The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1861 ~..0,.......---______ T HE SOMIERN CONFEDERACY (From the Special Correspondent of the limes.) CONFEDERATE CAMP, NEAR CHATTANOOGA, October 8. It is my coinfident belief that, among the many fruitless victories which, in the last two and a half years, have 'been gained by the Confederates, two will hereafter stand conspicuous as having afforded rare and unexampled opportunities which were in credibly thrown away—ethe battle of Bull Run and the b attle of Chickamanga. Twice only since the compeencement of the war have the Federals been broken up " without hand?' twice only has their defee ,t been converted into irretrievable rout. In the man y victories gained by General Lee in Virginia the Federals have always had a river behind them which has intercepted pursuit, or a fortified camp which was easilyreached,or having retained,thoegh de fixated, such solidity as robbed their opponents of the decisive uses of victory. The exceptional victo ries of the war have hitherto been Bull Run and Chickamanga, which by a Napoleon would have been converted, even with the limited means possessed by the Confederate generals, into an Austerlitz and a Marengo. That the advantages of Bull Run should have been nnreaped can scarcely be wondered at, considering the early stage of the war when it was fought and the astonishment experienced by the Con federates upon finding themselves victorious. Thtit Chickamauga should have been nothing more than a bloody and unfruitful victory will, when its details are fully known and deliberately weighed, be imputed to the general who chanced to command the troops that Won it as one of the least pardonable blunders and shortcomings of history. A recapitulation for the hundredth time of an other American massacre, an exposition of the mi nutiae of another sanguinary battle, which possessen little strategical interest and serves but to mall the tale of bloodshed without materially alterin g the relations of the combatants, would, if I mistake not, be as little to the taste of your readers as of him who would be called upon to furnish it for their instruction. I shall, therefore, confine myself to general remarks about the Rattle of Chickamanga, convinced that of all the battles which I have yet attempted to describe it is the least intelligible, unless a diagram accompanies the description. And here I am compelled to premise that there is only one tl'.eory which can explain General Rosencranz , s. 'movements previous to the late battle without aeinihilating all his claims to generalship —the tl'.eory that he believes himself thoroughly acqua;.nted with the General opposed to him, and vennured upon great liabilities in hie presence. W hatever my own conceptions as to General Itosencranz's abilities may have previously been st cannot be denied that the division of his army before the battle into three sections of 20,000 men, each section acting at a distance of 70 miles from the other, while General Bragg's army, in a com pact mass, might strike whichever of these three isolated bodies he preferred, can be compared only to the strategy of General Hooker at Chancellors and his partition of the Federal army into two sections, while General Lee acted upon a shorter and inner line between them. It is certainly to,the credit of General Rosencranz that his three sections escaped annihilation by detail, although one of them (the central section) was vigorously struck at by General Bragg and the whole Con federate army. Discovering that a body of 20,000 Federals had entered " the coves " (as they are here called) of one of the woody mountains of Northern Georgia, General Bragg sent Gen. Hindman round to strike them in rear, while he himself, with the rest of his army, cut them off from escape by another road. The coves of the Allegheny cluster of moun tains, though far less majestic in feature, resemble greatly the cirques or oules of the Pyrenees, consist ing of deep recesses or cols-de-sac (the favourite haunts of racoons, squirrels, wolves, and bears) which run into the mountain side, and have no exit save through the gorge by which they are entered. Into such a trap did General ltosencranz venture to lead one-third of his army into the immediate neighbourhood of the combined forces of his foe. Never since the Caudine Forks was there a better opportunity of capturing au entire army. By whose fault they cucaped and slipped out of the noose I shall not at tempt to discriminate. It is asserted by General Bragg that the failure was General Hindman's, who is consequently under arrest; it is asserted by Gen. Hindman that the fault lay in the orders of Gene ral Bragg. Be that as it may, General Itosencranz, having escaped from this scrape by the skin of his teeth, showed quick comprehension of the danger of his position, and with great promptitude got his three sections together in front of Chattanooga. It is admitted that every man in his army was en gaged in the battle of Chickamanga, and on the. night of the 20th of September the whole mass, not lees when the battle commenced than 60,000 strong, crumbling like a loosened cliff, streamed in inextri cable confusion down the steep sides of Missionary Ridge, leaving more than 7,000 sound prisoners e.nd 2,300 wounded and all its unburied dead, and 61 pieces of artillery and small arms, flags, and guidons ad nauseam in the hands of the victorious Confederates. It will be remembered that on the afternoon and e ight e of Friday, the 18th of September, the Confe derate army, which had been marching through stifling beds of dust and crumbling rock since the mo n o Bann at Monday, the 14th, crossed %Vest Chicka serp'elaitet_et_lt, which, tortuous and winding as a b ietween " .4. a t e i traversed 13 times by the railroad and dischat At lanta and Chattanooga, runs northward far ges f r pelf into the Tennessee river not the only ueest ".• Upon the morning of the 19th Bragg had of strength which General three brigades a from Virginia consisted of the gallant General Hood. General Longst i : l t e h ' o . t as yet got to the front, but was that day " ga t t .. 1 performing journey from Atlant a vt . the weary though traversed b y Chickamauga, which, subse a and not more than 130 m iles in distance, i t : I ndy took me more than 40 hours, including tw l o in the filthiest Another of Gen. divisions — that of of railroad cars, to aeco rquat g . 4 t B , (ten. M'Laws—had longstreet's urther - n ot got up ; and still f i n the Jenkins r ear was the no ble brigade of G en • , of South Carolina, I s own disgust, has w hich, much to 1, 13 not bee n en gaged since the battle o f Frederica in Decem. , her last. the belief of fa It seems to have been ee, ried the battle 'gin who unquestionably hur te be would not hoe' the utmost of his power, that . mo re sections into which it than two out of the three se . as had divided his arm y rshed that on the 20th to fight; but it is now estabai man evati:3l7l the last of Gen. Rosencra nz s the spot and put into the field, though it is believed that the whole Federal army was n ot up o n the 19th. The battle of the 19th was little more than a struggle for position, maintained by the Confede rates with a view to holding the ground W here they stood; undertaken by the Federals with a view of driving their enemy across the stream. I t resulted in a decided success for the Confederates, who not only held their own, but pushed their enemy a mile and half back. Two generals were specially distinguished during the day—Gen. Hood, who met e large flanking column of the enemy, by attacking it with his usual vigour, and driving it back in con and Gen. Cleburne, an Irishman by birth, and once a private in the English army, who, solely by his own merit, has risen to the rank of Major- General, and is • by many considered the ablest General of those belonging to Bragg's army as it stood befo re reinfo rce d by the troops from Virginia. Upon the occa si o n upon a formidable in question he made au attack and contributed position of the enemy at night fall,next day by the valubmaaiterially to the success of the ground which he occupied on the night of the Mi l e At II o'clock on the night of the 19th Gen. Long street reached the head quarters of Gen. Bragg, and was immediately put in command o f the left win of the Confed erate army. Of hisown corps, g orps, as it stood in Virginia, he had but three brigades under Gen. Hood , a nd two brigades under Gen. M,L „m: There were added, however, to his command the Buckner, includino. corps of Generalthe di v isions of Generals Preston and Stewart, and also, Outside of Buckner's command, the Bushrod Joh nston. tle (the same Which he General Bragg's plan of bat invariably pursues) was to attack along his whole line, commencing on his right and allowing the at tack to be taken np suecessively by division after division until it reached the extreme left. And here, according to General Bragg, commenc ed the disas ters of Sunday, the 20th. General Pose was ordered to commence the attack at daybreak ; he did not commence until about 9 o'clock. For this omission he, like General Hindman, is under arrest, await ing the decision of one of those many courts of in quiry to which these Western battles never fail to give rise. It is asserted that if General Polk had gained two or three hours in the morning there would have been enough light to reap the fruits of General Longstreet's victory before nightfall. It is hard in the light of several other incidents of the battle to credit this assertion. Shortly after 9 the battle began raging furiously along the whole Confederate sight, where fought Generals Polk, and D. H. Hill, and Breokinridge, and Cleburne, and many more, as gallant men as ever set squadron in the field. But here, coming, as I have, to the army of General Bragg, a stranger to its Generals and familiar only with the Army of Virginia, where I have spent so many pleasant hours, 1 must profess my surprise at ob serving the want of harmony and the utter absence of enthusiasm which prevails in this Western camp. ' It is not that the men are one whit less brave, or the Division Generals less able than those under General Lee; but, if I read matters aright, there is not at the head of this army that firm, mild, sa gacious, temperate wisdom, before which petty dif ferences are hushed, which daunts political intrigue and self-seeking, and which presents to every man, from the highest to the lowest, a living example of purity, unselfishness, and patriotism, before whose lustre all historical characters of modern times, ex cept, perhaps, Wellington and Washington, pale their ineffectual fires. To the merits of General Bragg, by no means inconsiderable, I am far from being blind. Bat it is no injustice to him to say that he never can inspire enthusiasm such as is wanted in a mighty and unequal struggle of this kind in either his officers or his men. That this Western Confederate army if subjected to the com mand of a General whose character is electric, as was Stonewall Jackson's, might become the rival of the army of General Lee I have no manner of doubt; bat in its present condition its choicest achieve ments will be, when engaged, level battles like Murfreesborough, or unimproved and unreaped victories like Chickamauga; and, when at rest, dis satisfaction. heartburning, recrimination, such as have never been absent from the Federal armies, will continue to sweep like pestilence through its ranks, and disqualify it daily more and more for bringing its work to perfection. The attack of the Federal right was a disastrous failure. The Confederates fought well, but by noon were so incontrovertibly repulsed that all fight ing ceased for many hours. In the meantime, long before the repulse of the Confederate right was confirmed, General Longstreet had commenced his attack on the loft. Steadily and irresistibly ad vancing, he swept away the head of every forma tion ; though often checked, and for the moment re pulsed, again and again he rode to the head of his troops, and, hat in hand, rising in his stirrups, with voice and gesture animated his men. The Western Federals are brave and hardy men, capable of being turned into as fine an army as ever shouldered mus ket, but it is no disparagement of them to say that they have been trained in a very different school, and are strung to deeds of inferior daring when put face to face with such troops as Virginia has sent to the west, under the leadership of such men as Gene rals Longstreet, Hood, and Jenkins. Never in this war has any General been found who was superior to Gen. Longstreet in the art of what is here called "putting in his men." I have repeatedly during this last 12 months seen English and Austrian and Prussian officers in the Confederate camp full of an ticipation that they were about to see brilliant and intricate manoeuvres, because Gen. Lee's name as a great captain has spread far and wide. But it has not taken long to convince them that the manipu lation in the field of large bodies of undisciplined men cannot be too simple. Manoeuvres in the face of the enemy, sometimes, though rarely, attempted by the Federals, have never failed to lead to disas ter. Having now observed upon many a battlefield the way in which the Confederates fight, I can attribute their almost invariable superiority in the field, and especially in pitched battles, gained as it has been in every instance by inferior numbers, to nothing so much as the method employed by Con federate officers in "putting their men in." From the very outset this has been for the Confederate army, from the highest to the lowest, a war of self sacrifice. Shirking danger, or avoiding hot places, or fighting a battle by deputy—that is, by means of orders carried to the front by staff officers, have been practices invariably eschewed by Gen. Lee and his right and left arms, Generals Jackson and Longstreet. Right in front in every battle rides Gen. Longstreet ; backwards and forwards along his lines unweariedly he circulates, the target at which thousands of bullets are aimed, of whieh not one has as yet ever struck him or his horse, observ ing where his men are wavering, and swiftly riding to their support, and carrying with him his weal known and inspiring presence, equivalent at the moment to a thousand fresh men. And here let me at once and finally state that from 11 in the morning until sunset Gen. Longstreet's onward career was not for more than intervals of a few moments arrested or delayed. Commencing with his line run ning north-east and south-west, he gradually swung round until it ran due east and west, and comprised within its control the main road to Chattanooga, and at nightfall, having described all but a circle, he found his lines again stretching almost in the same direction as in the morning, but with their backs turned at night towards the point, whither their faces looked at daybreak. It was shortly after the troops had gained the Chattanooga road that Gen. Hood, riding in front with his men, was struck by a minie bullet, which shattered his thigh bone four inches below the hip. I am happy to record that he is doing admirably, and has suffered less from the amputation of his leg than he did from the wound in his arm received at Gettysburg. He is believed now to be out of danger. The great and most momentous struggle of the Battle of Chickamauga was that which comprised its closing scene, and to which I will now devote a few words. I have said that by noon the Confederate right, vigorously repulsed in its onslaught upon the strong mountain positions and earthworks of the Federals, was silenced, and desisted for several hours from further fighting. Meantime the steady, ° o u t ward current of Longstreet's men could not be a imed, as they swept everything before them on the6enCso,nofeederate left, and compelled the attention of tettiots en o crane to his own flinching right. Hay itlieerftolea of Gen. Polk end the Confederates on the h a . wif . tly commenced moving troops from of the c ent l e a ti r e lght, aided materially by the inaction right. For up wards of two hours column after eo"lte ward, until txt. r a n of Federals streamed west watched their beeecthGen• Walker, who had long Seat to apprise Gen. Long street of a mov e , the mtt4gun.itude of which does not seam to have drawn 1111 or to have b een check ed. 1 1 3 t any notice from Bragg, Y ren ewe s u operations on hi s right. Immediatel y that this information reache d Gen. Longstreet h e thre w G en . B uc k ner forward W ith a battery ee 1 2 pieces, which opened upon the F e d eral h ea vily compassing the capture mg off its rear, and comp of 3 000 But b e fore the interfe rence F ederal prisoners.of Buckner l Federas had crossed. a large body of from their in the afternoon fac e d e ' to their right, and stand upon theG ene r a, Longstreet, taking t heir 515 and bluff termination of Miss iona ry Ridge, upon w h ich and breastworks , whi ch, they had thrown up as being their last stronghold south of the Chut e . nooga works, they held with the tenacity of despair, It was, I believe, about the same time that Gene rals Bragg and Longstreet met, or interchanged oommunicetions, this being, if I any no t mistaken, the only intercourse which passed bet Ween them during the battle. General Longstreet, alluding to the fact that all fighting had ceased on the Confede rate right, observed that if another division could be spared to him he could make excellent use of it. The answer of General Bragg is stated to have been, "Our troops have been disastrously repulsed on the right. Eve n you had any of theta you could get h e s sseudc suchh i mself troops a n s o furtherG en.fig h t L o n u n t g of s t r t e h e t e m then. ' a W dd it r to the task of driving his enemy from the final posi tion which he had chosen, and here the struggle became fearful. In the first place Kershaw, of M'Laws' division, attacked in front and was repulsed. A similar fate at first was encountered, though only for a brief season, by Gen. Hindman. It was at this moment that Gen. Longstreet directed Gen. Pres ton's fine division, most of it engaged at Chicka manga for the first time, to support Kershaw in front, while a portion of its numbers swept further round the hill, and took the enemy in flank. There are in this Western army two Kentucky generals, neither of them bred to arms, who have gained re putations which will outlive those of many of their military confreres—l mean Gen. Preston and Gen. Breckinridge. The history of the latter, previous to the war, is well known to all Englishmen who take an interest in American affairs ; nor is it likely that Gen. Preston, though less well known, will be forgotten by those who made his acquaintance when United States' Minister to Madrid, or during his visits to England. His bearing on the slope of Missionary Ridge, under the setting sun of the 20th of September, will, if ever the American war be comes really historical, rank with that of Dessaix recovering the lost battle of Marengo, or with any other famous deed of arms ever witnessed upon earth. Slowly and under a withering fire, one of Gen. Preston's brigades, commanded by Gen. Gracie, and fighting its first pitched battle, deployed into line. As ',they ascended the hill they reeled and staggered under the iron tempest which rent them, and Gen. Gracie, turning to Gen. Preston, exclaimed in agony, "We are cut to pieces." Calm as though he had seen a hundred fights, Gen. Preston replied, "You have not suffered half such a loss as my brigade sustained at Murfreesborough ; tell your men to fix bayonets, and take them at it again." The order was given, and nobly was it obeyed. Right up and over the slope they went ; their com rades swept up on the Federal flank; Hindman and Kershaw gallantly did their part ; simultaneously the Confederate right, long inactive, again advanced and drove the Federals, weakened by the reinforce ments sent to their right, from their works. The whole of Missionary Ridge was gained, and the Federals, in one long, confused, huddled mass, burst down the ridge, through the little village called Roseville, and along every other road and bypath they could find, and never stopped until they reached Chattanooga. One trophy of the desperate strife is proudly shown by General Gracie's: men—the flag of an Alabama regiment, pierced by 83 bullet holes, the flagstaff severed in three places, but carried to the last by the same colour-sergeant, who still sur vives to wear the honours and enjoy the commission which he has so nobly won. I have neither space nor heart to point out how this majestic victory—the work (as every Genera , of the many I have spoken to loudly avows) solely of General Longstreet—might, if General Long street had been in supreme command, have been converted into a " crowning mercy," Fresh troops upon the night of the 20th and morning of the 21st came up by shoals ; the Yankees had few works in Chattanooga ; if pursued they would not have stopped short of Nashville. It required only two unmolested days to give them fresh heart, as their fine position at Chattanooga, in the bend of the river, grew stronger and stronger while they lustily plied the spade, and General Bragg looked on from Missionary Ridge. Two days after the battle it was agreed unanimously by a council of war that the Confederate army should strike en masse in the direction of Knoxville. But scarcely had the Division Generals commenced the execution of this resolve, when couriers from General Bragg an nounced that he had changed his plan, and the army sat down, and has continued for nearly three weeks enveloping the town of Chattanooga and the reble Yankee lines which surround it. OCTOBER 9. The arrival this day of President Davis on a visit to the army of the West, the loud and scarcely sup. pressed murmurs which, whether deserved or not, disqualify Gen. Bragg from handling successtully generals and soldiers who have manifestly no confi dence in him, have led to a general anticipation of change in the command of this army. But, for the present, there are no immediate symptoms of such a change, or of activity in this army's operations. Many of your readers must be familiar with the beautiful view at Eberstein, in the immediate neigh bourhood of Baden Baden, up the valley of the Murg and over the forests in which it is by some supposed that the legions of Varus perished. Not by any means dissimilar, though far larger in its proper tions, is the view discerned from Lookout Mountain, which looms up on our left, and from which you look right down into the Federal works around Chattanooga. Far in the distance, like a silver thread, winds the sinuous Tennessee River, while from the rock upon which you stand, called Point Lookout, not more than 30 years ago the Indian savage used to watch his opportunity of attacking the flat boats as they descended the river—a wilder barbarian, but by no means a greater rascal, than the robbers of the Rhine, who 300 years ago watched from their eagle's nests and craggy castles, with a view to exacting toll from the boats that floated down the stream. I have seldom looked upon a fairer scene. The intense blue of the sky, the glowing tints of an American autumn, the brilliant atmosphere and vivid light, and in the far distance the peaks of a hundred noble mountains, some of them riven, or, as the French would say " tor mented," and twisted into gaunt shapes and pos tures, are such as to defy description. Then the effects of light and shadow, and the contrasts of colour are startling beyond anything I-have ever seen, because in Europe there is no mountain scenery which is lighted by such a sky and sun as are familiar to all in North America. Here the square, solid front of a mountain juts out in a flash of golden hue against the flank of another embosomed in woods and dyed in dark green and purple; there floating shadows, the reflection of casual clouds, scud across the landscape, until they have coursed away far out of view. Night falls, and a sight more full of a painful interest than any of nature's wonders strikes upon the eye. Two sections of a mighty nation, lately brothers, but now for ever divided by an ocean of blood, are lying in their long lines of battle, clutching the weapons with which they, seek to re new their envenomed and fratricidal strife, and marking by their camp fires the narrow strip of darkness which divides them from each other. And here, among these lovely mountains, in scenes from which a quarter of a century ago the barbarian was ignominiously " crowded ()lit," have civilised men come to boast their civilisation by imbuing their hands in the heart's blood of their brethren. It is not my impression, judging from the Federal camp and its tents, that a very large army of Federals is now lying before us. There are many methods by which a master of the art of war, such as Wellington, might force upon General Rosencranz an evacuation of Chattanooga, or impose upon him the necessity of attacking the Confederates in his front. But I will not enter upon this sub ject. Suffice it for the present to say, it is hardly probable that the inaction of these two armies can much longer continue. If General Bragg is dis placed, immediate activity on the part of the Con federates will, if I mistake not, be resumed. If the Confederate army continues to lie in its present attitude, General Rosencranz will probably attempt a diversion, by moving some portion of the large rein- L forcements which are joining him upon the left flank of his opponent's army. 't MRS. NORTON'S "LOST IAND SAVED" has been translated into. German by Frederick Seybold, and published at Leipzig. Hernitnan's Tea is choice and strong, moderate in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general preference. It is sold in packets by 2,280 Agents.LAnvxicris - c on Brant ‘., tatEr.ll—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— th Cotseanlrypetroacc e s t s h .— e o diseases are more trying to the i ns in tra ta ..c ?ra exhausting to the constitution than the ld, oto u caused by exposure to wet or the seat of suffering it will be only neces and Tic-doloreux are s e o . o lueaesdiately rub in Holloway's inestimable affected part with warm water, dry Ointment to obtai n Gout, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, relieved, and ultimately cured by the use of this unecr u ' a li purifying and aperitive Pill:ana et oa unguent, rae ea and tht e:n ea : by ada Hnsdhoolnlrotewlrvyaoryue' re gain parts soon•ceaLsnder this judicious treat ance. These remedies areginal n n i t Li t h t v h e:i i r u a n a f il a u t i i e ll e t r e a f d o l r feelingscuring Spinal diseases, l fomenter ) , , . ' a ie n d a airond Joints' THE SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN QUESTION, The following is the text of the protest commu nicated by the envoy of the Gratd Duke of Baden to the Federal Diet. The Gratd Dacal envoy is charged by his Government:- 1. To inform the Germanic Diet that the hereditary Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Hokein-Sonderburg-Au gustenburg has notified to the Graid Ducal Government the taking possession by him, as Dube Frederik VIII. of Holstein, of the succession created by the death of the King-Duke Frederick Vii., in the federal countries of Holstein and Lauenburg. 2. Considering that from the forger precedents brought to the knowledge of the German Governments and the high Federal Assembly an opposition to ;he legitimate right of succession in the federal countries of Holstein and Lauen burg may probably be raised in anther quarter, to make the following motion : May it please the Germanic Confederation to guarantee and protect the legitimate right of accession in the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, as well as the rights of the federal countries which are connected with this right, and which may be called in question in consequence of the change of reign which has taken place, and that without permitting that the said right of suczession be in any respect injured. _ To immediately deliberate with this object on the means by which, in case of need, the Germanic Confederation can defend and put in force the rights in question. The Grand-Ducal and Dud Houses of Saxony make this motion : May it please the High Federal Assembly to decree as follows : That measures be taken into consideration which, under present circumstances, shall appear opportune to it to gua rantee, in consequence of the change of Sovereign which has taken place in the kingdom of Denmark, both the rights of the countries which have hitherto formed with that kingdom one monarchy, and the rights of the Ger manic Confederation in their totality. These Governments adduce besides the following proposition : " That in no case will the High Federal Assembly, before a resolution has been taken by it on this subject, tolerate any act whatever by which the present King of Denmark would constitute himself, in presence of the Germanic Diet, Duke of Holstein and Lauenburg, consequently that and does not under the Diet appointed the H e r i g e h u m Assembly do admit does n a o n t e r n e c v o o g n y ts oe by the reigning King of Denmark for Holstein and Lauen• burg. The Governments of Saxe - Weimar-Eisenache, of Saxe-Meiningen, and of Saxe-Altenburg protest solemnly against every act of this kind. The aforesaid Governments believe themselves the more bound to formulate this protest as, for the present, and without prejudice to the eventual right of third parties, they acknowledge the hereditary Prince Frederic of Schleswig-Holstein•Sonderburp - A u gustenburg as legiti mate Duke, by right of succession, of the Duchess of Hol stein and Schleswig. The envoy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is charged solemnly to protect the rights of the very august House of Ernestine of Saxony to the succession in the D achy of Lauenburn and to make the following motion Whereas his Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha has recognised the hereditary Prince Frederic of Schleswig-Holstein, of the line of the Augustenburg, as Duke of Schleswig.Holstein ; and whereas, notwithstand ing this, the former envoy of the august deceased, Frede ric VII. of Denmark, Duke of Holstein and Lauenburg, has appeared in the Diet, the ducal envoy is compelled to solicit the dismissal of the Danish envoy, and to protest against his participation in the debates of the Diet ; and also in case another prince than the aforesaid Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein should raise claims to the succession in the Duchies, to propose to the Germanic Diet that the Confederation, by virtue of the obligations furnished in the fundamental laws, protest, and, if need be, put in force, by the necessary means, the right of Prince Frederic as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. The German papers received yesterday are busily occupied in discussing the affairs of Schleswig- Holstein, and contain opinions and narratives of occurrences drawn from all sources with a view of showing that the Duke of Augustenburg is the rightful heir to the Duchies. A few extracts are selected. The Frankfort Gazette of the 18th inst. save : At the commencement of the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day Dr. Stern moved the following resolution —" That the Legislative Assembly should urgently request the Senate to pronounce the recognition of the hitherto hereditary Prince as the actual Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg, and that this recognition should be most urgently brought forward and supported in the organ of the German Federation by the representative of the Free City of Frankfort at the Diet." Dr. Stern declared that the moment was now come when Germany should protect the recognised and undoubted right of the Duchies, or it must be given up for ever. Germany must fulfil its duty and protect these German provinces from usurpation. The Bund had never recognised the London protocol of 1852, and had no right to receive a representative of the protocol prince. It was the duty and the right of the Diet not only to disown but also to protect and guard itself against each opponent whom it did not recognise, and who might make an attack of any kind against it. If the Free City of Frank fort should make no motion, the Legislative Assembly must exert itself for a cause which each German recognised as a righteous one. Dr. Kugler supported the proposition, as it was the duty of each German to maintain the cause. This question would show whether German patriotism yet dwelt in the hearts of German princes. The resolution was una nimously adopted. At the sitting of the Diet on Saturday last many propositions were made and documents handed in, which, if they did not afford subjects for imme diate discussion, certainly increased the labours of the committee nominated upon the subject. From the banks of the Elbe we learn that the greatest interest is felt as to the further progress of events, and that an announcement of the intentions of Prussia respecting the recognition or non-recog nition of Duke Frederic is anxiously awaited. An Altona correspondent says : Private letters from Copenhagen state that the English and French Ministers Plenipotentiary urgently advised the King to sign the constitution for Denmark and Schleswig; but that the King was mainly induced to do so by the re presentatives of the chief of the police of Copenhagen, who declared that he could not answer for the peace of the city if the signature were further delayed. A letter from Kiel, of the 20th inst., says : Public feeling is much excited here, but no disturbance of the peace has hitherto taken place. On Wednesday many patriotic men from all parts of the country were pre sent here, and among them were many deputies and repre sentatives of the Diet. In the evening about 200 of these persons assembled, and made known that they were unani mously of opinion that the Estates should promote the here ditary right of Duke Frederic of Augustenburg, and should take steps in the right place to support the cause of the duke. The deputies drew up their proposition yesterday, and in the afternoon those not resident at Kiel left by the railway, saluted by loud cheers from their fellow members. During the day frequent conferences were held amongst small bodies of the representatives and deputies. From Hamburg we learn that the following ap peal was being circulated in the Duchies : Countrymen and Schleswig-Holsteiners,—lt has pleased God to remove our King .Duke from this earth. The King of Denmark, Frederic VII., is dead. Our legitimate duke is now the hereditary Prince Frederic of Augustenburg. The moment has now arrived in which the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein are legally separated from the throne of Denmark. Hold firmly to your rights. From Hamburg we also receive the following intelligence, dated the 20th inst : A meeting, comprising more than 1,000 Schleswig-Hol steiners, partly residing here and partly in the Duchies, as sembled here yesterday evening, near the Holstein gate, in order to discuss the questio ns affecting the Duchies, and to pass resolutions thereupon. Prevented from hold ing their meeting at the place intended, they repaired to another locality which was also near Altona, but here again opposition was offered to their assembling. They only gained their end by meeting in a third place, the Walhalla on the Uhlenhorst (before the Ferdinand -gate, near the Alster). The meeting lasted from 9 o'clock at night till 12, and de cided on the recognition of the hereditary Prince of Augus tenburg as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and afterwards telegraphed the resolution agreed upon to the hereditary Prince-Duke at Gotha, through the medium of the Coburg- Gotha Minister, M. Sam wer. The Berlin Allgemeine Zeitung contains the fol lowing letter from Stuttgardt, dated the 19th inst. The news from the north has created an extraordinary excitement here. The name Schleswig-Holstein still enjoys a popularity entirely its own, and public sympathy for the country is maintained, and even from Suabia similar evi dences are apparent. The recent events, which at least present the possibility of a favourable solution of the ditli cul.ies, have powerfully contributed to kindle this feeling, and now a ray of hope begins to shine again. When the manifesto of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein was made known yesterday evening by a supplement to the Swabian Mercury, a feeling of joy spread through the city. A meeting was immediately held, a committee was formed, and it was resolved that the People's Assembly should be convened for to-morrow, for the purpose of drawing up an address to the Government, requesting it to recognise the duke, and to take steps for supporting him at the Federal Assembly. In the meantime private circles are busy devis ing means to provide practical means for supporting the right of the Duchies. The Chamber, which meets on Wed nesday, will immediately proceed with the subject. It is etated that a meeting of the Privy Council took place yes- terday, and that a deliberation was held in reference to the Duchies, A declaration of the Berlin Diet is anxiously looked for. The National Zeitung of Berlin contains the following : It is stated in several quarters that a lively diplomatic correspondence is proceeding between the Governments of Prussia, Austria, and those of the German middle States on the subject of Schleswig-Holstein. Austria, as it is known, has already often striven against the maintenance of the Danish united kingdom, and Federal execution was only a means to this end. The German Duchies should maintain some such a position towards Denmark as Hun gary to Austria, or as Poland by the six points towards Russia. The officious press of Vienna at first, after the death of the King, indulged in sanguinary views. However, in the latest Vienna journals a certain alteration of tone is already perceptible, and with the incorporation of Schleswig, sanctioned by the new King of the Danes, projects hitherto supported by Austria lose all ground. The resolutions adopted by the Vienna Court will depend in an important degree on the attitude of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, from whom Austria cannot wholly separate in the discussion of this great national question. Bavaria, in respect of the Glucksburg line, has just experienced in an important de gree the value which the Great Powers will attach to their London protocol under certain circumstances. A Vienna correspondent of the Cologne Gazette asserts, however, that the Austrian Cabinet enter- tains totally different views. At a numerously attended meeting of the inha bitants of the second electoral district of Berlin the following resolution has been adopted : It is the imperative duty of the German people to take immediate steps for the establishment of the rights of the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, and especially so to act with respect to the National Representation and Governments, that these rights shall be forthwith practically promoted, even by the use of arms. The proclamation of Duke Frederic of Schleswig- Holstein has been posted in the reading-rooms of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies by the President of the Chamber, to whom the proclamation appears to have been forwarded directly. LAW INTELLIGENCE —Yesterday. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON V. THE GOVERNORS OF ST BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. This was an application with a view to raise and deter mine the question which has arisen between the corporation of London and the governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospi tal as to the right of the former corporation to the appoint ment of the Mayor as president of the hospital. The ques- lion arose thus :—ln 1861 Alderman Carroll died, and the late Alderman Cubitt, then Lord Mayor, was elected presi- dent of the hospital. He, as will be remembered, continued Lord Mayor (having been elected for two years) until November, 1862. He soon afterwards resigned his office as alderman, and his resignation of that office was accepted, and also of his office as president. In February, 1863, he was, however, re-elected President. During the re sidue of the life of that respected gentleman, the ques tion now raised arose, which was in effect a question be tween "donation governors" and the corporation whether the governors had a right to elect whom they pleased (from among their own body) as president, or whether they were bound to elect the Lord Mayor for the time being, or an alderman that had passed the chair; and it was intended to raise the question by quo warranto. The lamented death of Mr. Cubitt, however, prevented this, and created another vacancy—and, as the corporation and the donation gover nors deemed this a good opportunity for raising the ques tion in this court, it had been arranged that it should be raised by an application for a mandamus. On the occasion when Mr. Cubitt was re-elected president, the then Lord Mayor—Mr. Alderman Rose— was also a candidate. Notice was given to the governors that the corporation claimed that he should be elected, and that therefore all votes given _ . for Mr. Cubitt would legally be thrown away. Hence it will be seen that the present application was to the gover nors to admit Mr. Alderman hose to the office of president. The question turns upon the construction of the ancient charters and " orders" of the hospital (which were set out at length in the affidavit of Mr, Woodthorpe, the town clerk)—and it appeared that it mainly turns upon the "order" of the hospitals of King Henry VIII. and King Edward Vl.—viz., St. Bartholomew's, Christ's, Bridewell, and St. Thomas's, which ran thus : "First, how manye governours shal be elected; the maner of their election. The number of persons that shal governe the said iiii hospitalls shal be lxvi at the leaste ; and xiiii of them to be aldermen (that is to say),—vi gray clokes, and viii callabre with lii grave commoners, citizens, and fremen of the said city--and ii of the aldermen of the anncients gray clokes to be. governors-generall of all the said iiii hospitalls ; and other xii aldermen shall be divided equally to the iiii houses—that is to say, for every house iii aldermen, whereof one shal be a gray cloke, who shal be their president." The affi lavit of the town clerk stated that " gray cloke" meant an alderman who had passed the chair, or was Lord Mayor at the time; and that, from a comparison of the lists of presidents with the lists of aldermen and lord mayors, it appeared that since 1554, the date of the above order (which it was stated had never been rescinded) in a great number of instances the president was qualified according to that order, and that it did not appear that in any instance he was not so. Upon this affidavit, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C. (with whom the Common Ser geant, Q.C., Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Archibald), moved, on the part of the Lord Mayor and corporation, for a rule for a mandamus to the treasurer and governors of " the House of the Poor in West Smithfield, in the suburbs of the city of London, of King Henry VIII.'s foundation," commonly called St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to admit W . A. Rose, Esq., to the office of president of the said house. Sir Fitzroy stated the substance of the charters and orders, so far as they bore upon the question, and said that no question had ever before been raised as to the qualification of the preeidents being what the corporation contended. The re cords of the corporation had been diligently searched, and no evidence was discovered tending at all to throw doubt upon their claim. The Court granted a rule nisi. PARKINSON V. COPELAND. This was an action in the superior court to recover the sum of 98 3d, which was recovered, and the question now arose as to costs. There was an ancient rule that (except to try title) actions for sums under 40s ought not to be brought in the superior courts, as being beneath their dignity. Then the County Courts Act provided that, except in special cases, the plaintiff should not recover costs of suing in the supe rior courts in cases under £2O, unless under special cir cumstances, or unless the parties resided or carried on business more than 20 miles apart, and it has been decided that the act means "as the crow flies." In this case the affidavits were contradictory as to distance, but the plain tiff swore it was 17 miles as the crow flies and 191 by the road. There had been no application to stay the action, as beneath the dignity of the courts under the ancient ruie. There was, it appeared, a Lome fide dispute as to a larger sum being due, and the defendant had not applied to stay the action on payment into court of the small sum ultimately recovered. It was a case of contract, and so it was not within the old act of Elizabeth which gives a right to the judge to certify in actions for wrongs to deprive the plaintiff of costs in cases under 405., and for the same rea son the case was not within the last Common Law Proce dure Act, 1860, which gives a similar power in cases of alleged wrong under £5. Mr. Joseph Brown argued on the part of the defendant that he ought not to pay costs. It was, said the learned counsel, much to be lamented that, after all the legislation that had taken place upon the subject, the judges had not power to certify to deprive plaintiffs of costs in cases of con• tract or debt under 40s. Mr. Justice Blackburn observed that he had often wished that he had not such a power. Mr. Harington argued for the plaintiff that he was en titled to costs. There was a bona fide dispute as to amount) and the defendant bad not moved to stay proceedings on payment of the sum really due, but had chosen " to fight the matter out." Mr. Justice Blackburn observed that the parties would probably spend much more than the amount of the costs in fighting the question of costs. Had they not better agree to abide by the distance as measured on the Ordnance map ? Mr. Harington said he would agree to that, and he could find on that map the position of his own house. Mr. Justice Wightman said, judging from their affidavits the parties would not agree as to where their houses were on the map. (A laugh.) In such cases it was his practice to refuse the application for costs unless the plaintiff made it out very clearly that the distance was more than 20 miles. The Lord Chief Justice said the intention of the Legisla ture was that small matters like this should be tried in the county courts, and if parties chose to sue in the superior courts they must, in order to recover costs, make it out clearly that the distance was above 20 miles. In this case it was not so made out, and therefore the rule for costs must be discharged. THE QUEEN V. THIELWIN. In this case, at the last election of councillors for Bolton, Mr. Thirlwin was elected by a majority of one, for one of the wards. Mr. Welsby now moved for a rule for a quo warranto against him, on the ground that several of his votes were in the names of dead men. The Court granted a rule nisi. JORDAN V. GIBBONS.' This was an action against Colonel Gibbons for giving the plaintiff into custody for creating a disturbance in a house in which the colonel had lodgings. It was tried before the Lord Chief Justice in this court at the last sittings, and as it was not proved that the plaintiff had committed an assault or an actual breach of the peace, the Lord Chief Justice was of opinion that he was entitled to a verdict, as there:was no justification for giving him into custody, although there was for removing him out of the house, and the jury gave him -£2O damages. There was a motion for a new trial, but it was refused, as the direction was right ; but the Court granted a rule to reduce the damages, on which Mr. Kerslake , Q.C., no w appeared, and intimated that the counsel for the plaintiff had agreed to reduce the damages to £lO. Mr. Sergeant Parry, on the part of the defendant, con sented, and a rule absolute was granted accordingly. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Posh :—lt is not without sincere regret that the English Government is about to decline to give its adherence to the proposed European Congress. We cannot but feel that the purpose of the Emperor Napoleon was worthy of admiration, but at the same time it has not appeared to the statesmen of this country that the means by which he wishesiu c ,rry out his projects of peace would in reality elf_ct what he aims at. We objseted at the outset to a vague Congress, to be convened for indeterminate purposes. This objection has been met in the most candid spirit, and whilst the Cabinet of Paris naturally felt that it would be impossible to trace out a positive pro gramme, and to determine for the Congress what would is some measure appertain to its own deci sion, nevertheless it has been understood that pre liminary negotiations might be entered upon which could hardly fail to have the result of confin ing the deliberations of the representatives of Europa to pending questions. Thus it became evident that a Congress was to be summoned, not to recast the map of Europe, nor to attempt the solving of new problems, but to settle in a business-like way the mat ters which give rise to present uneasiness and menace us with future complications. With this intention the suggestion was thrown out that if the Congress could succeed in dealing with Poland, Schleswig-Holstein, Italy, and Moldo-Wallachia, it would amply fufil the aims which originated the proposition for its meeting. To practical minds in England this has seemed a scheme presenting too many difficulties for its realisation. Negotiation has already failed with Russia, and it is thought here that while we could say nothing more in Congress than we have already said in despatches, to which we have a final answer, it would hardly become us to meet her with the olive branch in our hand and no new re solution in onr heart, while she still continues her career of extermination in Poland and when her representative would appear with a sword still drip ping with the bloodshed we fain would arrest. If we turn to other questions other obstacles meet us. True, the state of Holstein is menacing, and the re lations between Germany and Denmark in much peril; but what could a Congress ef f ect that is not already secured by the treaty of 1852, by which the great Powers and many of the minor German States are already solemnly bound? If they do not observe its letter, all conventions are but as so much waste paper. Even the very States, Hanover and Saxony, which have lately been directed to carry out the Federal execution in Holstein, are parties to the Treaty of 1852, and by it obliged to main tain the rights of King Christian. If duty and honour fail to bind Kings and Governments, of what use is it to register in Congress Acts which could derive no additional value from that process ? If, again, we look to Italy, what can we effect there ? The Austrian would quit the assembled plenipotentiaries the moment the word Venetia was mentioned. Of what avail would it be even for a majority of the remainder to record their wish that the Kaiser should abandon his hold on that portion of Italy ? The wish would be as value less as if it were uttered by the Anthropological Society. A Congress could have no power to de stroy existing rights. Independent Powers would each in its own interest refuse to acknowledge a new and unheard-of despotism. No State would be safe if existing law were tampered with or ignored. And while Italy was treated of, sup posing Venice to be passed over, would King Victor Emmanuel be glad to see his limits per manently traced and all hope for the Queen of the Adriatic for ever shut out? Would he feel that any sanction of the Powers in Congress would give any useful validity to that ample recognition of his rights of which he is already in possession? Or would it serve any real or tangible end to record once more the profession of France that she is desirous to quit Rome ? VV hile it seems difficult to answer these questions in any satisfactory manner, still more hopeless does it appear to expect to attain any good result by meddling with and opening up the great Eastern question. Russia would gladly seize the opportunity of asking to be relieved from the obli gations she entered into in 1856, while she would pre fer endless accusations against the Porte, and seek to sow seeds of new troubles in every part of Turkey. Such are a few of the difficulties that are aroused in this country, and all that can be urged to dis miss them is, that by refusing to meet questions you do not dispose of them, and that it might be preferable to discuss, face to face, and to attempt to settle quickly, those affairs which must inevitably form the subject of protracted negotiations between Cabineteß On weighing the advantages of the course proposed against the disadvantages, the latter seem to English minds to weigh down the scale, and Ap prehension sways the balance against Hope Whilst, therefore, we admit the force and eloquence with which the Emperor advanced the scheme which his fertile and ingenious mind suggested ; whilst we concede that if high purpose and strict logic could rule the world, the proposed meeting might bring about great results, it strikes Englishmen that this new remedy will no: in reality heal old sores or prove a specific against new complaints. The Ministers of a constitutional country do not feel themselves justified in advising their Sovereign to send her representatives to a meeting which they regard as Utopian. We cannot blame them for this. It is a great responsibility to assent to a Congress which might only become the beginning of discord. And we must admit that though such a meeting, as in days gone by, may be necessary after a great convulsion, it is difficult in peaceful times to consti tute any other tribunal than that which holds its seat in the general conscience and finds its expo nent in public opinion. TIMES.—The mutual struggles between the Go vernors of St. Thomas's Hospital, the public, the united and divided parishes on the south side of the Thames, the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital, the Metropolitan Board of Works, and everybody who could get hold of a corner of interest in the matter, seem likely at last to have been finally decided. A general Court of Governors, held on Tuesday last, approved an agreement entered into by the Grand Committee with the Metropolitan Board of Works for the purchase of seven acres of ground to be re claimed from the river at Stangate, and the agree ment only awaits the sanction of the Court of Chancery to be finally settled. The public will pro bably think that the sooner this is done the better. A better site might, no doubt, have been found for the Hospital than Stangate. The course whica re commended itself to common sense was for St. Thomas's Hospital to remove to the site of Battle hem, and for Bethlehem to be removed into purer air and larger grounds in the country. Common sense, however, is not to be expect ed in Grand Committees, and the short-sighted rapacity of the Governors of Bethlehem made such an arrangement impossible. Failing that, and finding that public opinion would not allow them to indulge their singularly original project of a metropolitan Hos pital in the country, the Grand Committee must have been glad to find so good a site as Stangate at their disposal. They must, indeed, have had a troublesome time of it the last nine months. It would be interesting to know the feelings which are entertained by the Grand Committee towards the Directors of the South Eastern Railway Company. To be turned out of their old domain, and to be left to find seven acres in London wherever they could, and, worse than that, to be exposed to incessant petitions, remonstrances, and threats from the parishes of Southwark, to an infinite amount of all sorts of advice, and finally to be handed over to the tender mercies of the Metropolitan Board of Works —all this combined can hardly conduce to a state of benevolence towards its authors. Perhaps, indeed, the consideration may explain the otherwise unac countable fancy of the Governors for removing a London charity entirely away from London. They may have wanted to get as far away from the South Eastern Railway as possible. There is not much to complain of in the site they have at last deter mined on. In some respects it is even better than Bethlehem. We are hardly able to judge of it fairly yet, for, in fact, it hardly exists. We associate the side of the river opposite the Houses of Parliament with filthy mud-banks and smells the reverse of wholesome ; and it must be confessed that, as the Thames exists at present, its banks do not seem very eligible sites for a hospital. Bat it must be :e remem bered that we are steadily and surely fsesi k ng is river from its impurities, and when that r complished its banks will enjoy The pure air than can be obtained in any other - Board of Works contract with the Metropolitan m a greate r w v o s o it l e u . me of banked by Dec. 31, 1865; it wt built, and by r stipulates that the land shall be.lrlebceluasioimtm,eedti a m n e d a e ftt he e that before the new Hospital i s time it can be occupisdantdhetheneweindbaraniknmageentscohfetmhee o ught to be comp lete river considerably advanced. When those two works are successfully carried out there will be few sites so healthy or so pleasant. The river af f ords a cheap and easy means o f access to the Hospital, and the site of the new Hospital will be as co mplete a reproduction as possibl e o f t h at of t h e old St. Thomass at London bridge. As everybody except the Governors of Bethlehem wanted to get hold of the Hospital, it was to be expected that wherever the Governo rs went they would leave a train of dissatisfied c laimants behind them. It is not p S . r i O s a e v s eo'fs Southwarkdi s distric t therefore, that the ct to the site as " highly e t surprising, Boardob io Works and the other inconvenient to the ems poor of Southwark.' The y have to complain of. The new site will certainly not be inaccessible to the Southwark population, The thatauca from London -bridge to Westminster -bridge on the south side of the river is not at all formidable, and Guy's Hospital remains to answer the more immediate wants of the old neighbourhood. Besides, the city has grown to the west far more than to the east, it continuos to grow in the same direction, and it is not unreasonable that the Hospital should to some extent advance with the population. Indeed, the mere removal of the Hospital may prove an advan tage. Guy's and St. Thomas's were unreasonably near each other, and to separate them may very much increase their usefulness. Two large Hos pitals within a stene's throw of each other is too much for any neighbourhood, and, so long as Sr. Thomas's is no entirely dtvurced from its original purpose, it will be just as well that it should come within t he reach of the western population. The fact brought forward by a member of one of the deputations on Tuesday, that more out-patients have been treated at the Hospital during the time it has been at the Surrey Gardens than in any cor responding time of its old situation, seems to prove that it has been brought within the range popu lation which requires its help. The fact, how ever, only serves to show the advantage of re moving it from its old site, and throws no light upon the relative advantages of the Surre Gardens s ust and the Stangate sites. I t is very possibley that j the same result might have been arrived at if the Hospital had been removed at once to Stangate. The founders of our old Hospitals would probably have been astonished if they could have witnessed the public interest which has been excited a bout the removal of St. Thomas's. When they founded simple benevolent institution they could never have imagined that the question of its site would be hotly debated by all the parishes of Southwark, tha t it would engage the active attention of the public press, and would even be considered a knot worthy the interference of so great a divinity as the Home Secretary. But hospitals, like colleges, have become no longer private or independent establishments, but great public institutions, indissolubly bound up with the well-being of the community. Hospitals are now as necessary an element in our social orga nisation as courts of law and universities. With the vast increase of our population they have become absolutely essential to the general health, and if they did not happily exist by private munificence, it would be necessary to establish them by public authority. In short, they are institutions of a not merely charitable, but a necessary public use, that and the public, therefore, ha ve a ri g ht to expect they will be managed with the best possible regard to the general advantage. It is satisfactory that the governors of St. Thomas's have at least not disre -arded this claim. COUNTRY MARIUT S. COLCHESTER —Nov. 21... There was a fair supply of wheat to-day', and the er.. treme rates of last week were re alised ; for ex tan quality Iters per qr more money. Bar le y of fine q uality is per q uar dearer, but other sorts neglected and is cheaper. Beano and peas were sold slowly at late rices. Wheat, white 44s 50s Be p ans, Mazagan ... 280 32s red 40s 44s middle & small.32s 36s Barley .......32s 42s Peas, white ...... 335 s 38s 360 Oats . 20s 25s grey ...... 4a GLOUCESTER—Nov. 21. There was a plentiful show of English wheat to-day, and the demand was good. In some instance for fine sorts an advance of is on the currencies of last week was paid. Foreign wheat more in demand, and at the extreme prices of last week. For fine barley former rates were maintained, but inferior sorts were lower. Oats, beans, and pear: were unaltered. CHELMSFORD —Nov. 20. At this corn exchange to-day there was a moderate brisi ness done. The prices of las , week were is in advance- Ihe business is other articles was fair, and unchanged in price. Wheat, old white...3os 47s rem, Partridge.... 365 395 395 new ..44s 48s White 38s old red....34s 40s Boiling 39 s 41s new 38s 42s Dun 33s 365 Barley 27s 36 s D itto new .. —s - - s Chevalier 2Bs 39s Beans, Tick, old ..34s 395 Grinding 22s 315 new..—s - -41 Malt. 6ls 67s Harrow Ticks ..35s 403 Chevalier . 64s 69s new..—s - -4 Oats 20s 28s Mazagan .......303 383 KIRKCALDY GRAIN Nov. 21. We had large supplies of all descriptions of gra in at our market to-day, which sold freely. Wheat is and oats 6d per qr higher than the rates of last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....33s Od 25 s 6 d 15s Od Second .. 35s Od 2 7s Od 16s 6 Third.... 385 Od 305 Od 195 Od COAL .ARKET. the Mose of the market. Prices of Coal per Ton a s. d. Eden Main l7 0 Hastings Hartley l6 0 Lambert's West Hart -15 9 ley Byass's Bebside West Hartley ...1G 0 Wylam l7 0 s. d. Walls End. Riddell l6 9 Triindon Hartlepool 18 0 Braddyll's lietton 17 9 Ships at market ;Walls End. Haswell l9 0 Cassop.., l7 9 Caradoc lB 3 Kenos .. . l7 9 Gosforth .....••••••16 6 Hartlepool .. 18 6 Illetton l9 O Reugh Hall ... . l7 9 17 9 South Kelloe.. ....... East Hartlepool. 1 8,, u n South Hetton .. ... w t, 73 ; sold, 41. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Dec. 1 , 9 * via Marseilles Dec. 10' brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Dec. 4 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dee. 2. via Marseilles Nov. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 2 6 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SouthamPton Dec. 2, v i a Marseilles N ov. ov. 2 ' ' N ,,• ' India (Bombay), via Southampton .. via Marseilles Dec, Dec. 4. Portugal ,;'",.. '' Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Nov. " via Marseilles Nov. 27. Newfoundland ..Nov. 25* Oporto and Vigo . .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Nov. 25. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet.NoV. 27. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Dec. 10 . B a h a mas, via New York ' Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru' Dec. 28 . C a lifornia. and British Columbia. THE SUPPLY OF BULLION IN THE BANE 191 ' FRANCE still continues to decrease, the loss since the las return was made up being about £300,000. Heavy ship' ments of specie have been made from Marseilles to Indi a and Egypt. ADVERTISEMENT.] —Avoi d medicines: they always 4;0 3- vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Hea Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty tiraeo its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring' perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver. pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energi to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few ou t of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 68,216 of the Marchioness & Brehm. Paris, of a jiver complaint, wasting away for seven years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all over, bs 4 digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerable nervollis agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many year ? dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable a., from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipitto ° : flatulency, spasms, sickness, and yomiting.—Maria JOY. , —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley , Surrey, thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange '• ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, jlo: sTp.icriarats,pabnedlln,errakvornhfaanmc,iNeso.rf—oCucur,e,,Noto.ins4di,7ettiTlohnte ltev t . 1. : Medica l]) r and t2 e a s t m ; e° 2 17 41 b " dity of the liver, which had resisted all In tins, 1 lb., 28. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 1". ; 12 " ea IN.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No . 77, iteg also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers t-street and Chemists LondonLs ; every town of the United Kingdom. Births. of ar t. of daughter. satton sTRAcuv CUMBERLAND.-011 the 2 2 d inst., at wolver's Deane , w if e of Major G. B. Cutaberiand, late 424 Hants, Eßdoywaal Edward the sigthrlr.— On the 21st inst., at Clift on , th e w if e a sic Court, of a son. spvicEn ,—On the 22d inst., at Northfleet, the wife of I' ' Spencer, Esq., of a son. TAYLOR. —On the 224 inst., at 54 ' IT laareyer, s, B a pper Berkeley-st reet, t h e wife of J. L. 1..)u Plat Taylor, Esq., of a son. Kaniages. ch CANNING—GUNK. —On the 19th inst Cl 3 , at the parish chor u of Hampstead, G eorge T rexc h ard Cann i ng , Esq., 11rbl Somerset, solicitor, to Elizabeth Bithia, younger d atls ter of the late Rev. George Gunn. l'of WpatAm—DAYlDs oN .—O n t h e 19th i ns t., at St. -0 Knightsbridge, the Rev. Daniel Winham, M.A. il l° ~ of bent of Erid ge , S ussex, to Eli za . youngest daught e Walter S. Davidson, E sq ., o f L o wndo. square. Deaths. Corrix.—On the 22d inst. at his brother's residence, 41,1 Prince's-gate, Hyde-park, William Coffin, E 6e l l 6ge 73. CRAKE.—On the 22d inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Segt 11°40, Crake, Esq., of 10, Stanhope-street, Hyde-park-Pl' aged HARRISON.—On the 23d inst., at Stanhope Lodge, We°. ford, Stephen Harrison, Esq., aged 33. l'iLcu.—On the 19th inst., at Broadstairs, Lieut. Pilch, a Naval Knight of Windsor, and who serv e ' Nelson's Fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, aged 71. RosKELL.—On the 22d inst., at Brompton, bliss Soak R.I.P. Scom—On the 21st inst., at St. Leonard's -on-Sea/ Sir' Francis Scott, Bart., of Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire aged 39. London : Priried and rublished Dy WILLIA/tIANDU,' of No. 112, Strand, printer , at TUE SUN OfficeNg. " "4 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the COl/30: bliddlesex.--Tueaday, November 24, VA.