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I) f . j: IT. ~, ~ ~......,,,......,_ ef ~,,,,d , , ovY ".. ,;.', ...,..0-.0 ' - 'Ron'. :.‘ ga -,- - N,7:........4 . ..... _. _,_, I4_ REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. - 1 ' CHEAP EXCURSION to SOUTH ALES and RELAND.—On FRIDAY, the 28th of June,` an Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 8.0 a.m., and Reading at 9.10 a.m., for CHEPSTOW (16s. and 10s.), Newport (19s. and 125.), Cardiff (21s. and 135.), Bridgend (Ti.s. and Hs.), Port Talbot ( 2 35. and 155.), Neath (245. and 15s. 6d.), Lando/2 and Swansea ( 2 55. 6d. and 165.), Llanelly (265. and 16s. 6d.), Carmarthen Junction (275. and 175.), Narbeth-road and Hayerfordwest (295. and 17s. 6d.), Milford-road, New Milford, for Tenby (30s. and 18s.), and Waterford (40s. and 305.). for Kilarney or Kil kenny (12s. Cd. and 325. 6d.), Limerick (455. and 355.) Passen gers to South Wales Stations to return by a Special Train from New Milford on Tuesday, the Oth of July, and passengers to Ireland can return by the 11.0 a.m. train from Milford any day up to Saturday, the 13th July. For fares and full parti culars, see bills. pected Royal esence whom 3 regi iolonel of 8 00 roundB ;6 , THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1861. N°. 21,522. PRICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. PUBLICATIONS. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. lished a notification against sending funds North, as being in conflict with law. It is asserted that General Beauregard had deter mined on concentrating between 60,000 and 70,000 troops at Manassas Gap, in the belief that their posi tion would be impregnable, and that they would be able to destroy the Federal army that might be sent against them. The steamer Vanderbilt had been chartered by the United States GovernMen't for the conveyance of troops and munitions of war to the Gulf. The steamship Atlantic left Niw York on the 11th for Fort Pickens. ral officers, Ministers of State, and the higher ofil cials—all resplendent in their uniforms, glittering with gold and silver, spangled with orders and deco rations. The procession was closed by a regiment of Infantry, a battery of Artillery, and a regiment of Lancers. How different a following was here from GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. On SATURDAY, June 29, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at 3.30 p.m., and Readincr at 4.35 p.m., for OXFORD (Gs. Gd. and 45.), Banbury (Bs. and 55.), Leaming ton and Warwick (10s. Gd. and Gs.), Stratford-on-Avon and Birmingham (12s. and 75.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (12s, Gd. and 7s. Gd.), and Wolverhampton (13s. and Ss.), returning on Monday, July 1. On Friday, June 28, in 1 vol., 10s. 6d. bound, A SAUNTER THROUGH THE WEST-END. By LEIGH B UNT. Hurst and Blaekett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steamship America, Captain Moodie, which left Boston on the 12th instant, and touched at Halifax on the 14th, arrived in the Mersey about 9.30 this morning. Just published, in Svo., price Elghteenpence, THE VOLUNTEER i n t h e FIELD . B y Captain E. PALLISER, 82d Regiment ; and Captain NANGLE, Royal Artillery. London : Long-man, Green, Longman, and Roberts. (1, - IREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. EXCURSION.—On SUNDAY. June 30, an i%xeur4on Train will leave Paddington at 7.45 a.m., and I !eading at 8.50 a.m , for CIRENCES PE R. and STROUD (9s. and 5 5.), and Gloucester and Cheltenham (10$. and 65.), re turning the same evening. The steamship Arabia, from Liverpool, reached Halifax on the 10th, and the Adriatic, from Gal way, arrived at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the FRASER'S MAGAZINE FOR JULY, 2s. 6d., CONTAllsis William Pitt. Catullus. Good for Nothing ; or, An ; Ida Conway.—A Tale. By J. Down Hill. By the Author I M. C. Chapters XXI. and of " Digby Grand," " The ' XXIII. 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Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be consulted (only as above). DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD •-•- m [CAL ESSAY ON SPERAIATORRYI - (E NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price is., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, fbr 1 2 stamps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Verfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIg, 15, Albemarle-street. Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CB AFTER on the Physiological Structure and Functicns of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IT.—Causes of Spermatorrhma and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting aces, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and Should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," nd March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London: Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater' %sun Qt p oster - row; Mann, 29, Cornhil). 10 -till Qouultation—ao to 3 and 0 t o ; Stinclayur 2 same day. The details of news come down only to July 12, while the telegraphic accounts via Newfoundland, already published, are to the 15th inst. When the America left Boston the Federal troops were on the march towards Harper's Ferry, which place, according to the latest telegram, was evacu ated by the Secessionists in great haste. The pre sumption is there was no collision. The following are the particulars of the affair at Great Bethel : FORT MONROE, June 10.—This has been a sor rowful and exciting day at Old Point Comfort. General Butler having learned that the rebels were forming an entrenched camp with strong batteries at Great Bethel, nine miles from Hampton, on the Yorktown road, deemed it necessary to dislodge them. Accordingly movements were made last night from Fort Monroe and Newport News. About mid night Col. Duryea's Zouaves and Col. Townsend's Albany regiment crossed the river at Hampton by means of six large bateaux manned by the naval brigade, and took up the line of march, the former some two miles in advance of the latter. A t the same time Col. Bendix's regiment and a detach ment of the Vermont and Massachusetts regiments at Newport News moved forward to form a junc tion with the regiments from Fort Monroe at Little Bethel, about half way between Hampton and Great Bethel. The Zouaves passed Little Bethel at about four o'clock. Bendix's regi ment arrived next and took position at the inter section of the roads, but not understanding the signal, the German regiment, in the darkness of the morning, fired upon Colonel Townsend's column, then marching in close order, and led by Lieutenant Butler, the nephew and aide of General Butler, with two pieces of artillery. Other accounts say that Colonel Townsend's regiment fired first. At all events, the fire of the Albany regiment was harm less, while that of the German was fatal, killing one man and fatally wounding two others, besides seve ral other slight casualties. The Albany regiment, being behind the Germans, i discovered, from accoutrements left on the field, that the supposed enemy was a friend; they had, l meantime, fired nine rounds with small arms and a field piece. The Zouaves hearing the firing, had turned and fired also upon the Albany regiment. At daybreak Colonel Allen's and Colonel Carr's regiments moved from the rear of fortress Monroe to support the main body, the mistake at Little Bethel having been ascertained. The buildings were burned and a major and two prominent secessionists named Sivery and Whiting were made prisoners. The troops then advanced upon Great Bethel in the following order: —Duryea's Zouaves, Col. Bendix's regiment, Lieut.- Colonel Washburn's, Colonel Allen's, and Colonel Carr's regiments. At that point our regiments formed successively and endeavoured to take a large masked rebel battery. The effort was futile—our three small pieces of artillery not being able to cope with the heavy rifled cannon of the enemy, being according to some accounts 30 in number. The rebel battery was completely masked, so that no man could be seen, only flashes of the guns. There were probably less than 1,000 men behind the batteries of the rebels. A well-concerted move ment might have secured the position, but Brigadier General Pierce, who commanded the expedition, appears to have lost his presence of mind, and the Troy regiment stood an hour exposed to the galling fire. The order for retreat was at last given, but at that moment Lieutenant Grebble, of the regulars, in command of the artillery, was struck by a cannon ball, and instantly killed. He had spiked his gun, and was gallantly endeavouring to withdraw his command. Capt. G. W. Wilson, of the Troy regiment, after the order to retreat, took possession of the gun, and with Quartermaster M'Arthur, brought it off the field, with the corpse of the lieutenant, which was brought to the fortress this , evening. There were probably 25 killed and 100 wounded. Lieut. Butler deserves the greatest credit for bringing off the killed and wounded. Several of the latter are now in the hospital here. It should be stated that M'Uhesney's Zouaves formed the re serve. Col. Hawkins's regiment moved from New port News during the day. An armed vessel went up to Newport News, expecting the Cumberland. All the regiments are now probably in their former quarters. Great indignation is manifested against Brigadier- General Pierce. G enera l B ut l er has b een übiqui tous, doing all in his power to save our men and the honour of the cause. Fugitives from Virginia assert that a . ll the males in that State between the ages of 16 and 60 had been ordered to enrol themselves for immediate ser vice previous to the 13th inst. Another account estimates the Federal loss at 30 killed, and it was feared Major Winthorp, aid to General Butler, was among the number, as he was not to be found. 3,000 Federal troops were engaged in this matter. A Washington telegram of the 11th says : "From the best available sources it is believed that the entire rebel force in Virginia does not ex ceed 50,000 or 60,000. " General Beauregard has issued a proclamation from Manassas, extravagantly picturing the horrors experienced by her invasion by Federal troops." The Secession forces were retreating from Harper's Ferry on Manassas Junction, where they had a large park of artillery in a semicircle commanding the approach by rail. It was reported that no important attack would be made until all the fortifications around Washing ton were completed. A correspondent of the New York. -Herald says there was reason to believe that General Scott would soon leave for Frederick, to command the Federal troops in person. The breastworks on the Virginia side of the Poto mac, opposite Washington, were nearly completed, mounting one hundred 32-pounders, commanding the approaches to Washington for a distance of ten miles. It was reported that the Cabinet, after a long !session, on the 11th, decided to instruct General Butler not to receive any more fugitives into Fort Munroe, but no instructions were given him to send them back, but to let such property alone. The Virginians had destroyed about 25 canal boats in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, with the intention, it is supposed, of preventing their being used to transport Federal troops across the Potomac. A report was current that a Michigan regiment had been attacked in Baltimore, but a denial had been put forth. A despatch to the New York 7ribune, however, reiterates the report of the attack on the Michigan regiment, and the shooting of a rowdy by an orderly sergeant. Also that a shot was fired into the cars two miles from Baltimore. A telegram from Louisville, Kentucky, of the 11th inst., says : " The Surveyor of Customs at Evansville, Indiana has notified steamboat officers that the transporta tion of provisions to Smithland and Panducah, Ken tucky, is a violation of the instructions and cannot be allowed." The New Orleans mail boats were stopped on the Bth. The British ship Independence and the Bremen ship Gahain went to sea from New Orleans on the 6th. The ships Monaroneck and Parsons from Liverpool were abandoned inside the bar at Pass l'Outre. Two small war vessels appeared on the 6th at the mouth of Bay Blenville, 10 miles from New Orleans, General where Tl vg t g h s e British had o ce occupied p a e d d m e di a n r Towert j e B l l lo 3r.0 that Charlesto n Mercury of th e 6th reports that a privateer point. The has captured off Georg e t own a P ortland brig valued at 40,000 dols. Savannah papers of the 7th state that the ship Sebasticook, of Bath, Maine, was seized by the col , lector of the port in consequence of her remaining longer than allowed by law. A special despatch to New Orleans, dated Charleston Bth, says that Oovernor Pickens pub- The Washington Administration had resumed diplomatic relations with Peru, suspended by Presidentßuchanan, and had appointed Christopher Robinson, of Rhode Island, Minister Plenipoten tiary to that country. The appointment of EdWin Joy Morris, of Penn sylvania, as Minister to' Constantinople is also announced. The New Fork Daily 71 t tnes say;— " The Administration has not yet received any official advices from Mr. Adams, our Minister to England; but from private letters received in Washington from authoritative sources in London it is evident that the British Government is disposed to recede from the extreme ground it occupied at one time, in reference to the recognition of the Southern Confederacy. There is now hardly a doubt that the ministry had fully determined upon the extreme measure of recognising Jeff. Davis' Government, and that an effort was made to preci pitate this event before the arrival of our minister. Mr. Adams, it is understood, in his interview with Lord John Russell, expressed his belief that such an intention had existed, and charged the ministry with a want of common diplomatic courtesy in thus attempting to decide upon a vital question before affording the Lincoln Administration an opportu nity of explaining its position and that of the rebels. He is also understood to have warned the British ministry in the most emphatic language, that the United States Government could not per mit any foreign interference to prevent the subju gation of the rebels. It is probable that the next European arrival will bring official despatches from Mr. Adams, giving the details of his interview with Lord J. Russell." THE NORTHERN STATES. (From the Acw York Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, JUNE 11. We learn from Washington, as I begin this letter, scattered details of an engagement near Fort Monroe, in which the troops of the United States attempted to surprise a rebel battery, and were re pulsed with loss. The accounts in the different newspapers are so contradictory that it is impossible before the mail leaves to furnish an intelligible statement of the affair. The Boston papers of to morrow, however, 'being 12 hours later than this letter, may perhaps furnish you with more reliable details. All accounts agree that the expedition was intended as a surprise upon a rebel camp at Great Bethel, nine miles from Hampton, on the Yorktown-road ; that it was so ill conducted that one column of Government troops fired upon an other column of the same troops ; and that the officers (Militia officers) hasdled the men very badly, and needlessly exposel them to a fire which they stood uncommonly well. The military policy of the Confederate Govern ment, in face of the enormous display of force by the Government of the United States, would seem to be, so far as we can judge here, to intrench its forces at all the commanding points and invite attack. General Scott's plan for meeting this is kept in commendable secrecy. It is possible, how ever, to reason from what is taking place under our noses to that which is to take place soon. Having completed his intrenchments on the Virginia side of the Potomac, opposite Washington, and having put into his camp there enough troops to protect the lines, and having put under General Butler's com mand at Fort Monroe sufficient men to menace both Norfolk and Richmond from that point, he is now moving his forces from the North, from the West, and from the East simultaneously towards Harper's Ferry. The westerly part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Cumberland, within 178 miles of Baltimore and 97 miles of Harper's Ferry, is occu pied by loyal troops. Between 150,000 and 20,000 troops are at Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania, or between there and Hagerstown, in Maryland, for which place they are in motion to-day. And from Washington and its neighbourhood, yesterday, the New Hampshire Regiment, a Rhode Island Regi ment, one of the New York Regiments, one of the Pennsylvania Regiments, one of the Washington Volunteer Regiments, 8. troop of Cavalry, and a battery of Artillery left for the purpose of march ing up the Potomac towards Harper's Ferry. Thus, without disturbing the lines at Washington or at Fort Monroe, about five-and-twenty thousand men are moving upon Harper's Ferry, apparently with a view of forcing General Johnson to retreat towards Manassas Junction, where the rebels are said to be strongly intrenched. This move takes e f placethe e s i C m e u n l v t a e n n e t i o e u n s with e y fw. es t t h e r e nc Vir i g n i g e a o , g a e t n he d, again g e a u i e n . c t i e e s n s f o u f l , t i h t a w t b i e l placedy all ll under tend h northern a o n u d b w t undoubted t j e u r r n i s p d a i r c t of Virginia, and probably a large part of what is called the Valley of Virginia, be tween the ran ges o f un derstood that th a t been forfeited by the treason body will proceed at once to assume the so a h s e no f th e mountains. forro It is sovereign powers which have er hori ties of that State. Th a ssumed its to disregard The old Government having loyalty and throw off its fealty, in violation of law ns we r ll t a h s at o p f u t r h p e ose w , is p h r e o s . p of the people of Virginia, thi s b ody, com i ng d i rectly from the people , and selected fo officers, and to organise a o new s Government state of Virginia, to s e t o for the which the people throughout the State are to be in vited to accede, and which the Government of the United States areto be requested to support with all its power. If this is done, the Pederal Government will recognise the Government so created as the de facto Government of Virginia, already in posses sion of one-third of the territory of that State, and shut out from the possession of the remainder only of South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, and North Carolina, and it will g ive t o it , if necessary , the support of t he whole ark — .) , of the United States. As rei‘iginissairsmsipspoif, citizens Congress approaches thecoming time Budget by Alabama, the foreign All discussed.economyagree that it will "p oor spare force ; the for he begins opnin the Government will , the refore, have all the men and t ie the opening to o f h e can judge, the estimate of the people w ill outra n that of the Go vernment. How to pay f or this is another matter, r vessels it a e k votede for; that, a n d through e e far a i s itk military autho rities,about which there is some diffe rence of opinion. some e West of in mayadvocate such in a a s to furnish that section of the country with a circulation, and may resist taxation. But I find the feeling h ere , so f a r e s a l l loan sums by Treasury notes, as I have seen the members from this section, averse to such unsound legislation, and in favour of a heavy direct tax, calculated to raise, if necessary, a hundred millions, upon which to found a tempo rary issue of Treasury notes. Without a tax I am convinced that the Government would find it im possible to negotiate a loan ; with one , th er e is p l e nty of capital idle and seeking inv es t men t, an d plenty of confidence in the stability of the Go vernment to command it. The newspapers continue to discuss—sometimes with great asperity—the attitude of England to wards the United States. I cut from the World of this morning a short extract, which expresses in better temper than most of the articles do the feel ing upon this subject which one meets with every where in New York : " On its face it is strange enough, that of the two nations—England and France—one of kindred blood to ns, of the same language, and the same religion, and the same system of common law and similar principles of political freedom, should be against us, and the one of alien blood, different language, dif ferent religion, a different jurisprudence, and dif ferent rule, should be for us—that the nation which originally was alone instrumental in fastening slavery upon us, and afterward made peculiar pro fessions of hatred to slavery, should be the nation first to turn against us when slavery seeks to assas sinate us, while the nation which had no responsi bility in the premises should be the one to befriend us. If it is said that England has large material interests involved, so has France. France manu factures and consumes American cotton as well as England, and has no colonies, like England, from which to draw a future supply. If it is an object for England to have free trade for her hardware and woollens and linens, it is also quite as much an object for France to have free trade for her wines and silks and laces. The true reason of this ano malous difference between the courses of the two nations towards us is, that France has known how to rise at once above all those low material considera tions, and judge the case with a regard to the principles of natural justice and national good faith, while England thus far has not. Say what we please, there is a degree of truth in the sneer of Bonaparte, that 'England is a nation of shopkeepers.' It is always the national interest that rules her councils at first: In any new state of things, the world over, her first question is-v.-Where and how will it pay ? We say the first question. She is not incapable of asking others, and, when once the heart of the people is thoroughly aroused, nowhere on earth are other questions asked with more earnestness and effect. The time for this, in our own case, we have not a doubt will come. But for the present we must leave John Bull to his calculations of profit and loss. "Though in all probability England will in the end favour the side of the Federal Government, yet this first conduct will be remembered against her. The heart of every loyal American has been too deeply wounded for it to throb toward England this many a year yet as it once did. History is now recording the difference between the English and the French policies towards the United States, and no time can efface that record, nor any change undo its mischievous impression. England set herself against us when the hour was darkest. She may turn in our favour, but such turn will go little to her credit if she makes it after foreseeing the sure fate of the rebellion. Principle, however honest, makes but a poor show in abandoning a failing cause." If it has no other effect, the war will, at least, ruin the merchants of New York. Everybody is in extension, and two-thirds of the extended must fail. As an instance, I may cite a statement I saw yester day at a bank of the condition of a leading whole sale dealer in the Southern trade. Among bis assets were Southern bills and accounts receivable to the amount of 750,000 dols., which were estimated as good six weeks since. The Congress of the Con. federate States, responding to the popular wish for repudiation, has forbidden the payment of Northern debts. Thus one great item of assets is swept away. The statement also shows an item of real estate to the amount of 650,000 dols., but this is unsaleable now at any price ; and, thus a man, who has nomi nal assets to the amount of nearly 1,500,000 dols., can't raise money to pay even the discounts and interest for the extension of liabilities of less than 500,000 dols in amount. With such a state of things as this revival has now become hopeless, short of a general bankruptcy, and already the public begin to agitate the subject of such a law. The Western merchants also are in great dis tress, growing out of their miserable system of currency. based upon Border State stccks. The depreciation in the value of those stocks has forced a redemption of the currency, and in consequence the bills have ceased to represent their nominal values even in the States in which they are issuecl, and are almost worthless beyond the borders. This state of things has forced many of the Western bankers into liquidation, and has completely de ranged the exchanges on New York. But Ido not understand that the farmers are affected. On the contrary, they are getting good prices for their grain, and are hurrying it forward to market as fast as the state of the exchanges will permit. The exports from this port continue unusually heavy. For some time past they have averaged over 2,000,000 dollars per week, and last week they were nearer 3,000,000 dollars. POLAND. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) WARSAW, JUNE 22. Within a period of about three months Warsaw has witnessed two public funerals. In all respects they presented a marked contrast to each other—a contrast that must have struck every spectator. I allude to the funeral of the five victims of General Zablockoy's inhumanity on the 2d of March, and that of the late Viceroy of Poland, Prince Gort schakoff, on Saturday last, June 8. In its arrange ment, ceremonial, adjuncts, and idea, the one was national, the other official; the one popular, the other bureaucratic; the one military, the other civilian ; the one the embodiment of the spirit of self-government, the other of the spirit of officialism. And, as a result of this difference, the one stirred the heart to its very depths, and will find a lasting place in the memory of every spectator ; while the other was a spectacle for the eye to dwell upon as it went by, but which will pass from the recollection as soon as its image fades from the retina. Nor were the two funerals 'unconnected. Had it not been for the first, the second would not, in all probability, have followed so speedily. It was the anxiety, the care, the responsibility which the events springing from the first interment caused the Prince that brought him to his own grave so soon after. But I must attempt to give you some description of the ceremony. For some days the body has been lying in State in the chapel attached to the Summer Palace at Lazienki, to which it was removed from the Belvedere soon after death. In this chapel, then, the funeral service was performed by the Russian Archbishop and clergy prior to the depor tation of the body on Saturday morning. The spe cial train which was to carry it to Vienna, on its way to Sebastopol, was ordered for 1 o'clock; and soon after 11 o'clock, all those who were to take part in the procession from the chapel to the railway station having assembled, the cortege commenced its march. Instead of the scholars and guilds of trades men that headed the funeral procession of March 2, that of June 8 was preceded by a detachment of Cossacks of the Line, followed by a squadron of mounted Gendarmes. The only insignia of the dead on the former occasion were the branches of palm and the crowns of thorns on their coffins ; while on the latter nine cushions of velvet, borne by nine military officers of rank, alone sufficed to dis play the orders and decorations of the deceased Prince and General. Next, in place of the mitred Bishop and surpliced priests of the Roman Church in the Polish ceremony, came the Archbishop and clergy of the Greek Church, with their gorgeous vestments of green and gold, in the Russian, fol lowed by the choir, chanting from time to time, with their deep rich voices, some of those glorious tones of the Eastern Church. In this last particular the ceremonial of June 8 had a decided superiority. The singing of the choristers of the Russian Church is wonderfully beautiful. Next followed, not five black, unadorned, unpretending coffins, borne lov ingly on men's shoulders to the burial, as on the former occasion, but on a hearse, rich with canopy and drapery of scarlet, surmounted by nod ding white plumes, one solitary coffin covered with crimson velvet and gold embroidery. Imme diately after the coffin—on both occasions alike, on foot, according to the custom of the country—fol lowed the personal mourners for the dead. And here Nature, forgetful of politics, and system, and ceremonial, had her own way alike on both occa sions. The tears of the sorrowing Princess and her family were as true, and from as deep a source, as were those of the mothers, and wives, and daughters of the dead who were borne to the grave on the 2d of March. Whatever he was as Viceroy, the Prince was a tender husband and father. Then came a min gled mass of general followers—the acting Viceroy, Oeneral, Souchonnet; the foreign Consul s, g ene- 1 that which voluntarily accompanied the victims of the 27th of February to the grave! Then, the earnest faces of that mighty mass of human beings, their solemn bearing, their suppressed whispers when need was for speech, their order, their obe dience to a sign or look of authority, their sombre clothing—all bore witness to the spontaneous, heartfelt, profound sense of national sorrow. On Saturday the noise, the confusion, the loud talking, the harsh tones of those in authority, the hireling services of sentries and police, the utter absence of all solemnity, told too truly that, with the exception of that little band close behind the hearse, heart sorrow, national grief, had little place there. And then the crowd of gazers, mostly Jews and Jewesses, whose Sabbath it was, looked on as at a pageant in which they had no concern. Mere idle sight seers were they, who had come to gratify a heart less curiosity. Arrived at the station, the coffin was placed in the train, and then, the usual volleys due to the rank of the deceased having been fired, and the usual rounds from the artillery having signified that the moment of departure had come, the body was borne off, accompanied by the Prince's family and aides-de-camp, to its final resting-place amid the ruins and graves o f S e b as t o p o l. The requiescat in puce. To the honour of the deceased Prince it should be mentioned, in confirmation of what I said in my last letter about his honesty, that, over and above the 50,000 roubles which the Emperor gave him at the close of the Crimean War, he only left dispos able property to the value of 23,000 roubles. The Emperor, to mark his sense of the Prince's services, has presented 35,000 roubles to the widowed Prin cess, and 5,000 roubles to each of his three daughters. Since the date of my last letter no event of great political importance has occurred. In reference to the exaggerations and mis-statements of foreign newspapers, especially the Polish ones of Posen and Galicia, the Marquis Wielapolski, as Minister of Public Instruction, has called the attention of the public, by a notice in the local journals, to the punishments to which those render themselves liable under the penal code " who send abroad false and calumniating news of local affairs." And to this he has appended a second notice, as Minister of Public Justice, respecting the responsibilities incurred by those employes who divulge the documents and papers deposited in the judicial and administrative archives. The singing of the national hymn still continues. Indeed, though of Roman Catholic origin, and con• taining prayers for the dead, it has been recently sung during Divine service in the churches of both Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants, and (with omissions) in the Jewish synagogues. To give you some idea of its character, I venture to send you a version of it in English—full of defects, I know, but still conveying the sense of the original. It was composed, I am told, by a Polish Bishop in the reign of Alexander 1., when the Polish nation began to entertain hopes of a renewed national existence from the clemency and liberality of the Emperor, after the events of 1815. The two lust stanzas are a recent addition. The music is plaintive and touching : PRAYER OP THE POLES. 0 Tbou who didst o'er Poland eft of yore Cause streams of glory and of power to flow ; Who didet with Thine own shield her children guard From woes that else had been their overthr(4,— Here at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee ; Grant us our Country,—grant us Liberty ! Thou who Thyself didst grieve o'er Poland's fall, Those who upheld her cause Thyself didst aid ; And who, to prove her valour to the word, Didst lend her brightness from each passing shade, — Hero at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee ; Grant us our Country,—grant us Liberty I Give back to Poland all that erst was hers; Make fruitful all her desert fields again; Let joy and freedom flourish here once more; Oh I cease to punish ;—Lord, Thy wrath restrain. Here at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee ; Grant us our Country,—grant us Liberty ! Thou who canst break the iron rod of kings With but a touch of Thine Almighty hand, Confound the machinations of our foes; Some hope in our dark souls again command. Here at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee Grant us our Country,—grant us Liberty I Almighty I on Thy will alone depends The fate of empires, and the lot of man, Save us from out the bondage of our foes ; Of Poland's sons bless Thou each deed, each plan. Here at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee ; Grant us our Country,—grant us Liberty ! Arise, 0 Lord, exert Thy sovereign might ; Cause battles, massacres, defeats to cease; In freedom's loving bond all people's join Beneath the sceptre of Thine angel, Peace I Here at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee ; Grant us our Country,—grant us Liberty I Almighty by the wounds of Him who died, Bless all departed ones for whom we grieve ; Deign but one look on us in bondage chained, Vouchsafe our prayers to hear, our alms receive. Here at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee ; Grant us our Country,—grant us Liberty 1 And now, when drowned once more in sorrow's tears, For sons and brothers fall'n we lift our cry, Who round their brows the martyr's thorns have twined And traced in blood the path of Liberty,— Here at Thine altar, Lord, we raise our voice to Thee ; Give back our Country,—give us Liberty I THE BUILDERS OF THE HIBERNIA.' Messrs. Palmer Brothers and Co., of Newcastle upon-Tyne, in a letter to a contemporary, says : We observe that Mr. Hennessy, M.P., has, with very questionable taste, thought proper to inquire whether our firm, the builders of the Hibernia, were l wt ()cower work, be cause whichu B gr a t promptede o f f u l l a y l o t o n l t he a e oc iron newLl platese o d r g ds e the parties engaged in building one of the iron - cased frigates for her Majesty's Government. ofthe Admiralty to explain that we had b een se l ec t e d emaynse l t bf t ie e u r as sent for trial ours proved the best. ft this ohrens We regret that Mr. Hennessy should have thought it becoming to make his inquiry without any notice to us, in a place where we could not be heard, and where ho knew it was impossible for us, in the absence of all knowledge of his intention, to request any one to give the requisite explanation. We beg to state that we prepared a specification, with additional strength, but based on Lloyd's rules, for a nine years' classification for the Atlantic Company's vessels ; but they determined to con siderably increase and alter the dimensions from those first contemplated, and employed an eminent surveyor of shipping in the port of London to prepare the specifications upon which we ten dered and obtained the contract. The company then appointed a shipbuilder on the Clyde, of high stand ing, to inspect and approve the workmanship and materials ; this gentleman appointed a resident in spector of great experience in iron shipbuilding ; and the company's officers were also sent at short intervals to examine the work; the vessels were from time to time strengthened and altered at con siderable additional cost, which was paid us, show ing that we were not responsible for the specifica tion ; the vessels were tried, approved, and accepted by the company as in accordance with the_ con tract; they ac the Admiralty, and their certificates were g cordingly. for our justifica- This may be considered enough th to state that they passed the surveys of the Board of TeLe and tion, but we may be permitted far with yond question that considerably below her load fct be w ase h d iehe li o n m Pesi pelled nearly all g b i e ro fo n re and leaving c o al s, the Southampton Hibernia Galway, the violenceo delivery of the vessel in accordance shelter, and in which the Hibernia steamers to - take strained and injured and afterwards a severe a gale on her passage to pronounced to be unseaworthy. H sh i e be e r n n c ia ou w n a t s ered Although our duty was discharged on the com pletionwith the specification and contract, We may yet ob serve that we are sure that the company, acting under the advice of persons eminent in their pro fession, were most desirous that their vessels should be efficient and capable of performing in the most satisfactory manner the conditions of the postal contract. The• Plumper, 9, screw surveyiii - gmesse mander A. Hoskins, the arrival of which at ipi, head from Vancouver's Island was ieported in The Sun of yesterday, is ordered to proceekinto Ports mouth Harbour to strip and pay off. The L.hip has ado her passage home under canvas, sailing from Vancouver's on the 28th of January ; Valparaiso, 3d of April ; and Rio de Janeiro on the 16th of May.. At Rio were her Majesty's ships Curlew, Spy, and Madagascar. The Leopard paddle-frigate Was cruising outside, waiting the arrival of the Ad miral's relief from England, but was to return into. the roadstead on the 23d of May. The passage hom e has been generally fino. On the 15th of June, in lat. 39 N., long. 35 W., the Plumper was spoken by the schooner Mary and Elizabeth, steering west, outward bound, which desired to be reported, all well. Six men of the Royal Engineers, and one mars of the 15th Hussars, from the force under Colonel m n d p y e r a f t r on v Victoria, an c o h u a v v e e r s c . o m A e m o t onEnglandher s e i n n g t e h r s e . P -M lu u been g from the P ac ifi c and Rio are Lieut. Paul, and Mr. Parks, master, f rom her Majesty's ship C ur l ew ; Mr. Hoare, from th e N a i d storeship ; Mr. Roberts, from the Madagascar ; th e Second Master of her Majesty's ship Spy, &c., and 10 naval invalids. The Plumper was commissioned on th e 10th December, 1856, by Capt. G. H. Richards, f or special survey ingse constantly rvi employedceat\an since couve her arrival in sher'slsland; has the early, part of 1857. The Hecate, 6, paddle, left England r 12 months since, under the command of Com mander Hoskins, for the purpose of relieving the Pl umpe in her duties and enabling her to return to England and pay off her crew. On the Hecate's arrival out. at Vancouver's Capt. Richards took over he Hecate from Commander Hoskins, the latter after having thtis returned to England in comrnatil of t the PTi peg. With the exception of Lieut. alfriarty;-- senior Lieut., Mr. Croker, Assist-Paymaster, and three Engineers, the officers of the Plumper have turned over with Capt. Richards to the Hecate, for the purpose of carrying out the surveys they have been so long employed upon at Vancouver's Island. The Megrera screw troopship, Commander Hen derson, embarked at Portsmouth yesterday the troops enumerated in The Sun of yesterday, and will sail this morning for Queenstown and the Mediterranean. Orders have been issued for the testing at Shoe buryness on Thursday next of five armour plates that have been forged with the large steam hammer in the smiths' shop of her Majesty's dockyard at Portsmouth, under the superintendence of Mr. Wells, the master smith of the dockyard. These plates have been expressly manufactured for the trial with the best scrap iron, and the hammer with which they have been forged was erected in Ports mouth Dockyard about four years since. It has a five-ton head, exclusive of its face, a seven-foot stroke, with an hydraulic crank of 50 ton lift, and is on all points fully equal to the manufacture of .the largest-sized armour plates that are yet recom mended for the sides of our iron-cased ships. Yesterday, in accordance with orders received from the Admiralty, preparations were commenced at Chatham Dockyard for lengthening and altering the 91-gun screw steamer Royal Oak, building under the seventh shed, to a 50-gun iron-plated steamer. At present the steamer is about one-third in frame, so that the required alterations can be effected in a comparatively easy manner. Accord ing to present orders, she is to be lengthened amidships 18 feet, which will be accomplished by taking down the fore part of her frame and moving it the required length, The Royal Oak will be about a year building, unless Admiralty orders should be received to suspend her construction. She will be the first of the squadron of iron-cased wooden steamers to be built for the British navy. Her Majesty's gunboat Griper, Lieut. and Com mander John S. Keats, arrived .on Saturday at. Sheerness from Hull, and proceeded to Chatham. to take in ammunition and gunners' stores for the use of the Naval Coast Volunteers in the Cromer district. The Dragon, 6, paddlewheel steam sloop, MO horse power, Commander Edward Hardinge, in No. 1 Dock at Sheerness, is being fitted for the North American and West India station. The Dragon will not be ready for sea for some time, as con siderable devastation to the timbers has been dis covered through the ravages of the dry rot. Rear-Admiral the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., who recently resigned his office as one of the Lords of the Admiralty, died at Brighton on the 21st inst. in his 52d year. He was born in 1808, and was the second son of the second Earl of Chichester, by a daughter of the sth Duke of Leeds. He entered the navy in June, 1823, and while attached to the Sybille, Capt. S. J. Pecholl, was present in 1826 in an attack on the pirates in the Archiepelago. On his promotion to the rank of commander he was employed on the north coast of Spain. He attained post rank in 1840. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Reginald F. H. Henderson, naval cadet, to the London ; William Crump, as sistant-paymaster, to the Greyhound ; and Edwin Theakston, assistant-paymaster, to the Hannibal, MESSAGERIES IMPE.RIALES. At the annual meeting of shareholders in the Messageries Imperiales the report was read, which stated that during last year the property of the company had been increased by additions to the naval material worth £333,200 ; provisions, £28,320 ; fittings and tools, £44,000; and immovable pro• afloat,p e sear rty thelo l, f 4 c 0 8 1m 0 2 . , pB o asno n y t , sc h oef fleet l l ee s ec t tt i o ve f oe January - po o fo f wt4heBre pvessel and t sf 65,211 tons burden. There are six vessels building of 2,390 collective horse-power, and 15,664 tons, giving a total of 54 vessels of 15,240 collective horse-power, and of a total tonnage of 80,875 tons. During last year 47 steamers, of which three were hired, were employed in the Mediterranean trade, and the total distance they ran was 322,143 leagues. They carried 118,964 civilians as passengers, 70,442 passengers for the State, 100,450 tons of merchan dise, and 5,294 tons of material for tdoe G d: o 2c v tp e e r de n r m tco e e n nb t te .. Compared with 1859 there is a falling off of 6 per cent. in the number of civil passengers, of 5 per cent. in the number of State passengers, and of 39 per cent, in the amount of Government material, but an increase of 7.5 per cent. in goods tragic. The balance-sheet for the Mediterranean trade shows £9,502 brought forward from last year. Re ceipts from various sources, £655,236 ; Government er other s ide subsidy, the working £2s3,ls4 ; expenses total, £ w 9l e r 7 e ,8 £ 93 6 . 05,6 0 5 n 8 t ; 1 i g e accounts,d £11,084; assurance, £33,828 ; sinking and bonds, expenses, £35,883 ; various settlements of depre ciation fund, X 87,432 ; and interest £14,400. The profits are conseq ue ntly £129,606, 15 2 e oo to be paid on carried to the reserve fund, 11 4 d. a share, and the dividends at the rate of £2 . 8 ... from which 5 per cent., £6,480, ar_ e forward to the credit Bordeaux to the Brazils has not balance £7,926 to be carrie d of the year. The dividen d value of the shares. The Trans atlanticupon the original a sufficient length of time yet to call been worked for notice. Six voyages only have been made. ene line fromß is equal TUE Fats AT LONDON BRIDGE.--It appears im possible at theproportion in which each of h a : d principal offices will suffer from the fire of s the claims for goods destroyed willt etru r arise c y, n uponp reen G t to n ascertain s sis fireope n many i o policiesrane in which the place of depos it is not specified. Then, w hi c h has the most extens i ve busi ness of all the London offices, may be expected to i ncur the largest loss, and th e off i ces next in ran k ar e the Phcenix, Royal Exchan ge, C ounty, Imper i a l, Alliance, Globe, and Atlas. Some of the country offices, such as the No r wic h Union, Liverpool and London, West of England, Royal, and Manchester, have likewise a large London connexion, and will, probably, be called upon for heavy amounts. The stock of tallow destroyed at Cotton's Wharf is 8,800 casks, worth about £200,000, all which is insured. The whole of the buildings constituting Cotton's Wharf (belonging to Messrs. Scovell) are insured, and the same is thought to bo the case with most of the other premises. Probably, how ever, as much as one -third of the goods destroyed was un insured. Among these goods were East India cotton, rice, t ea s, fish oils, saltpetre, &c. The King of Prussia addresses his Generals in Berlin one day, and his words are in print in London the next. The latest improvements on magnetic action helve rendered this arid many other results undeviating. For instance, Her ring's magnetic brushes ; in restoring grey hair to its natura colour, and in eradicating the agony of tic doloreux a n d..e4 nervous headache. N.B.—Counterfeits 'are being 131 " =Mot 3,2, Bafillighall-street, London, ted the wand of tegent's of spec rly 500, I at the receded mss, her of Coe- supply of r quarter. Ind. 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