic as France made herself in 1848, a Republic One and Indivisible, with homogeneous institutions in all its constituent departments, pro vmees, or counties ; and not a federation of Re publics, as Washington made it, diverse and self sustained at home, and only one aga i ns t f ore i gn nations. Not only refusing to be warned by the example of the French, but taking courage from it to establish unity as ell as union, although the result of unity is as likely in their case as in that of any other, peopl e to be a military despotism, the North deliberately sacrifi ce d its rich inheritance of dominion over itself in order to purchase dominion over others. It was not so much because slavery was considered a crime or a mistake, for not ten men in a hundred throughout the North —New England excepted—were Abolitionists when the war began, but because the institution of slavery was local and .would not yield to Federal a u th or i ty, that the people, anxious to become a nation for the first time in their history, waged hostilities against their slave holding brethren with such vigour and p er ti nacity. The triumph of the North is, in fact, a triumph of the Revolutionists over the Conservati ves . The war was a war against the ideas, the principles, and the policy of the colonial rebels who conquered Ame rican independence. Washington's Republic was rot good enough for Mr. Charles Sumner, Mr. Wendell Phillips, Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, and the Puritan churches. In the same manner, but from a different though concurrent reason, Washington's Republic was not good enough for the active, presumptuous, ambitious, and ill-informed ultra-Republican mul- titude, who caught their inspiration from the discon- time reconstruction is fairly commenced enterprise tented Red Republicans and Socialists of Germany will be quickened into new life, and, with its integ and France, as well as from the anti-Anglican Irish rity established, the only drawback upon the national who swarmed into America at every tide, and con- prosperity, and the only stain upon the national es tinually leavened the mind of the North by their cutcheon removed, the great Republic will move for- European notions. Having no idea of the constitu- ward again on its career of prosperity and honour, tion on which the great fabric of American liberty scarcely staggered by such a struggle with a gigan rested, these immigrants gradually accustomed the tic rebellion as would have broken any other nation Northern mind to receive with favour and encou- into fragments. ragement the really un-American idea of a great and " You will perceive by the statement of the con indivisible nationality to extend over the whole con- dition of the Treasury on the Ist inst. that the Go tinent. As there was a British nation, and a French vernment circulation has not been diminished. nation, why should there not be an American nation, Whether or to what extent this circulation will be greater than either, to overcome the world by its reduced depends upon circumstances that cannot superior power, and gather to its bosom the halt, now be clearly foreseen. I have been and am still the lame, the blind, the starving of all other coun- of the opinion that it must be curtailed before a re tries, and convert them into free citizens of a coun- turn to specie payment can be effected ; but it cannot try where every man has a vote, where there are no be denied that the course of the market for the past kings and lords, and where the only true king is the month has been such as to justify a reconsideration working man, who can command what wages he of the opinions which have been so generally enter pleases, or buy a farm for the merest trifle if so dis- tamed in relation to the inflation of the currency. posed ?To achieve this object—to centralise the The increased demand for money which is the result power so as to make the Union feared abroad—the of the diminution of individual credits may not have North, using slavery as a convenient cry, fought the been fully estimated, and it may turn out that battle of revolution against the South, and won it. no considerable reduction of paper circulation will Pending the reconstruction of the Union the two be needed for the restoration of the specie basis. systems and the two schools of ideas must struggle At all events, the Government will have no interest for the ascendancy. If centralisation gain the mas- in retiring its direct issues if the desired object can tery, and a foreign war be deliberately provoked by be obtained within a reasonable time without it. both parties, with a view of cementing the restored " That any valuable interests are to be perma alliance of North and South, American libertyislikely neatly injured by a return to specie payments is to become as much a thing of the past as the Southern hardly credible, and I cannot but think that your Confederacy or the British Heptarchy. If, however, apprehension of disaster to the manufacturing in the cardinal doctrine of "State Rights," disembar- terests of Pennsylvania as the result of it are with rassed for ever of the disturbing influence of slavery, out reasonable foundation. " The general tariff policy is, I apprehend, settled by our national debt. The discussion of it, there fore, at the present time is unnecessary. That the present tariff needs revision is undoubtedly true. This revision it will receive by the commission which is to be appointed to revise the revenue laws, from whose labours I anticipate the best results. " The necessities of the Government will give to our manufacturing interests all the protection they will require to shield them from destructive foreign competition ; and before the close of the present Administration I confidently expect to see these in terests more prosperous than they ever have been. What recommendations I shall make to Congress upon the tariff question I am not now prepared to say. I expect to be able to endorse the bill that shall be prepared by the:commission, and shall be disappointed if this bill does not harmonise our foreign and internal duties, and produce a revenue which shall be sufficient to meet the interest on the public debt, and gradually reduce the principal without being oppressive to the people. " In conclusion, permit me to say that I see no cause for discouragement in the present or prospec tive condition of the country. Our national debt is large, but our national resources are sufficient to carry it without embarrassment. While it would be foolish to call it a national blessing, it may be so managed as not to be a national calamity, and in the worst view that can be taken of it it is a small matter in comparison with the inestimable value of the Union, in the maintenance of which it has been created.—l am, very truly yours, " M'CULLOCH. "Mr. H. C. Carey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." Naval and Military Intelligence. - r The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Wednesday, the 3d May. Further experiments with reference to the trans portation of troops and horses by railway were made at the Farnborough-station, on the South- Western line, on Friday, in the presence of Lieut.- Gen. Sir J. L. Pennefather, K.C.8., commanding the division at Aldershot; Colonel Herbert, Assist-Quartermaster-Gen. ; Major-Gen. Hodge, commanding the Cavalry Brigade ; Col. Phill potts, C. 8., commanding the Royal Horse Artil lery, and other officers. The .experiments were under the direction of Col. Herbert, and on this occasion were carried out by D and F troops of the Royal Dragoons, under the command of Col. Rad ford. Thirty-six men of the D and 32 of the F troop, with a corresponding number of horses of each troop, were engaged, the first object being to ascertain the time which would be occupied in trans ferring the men and horses to the train completely equipped for service. On arriving at the railway station the men dismounted, relieved the horses of their bridles, removed the carbines, and divested themselves of their accoutrements. They then led their horses to the trucks and re versed the position of the animals, after which they resumed, their accoutrements, and took their places in the carriages. On leaving the train they again divested themselves of their accoutrements and led the horses from the trucks. This accomplished, they re-armed, mounted,. and formed line. The same operations were then re peated, with the exception of reversing the horses in the trucks. Twelve horses were transferred to two trucks and the•men seated in the carriages in ten minutes, but the trial was unfavourable in some respects, and under ordinary circumstances would be accomplished in less time. The next experiment was with a view of ascertaining the time which would be occupied by the cavalry in having the train completely equipped and ready for service. This was accomplished in six minutes by the F troop and seven minutes by the D troop, who were under a slight disadvantage by being further removed from their horses. The experiments, which were consi dered very satisfactory, concluded with the weigh ing of an average trooper and horse. Their com bined weight was ascertained to be 13icwt. Nos. 22 and 24 troops of the Military Train will arrive at Aldershot from Liverpool on Saturday next. The 74th Highlanders will arrive at the camp at Aldershot early next month, from Edinburgh, and will be quartered in the South Camp. The headquarters and five companies of the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment, under the command of Colonel Mackirdy, arrived on the North Camp, Aldershot, yesterday evening, from Gosport. The 83d Regiment, under the command of Lieut. Col. Hankey, left the North Camp, Aldershot, last evening for Sheffield, per special train on the South Eastern and Midland Railways. Five companies of the regiment are detached for Weedon, whither they will proceed this morning. Prior to their leav ing the camp the regiment was inspected by Major General David Russell, C. 8., commanding the 3d Brigade, who expressed his great satisfaction at the conduct and general bearing of the regiment during its 12 months' stay in the camp. The strength of the seven companies for Sheffield is as follows :-26 officers, 37 sergeants, 442 rank and file, 14 drum mers, 51 women, and 61 children. The journey was to be broken at Warwick for one hour for refresh ments. The strength of the Weedon detachment is as follows :—Major Venables in command, 11 officers, 15 sergeants, 271 rank and file, 9 drum mers, 34 women, 36 children; and one horse. The members of the Ordnance Select Committee of Woolwich Arsenal, !comprising Capt. L. G. Heath, C. 8., R.N., vice-president ; Col. C. Hogge, R.A., C. 8., Col. Younghusband, F.R.S. ; Lieut.-Col. T. L. J. Gallwey, R.E. ; Lieut.-Col. R. S. Baynes, Capt. H. Heyman, R.A., secretary, and Capt. K. W. Haig, assistant-secretary, assembled at the proof butt in the Plumstead Marsh yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, and resumed the preliminary test to which the experimental wrought-iron gun carriage and slide made after the designs of Lieut.- Col. Shaw, are ordered to be subjected. The car riage was mounted, as on the former occasion, with the " Big Will," from which ten rounds were fired in succession. The first eight consisted of car tridges of 601 b. of powder and 5141 b. shot, and the last two charges were increased to 701 b. of powder and 5591 b. shot. The firing was witnessed by a large number of Generals and other officers. After each round the carriage and appurtenances were carefully examined and searched, with eview of de tecting any signs of weakness or defect, and each time with the most favourable results. Not witstand ing the terrible shock occasioned by the heavy charges, the carriage resisted with admirable effect. The average amount of recoil was found to be 4ft. 7in. in the eight rounds, and sft. 11-in. with the" increased charges. The carriage and gun will be, forthwith forwarded to Shoeburyness . , to complete the destined trial at an elevated range. The crew of the screw steamship Revenge, 73,- Capt. the Hon. F. A. C. Foley, at Devonport, will probably be paid off on Wednesday, and she will be placed among the steam reserve in Hamoaze. Instructions have been received at the office of the Lieut.-Governor o! Portsmouth from the Horse Guards, directing that a trial shall be made of Com mander Fred. Warren's cooking pot, with a view to ascertain its suitability !or cooking the rations of men in barracks, and also on active service in the field, the Assist-Quartermaster-Gen. of the district being also ordered to prepare a report upon the same for the information d his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief. The chief features of this new system of cooking and the merits claimed for it by its inventor tre :-1. That it saves time, waste, and trouble. 2. That the meat is cooked in its own juices, and without immersion:or contact with water, as in the ordinary form of boiling ; 3. That a saving of 3oz. in the pound is effected in the weight of the meat, and that its nutritive qualities are 30 per cent. higher than those of meat cooked in the ordinary way. 4. That no attention is re quired beyond allowing the time for the pot to re main on the fire, and that, therefore, the men's dinners cannot be spoiled by any want of attention from the cook. Commander Warren's ccoking pot resembles in its arrangement, more than anything else we know of, a carpenter's glue -pot. It consists of a pot within a pot, the outer pot being fitted with a lifting flange to allow of the escape of surplus steam. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. S. Brown, to the Cam bridge ; F. Inglis, master, J. Sanders, chief engi neer, and J. Hopwood, assistant engineer, to the Asia, for the Minotaur ; R. Widdecombe, assist.- engineer, to the Indus, for the Scorpion ; W. Stan ton, master, to the Seringapatam ; Geo. Roe, engi neer, to the Frederick William ; F. G. Julian, en gineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary ; W. P. Guyer, engineer, to the Donegal, for the tenders ; and John Wood, assistant-engineer, to the Indus, for hospital treatment. rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1865 Portsmouth Dockyard. Our chief naval establishment at Portsmouth at the present time contains afloat on the magnificent water space of its harbour, alongside the jetties of its dockyard, in its two basins, and its few avail able docks, vessels that stand on the active list of the Admiralty official Navy List, and therefore exclusive of hulks or other vessels for harbour duty only, having an aggregate tonnage of some 122,000, and possessing a nominal engine power of upwards of 35,000 horse. Neither are there included in this immense force the screw wooden gunboats in com mission in the port or those in reserve—the latter consisting of six of 60-horse power in the First Di vision of the Steam Reserve, seven of 20-horse power in the Third Division, and two of 60-horse power in the Fourth Division, the latter being two of the im proved class of gunboats. In the presence of this large amount of tonnage and engine power, Portsmouth dockyard, with its two basins, its ten docks, five build ing slips, vast smithery, foundries and workshops, its charges in the Navy Estimates for nearly £173,000 for officers' salaries and allowances, wages to arti ficers, gas, contingencies, &c., might be expected just now to be one of the busiest centres of naval life in the world, and that its basins and docks must be full of ships and its building sheds resounding with the clang of the workmen's tools creating new ves sels to suit future wants. No idea could well be more fallacious than such a one. Not a piece of iron or timber for the construction of vessels lies under the capacious sheds of its building slips, which are thus giving no return for the capital expended on their construction ; nor are its docks or the waters of its two basins occupied to their full extent. The empti ness of the slipways may be set down to the super ession of wood by iron in the building of fleets for he future ; and the partial occupation of the docks and basins to their entire incapacity, for want of length, breadth, and depth to meet present require ments. and the consequent necessary alterations which they are now undergoing, so far as their design and position will admit of its being done. A brief walk round Portsmouth dockyard will best describe the work in hand, so fas as relates to the shipping and the accommodation afforded to the ships by the basins, docks, and jetties. The steam basin itself, completed in 1848, and having a wharfage of 950 ft., 560 ft., 597 ft., and 450 ft. respectively on its four inner faces, has been but a short time again avail able, having been dried out for nearly three months to deepen the water over its floor, and will shortly have to be dried out again to admit of some required alterations being made to the aprons and entrances, &c., of its communicating docks. At present only the wooden frigate Mersey, 3,733 tons and 1,000-horse power, lies within the ample space of this basin. She is undergoing very extensive repairs preparatory to joining the First-class Reserve for commission. In the second basin—the old ship-fitting basin—lies the Calcutta sailing line-of-battle ship, fitting as a prac tice tender to the Excellent gunnery ship, in heir of the old Illustrious, now rotten and shaken to pieces by the firing of the ordnance on her decks. The Calcutta is a fine, sound, teak-built ship, and is being fitted for her future service with every care for her efficiency as a gunnery ship, and also for the personal comfort of the officers and men who may be on board of her. Besides the Calcutta are the Thunderer, target ship, the Minstrel, gunboat, and the Laurel, hulk. The Thunderer has been cut down to her lower deck ports and fitted amid ships with an iron-sided and floored rooflless room, 25ft. in length and the width of the ship, in which all arm Our-plates tested at the port will in future be tested, the muzzles of the guns being 25ft. from the faces of the plates under trial when fired. The Laurel hulk is placed here for the use of the crews of the ships in - the adjacent docks as a washhouse. No. 1 dock, 228 ft. in length, contains the Advice, a small paddle steamer of 197 tons, placed there yesterday to clean and repair her bottom. No. 2 dock, 221 ft. in length, containing the Furious—the last of the paddle war ships in Portsmouth harbour — a vessel of 1,287 tons and 400-horse power, un dergoing survey for repair. In No. 3 dock, 251 ft. in length, is the Royal Alfred, now converting a second time to an iron-cased ship, and intended to carry ten 300-pounder rifled 12 -ton guns, if they are ever made for her. The ship is all to pieces in board at present, but the work is being pushed on as rapidly as shipwrights can be expected to do where they have more iron than wood to deal with. Ten large port-holes, about 9ft. by Bft., are being pre pared for each of her ports. These will be hammered into one piece, with the port in their centre, will be of great weight, and, resting on the outer skin of the wooden hull (let in on the planking), will afford great support to the armour-plating round the ports. In No. 4 dock, which is 206 ft. in length, is the iron screw troop ship Simoom, receiving a thorough overhaul in hull and machinery, and other wise preparing for commission by Capt. Lethbridge, an officer who, as commander of her Majesty's screw troopship Adtenture, was held in high esteem by the military authorities of the south-west and other military districts. The Simoom is a fine capacious ship of 1,989 tons and 400-horse power engines. In No. 5 dock, of 204 ft. length, is the Pearl, screw wooden corvette of 1,469 tons and 400 horse power, just completing in one of those exten sive repairs lately referred to by Mr. Seely in the House of Commons as exceeding in total cost the original purchase. The Pearl will be a very useful class of vessel, but she has no speed. In No. 6 dock, 190 ft. in length, is the new gunboat Cherub, ordered to undock on the 22d inst. No. 7 dock, which is a continuance of No. 10 (forming together the south entrance to the steam basin from the harbour) is now undergoing a deepening of its floor of sft, and is, therefore, non-available. No. 8 is in temporary use by the Orontes screw troopship, Capt. H. Hire, which has been recoated below the water-line with pigment non-fouling, &c., compositions, and is or dered to be undocked on the 24th inst. It is some what curious that these new iron screw troopships should require so often docking. The new troop galley constructed on the dockyard plan and fitted on board the Orontes during thepastsummer is con sidered out of repair. This is said to be owing - to:the large fires which are requisite to give the requisite heat for cooking with it; in boiling and baking the consumption of fuel averaging nearly 15cwt. per day, and fires have to be lighted by 2 a.m. each day to get the men's breakfasts ready by regulation time. , These are serious defects, and yet the Admiralty or dered one of these galleys to be placed on board the Edgar prior to her sailing for Lisbon. As a contrast to this it is but fair to notice the galley placed by the Admiralty orders on board the Duke of Welling ton training ship on the planpatented by Mr. Grant, superintending storekeeper of the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, Gosport. This galley has proved a perfect success, both in point of time ocmpied in cooking and in consumption of fuel. Since it has been placed on board upwards of 40,000 rations of soft bread have been baked by it for the use of the crew. Its average daily consumption of fuel is less than scwt. With these facts it is almost inexpli cable why the Admiralty do not generally adopt it in her Majesty's ships. To return more im mediately to the docks : No. 9, 250 feet in length, is used as a breaking-up dock, and now contains the Alfred, late a target and experimental firing ship for the gunnery ship Excellent. The Alfred was the first vessel made use of in England as a target ship for testing guns and armour-plates, and during the time she has been breaking up in No. 9 not only have pieces of iron and steel of all forms and sizes been removed from her frame, but several live shells have been found embedded in her frame, and have necessarily been removed with every care and re turned to the gunnery ship Excellent. No. 10 dock contains the new paddle despatch vessel Helicon, preparing for her trial and commission. No. 11 is a dock still in the hands of the contractors and ' about four-fifths completed, and, therefore, will be for some time to come yet unavailable for service. The building slipways of the yard, as we have already observed, are vacant, the last vessel launched from them being the Helicon, now fitting for commission in No. 10 dock. Alongside the jetties of the yard are lashed the Minotaur, Valiant, Warrior, Salamis, Osborne, Lightning, and America target-ship. The Minotaur is our latest iron frigate from the Thames, and handsome as she undoubtedly is in her hull, she is certainly unsurpassed for ugliness in her spars and rigging aloft, where her five masts, 12 crossedyards, and compound tracery of rigging seem to have been designed for the special purpose of affording a certain mark to an enemy's shot in action and an equal certainty of fouling the screw of the ship when knocked away and overboard. It is un derstood that the Admiralty have decided already on substituting single for her double topsail yards, with fidded topgallantmasts to her topmasts. The ship I has been sparred and rigged on theoretical, but most certainly not on practical principles. But two out the four blades are yet fitted to the Minotaur's screw, and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, the ship will have to be placed in dock before she can make any trial of her speed. She may equal the Warrior in point of speed, but it is not expected she can excel her. Three of the 12k ton smooth-bore 150-pounder guns for the Minotaur have been landed at the dockyard by one of the Ordnance steam transports from Woolwich. The Valiant iron frigate, a sister vessel to the Hector, is completing alongside the jetty north of the Minotaur for trial and com mission, and ahead of the Valiant lies the renowned and as yet unsurpassed Warrior, cleared out and dismasted, and waiting to be taken in hand by the dockyard authorities for repairs and refit. For this purpose she will be floated into the steam basin, if practicable, on the 25th inst. The shipshould have been in the steam basin months since, but the deepening of the basin's floor rendered the delay which has thus occurred unavoidable. Just ahead of the Warrior lies the Salamis, pre paring for foreign service—most probably in the Dar danelles, in attendance on the British Ambassador at the Court of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, but with her boilers requiring some repairs ; and next the Salamis lies the Royal paddle yacht Osborne, Commander John D'Arcy, completing the renova tion of deck and cabins for the service of Royalty. At the extremity of the yard lie the Lightning, paddle steamer, and the American target ship—the former waiting a chance to enter the steam basin and the latter her turn of entrance to the breaking-up dock, having finished her career as a target-ship. Off in the harbour, mid-channel, the Royal paddle-yacht Victoria and Albert is lying at her moorings, preparing for a voyage to Dublin with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and wait ing for entrance to a dock, which she cannot obtain before the 25th inst. The Octavia frigate, fitted with experimental engines, lies lashed alongside a hulk off the dockyard, rigged, armed, and stored in readiness for commission. She is a Symondite-built wooden frigate, of 3,161 tons, and 500-horse power engines, and carries the bow with which she was originally constructed. Rumour assigns as her future captain, Captain M. Connolly, some time since commanding the Sutlej, as flag captain to Rear-Admiral J. Kingcombe. Besides the work thus going on in the different vessels we have enumerated in the basins, docks, and alongside the jetties of Portsmouth dockyard, there is certainly other going on in generally unnoticed places in the nooks and by-ways of the Master-Shipwright's department, in the foundries, the smithery, the mast-sheds, the boat-houses, and a score of other places ; but it is an indisputable fact that the pro gress made in this description of work since the in . _ . troduction of iron in a greater extent in a ship's con struction has fallen in the proportionate ratio in which iron has superseded wood. In the steam factory department the organisation is more perfect than in any other department of the yard, and the results are necessarily the more satisfactory ; and even the casual visitor walks through its long vista of workshops, where he sees every inch of space oc cupied by labouring machinery and its attendants, with far greater satisfaction than he does past the basins, docks, and wharves or jetties, with their forced inactivity and the evident languor of mind and body they evidently impress upon all who ap proach them. Portsmouth dockyard possesses a collection of models of ships from a very early date, and a goodly and most interesting collection of records ; but even in these matters no care has been taken for the future. Ships of ancient lineage are shown in side models, but without name or date of build ; for no record has been kept until late years of the doings of past naval architects in the mould loft, nor has any record been kept or books or documents of past times. As with the docks and basins, so it has been with all things, besides, in the yard, and the ancient motto inscribed over its gate was doubtless " Best and be thankful." APPREHENSION OF A SUSPECTED MURDERER.—At an early hour on Friday morning a telegram was re ceived in Glasgow from the chief constable of St. Helen's, a town about 12 miles from Liverpool, which intimated that a young man named James Dickenson, a bottlemaker, aged about 22, had left Liverpool on Thursday by the Liverpool and Glasgow steamer Princess Royal, and that he was wanted on the charge of having caused the death of a young man named Edward Rowson, by drowning. De tective Donnelly and Sergeant Muir were at once despatched to await the arrival of the steamer. So soon as the Princess Royal was moored alongside the quay, Donelly went aboard, and among the crowd of passengers he speedily espied his man, who was standing in'the centre of a group in the forecastle of the ship. Upon going up to him and asking if his name was " Campbell," the prisoner replied that it was not, and stated that he came from St. Helen's near Liverpool. Upon being informed of the nature of the charge which was laid against him, he became greatly agitated, but declared his innocence of the crime. He sub tequently stated, however, when being searched at the police-station, that he was in company with the deceased Edward Rowson on the night he was drowned, and that they had both been drinking to excess. After three o'clock in the morning, the prisoner and deceased were going home together, when the prisoner left his companion for a few minutes for a private purpose ; and that, upon his return to the spot whore he had left Rowson, ho found that ho was gone. Ho continued to shout his name for some time, but receiving no answer, he went home. The prisoner is a light-built young man,and has a frank, honest countenance. A telegram was immediately despatched to inform the authorities at St. Helen's of the capture. —North British [ADVEnTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills, a specific remedy for complaints to which females aro liable.—After the ex perience of many years, it is incontestably proved that there is no medicine equal to Holloway's Pills for the cure of diseases incidental to females. The invigorating and purifying properties of these admirable pills soon produce a sanative revolution in the system. They are composed of rare balsams, and are so mild and innoxious that they may be taken by females of all ages. As a medicine for family use Holloway's Pills are unequalled, because, power fully efficacious as they are in the banishment of disease, they act so gently on the stomach that they may be given with the utmost confidence and perfect safety to young children. AMERICAN FINANCE. The following letter has just been sent to the well-known American political economist, Mr, Henry Carey, by the new Secretary of the Trea sury, Mr. M'Culloch : " Treasury Department, April 4, 1865. " Dear Sir,—Your favour of the 27th ult. would have received an earlier reply but for pressing offi cial duties. I have now only time to remark briefly that I am not responsible for what the newspapers may have said about the financial policy I shall adopt as Secretary of the Treasury. " Amid the great events that are transpiring in the United States, overturning theories and con founding the wisdom of the wisest, a secretary of the Treasury who should avow, or even deter mine definitively in his own mind, his future policy would be pronounced a bold rather than a sensible man. What I shall aim to do is to watch carefully the progress of the events that I may be unable to control, and endeavour so to accommo date the administration of the Treasury to those events as to maintain the credit of the Government and protect the interest of the people. " In the brief address which I made to the prin cipal officers of the department on the 9th ult. I said, among other things, 'My chief aim will, of course, be to provide the means to discharge the claims upon the Treasury Department at the earliest day practicable, and to institute measures to bring the business of the country gradually back to the specie standard, a departure from which (although for the time being a necessity) is no less damaging and demoralising to the people than expensive to the Government.' " This is the only avowal of policy Which I have made, or expect to make, at least for the present. " The former of these objects is receiving my first attention. The sales of the Seven-Thirty notes, than which no more desirable security will be offered to the public, which have been temporarily dimi nished by the Wall-street panic, will, I am hopeful, be soon again so increased as to put the Treasury in a condition to meet all suspended requisitions, and honour all draughts that may be made upon it; so that the different departments, by being in a con dition promptly to meet their engagements, may be enabled to reduce largely the expenses of the Go vernment. " The latter object seems to be in the right train for accomplishment by the effective blows of our military and naval forces without any interposition of the Treasury Department, and in the face of a daily increase of currency through the instrumen tality of the national banks. "You seem to be apprehensive that the return to specie payments is to be effected by a contraction of Government issues, and you say that ' in one thing all have been disposed to unite, and that was that an early resumption was the cardinal point of my policy, and that it was to be sought at whatsoever cost to the capitalists and working men of the country.' "A resumption of specie payments is with me a cardinal point,' because I believe that the specie basis is the only safe and healthy one for business ; and because I am clearly of opinion that the in terests of capitalists and working men will be pro moted by a return to it; but no policy could be more unwise than that which should attempt to ac complish it by such a curtailment of the currency as would prostrate or injuriously affect those great interests upon the prosperity of which the Govern ment depends for its revenue, and which cannot be broken down or severely depressed without de priving labour of its proper reward. " The history of Wall-street within the last ten days sustains the correctness of the opinion which in another position I have frequently expressed— the high price of gold was to be attributed in part, at least, to other influences than the expansion of the currency, and seems to indicate that the paper cir culation of the country which has been issued or secured by the Government, even while its volume is being increased, may appreciate nearly to the specie standard. "As the war draws to a close, and the restoration of the Union is no longer doubtful, gold and cur rency approximate rapidly to each other in their market value, and of course all those articles which were made to follow the former in its ascent must sympathise with it in its decline. This cannot be prevented by any action of the Treasury, even if the interests of the country require it. It might have been better for the country and the people that the decline of coin should have been more gradual than has been the case for the week or two past, but it is better that it should have come down as it has than it should not have declined at all. "It is understood, I believe, among those whose habits of indulgence led them into protracted ex cesses that ' sobering off ' rapidly is a dangerous experiment, but, dangerous as it may be, it is pre ferable to continued intoxication. "It does not follow, however, that be cause gold has declined from 185 to 146, and may speedily decline much further, prices ge nerally will fall to the same extent, nor do I believe that any permanent decline that is likely to occur will prostrate the great interests of the coun try. On the contrary, lam of opinion that when the specie standard is restored, or nearly reached, the assurance that this state of things will create, that the business of the country is to be transacted on a firmer basis, will divert capital from speculation, and stimulate, instead of prostrate, productive industry. "The close of the war will remove the Govern ment in a good degree from the market, both as a borrower and a purchaser, and while the business of the country is being accommodated to the new order of things there will be, to a considerable extent, stag nation and embarrassment ; but, as hostilities are now likely to terminate before speculation has re sulted in large individual indebtedness, the transition is likely to be effected without the disasters which so many have apprehended. The liabilities of the peo ple are so small, the circulating medium is so ample and well secured, the resources of the nation are so vast, and our political future is so brilliant, that the embarrassments which a change in the business of the country must bring about will be but temporary, and the indications are now decided, that by the SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Among the saddest of spectacles is that of youth stricken down by an untimely fate. Still more is the imagination affected when Death knocks at the doors of Kings and summons away the inheri tor of a mighty name, unbounded power, and untold wealth. The untimely dece ase o f th e young Czare witch will not only throw a great Empire into mourn ing, but will call forth regret and pity w h erever th e news is heard. In the first freshness of youth, betrothed to a Prince ss whose qualities promised him every happiness, with a Throne for an heritage and the half of two continents as a dominion, he has died at the early age of 21 years. Nicholas Alexan drowitch was born on the Bth (20th) of September, 1843, and was n ame d a ft er hi s grandfather, then themost powerful Sovereign in the world, and the accepted arbiter of Central and Eastern Europe. His short life has been divided into two periods by a great war and by a social and political revolution. His earliest lessons were those which every Russian Prince or noble was taught during the reign of the late Czar. An iron rule at home, a high-handed and domineering policy abroad, both founded on a belief in the irresistibility of the Imperial power, must have filled the delicate child with strange notions of the destinies to which he was called. But he had grown from boyhood to manhood under milder auspices. Russia, wors t e d i n a con test with Europe, has been engaged for the last ten years in effecting those internal reforms which Nicholas despised, but which a wiser, because a more humane, policy has now accepted. In his father's Court he had all the advantages which able and zealous instructors could confer, and might have learnt the art of government by watching his country while passing through th e mos t momentous change in its annals. To his temperament the new state of things would have been more fitting than the old. He was little qualified to wield the power which his grandfather loved, to face Europe with his hand on his sword, ready to throw it into the balance whenever any one dared to measure rights with him. But such an Emperor as his father is the young Nicholas might have been. An Emperor of Russia is not necessarily a barbaric chieftain who must hold sway and awe mankind by the sternness of his aspect or the obstinacy of his will. The progress from military despotism to civilisation and to the rudiments of constitutional freedom which must be made by Russia during the next generation might have been, perhaps, advantageously effected under the sovereignty of this Prince. Power might have naturally been transferred from the Throne to the people, and the cause of good government might have been advanced by the reign of one who had not the energy nor the taste to be a stern military ruler. But all speculations on the talents and character of the young Czarewitch are now at an end. For some time his recovery had been hopeless, and such have been the sufferings of the patient that it is almost a relief to know they are over. His death has been accompanied with the most touchingincidents. From his northern capital, the Czar has hurried across Europe to his son's sick bed. He arrived in Paris, attended by the chief dignitaries of the empire,whom the solemnity of Muscovite traditions required to be present at the closing scene. In profound depression he met the French Emperor, exchanged with him a few words of courtesy, received the condolences which Napoleon offered in his own name and the name of France, and then without delay continued his journey to Nice. He arrived in time to see his son alive and to be recognised by him. The Princess Dagmar, who, with her mother, the Queen of Den mark, had repaired to the bedside of her betrothed, was also able to take a last farewell. It seems but the other day that among the instances of good for tune which had occurred to the Danish family the prospective union betty een this young lady and the heir to the Russian thro n e was recorded. Since that time fate has borne hardly upon her father, and now it has struck at her own hopes. There are few in stances of such bright expectations so suddenly clouded. The heir to the throne is now the Grand Duke Alexander, who was born on the 10th of March, 1845. This Prince is said not to have robust health, and it is no secret that for sometime there have been speculations as to the probability of the claims of both the Czar's elder sons being postponed to those of the Grand Duke Vladimir, the third son, who is just eighteeen years of age. In Russia the claims of birth have never had that sanctity which belongs to them in Western Europe. Like the Eastern nations generally the Russians have an extraordinary reverence for the reigning house or race,but little care about setting aside an individual member of it. Not to mention the revolutions and dethronements of former times, there is a direct precedent for passing over an heir in the succession of Nicholas, in 1825, in preference to his elder brother, Constantine. But there is time enough for these considerations. The present Czar is in the prime of life, and we may hope that long before the Empire need think of his successor the new Czare witch may have outgrown any feebleness which at taches to his youth, and have gained health and strength for his high functions. For the present we can only express our sympathy with the afflicted Sovereign and his family. Neither the rivalries and distrust which have marked the relations of Eng land and Russia, nor the war in which they were engaged a few years since, can blind this nation to the greatness of the Russian people, the power of their ruler for good, and the praiseworthy objects which the present Czar has desired to accomplish. For one of the most meritorious Sovereigns of Europe, governing a race which is rapidly advancing in civilisation and power, the English people must feel due respect, and the death of his son will bid them lay aside international jealousies, and join the remotest populations of Asia in their condolence. Judging by the past, Russia will never want a ruler capable of the arduous duty of governing her. Ex traordinary men and even more extraordinary women have attained to the throne and have done their part successively in bringing the most secluded races of the world into the light of knowledge and civilisation. Whatever ill-fortune may fall upon the Imperial family, there will be always some scion found to continue its magnificent traditions. This is the best consolation that can be given to a pa triotic and high-spirited Prince. One child may be taken from him, but the stock is not likely to fail. The present loss may be hard to bear, but the father's grief need not be mingled with fears for the future destinies of the State. HERALD.—The surrender of Lee is not only the greatest misfortune that has yet happened to the South, it is the crowning disaster, in which we seem to see the end of all. The tumultuous wave of Northern aggression has at last swept down before it that proud and towering cliff against which for four long years it has dashed itself in vain. At the close of the fourth year of the war the North has prevailed—as we all along feared it would, but hoped it might not. And is it, then, all over with the Southern people ? Have all their sacrifices, all their heroism, all their long-drawn agony of four years past, been in vain ? The very thought is enough to call up a blush of shame into the cheek of a man who is accustomed to boast of his age, who believes in the march of mind in the 19th century. The spectacle of the fall of a brave nation which has struggled for its independence as the South has struggled is a sight at which angels might hide their faces, at which ineri might shed tears of blood. It is one thing to admit that the Confederates have been worsted in battl e , it i s qu it e an other thing to allow that they ha ve b een su bj ug ated. The Indian Prince refused t o b e li eve i n i ce , an d according to his light was justified in his unbelief. Until the matter has received the most absolute demonstration we refuse to accePia;aifa - ct -- whca is contrary to our experience and subversive of all the lessons of history. A great nation never seems so great as when in the hour of its triumph it knows how to extend mode . ration to a vanciiiished enemy. It is by following such a policy that the great nations of Europe have more than once in late years secured at the same moment the fruits of victory and the profit of mag nanimity which is to make friends of foes. The French and English, after the fall of Sebastopol, offered terms to Russia which she could accept with out humiliation. Napoleon 111., after the crowning victory at Solferino, gave everything back to Axis-. tria except the half of Lombardy which she could no longer defend. It is neither the duty nor to the interest of the North at this juncture that it should press hard terms upon its enemy. The choice is open to it of accepting a com promise of some sort, or driving the South to a point of desperation in which it will call to its aid all the resources of despair to enable it to prolong the con test on the most unequal terms. There is still left a Confederate army, which is said to number as many as 150,000 men in the field. That army may retreat beyond the Mississippi, and carry on the war in Arkansas, Western Louisiana, and Texas : If the , worst comes to the worst, the defenders of the lost Confederacy may cross the Rio Grande and offer their swords to the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico. Armed bands of guerillas, sallying forth from the mountains, finding a refuge in the swamps, be friended by cottagers and planters in every State of the South, may 'Trey upon - the Federal Commerce, cut off in detail the Federal garrisons, and keep up the war in a desultory and predatory fashion. The opportunities of Southern 'resistance are not yet over, and by continuing the war in some fashion or another the South may yet succeed in tiring out its foes. The President of the North will now probably issue a proclamation and an amnesty, and attempt to dictate, after the lordly fashion of a conqueror, the terms on which the Southern States may re enter the Union. The attempt at reconstruction is, nevertheless, Quixotic and absurd. The difficulties of the North, so far from being at an end, are but beginning. The very idea of a Federal Union places all the States which compose it on a footing of equality. The fundamental dogma of the American constitution is, that the right to govern consists in the consent of the governed. How can the Southern States be received back without allowing them the same status as the Northern States ? How, even after their failure in the field, can any government be imposed upon them without their consent? Either the North must hold them down in perpetuity by force of arms, or it must withdraw its garrisons and leave them their freedom of action. In the first case, it will be impoverished by the necessity of keeping up an army of half a million of men, while the peace which. it seeks for will be a chronic state of civil war ; in the other case the act of re-union will be speedily stultified by new resolutions of secession. The reunion of the several states is still practically as utter an impossibility as it has been at any time since the commencement of the war. If the North should take advantage of the weak condition of the South to offer terms which should combine the prospect of an immediate and practical benefit to the States north of the Potomac, with such an amount of acceptability as th a t th e South would be likely to accede to them without arrgre pensee, then indeed there might be peace, and every soldier on each side of the boundary might return to his home. An absolute cession of the great Border States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri —an alliance, offensive and defensive, between the sec tions of the Union, which, for most practical pur poses, would be again one people—a scheme of com mon action in regard to foreign affairs, and the ambitious policy which i nc it es A mer i cans of both sections to territorial aggrandisement at the expense of the great Powers of Europe ; the maintenance ef a restrictive tariff on European manufactures, and absolute freedom of trade between North and South; the abolition of slavery, and the substitution of some regulated system of negro labour on plantations ; these are terms which the South might accept, although with reluctance. The result would be the actual, if not the literal, restoration of the Union, and the opening of a grand futiire to the American Powers. The mistake which the North is too likely to commit is, that in stretching after the shadow it will lose the substance ; in seeking to humiliate its enemy it will mar its own prospects and accomplish the ruin of both. A peace between the North and South, an alliance, federation, reunion, or recon struction of any sort, however much to be desired on philanthropic grounds, would certainly be the worst thing that could happen to England. Our GO" vernment has done everything that it can to discourage the Confederates. It cannot blame them now if they should seek to bury the past in making common cause with their late enemies against us. The proclamation of Mr. Lincoln? closing all the conquered ports of the South a gainst European trade, is a proof of the unamiable temper in which he regards us, of the scanty gratitude which our Mi n i s t ers may expec t f or th e i r neu t r ality.' The recognition of the South at the time when his star was in the ascendant would in all probability have put an end to the war, and have made two American unions instead of one—two nations which , by their rivalry, would have held each other in check, of which one at least would have offered 1114 a lucrative commerce, and which would never have combined against Canada or Mexico. The blunder, committed by our rulers may have been though' excusable when its possible results seemed too remote to be discussed. These results are now imminent/ and threaten to be of the utmost gravity. It nisc tax all the 'wisdom of our rulers, all the resources o, our country ; it may cost us hundreds of millions 01 money and thousands of lives to avert—if we a l , indeed avert it—th e d anger w hi c h th e sup i nen ess 0' timidity of Lord Palmerston's Government 1 0 brought down upon our heads or bequeathed as an incubus to our posterity. • COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON.—Arum 22. Since last week the weather has been favourable for, vegetation ; th e ra i n on M on d ay an d T ues d ay h as been e , immense benefit. Th e pas t ures are l oo ki ng d ec id e dly bet l _ ter. There w as a li m it e d quan tit y o f w h eat on o ff e r from the growers to-day, an d samp l es were i n t o l era ble collar_ tion. The demand was i mprove d , an d a f a i r s h are of buss . ness was done at an advance of 6d to is per qr. on the ra teo of the week preceding. • New white wheat, 38s to 42s ; new red, 36s to 36s ; °/( white, 43s to 44s ; old red, 38 8 t o 39 s per 36 s t one . Barl ev 1 for malting, 31s to 33s per qr. ; gri n di ng , 26 s t o 31s per o. stone. Oats , old, 25s to 26. s ; new, 18s to 24s per 24 stou Beans, old, 36s to 40s ; new, 35s to 38 s p er 38 s tone. r° Bsl 338 to 38s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER—Aram 22. The supply of wheat was good, and prices were Is and advance on last week. Barley rather easie r . Beans peas fully as dear. Wheat, white 42s 43s Beans, M a zagan.„...336 3 " red 3's 42s Middle and small. 35 8 405 Barley ... •B6 356 Peas, white • 353 38 ! Oats .2os 25s grey —0 Q 368 ."" GRANTHAM-Amu. 22. Old white wheat, 41s to 445; old red, 38s to 41s 5 nol white, 40s to 44s ; new red, 37s to 40s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 29s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 24s to 268 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 27s ; new, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 36s per 36 stone. CJ ELAISFO: There was a fair supply of and late rates wero maintai former quotations. o—Antis, 21. wheat at this day's market ned. Barley also supporta Whetit, old white....4os 46s new 4os 46s Peas, Partridge 368 38° White ..3 0 3 " 3 8 s 42 0 Dun ing 31$ 35° —4 dit o, Beans, Tick, old .....,310 0 new - 8 Harrow licks 3 53 „ 0 neve. 3-0 Mazagan 330 old red 39s 40s new. 370 400 Barley- 25s 32s Chevalier 26s 83s Grind ng •Os 8s Malt 61s 67s Chevalier 648 68i Oats ABERDEEN—Apurr, 21. The weather continues chilly, but dry and favour abl i e ; The deliveries at market a re extremely few, and whe at unaltered. Oats still on the advance. White wheat 345: 5d to 37s ol Red wheat 33s Od to 34s Od Potato oats 18s Od to 19s 6d 46Th v bus h e l.. Common oats Bere 2ls Od to 22s Od 531 b 1-1 bushel' Barley 21s Od to 22s 6d 621 b ? bushel' Oatmeal 15s Od to 16s Od %( boll of 1 40}b. Flour, fine 32s Od to —s Od lit sac k o f 2800) KIRKCALDY—Aran, 22. Fair supplies of all kinds of grain. Sales slow f at the prices of this day week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 848 Od 248 63 I 23s Od second 358 6d 2 es 6d 23s O d Third 3Bs 6d 28s 6d 248 6d Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton May 19 ' Ditto, via Marseilles May 13 ' Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pac.et May 4 * Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... May 2 6. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Bout hampton May 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton . ... India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Scuthampt on MAApapyrriil 26 l 2 26 ' Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampto n . A A p p r 2266 : Ditto, via Marseilles m a y 26. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marsell'e 3. May 6 ' Newfoundland m ay 10. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet • April 26 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton _ Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londond err y.. Ape 28.- West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe. May I° ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico April 28 ' Bahamas, via New Y ork. May 4 ' Bermuda, ditto Cuba and Mexico April 2' Births. HOPKESII.—On the 22d inst., at Kensington, the wife Edward M. Hopkins, Esq., of a son. LEES.—On the 20th inst., at Brighton, the wife of Hern ol/14 Lees, Esq., of a daughter. PETRE.—On the 21st inst„ the Hon. Mrs. H enr y Petro , Of a daughter. PENNEY.—On the 24th inst., at Manor Farm, Gravesend.: the wife of George Hamilton Penney, Esq., House, Upper Sydenham, of a son. Marriages. ANDREW—WALFORD.—On the 23d inst., at St. GOS. to Hanover - square, Commander C. W. Andrew, B 'of Amy, youngest daughter of Frederick Watford, ES (11 Bolton-street, Piccadilly. , C R ESSWELL — ROBINSON.—On the 22d i ns t., at tno I'lo church, Hove, Pearson R. Cresswell, Esq., of Do%tot Glamorganshire, to Jane Catherin e , y ounge st.daug of Skeffington Robertson, Esq., of Brighton. Deaths. BELL—On the 234:1 inst., at 18, Harrington-square, -,•• Alexander Bell, Esq., aged 75. r ,„ of BAaRY.—On the 23d inst., a t H am p s t ea d, G eor ge, s oy James Barry, Esq. of LAcox.—On the 23d inst., at Clifton, Lady Lacon, ... r r° li / 0 11;, Sir E. K. Lacon, B ar t., o f O rmes b y H ouse l ' 4 ° r aged 79. SO' N OVERENTD.—On the 22d inst., at Sharrow Head, near field, Wilson Overend, Esq., aged 58. Toe, ROBERTSON.— On the 21st inst., at The Terrace, St. , Cornwall, Andrew John Robertson, E sq ., o f Hattonb' Kinross, N. 8., aged 42. ...odford' STIRLING.—On the 22d inst., at W oo db r id g e, G.-- Admiral Sir James Stirling, Kt., aged 75. WILKINSON —On tho 22d inst., at Needham Market, folk, Bordoe Wilkinson, Esq., aged 63. N London : Printed and Publish e d by WIL LIAM ANlt; ' 11Z , of No. 112, Strand, Pilate ; at Tun SUN office , . 1:4 "„ of Strand, in the Precin c t o f th e S avoy, i n the Colo . " Middlesex,—Tuesday, April 25, 1865. _ ReF. The The raal tile] of Ver tor, Pot the he Ofh tio t 1 Se c and inE qu,