The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-14 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Times' Correspondent) NEw YORK, Dec. 30. When it was announced on Wednesday, an hour prior to the departure of the new Cunard steamer, the Cuba, detained by the thick fog in the bay, that the expedition against Wilmington had re turned to Fortress Monroe, foiled, if not defeated, the premium on gold rose 7 per cent. General Dix, having had no official notification from Secretary Stanton, treated the statement as a fabrication, and ordered the placards at the newspaper offices and telegraphic stations to be taken down, at the same time directing the evening journals either to con tradict the story or to suppress it altogether. It now appears that there was much more truth in the matter than General Dix suspected, and that al though the naval part of the expedition had not re turned to Fortress Monroe, General Butler and the co-operating land force had failed in their work and returned to their point of departure wiser and sadder men. The whole of the facts are clearly set forth this morning in the long official despatch of Admiral Porter to Mr. Stanton, and the correspon dence between the Admiral and General Butler. The narrative is somewhat humiliating to the pride of the North; and although the results thus far scarcely amount to a triumph for the South, they are such as to show that Wilmington, like Charles ton and Mobile, is invulnerable from the water side, and that if Butler or any other Federal commander is to immortalise his name by its capture he must approach it, as Sherman did Savannah, from the land side, and leave the fleet to play as secondary a part as that played by Admiral Dahlgren's before the stronghold of the Georgians. The story of Butler's repulse and Porter's failure occupies considerable space in the wordy despatch of the Admiral, but stripped of unimportant details may be briefly narrated. Calculating that he, as well as Gen. Sherman, would be able to present a splendid " Christmas gift" to the Yankee nation, the Admiral commenced operations on Friday, the 23d inst., without waiting for General Butler. On the evening of that day a vessel laden with 215 tons of gunpowder was towed in the darkness as close to Fort Fisher as possible—the Confederates mis taking her for a blockade-runner, which she was painted and otherwise disguised to resemble. At a quarter before 2 in the morning, Admiral Porter and his fleet having withdrawn to the safe distance of 12 miles, lest the awful explosion which was an ticipated should prove as disastrous to its concoctors as to its intended victims, the train was fired. The shock, greatly to the Admiral's surprise, did little or no damage, and its fury was either expended under water or vertically in the air. At all events, Fort Fisher, which it was intended to destroy, was unhurt by the concussion. Disappointed, but un- daunted, the Admiral set his fleet in motion at day light on Saturday morning, took up his line of battle before the fort, and opened a terrific fire from his heaviest guns. The garrison responded but feebly, having retired, no doubt, to the shelter of the bomb proof defences. During the engagement six Par rott guns, throwing 1001 b. shot, burst on board as many of the attacking fleet, and as only one gun of the fort was silenced, the attack appears to have in flicted about six times the amount of damage upon the besiegers as it inflicted upon the besieged. On Saturday night a portion of General Butler's army —now said to have comprised only 10,000 men, and not 24,000, as first estimated—landed above the fort to take part in the final assault upon Christmas-day, which, in the ardent fancy of Porter and the cooler judgment of Butler, was to result in the " Christmas gift" more splendid than Sherman's, to be presented to Mr. Lincoln and a grateful and admiring public. But neither Butler nor Weitzel liked the look of things on that windy Christmas morning. They found the fort so little damaged by the explosion of the 215 tons of gunpowder, and by the subsequent pounding away of 60 war vessels and an undivulged number of Parrott guns, that after due deliberation they decided not to attempt to carry it by storm, being especially induced to adopt this prudent course by the knowledge that the garrison had been rein forced during the night by a large number of troops from Richmond. They captured two unimportant outworks, a flag, and 274 prisoners, and not being in a condition to risk a regular siege, determined to withdraw, which they appear to have done in safety. Admiral Porter sent no report of his losses, but ad mits that 45 persons were killed and wounded by the bursting of the Parrott guns. Thus ended the first, and perhaps the last, scene in the great drama of the attack on Wilmington—a scene that may not be discreditable either to Admiral Porter or General Butler, but which is in the highest degree creditable to the engineering skill of General Beauregard, who constructed Fort Fisher in a manner which enabled its garrison to defy unscathed one of the most for midable attacks ever made upon a fortress. Gold, which stood at a premium of 117 when the Cuba took her departure on Wednesday, rose this morning on the publication of Porter's and Butler's de spatches to 130, though stocks and Government securities were but little affected. There seems a determination in some quarters to throw the blame of the Wilmington fiasco upon Ad miral Porter, and in other quarters more influential to make General Butler the scapegoat of the na tional disappointment. For the last three days there have been ominous growls in Washington, re echoed in New York, not only against Butler, but against General Grant—two men who have long held prominent places in the estimation of the Go vernment and the people. There is only room in the public heart for one hero at a time, and the Administration only measures merit by success. Sherman is, therefore, for the time being the man of the day, and Grant and Butler, against either of whom it would have been next to treason to have uttered a disparaging word a month ago, are pro nounced in Washington by the organs of the Go vernment to be failures quite as conspicuous as M'Clellan or Burnside, or any other celebrity borne upwards for a time by the flowing tide of the war, and carried off to the depths ag ain by the rapid ebb of popular a n d administrative favour. There are other indications, as far as General Grant is con cerned, that hi s sun of favour has set, and that General Halleck, the irresponsible but powerful counsellor of the President in all military affairs, will sooner or later take advantage of the Lieuten ant-General's non - success before Richmond, to vindicate his original estimate of Grant's military genius, and induce the President to consign him to a special command. At present General Grant is the virtual Commander-in-Chief of the Federal armies, and, as such, is fairly entitled to some por tion of the credit due to General Sherman's march through Georgia, which, if he did not origi na ll y plan, he permitted and aided. But there is no gratitude in the leaders of revolutions, and Grant, having failed to justify the enormous expectations entertained of him, will have to pay the penalty in P o pular depreciation of his character and merits, as has had to do , and scores of able gene rals of smaller note. It e. tis possible that Butler may be more fortunate • If he be not a success as a general, he h as b een and i s altogethergreat success as an adminis trator, and trench ant a n of too unsc r upulous, dar ing,order of intellect to be safely converted into a neglect or injusti ce on 1 enemy Gover nment. b y an act of The fact, h oweve r ence is on the d ecrease that his influ , a iv i are strong that wa r i n the tentec i the probabilities field no him no more, and that th e only k war he w ill w hereafter be permitted to wage will rels-- nature of that in which he gai ne d his fira b t e i of the a war against women and unarmed co mbatants, war against disloyalists and sympathisers w ith the a the South, awar which can never breed a Caesar or Napoleon, but which can easily prod uce a Il aynau an Alva, or a Fouquier Tinville, or a compound of the characteristics of these with the cunningand un scrupulousness of a Fouche or a Vidocq. " Inter arma silent leges" is an ancient apophthegm that has received a modern application during the present war. The judges have long been mute-- when the Administration commanded ; but there are symptoms of , a change. The patience with which the American people have submitted to every act of arbitrary power that seemed in their eyes to be jus tified by public necessity, or what they seem to con sider the same thing, the restoration of that darling Union which they prize beyond liberty, has been wonderful, though not admirable. And not only the quiet patience of the many but the lou I applause of the few who ought to be the guides and instruc tors of the multitude, whenever the Ad ministration overrode the law and the Constituti )n for the pre vention or the punishment of adverse action on the part of political opponents, has been of a nature to astonish the world. The progress of the war has abundantly shown that there was no constitutional or personal right of which a large majority were not willing to divest themselves, provided they could preserve what it is the fashion to call the " life of the nation." The life of a nation is liberty, the sense of right, the supremacy of law, the spirit of honour, the elevation of opinion, without which a nation is but a vile body, upon which tyrants may experi ment, and not a living soul to act a noble part in the great drama of humanity. And perhaps worse than the assumption of unconstitutional power on the part of the Administration and its obe dient and too willing generals, and the tame, if not grateful acquiescence of the people, has been the subserviency of the bench of justice, when ever the civil and the military power came, or seemed to come, into collision. When Mr. Vallan digham was arrested without the shadow of a rea sonable pretext, when he was condemned by a mili tary tribunal without the shadow of a proved offence, and when he was banished to the South without the shadow of a justification for such punishment, either in the law of his State or in the Constitution of the Republic, but in open defiance of both, a judge was found to declare that he had no jurisdic tion. In like manner when the New York World and Journal of Commerce were suppressed for an act of inadvertency committed without malice or arrgre pensie, and explained by voluntary action long before the military authorities had any cogni sance of the circumstances, it was impossible for those journals to obtain redress, or to induce a court of law to declare that in the State of New York the law was the law, and that no military interloper, by whomsoever appointed or maintained in power, should set it at defiance. These are but two in stances out of hundreds, but they are sufficient to show, in the absence of all proof of any stand made by a judge in any part of the Union in defence of the law of which he is the representative—except in the case of Judge Carmichael in Maryland, who was arrested on the bench for his pains—that the judges as a body have either been smitten with the passion of their countrymen for Union a tout prix, or that they have been weak, time-serving, corrupt politi cians, more anxious to curry favour with the dis pensers of power and patronage than to do their duty to their consciences, or to the noble profession of which they are members. It is therefore pleasant to see, though at the eleventh hour, that the mind of at least one judge is cast in a nobler mould, and that neither fear nor favour can blind him to the great and palpable duty before him of doing jus tice as the law prescribes. Judge Wayne, of the district of Columbia, is the magistrate in question— the rara avis in terra, the grain of salt, the leaven in the lump, the faithful among the faithless, the one swallow that makes the summer. A person named Baker! a detective in the employ of Mr. Seward or of Mr. Stanton, or of both—an illiterate and vulgar policeman, though calling himself a co lonel—the same person who made himself infamous a year and a half ago in the case of Mrs. Brinsmeade, whom, to use his own hideous slang, he " piped" from Washington to New York—arrested a certain Dr. Gwynne, whom he suspected, or at all events accused, of disloyal practices or sympathies, and committed him to the old Capitol prison at Wash ington. He afterwards took possession in the post office of all the letters addressed to Dr. Gwynne, cut . them open or broke their seals, in the search (which proved futile) of evidence that might fasten upon the doctor a guilty knowledge of or complicity in some plot against the Government, and continued this gross invasion of personal rights for many weeks, if not months. Ultimately, as there was no tenable or colourable charge against him, Dr. Gwynne suc ceeded in obtaining his release and forthwith com menced an action against Baker for false imprison ment. Baker pleaded that in arresting Gwynne he was authorised by the President ; and Judge Wayne ruled in his address to the jury that the plea was in valid, that the President was not the creator but the creature of the law, that his authority could not justify Baker or anybody else in the commission of wrong, and that consequently there must be a ver dict for the plaintiff. The jury found accordingly. This case is but the first of a multitude that may yet come before the courts, and in which the defen dants will not be obscure constables, but such high personages as Mr. Seward, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Simon Cameron, General M'Clellan; and per haps Mr. Lincoln. No doubt the case of Dr. Gwynne against Colonel Baker will be carried by appeal before the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest tribunal in the land, and of which Mr. Salmon P. Chase is, by the grace and favour if not by the 'gratitude of Mr. Lincoln, the Chief Justice. As Mr. Chase is a sound lawyer, as he is independent for the future of Mr. Lincoln's goodwill, as he is well known to entertain a very low opinion of the intellectual status of the Presi dent, and as, moreover, though Chief Justice, he still aspires to the Presidency, after Mr. Lincoln shall have served his second term, it is possible that the Supreme Court, led by Mr. Chase, may ratify the law of Judge Wayne, and that there may be con fusion generally among the pimps and panders of arbitrary power, unless a special Act of Indemnity shall be passed to save them from the grip of the law which they have outraged. Such an Act, how ever, will be powerless to shield them and their acts from the hostile verdict of succeeding generations. Passion rages but for awhile. Reason, though silenced in one generation, resumes her voice in the next and gives their true place in history to all minions and wrong-doers, all parasites and flat erers, and all oppressors with brains or without. An Affray in the Hunting Field. At the Brighton County Court, yesterday, before Mr. W. Furner, the case of "Peters v. Macdonald" was heard. Plaintiff is a farmer and dairyman, residing near Brighton, in the parish of Preston, and defendant is an army captain, residing at Preston-place, a villa residence, in another part of the same parish. The case on the part of the plaintiff was that on a day in the beginning of last November the South down foxhounds threw off at Patchem, and the meet being unusually near Brighton a large number of people assem bled. The "field" was between 200 and 300. Plaintiff's father had a piece of land near the Dyke-road sown with wheat, and he and his father were out watching this wheat land and preventing persons from going over it. While 'a l ey were there , defendant, who was on horseback, tame from the sen., toigh road into th e fi e ld, an d wa s sh o ut e d a t b y P e t ers, go back. He did no t d o so , b u t sa id h e s h ou ld go over the land if ho pleased; and on Peters, sen., telling him he should not, he said he would ride over him. At this moment Peters, jun., c ame u took hold of the defendant's da and hearing the latter observation n a t's rein. Defendant then hit him with his hunting whip across the shoulders, breaking the whip and causing the such a pain that he could not attend to his business for the afterwards , and had to get two bottles of lotion to rubamorh.ips Pearce For this assault the action was brought. (barrister), for the defence, characterised the condact re o e f the Peters, father and son, as a " ruffianly and cowardly attaek" ter on the defendant, whom he put into the witness -box to give his version of the matter. Defendant's account was that he went into the field, and on hearing Peter(' shout it was wheat he at once pulled his horse to a walk. Peters, how ever, came up in a very excited state, cursing and swearing and saying he would "punch his (defendant's) head." Defendant waited to give the chance of doing so, and while Peters was abusing him he felt his bridle reins touched. On looking down he saw plaintiff had hold of the rein, and he told him that the horse was a very restive one, and that therefore he had better leave go. Plaintiff did not do so, and then he struck him with the whip. He did not tell the elder Peters he would ride over him. He said he could do \ 8 % and so he could. He could have Idlled him, but he did that which The p eters did if they did not y e ars- The j ur . plaintiff— he did to furthermischief and harm. ask prevent know him, for he had lived at Preston ten dataa 5, after a short deliberation, found for the during the h Fs 20s. It was not, of course, mentioned g of the farmers roundsri c , h ,_ cause' but just at this time the lands, i n consecine Lw o n f had warned the hunters off their of Brighton, who had a diaPuth with the Town Council made a bye-law prohibiting the re moval of stable manure from to that town after 11 a.m. The " warning" was subscribed Peters, whose son had also (as stated by him in court) shot aßfox which had preyed on his father's poultry yard. Brighton Council has since repealed the bye-law, the farmers have withdrawn the prohibition, and now hunting goes on as formerly. THE SVN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1865. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Duke of Somerset, accompanied by Rear-Ad miral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, from London, and visited the dockyard, where they spent some time on board the Royal Alfred frigate, converting to a peculiar description of ironclad in No. 3 dock ; and on board the Thunderer, razeed line-of-battle ship, converting to a permanent target ship for testing armour plates in the ship basin. The Duke afterwards embarked in her Majesty's paddle steamer Fire Queen, Staff commander Paul, and proceeded to Osborne on a _ visit to her Majesty. The Princesses Margaret and Blanche of Orleans arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Osborne, in her Maj esty's paddle yacht Alberta, Staff -commander Welch, attended by Col. Liddell, on their return from a visit to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses disembarked from the Alberta at the dockyard, and immediately proceeded to London by the South- Western Railway. During the gale which swept over Chatham har bour on Thursday afternoon the sailing frigate Leonidas, 42, attached to the reserve, broke from her moorings and was driven some distance up the river, causing considerable anxiety. Two steamers were promptly dispatched to her assistance, but, in consequence of the fury of the gale, the work of getting alongside her was attended with much diffi culty. After some time, however, this was effected, and the vessel was ultimately brought up by her best bower without having sustained any injury. An order was yesterday received at Chatham, by telegram from the Admiralty, countermanding that previously given for the fitment of the Vernon, 50, for service as a commodore's flagship at Woolwich, in the place of the Fisgard, 42. The Vernon had been brought up the harbour to the floating shears in readiness to receive her masts, but subsequent re. ports having been made to the Admiralty as to her Unfitness for the service for which she was intended, she has been ordered to resume her place in the re. serve, and some other vessel will be selected by the Admiralty in her stead. Her Majesty's screw corvette Cadmus, 22, 400- horse power, Capt. A. C. Gordon, still remained at the Nore up to yesterday afternoon, having been prevented leaving for the West Indies on the pre vious day in consequence of the gale which prevailed. An announcement was yesterday received at Chat- ham dockyard that her magazines would require some attention, which would probably detain her a day or two. Yesterday Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, accompanied by Mr. N. Barnaby, As sistant Constructor, paid a visit to Chatham dock yard for the purpose of ascertaining the progress made with the ironclad frigates Bellerophon and Lord Warden, under construction at that establish ment, this being the first visit made by the Chief Constructor since his return from the Continent. The Bellerophon, which was first visited, and to the inspection of which a considerable portion of the morning was devoted, has upwards of 1,000 hands employed about her, including those engaged in the adjoining factory in the work of preparing her plates and other portions of the ironwork. The progress made during the last few weeks is exceedingly satis factory, leaving no doubt that this the first of Mr. Reed's iron frigates will soon be- completed. Already the whole of the inner plating both on the stem and midship sides is rivetted to its place, while the broadside planking, to which the armour-plates will be bolted, has been worked to the sides and carried as far as the main deck, in readiness for the recep tion of the 6in. armour-plates, some half-dozen of which have already been fixed on the port and star board sides. According to existing arrangements the Bellerophon will be completed in readiness for launching, or, more properly, floating out of dock, in about three months from the present time, with a portion of her armour attached to her sides. Her engines and machinery are now in course of construction by Messrs. John Penn and Sons, Greenwich, and will be completed by the period stated. After shipping the heavy portion of her machinery and receiving her iron lower masts the Bellerophon will be re-docked in order to have the remainder of her armour bolted to her sides and to be completed for sea, for which she is expected to be ready by the close of the present year. The Lord Warden, the other ironclad frigate building at Chat ham dockyard from Mr. Reed's designs, is in an equally advanced state. From the circumstance of this ironcased frigate being built on a. wooden frame, the rate of progress made in her construction ap pears to be more marked than in the Bellerophon. The whole of her decks are laid, and the inner skin of inch-and-a-half iron plating has now been worked in temporarily, from her main deck beams upwards. Each plate, however, will subsequently be removed in order to be drilled for final fixing. The exterior planking has all been copper-bolted to her sides in readiness for the reception of the first course of 51 inch armour-plates, some few of which have been already fitted. The fine bow battery, which answers the twofold purpose of enabling a powerful battery of guns to be placed in that portion of the vessel, and at the same time to give complete protection to the gunners, is getting well forward, in readiness for the reception of the armour casing. In order to give buoyancy to this portion of the frigate the under water stem is thrust forward some 10 or 12 feet, while at the same time its wedge-shaped form and metal covering render it a most formidable weapon for offensive purposes. Like the Bellerophon the Lord Warden is intended for launching during the approaching March or April, according to the time when she may be completed. She will then be plaec- 3 in one of the available docks, where the vr fit ting her machinery on board ar -„1 e. .,rc of otherwise com pleting her will be proc ef,tied with. Mr. Reed and Mr. Barnaby, 13 . , :f t e re re t urn i ng to the Admiralty, transacte,'l 'business with Mr. P. Thornton, the head of the shipwright department at the dockyard. Yesterday the two large 10 ton steam travelling cranes recently constructed and fixed at Chatham dockyard by Messrs. Taylor and Co., of the Bri tannia Ironworks, Birkenhead, for lifting the armour plates for the. Bellerophon ironclad frigate, were officially tested up to 10 tons, the maximum weightthey are intended to lift. They bore the strain applied without exhibiting any signs of weakness. Lieut.-Col. J. W. Lovell, C. 8., principal instruc tor in field fortifications at the Royal Engineer esta blishment, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, having been appointed Commanding Royal Engineer in China, is succeeded at the Royal Engineer establish ment by Major F. H. de Vere. The Powder Boat Explosion at Wilmington. (From the New York Tribune, Dec. 31.) Every appliance which scientific knowledge and ingenuity could devise, and enterprise and manly daring execute, were put in requisition to insure the success of this novel and important feature of expedition. The boat selected for the purpose was the Louisiana, a propeller of about 300 tons burden. About 140 tons of powder, together with the Gomez fuzes and other appliances for insuring an instantaneous ignition of the vast mass of powder, were put on board before the boat left Hampton Roads. One hundred and twenty tons more powder were added at Beaufort, where she put in on her way to the scene of action, making in all 260 tons, , or 520,000 pounds. The aggregate cost of powder and boat to the Government was slightly in excess of a quarter of a million of dollars. The boat was painted white, her general appearance not being un like that of a blockade runner---though, to her strict justice, a somewhat more respectable looking craft. As the garrison at New Inlet are known to have familiarised themselves of late with the tout ensemble of this class of vessels, and as it was further deemed necessary to the success of the experiment to secure a passport within the range of their guns, it was thought advisable to further disguise her by the addition of a bogus chimney a little for ward of her own, which was accordingly done. Whether this blind operated as it was intended, still remains a matter of some doubt. A crew of seven men, who volunteered for the dan gerous service, were put on board of her, and Com mander A. C. Rind and Second Assistant Engineer A. T. E. Mullen of the Agawam, and Lieut. S. W. Preston (formerly of Admiral Dupont's [staff, and now on that of Admiral Porter], and Acting Mas ter's Mate Paul Boyden, volunteered to pilot her on her dangerous but important mission. These con stituted the personnel and material of the great Tor pedo Expedition. The object being to paralyse the garrison, and as far as practicable destroy the enemy's works, it became a matter of great impor tance to explode the vessel as near the shore as pos sible. A reconnaissance was accordingly made by Mr. Bedford, attached to the United States Coast Survey, and the fact ascertained that a vessel draw ing not over seven feet could with safety be placed immediately on the outer edge of the beach and directly in front of the embrasures of the fort, the lower or southernmost bastion of which at this point reaches down within a short distance of the water's edge. Shortly after 10 p.m. of the 23d, the powder boat, in tow of the steamer Wilderness, started for the shore. When the fleet could be plainly distin guished the Wilderness cast off, and the Louisiana proceeded alone to her position, which, despite the very great danger she ran of being discovered by some of the garrison in the fort, she is reported to have gained without molestation. The boat was then securely anchored, and the fuses and other appliances for exploding the magazine adjusted and lighted. This accomplished', Rind and his daring associates jumped into a small boat, which was quickly rowed to the steamer, laying astern of the powder ship. This vessel immediately put off to sea, and in a short time the party were safely back to the fleet. Before leaving, however, a fire was made and lit in the stern of the Louisiana, sufficiently near the powder magazine to insure its ignition in case of any defect in the fuse. The fuses were lighted and the ship abandoned at 15 minutes before 11 o'clock. The explosion took place precisely at 1.40 o'clock, and was witnessed by a large number in the fleet. The pyrotechnic display was very impressive. Notwithstanding the bright moonlight which shone at that hour the horizon was lit up for miles along the shore as by an immense bonfire, while the bags, barrels, and other packages containing the powder with which the magazine was charged, thrown high in the air by the violence of the explosion, fell in brilliant coruscations all around, lighting up the grim forti fications, and filling up a picture not unlike that re presented by travellers and writers in an eruption of Vesuvius. The shock which followed, though sufficiently astounding, was less impressive. Twelve miles out at sea the effect was such as might have been expected from the firing of a 64-pounder near by, though the report was not so sharp or distinct. It sounded rather like the roll of distant thunder. Beyond the breaking of a few window panes, and the somewhat sudden and unceremonious resurrec tion from still life of a few blue jackets, no conse quence worth mentioning resulted to the fleet. Some of the troops belonging to a North Carolina regiment, taken prisoners by our men in the second day's engagement, who arrived in Wilmington from before Richmond, just as the explosion took place, state that it was heard there, while others affirm that it was heard at Beaufort, a distance of over 50 miles. The last assertion, however, seems scarcely credible. Major J. Lincoln Casey, United States Engineer Corps, who was specially ordered by the War Department to accompany the expedition, has drawn up an elaborate - report upon this explosion, which will be submitted to the Secretary of War at an early clay. If approved by him, it will forth with be published, and if so, will prove a valuable addition to what is already known in this interest ng department of modern. arfare. The Abandonment of San Domingo by Spain. MADRID, Jan. 7. The following is the text of the bill presented to the Cortes by Marshal Narvaez, abolishing the Decree of the 19th of May, 1861, declaring the territory of the Dominican Republic re-incorporated into the Spanish Monarchy : 4 4 To THE CORTES, " In the old Spanish Island, the first land of the Western world which the great Christopher Colum bus considered worthy of an important establish ment, in that great Antilles where many years after its separation from the metropolis not a drop of Spanish blood was shed, now flows that generous blood, and the rigours of a pestiferous climate aiding the enemy make terrible ravages in the ranks of our valiant soldiers. "'Phis sanguinary struggle, which is also attended by the disadvantage of uselessly and profitlessly ex pending the public treasure and consuming the abun dant products of our colonial possessions, was not provoked by the attempts of anterior Cabinets to carry out an ambitious war of conquest, so opposed to the rational, just, pacific, and disinterested policy so long observed by Spain. Neither did it originate from the necessity of repelling foreign aggressions, of opposing force to force at any cost, considering only the defence of insulted honour ; such was not the case ; this cruel struggle commenced the day fol lowing that on which her Majesty's Government of that day believed that all the inhabitants of the Do minican Republic asked and solicited with impatient desire to be reincorporated with the Spanish nation, aspiring to the happiness enjoyed by those of Cuba and Puerto Rico. " Such a desire might not be certain, but it was very probable. The Government, actuated by theft sentiments, had faith in that which appeared to in spire the Dominicans, and therefore accepted 'co effect the an so ardently to v n o ex tes at , io a n nd wili co c u h m ati ell s e s d ta h t 7_ p ta i j e :t e : 4 , desire. on this account the Ministers, hi a solemn do cument, described this event as auspicious, highly honourable for Spain, and one not often encountered in the annals of peoples. For this, also, a ft er refer ring to the lamentable history of San Domingo since the proclamation of its independence in 1821 fol lowing the example of other provinces of the Ameri can continent—after drawing the sad picture of such prolonged misfortune, of a state of things in which the sources of public and private wealth were ex hausted, independence completely lost for want of strength to maintain it, liberty no less lost through the insecurity felt by the citizens and the continual agitations of the republic—the Ministers invoked every sentiment of justice, humanity, and honour in counselling the annexation of this unhappy island. They believed such a measure was all the more de sirable, considering the circumstances and character of its inhabitants, the fertility of its soil, and the strong attachment which the people, after past ex cesses, whereby they had been terribly disabused, professed towards their ancient metropolis. The annexation was thus founded upon two most noble, just, and weighty reasons. The first was the right inherent in the unanimous will of a people, a right not disputed, and previously affirmed by the general assent of the nations of Europe and Ame rica in a recent case. The second was the duty of humanity, of compassion towards the unfortunate people who sought favour and mercy, overwhelmed as they were by a sea of disasters and misfortune. No other right supported nor supports the Spanish Government in holding the Spanish portion of the island of San Domingo ; neither the right of revin dication nor the right of conquest, both being op posed to the policy of the Government, the inte rests of the people, and the friendly relations which Spain has always endeavoured to maintain with the independent States of America, which once formed part of the immense territory protected by the tute lary mantles of the Kings of Spain. " But such flattering hopes soon disappeared ; fatal symptoms very soon manifested themselves that the annexation had not that spontaneous and unanimous support upon which it was based. Ne vertheless, it was the duty of the Government to ascertain with certainty whether those violent pro tests, several times repeated, did not proceed only from a discontented few, but were the expression of the feeling of a people who rejected the legitimate power they had invoked in a time of trouble and distress. The agitation increased and gained towns and frontiers, extending over the whole of the ter ritory, and at this day the Spanish portion of the island of San Domingo presents to the civilised world the spectacle of an entire people in arms un gratefully resisting as tyrants those whom they called in as preservers. "So strange a political phenomenon has been examined by the Ministers undersigned with deli cate attention and deep study. They have tho- roughly sifted the sad history of the annexation of San Domingo, and have considered the question from every point of view imaginable, commencing by those of justice and right, and last regarding those of expediency. They have well taken into account the reasons that might be alleged on the ground of the national honour and respect, and have considered the event of the most brilliant future possible a triumph obtained at the cost of immense sacrifices ; they have weighed the argu ments for and against that may be based upon con siderations of national and foreign policy, and, finally, have carefully made the sad calculation of the numerous and precious lives that Spain loses every day that this sterile contest is prolonged, and of the great amount of treasure it consumes. " Asa result of this laborious examination, the Ministers are impressed with the conviction that the question of San Domingo has reached a point which will allow us to make the following deductions : " That it was a delusion to believe that the Domi nican people, as a whole, or in the great majority, desired, and, above all, demanded their annexation to Spain. That the struggle having become general it does not now bear the character of a measure taken to subject a few discontented rebels, but of a war of conquest completely foreign to the spirit of Spanish policy. That even by concentrating our efforts and sacrifices in order to obtain a triumph we should place ourselves in the sad position of holding the island entirely by military occupation, full of difficulties and not exempt from dangerous complications ; that even under the most favourable hypothesis that a portion of the population may show themselves devoted to us after victory, the Governmental system that would have to be esta blished in those dominions must either be little suit able to the usages and customs of the inhabitants, or very dissimilar to that of the other colonial provinces. " Upon all these and other considerations which the superior intelligence of the Cortes will supply, the Ministers, anxious to put an end to the useless sacrifices in men and money which the war in San Domingo imposes upon the nation, have the honour to propose—being duly authorised by her Majesty, the following project of law : " Art. 1. The Royal decree of the 19th of May, 1861, declaring the territory of the Dominican Re public re-incorporated with the Monarchy, is re pealed. Art. 2. The Government is authorised to take the necessary measures for the execution of this law, giving account of the same to the Cortes.' " Duke of VALENCIA, President of the Council. " ANTONIO BENAVIDES, Minister for Foreign Affairs. " LORENZO AERAZOLA, Minister of Grace and Justice. "BARZANALLANA, Minister of Finance. " CORDOVA, Minister of War. " ARMERO, Minister of Marine. "Luis GONZALES BRAVO, Minister of the Interior. " GALIANO, Minister of Public Works. " SEIJAS LOZANO, Minister of the Colonies." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TlMES.—Marshal Narvae haS given a new proof that he is a capable and resolute Minister. Even those most opposed to the principles with which his name has been associated will not deny that at this important crisis of the affairs of Spain he has the wisdom to see what is the right policy, and the strength of character to enforce it. The circum stances under which he took office were, indeed, enough to make any man prudent ; yet we have seen many a Minister set out with good intentions, and yield after a time to the prejudices of a Court, the supineness of his colleagues, and the intrigues of those who are benefitted by the public profusion, or else be carried away by the more generous, though mistaken impulses of national honour and military glory. Marshal Narvaez has chosen a policy and adhered to it. He was brought into office partly, it is said, through the desire of the Court to effect a family arrangement which the late Ministry was opposed to or was afraid to sanc tion ' • but the main reason w as , bey on d a doubt, that Spain was moving inevitably and hopelessly to financial ruin. It may well be imagined that it does not take a little to frighten Spanish politicians in this respect. People who by nature and habit are full of pride and punctilio and jealously susceptible of their honour, and yet allow the nation's creditors to revile them year after year with the utmost in difference, must have a very vague sense of the sanctity of public obligations. The Spanish Govern. ment would never have been alarmed at the prospect of not being able to pay its debts, As long as Cas tilian profit and glory could have been extracted from the purses of foreigners, no set of Ministers would have thought of giving up a single national luxury in the shape of imposing arma ments and romantic expeditions,---much less Of resigning their offices. But there is a point at which the Most extravaont have their fit of economy. The man who can contemplate a ruined creditor with - perfect Calninees is rather shaken at the prospect of having no money himself. This is Spain's Oftfitt.. The nation has exhausted its credit, and its most capable men know that it must retrench. It is not a matter of choice but of neces sity. By desperate expedients, by paying nobody whom it is possible to defraud, and by placing fresh imposts on an overburdened population, the pleasures of aggression on foreign nations might be tasted for a few years loner Nit this course requires a union of audacity and ability which Spanish Ministers fortunately do not possess. In short, the extra vagance of the last few years, that bad lesson which Spain had learnt from its neighbour and model, the French Empire, had run itself out, and Mar shal Narvaez when he came into office seems to have been conscious that the nation's safety and the maintenance of his own power lay in a complete change. How stedfastly he holds to this new policy the Bill for the definite abandonment of San Domingo which is now submitted to the Cortes by his Go vernment clearly shows. It is no blame to the Spanish people to say that this measure must bring them very great mortification. Though it is forty years since the Spanish dependencies in the New World threw off the yoke of the mother country the Spaniards have hardly made up their minds to the separation. They forget that the govern ment which their fathers exercised in America combined every species of injustice, political, social, and commercial, and contradicted almost every principle which modern enlightenment declares to be for the advantage of nations. They look upon the Republican communities who speak their tongue with something of the same feeling with which the Federals in North America regard the Southerners—with a sort of incredulity as to their being in earnest, and a belief that sooner or later, they will repent of their headstrong folly and return into.a dutiful and advantageous obedience to the Spanish Monarchy. At least that was their fancy some short time since, and it was strong enough to prompt the two expeditions to Mexico and San Domingo, and to incite them to a demeanour in dealing with the South American Re publics which even now threatens bloodshed. The Mexican expedition was wisely terminated when it became plain that the Mexicans, however willing to receive an European Sovereign, would not consent to be reannexed to Spain, either directly or by the election of a Spanish Prince, and when it appeared that the Emperor of the French also had other pro jects. But in the affair of San Domingo the Spa nish Government was really deceived by its vain hopes, and it is not till after nearly three years of cruel and costly warfare that the nation is convinced that the enterprise is hopeless. We cannot wonder that the Queen, with her family and national pride, and her share in the re sponsibility for the acts f her reign, should have shrunk from announcing the abandonment of San Domingo at the opening of the Cortes ; for the document which Marshal Narvaez, persevering in his purpose, has presented to the Cortes, contain ing the reasons for the repeal of the decree of the 19th of May, 1861, is a national penance which, to some minds, must be humiliating in the extreme. But Queen Isabel and her subjects will, we think, be consoled under any passing mortification by learning the effect which this act has produced in Europe. If we judge rightly, it will be pro nounced that nothing more honourable to the Spanish Government and nation, nothing more promising of good in the future has emanated from Madrid for many years past. It may be rash to build up hopes on an isolated occurrence, but still there is reason to trust that this plain-spoken confession of a national mistake may mark a turn ing point in Spanish history, and that from its ap pearance and the discussions upon it in the Spanish Legislature may be reckoned a new period in which the national affairs will be conducted with prudence and conscientiousness, in which economy will per mit honesty, and a modest demeanour to foreign communities, and particularly those of Spanish de scent, will encourage them to draw closer their re lations with the Spanish people. The Government of Marshal Narvaez declares, what we can well be lieve, that the policy of Spain four years ago was de termined by a real conviction that the Dominicans, wished their country to be reannexed to theMonarehy. There are many reasons why this belief should,have prevailed at Madrid. The troubles throligli - Which the SpanishAmeriean nopilblles have passed, sometimes eudifig, diA inMexico, in downright anarchy, naturally led the Spanish Government of the day to trust the as surances of those who asserted that the Dominicans all but a feeble section of Radicals, desired nothing so much as the protection of the prosperous and advancing Monarchy from which they had bcCii happily severed. Though ths thilitary instincts of Spain may lime been roused by the enterprise, we can readily agree that the expedition was not exactly "an ambitious war of conquest." The result, how ever, shows how dangerous Is the belief that popula tions which have once tasted the sweets of independ ence will Willingly return to colonial subjection. The Mexicans themselves would probably have fought the French for years, had it been proposed to make their country a French or Spanish province, The Dominic cans soon gave the Queen's Governnimit reason to know that the assurances it had received were quite delusive. They rose against the Spanish troops, and the war has been going on ever since. Battle and a pes tiferous climate, as the Bill truly declares, are making terrible ravages in the ranks of the invaders The sanguinary struggle uselessly expends the public treasures and consumes the products of the colonies. This is the Ministerial description of the state of affairs, and it will be, no doubt, duly confirmed by the votes of the Cortes. It is acknowledged that " the annexation had not that spontaneous and unanimous support upon which it was based" ntit when the war had once begun it was too late to recede. It was thought the duty of the Government to ascer tain whether the opposition did not proceed merely from a discontented few. This information has been sought during the last three years by a war which has exhausted the Treasury of Spain and filled emery Spanish community of AmeriOa With fresh dislike and distrust of the old country. At last a Government, presided over by a man who would be the last to yield hastily to popular clamour, solemnly declartit, " That it was a delusion to believe that the Dominican people as a whole, or in a great majority, de= sired and, above all, demanded. their annexation to Spain ;" and for this, and the reasons consequent on it, the Ministers solemnly advise the Cortes to " repeal the Royal decree which made the Domini= can Republic part of the Spanish Monarchy," It is a disagreeable lesson ; but the nation bears it calmly, and in a manner indicative of good sense and good feeling, To bring back these revolted colonies to their former political condition is im- possible. To unite then; to Spain by the ties ox friendship and mutual advantage is open to any statesman who guides his course by wisdom. The failure in Mexico and San Domingo may teach the true policy to be pursued in Peru and elsewhere ; and. if the Spaniards act with prudence, Mexico, San Domingo, Peru, and every other land where their language is spoken, may one day be united to them by an affiance even more fruitful of advan tages than a common sovereignty. POST.—A document has been published by the Government of the Confederate States of America well worthy of the attention of the public, and espe cially of commercial men in this country. It is a despatch from Mr. Benjamin, the Secretary of State of that Government, to the Secretary of the Navy, laying down the principles which are to guide the commanders of cruisers in their dealings with the vessels and property of neutrals. It furnishes in structions for the three cases—First, of a vessel under enemy's flag, with cargo wholly . or in part belonging to neutrals ; secondly, of a vessel really neutral, with cargo wholly or in part belonging to the enemy ; and third, of a vessel ostensibly neutral, but really hostile, fraudulently placed under a neutral flag and furnished with fraudulent papers. In dealing with these three cases, Mr. Benjamin points to the difficulty in which the Confederates are placed in consequence of having all their ports blockaded or watched by the enemy's steam vessels of war, which, as the prizes made are mostly sailing vessels, precludes the possibility of bringing them into a Confederate port for adjudication by a Court of Admiralty, as he admits would be the duty, under ordinary circumstances, of all commanders making prizes of the enemy, or detaining neutral vessels for violation of the neutrality. In this diffi enity, Mr. nenjamin points to the alternative of ob taining adjudication in the ports and by the Admi ralty Courts of the neutral Powers concerned ; but states that this course is precluded by the resolution adopted generally by the neutral Powers of Europe not to admit into their ports any prize captures made by either belligerent. Against this resolution Mr. Benjamin says his Government is about to make further strong representations; but in the meantime, and until some means are provided of obtaining ad judication, commanders of cruisers are instructed in the first ease—viz., that of enemy's vessels having neutral goods on board—to tender ransom upon bond to the master of the vessel captured if an enemy's, and if the ransom bond is refused, to de stroy the vessel and its cargo " wherever the prize cannot be brought into a port of our own, or of a neutral country,' A writer in the Times, under the signature of " Historicus," who is extremely well read in international law, and who has heretofore contributed much to the proper understanding of questions of this description that have arisen since hostilities commenced between the two sections of the United States of America, treats this instructio n as an outrageous violation of the rights of neutrals. He declares that neutral property, not contraband, is hOt liable to belligerent capture, even on board an enemy's vessel ; that a belligerent has no right to meddle with, or dispose of it, and that the pre text of inability to bring prizes into any port of their own, or of a neutral Power, gives no right to a belligerent to " seize, burn, and destroy British property, over which they have no more right than they have over the coffers of the Bank of England." We cannot admit this reasoning. A belligerent has the right to capture and destroy the persons and property of his enemy on the high seas, as well as in the enemy's country. He captures and burns a ship as he would capture and bombard a town. He is not to be restrained in the exercise of this right of capturing and burning, by the fact that in the town or in the ship there is neutral property which he has no right and no desire to meddle with. If neutrals freight goods in belligerent vessels they expose them to all the chances of war, and pay of course war-risk insurance for their protection. If the vessel is captured, burnt, and destroyed in the course of war, the neutral shipper has his remedy against the underwriters. The belligerent cannot be expected to forego his right of capture because of the presence of such goods on board. In the same manner, if he has no expedient to prevent re capture by the enemy but to burn or sink the vessel captured, respect for the neutral property on board does not require him to refrain from adopting this expedient. He may very fairly say to the neutral shipper, " You must look to your underwriters, as I have no alternative but to destroy. If, however, your Government will provide such an alternative by opening its ports for the receipt of prizes con taining neutral property, I am quite ready to adopt it." And this is the line of argument taken by. Mr. Benjamin, which we think not unfair nor un reasonable. Our Government may still refuse to open its ports to prizes, for that is a poi se its option ; but if it does so, we have no right to complain that prizes are burnt with British pro perty on board, when it is made clear that there was no other resource open to prev e n t their falling into the hands of the enemy. Mr. Benjamin, however, is more considerate towards neutrals than in strict right he is compelled to be, for he limits the permission to destroy the vessel to cases in which the proportion of neutral property on board is small compared with the value of the vessel and hostile cargo ; whereas, consider ing that the whole will be, or at least ought to be, insured against war-risk, because freighted on board the vessel of a belligerent nation, its liability to such a contingency of destruction was absolute, without reference to the proportion its value might bear to that of the ship and the rest of the cargo. The second point treated of in these instructions is that of a vessel really neutral, with cargo wholly or in part belonging to the enemy. The Confederate cruisers are directed to allow vessels of neutrals to pass free, unless laden with goods contraband of war destined for the enemy's ports. If such contra band goods are found on board a neutral vessel, they are to be taken out, if practicable, and tran shipped or destroyed ; but the vessel is to be allowed to continue her voyage. " Historicus" points out that this instruction makes the commander of the cruiser the judge of what is and what is not contra band. He likens the taking out of property to the case of Captain Wilkes who took Confederate pas sengers out of the Trent, and asserts that any for cible destruction of neutral property without adjudi cation in an Admiralty Court is a " national insult" which must lead to war. But here also we think that this writer overstates the case, and makes no allowance for the circumstances which have given occasion to these instructions. Suppose the captain of a Confederate cruiser found a neutral vessel at sea laden with shot, shell, and gunpowder, which it was conveying to replenish the stores of the block ading squadron off Charleston. He finds the vessel in such a position, and steering such a course, as to leave no doubt where these warlike stores are going. Is he to allow the hostile squadron to be so equipped because of the impossibility of taking the vessel anywhere for adjudication? Of course not. He will take possession of the warlike stores, relying upon his ability to satisfy the Government of the neutral. nation of the flagrancy of the violation of neutrality in the case, and of the war exigency under which he acted. Every case of this kind will have to be decided according to its circumstances. In attaching such extreme importance to the necessity of adjudica tion before action " Historicus" takes a technical, rather than a practical view of the gilesticut ig 6 sees it ag A lawyer, and not as a statesman. Th„ 6 Government of a great and powerful country Nviu always be ready to make allowance forcircum _ stances stated and proved which rendered it impos sible to adopt a course of procedure prescribed for observance in ordinary cases: Mr. Benjamin 091 &S his instruction td take out and destroY _ contraband of *0 front a ildittal +etigeli bt refer ring td the notification issued by neutral Power declaring that their subjects will not be proteeted in a contraband trade, and by pointing eat that the'. owner of any vessel haviiig dtch goads tie tined for: , the eiieniY's OdiiiitrY forfeits the neutral character; so that the entire ship and cargo might be dealt. with as belonging to the enemy. He yields this right, however, of dealing with the entire ship and cargo ; and out of consideration for the neutral, MO because, perhaps, Of the difficulty of adopting the , Usual course of procedure for adjudication, he only takes out the goods. We confess we think neutral Powers have no legitimate ground of complaint against this instruction, unless the officers in carrY ing them out should use harshness or unnecessary violence or strain 'them, in their application, to cases of ' doubtful breach of neutrality. With re' spect to the third point—the case of a vessel osten sibly neutral, but really hostile, and carrying frau dulent papers—M r . Benjamin Erects the attention of commanders of cruisers to cases only of attempts to screen vessels from capture by fraudulent or pre. tended sale toA. neutral. In these cases if the fraud should be clearly established as a mere device to evade capture, the captain of the cruiser is to deal with thr vessel as an enemy, leaving the Government to explain the Matter to the neutral Power whose flag . *as so tised in fraud: " Historiciis" states that fratid o of this dedriptiOn hod produced some of the niOgt perplexing cases thathave been decided in Admiralty Courts, and that the captains of cruisers are no tit judges of such. cases, and therefore that a seitnro' of this description will not be tolerated by all neutral rower: It is very trite that captains Cruisers ate *it Admiralty judges, and therefee riot competent to decide difficult cases. But AO are told in the instructions not to meddle with such cases, and only to treat as enemies' ships found in circumstances of glaring flagrancy, in - which no dif 6 ' culty is expected in the ability of the Confederate Government to satisfy and convince the neutral Power that it is not either in justice or in honour required to insist upon its extreme rights. Here also everything will depend upon the spirit in which the instructions are carried out. The Confederate Government rely upon the discretion and sound judgment of the commanders they employ ; and, 33 these are few, and act under a strong sense of the responsibility attaching to every capture or seizur e they make, we do not see any probability of serious differences or difficulties resulting from these by structions. The great superiority of the Federal s at sea has compelled the Confederates to resort to: courses not usual in national wars. Amongst these has been the necessity of procuring war-vessels t° be built and equipped at a distance from their owl' ports. No one will pretend that this was not within the limits of legitimate belligerent action ag_alos t their enemy. There has been tall talk at New Yor k of dealing with vessels so brought into the field against them aspirates. But when once the vessels have been fairly obtained, and placed under the coot' mand Of commissioned officers by the Confederat e Government, there can be no question afterwards ° t their right to act as Vessels' . of war, making captures, and doing all tbat may be in their power to mitt°, and destroy the .enemy.. The Federal Governme nt might undoubtedly say, we will put a stop to this by dealing with every vessel of the kind we can find and capture as a pirate. That Government wow' ) assuredly have done so but for the conviction that , for every commissioned officer or sailor hanged as pirate, one or more of equal rank who might be is the hands of the enemy as a prisoner would be e%e cuted in retaliation. But this is a matter that lies exclusively and entirely between the belligerents ; and neutral Powers and the world at large see 0 1 1 the commission and the uniform, and are bound t° concede to the vessels of one belligerent the saw' courtesies, as well as the same rights, that they eol; c i cede to the other, even though one of the two shoal have its vessels counted by units, while the other h a ' ,, them counted by hundreds. COUNTRY MARKETS LINCOLN.—] RIDAY. New white wheat, 40s to 42s ; new red, 36s to 40s per stone. Barley for malting, 30s to 33s per qr ; gr indiar o 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, 20s to 245. Beans, 386 40s per qr. LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. At to-day's market there was a thin attendance, " I 1 o f; imited demand was experienced for wheat, at a decline s o ly ld per cental from Tuesday's prices. Flour met very slow sale, and late rates were with difficulty , ported. Oats and oatmeal neglected, and the former 451 b lower. Beans unchanged. Indian corn met with! ) little attention, and prices rather favoured buyers, pr'"' Danubian being obtainable at 26s 5d per 4801 b. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. We have experienced a very limited demand for lir l f o li e to-day, and prices are rather lower than last Friday. ry a . barley steady at late rates, for other sorts not much query. In other articles no alteration. The following are the averages for the week en,„ o , Jan. 9 :—Wheat, 2,538 qrs., at 41s 7d ; barley, 1,32 1 , 4 0 at 28s 14d ; oats, 18 q 7 rs., at 26s 8d • beans, 86 tirs, 31cl ; peas, 35 qrs., at 355. S T AMF ORD --FRIDAY. New white wheat, 40s to 425; new red, 36s to 398 per qg stone. Barley, finest samples, 345 ; other sorts, 28s to u per qr. Oath, new, 21s to 24s ; oln, 25s to 28s per 24 stall Beans 38s to 42s per 38 stone. Peas as heretofore. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. The demand for sugar has again become exceecli ll ii : bee quiet, and very few sales have n made. Prices ar e f 6d cheaper than last week. Refiners' produce is dull sale and 6d lower. Rum in fair demand at full rates. COAL MARE Price per ton at the s. d. :ET, .JAN. 11. close of the market. tg d, . 0 Walls End Hetton ..• ?I t 9 Walls End Harton 1; 74 5_ Walls End Riddell Walls End Haswell 21 6 Braddylls Hetton ; 9 6 East Hartlepool 6 0 South Hetton Russel's Hetton .... . Cassop Kelloe Hartlepool Tunatall 108 ; sold, 65. Byass's Bebside West Hartley l7 6 Lambert's W. Hartley 17 3 North Pelton Gas l5 0 Walker Primrose l5 0 Wylam l7 0 Carway and Duffryn Maltins 22 0 Eden Main: South Kelloe Heugh Hall 2l 0 Keiper Grange l9 0 Ships at marke Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, v i a Southampton Jaa• 18, Ditto, via Marseill es Feb• 1 3, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pack et Feb. o!, Ditto, by British packet • Jan. "S, Cape of Good Hop e , A sc ension, and St. Helena... Feb. is , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou:hampton Jan ' 6 , Ditto, via Marseilles Jan . '• Falkland Islands Jan. ,5, Gibraltar, via Southampton . IE 4 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan 18, Ditto, via Marseilles w . -. •• • Jan. , A. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jam' 2 , . `" Ditto, via Marseilles . ... Jan 2 :1 • Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil e 3. Feb. ; Jan. 1 ' - Newfoundland 5. Portug .1 .. Feb. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. . United Mates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Bouthamp- tcn Ditto, via Ccrk 2 O. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Jan. ~, West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Ttneriffe Feb. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, 1 3, and Mexico • Jan. 9 , Bahamas, via New York. Feb. IF.' Bermuda, ditto Cuba and Mexico Jiul. __,..•,• Births. to o BARNARD.—On the 12th inst., at Bowater House, 11 0 ,150 Court, the wife of Lieut. - Colonel Barnard, 96th - 0 of a son. .c, .4e%1 BEAUMONT.—On the 12th inst., at Great Coggeshall, the wife of Joseph Beaumont, Esq., solicitor, of 6, Jewry, London, of a daughter. CAP { HALE.—On the 12th inst., at Sandhurst, the wife o f Bonsdale A. Hale, R.E., of a daughter. Marriages. BIUNTON—CHAYTOR.—On the 12th inst., at St. Mall TY the South Bailey, Durham, John Brinton, Esq., Shrubbery, near Kidderminster, to Mary, eldest eeP ter of the late Colonel Chaytor, of the South P"' Durham. EXHAM—CIIAPPELL.--011 the 10th inst., at Trinityeb w , Marylebone, Robert Exham, Esq., of Killiney, c c ", - , l o e l Dublin, to Meta, second daughter of William COT' Esq., of Upper Harley-street. Deaths. BROOK.—On the 12th inst., Richard Joseph Brook , 94" of 1, Poultry, aged 58. i; BROWN.—On the 13th inst., William H. Brown, of 2, Cornwall-terrace, Belmont-hill, Lee, and ham, aged 56. 9 6 1 1 4 , CLoUGH.—On the 12th inst., at York, John ciougv,og of Clifton House, York, and Newbald J.P. for the county of York, aged 61. t f li CONDER.—On the 12th inst., at Havering-atte-boW e ff ward Conder, Esq., of Salter's-hall-court, and 78, Thames-street. vit fl CROFT.—On the 10th inst., at 1, Sussex-place, Ifi cle- W e 63 very suddenly, Sir A rc h er D enman C ro ft, Bar" de' 1. London : Printed and Published by WIL LIASi cr,/ - - l a ( of No. 112, Strand, Pointer, at THE SUN Ofecet Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the vvr Middlesex,—Saturday, JaAuary 11,1865. hGt I \ Tl hay, 45a;