The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-20 00:00:00

The Insurrection in Spain. (From the Correspondent of MA the Times) DRID, Jan. 16. As it happens in countries a prey to strong poli tical agitation, we have here daily to listen to prophecies, more or less plausible, as to the event ful denouement of the drama which is being played almost before our eyes. Agreeably to most of these wise men, the 17th—that is, to-morrow—is the critical day big with the fate of Prim and his band .—the day, according to some, in which, Iby a manoeuvre which they are at no trouble to explain, the rebel chief is to give the slip to his pursuers, double upon them, and by stealing a march or two appear suddenly before Madrid, gaining a complete victory over all his enemies ; the day, if we believe others, in which his campaign is to terminate, either by his capture and death, or else by his flight across the Portuguese frontier. The calculation of the latter set of these sooth- ' sayers is the more likely to turn out correct. The territory of Estremadura, to the west of the kingdom of Toledo, is divided into two parts, which are called by the Spaniards Alta and Baja, but should pro perly bear the names of Northern and Southern Estremadura ; they consist of the two broad valleys formed by the Tagus and the Guadiana, and form the two provinces bearing the modern appellations of Caceres and Badajoz. Across the whole length of these two valleys, and separating them from east to west, runs the long ridge which bears the name of Sierra de Toledo, and beyond the gorge of El Horcajo, that of Sierra de Guadalupe. Prim, if we may believe the last accounts, had run down the whole province of Caceres as if making straight for Portugal by the Valley of the Tagus, but apparently finding the roads before him beset by enemies he has now thrown himself into the mountains of Guadalupe—some say at Logrosan, some at Mon tanches, with a view to descend into the Valley of the Guadiana, and gain the Portuguese frontier by Badajoz. We have heard of the helpless, hopeless, breathless condition of these long-hunted insurgents till we are heartily sick of it, especially as there is every reason to believe that even the most official reports are a pack of lies. There is little doubt, however, that Prim's small band must have been exposed to severe hardships, and must have suffered grievous losses, especially as to horses. One or two days' march across any of the Spanish Sierras ought to be sufficient to disable the best charger, and it is difficult to resist the conviction that by far the greater number of Prim's troopers must by this time be dismounted. Two days ago, at Campillo, we are told that the insurgents demanded 615 rations for men, and 762 fodder for cattle. These numbers would imply no very very great army, and although but few of the fugitives have fallen into the hands of the loyal troops there seems to have been no very considerable accession to Prim's original force from any of the provinces he has gone through. I hardly know to what extent I may give credit to a rumour which circulated about Madrid all yesterday, but I think I ought, at any rate, to give it for what it is worth. The report is, that Major D. Teodoro Ca mino,who, at the head of mounted civil guards, was marching in the van of Zabala's column and pressed very hotly upon Prim, taking seven prisoners from him the other day, has now fallen into the hands of the insurgent leader, who had him shot. If there were any truth in the news—which I could never bring myself to believe—this should have happened yesterday, the 15th, at Logrosan, as Prim is said to have been on the previous night at that place, and to have left in the morning, when the town was imme diately occupied by Camino. It is just possible, barely possible, that venturing too boldly into the place the Major may have fallen in with some of Prim's stragglers, and may have been delivered by these to their chief, who, in that event, would have been guilty of a dead of blood shed that—were it really don e--Lneither his foes nor his friends could forgive. The very latest bul letins describe Prim as having crossed the Guadiana at Villanueva delaSerena, and continuing hismarch upon Hava, on his way to Portugal. A glance at the map will convince the reader that those two places are still a long way from the frontier, and that Prim might have some trouble in baffling the garrison of Merida and Badajoz, should these be inclined to dispute his passage. From all we can make out of the Government's disposition, however, there is little doubt but " golden bridges" will be thrown everywhere on the way of the fugitives, if these latter will only take themselves off. It has been said here that Marshal . O'Donnell sent " his eomplitnents " to Madame Prim, and assured her that " if he caught her hus band, he would, to his great regret, be under the necessity of shooting him ;" which was obviously meant as a warning to be conveyed to the rebel chief, so that he should contrive not to be caught. O'Donnell's Government can certainly have nowish to have such a man as Prim on their hands. Espar tero shot, though not without great reluctance, the unfortune Diego Leon in 1841, and has good cause to regret it - as a " blunder worse than a crime " at the present day. The execution of Prim for high treason would, under present circumstances, be no less unpopular a measure, unless indeed Prim had been so mad as to murder Major Camino in cold blood, agreeably to the report of yesterday, which I feel inclined utterly to disbelieve. Should Prim take refuge in Portugal, as he is most likely to be allowed to do, if not to-morrow, in a very days, the stir in men's minds, which has already considerably abated, would soon cease altogether. The Spaniards, as a nation, have no hope in a revolution, and never tried their hand at one. This is, perhaps, the first instance in which a military revolt relied to some extent on popular sup port, and an egregious disappointment has been the result. I have been assured that before Prim set out for his " shooting party" at Aranjuez, the Pro gresistas in league with him secretly sounded the lowest classes, the Proletaires,who have their abode in those Barrios de Bajo,which are the Faubourgs St. Antoine and St. Martin of Madrid, and they thought they could have as much help in those quarters as they wanted ; indeed much more than they wanted, for, upon seeing the disposition of the men they had to deal with, they became afraid of letting loose a pack of demons, which it would not be in their power to restrain, and it was resolved that there should be no popular rising in Madrid ; but that either the movement should be limited altogether to " a military pronunciamiento,like so many others Spain has had before, or that the experiment of a popular demonstration should be made where the population exhibited traces of a less desperate character than that which is plunged in misery, vice, and crime in the -worst purlieus of the capital. It is probably to these circumstances that Prim alluded by those words in his proclamation where he appealed to good Spanish citizens to " help him in accomplish ing a political revolution which should preclude the necessity of a social revolution." But whatever truth there may be in these sayings, there remains the undeniable fact that Prim has risen , and I had almost said, fallen, without being seconded by any effort on the part of the leaders of the Pro gresista Retraimiento. These men, who professed to w ithdraw from legal Op pos i t i on because they saw no wa y of safety except in a violent struggle, are .no so inaudible a n d invisible that well one might doubt their existen ce . I f Prim be peacefully rem oved, days of internal calmness and security are probab l y at hand for Spain. Reassured by the general look of things, the Government put forth in the Correspondencia of the evening before last, by way of a feeler, an article in which they engage to continue in the same liberal, econo mical, and provident path they have hitherto trod den, as if no Prim conspiracy and rebellion bad ever troubled the surface of society. This article, which has created greater sensation than it is actually worth, is far, however, from satisfying men of all parties. The moderate and Conservative Epoca, thanking the O'Donnell Ministry for the energy displayed in the suppression of the military revolt, throws out very palpable hints that a Govern ment which has achieved so much is entitled to rest, and proposes for imitation the example of Sir Robert Peel, who deemed it expedient to make his bow and retire behind the scenes as soon as the act which won him immortality was fairly played out. The news to-day is that P r i m , by crossing Noon over to the valley of the Guadiana at Villanueva de la Serena and La Hava, intends not to make his escape into Portugal, but to coast the frontier by Me rida and Zafra, and to proceed across the Sierra Morena into Andalusia. If this were so, as it is probable, the disturbances would b 3 prolonged far beyond the 17th. We hear this morning that there is some interruption in the telegraph communication with Aragon and Catalonia ; rumours are afloat of insurrectionary movements at Rem, Lerida, Tarra gona, and other places. The ferment through Catalonia is described 'as very strong and general. Similar news, however, has been spread often before, and proved to be unfounded. Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Jan. 15.—Her Majesty despatch vessel Caradoc, 2, Lieut.-Commander E.Wilkinson, left Malta on the 12th inst., for Constantinople, for the disposal of the British Ambassador. The Tyrian, gunboat, 2, Lieut.-Commander P. J. Murray, re turned from Tunis to-day. She was unable to ac complish one of the objects of her mission, that of communicating with the keepers of the Cane Rocks Lighthouse, on account of bad weather. Lieut. H. F. Hovenden, appointed by the Admiralty to com mand this vessel, arrived yesterday by the Massilia, from Southampton. - Capt. E. G. Horne, 25th Foot, appointed Major of Brigade to the 2d Brigade at Malta, in succession to Capt. Swann, 22d Foot,who has become Deputy-Assist. Quartermaster-Gen. in Ireland, also arrived by the Massilia. H.M.S. Ter rible, 21, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. G. J. Napier, arrived to-day from Corfu. She left that island on the 12th inst., having been relieved on the 10th by the Arethusa, 35, screw frigate, Capt. R. J. J. G. Macdonald. She brought no news of importance. The Chanticleer, 17, stew corvette, Commander 'N. H. Fenwick, also came in to-day from Patras, having been relieved by the Assurance, 4, gunboat, Commander H. B. Woollcombe. Her Majesty's surveying ships Hydra and Firefly have been in spected by Rear-Admiral Yelverton, C. 8., and as regards the service for which they were commis sioned found to be perfectly efficient. Official in telligence of the death of the King of the Belgians has just been received here. On the 13th, 14th, and to-day the flags were hoisted half-mast on the forts, ships of war in port, foreign Consulates, and other public buildings, in consequence of the Consul for Belgium having given official intimation to the authorities of the event. In the letter of the 12th inst. mention was made of the Hawk having picked up the faulty part of the Malta and Alex andria cable. I have now much pleasure in announ cing that telegraphic communication between Ben gazi and Alexandria has been restored, and that the line is again open to the public. The English schooner yacht Myth, having on board Viscount Lismore and family, which arrived at Malta on the 4th inst. from Cowes and Algiers, left on the 13th. The English schooner yacht Medma, having on board Mr. G. H. Wildea and Mr. Baird, arrived on the 10th inst. last from Algiers. Her Majesty's ships in port are—the Victoria, Hibernia, Cale donia, Gibraltar, Royal Oak, Meeanee, Resistance, Terrible, Hydra, Cossack, Chanticleer, Surprise, Enterprise, Firefly, Tyrian, Cockatrice, and Hearty. The iron frigate Minotaur steamed into Ports mouth harbour yesterday at high water from Spit head, and was berthed alongside the dockyard. She is ordered to receive onboard a 12k-ton 9-inchrifled gun—the " Woolwich gun," as it is now generally termed, from itssystem of rifling—and its carriage, which will be mounted on the fourth main deck central gunport, which has been constructed in the Minotaur's main deck battery for this description of ordnance. The port and deck fittings for the gun and its carriage and slide have yet to be prepared, and this will necessarily occupy several days. When this has been completed, the ship, according to the present arrangements of the Admiralty, will sail from Ports mouth for Portland, and in her subsequent trials from that anchorage her course will be extended sufficiently far westward to insure her meeting with waves large 'enough to give her the desired lateral motion or "roll"—from 14 to 16 deg. each way. This will at once and definitively settle the disputed question as to the possibility of efficiently working 12f ton guns on a ship's broadside in a considerable seaway, and also define the exact merits and deme rits of their present competitive gun carriages and slides, their compressors, running in out and out gear, training gear, and other points of detail. What trials have taken place on board the Minotaur on her two cruises south of the Isle of Wight, on Wednes day and Thursday, the 17th and 18th inst., have been confined to three gun carriages and their slides —Commander R. Scott's, iron; theWoolwich Arsenal, I iron; and the wooden Admiralty pattern carriage improved according to the suggestions of Capt. A. C. Key, C.B. The trials, however, were really so limited, owing to the ship's hull being so large, and hence slightly affected by what sea there was found in the Channel south of Dunnose, that we may dis card any consideration of what has been so far done with the wooden carriage and its slide, and make only a very few, and necessarily very brief, remarks upon the two iron carriages and their slides. On the Wednesday there was a moderately fresh breeze near the land in the Channel ; but no waves of sufficient volume to materially affect the ship's steadiness could be met either close in with the land or off in the main tideway. The maximum roll attained by the ship was only 8 deg. each way. On the follow ing day the weather was squally in the morning, with the wind, as on the previous day, from the S.W. (the south cone cautioning signal being up), and it freshened considerably in the afternoon. The Mino taur was really less fortunate on this second than on her first search for big waves, as she only succeeded in giving her sides a maximum roll about 4 deg. each way. Any reliable comparative results were therefore out of the question, beyond these somewhat general observations, that Commander Scott's iron carriage and slide worked remarkably well, and proved the excellence of its mechanical fittings as turned out of hand by the engineering staff of Woolwich dockyard, or whichever department of that yard or arsenal may have done the work. The Woolwich Arsenal iron carriage and slide, which appears to be wonderfully rough in appliances and ge nera l fi n i s h in comparison with the carriage and slide on Com mander Scott's plan, has so fax proved itself good and serviceable. It is simple, and consists of few parts, but it had serious defects in its general ar rangement. Any further comparison between the two would at the present time be premature. Speak ing of all three carriages and their slides, however, it may safely be observed that there is not a single new mechanical contrivance about either of them. Some very rapid firing was made from the guns mounted on both these carriages and slides on Com mander Scott's and the Arsenal plan on Wednesday and Thursday, but especially on the latter day. Rapid firing means necessarily also ease of working, but this fact must be taken only for what it is worth lin considering that the ship was only attaining a maximum roll at the time of 4 deg. Whatever may be done on board small ships, it may be considered now so far certai n that on board the Minotaur, with well-trai ne d gun's crews, a 12} ton gun, mounted and worked with our present mechanical appliances, as adapted to the carriages and slides on board the Minotaur, may be handled on the broad side with much greater facility and ease than the old 112 cwt. 68 pounder gun on a pivot on board our paddle steamers 20 years ago. The former throws a rifled projectile of 2251 b., and the latter a spheri cal one of 681 b. What can be really done with the 12i ton gun in rough weather the forthcoming cruise of the Minotaur must decide. The rifled Din. gun for the Minotaur arrived at Portsmouth from Woolwich in the Dee steam storeship on Thursday. The screw frigate Endymion, 22, 2,486 tons, 500 horse power, fitting in the steam basin for the Chat ham steam reserve in the Medway, has shipped the whole of her boilers and the greater portion of the heavy parts of h er machinery, manufactured by the firm of Messrs. Napier and Son, G l asgow, and will be so far compl e t e d as to be able to make her preliminary contractors' trial of speed in the course of a few weeks. The details of the arma ment she is intended to mount have not yet been re- , ceived at the Chatham Ordnance establishment. The Rattlesnake, Commodore A. P. E. Wilmot, C. 8., from Sierra Leone Dec. 24, arrived in Ply mouth yesterday evening. She is 110 men short of THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1866. her complement, and has lost by fever Assist.-Surg. Wright, Boatswain Harris, and five men. At one period nearly half of the ship's company, including the surgeon and eight other officers, were attacked, and the aid of a military , surgeon became necessary. Commander P. Blakiston, who went out by the last mail boat to take commandof the steam screw vessel Sparrow, died of fever on board the Isis four hours after the departure of the homeward-bound mail. His steward died also. The crews of the other ships were healthy, but there was a great deficiency of surgeons. General Peter A. Lautour, C.B. and K.H., died at his residence, at Bromley, Kent, a few days ago. The deceased had been upwards of 60 years in the army. He served in the Peninsula with the 11th Dragoons in 1811-12. On Sept. 26,1811, he attacked with a squadron of his regiment a French cavalry regiment near El Bodon, which had captured the baggage of the Light Division, taking several pri soners, and covered the retreat of the 74th Regiment and five companies of the 60th Rifles from Ciudad Rodrigo. He was present at thesiege of Badajoz and battle of Salamanca, and distinguished himself on several occasions. He was slightly wounded in the retreat from Burgos by the bursting of a shell. The deceased General served during the campaign of 1815 as major with,the 23d Light Dragoons, and was present in the actions of the 16th and 17th June, and at the battle of Waterloo, where he succeeded to the command of the regiment and of the bri gade. He was likewise present at the capture of Paris. He was promoted to Lieut.-Col. after Waterloo, was made a Companion of the Bath the same year (1815) in recognition of his services dur ing the campaign, and in 1816 was made a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. The late General retired on half-pay in Jan., 1818. He was appointed Colonel of the 3d Hussars May 26, 1855. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Henry D. Burney, staff-com mander, additional, to the Royal George, for service in the Coastguard ; A. J. A. Berton, master, addi tional, to the St. George, for service in the Coast guard ; Edwin C. Hallett, second master, to the Achilles ; and W. Henry Roberts, engineer, to the Megxra, vice Singer, to the Fisgard, as supernume rary. tion as to preclude for a time the prospect of any dividend to the ordinary stockholders, although there is reason to believe all the existing preference stocks and mortgage debts are effectually secured. An entire revision of management and the exercise of economy may, however, they still think, gradually bring about a prosperius future. They record their recognition of the fact that it is to the dispute raised by Captain Jervis that the stockholders owe the knowledge they now possess, and the consequent ability to prevent further mischief. Finally, the committee speak in favourable terms of Mr. Owen, the secretary, and the officers of the establishment generally, and add that they, the committee, pro vided they can be assured of the full confidence of the proprietary, will be willing to accept the re sponsibility of undertaking its administration as directors. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1866. 1864. 1865 1864 £ - £ Belfast and N. Counties 9 31 991 1,760 1.678 Belfast and Couuty Down 44} 4' 532 575 Blyth and Tyne . 36 36 1,6.8 2,172 Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter l2li 1214 5,':99 5,309 Caledonian, Scottish Central 4151 408 26,167 24,422 Cambrian l3O 121 1,9 5 1,778 Cock ermouth K & Penrlth Cockermouth and Workin 9 9 3 8 280 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 305 279 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage si f i 330 114 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 6sk 63 i 1,414 1.391 Deeside . 17 17 39f 283 Do Extension Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 5 3 63 1,326 1.272 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,473 1435 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Welch' lO6 91i 2,318 2,C83 Forth and Clyde Junction - Furness, &c 5O 59 3,381 2,638 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.Union Great Northern 404 401 33,9V4 34,082 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,773 1.5 r 2 Do Branches 42 41 1,303 1,689 (3 t. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 4• 0 427 9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B7i 3871 6,970 6 786 Great Western l2BO 1270 62,351 6 ,656 . . Hull & Hornsea Highland Irish North-Western Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 39,647 31.575 Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 196 164 Limerick and Foynes 261 261 13 S 129 Llanelly 461 461 513 503 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western 1274 12731 100,476 97,416 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2674 15,921 14,938 London, Chatham, & Dover; ( 1 134 127 7,042 6.5e3 all Metropolitan .Extension 112 111 j 1,900 10) Do. Kent toast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Han.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Stanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9i 91 1,454 1,330 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,166 1.387 Metropolitan __ _ 31 31 — 3,8 ±3 2,140 _ _ . .... __ _ Midland (inol. N.-Western).. 677 i 65 1 1} 46,515 4 . 523 Ridland Gt. Westn. of hind... 2602 2601 4.e72 4.163 klonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44 44 2,6.0 2,703 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee _ 7021 656 i 23,976 22.149 _ _ N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1206; 1101 66,749 53,442 North London ll 9 4,203 4,386 North Staffordshire 258 258 7,854 7.764 Pembroke and Tenby lit 111 90 53 Rhymney l9l 191 871 989 Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,611 5,052 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 896 729 South Devon South-Eastern 315 303 19,726 20,301 Taff Vale 6l 61 4,5:0 5,715 Ulster lO5l 19 . 1 2,483 2.350 ~.. _ . Vale of Clwyd. - 10 118 138 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 4 1 446 Viraterford and Limerick 77 77 1,366 1,303 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 828 50,482 44,696 Bahia. and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 293 263 327 272 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 1851 7,378 1,9.55 Detroit and .31ilwaukie lB9 189 4,638 5.481 Dutch Rhenish loBk 1081 5,051 4,183 Eastern of France ....... Eastern Bengal . . 110 110 2,627 2,066 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1677 22.162. 25.390 Great Central of Belgium 285 261 Great Indian Peninsula. 590 553 29,495 15,714 Great Luxembourg 134 134 5,267 3.988 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 315 10,b96 12,041 Madras. Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 778 713 1', 4 ,266 12,119 Northern of Canada ~ Northern of France 724 724 56,4, 4 52.961 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman _ __. 481 48} 762 590 ____ ... ._ Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn..:: 2006' 197. i 161,474 182,079 Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 70,936 65,039 Recife and San Francisco. &c 776 776 1,249 994 Sc.nde. .. 1,774 2,375 __ ..,.... Do. Punjab, dte 253 45 1,2;3 ;461 South Austrian, ac .. . 1658 1527 53.443 49,740 Southern of France 863 823 37,154 25,930 Victoria Welland 25 23 75 E 9 West & N-Wn. of France Statistics of the American War. REPORT OF THE COMMISSARY GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE. OFFICE COMMISSARY GENERAL SUBSISTENCE, WASHINGTON, D. C., OcT. 20, 1865. lion. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War : Sir,—ln compliance with the special instructions of the War Department of October 7th, addressed to the Chief of Bureau, I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Subsistence Department during the past year. the year ending 30th September, 1865, and to $1,377,875,93 during the four years ending at that date. CARE OF PRISONERS. Under the able and judicious management of Brevet Brigadier General William Hoffman, U. S. Army, Com missary-General of Prisoners, the prisoners of war held under his charge at thirty-two forts, prisons, barracks, camps, and hospitals, have been well and humanely sub sisted, having received a sufficient portion and variety of the ration to insure health ; leaving in the hands of the several issuing Commissaries as " savings" that portion of the ration not deemed necessary for persons living in entire idleness. The pecuniary value of these " savings " has constituted a Prison Fund, available under the instruc tions of the Commissary General of Prisoners, for the pur chase of articles necessary for the prison barracks and hospitals, and for meeting other necessary expenses of the prisons. General Hoffman has already, under your in structions, transferred to the Subsistence Department a "savings" credit of the amount of $1,507,359 01, and re ports that there remains yet to be transferred an amount not less than $337,766 98, making a total amount of $1,845,125 99. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday morning Mr. Frere, the examiner of proofs on standing orders, resumed his duties in No. 16 Committee-room. The list of cases set down for the day's hearing comprised, 14 bills, of which only two might be considered heavy. With regard to the unopposed cases, the examiner declared that the standing orders had been complied with in the fol lowing cases of railway bills :—The Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Branches, &c.) ; the North Metropolitan ; the East London (Eastern Exten sion) ; The Lynn and Sutton-bridge, the Spalding and Bourn, and Norwich and Spalding ; the Hamp stead, Highgate, and Charing-cross ; the Midland (Ashby to Nuneaton, &c.), and the Midland (Settle to Carlisle). In the cases of the adjourned unopposed petitions of the Lynn and Sutton (Works at King's Lynn) and the Spalding and Bourn Bills, the exa miner also declared that they had complied with the standing orders. The further consideration of the London, Brighton, and South Coast (Surrey lines), against which there were 13 memorials, including those of the London, Chatham, and Dover and the South-Eastern Companies, were proceeded with and ordered to stand over until Monday for the settle ment of some matters of engineering detail. The examiner then proceeded with the case of the op posed petition of the London, Chatham, and Dover and South-Eastern (Kennington, Clapham, and Brixton), which was not completed when the court adjourned until Monday next. METROPOLITAN AND ST. JOHN'S WOOD. At the Marylebone Vestry on Thursday Mr. Freeth moved the non-confirmation of a resolution passed last week by the vestry to oppose the bill for mak ing the above line a double instead of a single line of railway. He did so on the ground that the double line would be a benefit instead of an injury, inas much as it would not only establish a direct commu nication with the extreme north of London, but by a series of lines 20 miles in length would connect all the principal railways in that direction, and afford vastly increased facilities of communication, and that the vestry had resolved to oppose without con sidering the merits of the line. After a long discussion the non-confirmation was carried by a vote of 29 for to 19 against. WEST CORNWALL. A special general meeting of this company was held yesterday at Bristol, Mr. L. Vigurs in the chair. A balance-sheet was presented, from which it appeared that the amount to be paid by the associated companies —the Bristol and Exeter, South Devon, and Cornwall Companies, to whom the line was now leased—for engines, works, materials, and carriage and waggon stock, was £43,289. The rent to be paid the West Cornwall Company from the Ist of January, 1866, to the Ist of January, 1870, was £lB,OOO a year net ; from the Ist of January, 1870, to the Ist of January, 1873, £20,000 a year net; and from the Ist of January, 1873, £22,000 a year net in perpetuity. Mr. BOLITHO, of Penzance, to whose firm the company was indebted £31,248, said the bankers were prepared to take the bonds of the associated companies in payment of their debts, and release the shareholders of the West Cornwall Company from all future claims. Resolutions approving the statement of accounts, and authorising the common seal of the company to be affixed to the transfer of the undertaking to the associated companies, were unanimously carried. Mr. H. 0. WILLS moved a resolution recording the important services rendered by Mr. L. Vigurs, chairman of the company from the year 1857 up to the present time, and in order to recognise such services the directors were authorised to transfer to Mr. Vigurs 250 of the preference shares of the company of £lO each, fully paid up, created at the general meetings of the company, held on the 30th of kugust, 1861, and the 29th of February, 1864. The motion was seconded by Mr. T. EDWARDS, and carried unanimously. The meeting then terminated. CAPE TOWN. The traffic receipts on this company's line, 63 miles open, for the month of November, amounted for passengers to £2,169, and for goods to £1,189 —total, £3,358. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 30th December amounted, for local passengers, to £5,811 ; for foreign passengers, to £l,BBl ; for mails, &c., to £1,541 ; for local freight and live stock, to £10,931 ; and for foreign freight and live stock to £1,988 ; total, £22,162, against £25,390 in the corresponding week of 1864, showing a decrease of £3,228. The total receipts from Ist of July, 1865, to the above date amounted to £728,166, and for the corresponding period in 1864 to £627,878, showing an increase of 1£100,288, or about 16 per cent. GREAT EASTERN. The committee of investigation of the Great Eastern Railway Company have issued a supple mentary report preparatory to the meeting on the 25th inst. They state that in compliance with the opinion expressed at the general meeting on the 13th ult., six out of the eight directors—namely, Messrs. Goodson, Bidder, Love, Smyth, Packe, and Ander son have signified their intention to retire, but that Captain Jervis and Mr. Josselyn have declined, although it is alleged that questions connected with the Eastern Union affairs will place them in direct antagonism to the interests of the company. The committee confirm their previous views regarding the appointments of a general manager, engineer, and locomotive superintendent. As relates to the proposed arrangement with the Great Northern Railway, although they think it might under proper conditions be highly desirable, they recommend its postponement for the present. With regard to the financial affairs of the company further investigation compels them to state that they are in such a posi- COLLECTION OF STORES. The subsistence of stores required for distribution to the several armies in the field have, during the year been purchased, as was done during the earlier years of the war, in the principal markets of the Northern States. The facilities and cost of transportation to the various points where they were required for issue, the relative prices in the different markets and a due regard to the general commercial interests of the country have governed the Department in apportioning these purchases among the several market centres of the country. New Orleans, gradually resuming a healthy commercial condi tion, already enables the Department- -and in further aid of such resumption—to obtain in that market a consider able portion of the supplies required for distribution from that point. Although the present general condition of the Southern States is not such as to afford a large amount of supplies for the troops on duty therein, still the officers of this Department are able in some of these states to enter into contracts for beef cattle and slaughtered beef, as also to some extent to purchase therein other articles. The principal purchasing officers of the Subsistence Depart ment have performed their ditties with great fidelity to the interests of the country and with much mercantile ability; and also, as I am frequently assured, to the general satisfaction of the commercial men of the coun try with whom they have transacted the business of this Department. So far as has been practicable subsistence stores have been obtained by advertising for and receivi ng sea l e d proposa l s for their delivery. During the past six months, four hundred and two such advertisements have been received and placed on file. EFFICIENCY OF SUBORDINATES. The principal Commissioners, immediately responsible for the subsistence of the several armies in the field, have performed the important and often difficult duties of receiving, protecting, and distributing the supplies for warded to them with commendable efficiency and success. They have also by great energy been able to a consider able extent to subsist the troops upon the resources of the country in which tho armies were operating, or through which they were passing. It is believed that during the entire war no campaign, contemplated movement, or expedition has failed on ac count of the inability of the Subsistence Department to meet its proper requirements. It is also believed that the troops wherever stationed or operating have, with rare exceptions, been supplied with rations in good axd whole some condition. CREDIT TO THE QUARTERMASTERS. While the Subsistence Department has furnished a con stant, timely, and adequate supply of subsistence for the several large armies, occupying widely different fields of operations, as also for the troops at all the separate positions occupied throughout the entire country, it is duo to the Quartermaster's Department that its vast labors in the transportation of these supplies be recognised as having been performed with a readiness and efficiency worthy of the highest commendation. As a single item indicating the amount of these labors, I instance the fact that during the year 1863 the Quarter master's Department shipped from the port of New York an average of seven thousand packages of subsistence stores per day for every working day of the year, and for the year 1864, 6,727 packages per day. DISPOSIX4 OF THE SURPLUS. The sudden close of the war, and the consequent im mediate muster out of a large part of the army, unavoid ably left on hand in some of the depots an excessive supply of subsistence stores. The excess has been sent to other points where stores were required, instead of meeting such requirements by further purchases. By this course a considerable part of these supplies have been or will be economically disposed of. Surplus and damaged stores are in process of being disposed of by sale. A consider able quantity of hard bread—surplus or too old for issue to troops—remains to be disposed of. A sufficient quantity of this and other surplus articles have been hold back from an earlier sale with the view of meeting in an economical manner the urgent wants of those people— white and colored—wh o h ave by the events of the war been reduced to a suffering condition : to whom it has been deemed an act of charity due from the Government to make limited issues of food. THE WHISKY ILATION. I have the tenor to report that under your orders of June 29, 1865, directing the discontinuance of the whisky ration, and the sale of whisky on hand, the issue of that article was at once stopped. The sale has already taken place at many points, tndwill soon bo completed. HIDES AND TALLOW. During the past year, as in the previous years of the war, a very considerable income has been derived from the sale of hides, tallow, and other parts of beef cattle not insurable as beef to the troops. The total amount of such sales has not been ascertained. At the Washington and Alexandria depots aloto they amount to $314,468,981 for APPROPRIATION NOT NEEDED. The discharge of volunteer forces, and tho consequent reduction of the expenses of this Department, will enable it to meet all demands without exhausting the appropria tion for the current fiscal year. EXAMINATION OF ACCOUNTS. The current work of this Bureau is habitually up to date. The examination of the money and property accounts is nearly as close up to date as it is practicable to have it. It would, however, facilitate tho prompt examination of the money and property accounts of the officers of the Sub-. sistence Department. if the . law permitted the former as well as the latter to be sent by the officers rendering them direct to this Bureau, for its administrative action, before going to the accounting officers of the Treasury. Ido not doubt that the Third Auditor is of the same opinion. CLAIMS. Under Section 3 of the Article of July 4, 1864, autho rising tho claims of loyal citizens in States not in rebellion for subsistence actually furnished to the army of the United States, and receipted for by the proper officer, receiving the same, or which may have been taken by such officers without giving such receipt, to be submitted to the Com missary General of Subsistence, and making it his duty to cause such claims to be examined, there have been sub mitted, as follows : Whole number of claims submitted 1,470 Number approved for payment 5O Number disallowed 413 Number awaiting explanation Number awaiting examination 357 STATISTICS REQUIRED. With your approval it is proposed to ascertain and ex hibit in a tabular form the total quantity of each article of subsistence stores purchased for the use of the army dur ing each year of the war from 1861 to 1865 inclusive. Such a statement would form an interesting addition to the mercantile statistics of the country. SUBORDINATE DEPARTMENTS. Under the act of March 3, 1865, for the better organisa tion of the Subsistence Department, authorising during the continuance of the rebellion the selection and assign ment of Commissaries of Subsistence of the volunteer and regular service to geographical and , military divisions, to separate armies in the field, to military depart ments, to principal subsistence depots, and to the office of the Commissary-General of Subsistence, as Assistant, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a Colonel of the Subsist ence Department, there have been so selected and assigned nine Commissaries of Subsistence, one from the regular service and eight from the volunteer service. There have also been selected and assigned under authority of the same act, to inspection or other special duty, two Commissaries of Subsistence with the rank of major, both from the volunteer service. During the past year two vacancies have occurred in the regular service of the Subsistence Department, one by the brief sickness and death, after much zealous and effi cient field service, of Major John Kellogg, and the other by the resignation of Capt. Edward R. Hopkins, a valuable officer. Both of these vacancies were filled by selections and appointments from the volunteer branch of the Sub sistence Department. The Subsistence Department at the commencement of the war contained but twelve officers of all grades. It had reached this number by small additions, authorised by law from time to time as the army was increased and the ter ritory occupied by it extended ; the several additions were : Subsequent to the act of March 2, 1820, two Com missaries ; by the act of July 5, 1838, five Commis saries ; by the act of September, 1850, four Commis saries. Since the commencement of the rebellion there have been added as follows :—By the act of August 3, 1861, twelve Commissaries ; by the act of February 9, 1863, five Commissaries, making a total of twenty-nine officers of all grades. A further increase is not recom mended until it shall be made to appear that the present number of officers is inadequate to the service required of the department. The officers of this department, regulars and volunteers, have, with but few exceptions, performed their duties with signal fidelity and success. Some of them have been held from services with troops in the field, much against their choice and ambition. To the able Senior Assistant Commissary-General of Subsistence, and to the other officers on duty in this Bureau, is largely due the credit of the general good con dition of the affairs of the Subsistence Department which lam enabled to report.—l have the honor to be, very re spectfully, your obedient servant, A. B. EATON. Commissary-General of Subsistence. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The destruction of the 11th Regiment at Hongkong recalls the scarcely greater calamity of the 44th at Cabul. In that case it was the work of Asiatic treachery, of frost and snow, of old English carelessness and incompetence, bad mili tary command, bad material arrangements, and, as we were forced to confess, a bad political posi tion. In this case there is nobody to blame but ourselves. The Regiment has been sacrificed by bad quarters, a bad season, and a locality always more or less insalubrious, by injudicious or con flicting orders, by the neglect and absence of the local officials, and by the want of a comprehen sive policy for supplying the numerous and dis tant outposts of this Empire in a way to economise British blood by utilising the many millions under our sway or our influence. As a perfectly gra tuitous and wanton immolation this surpasses that at Cabul, while the loss exceeds the carnage of the 24th at Chillianwallah, which still casts a shadow of its own over the glories of the Punjab. The present story has now been often told, but it will be often told again. The 2d Battalion of the 11th Regiment arrived at Hongkong in June from the Cape, at least two months before it was expected, and before there was barrack accommodation for it. There was no resource but tents ; the rainy season was impending, and tents in rain are fatal to the English constitution, there at least. The spot selected—we are not told whether there was a choice in this matter—was near a native burial ground. The certain doom of the battalion was immediately predicted by the residents. We have seen a letter written the very day after its arrival, and it was noticed as unfortunate, though not likely to make much difference in the result, that the Go vernor and chief medical officers were enjoying the more pleasant air, the more cheerful society, and certain pecuniary advantages at Yokohama, in Japan. It so happened that just then there was a hope that Hongkong was not so unhealthy a place as it had been found hitherto, andthat its character was unde served. It so happens, too, that some who felt this hope as late as last June have found themselves sadly de ceived. Nevertheless the worst was expected for the devoted battalion, and the worst came to pass. The men immediately began to droop, to sicken, and to die. Everything was done for them that could be done, and three n ava l surgeons o ff ere d their services tc.; supply the place of the absentees. The lists of death and disease have been already given in these columns ; but as the tale is not yet told, and we have yet to learn who died at Hongkong, who at Yokohama, to which the 11th was removed, and who in the further wanderings of the plague-smitten battalion, we will only quote at present a very brief announcement in our yesterday's columns. In our Naval and Military Intelligence we read what must be almost the last act in this strange and miserable history The transport Gresham, from Hong kong, arrived in Simon's Bay, December 7, bound to England. On departure she had on board 280 invalids, principally military from the 2d, 9th, and 11th Regiments. Forty-two are reported to have died on the passage to the Cape, where Commodore Cockburn paid prompt attention to them. Twelve of the worst cases were transferred to the Naval Hospital, 50 of the sick were sent to the Seringa patam, and 68 others were placed under canvas at Simon's Town." If we have any bias in this mat ter, it is one which, as far as it goes, tends to excuse the authorities—viz., our belief that Hongkong is a very unhealthy place. But it, has long had a bad name for health, and that was a circumstance to be taken into consideration by the authorities concerned in the moving of troops. Either conflicting orders were sent to Hongkong or to the battalion at its previous station ; or orders were disobeyed ; or the authorities at Hongkong had undertaken to have barracks ready but had not done so, or were not allowed time for it, or had not barrack room because the soldiers already there had not been moved on to Yokohama. So far as regards the arrangements, there has been a want of head somewhere, and it is only due to the people at Hongkong, to the absent Governor and surgeons, and to the persons charged with preparing barracks, to repeat that all on the spot were surprised at the appearance of the battalion. The question of official blundering or personal blame may be left to the inevitable inquiry. But there are two questions which may be asked at once, and which will prejudge nobody in particular. The first of these concerns the selection of Hong kong as the seat of our Anglo-Chinese Government and the headquarters of our army in that part of the world ; the second is a question we have often asked before, and it is whether more cannot be done to save our costly British soldiers by the substitu tion of natives from India or China. Hongkong stands condemned as a place of residence by the deeds rather than the words of everybody who has a chance of getting away from it. We decline to follow certain Chinese authorities in an account of this matter, which would put officers holding high places of trust in her Majesty's service on a level with sharpers. We cannot believe that all the civil, military, and naval authorities of Hongkong were flocking to Japan in order to enjoy a paltry profit by a certain fixed rate of exchange between our money and the Japanese, enforced upon Japan by the terms of our Treaty, though in effect a gross wrong to that country. We will assume that the officials at Honkong find what has been said from the first, that the island is most unhealthy. No doubt we were deceived by a national prejudice. English women and English men have a fixed belief, which nothing can shake, that a seashore, particu larly one with a mountain behind, and most of all a mountainous island, must be healthy, nay, so superabundantly healthy as to supply a stock of health that will last many months afterwards. Even in England this is often found a mistake, or only true in a conditional and modified sense. But at Hongkong there is an utter want of area for build ing, space for exercise, and even air for ventilation. We have gathered a population there, and there is not room for it, so it is poisoning us. The most fatal objection is one that we might perhaps be better prepared for, if we gave a little more attention at home to comparative salubrity of spots very near one another. The mountain there is said to be com posed of a very friable granite, through which water is always oozing, more or less, from some unknown source—geologists even say, from the mainland of China. It is even said there is something deleterious in this water, or rather, in the constant disintegra tion of the granite. It is not, however, necessary to suppose any positive malaria, such as would re quire a Chemical explanation. Wheiever, as on the slopes of our own sandhills and gravel-hills, there is at a certain level, a perpetual exudation of the water filtering through the mass above, there is sure to be a liability to fever. There will always be spots, even where no water shows, where the soil will be overcharged with moisture, and whence a vapour will ascend. Peksons exposed to this vapour throughout all the diurnal changes of the tempera ture will be liable to chill, and to fever of course all the more, if they are neglecting the usual conditions of health as to diet, exercise, clothing, artificial warmth, and the like. From all accounts, it is not easy to escape spots of this malarious character at Hongkong; and if it ever is to be a healthy station, our soldiers must not be housed as they have been hitherto. But that other questions now pressed upon us `are more important, and, we do not deny, more difficult. The difficulty, however consists in the national reluctance to give up a national tradi tion, and accept an actual necessity. There is no mincing the matter, we cannot find British soldiers for all the duty to be done. If we choose to have colonies and dependencies all over the world, and assert a political influence over more than half the population of Asia, as well as half Africa, half North America, not to speak of Europe,—we must accommodate ourselves, not to our position, but to our own magnificent pretensions. We must do as other Empires have done, and use one nation to assist us in controlling another. What ever may be alleged about the superstitious pre judices of Hindoos, there is no doubt that we can obtain any number of soldiers from India who would be quite equal to the defence of our positions and free cities on the coasts of China and Japan. Even if their employment is at tended with difficulties, or positive disadvantages, this is a comparative question ; we have to choose between evils, or rather to do one thing because it is no longer possible to do the other. Can anybody venture to say what will be the total money cost of carrying the 2d Battalion of the 11th from England to Yokohama, and bringing its remains back again? It will be something enormous, and, after all, a small matter compared with the loss of life, and, we must add, character. Even if there had been great cost, some mortality, and a few hitches, we might have done better from our Indian army. The British soldier was precious many years ago, when the great Sikh chieftain said that had he such sol diers he would have every one carried by natives, and only placed on the ground to do the fighting work. He is far more precious now, far more costly, and more scarce ; that is, more difficult to be ob tained on any terms. So we must save him if we can, and we must even be prepared to run risks in doing so. THE " ANGLO - AMERICAN TIMES" ON THE "TIMES" AND ENGLISH INVESTORS.—Our con temporary, the Times, has expended a con siderable portion of its space during the past fortnight in endeavouring to prove to English manufacturers and capitalists that credits with the United States rest upon a very insecure foun dation. The Times has not been always correct in its predictions upon American affairs ; but, like the Bourbons, it seems to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. We do not refer to the present policy of our contemporary under any impression that its fallacies require answer or explanation from us ; for Englishmen engaged in the operations of commerce have many sources for obtaining information outside of the newspaper press, and know far better than the Times can tell them where lie their best and most secure markets. The United States are much better known at the present time than at any period prior to our late war ; and the mercantile and moneyed classes of Great Britain now obtain precise information in regard to American securities and investments from their own business correspon dents, instead of being forced to take, as formerly, cunt grano salts, the representations of irresponsible writers and editors. The Times must have a ridi culously poor opinion of the intelligence of its readers when it assumes that the exports from Great Britain to the United States being, for the moment, in excess of the imports of American produce, repudiation and panic must be the result. Everybody acquainted with the peculiar operations of commerce and the ramified channels of international exchanges is well aware that commerce, which, after all, is simply barter on an extended scale, requires time to balance its profits and losses; and knowing, as the Times well knows, that bills due in London and New York are, and have been, constantly paid in continental cities, and especially in China and the East, it would assuredly have been the most honest course to wait the usual result, instead of fruitlessly attempting to frighten the English commercial world by the played-out bugbear of repudiation. Prior to the election of Abraham Lincoln, in other words, before the crisis produced by the re bellion, the United States not merely supplied Great Britain with the raw material of her chief manufacture, but they were, at the same time, the richest and fest market for English goods. The manufacturers of this country never made up their minds that the Union was destroyed ; they held on to the belief that, sooner or later, it would be restored to greater strength than ever, and, what is more, they desired this consummation ; for while it lay within the bounds of possibility that other regions than the Southern States might, in process of time, supply them with raw material, no other market for their manufactures could equal that existing in the American Republic. And they are now more satisfied than ever that their reason ing was correct. The defunct institution of slavery has, by its death, given birth to two great bless ings : it has abolished the stigma of labor, thereby opening the whole area of the Republic to European emigration ; and it has, in a single day, turned four millions of colored men into the best of customers. If, then, trade was admittedly profitable with the United States when twelve-per-centum of the population were non-consumers, what must be the result now that so great an addition is made to the purchasers of England's manufactures ? It requires no very intimate acquaintance with the United States, or the drift of English commerce, to perceive that English merchants and capitalists do not endorse the strictures of the Times or attach weight to its direful forebodings. Never, in the history of journalism, have the co lumns of the English press so teemed with what may be termed American advertisements as at the present time. Railway and other companies, steamship and similar corporations, fill its pages ; American securities are daily advancing in public estimation, new lines of transportation are started almost weekly, and trans-Atlantic telegraphs seem to multiply indefinitely. The Times cannot pos sibly persuade its readers that so great an increase of trade with the New World is based upon mere blind speculation •, for the American people have satisfied all honest and thoughtful minds that they are bent upon meeting every liability caused by their late war, and that the policy of their Government will henceforward be one of retrenchment, economy, and the develop ment of the unparalleled resources of their country. English manufacturers have had enough of Surats," and they know that, within a very short period of time, the supply of cotton from the United States will reach a far higher figure than even in '59 or 'GO ; and that, henceforward, the supplies in question will not be rendered insecure by the anomalous condition of the Southern laboring population. Add to this the in creased importations of American breadstuffs and provisions, caused by larger areas in the - West being - "qt. , brought under cultivation, and the easier access to European markets consequent upon the develop ment of railroads, canals, and other lines of com munication with the sea-board ; and it is easy to foresee that, within a comparatively short period, the balance of trade must be larger than ever in favor of the United States. It is simply futile on the part of the Times to attempt to swim against this mighty current. The English people could overlook its false predictions anent the war, because military affairs are proverbially uncertain ; and they can smile at its never-ending mis takes upon American politics. But the Times will not be permitted by its readers to de ceive them reference to commercial matters, for commerce belongs to the category of certainties, and means of correct information on trans-Atlantic affairs are now within the reach of all. It is time for our contemporary to change its tone. Let it accept the situation as the world at large has ac cepted it, and seek to regain that influence amongst its readers which it formerly possessed by following the policy contained in the maxim—Tempora mu tantur et nos mutamur in illis. Duty of the Southern States. While the North felt to a heavy extent the effects of the late war, the South realised its desolation in the fullest degree. Our armies traversed the length and breadth of the rebellious States, and the devastation which neces sarily follows in the wake of victorious columns was the result. Towns and cities and whole counties were laid waste. Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia all bowed before the irresistible force which swept over their borders, prostrated their habitations, and made deserts of their once blossoming and fruitful fields. This was the consequence of war. War always is productive of losses to one or the other parties which it requires years to make good. The North experienced the baneful effects of strife in the ex penditure of blood and treasure; the South realised them in the exhaustion of life and money, the destruction of property of all kinds, the emancipation of her greatest source of wealth, the slave, and the almost universal with drawal of labor from her plantations. In the Northern and Western States there was but a slight decrease in agricultural products in the first year or two of the war, and when it closed the old free States were well supplied with all the necessaries of life, while the South was not only impoverished, but on the very verge of starvation. This was the condition of the South at the termination of the rebellion, and the prospects of its people were of the gloomiest character. But, while everything was calculated to dishearten them, they had much to encourage them in their efforts to restore their States to their former influence and power. They were possessed of rich lands, of noble rivers, of mines of gold, silver, iron, and coal ; of fine sea board harbors, and the soil and climate peculiarly adapted to the culture of cotton. To develops these natural re sources would, of course, be the prime object of the people. Their requirements were pressing, and it is gratifying to all true lovers of the country to know that the Southerners have entered into the work with the proper spirit and zeal. To accommodate themselves to circumstances is, no doubt, a difficult task. The question of labor has proved a knotty one, but recent movements indicate that they are gradually and surely arriving at its solution. There is now hardly a county to be found in the South where the owners of farms and cotton plantations are not perfecting arrangements with the freedmen for the cul tivation of their lands. They have come to understand that if a negro is paid for his services he will work, and so they are making contracts with their late slaves, and pre paring to plant in the coming spring. This system of pay ing liberal wages will prove of infinite value to the em ployers, while it will also satisfy the employed, who hitherto have received nothing for their labor but their bread and rough clothing. If the Southern people re solve to do their utmost to recover the ground which they have lost during the war, they will not fail in its accom plishment. Let them abandon their antiquated ideas, and the foolish and destructive heresies which they have so long maintained, and turn their attention to the development of their section and the interests of our common country, and all will be well with them. Though they feel the effects of the war more than the North does, they yet have the opportunity of lessening the evils hanging over them, and of finally bringing order and prosperity out of the present confusion and depression.—PhilVelphia Enquirer. COUNTRY MARKETS a --------- LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. To-day's market was only thinly attended, and a fair business was done in wheat at about late rates. Flour in request, and steady in value. Indian corn 3d per qr. lower. Oats and oatmeal unchanged. Beans little inquired for. Irish grinding barley scarce. DERBY-FRIDAY. Our corn market to-day was poorly supplied with wheat, which sold at about late rates. Barley at top prices. Oats and beans same as last week. New white wheat, 49s to 55s ; old red, 49s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 265; old, 28s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old; Ns to 525; new, 45s to 50s per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. Fresh old and dry new wheat obtain a fair sale at last Friday's prices. Other articles unaltered. Averages, January 13—Wheat, 545 qrs, at 41s 1d; barley, 1,065 at 36s 54d; oats, 20, at 25s 3d. STAMFORD.-FRIDAY. There was about the usual quantity of wheat, and prices in favour of the seller, with a healthy trade. Barley was steady. Oats were unchanged. Beans improved in value. Peas dull, at late rates. New white wheat, 49s to 52s ; red do., 45s to 48s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 34s to 388:; grinding, 28s to 32s per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 25s to 27s per 24 stone Beans, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. LINCOLN.-FRIDAY. We had a fair attendance at our market to-day, and the tone was firm. Business in wheat more aotive, at rather more money. Barley at an advance. Oats scarce, with prices as before. Beans higher than of late. New white wheat, 51s to 56s ; new red, 43s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 34s to 42s per qr • grinding, 31s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 325. Beans, 43s to 51s per 38 stone. BRISTOL SUGAR.-FRIDAY. The demand for all descriptions of sugar continues ex tremely dull, and the sales of the week show a further de cline of about 6d per cwt. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. _ s. d. s. ( 7 • East Hartlepool stall 6 T Wall s s ta E ll nd Haswell 2O 0 . Hetton 2 17 0 Russell's Hetton lB 0 Tees Cowpen Hartley l6 6 Hetton Lyons l7 0 N.Staffordshire 17 0 Shaw's Hartley lB 6 Carway and Duffryn Wylam lB 0 Malting 24 0 South Hetton Ships at market, 55 ; sold 24 The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company has made a contract for twenty-five new engines, to cost between five and six hundred thou sand dollars. The company has, daring the year, made a large expenditure for construction, and has sold stock, it is stated, to the extent of a million and a quarter dollars. The Utica Observer says the new red coaches building for the Central Railroad begin to appear. They are large and elegant, and are to run over the Central and Hudson River roads, in the express trains. A large number of these coaches—eighty in all—will be brought out ere manY months. cADVERTISEMENT.j—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills. -- Co d Weather.—The sudden severity of the weather has sadly disturbed the general health. Affections of the throat and chest are now found in every household, and the quickest means of cure are Holloway's renowned remedies. They prevent congestion, inflammation, bronchitis, ulce ration, hoarseness, and cough. This soothing ointment only requires to be well rubbed twice a day on the affect(!d parts to effect an immediate and marked improvement at all the symptoms of disease. Both ointment and pills aro devoid of danger. Both are compounds of the finest bal sams, allied by nature, and accurately combined by art. They conduct to restoration, and cure with unfailing cer tainty. Births. VCEUX.—On the 17th inst., at 4, Great Cumberland-street, the Lady Alice des Vomix, of 'a daughter. WAGGETT.—On the 18th inst., at 4, Stanley-terrace, Ken sington-park-gardens, the wife of Dr. Waggett, of a son. WooDwABD.—On the 17th inst., at Clifton, the wife of A. F. Woodward, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. CoNunna—FREESTITN.—On the 17th inst., at St. John's, Paddington, James Considine, Esq., her Majesty's Con: sul for the Balearic Islands, to Lady Freestun, widow 01 the late Sir William Freestun. PHILLIPS—PYATT.—On the 18th inst., at St. Mary Mg; dalen Church, Peckham John A. P. Phillips, Esq., O' Old Change, to Harriott, youngest daughter of the late William B. Pyatt, formerly of Walworth, Surrey. Deaths. HARRIS.—On the 15th inst., Thomas Harris, of Woodeote- green, Epsom, aged 76. HALE.—On the 18th inst., at the Master's Lodge, Charter house, Anne Caroline, wife of the Von. W. H. gal e ' Archdeacon of London, aged 71. 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