The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-14 00:00:00

KONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is no alte,,,ation in the Discount Market to day, the rates b' si ng firm and the demand rather active. The impo rts of specie during the week have amounted to, £742,500, and the exports to £970,000. About £93,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Directors of the Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool have made a call, of £5 per share, payable on the 15th proximo. It transpired yesterday after noon that Messrs. Pilkin,,gton Brothers, Arnericar, merchants, had sue. pendvid payment. Their liabilities are estimated at £40,000, but no reliable opinion can be formed with regard to tha assets, w . nich are dependent upon re mittances from übror,d. Two o'CLocx. At Paris, day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were 89f. 90c.—Fiy.m. The Engli s h Stock Market to-day has undergone very little change, and business has been exceed ingly in e.eive. Some support is given to prices by the infil.ux of gold into the Bank of England. Con sols are 924- 4 for money, and 92Z for account. The New T.iree per Cents. and the Reduced are steady at 901 ; Exchequer Biils, 34 dis. to par ; India Stock is firm at 227 and 228 ; and do. 5 per Cent., 1088 A fair amount of business has been negotiated in the Pore:lgn Market, and prices show no important change. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 68 Q ; 18132, 681 to 694 ; Egyptian are 96- 4 1 97, and the second issue 96 4--; Greek Bonds have improved to 2131 21 ; Mexican 31 ; Italian are 693 ; Spanish Passiv e 26/ I; end Wriczuelan 6 per Cents. are very heavy at 574 58, In the Railway Share Market there has been 'very little animation. North British, owing to the tintavourable dividend declared, has receded about £1; while Midlands and South East' rns have each declined ss. ; Grer.t Westerns, South 'Westerns, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln improved B s. The other lines dealt in were without material change in values. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were flat. Paris and Orleans realised 441; Great Western of Canada, 121; Great Indian Peninsula, 1051 , • Eas t Indian, 106 4 ; and Punjaub, 104. Joinr.Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares ex hibited little variation. City Bank improved to 94 ; London and South African declined to 266; sank of Australasia, to 831, I, and Electric Tele graph to 100. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent loB} it Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 51 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 1004 D tt,, Bonds €l,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO Consols for Account, April 8 924 4 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent..., par Ditto Small 3 die FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent 93 Egyptian 7 pet Cent 96k 7 64 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup•ms 204 1 201 Ditto Coupons Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 711 Mexican 3 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent Ditto Deferred Peruvian 41 per Cent. .......... ,• • • • • Ditto 44 per Cent ~ 1862 ... . Russian 5 p er C en t., 1822, £St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Scrip, £65 16s. paid 4 die Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Turkish 6 p er C en t. 1854 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 18.,2 Ditto Account 6 93 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1852 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 631 i t TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money I)itto Account The Danish Residents in London. Ou Tnursday night a number of Danish gentle ten) mostly residents of London, sat down to din ner at St James's Hall, to celebrate the marriage of th e Prince of Wales with the Princess Alexandra 1) t DL'utn3rs. Toe hall was tastefully and appro priatety decor ttcd. lii the background over the etiaittnan was seen the Danish arms enframed with White and red roses; on the right side the Danne b.„.rag, or Danish flag, and on the left the Prince o f Wales's banner, both surmounted by the feathers and falling over a group of union jacks. At the Bides of the hall the busts of the royal bride and bridegroom were surmounted by two large A's in White and red roses, and festoons of roses crossed f rom Walt to wall. Among the company, numbering about 100, were :His Excellency M. de Bille, the Danish Minister; "' l r. A. Westenholz, the Consul- General ; Captain Castensebjold, adjutant to Prince Christian; Cap tain Lund, R.A., adjutant to Prince Frederick; Lieutenant Funck, R.N., tutor to Prince William; Mr. Nelthropp ; Messrs. Delcomyn, Simonsen, bronsund, and Gosch, attached to the Danisn Em -13488Y ; and the Rev. E. Magnusson. The stewards were Messrs. C. Moller, J. H. Lundt, F. Fabricins, Chr. Lange, and S. E. Holten. His Excellency M. de Bille took the chair, and Was supported by Mr. C. Moller, the senior Danish merchant in London, and Captain Castenscbjold. After the cloth had been removed, 11 -is EXCELLENCY rose and said—We are here assembled to celebrate the union of the Prince of W ales and Princess Alexandra. There is, I am s ure, no one who more rejoices at this happy union than his Majesty King Frederick VII. It is a union Which still closer connects our dear Denmark to a country to which we look up with admiration and aff ection. It places the Crown on the compact of f riendship which for so many years has existed between England and Denmark. I again repeat thu no one can feel more gratifies at this union than our most gracious Mr:jesty King Frederick, the rather of hi s peop l e , to w h om be gave a privilege so l ong enjoyed by the people of Englaudi—that of governing themselves. We, the Danes, will there fore ever gratefully remember him, and I am sure of the full sympathy of tne present assembly when I prop ose " L ung li ve F re d er i c k VII." May he live long Nine thundering hurrahs followed this speech. . 1? HAYMARKET TIIEATRE.— The benefit of Mr. ‘i ' vi lde is ~no, s uriced for Thursday next at this t heatr e where the respect in which he is held, for the lo ng and able conduct of arrangements relating to the com fort of the audience will, we have no dcubt, ensure him the 13atrc'unge of every class o f playgoers. The established aliularity o f " O u r Am. rican Cousin" and " The Little ,ret easure" is priucipaliy relied up on for the occaslen ; whilst t here will be th e s peciality of Mr. sothern's a pp earance in ' NY ° characters, that gentleman having unoertakeu th e p art ct. Ca tain Walter 11laidenblush in the last-named piece. Th e Spanish ballet of the " Galicia. Fete" wilt conclude the evening's performances. WOODS AND FORESTS.—Toe aCCoulits for the Year ending M treb 31, 1862, show th it the tricotnt of th e l and revenue amounted to Z 3 6 9 ,918, and the expen aiture to £ BO3O , whereof L 13,193 was for rates and taxes, £ 28 ,423 for repairs and improvements, and £7,218 for re clamation and improvement of portions of Delamere forest. T he receipt from Windsor forest and parks amounted to £6,081 , the expenditure to £21,913. From the other R o yal forests and woodlands the receipt was £11,440, and the "Peuditure upon them £32,654. The balance left in hand at the end of the year being smaller than at its beginning, the sure of £295,000 was paid over to the Exchequer as earplug income —in the year before it was £290,568. P. is riot all available surplus, because there is to be set against tan annual vote of about £26,000 for the expense of the " 14 of Woods and Forests and the Landed Estates Re cord-ogee. ARRIVAL OF COTTON FROM MATAMORAS.—Yea terday the screw steam ship cotton. Edward Hawkins arrived in the Mersey from Matamoras, with a cargo of 800 hales of BRITISH POs-;EssioN , . ciosin •har, gal !wave Pap , . Price. isusineiss don 100 [ tiantic &St LawrefiT. 61 14 jo , Itom.,Baroda&.Cent 10. , I 104 05 1044 5 Gu. 5 per cent.. ...... 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. 5 I. e P Ai Balla io And LaNCllurou 0 4 4 14 10 Do. Preference ...... all 70 8 too Buffalo,Brant,StGodrich to n g o / 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 73 76 100 )0. do. Jou, 1, 1.•.,74 100 73 76 st flcutta...,r.S.Easti/.:1,' ) 100 103 105 st 'apeTown .(z Dock Scrii 100 US 109 stock Eastn. Bengal gm. 6p. t 100 106 I. 7 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 10" 1064 1061 1064 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 5 4 10 20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 1 OP stock Grand Trunk of Canada 104, 204 !i# 100 1(0. Ist Pre , . Bonds.. all 65 67 65 100 Do. uo. deferred...... all 5 0 53 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonus.. all 57 59 100 Do. do d fer ed...... all 44 s 6 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... all 40 44 100 Do. do. d -ten*. d...... all 34 33 100 Do. 4th Pref. s o k... all 2i 28 100 Do. do deferred.— all 22 24 stook Gt.lndiaPumu.g - ua.sp.c lo 100 1054 iO6 1 51 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 4 1 I 5 1 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 # 1 p stock Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 102 104 1034 201 Gt. W. (A Canada Share: all 124 43 124 204 Do. New .. ....... 18 74 74 lot 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 100 102 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 93 05 921 3 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 14p 3 stock Madras guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1034 tut 1031 stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 96 98 stock Dc. 4. d 0........ 100 13 ; 5 95 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock ilelb.Corp. 6p. 0. Bnd, 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 49 61 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. al' 40 N..w Br unswioa [s Cana class A en 1 B all 3 6 N,ltl.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds 100 83 15 d+ock B D e o i . nd D e ellii • • (00 06 107 I 100 o'4 105 1044 st i Do. do •• • ' 4 ,c• / 2 4 ,(1) 20 , )o. Punjaub .... tx c 1 V sr ........ , ICO 1041 101 00 k Indus. St. Pio.) 98 41 /0 994 , I,ON AI, \ -.0 •Ai KN - 1677-Si I Do. 6 P.C. Feb. &A u 100 I , 5 (1 - Do. 6 p.c.Mar.,lz Sep/ 100 :45 0.7 p. o. Jan.&July. 08 974 84 74 Do. 6 Inscribed stoce too 05 P 7 ApeG.Hope, p e,187: b., [ cc) li Do.Ap St Oct. 18••4 10. , ti 3 115 1)o. ISO ;.,' 114 6 .Do. Jan. & July, 1841., 100 112 .14 -- Ceylon. N0v.18 4 /.. 6 p 10 Bins a uer cent .. .00 110 112 - Naol.. G.N. 6 per cant. 150 /1 111 --• 0 p.c../ [O6 iO7 uo. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 14 . 4; , - - IN. S.W. ov. 5 p c.,18 • 100 101 101 -- I Do. sp. c.,1871 to I. .4 10f , 1001 101 Do. d0.,1888 oittly)Wdb 10(: 0 0 10J I 104 0 11 N 112 IN- NocwvaZsecaoltaiaGond6vp. 6p. 11u - 1 - ster;ing, 1875 OO 1061 1074 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 1 113 - •S.Atp. (10p.c.1876.& up.. 10 , _ , '1 "13 !Vlc.Gov. 6, p.c. Ja..t.,Jul) 1u LOB 110 Do. 10 60.0 Azi.,aool lOO 1114 1114 1114 1 •-; If 1T1: , “1 N ES. El ell Cambrian Con sol. Gold +_,htioru Amalgamated.. Devon G. Cone,. East Bassett( Mogan .. East Clogau Gold Ltd. l East Caradon lEast Carn Brea... W 1 Russel (Tavisti,.. Gam..k.St.Aubyr(Gwen.) 11reat South Tolgus.... i. Wheal Vor (Helstoil Grenville Herod's- Li ingston Downs Lady Bertha Niargaret (tiny Lelant NI arke Valley.. Nlyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) • New Setun .. north Downs ,Will Basset (Mu ;an forth Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey ttovidenoe (Uny South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Carn Brea (Illogan) .Wheal Fran. (Mogan; Stray Park Tamar Silv.,t Lead Min. l'in Croit West Basset (Illogan) W Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan,' Wheal Bulleratedruthi Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) l WhealLud ott Wheal MaryAnn(Men )1 Wheal Seton heal Tretawney (Lis.) Wheal Union 3.c.n 7.19.0, 17e 4U 0.15. , 4..7.0 2.0.6 94 4.3.0 2. 101 id p 21 23 530 540 80 83 id p 14 15 gi 44 5 16 18 Ot 7 74 5i 6 46 48 24 3. 2.4.9 IA 10.0.% 111.1,9 28.9. 45 41 2.0.8 2.10.8 4221 brt in neck ; Little h. 100 r) w•o• idicap nd a" cite) 1 41b in.) 2 ,ptiont 100 to terou- king a er at a ;re the jug up a mile ght 1)9 Rhea -1 Ana nd the inning n g the aids) 1 den) 2 dall) 3 ;, 5 to 1 I of the rnately le from engtb EL Ile Win- regre t be re' hat ru th, Pt“ 4 hold' )elievae a dvatt - I won t ‘ •evailed, in ever/ wo uld n kuowil in that O W it jo rpose of was 01° ^SitiVe l l mid se e ' )f events neunee d the last L y of his t ou the OMeil °Vl of no ?ill with our iing last done - 80 ' t i e d to 0 idaY we notni ll9 ' rum S e ': [own ant -- 0 31 give To nothing Uu Su n. iud 0 . 1143 ; k to a DO' Le had 1 ,, ° ,table t i nfor, 010 t Wit 10 et 3.llo4et"eci elf th ree out I,°o-° f ° f a vo_ 11(18' 3 GL 6 ich en erec- - e I t he fl 6 ,traielici t r e lo ; .8 1 013 9 t i t l e uioll Br-1 !: •who pr?„, cero rafic i ; a s arres t° : one ms lair dill' SHARE T S This Day. Share Railways. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. 'Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork min Bandon Corn W I A :refs no div I Do A Do. B til l hp c.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June.l Dun.,Perth,& Ab. Juno. ;Edinburgh & Glasgow. Great and t l o a A s t e s r t n o . ,cko Western.,rd. stk , Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland "Great Northern ...... ; Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an i W. of Ireland ,Great Western I Do Str Val gua. stock, 'Lancashire & Yorkshire' London and Blackmail Lou. Bright.,& S. Coast Lou. Chat., and Dover! Lou.' & North Western "Lon. & Sonth Western! IMan., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares ;Mid Kent Do Cray Line 'North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee 'Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase I Do Leeds Do York 13.14. 1 all all all 100 8 84 7 6 86 88 116 117 all all all all 6j 7f 40 42 13 14 88 20 107 109 49 50 46 48 241 25} 121 123 120 122 13-1 136 101 103 at 661 lust IC9i 73 ;4 1H 115 39 41 981 0/1 10 1041 414 45i 131 13a 124 124 i la lap 94 96 50 52 24 26 981 98,7, 551 561 67} 8;f Do Carlisle North London I Do New 114 116 1 16 1i I'l 'I 121 123 44 45 ICO 10. t 50 51 a 34 92 92i 68 G 9 100 100 100 100 100 ; - - all 7 8 all 3? 38 15 ' 9 10 , 8 7i 8 lOU 139 151 8 4i 5 3 43i p l all 20 p 5i 100 j 80 84 100 150 160 100 100 28 SO 100 100 Oa 42i 100 35 37 100 v 8 100 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOub 1161 491 I 1201 661 6 i 108; 73} 45} i # 51 501 1 981 92f I p a id: Closing i Busine!. Price. idone 131 14 13f 124* 4 )1 P North Staffordshire and S. W. Junotion t ;Scottish Central , Scot N. E., Aber. stock st I Do Sc , Mid. stook 10 'Shrews. and Welchpool st ;Shropshire Union gl ;South Devon at South Eastern St South Wales -4 S. York. and River Dun 20 Istaines,Wok.,andWok t 6 Stockton & Darlington 26 Do 25 Do New, 1860 •4 Taff Vale.. . 10 Do B 10 ' Do C 'Ulster Do 12.10 ' Do at IVale of Neath at ,Victoria sta. and Pim at rWaterford & Kilkenny at West Cornwall st INV. Hartlepool Har..l&RJ ,t !West Midland Oxford' , t Do Newporc Do Hereford 14 1* 36 81 9 1 135 14 1 5 21 3i 4 4 1 5 41 4* 5 0 12 403 415 3 4 90 9 5 37 39 I 1 19 20 121 33 35 13 i 265 275 70 75 62; 6711 7 S 71 71 154 16 115 255 17 18 5 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed, 854 Great orthern, 5 per cent., red, at 5 per cent.prem.,lo3 Gt. Western (Berke & Hants Ext.), 44 per cent. red., 99 North Staffordshire, 221 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 8 per cent., 11 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Namur and Liege, llf. per annum, 81 Paris and Orleans, 441 Sambre and Meuse, 10; FOREIGN MINES. East del Rey (lira.), 11 Port Philip, if Scottish Australian, I ; St. John del Rey (lim.), 574 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 4 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia, 84 Bank of Egypt, 271 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 94 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 22 City, 94 Eng., Scot., and Australian Chartered, 20i London. B. Ayres, and R. Plate (lim.), 124 London and Colonial (Urn.), 3f London and Count), 411 London Joint stock, 5a h; London and South African, 264 London and Westminster, 77 National Provincial of England, new, 341 Ditto, new, Oriental Bank Corporation, 58 Ottoman Bank, 414 Sciude, Punjaub, and Delhi 3 Union of Australia, 52 Union of London, 34 MISC EL LANEOUS. Electric Telegraph, 1014 100 • Great Ship (Um.) l 7 per cent. pref., 1 Italian ,t,on (Canal Cavour), Joint •sto, k Discount, 21 Madras Irr.gation and Canal, 34 North British A ustrataeian, f Or ental Gas Peninsula and iental Steam, new, 441 4 . .5 Royal Mi.il Steam, fit. 60 Scottish Australian Investment (lim.), 1414 EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—The pre mises of Mr. Myers, jeweller, Market-place, Sheffield, were on Wednesday robbed of watches and jewellery to the amount of about, £2,000. No trace has yet been got of the obbers or their booty. A superb dinner service in Severe porcelain will, in the course of a fortnight, be presented by' the Emperor Napoleon to the Princs and Princess of Wales, and a colossal vase in the same material has been ordered for them by the Empress. This vase will be adorned with two large portraits of their Imperial Majesties, and small medallions of the other members of the imperial family. A Gobelins carpet will also be included in the presents. CHARGE OF WATCH STEALING.—A young man named George Cross was this morning charged, at the Thames Police-court, with stealing a watch, the property of his brother Charles. He had frequently been forgiven for other robberies. lie was remanded, 4.18.4 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1863. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Resistance iron frigate, Capt. W. Chamber- Lain, sailed from Spithead at 3 p.m. yesterday for Devonport. The Warrior iron frigate, Capt. the Hon. A. A, Cochrane, C. 8., sailed for Devonport from Spithead, at 4 p.m. yesterday, after the return of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to Osborne in the Fairy yacht, from accompanying the yacht Osborne out to sea with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia on board for Antwerp. Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G and Staff were entertained last evening at dinner by the ward-room officers of his flagship, Her Majesty's ship Victory, on entering upon his duties as naval l Commanderin-Chief of the port and district. Twenty 110-pounder breech-loading Armstrong guns have been delivered at Sundown, Isle of Wight, with a corresponding supply of shot and shell, for the armament of the Yaverland, Redeliffe, and San down barrack batteries, all new works, and a de scription of which has already appeared in the Sun. A notice has been affixed at the entrance gates to Chatham dockyard announcing that on and after the Ist of April next no volunteer will be enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve who is above 30 years of age, to be ascertained by certificates of birth or baptism. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—E.Rivers, chi-f engineer, to the Asia for the Melpomene, when the latter is paid off; R. Allen, chief engineer, to the Asia for the Imperieuse, when the latter is paid off; J. Crew, W. J. Wise, T. E 'Williams, T. B. Jordan, Henry Rawlings, and Frederick Earnshaw, assistant engineer, to the Rattlesnake on the Coast of Africa, as supernumeraries; the Hon. Rothwell J. B. Wil loughby has been nominated to a naval cadetship; Edwin J. Jackson and William Terry, master's assistant, to the Nile. MARKETS—This Day COVENT ARDEN. To-day's market was seasoi duce. Most kinds of fruit rul tables met a slow sale. aably well supplied with pro led firm as to price, but vege- FRU 5. d. s. d. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 01 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 10 0 to 12 0 N'oreign do 1 0 to 2 0 Melons ... Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 6 to 4 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 3 6 to 8 0 Lemons, per 120 3 6 to 7 0 Gooseberries hf eve° 0 to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 S. d. a d Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 1 bto 1 9 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto u 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0 _Damson . . 0 0 too 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 rpt 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per do. .. 0 oto 0 0 G R r a e s e p n b g e ag rri e e s s , , p p r do. 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Shallots, per lb .. 0 Bto 0 8 Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 0 Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 0 Red ditto 1 6So 3 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 0 9to 1 3 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 6 Cauliflowers, pdzlo to 3 0 Beet, per doz. 00to 0 0 Brocoli, per bun. 0 Bto 1 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 100 to 150 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr pnt 1 oto 0 0 Mushrooms.p ptl. 0 9to 1 0 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 01 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6 Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers 0 oto 0 0 Mint and savory.. 0 oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, h.-sv. 0 oto 0 0 , Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 1 6to 2 61 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 6to 1 9) Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0' Rhubarb, per bun 0 4to 1 0 French beans, h.s. 0 ot o 0 01 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 OSo 0 01 Seakale, per bun. 0 9to 1 6 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s Od to 10s Od ; geese, Os Od to Os Od each ; goslings, 5s Od to 8s Od ; ducks, is 6d to 3s ('d ; ducklings, 38 6d to 5s Od; rabbits, is 3d to 2s each; wild do., 10d to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 10d to is Od each; Surrey fowls, 8s Od to 12s oel_,- chickens, 6s Od to 8 s Od ; b arn -d oor fowls, 4s Od to 7s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; ptarmigan, is 6d to Os each ; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, 3s 6d to 4s ; snipes, Os to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od • wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, is 6d to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, 4s Od to 7s Od each; Ostend fresh butter, lld to is Id ; English, is ld to is 5d per lb ; English eggs, 9s Od to Os Od ; French do., 6s 6d to 75 6d per 120 ; leverets, 3s Od to Os Od each. AMERICAN DESPATCHES. SPA:joined are some of the most interesting of the recently printed despatches on Anurican afLirs. The following contains Earl Russell's views on the famous proclamation EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS. Foreign-office, Jan. 17, 1863. My Lord,---The proclamation of the President of the United States, enclosed in your lordship's de spatch of the 2d inst., appears to be of a very strange nature. It professes to emancipate all slaves in places where the United States authorities cannot exercise any jurisdiction, nor make emancipation a reality; but it does not decree emancipation of slaves in any States or parts of States occupied by Federal troops, and subject to United States jurisdiction, and where therefore emancipation, if decreed, might have been carried into € ffeet. It would seem to follow that in the Border States, and also in New Orleans, a slaveowuer may recover his fugitive slave by the ordinary process of law, but that in the ten States in which the proclama tion decrees emancipation a fugitive slave arrested by legal wai rant may resist, and his resistance, if successful, is to be upheld and aided by the United States authorities and the United States armed forces. The proclamation, therefore, makes slavery at once legal and illegal, and makes slaves either punishable for running away from their masters or entitled to be supported and encouraged in so doing, according to the locality of the plantation to which they belong and the loyalty of the State in which they thqy happen to be. There seems to be no declaration of a principle adverse to slavery in this proclamation. It is a measure of war, and a measure of war of a very questionable kind. As President Lincoln has twice appealed to the judgment of mankind in , .his proclamation, T ven ture to say I do not think it can or ought to satisfy the friends of abolition, who look for total and im partial freedom for the slave, and not for vengeance on the slaveowner.—l am, &c., • (Signed) RUSSELL. The second series of despatches contains the cor respondence between Mr. Mason and Lord Russell, in which the former is constant in his endeavour to induce the British GovernmEnt to break the blockade, and recognise the Confederacy. Earl Russell's replies are most cautious, and chiefly confined to the acknowledgments of the receipt of the letters addressed to him. With regard to the mediation talked of last year, Mr. Mason writes as follows : On the 24th of July, Mr. Mason addresses a letter to Earl Russell, summing up briefly an d f orc ibl y the claims of the Confederacy to recognition, and at the same time proposes a personal interview with the English Foreign Secretary. This interview being declined, on the Ist of August Mr. Mason repeats his arguments— In January of this year, Mr. Mason remonstrates with the English Government respecting their views on the question of the blockade. We sub join Lord Russell's answer. EARL RUSSELL TO MR. MASON. Foreign-office, Feb. 10, 1863.. Sir,-1 have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of the letter of the January, referring to the letter which you addressed to me on the 7th of July last, respecting the interpretation placed by her Majesty's Government on the declaration with regard to blockades appended to the treaty of Paris. I have, in the first place, to assure you that her Majesty's Government would much regret if you should feel that any want of respect was intended by the circumstance of a mere acknowledgment of your letter having hitherto been addressed to you. With regard to the question contained in it, I have to say that her Majesty's Government see no reason to qualify the language employed in my despatch to Lord Lyons of the 15th of February last. It hppears to her Majesty's Government to be sufficiently clear that the declaration of Paris could not be intended to mean that a port must be so blockaded as rt ally to prevent access in all winds, and independently of whether the communication might be carried on in a dark night, or by means of small low steamers or coasting craft creeping along the shore ; in short, that it was necessary that com munication with it port under blockade should be utterly and absolutely impossible under any circum stances. In rurther illustration of this remark, I may say there is no doubt that a blockade would be in legal existence, although a sudden storm or change of wind occasionally blew off the blockading squadron. This is ti change to which, in the nature of things, every blockade is liable. Such an accident does not suspend, much less break, a blockade. Whereas, on the contrary, the driving off a blockading force by a superior force does break a blockade, which must be renewed de novo, in the usual form, to be bind ing upon neutrals, The Declaration of Paris was in truth directed against what were once termed paper blockades— that is, blockades not sustained by any actual force, or sustained by a notoriously inadequate naval force, such as the occasional appearance of a man-of-war in the offing, or the like. The adequacy of the force to maintain the blockade must indeed always to a certain extent be one of fact and evidence, but it does not appear that in any of the numerous cases brought before the prize courts in America the inadequacy of the force has been urged by those who would have been most in terested in urging it against the legality of the seizure. The interpretation, therefore, placed by her Majesty's Government on the Declaration of Paris was that a blockade, in order to be re spected by neutrals, must be practically effec tive. At the time I wrote my despatch to Lord Lyons her Majesty's Government were of opinion that the blockade of the Southern ports could not be other wise than so regarded ; and certainly the manner in which it has since been enforced gives to neutral Governments no excuse for asserting that the block ade has not been efficiently maintained. It is proper to add that the same view of the meaning and effect of the article of the declaration of Paris on the subject of blockades which is above explained was taken by the representatives of the United States at the Con' t of St. James's (Mr. Dallas), during the communications which passed between the two Governments .some years before the present war, with a view to the accession of the United States to that declaration.--I am, &c. (Signed) RUSSELL. The recent affair at Charleston has given rise to the two following despatches :--. same month ; a principle clearly stated in a letter I have had the honour to receive from your lord- ship, dated on the 10th instant, in the following words The driving eff a blockading force, by a superior force, does break a blockade, which must be renewed de novo, in the usual form, to be bind ing upon neutrals;" a principle uniformly ad mitted by all text-writers on public law, and estab -I:shed by decisions of Courts of Admiralty. I am aware that official information of either of these events may not yet have reached the Govern ment of her Majesty, but the consequences attend ing the removal of the blockade (whether to be re newed or not) are so important to the commercial Interests involved, that I could lose no time in ask ing that such measures may be taken by her Ma jesty's Government, in relation thereto, as will best tend to the resumption of a commercial intercourse so long placed under restraint. I avail myself on this ocu,sion to acknowledge receipt of your lordship's letter of the 101 h of Feb ruary instant, to which I shall have the honour of sending a reply in the course of a day o two.—l am, itte., (Signed) J. M. MASON. BILLING SGATE. Salmon, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, Gd to Is ; prawns, Os to Os ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Od per lb. ; turbots, 2s 6d to 15s ; cod, 2s Od to 7s Od ; brills, is Od to 7s Od ; doreys, is Od to 5s Od ; mullets, Os Gd to is 6d ; lobsters, is Od to 4s; crabs, is to 3s 6d ; plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each ; soles, 6d to 2s Gd per pair ; common oysters, sto—s ; natives, 48s to —s per bushel ; whitings. 3s Od to lOs ; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, is Od to 2s Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen; mackerel, 80s per 120 ; fresh herrings, Gs per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and encb, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2i Gd to 3B iod mutton, an 2d to 43, 4d; lamb, Oe Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 38 4d to 48 4d per Sibs by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3e 10d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s lad to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 4d to 4a 4d per Blbs. ky the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7id to 8d , of household do., 5d to 7d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 21(1 ; 641 b to 721 b, 21d to ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to at i d ; 801 b to 881 b, 3d to 4d , 881 b to 961 b, 31c1 to 41d; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 8s 6d to lOs 6d ; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 3s 6d ; full, 6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; halfbreds, 9s Od to Ils Od; Downs, 7s Od to Os Od ; lambs, Os Od to Os Od ; shearlings, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 50 to £4 48 Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 10s to £1 18s per load. Supply moderate—trade slow. u HE MLA ND..—Mewtow Gay, £2 5s to £4 4s; mover, do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 10e to £1 18s per load. A slow demand. WHI7ECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 5s to £4 4s; clovei do. £3 lOs to 10. , and straw, 61 lOs co £1 18s per load. Trade inactive. Liverpool Cotton Market--This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, March 14. Dearer about V. above yesterday. Sales fully 2,000 bales. Import, 4,213. LONDON GAZETTE—Yesterday. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCIE 10. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has been pleased to make the following appointments : The Lord Harris to be Chamberlain to her Royal Highness. The Marchioness of Carmarthen, The Countess of Morton, The Countess of Macclesfield, The Countess de Grey, to be Ladies of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness. The Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce, The Hon. Mrs. William George Grey, The Hon. Mrs. Edward Coke, The Hon. Era. Francis Stonor, to be Bedchamber Women to her Royal Highness. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 11. _ The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Juan Constantine Couder as Vice-Consul at Southampton for her Majesty the Queen of pain. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 12. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Rawlins Semper, Esq , to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Island of Antigua. Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto . 3 Months. 11 17* 11 17t Rotterdam — 11 17 11 18 Antwerp — 25 45 - 2.5 50 Brussels — 25 45 25 50 Ham burgh .. 13 71 13 7t 1 aria Ditto M arsenics Frankfort on Maine — 1191 1 la Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin , — M adri d C a di z Leghorn — 25 52} 25 60 M)lan .......... Genoa Naples . Palermo— 25 60 25 65 Messina .. 25 60 25 65 Lisbon — 521 521 Oporto — 524 52 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) .... South American Doub!oons 0 0 0 SHIPPING—This Day. (EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPIL) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, March 14—Hanne, iron Horsens. Sailed, March 14—Jantze, for Konigsberg; Excelsior, steamer, for Gottenburg. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed, March 13 -•Era, screw steamer, from London, for Bordeaux. BENEFIT OF MR. W. HARRISON.—The annual benefit of Mr. W. Harrison will take pl ace a t th e Royal English Opera on Monday next, March 16, that night being the last but five of the season. Beßedict's ro mantic opera of " The Lily of Killarney" will be performed on the occasion, with other attractive entertainments. The great services rendered by Mr. Harrison in fostering the taste for English musical art, and promoting the interests of its•professors, will not be forgotten by his numerous friends and admirers on this evening, when he puts forth special claims on their support, MR. MASON TO EARL RUSSELL. 24, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square, February 16, 1863. My Lord,—l deem it incumbent on me to ask the attention of her Majesty's Government to recent intelligence received here, in regard to the block ade at Galveston, in the State of Texas, and at Charleston, in the State of South Carolina. F.'rst, as respects Galveston, it appears that the blockading E quadron of the United States was driven off from that port and harbour, by a superior Con federate force, on the Ist day of January last ; one ship of that squadron was captured, the flag -ship destroyed, and the rest escaped, making their way, it is said, to some point of the Southern coast occu pied by the United States forces. Whatever block ade of the port of Galveston, therefore, may have previously existed, I submit, was effectually raised and destroyed by the superior forces of the party block ,ded. Again, as respects the port of Charleston ; through the ordinary channels of intelligence, we have information, uncontradieted, that the alleged blockade of that por; was, in like manner, raised and destroyed, by a superior Confederate force, at a very early hour on the 31st of January ultimo; two ships of the blockading squadron having been sunk, a third escaped disabled, and what remained of the squadron afloat was entirely driven off the coast. I have the honour to submit, therefore, that any alleged pre-existing blockade of the ports afore said was terminated at Galveston the let day of January last, and at Charleston on the 31st of the EARL RUSSELL TO MR. MASON. Foreign-office, Feb. 19, 1863. Sir,—With reference to my letter of the 16th inst. acknowledging the receipt of your letter of that day, calling attention to the accounts which had reached this country tending to show that the blockade of the ports of Galveston and Charleston had been put an end to by the action of the Confederate naval forces, I have the honour now to state to you that the information which her Majesty's Government have derived from your letter and from the public journals on this subject is not sufficiently accurate to admit of their forming an opinion, and they will accordingly by the first opportunity instruct Lord Lyons to report fully on the matter. When his lordship's report has been received and considered, I shall have the honour of making a farther oommunleation to you on the subject.—l am, &c., (Signed) RUSSELL, THE POLISH INSURRECTION. (From the limes' Correspondent.) POSEN, March 10. The Grand Duke calls upon the peasantry to catch, but. not to rob the insurgents. The decree is hardly premature, and, with Russian officers to en force it, will not impair, to any serious extent, the prospects of the Imperial cause. Yet the question may be well asked whether, in the turmoil of mili tary events, his Royal Highness has been sufficiently informed of the particular motives prompting the action of his rustic allies. A survey of the various classes of society, and their relation to the subject in hand, will furnish the reader with the necessary material to judge the question for himself. The wealthier portion of the nobility as yet stand aloof from the movement. They are not only warned by the unfortunate issue of many a preceding re bellion, but having long resigned the idea of an appeal to arms are but sparsely represented in the secret organisation which prepared and assumed the direction of the revolt. The Tories of revolu tion, they wish for independence without any very lively desire to make the peasantry landed pro prietors; the habitues of the European Courts, they yearn for the erection of a Polish throne, without, however, deeming it a primary duty of theirs to enforce the principles of liberty and tole ration in the kingdom of the future. I don't wish to describe them as any very decided opponents of the ideas of the age, yet from a recollection of their sovereign past, and the position they have so long enjoyed in European society, their concurrence in the notions of the times is naturally not the most prominent trait in their political character. Mutually distrusting each other, they have been excluded from the committees by the inferior and more democratic part of the nobility ; and now that rebellion has actually broken out find themselves isolated amid the heartrending struggles of their beloved compatriots. In the beginning of the move ment they furnished to the rebels neither money nor men. As the rising progresses and assumes a more serious character, their contributions have not been withheld from the national exchequer; but it is only in the persons of a very few counts and princes that they are even at this moment bodily repre sented in the insurgents' ranks. The number of families who may be comprehended in this category are overrated rather than otherwise when estimating them at 200. Perhaps the removal of Mieroslawski, and the appointment of Wusocki in his stead, muy lead to their active participation in th. struggle. Of these two renowned generals, the former, a full btood democrat, is the declared enemy of this illus trious caste. A far different spectacle is offered by the rest of the nobility. This numerous class, which, accord ing to Sclavonian custom, includes every landed proprietor in the country, is the real soul and origin of the daring enterprise. Of this class, at any rate, the teachings of '3l have not been thrown away. Last time the standard of rebellion was unfurled the Slachziz, siding with the magnates, objected to oalling the peasantry to arms. Both sections of the nobility agreed at that time that the practical abolition of serfdom and the concession of liberty and independence to the people would be the pro bable consequence of such a resolve. Averse from an idea incompatible with every tradition of the land, the half million Slachziz, together with the national army Poland possessed at that time, confidently entered the lists with the Russian giant. The de feat they then sustained, and the progressive en lightenment of the times have taught them another course in the present venture. In striking contrast to any previous affair of the kind the rebellion of 1863 has been inaugurated by the promise of land to the serf, and an equality of rights to every class in the kingdom. The leaders of the movement cannot conceal from themselves in fact that in be stowing such a boon upon their former dependents they are in reality serving their own interests, and are, besides, giving away what they can hardly be said to possess. In the long run, insurrection can not be carried through, except by the cordial sym pathy and energetic participation of the lowest class; while, on the other hand, the Russian Go vernment is sure enough to waive its former com punction, and now at length, enforce the law by which a portion of the soil is to be ceded to the tiller. Although, according to the old institutions, every landed proprietor must be a Slachziz, the sentence must not by any means be reversed, and every Slachziz mistaken for a landed proprietor. By far the larger portion of the class are without landed or any other property on this side the grave. In the good old times of Polish independence they used to live upon their political rights, and in times of war formed that impetuous army which took many a province from the Russian and the Turk. Since then the ancient splendour of these military nobles has sorely faded away. The common servitude of all classes depreciated their votes and made it unne cessary for Government to buy their adhesion ; and when the Emperor Nicholas at the close of the last rebellion annulled the diplomas of all who could not pay for their renewal, the last day of the Slach ziz's glory seemed to have arrived. The majority then withdrew to the towns, devoting themselves to all kinds of useful professions, and in many cases changing the sword for the hammer and the gun for the brush, What little gentry exists in a Polish town is of Slachziz origin, and I am morally sure that the secret papers of the National Committee are the handiwork of noble compositors, no less than the mental productions of writers of gentle blood. To get out of the way and render in nocuous this part of the population and the other artisans seduced by them was the object of this year's conscription. They are chiefly residents of the larger towns of 3,900 inhabitants and more, which, it is ono of the characteristic features of the latest movement, have furnished the main body of the revolutionary force. Up to this moment, and despite of Polish endeavours to obscure the fact, three-fourths of the insurgents consist of Slachziz settled in professional life, and the semi -urban, semi agricultural population inhabiting a Polish country town. Gathered by this municipal nobility, and headed by their wealthier brethren, in possession of land and title, the rebellion of 1863 is as entirely the work of the middle class, or what in Poland must be taken for it, as the revolution of 1831 is to be traced to the agency of the higher magnates. The disposition of the peasantry, although vary. ing according to time and locality, may be deecr:L . -'_ d as not very enthuniastie upon the whole. There has been too much said, both by Government and pro prietors, of their right to the soil, to keep the people in their old feelings of veneration and make them hurry to the camp at the call of the nobles. On the other hand, with tha moral fruits of independence all to come, they are hardly advanced enough in pint of dignity and self-respect to realise the idea of patriotism and the duties it imposes. On the border line between two phases of existence their former pliancy has been undermined, while their action, as independent individuals is yet influenced by motives of the grossest kind. The Provisional Government seems thoroughly to have understand the transition state of the rustic class. Cautious in every measure, no part of the public business has been treated with greater discretion than the relation of the insurgent bands to the pea • s Antrv. While provender and victuals are taken indiscriminately from landed proprietors, and paid for with draughts upon the Peon sional Government, the slightest service nu ' dered by the peasants is, if possible, rewardcd with the wilt' coinage of the country. With the exception of the south-west, where rebellion is para mount, the peasantry have been neither forced nor invited to make common cause with an indepen dence the benighted clowns find it so difficult to understand. Everywhere else the Provisional Go vernment hardly deems it practical to confuse the popular mind by requiring them to fight for the country, when they have got, or at any rate are on the point of getting, the soil. It is but natural that, in spite of this prudential reserve, many a peasant should be driven to the camp by his hatred to the Muscovites; yet, the business being headed by the nobility, his former tyrants, the agricultural notion of liberty, as a rule, is as yet in a state where the greater satisfaction is derived from tb warting the landlord rather than the Government. In seine districts, especially in Kalisz and on the outskirts of the principal scenes of war, the peasantry have even abandoned their neutral attitude, and for love and money gone over to the Russians. Consi dering, however, the magnitude of the sums ex pended and the number of Russian agents employed on agrarian mutiny, the success of the Czar has been comparatively limited in this particular direc tion. Now and then the inhabitants of a village, following the obliging request of a Cossack troop, have lent a helping hand in disembowelling a noble man's mansion ; or, instigated by the head-money of the Russian commanders, they have not only given up a number of insurgents, but arrested and handed over for condign punishment as many people in non-rustic cloth as could be laid hold of conveniently. Their loyalty getting a little too ex pensive in this wise, the payment of the bribe has been, however, refused in many instances; and, the insurgent hanging every accomplice in such prac tices, the villagers, it appears, are now tolerably up to the requirements of the time, and, bon gre mal gre, have relapsed into their former neutrality. In Plock, and all over the north of the kingdom, they have furnished no appreciable quantum to the in surrection ; but in Lithuania, where the national character is more pliant than in the old provinces, the co-operation of the rustics seems to have been as general and even more voluntary than in Radom and the roving ground of Gen. Langiewicz. If in the progress of the movement more cordial patriotism should be evinced by the million, the na tion will be indebted for the service to the restless activity of the priests. I have many reasons for be longing to the number of those who believe that the greater part of the clergy have taken the oath to the Provisional Government. That they have not begun preaching the holy war against the infidel must be probably ascribed to the directions of the secret authority they recognise. Underhand, however, and in the confessional, their earnest admonitions are being brought to bear on all classes of the king dom. Religious enemies of the orthodox faith, which has been forced upon too many of their Ca tholic brethren, and rabid nationalists, as the only depositaries of culture in the land, they have a secu lar as well as a transcendant reason to look upon the Russian Government as the scourge of the Poles. The Russianised archbishop at the bead of the Po lish Church, so far from preventing mischief, only serves to loosen the ties of discipline among the lower clergy. Apart from the Jews, who wash their hands in innocence and try to keep aside in the tar moil, the role of the banking and manufacturing community may be alluded to in a few words. The manufacturers are all Germans, and the traders are Jews. If they don't fight in rank and file, his they who have the satisfaction of supplying to a consi derable extent the sinews of war. Above ail other classes they are regularly assessed and taxed —or, should they prefer it, murdered—by the Provi sional Government. With this distribution of parts the play has been duly opened, and, victorious or the reverse, promises to prove a grand success in the revolutionary line. The following account of the position of the in surgent forces, under the command of General Langiewicz, was received in Paris by a letter from Cracow, dated Sunday last. The corps commanded by Langiewicz occupies all the ground situated be tween Slonniki and Pzochontebe as far as Olkusk. The General has established his head-quarters at the village of Goszeza. The entire line between Svytze and Igolonia has been abandoned by the Russian troops, who, in consequence of the repulse they experienced at Paskowa-Skala and at Skala, have retreated to Olkusk and Miechow. General Schachowskoi, who was beaten on the 4th at Paskowa-Skala, fell back in great haste on Strze mieszya, whence his troops were conveyed by rail to Czenstarhowa. The Russians feared an attack on Redowsk or Czenstarhowa. For that reason they are concentrating all their forces at the latter place, having abandoned their attack on the corps of Langiewicz. The Russian column under the corn man of Prince Schachowskoi, is completely worn out with fatigue, and is further quite demoralised. The soldiers refuse to march, saying they have not tasted any warm food for five days. They have, moreover, lost all respect for their officers. Further details have also been received of the sanguinary action at Powitze. The Polish corps commanded by Milentzki was posted near the town of Kazimir, between the lake of Powitze, which crosses the Prussian frontier, and the town of Konin. The latter place was garrisoned by 3,000 Russians. The corps of Milentzki, which was reinforced on the 2d of March by 300 Poles, well armed and equipped, who came from the Grand Dully of Posen, dis persed 300 Russian soldiers stationed at Minichow. The garrison of Konin having been apprised by the Prussian authorities of what was going forward, suddenly attacked the corps of Milentzki on two sides, while the Prussian troops cut off its retreat to the frontier. The battle was desperate and sanguinary, and the losses were great on each side. Pi ivate letters estimate the loss of the Poles at 120 men, and the loss of the Russians at a much greater number. But as the latter were more numerous they drove the insurgents into Prussia. The retreat of the insurgents was followed by a skirmish between them and the Prussian sol diers. The corps of Milentzki suffered severely on this occasion. A number of young men of the first families found there a glorious death. A great number, however, were able to join other insurgent cor ps. The insurgent chief in the government of Plock is rapidly organising his forces in the neigh bourhood of Sula Va. The corps commanded by Nieezrja, which consists of about 1,500 men, is established in the southern part of the government of Lublin, and is operating successfully against the Russian troops, who vainly attempted several times to surroune and destroy them. According to an official report received from the several insurgent chiefs, the insurrection is becoming general without being concentrated on any one point. In conse quence of this system the Russian Generals despair of putting an end to the insurrection as quickly as they expected. The Invalide Russe publishes a despatch dated Wilna, the Ist of March, which states that General de Nostitz sent four columns in pursuit of the bands commanded by Ratchinski. These bands were passing rapidly from ono place to another. One of these columns, commanded by Captain Kinneff, - overtook the band of Ratchinski in the small town of Roski, on the road from Pinsk to Nieswiej, between the districts of Sloutzk and Pinsk, The insurgents replied to the Russian attack b y a 17 ,.,;:m volley of musketry ; but they quickly fled in disorder, leaving 24 prisoners, 18 waggons, 49 horses, and a quantity of arms. The remainder of the hand were met in their flight by another column of Russian troops. The peasants lay hold of the insurgents and deliver them up to the autho , rities. General Ncstitz admits only a loss of two men severely wounded. A letter from 'Warsaw of the 4th inst. states that General Berg Las refused to accept the command of the army in Poland, which is now given to the Grand Duke Constantine. The resignation of General Ramsay has not yet been published. The Prussian Government in vain endeavours, by the ambiguous language of its organs, to envelova the Convention with Russia in a cloud of uncer•- tainty, and to obfuscate and confuse the public mind with re:ipcct to it, in the hope that people at last may come to doubt, from sheer weariness and per plexity, whether such a thing ever existed. One day we are told tha , there was no Convention—that it was a politica: bubble blown by the the mtt ctiousuOgnpapnot sition, or a sea serpcut invented by h dtmocratic press; that there was nothing ever drawn up or concluded, but merely negotiations— pourpalers—at St. Petersburg. Then we are in formed that the convention is in full force, an far as it ever went, and that nothing beyond what is now being carried out was ever contemplated, except as a possible ulterior result of further agreement be tween the two Governments. But the conductors of the official press are not so cautious as they might be, and they occasionally let slip incon venient admissions to which the Opposition jour nals, of course, carefully call attention. Without tracing the controversy, it suffices to say that the main facts of the case are established to the satis faction of everybody here, that nobody doubts that the convention was to the full extent reported, and that it has been privately modified—the Russian auvernmeni, thn matter —and brought within the limits rendered necessary by exigencies which more prudent stateemen than those of Prussia would have foreseen. With respect to the present situation of the affair, as regards foreign diplomatic action, it is here generally believed that England, satisfied with the retrocession of Prussia in the matter of the convention, is much less dis posed to offer further remonstrances in Berlin than to obtain from Russia such an observance of treaties lately neglected as might have a permanent good effect in warding off future insurrection in Poland. A Silesian paper gives some particulars of the Polish leaderLangiewicz, and vouches for their cor rectness : _ . _ "Marian Langiewicz, a native of the Grand Duchy of Posen, is the son of a physician, and was entered at the University of Breslau, whence he went to that of Prague, in order to devote himself, under the guidance of Professor Czelakowsky, to the study of the Selavonian languages. After a few months, however, he returned to Breslau, to study mathematics, and subsequently accepted a very ad vantageous situation as tutor in the family of M. von S., a Polish landed proprietor. Two years later he returned to Breslau to complete his studies, and then went to Berlin, where he served his year in the artillery. After that ho went to Paris and to Italy, made the campaign of Sicily and Naples under Garibaldi, and, at its conclusion, was ap pointed one of the instructors at the Polish Military School at Cuneo. He is of small stature, and about 34 years of age. His elder brother practises as a physician at Witkowo, in the Grand Duchy of Posen." THE AFFAIRS OF POLAND. DEPUTATI3N TO LORD PALMERSTON. Yesterday a deputation from the recent public meeting held at the British Institution, Cowper street, City-road, to express sympathy with the Poles in their present struggle, had an interview with the First Lord of the Treasury, by appointment, at the House of Commons, for the purpose of present ing to the noble viscount a memorial adopted at that meeting, praying her Majesty to make repre sentations to tne Russian Government for a "cessa tion of the barbarities and withdrawal of the con scription ;" and further, " with the other Powers of Europe, to insist upon the re-establishment of Poland as ftnatiou." Mr. Win. Cox, M.P., introduced the deputation to the noble Premier, and the Secretary read the following memorial:— " To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. "May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's duti ful subjects of the borough of Finsbury, in public meeting assembled, this 4th day of March, 1863, at the British in stitution, Cowper-street, approach your Majesty in much sorrow and anxiety, for that your memorialists have learned that atrocities of the most inhuman character have been and are now being inflicted upon the inhabitants of that portion of Poland under Russian sway ; that a most cruel conscrip tion (before unheard of) has been enforced upon the male inhabitants of that unfortunate country ; that the infamous method of carrying out the mandate of conscription has caused the down-trodden people to resist, and hence have villages and towns been razed, and their dwellers cruelly massacred. Your memorialists, under these circumstances, have recourse to your Majesty's known generous feelings, to cause such representations to,be made to the Emperor of the Russias as shall imluce him to order the cessation of the barbarities, and the withdrawal of the conscription ; and further, with the other Powers of Europe, to insist upon the re-establishment of Poland as a nation. "And your memorialists will ever return their humble thanks." Mr. Cox, M.P., said that he had attended the meeting of the borough which he represented (held on the 4th inst.), and there the proceedings were most unanimously carried out, the general feeling being one of the most perfect sympathy with the cause of unfortunate Poland. The SECRETARY said that the meeting at which the memorial was adopted was a representation of the feelings of the working classes of the country. There was not the slightest doubt that the country was fully alive to the importance of the subject. The working classes wished to strengthen the hands of the Government, and they felt that in making any representations to the Russian Court the people speaking out would enable the Ministers to act. On this matter the people were determined to speak out. Although war was to be always deplored, it was felt that a ''brush" for a nation like Poland would be looked upon as heroism ; in fact, he believed that a penny tax would not be objected to if it resulted in the free dom of that unhappy people. England fought for an individual in the Crimea, but this was for a na tion to which Russia was bound by the treaty of Vienna to re establish her institutions. The work ing classes felt that Russia had falsified her every promise towards Poland, and that our honour de mantled action on the part of the Government, and in it the Government would receive the support of the people. _ _ Lord PALMERSTON—Do you wish that we should have another war with Russia P Mr. WALL—Yes, for the sake of Poland. Mr. Medley, Mr. Kent, and Mr. Stedman then briefly addressed his lordship in support of the memorial, and it was urged that this country had been engaged in the Algerian and other struggles for humanity's sake, and therefore ar gued that a struggle for the freedom of Poland would not be inconsistent with precedent. Lord PALMERSTON, in the course of a conversa tional discussion, said that there was no doubt cause for sympathy with Poland. Mr. WALL said that he was aware there was some little informality with regard to the presenta tion of the memorial. Lprd PALMERSTON replied that, although there might be some informality, as any memorial to her N "iesty should b© presented throagh the Home .Secretary, yet he would accept tee memorial, and hand it over to Sir G. Grey for presentation to her Majesty. Mr. MEDLEY strongly urged upon the noble Pre ' mier that he should express some opinion. which would give a ray of hope . to the unhappy :Poles. 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