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MINE 11Lcdf.C~c'/ cv`l \l)Ekt - -:4 - ; oe.-‘cl-\\,,.. t -_-,..1r1?:, FiD if:44:c ..,,._.„...•,, ~p~ ~~ ~~ WAREHOUSES and WHARVES, With the River Frontage at Battersea. BEST Incorporat DOCKS b Act of Eirliamen as the LON DON OCKS and WAREHOUSES COMPANY Capital £500,01,0, in 25.000 Shares of £2O each, of which one-third has been already subkcribef. IsT o „Posit—£l on application, and £2 on Allotment. 4,oBequent Calk to exceed £2 10a. per Share, nor to be auollll tilthreetalenciar months after the previous call. . . G4 O , DIRECTORA. R PftEDERPI LIOL itOYD, Esq. (Director of the London, Chatha• and Dover-Railway Company), 8, Sus ga'square, Hyde -park, Chairman. coral Herbert Maddock (Director of the Seinde Railway , "I l ann I'.trk Maida-hill Won, Deputy- Ina-" . Ca am Austin, Pict (Dir«ctor of the Metropolitan Railway Ca,;PPallY). 167, Adelaide-read, St. Join's-wood. (flaw ley (Dire-tor of the ilreat Western Railway Clewer Lodge, Windsor, Nr*" . ' it Dean, Esq. 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ESTABLISHED 1837. ltract s C ompany has been forme,' for the purpose of es c a on: Jotain'og.a Canal Basin, with Wharves and Warehous d trid,„g , in the immediate vicinity of the Victoria Railway , at Batesei. o bJects of the an uldertaking two :to g e ori Wharf d War ehouse are accommodation .fold first to ly 'the Com m western district of the l'hames ; and sectrdly, to ac to the t ra f f i c of the various railways which converge Th e Point at which the Wharves will be situated. - t o wa"t of good wh irf and wareho om•ii tat ,tion . has 4_ 4 2' felt in this district, and l a mp stil re severely since . of g r .,caolu ion of the Grosvenor Canal, by which a long trout:we Hof made to disappear. elreen eoostruction the Thames Embankment will also 4 _ 4 (1, a way not les s th an t wo and a La i l m i les of Wharves, tb a consequence almost entirely close up the water way dThe sever al Warehouses lying along its course. b;: Railway Companies which will have access to the ,re the folle wino*: —Th. Great Western, the Lon_- P r es t "ci North Western , the Great Northern, the - out " 4 0n, an. the Lon ion, Brighton, and South Coast, the Lo Th e e r , ham, and Dover, and the Metropoilian. .. e ctr po i selected for the Wharves is the only spot in the b 8 Where a large area of land abutting on t e Thames obtained at a moderate cost. Nearly alt the land re ebt, t viz ,26 acres has already been purchased on favour coainterlatns, and Pos s ession obtained, and it is proposed o , Th e ~ce the Woks immediately. 4 't ao .` anal Basin, vv,ien completed, will present a water Will ' h e, of over 9 000 feet; and bei gformed so as to be made ~tvvice in' each day, C_oasters, Barges, and Can..). t(ii4," , receive the greatest dispatco in loading a,. d un 111,etelid alway 4 be able to work afloat. k ed w ullti of charges have been arranged upon a firm basis, bli,h2 direct sources of revenue to be derived from the esta '4lont of the proposed works will be— Canal and Dock Dues, Rental from ‘t ii , rves and Warehouses, F Cilrges for Loa ing. -nd Unloa hog. soulpill in. most careful estimates of the results antio pated r ubt can be ent -r tained that the Company operat one ~ar h e u i ri ‘,, o e r k ut s a tTe t b o e co en in le p t ie t toe L . titie a highly retnunerat ye return. .rs from the r t e h e e p m on i a n ib t l w e C o o y n e tractors, who tOf commencement, and to pay 7 per cent. interest upon 4;'oe4ptisda-mreattitinl during their construction, and for twelve opospeotuses aenric°Folurtisetoifonet. p 7 ication for Shares may be nect trout the Bahkera Br k rs, Sol,citor, ~ r S ecretary te,`.:le Company, at the Offices 3. Bridge-street, NV" ' estmins- Pa1i ,, ,9 1 5 1 t he Offices of the International Contract Com .' co, Cannon -street West, E.C. Clithen°lol OP APPLICATION FOR SEIARES. filled up by th • hppl cant, his to be lod.,ed, with 41 10 th e r ‘ Pe e r s 'hare, with the Company's Hankers - "Lr. tor. of the West London Docks and Wats gell houhes n ern en,—Having paid int Co m, you Bankers the sum of ilte ßi Per share on Shares In the above Company, I 4 4 7 N -t o" Y o _ll . to allot me that number of shares, and I hereby ef i j ot e , i eccept the same or any less number which may be 41p illltle, ant be registered as a Shareholer a-, Conformity with the Act of Incorporation in the . Usual sign ature Name in full Residence Occupation Date . • - RIO DE JANEIRO GAS COMPANY T° be h (Limted). constitutedthe also a "Socidte Anonyme " in accordanee D 1) (44 e Capital £600,000, in 30,C00 shares of £2O each. 41° 4. 4 1, Per share o n a ppli ca ti on, and £1 further on allot- The remainder in the fallowing instalments, viz.: £5 on the 28th of April, 1865. £5 on the &ith of May, 1865. , - ,lvreh„,,, £5 on the 30th of June, 1 8 0 5. p k :ae A n 'V.ers will have the option of postponing payment " Ill ellt7: 1 and May instalments nntil the ath June upon v. Interest at the rate of £5 per cent. per annual. Ae r ,, DIRECTORS. 4kbly'otnrriltherS, Esq., Eden Grove, mar Carlisle (for lek .Ekth 4. o de Janeiro). " • mte'ncier e r, r ‘On. Esq , Swinton Park. Manchester. aneG Macgreg z, Esq. (Maui, Macgregor, and Co.), , 1 , 1 . eik!,,ttjp„,ith Collins, Esq., Guernsey. higea. Esq. (Carruthers, De Castro, and Co.), Manager -3 "rail Company from its commencement. SOLICITORS. Bircham, Dalrymple, Drake, and Co., Parliament -street, S.W. BANERS. Th e London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. kes m , BROKERS. Cazenove and Co., Threadneedle-street. St ettETAity (pro tem.)—Mr. John Du Boulay. I sT TEMPORARY OFFICES. J. Gresham House, Old Broad-street. 11018 4 1.. 4 corrllPany has been formed for the purpose of acquiring o 1 4 -cit ;ees k ; for ".'•° l3 B granted by the Imperial Government ooo f_ (r,,lthe h,,,, l lghting Rio de Janeiro with r4as. T , he con : IV are Gated res ectively the Ith of March, 1851. 44 1; 11 Ylv 1- 17L Ge'ober, 1851: graut_the monopoly of supp ying ` 0 gas for a period of 25 year. from the 25th March, N ; ri g 70 1 ) Otrence of a provision inserted in the former con kltkY th - „ a t signment was proh bited, except with the con niperial Government, and consequenty it as Ni'lliaent tor the concessionaire to release himself from t',, 11 41.4• 14 1 obligat our; so as to surrender the concessions 4 1 - 4 'hefb,„'° a company, but ajoint-stock and rtaking under aGI eff,"", of the Government of Brazil, was organised for to the concession, the concessionaire remaining rek,,e Government. t( e t he - Z t °I the w rkin , P, from the commencement of 1851 ti al p ot time, has been hi lily satisfactory, anc! the "ha" r 4 sale of underta.ing to an knglish m VIY 4 ris % I hew ell solely from the necessity which a comi ara-_ u nrry like fsrazil is under, of obtainiitk. capital "lar k litr ik eF "," 5 1-iean money markets to aid in he development I„,4„"e‘i a,;:j u idertakiugs. An imperial decree &wing been PA;llecr, 'noising an absolute transfer to a Company . to be latiro - e of the concessions, and all the rights, ,',.,. 11 e,ge. and profits conferred thereby, 4(11 obstacles b, : %„ 1111 - ;;;.f t 'c'n s . ,, being ab.-lutely vested in a Joint-stock e at an end. Arrangements have accordingly lo h for concesionaire and the Brazidan Co se m 3: I a a ,N 114,1 4 4 transfer to he a p resent Company of the con kioo. ,cli ti , the works and property of the existing underi a ~ enntr acts with the Government (the:payments . on kliarantted to be made in gol.) and private . indivi d - In'tairti„tor rnainta'nin g those works, and constructing an any other works that may be authorise : by any tqt,!for: elipplemental concesvion. g i) qj' e essi on confers the xclust fe privilege of furnishing tet."tll„,,lnibli authorities as wet as to private individuals v,(1, 0 <qh M arco, 879, at the price of 8,0 0 refs Ms. 9d.) L t ViC i t , 1', 1 , 1 , 1 )10 feet. There are a.. p esent in the city of Riu i Q he bouses, of which only 6,900 are now furnished 541di0ts. The increase, however, of houses requiring ;;t is ghred may be taken at about 30 per month. The ti Pa-exceed 5,' 00 in number. h s _l," l, l 44 0 W rig,' extracts from the published Reports of the "Q. - 'r t i - ) .?n , Pany show the progressive increase in °- "'Earners since the first introduction of as t in li t a . Houses Supplied. Public Lamps. 1414I trY l 1855 i , 1,56 1837 ~ 1858 .. ...... . 3,6 , 7 +, 185 9 1860 . .. 1861 1 862 5 f63 IN i, 1 e e ‘ 1 86:1 ..... 6,373 .......... 4,907 llt t o th tl b et D„ fit 1864 t/losettr p„,EI tor the year 1863 amounted to £61,500, and % 4, 1 tl t „ ..* to 46' 00 name upwards of 10 per cent. on the k e tt el , t h .reh aa , '', Et, 1 , , et o coney,ly, £600,000. I,,Nek,' it, n l B of the concessian.:the Company will be at ki i 4, ry t 'Dance into RI, al machinery and raw materi,l 1 4 th kia. 0 th e t , eei nc , Inanufaxtu eof Gas free of duty. lioln 4 1n., -ht for the purchase of the concessions, and of tfga4',Dro‘,7„e Gasworks, connected buildings, and grope, ty p t o t i i r k m Is that the Concessionaire ohs I bear the pre 'till edertnother expenses of the Company up to the time Ntti t N•e e - "ng being handed over to them, and an Im -1 4 t ci n Obtai ne d _ 4 0, iti o Dm, , approving the transfer, and recognis ,eo 10(1 w 7as a Societe Anunyme in Brazil. The pur iy h e 04 , 1 di be paid as folio% s :—£150,00") out d the ,o,: i . t o :tt, or otrnent, and the balance, £450,000 on 80th 4 0 4 Ni 0 ,,he 0 01 : i o soon thereafter as the property is handed I Vl' ip,' has t h PanY and the Imperial decree obtained. The , o 1 e 0 Inii„ e option of paying one-half of the purchase A l : o sl s ' o ,Palit up shares. I.lt, e ::! tr oh ; the undertaking will accrue to the Share 4tqklatr serfC l et July next. bLtiuto4ting.bilmiere will thus acquire a valuable property and 'llie e ,acra,. the progressive of which (without taking lleigli14:110„,:lon 4 111 1 'Lm e ' may be certainly expeo ed). will yield hem to ° lii,, 4 / 1 1. return on their capital exceeding 10 per cent tejt 4 -8 ot th 14 % Inc r e l 'ith e t pneession and of the agreement of purchase, tb p t :tli tt B 01 are articles of association, can be inspected at Rya 'll)etlent.4B". Rircha , , Dalrymple, Drake, and Co., 04 ._h ott tn, eB I:eet, Westminster. ' O . 'e, let st,, 14 forms of application for shares can be ith (i t liirrs ar e b road • ...auk Macgragor and Co., G. (sham rolrer. -streetof Messrs P. Cazenove and ' Of the t ompany, Threadneedle-street. Fo, 4 tqf or ° „--,- A PPLICATION FOR SHARES. 1 1. 0 . ii 5 ... 4 ° be retained by the Bankers 0 " Directors Ar N I -- " u rs of the Rio de Janeiro Gas Company t kh et tNi e hien , ......„. (Limited.) 15, 41 °4 4 B ter tralring paid to you? bankers, the London and 4 tt l Y 1 4 ti 'OA (Lothbury) the sum of C , being a i 4 / tlet e b Per share on ' Shares of the above tom - i , 4 ,t 4 q't Yre ktl L kil ee t o elltest that you will allot me that number ; tl ri t e r 6 1 te eacept Snell sh>ircs or any less number you lit t i ts ~ , 11 of ,t,and I also agree to pay on allotmcnt the 'lle 01.1 t o ..1 per share allotted ; and I authorise and mi ttab - ,,„'nsert ray name on the Register of Members '''' Gt....hares allotted to me. 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Dated this 7th day of February, 1865. IIY. LEMON, Chief Clerk. ASHUR iT, MORRIS. and CO., 6, Old Jewry, London, Solicit°. s for the said Official Liquidator. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. - o ----- (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW Your, Feb. 3. The city, if not the whole of Federal America, was taken by surprise yesterday morning by learn ing that no less a person than Mr. Seward had left Washington for Fortress Monroe to receive and con fer with Vice-President Stephens of the Southern Confederacy and two other prominent Southern gentlemen despatched from Richmond on an infor mal mission to the Federal Government. Last night the surprise was augmented by the announce ment that Mr. Seward had no sooner reached his destination than he had telegraphed to Mr. Lincoln to follow him without delay, and that Mr. Lincoln had packed his small effects in a carpet bag, and, attended by one servant, had departed by special express too Annapolis within less than hour after the receipt of the message. Most people were in credulous, but the assertion came from so many and such independent sources in Washington that none who saw the telegra ms could remain in doubt that the facts were substantially as stated, and that, -waiving all considerations of his official or personal dignity, Mr. Lincoln, in the sacred interest and the firm hope of peace, had determined, remote from the intrigues, the cabals, an d the passions of the capital, to heai with his own ears what proposals the Confederate emissaries had to convey, and to learn whether submission to the ancient constitu tion without further struggle or bloodshed were or were not in the heart of the Southern people. Of course, :under such extraordinary circumstances, the whole talk of the public in every circle, so ciety, and place of resort, as well as in the news papers, is of Peace. To cite all the rumours there are afloat would serve no good purpose, for they are not only contradictory and absurd, but evanescent, and live one moment but to fade away the next. Yet amid the multitude of assertions that are made and of hopes and opinions that are formed with reference to the startling turn which affairs have taken three separate theories challenge notice, as well from the standing and character of those who form them as for the inherent probability that they may be true. The first is that Mr. Lincoln having twice per mitted and encouraged Mr. Blair, senior, to proceed to Richmond, Mr. Jefferson Davis, not to be out done in courtesy, or to be justly accused of turning a deaf ear to all attempts at negotiation, has infor mally deputed three gentlemen highly respected at the South to confer with the Washington Adminis tration ; that the ultimatumis the recognition, pure and simple, of Southern independence, and that, consequently, nothing can come of it but a demon stration, both to North and South, that the war must continue ; to the North, because it will hear of nothing but re-union, and to the South because it will hear of nothing but separation. The second theory which finds a great body of believers is that the South is exhausted ; that, despairing of recogni tion or help from Europe, the Sourthern people are bent upon peace ; that the Southern leaders, de sirous to secure their personal safety and to make terms, are willing to lend all their aid to bring about a re-union ; that Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward are as anxious for peace as the South, and that there are no terms to the people of the South and no favour, whether a general amnesty, the repeal of the Confiscation Act, compensation to all slave owners for the abolition of slavery, the assumption of the Southern debt, and the promotion of Mr. Davis and ' General Lee to high office under the Federal Go vernment, that would not be cheerfully granted upon the sole condition of a return of the Southern Staten to their allegiance individually or collec- tively. The North is so inflated wit h the pride of victory as very generally to flatter itself with the idea that is the true explanation of the crises. There is, however, a third theory put forward by men who are, or who claim to be, behind the scenes, which asserts that it is not the South, but the North, that is at this moment the weaker party ; that the South holds the scales of its destiny in its own hand ; that the recent developments of French policy in Northern Mexico are sufficient to prove that the Emperor Napoleon M. is willing to recognise the South, and has made up his mind to do so; that if he takes the initiative Mexico, Brazil; Spain, Austria, Italy, the Pope, and last of all Great Britain will follow; and that in return for a; recogn',._ tion which will eventually secure their independe- doe by opening to their ships of war the principal - p or t s of the world the Confederate Government w ; l1 esta blish free trade with Europe, Mexico, and nrazil, and enact a hostile--a prohibitory tariff against the North. It is added—as I surmised in letters written before the rumours of peace assumed such large proportions as they exhibit to-day, that Mr. Lincoln and his Go vernment are fully aware of this danger, and are willing, for the sake of commercial, political, and other advantages to the North, to snatch the Prize of a Southern alliance from France and England, and temporarily forego the darling object of re-union, in the hope that what is now unattainable may become obtainable hereafter, when the two sections shall have fought side by side in a foreign war. The scheme was originally mooted in the South, and was first divulged in the Times in one of my communi cations from Niagara Falls •in September last, and is to the effect that if the North will recognise the independence of the South there shall be an alli ance offensive and defensive .between the two Re publics for the vindication of the Monroe doctrine, for the expulsion of the Emperor Maximilian and the French from Mexico, for the annexation of Cuba and the West India Islands to the South, and of Canada and British America to the North. Fur ther, that the South shall make a commercial treaty with the North of which the main elements shall be an export duty upon cotton and other Southern com modities to Europe, a Southern tariff as stringent against British and French manufacturers as that of the North, and complete, unconditional free trade between North and South. If out of the new cir cumstances of the two republics war were to grow up either against France or Great Britain, or both, it is alleged that the South will enter into hostilities against those Powers quite as readily as the North. These, it is said, are the terms which, combined with the total abolition of slavery in the Border States, would satisfy all parties. But if the speculators who indulge in this glowing anticipation are asked of what States, under the new arrangement, the South would consist, an unexpected difficulty presents itself. To which side are Maryland and Delaware to belong ? What becomes of Western Virginia ? And whither shall Missouri, Tennessee, and Ken tucky betake themselves ? No one can tell. The only solution offered is that those States shall decide their own destiny by the votes of their whole people. This is a serious, if it be not an insurmountable dif ficulty, but it seems to offer no terrors to the ima gination of a large class of the Northern people. It will be observed in Europe that amid these explanations of the rear state of affairs—one of which must be correct, though which of the three it is at this moment-impossible to say—there is not one which is consistent with the idea of the peace of the world. The first presupposes the con tinuance of the civil war in America until the utter exhaustion of the South, or the armed intervention of Europe. The second and third equally resup pose a war against the European Powers who have any footing upon this continent. In the second case war would gratify the warlike passions of the American people, both of North and South," and would tend in popular opinion to strengthen and anneal the broken links of their ancient partnership; the third would lead to war in fulfilment of a bargain which would have immense attactions for manufac turing and slave-hating New England and Pennsyl vania as well as for Mississippi and the Carolinas. Whatever be the result of the conference with the President or„the Vice-President of the Confederacy, they cannot tut be of the highest importance. Not only the peace of this continent will depend upon the decisions of the next few days, but .that of Europe may be involved. Of one thing, however, the British public may be well assured—Great Britain has no friends in America, except among a few men of the higher order of intellect, who are not represented in Congress, who take no part in politics or public life, and who hold scrupulously aloof from a system of ultra-Democratic government in which they have no faith, and for which they feel no re spect. Peace is no sooner believed to be possible than the annexation of Cana& is threatened. America imagines herself first in the world's coun cils, ruling the seas, grasping universal dominion, dictating the independence of Ireland, and crushing down Great Britain to the rank of a third-rate Power, without weight or authority in Christendom. And it is but sober though melancholy truth to affirm that at this moment, when peace seems more probable than at any previous point in the great civil war, the public exultation receives its sweetest stimulant in the idea that England shall be called to account for what is called her " perfidious neu trality," as well as for the damage inflicted upon American commerce by what, with a little abuse of words, are called the " British pirates," the Alabama the Florida, the Tallahassee, and the Shenandoah. Under other circumstances the constitutional abolition of slavery by vote of Congress would have attracted much more attention than it has re ceived. Passed by the requisite majority of two thirds in the House of Representatives, ratified im mediately by the State of Illinois, and to be ratified within a few days, or perhaps hours, by New York, Massachusetts, and other Northern States, it has been hailed with salvos of artillery and ringing of joy bells in Washington, Boston, and elsewhere, but it has not excited any great amount of commentary, except in the columns of the anti-slavery and reli gious journals. In so far as that vote declared that slavery shall no longer exist in any portion of the United States, it merely proclaimed an existing fact. In the de facto States of the Union, the only States in which a vote of the Federal Congress has any validity, slavery has either disappeared in conse quence of the lawful action of the State Legislatures, or is in process of extirpation by such constitutional and effectual means as render wholly supererogatory the interference of Congress. Until the Union be restored by force or compromise Northern legisla tion upon Southern slavery is as futile as if Congress were by " Yeas" and " Nays" to abolish slavery in Brrzil, or to enact universal suffrage and annual Parliaments in Great Britain. Its right to meddle with the question in the South is in process of arbi trament by the sword; and until the sword decides, its votes are nugatory and speeches empty words that signfy nothing but a powerless intention. In one view of the case, however, the vote of Tuesday is not without importance. It places a new barrier between North and South, and renders reunion more difficult than before. rossibly this was the object of its promoters. It looks far more like an arrow aimed at the Confederacy than an act of statesman ship, and will in all probability be accepted as such by the South. That slovery is doomed to extinction on the North American Continent is all but certain ; but if the Confederates retain the independence for which they have so gallantly struggled, the final settlement with the negro and the conditions and bases of his freedom will remain with the South, and not with the North, and are in no way affected by the harm less thunders of Boston or Washington. Like Mr. Lincoln's proclamations in the same vein, the vote of Congress is subject to the fatal limitation of want of power, besides being chargeable with the demerit of being animated far less by the desire of conferring a benefit upon the slaves than o f vengeance upon their masters. FEB. 7. It is a moot point in all circles whether the Peace Conference in the Hamp i c a e s s exhausted failure. n m n en o an se d w m h o o ne b y elie in ve c t o h ur at ag th e e an S d ou i t n h hope, by no means an inconsiderable section of the Northern people—assert that the negotiations, in scope, spirit, and tendency, were all that the most ardent lovers of peace could desire ; that Mr. Lin coln's sole condition was the Union, which, if con ceded by the South, all questions of amnesty, debt, and confiscation would be settled in the most gene row; and conciliatory spirit ; and that even the emancipation of the slaves, which Mr. Lincoln thought essential to future harmony of action among the States of the restored Union, would not only be made as gradual as the South desired, but would be accompanied with a liberal compensation to the slaveowners. They add that as Messrs. Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell were merely emissaries, and not plenipotentiaries, they could do no more than listen respectfully to Mr. Lincoln's ultimatum, and return forthwith to Richmond to report to Mr. Davis. In due time it is promised that the nego tiations will be resumed on this basis ; and that the world will witness the glorious—and to Europe the threatening --spectacle of a restored Union, trained in war, hardened in suffering, and ready for any enterprise of pith and, moment, that may teach all other nations which presume to incur its wrath, or excite its jealousy, that America and not Europe represents modern ideas, modern civilisation, and modern power. But, although this is the notion of the credolous multitude, it is not that of the wiser few in the po litical circles of Washington and the financial centres of New York. There is not a particle of evidence to prove that the South is exhausted, though there is much to prove that it is dissatified with the conduct of the war, and with the preferences which Mr. Davis is alleged to have exhibited in the appoint_ ment of incompetent and the dismissal of competent generals. Neither does the reported evacuation of Mobile, or the approaching surrender or evacuation of Wilmington, and Charleston, and probably Rich mond itself, lead careful and unimpassioned stu dents of current history to believe that any or all of these events would sensibly damage the cause of the South, or do it greater injury than the loss of a mo mentary prestige, which the fortune of war at other points- might suddenly restore. Gen. Lee has more than once declared that the temporary loss of the Atlantic cities would be of advantage to the Confe deracy, and-that if he were relieved of the duty of defending them, he would be better able than ever to teach the North what the war meant, and the scale on which it should be conducted. As General Sherman—who if success be the test of ability—is by far the ablest general in the Federal army, is of the same opinion, it is argued that the cause of peace has not been advanced by the Conference, and that the only result will be to give each of the two Pre sidents a text to expatiate upon to his people in support of a more vigorous prosecution of hostili ties. The theory that the Confederate Goverment is really " the master of the situation," and that it has received positive assurances from its agents in Europe that the Emperor Napoleon will recognise its independence early in March, in return for cer tain commercial and political advantages, grows rapidly in favour, and is entertained by many who believe that Mr. Lincoln will prove more than a match for the Emperor in diplomacy, and secure for the North those terms which the South is supposed to be willing to concede to any power that shall acknowledge and make alliance with it. The Ame ricans are in the habit of boasting that the petty experiences of the old and effete world of Europe and Asia do not apply to their young and vigorous ' country, or serve as lights to guide them in their brilliant career ; that they have a way of their own of doing things ; that they make war on a grander scale than the paltry Xerxes, Sennacheribs, Caasars, Genghis-Khans, Napoleons, or Wellingtons of by gone days, and that when it suits them to make peace they will make it in a mode and at a time which shall astonish such " one-horse nations" as Great Britain and France, and be generally a " cau- ' tion to the universe." Whatever be their ideas on the subject of French recognition, the - Wall-street people do not encou rage the hope of speedy peace. Gold keeps remark ably steady amid all the exciting rumours of the last few days, and if it moves at all moves upwards. The failure of peace negotiations means more money ; and no one knows where it is to come from, unless from the printing -presses of the Treasury depart ment at Washington ; and it is not only the ques tion of money but of men that is embarrassing to all who admit the probability of continued hostili ties even for short a period as a year. Supposing that the recent negotiations have utterly failed, that the Northern Government will listen to no terms that do not include, and are not based upon, the restoration of the Union; that the South is equally firm and intractable on the question of independence, and that no European Power, or combination of Powers, will cut the knot of the difficulty by recognition, to be followed, if necessary, by armed intervention, the North will find itself face to face with these its two oldest and most imperious perplexities and dangers. A scar city of men and a want of hard money will continue to embarass if not to confound its schemes. Great as are its resources, and obstinate as may its deter minaiion to sink all things for " Union," of what value are resources that cannot be utilized, and de terminations that are backed only by moral and not by physical agencies ? The revelations of the stu pendous frauds committed upon the Government and upon the several States and townships engaged in furnishing recruits by the bounty brokers and the officials whom they have bribed to aid in their warrant,forgeries ifanndortobtaberinoemsaperel,ethnoeugGho v o e f r t nm henis ent to re nounce elvest° all future reliance upon such a mode of m recruiting its armies—a mode that costs im mense sums of money, and procures either worthless re cruits or " bounty-jumpers," as they are called, who no sooner enlist than they desert, sometimes receiving the bounty-money no less than twenty seven times in as many different towns. The native born American no longer volunteers his services ; he has ceased to do so for at least two years, except in cases where his ,term of enlistment has expired and he has renewed it for the sake of the bounty money. The only other sources of supply are the emancipated negroes of the Sea Islands and the border, or the free-born negroes of the North, and the Irish, German, and to a smaller extent, the English immigration. These combined do not suffice to :maintain the Federal armies on the footing at which they stood when Grant and Sherman com menced the campaign of 1864.. Since May last the Northern Generals are reported to have lost by the casualties of the battle-field, of the camp, of the swamp, of the hospital, and of the nefarious trade of bounty-jumping, at least 200,000 men, and have not been supplied with as many as 50,000 to t h e gap. The Government threatens conscript ion to frighten the great cities into redoubnlef procure volunteers, but hesitates to financial situation more pro Nor is the to the 15th JanuarY—a d orc e e ff° i r t ts le t s 7 armed resistance to its authority should e be the con sequence.mising. For 60 days prior . preparations for expenses of the the capture of WI period which includ i ed min th ert e o ur_ Government exceeded $ low estimate ' which places its ordi nary 000 te , h 0 e 00intwo months, wibthutnot and it is a very at less than one thousand mil_ The army is not paid • any thingn lion s a 1- pere likePe annum. n r ig t atll la rity, a fact well known hitherto published except by journals hostile to the Ad m inistration though now admitted by so faithful and honest a supporter as the Tribuue, which sounded the alarm on the subject so lately as Satur day last, in depreciating the outlay of $20,000,000 for frontier forts and defences on the Canadian fron tier as beyond the ability of the nation to lavish at a time when its veteran armies were unpaid. , 4 Our heroes in the field," said that journal, " are vainly asking for their .%)- FA a clothe their needhyardwiceeasrnac:dndpicthtailnde:esn t;°aufemeed bri gadesand have had no dollars.for their last six months' service,mutinous and unservice able,nobody deals with the Go and because are l becomin gpaid ; Go vernment who can find any other customer, because payment is withheld to the last moment, and often made in certificates of indebtedness; which must be sold at a heavy discount; everything sags and drags for want of money, because the national credit is dubious." Three months ago the friends of the GovernMent would have declared such an exposition as this to be treasonable, but it now passes without challenge or contradiction, or even a word of comment. If it were possible to whip up the enthusiasm of the people to its ancient effervescence, if the roads of New England were to swarm with volunteers in the sacred cause of the negro and of New York and the Middle States in the sacred cause of the Union, though the difficulty as regards men would be removed, there would still remain the immense difficulty of money, which the Tribune so eloquently deplores. Petroleum, cotton, and corn may bring gold from Europe in exchange, California may supply the precious metal as abundantly as ever, but all these commodities, though the supply be augmented from month to month, or even from day to day, will not provide means to carry on for another year such a war as was waged in the last without greater loans than uhr beengereyeentbacka than contra au ct y aneda,ore financier more ab has daredundantissuteos recommend. N tti l :p h dt e :( r em M t :• :uid . oe Fessenden nor the Govern ment, alarm.p upon t , nor fui Tvt any aetr in the or et h o e u e t uofreouffic currency circumstancese , looks i is without a puzzle r to all haste bouftfoaofies to rush few fanatics, t w he llo with accomplishmentthe pro verbial . of what angels might d rea d , i nsist that there is nothing but a forced conscription and unlimited issues of paper money that can enable the Federal Government to restore the Union, and constantly urge the adoption of these measures. As regards the conscription, they believe that the country (to use their own phrase) will grin and bear it ;" and as regards the indefinite increase of the debt, and the equally indefinite depreciation of the currency, they continually assert that if the worst comes to the worst the debt can be repudiated ; that such re pudiation will only make a certain number of rich men poor ; that the resources of the country will remain undiminished ; and that such quondam rich men can easily start afresh in the world and be little the worse for the enforced con- ' tributions of their whole wealth to the support of " the best Government the world ever saw." It is palpable and notorious that the idea of repudiation has few terrors to the American mind. No one can mingle much in any society where politics are dis- . cussed without discovering very soon that the labour ing classes and the poorer people engaged in trade, commerce, and agriculture, who own no Govern ment stock and pay no direct taxes, who have the voting power in their hands under the system of universal suffrage, and feel to their cost that the war has deprived the dollar of half its value and raised the price of the necessaries of life 250 per cent., will have no scruple, if the case be brought before them, to vote for the application of what they call a " mighty big sponge" to the whole of the Federal debt. And this, as Mr. Lincoln might say, " suggests a little anecdote." An eminent judge was recently waited upon by a large and respectable deputation of his fellow-citizens and asked to " run" as candidate for the governorship of his native State. " No, thank you," he replied ; " I will not ' run' for any office' just now. My time has not come. In 1868 I intend to ' run' for the Presidency in sue cession to Mr. Lincoln, upon the broad platform of Repudiation. If I do, I guess I shall carry every thing before me." The war news becomes of renewed importance by the close of the suspension, whichever it may be, of the peace negotiations. Grant's army, aslannounced by telegraph a week ago, was put in motion immedi ately on Mr. Lincoln's departure from Hampton Roads, and its first operation only publicly announced this evening, was a flank march in the rear of Peters ; . burgh, on the banks of a small stream called Hatcher's Run. A sharp skirmish with the Confederates was the only result, but the indications are that a great battle is likely to be fought before many hours, unless General Lee, as some suppose, has resolved on evacuating Petersburg for the purpose of sending reinforcements to General Beauregard to oppose the march of General Sherman on Branchville, or Charleston. Sherman at last accounts was within 30 miles of the last-named city, impeded by the morasses of the vicinity as well as by the bad weather. A heavy snow storm, extending according to the telegraphic despatchesfrom Maine to Virginia, and possibly into the Carolinas, set in this after noon, and after covering the earth four inches deep has been succeeded by a pelting and continuous fall of rain and sleet, filling the streets of this wretchedly paved city with mire and slush and half-melted snow far above the ankles of pedestrians, and doubtless rendering all army movements in Virginia impossible until a frost shall once more harden the roads. Late and very direct and trustworthy reports from the South represent the Confederates to be confident of their ability to carry on the campaign of 1865 without the aid of negro soldiers, except for camp duty. Large reinforcements have been sent to South Carolina. The spirit of the men and their officers is buoyant and determined, and all speak encourag ingly of their ability to try conclusions with Sherman. The Federal fleet has not been able to advance up Cape Fear River on account of obstructions, and the opportunity for the easy capture of Wilmington has been lost. The fleet is now within four miles of Fort Anderson, on the opposite side of the river to that on which the land forces are stationed, and t° For a t tta F c is k h j e; t The e at c te o m nf p e t der h a as te apsrisyoentersbeetan taken n ad a e t express much indignation against General Bragg. Notwithstanding the great peril to which the fort had been subjected on the first attempt by Admiral Porter, when, in fact, it would have been com pelled to surrender almost without a blow if Butler had had the nerve to assault, they allege that Bragg neglected to take proper precautions to repel a second attack. He had one of the best corps of Lee's veteran army under his com mand, and yet, they say, he intrusted the defence to a few raw troops from North Carolina, one regiment of whom surrendered without firing a shot. SALMON FISHINGS.—The season for 1865 com menced on the 11th inst., and in our day was unpreceden tedly successful. The number of fish taken by net at the top of the river was more than sufficient to pay the rent of the whole year. After satisfying the local demand about 10 cwt. was sent south, and since then there has been a, largisupply of clean run fish. It has been remarked that the average weight has been greater than on almost any previous occasion, many of the fish exceeding 201 b., and ona Saturday, the first of them weighing 301 b. Nearly 200 salmon were taken in the Duncan and Dochfour waters, and it is evident that there is a steady run of fish from the fact that since th e opening day there has been no tide blank at the Friar's Trus e te eam e rn s o . utth O hat n fa Shot, the first takenseason,pool ta h number e uo upper p t e h r e o r river. e nt e r g . rol se sttwhtwhee were err mouth n unoc c upied. oo a h u u :h o r nof but had h na e oc river Mr. Tait caught a few salmon in the stell fishing be quetsrtoiuont, ofan buthne greatttothl The fishing longing to the Harbour an average fishing. The De 11 produced salmon o n f ef r rl o ee m ane dtafihysehoSfieahyse we learn that about 140 on the opening day, besides a bag We nets r e vernoumber of salmon n34lvere taken Saturday and 19 on Monday. st a kene t b s y a i n ce d . is a good deal ob structeddaries on the Ness is likely t o be li t i gated. Dochfour and Dun can fishings The m arc h o f th e be close by th e fisherman's bothy generally considered to s bothy o n th e reac h b e t ween t h e canal and And rew ' s Pool, yards m ore but Dochfour claims about 80 of the stream than has hitherto, we und ers t an d, been fished in hi s interest. The tenant of the Dunean fish bags shot his nets fro m rupte the bothy, but was forcibly inter d, and an i n t er& t has sin ce . been served upon him, re stricting the e x t en t o f h is p r ivileges.—lnverness Courier. The Bey of Tunis has accorded A thean man to all. Tunisian tribes who have taken refuge in Algeria. Winter ADTERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway Ointment and Pills.— Winter coughs are alike distressing to the patient and annoying to those around him. The mode of cure is simple, innocent, and effective. Holloway's ointment should be thoroughly rubbed upon the front of the chest and between the blade bones twice a day, while the blot)/ is undergoing purification by appropriate doses of his pills- A double result is thus secured: the air tubes are relieved of accumulated phlegm, and the lungs are freed from any' impure 'circulation. These favouring conditions manores the cause, and the cough ceases. By the same . rnealls 8.11(1 with equal facility the treatment by Holloway's inestimabl e remedies will overcome ulcerated and sore throats, diptheria, bronchitis, pleurisy, and pulmonary congestive complaints.