The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (groan the times' Clwrespondent.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16. The Ministerial crisis turns upon finance, and not upon the imbecilities of the War Department. The journals, with one single Exception, take no notice of the memorial of the 26 Republican Senators to Mr. Lincoln, and in private society opinions are divided on the question whether the memorial be really a - - dew one, as asserted, or whether it is not a revive 2, of the hitherto unpublished "round robin" wh:;,ch immediatelyafter the battle of Fredericksburg led to the resignation of Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase. nut gold, true to its commercial instincts, unmis takeably points to a crisis in the affairs of a nation, which the Republican Senators can neither provoke nor govern. The premium reached yesterday the high figure of t 50 per cent., and oscillated to day between 461 to 471. In other words, the paper donor of Mr. Chase represented yesterday but one lair of its nominal value in the markets of the world, and to-morrow will perhaps represent a still smaller fraction. Every man of business in the country is alarmed. Every labouring man is discon tented. Congress alone remains cheerful, if not iayous, and " sets a stout heart to a steep hill." Mr. Chase last week required 50 millions to pay the arrears due to the un-victorious and long-suffering army of the North, and Congress, as if it had sense enough to know that in a currency so seriously de preciated the amount would not be sufficient with which to meet the wants and necessities of the sol diery, voted him, unasked, the sum of 100 millions. In the same manner 10 millions had been set down as the price to be paid for the emancipation of the slaves in the quasi-loyal and quasi-rebellious State of Missouri, and Congress generously, and without Ministerial prompting, increased the amount to 20 millions. It is no wonder that under such cir cumstances every one foresees both a financial and a 'Ministerial crisis. It is bad enough that Afurfreesborough should be a barren victory; that Vicksburg should be a humi liating defeat; that the South should gradually ac quire a fleet at Northern expense; that every ray of hope for the speedy return of peace should grow dark and disappear; but that a mad Congress should aid an imbecile Administration to pile up a mountain of debt by such appropriations as that for emanci pation in Missouri fills people with disgust or de spair. Mr. R. J. Walker, who occupied with great abi lity, under President Polk, the post of Secretary of the Treasury, and who is already designated by public opinion as the probable successor of Mr. Chase, has taken pen in hand to describe the dan gers which should be foreseen. Writing before the recent rise in the premium on gold—and when that unerring barometer only pointed to the compara tively safe figure of 32 per cent., he said, in an ar ticle published yesterday " Our national finances are involved in extreme peril. Our public debt exceeds 720,000,000 dols,, and is estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Ist July next, at 1,122,297,403 dols., and on the Ist of July, 1864, at 1,741,685,586 dols. When we reflect that this is nearly one half the debt of England, and bearing almost double the rate of interest, it is clear that we are approaching a fatal catastrophe. Nor is this the most alarming symptom. Gold now commands a premium of 32 per cent., as com pared with legal tender Treasury notes, and with largely augmented issues must rise much higher, with a corres ponding increase of our debt and expenditure. Indeed, should the war continue, and there be no other alternative than additional Treasury notes, they will, before the close of the next fiscal year, fail to command 40 cents on the dollar in gold, and our debt exceed several millions of dollars. This would result from an immense redundancy and depreciation of currency, and from the alarm created here and in Europe as to the maintenance of the Union and the ultimate solvency of the Government. Indeed, our enemies, at home and abroad, the rebels, and their allies in the North and in Europe, already announce impending na tional bankruptcy and repudiation, and there are many de,. voted patriots who fear such a catastrophe. That the danger is imminent is a truth which must not be disguised. Here lies the great peril of the Government. It is not the rebel armies that can ever overthrow the Union. It is the alarming increase of the public debt and expenditure, and the still more appalling depreciation of the national cur rency, that most imperil the great Republic. . . . We are upon the verge of ruin. We are hanging over the gulf of an irredeemable paper system, and its spectral shade, re pudiation, is seen dimly in the dark abyss. The present Congress may save us ; but what of the next ? Would they, if they could ? Who can answer ? Can they, if they would ? No I no I It will then be too late." And what remedy does this clear-sighted states man propose for the evil ? A diminution of the alarming expenditure? No! A compromise with the South ? No ! Peace, on any terms consistent with honour and fraternity ! No! Wiih the gaseous wordiness which the Americans call " high falutin," he says, "Let no man talk of a separation of the Union in any contingency. Let none speak of peace or compromise with armed treason. Let none think of constructing separate nationalities out of the broken, bleeding fragments of a dismem bered Union. No! far better that our wrecked and blasted Earth should swing from its orbit, disinte grate into its original atoms, and its place remain for ever vacant in the Universe." Such a sentence as this ought of itself to be sufficient to dispose of all chance of a Ministerial portfolio for the utterer, who, it may be remarked, is the same florid and sanguine gentleman who predicted four years ago " that in 20 years New York would become the political, literary, social, and financial centre of the universe." When the public having had its laugh in spite of its misery, begins to inquire what is really the remedy which Mr. Walker proposes, and learns that it is nothing more than a project for the annihilation of all the State Banks in the Union, which have done nothing to inflate the currency and produce the mischief which he deplores, and the establishment upon their ruins of a single National Bank of Issue, it may well despair of any other result of its present and prospective troubles than " that spectral shade Repudiation seen dimly in the dark abyss" of national bankruptcy, the por trait of which the ex-Secretary has drawn with so bold a hand and with such Rembrandt-like effects. Though Mr. Walker does not directly advocate the repudiation, which he believes to be possible, it is clear from the whole tenor of his argument, that he would prefer the restoration of the Union, with re pudiation, to the severance of the Union, without repudiation. It he would really " wreck and blast" the whole earth rather than acknowledge the inde pendence of the Sonth—he would of course, " wreck and blast" the credit and good name of the nation —a much easier achievement—rather than forego his darling idea of one United Republic instead of two. It is not of men of this mental calibre that either statesmen or financiers can be made, and if the North possesses no better guide than he its po sition is indeed hopeless ; and all the difficulties and dangers which it has undergone are but the faint premonitory symptoms of the mightiest catastrophe of our time. The whole controversy between tho South and North is embodied in the oratorical passage-at-arms Which took place the day before yesterday in the [ ' u se of Representatives between Mr. Clement L. Vallindi g h am and Mr. Bingham, both of Ohio. Mr. I Vallandighara spoke ostensibly for the Democratic a h r , party of the Nortl,au his t in reality for the S out h, t.i ia while Mr. Bi e colleague, sp o k e f or th e Puritans, the Exterminato, B the Northern people who 8: and all the r es id uum o f e way out of the war ex cept such as the swo r d can carv e , n o hi m e xpressed his belief that reunion rsa proceededpl l o a s i i s d i g t l e upon certain conditions. But when h e lay down those conditions i t became as evid ent to hiso listeners, as perhaps it was previously evident to him self, that they were utterly impossible for the North to accept, unless upon the supposition that it had lost all spirit, bravery, dignity, and sense of honour. " There is," said he, " no cause of controversy except slavery. The agitation of that subject as a political element must cease. We must return to the old Con stitution and basis of 50 years ago. There must be a speedy and ready return of all fugitive slaves, and liberty for the transit and temporary s ojourn of masters with their slaves in the Free States. This is the price of the Uuiou, and whoever is not willing to pay it must finally declare for separation and dis union. We must stop fighting and agree to an ar mistice. There need be no formal treaty. Let us withdraw our forces from the seceded States. Let both sides reduce their armies to a peace establish ment. Let us then declare absolute free trade be tween North and South, and agree upon a Zollverein Let us recall our fleets and break up our blockade. Let us reduce the navy, restore travel, and open up the railways. Let slavery alone, and choose a new President in 1864." If these and sundry other im possibilities were not agreed upon, he " saw nothing before the country but "revolution and anarchy." He might have added, but perhaps forbore out of regard to the prejudices of the House of which he is a member, or because he did not choose to hazard too daring an expression of treason," that there was one other way of preventing the revolution and anarchy he foresaw, which was simply the acknow ledgement of the independence of the South, with out further bloodshed. And this was doubtless what he meant. Mr. Bingham, on the other side, saw the point at once; and replied that the only means by which the Union could be maintained was by force of arms. He would grant nothing to the "rebels." " The millions of people from the rock bound coast of the North to the golden gates of the Pacific were not prepared to lay th4rMr fac . e w s in the dust, and cry Unclean! unclean a Republican, from Pennsylvania, supported Mr. Bingham. He said, Theidea of laying down arms was monstrous. The men who stood up for the war were dear to their country, and their names would live for ever. These men have the power and the courage, and will put down the rebellion, in spite of the infernal devils' of the South, who are attempting to slay the North and destroy the best Government ever made by God or man." And so the matter ended ; a matter of no importance in itself, because it led and could lead to nothing; but sufficiently interesting to show into what an impasse both parties have thrust themselves. They cannot go back. They cannot go forward. They cannot stand still. All they can do is to break down the wall which bars their passage, that wall being the Union and the Constitution, which they both affect to revere, but which they both detest for standing in the way of their ulterior purposes. The leaders of the Northern Democracy know that there is no hope for the restoration of the Union. They are convinced that, whatever amount of humiliation they might be content to undergo, or however many the pecks or chaldrons of dirt they might eat for its sake, would be incurred and swallowed in vain. It is doubtful, however, whether the rank and file of their party are equally well in formed, and whether the majority do not still cling to the delusion that all the past may be forgiven and the Union re-established, under the Presidency of Mr. Jefferson Davis, with a revised Constitution that shall leave New England " out in the cold," and declare the political agitation of the slavery question to be treasonable. The Southern President and press do their best to undeceive these enthu siasts. " Our cause," said Mr. Jefferson Davis, on the 3d inst., at Raleigh, in North Carolina, " is above all personal and political considerations. The new year finds us victorious at every point. Let us all lock shields and stand together, and in the end you will enjoy an amount of prosperity which you never could attain connected with the Yankee nation of extortioners." The Richmond Dispatch declares that " if the whole Yankee race should fal down in the dust to-morrow, and beg of us to be their masters, we would spurn them as slaves. We are fighting for separation ; and we will have it. The Yankees are fools enough to believe that a ma jority of the people of the Confederacy are in favour of re-union. Let them be satisfied that President Davis expressed the sentiments of the entire Con federacy when he said in his speech the other night that our people would sooner unite with a nation of hyenas than with the detestable and detested Yankee nation. Anything but that. English colonization—French vassalage—Russian serfdom, —each or all would be preferable to any further association with Yankees." The Northern and North-Western people are gra dually beginning to understand the real state of the case. In the Senate of the Legislature of New Jersey Mr. Holman has introduced a series of peace resolutions, proposing an armistice for six months, and on the second Monday of the third month the election of delegates from all the States to a National Convention, to meet at Lexington, in Kentucky. The Governor, the Legislature, and the people of New Jersey are all in accord in dis approval of the war and the conduct of the ad ministration. The Governor's Message, which is to be delivered on the 20th inst., is expected to take stronger ground against the administration than Mr. Seymour ventured to take in New York, if not to support in spirit and in substance the peace propositions of Senator Holman. Another note worthy circumstance in the public sentiment of New Jersey is that it has just sent a new senator to Congress in the person of Colonel J. W. Wall, arbitrarily and illegally sent to Fort Lafayette for alleged treason by Mr. Simon Cameron, then Secretary of War. Mr. Simon Cameron himself has been simultaneously rejected for the same honour by the State of Pennsylvania. It would be difficult to find two stronger proofs of the steady reaction of the public feeling than these two. In Mr. Lincoln's own little town or village of Springfield, in Illinois, the reaction is as great as elswhere, though, as he only reads one newspaper, he may not be aware of it. At a meeting convened in that place last week Judge Mulveny declared that he "favoured the idea of an armistice and a national convention. He thought that the sooner the war stopped the better, and believed that the longer it lasted the more hopeless became the resto. ration of the Union." The Hon. 0. Ficklin, another speaker, was also in favour of a national conven tion, while a third, a Col. Lyle Dickey, of the Federal army, who addressed the meeting in his military uniform, said that the news of the Presi dent's proclamation of emancipation " came to him on the battle field; and that nothing ever caused such a shudder to come over him." And not only in the obscure country town from which Mr. Lin coln was unfortunately called to preside over the destinies of a great nation were such sentiments uttered, but in the Legislature of Illinois itself—a state that is believed to have sent more native-born Americans to the war than either New York or New England. Illinois, it should be remembered, though opposed to negro slavery, is quite as bitterly opposed to the negro himself, and will allow none of the race and colour to settle within its boundaries. Mr. Wenger, one of the representatives of that State, introduced last week the following resolution : " Resolves, by the people of the State of Illinois, through our representatives, that we are in favour of an immediate suspension of hostilities, and commend the holding of a National Convention for an amicable settlement of our difficulties." Mr. O'Bri en , another representative, introduced two resolutions still more hostile to the Federal Administration : A dministration has broken its faith, violated Resolved,—The edits trepeatedthe e p l edge u s,d e e e e d e e i d ve . d the people, betrayed the army, a n d almost sec restoration of the Union a hopeless iinposaibil n making the " Resolved,—Thatithe proclamations of Abraham 1L" 11- coin, of Sept. 22, 1862, and of Jan. 1, 1863, proposing to give freedom to the slaves of the Souther n S tates, on the said Ist day of Jan., 1863 , are alike unconstituti onal and contrary to the rule of civilised warfare, calculated to bring shame, disgrace, and eternal infamy upon the hitherto oz_ sullied flag of the Republic, and that Illinois, ever ready and willing to do battle for the Union and the Constitution, will protest against any war which has for its object the execution and enforcement of said proclamation." All these resolutions have been referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. The mere fact of their introduction, whatever may be their fate, shows the turn of opinion. Mr. Jefferson Davis calculated upon the time when the great North- West would grow weary of the war, and restiff at the stoppage of the Mississippi. The time seems to c n o tt m .r a e w , i s f w s u h c i h e h f a tr c u t s l y a s e h t o h w e s t e h c e a d n i r b e e c t considered e h o c u a v r t rehe The truth concerning the unhappy army of the Potomac has been gradually oozing out. Your readers were informed some k that it was grea tl y di scouraged and dew m eeor s ago ali that desertio ns were numerous and frequent, zed ; a sometimes took pl ace by whole companies, nd if not regiments, at a time; and that, in fact . , it was rapidly melting away. To have publi s h e d t h e facts in New York at the time when they were trans mitted to Loudon would not have been permitted by the Government. And, even if they had been made known, they would have been denied. Now, however, they begin to be notorious ; General Hal have gone so fa r as to urge -upon that the army of th e P otomac should t le h e e k Pr ser:idpeourttedto ._-4~-=---- memem- rim SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1863. be broken into three or four divisions and incorpo rated with other armies in the field, and that as a separate army it should cease to exist. The President fears to take such a step, and Gen. Burnside, burn ing under a sense of shame at his stupendous failure at Fredericksburg, has asked for and obtained per mission from Mr. Lincoln to move the remnant of his once noble host across the Rappahannock to make a second attempt upon the Confederate position. The story is almost incredible, but is so positively asserted by people who are known to be behind the scenes that belief or disbelief is equally difficult. The telegraphic despatches are of a nature to lead the public to suppose that something is going on in that direction, and, if the reports that are in circulation be true, it is possible that Gen. Burnside will at last see Richmond, hut not as a conqueror, probably only as a prisoner of war. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. The traffic receipts of railway s in the United Kingdom amounted for the week ending the 24th January, on 10,588 miles, to £485,456, and for the corresponding week of last year, on 10,193 miles, to £458,575, showing an increase of 395 miles, and of £26,881 in the receipts. The gross receipts on the following 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on 7,268 miles, to £382,996; and for the corresponding week of 1862, on 7,008 miles, to £360,870, showing an increase of 260 miles, and of £22,126 in the receipts. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to £411; ou the Great Eastern to £1,306 ; on the Great Northern to £757 ; on the Great Southern and Western to £575 ; on the Great Western to £1,986 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to £1,216 ; on the London and North Western to £4,994; on the London, Brighton, and South Coast to £1,121; on the London and South Western to £2,699; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire to £757 ; on the Midland to £2,253 ; on the North British to £1,470; on the North Eastern to £1,292 ; and on the South Eastern to £1,289 ; total, £22,126 The goods and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to £220,543, and for the corresponding week of 1862 to £205,654, showing an increase of £14,898. The recepts for passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £162,453, against £155,225, showing an increase of £7,228. The traffic re ceipts on 65 other lines amounted, on 3,320 miles, to £102,460, and for the corresponding week of last year, on 3,185 miles, to £97,705, showing an increase of 135 miles, and of £4,755 in the receipts. The total receipts of the past week show a decrease of £1,414 as compared with those of the preceding week, ending the 17th inst. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862. £ £ Belfast and N. Counties . IN 136 1,790 1,735 Belfast and Comity Down.... 49 49 566 500 Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 1,175 1,673 Bristol and Exeter l2l+ 107 5,136 5,051 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington B+ 81 21 298 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 315 325 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6+ 64 138 167 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 534 534 1,067 979 Deeside l7 17 218 226 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,252 1,289 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,239 1,388 Dub. & Wicklow and Wexf d 4B+ 48+ 1,282 1,127 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,002 1,1•.0 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 169+ 6,514 6,887 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 5) 2,367 2,276 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 330 330 23,200 24,443 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,669 1,606 Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 45+ 414 297 Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329 7,716 7,141 Great Western 992_ 9614 50,017 48,031 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 731 73 3 / 4 789 653 Irish North-Western 145 130 1,550 1.414 Irish South-Eastern 251 251 271 189 Lancashire & Yorkshire 39 3951 30,894 29.678 Limerick and Ennis... 24 24/ 127 142 Limerick and Foynes 26 261 100 126 Llanelly 46 464 471 442 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 54 53. 1,640 1,319 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 24 7 3 /4 2411 14,081 12,96) London, Chatham, & Dover 721 721 2,598 1,545 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 51an.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 1,057 1,011 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan 34 2,474 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630 6141 38,286 36,027 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2491 1921 4,313 4,050 Monkland 714 711 1,439 1,503 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,010 2,332 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and New. & Car 8942 8674 3',853 36,561 North London 9 9 3,049 2,702 North Saffordshire - .. ...,v.... . 254 252 7,332 6,369 Oswestry and Newton 42 42 919 5u2 Rhymney...—...— ... 194 194 741 868 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 1,700 1,953 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern 132 132 4,107 4,458 Somerset and Dorset 394 258 South Devon South-Eastern 306 306 16,885 15,596 Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale 54 54 4,337 5,159 Ulster 6l 51 ,1,611 1,603 Vale of Clwyd. . lO 10 i3B 137 Vale of Neath_ _____ 25% 25% 1,712 2,055 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 4' 895 239 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 991 961 West ll Cornwa 636 648 W.Hartlepool Harbr. 39 39 - 2,973 3,801 W'haven,CleatorotEgrinnt... 7 7 580 444 Whitehaven Junction........ 12 12 823 638 Whitehaven & Furness Jun... 35 35 71S 671 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,008 884 Austrian B2B 828 26,033 29,935 Belgian Eastern Junction 26& 26} 245 231 Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 3,659 3,091 Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,255 3,6)2 Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 19,551 18,964 Great Indian Peninsula 495 437/ 7,382 5,609 Great Luxembourg 134 134 3,690 2,938 Great Western of Canada 345 345 13,135 12,765 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 159 435 14,608 11,345 Northern of Canada ... ..... Northern of France 7Ol 680 48,558 46,034 Norwegian Trunk - - Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 107,333 121,215 Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 53,541 49,142 Pernambuco 7l -- 1,067 Royal Danish 69 69 432 360 Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,268 1,255 South Austrian Southern of France ..... 777 777 21,819 22,527 Welland •• • 25 25 - - West Flanders W. and N.W. of France 758 758 32,414 32,152 ton to subscribe ; Cleveland, to extend the line for comple tion of works and to raise £75,000; Cockermouth and Work ington, for new works and additional capital; Aberystwith and Welsh Coast, for further lines in the district and to raise £240,000; Mid-Wales, to raise a further sum of £200,000 to carry out the works ; Peterborough, Wisbeach, and Sutton, for a railway between these places, at an estimated cost of £lBO,OOO. The non-compliance with the standing orders included the bills of Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurcb, for divers deviations and extensions, and to raise £240,000 ; Inverness and Perth Junction for deviations and purchase of additional lands; Whitford and Milford Haven for a line from the South Wales at Whitland to Begally and Pembroke, and to raise £240,000 by new shares. The Bill of the Lytham and Preston Railway was withdrawn. NORTH-EASTERN. The directors of this company have resolved to recom mend the following dividends for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1862 :—On the Berwick stock at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum ; on the York stock, at the rate of 4f per cent. per annum ; on the Leeds stock, at the rate of 21 per cent, per annum ; and on the Carlisle stock, at the rate of 7 per eent. per annum. ILLINOIS CENTRAL. The directors of this company, on the 15th inst., re solved that a dividend of 2 per cent. be paid on the full paid and scrip shares and cancelled bonds scrip of this company on the 2d of February next, free of Government tax—that the same be paid on all shares on which the calls have been duly paid, and that this payment on the paid-up shares shall be in anticipation of the coupon of 2 per sent. payable on the Ist of July next. GREAT WESTERN. It appears from a circular issued by shareholders' committee of this company that they have determined to submit certain resolutions to the next general meeting. They state that they are desirous of having the opinion of the shareholders at the earliest possible period, being con vinced that no good can arise from continuing agitation in any company, land that the sooner the question is fully settled the better it will be for all parties, their object being simply to put the government of the company on such prin ciples that the directors and officials shall have their atten tion solely direeted to the development of the traffic, the increase of the profit, and, consequently, the improvement of the dividend for the original shareholders. They regret to find that the East Gloucester Bill is again before Par liament. They thank the shareholders for the large amount of subscriptions received and the numerous promises of support—so large indeed that they feel no :doubt of being able to carry the very moderate resolutions proposed. They state that a proxy will be sent to every shareholder, as the success or not of the cause may depend upon. the votes. The hon, secretary states that no member of the share holders' committee holds less than a director's qualification of £l,OOO, and that the chairman of the committee holds nearly £lO,OOO in the stock of the company. Tho committee intend to submit the following resolutions to the half yearly meeting of the company on the 13th inst. : " 1. That the Great Western Railway Company requires rest, and that no further extensions, amalgamations, leases, subscription s , or guarantees be undertaken—such policy having proved injurious to the original shareholders. 2. That the East Gloucestershire Railway be abandoned. 3. That the clause in the Amalgamation Bill providing for the self-election of the directors be altered, and that the power of election be vested in the shareholders, in order that an opportunity may be afforded for the reconstruction of the board." DUTCH RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending January 16, 1863, amounted to £6,324, and for th e corresponding period of last year to £6,642, showing a decrease of £3lB. The re ceipts since the commencement of the present book year, on the Ist May, including the above, amounted to £154,597, showing an increase, as compared with the corresp on di ng period of last year, of £7,886. The working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £3,237, or 51.18 per cent. of the receipts, and for the corresponding period of last year to £3,263, or 49.12 per cent., showing a decrease of £26. Th e working expenses from the Ist of May, 1862, to the 15th inst. amounted to £58,951, or 38.13 per cent. The work. lug expenses for the year 1861.1562 were 38'45 per cent, of the receipts. m e Y n e t e vi t e e r r d RAILWAY BILLS, y ead e t c h l a e r s e t d a n t i have n g or b d e e e r n s o c f o m both p ii e Houses o w u i h e s of P the f l e ia l: o owing cases : —P enarth Harbour Dock and Railway, for leasing the li ne to the TaffVale Railway Company; Cocker mouth, Keswi c k ; and Penrith, for further powers to enable the London and N or th -Western and Stockton a4d Darling int POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Yesterday. LAMBETH—COMMITMENT OF A NOTORIOUS COINER. —George Vempiny, a hunchback deformed little fellow, but one of the most ingenious manufacturers of base coin in Europe, was brought up for final examination. From the testimony of Inspector Brannan, of the Mint office, and other witnesses, it appeared that the prisoner was apprehended et his lodgings in Norfolk-place, Church-street, Lambeth,while in the veryact of manufacturing base coin, and many of the pieces found on a table by his side were quite hot. Moulds for the manufacture of sovereigns, half sovereigns, half-crowns, florins, and shillings were found, and in fact, all necessaries to carry on an extensive manu facture of counterfeit coin, and the prisoner was represented to be the most ingenious manufacturer of base coin in Eng land. One hundred and twenty pieces, consisting of sove reigns, half-sovereigns, half-crowns, florins, and shillings were produced, and the excellence of their manufacturebore ample testimony of the prisoner's skill. When Mr. Brannan on entering the room pronounced himself to be an offi car, the prisoner replied, "All right, Mr. Brannan ; you'll find all you want here." On the officer expressing his surprise that the punishments which he had endured had not deter red him from the continuance of his unlawful practice, the prisoner wonder, Mr. Brannan, at your talk ing so. ha d u and you and Sergeant Loom w send me out of the country ; e were e in; said, b ‘ itohdon'tey years didon nocet they kept me for five years at Portsmouth, and then dis charged me." The prisoner was fully committed for trial. WORSHIP-STREET.—FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—A tall, matronly-looking woman, with florid com plexion and mild features, who gave the name of Susan Whitbread, but refused her address, was charged with com plicity in uttering two forged Bank of England notes. The prisoner has been repeatedly remanded upon one charge, namely, that of having obtained change of a £lO note, after deduction of a small amount for purchases, from Mr. Sutton, landlord of the Royal Cricketers public-house, in Old Ford, Bow, on the 28th of December last, under a plausible pretext that her mistress, whom she stated to be a Mrs. Farrant, at 34, Bedford-terrace, in the same neigh bourhood, had not a stua:ler sum, ana that, being Sunday, she must trouble him for credit unless he could cash the note for her, which he did, having some slight knowldge that a customer named Farrant so resided. In due course the note was paid away, but soon returned to Mr. Sutton stamped "Forged." Mrs. Farrant and her servant had de camped. The former could not be found, but the prisoner, on being accidentally met with in the Mile-end-road, was taken into custody after considerable resistance. Mr. Kemp, the barrister, instructed by Mr. Osborne, of the Old Jewry, now attended to defend the accused, and a second charge was preferred, in which it was sworn that the prisoner passed a £lO note to Mr. Thos. Lewis, upholsterer, Eldon•street, Fi ns b ury, on the 2d inst., i n pa y men t f or a bedstead, and received £7 2s. change. This purchase was sent,lby her dire c ti on, t s W e lli ngton - s t ree t, City-road, but th e owner was unknown there, and it was taken back to Mr. Lewis. Meanwhile the note passed into the hands of Mr. Ellison, a publican, in Finsbury; then to Messrs. Booth. the distillers, and four days afterwards Mr. Lewis had it returned to him, embellished with the stamp, " forged." Mr. Kemp, in a severe cross-examination, could not suc ceed in shaking the testimony of the witnesses with respect to identity in the second case, but yet strongly contended that they were mistaken, and at the same time urged that the woman had been the dupe of others in the former trans action. In fact, he said, he had a very good answer to both charges. Inspector Brecknell, G division,who has the conducting of the case, said that in the house 34, Bedford-terrace,he found communications from prisoners in various gaols addressed to the late occupants, and it was manifest that a well-organised system bad been carried on there. Another £lO note exactly similar in its description to the two in question was in bis possession, but the prisoner could not be identified with re gard to that. An agent, who let the house to the Farrants, said prisoner had been introduced to him by Mrs. F. as her friend, not servant, and a number of men and women were always there. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. THAMES.—ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF A PAWNBROKER.— Mr. French, of the firm Of Ogilvie and French, pawnbrokers, of No. 207, High-street, Poplar, appeared before Mr. Selfe to answer a summons which charged him with having unlaw fully received and taken in pawn of and from Edmund Jas. Hoy, a person apparently under the age of 16 years, two petticoats of and belonging to Edmund James George Hoy. Edmund James Hoy, a boy, said he would be 12 years of age next birthday, and that the week before last he took two petticoats belonging to his mother, and without her leave, to Messrs. French and Ogilvie's,shop. A young man took in the petticoats, and lent him one shilling upon them. He had since lost the duplicate. Mr. Salfe—No, you did not, sir. Tell me directly what you did with the ticket. Witness—l tore it up, sir. Mr. Selfe—What do you mean by telling lies ? You have robbed your parents, and are now telling lies about it. Did the pawnbroker ask you any questions The Boy—lt was a young man, sir, who lent me the shilling, and he asked me no questions at all. Mr. French, in defence, said he had no knowledge what ever of the circumstances. One of his assistants had taken in the pledge of the boy without his knowledge or consent. He was very sorry that such an irregularity occurred. Matilda Hoy, the mother of the boy, said he was under 12 years of age, and in consequence of what he said she went to the shop of French and Ogilvie, and a young man there gave her a form of declaration, stating that the duplicate was lost, She had not declared to it, but she brought the form to that Court, and took out a summons. _ _ _ . Mr. Selfe—Where is the young man who received the pledge and made out the form of declaration. Mr. French—l left him in the shop. Mr. Selfe—The sooner you bring him here the better. Fetch the parcel, the ticket attached to it, and the young man. The case is adjourned for an hour. When the case was re-heard, Arthur Robinson, assistant to French and Ogilvie, appeared, and his name was inserted in the summons, and his employer's name struck out. The assistant stated in defence of his conduct that the boy said his mother had directed him to pawn the two petticoats. He asked him where he lived and his name. Mr. Selfe—Did you ask that little boy his age ? R o bi nson —Yes, I did; and be said he was s I v 6 e . ry small of Ar. I Here .s f m e — a 3 A - be necessary n y e o c u e s really e a a r l y l y to b e s l t i a e t v e e tdh hime b when he said heoy i his age, and really did not look more than 10 years old. was 16 ? The Assistant—Yes, I did. (Laughter, and Oh, oh.) Mr. Selfe—The court will be cleared if people are net quiet. This is not a laughing matter. You (the assistant) have put down the mother's name on the form of declara tion, which purports to contain an exact copy of the original memorandum or ticket of which the boy had the duplicate, and you did so because you knew that no magistrate here would sign the declaration that the ticket was lost if a boy presented it. You have told a lie. The assistant said he had asked every question required, and received satisfactory answers. Mr. Selfe said the assistant had taken in a pledge of a boy apparently under 16 years of age, which was a violation of the law, and then filled up a false declaration, which he gave to Mrs. Hoy to hookwink the magistrate. It was a most scandalous proceeding —a wicked thing altogether. The boy had robbed his mother, and the pawnbroker's shop afforded him ready facility for disposing of the plunder. Nothing tended more to the encouragement of crime than receiving stolen property of children. He fined the assistant £3, and if either of his employers bad taken in the pledge the penalty would have been Z. The money was paid, GREENWICH— THE RIGHTS OF LICENSED VicroiL LEßS.—Mr. Thos, G. Doust, landlord of the Ship and Sailor public house, Greenwich, appeared to summonses, at the instance of the police, charging him with allowing card- C i art p 1 a lsl i r n.gn his ta r appeared for the defendant. house, an d a l so pros tit u t es t o assem b le therein. Sergeant - Wright, 23 R, said that at a quarter to 2 on the morning of the 24d inst., ho visited the defendant's house, and in front of the bar found 12 prostitutes, 6 of whom were partakingof refreshment. He afterwards proceeded upstairs, and in a back room which he entered he saw the defendant and six other persons sitting at a table playing at cards, money being on the table opposite the defendant. On speak ing to the defendant respecting the females ho found in the house, he said they had taken advantage of his absence from the bar to be th ere. Mr. Trail' inquired the general character of the house. Inspector Ellis replied it was a house seldom closed until 3 o'clock in the morning, and that the persons then leaving had often to be locked up, it being impossible to prevent dis turbances in the streets. Mr. Carttar said he would not attempt to deny the ser geant's statement as to what he saw on the morning in ques tion. It was true the house was open, the fact being that it was near the waterside, and was resorted to by persons con nected with the Thames, who had to go out at all hours of 1 the night to meet vessels. With respect to the charge of card-playing, the defendant was in a small private room with his two brothers and four watermen, merely for the purpose of amusement, and, even admitting that the cha racter of the whole of the women in the house at the time was that spoken to by the sergeant he (Mr. Carttar) con tended, inasm uc h as they were making no d i stur b ance , the defendant w ould not have been just i f i e d i n t urn i ng them out, Mr. Mansfield, at the Marylebone Police-court, a few days since, having decided that a publican, who had given a man into custody for breaking glass while being turned out of the house and refused to be served because he was a "bad character," had no right to have turned the man out of the house unless be knew him to be "a thief." It was not shown that any one of the women had ever been convicted of felony, and he had also to urge that the defendant had kept the house for six years, and had never before been summoned. Mr. Traill said there was no objection to defendant keep ing his house open to the hour stated, so long as it was pro perly conducted. The defendant had a perfect right to have a private party in his house, and to play at cards, so long as it was shown that such play was not general, and resorted to by customers for the purpose of g,tmbling. He (Mr. Traill) was not disposed to look seriously at this part of the charge against defendant, but the allowing of prostitutes to resort to the house, as stated, was very reprehensible, and could not be permitted, otherwise it would be impossible for the police to perform their duty in keeping the streets from disturbance during the night. He should now order the defendant to pay the cost of the klllllllllnses, which would stand over for a month, to allow of the police making a re port as to the future conduct of the house. The defendant paid the money, and left the court. WAND SW ORT H.—THE ALLEGED MURDER AT NINE ELMS.-Mr. Dayman proceeded with the charge against Samuel Hillier, a carman in the service of Mr. Bryant, a coal merchant at Nine Elms, for causing the death of Chas. Champion, a carman in the employ of Mr. Hunt, a contrac tor, also at Nine Elms, who died in St. Thomas's Hospital from injuries to his spine, the cause of which has not yet been explained. Inspector Abrook, who took the prisoner into custody, informed his worship that a witness he had summoned was present. Charles Clark was then examined. He said he was a carman in the employ of Mr. Wood, of Old Change, City. He knew the prisoner by sight about Vauxhall. He recol lected the night in question. He was at the stables at the rear of the Nine Elms Tavern, assisting a friend named Jenkins. He saw the deceased standing at the back of the tavern about half-past seven o'clock. There was some person with him, but witness did not take notice of the man. It was dark, and he merely saw the back of the de ceased. About a quarter of an hour after wards he was called out of the stable, and found the deceased lying on the ground, about half a dozen yards off. The witness added that he heard no noise; all was quiet. Jenkins was sober. Inspector Abrook said Appleford, who first found the de ceased, told the coroner that Jenkins was " beery." The witness Clark said he had not seen the prisoner ',hat night. Mr. Wilson, who again defended the prisoner, stated that on Monday last the jury, after several adjournments, re turned an open verdict, that the deceased died from mortal wounds, but there was no evidence to show by whom caused. Mr. Dayman said the evidence of Clark rather threw the case back than otherwise, and the only way to reconcile the evidence was, that the deceased must have strayed from where he met with the injuries, and had fallen where he was found. Mr. Wilson said a suggestion was thrown out before the coroner that the deceased, if he had been maltreated, was carried to the place where he was found. Mr. Dayman thought there was not sufficient evidence to detain the prisoner, and he therefore discharged him. The widow of the deceased was then called in, and his worship ordered her to receive a sovereign from the poor-box. THE LEICESTERSHIRE TRAGEDY. GREAT DALBY, Friday. The inquiry touching the death of the man named William Harvey, who was shot at the farm-house of Mr. Thomas Flavell, Ashby Lodge, Ashby Folville, on Sunday last, was resumed at eleven o'clock this day (Friday), at the Royal Oak public-house, Great Dalby (a village three and a half miles from Melton, and about three miles distant from the scene of the tragedy), before Mr. E. H. M. Clarke, one of the coroners for Leicestershire. The proceedings commenced with the reading over of the depositions taken at the opening of the inquest at Ashby Folville on Monday, iwhen Mr. Flavell spoke as to the man ner in which he found the body of the deceased on his re turn from church. The witness loaded the gun on the 23d November with No. 4 shot, and he kept it in his bedroom until within ten days back, in consequence of the reports about robbers. The prisoner neglected his work, but had been on friendly terms with the deceased. Mr. N. Whitchurch, surgeon, spoke to the cause of death, which arose from a gun-shot wound under the right ear, of a somewhat oval nature, 1i inches long and 1 inch across. It was surrounded by a black charred circle of 2 inches in diameter, and the hair was singed. He probed the wound with his finger, and found a small particle of leather and some shot corn. His finger passed directly to the spine, which was fractured. Had since made a post mortem examination, and found that the shot cern had passed directly under the second cervical vertebra, fractur ing it into many pieces, destroying the spinal marrow, and cutting the carotid artery and jugular vein on that side of the neck. lie was convinced that death was immediate, and that the muzzle of the weapon was very near the neck of the deceased. Police-constable Isaac Foster stated that he went to the house, and saw the deceased. He found two letters before the deceased, which he produced; also a Bible near to the deceased's head on the table, and the gun, which had been recently discharged. Prisoner was missing, together with his boots and coat. He gave information to Sergeant Platts. Mr. Flavell, recalled, said—The inkstand produced is mine. I did not find it in the place where I left it. By a Juror—l have no reason to believe that there is any ground for a report of jealousy existing between the de ceased and the prisoner in regard to a sweetheart. In reply to a Juryman, the witness said the deceased had his watch on him on Sunday morning. This was the whole of the evidence for the prose, ution, and the prisoner, after being duly cautioned as to whether he had anything to say, replied—" I have nothing to say." The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and the jury were left at 1.25, and at 1.40 they returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the prisoner, who was conveyed to Leicester Gaol the same night to await his trial at the Spring Assizes. Prisoner was nut in the slightest way affected by the de cision. RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of the Right Hon. Charlotte, Dowager Countess of Ashburnham, late of Southwood Lodge, St.Lawrence,,Ramsgate, and Eaton-square, London, was proved in the principal registry, and the per sonalty sworn under £12,000. The executors no minated are Sir Henry Percy Gordon, Bart., and Lady Elizabeth Sophia Ashburnham, the daughter. The testatrix, who attained to a great age, was the daughter of the iirst Earl of Beverley. Her lady ship married, in 1795, George, third Earl of Ash burnham, K.G. The will was executed in 1854, and her ladyship disposes of her freehold residence at Ramsgate to her daughter, Lady Elizabeth, and on her decease to her other daughters for their re spective lives, and then devises the estate of South wood Lodge to the children of her daughter, Lady Wodehouse, absolutely. To ber son, Lieutenant- General the Hon. Thomas Ashburnham, C. 8., a legacy of £l,OOO is bequeathed, and to her daughter, Lady Wodehouse, a like sum of £l,OOO, in addi tion to her marriage portion. The remainder of her property is left equally amongst her unmarried daughters, The wiillof Gen. Sir Philip Bainbrigge, K.C.8., of St. Margaret's, Tichfield, Southampton, was proved in the London Court on the Bth inst. The executors and trustees therein appointed are Lady Bainbrigge, his relict; his sons, Colonel Philip J. Bainbrigge and the Rev. John H. Bainbrigge, 8.A.; and his son-in-law, Franklin Lushington, Esq., C.B. This gallant general officer was colonel of the 26th Regiment, or Cameronians, and had seen much active military service, and won many badges of distinction. Sir Philip attained to the age of 76. His will bears date November last, and is very brief. The testator directs that the income of Lady Bainbrigge shall be increased to £3,000 a-year, which is to be in addition to the pension of £l2O coming to her ladyship as a general officer's widow, and that his personal property shall be divided into seven equal parts amongst his seven children, three sons and four daughters. The will of Mr. Francis For, of Tottenham, Mid dlesex, was proved in London, on the 2d inst., under £60,000 personalty, by t he a ffi rmation of the execu tors, namely, Francis Edward Fox, the son; George Fox (the brother), of Devon, banker ; and the tes. tatory cousics, Samuel Fox, of Tottenham, and William Ball, of Glenrothay. The will was made in November, 1860, whereby the testator disposed of his shares in the London and North-Western Railway, and all his furniture, wine, and other effects to his daughter,l eav i ng Mary Jan e Fox, to her an equal share with his son i n t h e real est ate, a nd dividing between them th e res i due of the per sonalty. To his (the testator's) brother , George Fox, he leaves a leg ac y of £3 , 000 • and h ere are several legacies t o relatives and friends, as well as to his servants, proportioned to their length of servitude. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usua kinds. llorniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good dike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. - ' TIMES.—It is well known that within the last few weeks great efforts have been made in this country to obtain demonstrations in favour of the , Federal cause. It is said, probably wtth truth, that agents of the Northern Government, provided with funds from America, have been at work on the ' familiar business of agitation, in order to restore their discredited party at home by making it ap pear that English opinion supports them in their acts. But, wherever the agitators come from, they have been especially busy for the last two months. It has been promised that the real sentiments of Englishmen should at last be made known. It meetings could be organised, if the subject could be properly discussed, and public opinion set free from a Press which misrepresented it, then America might see that the feelings and the judgment of the old country were with her in her noble crusade for the freedom of the negro. The result of the great move ment was given in this journal yesterday. For weeks it has been announced tha there was to be a " mon ster demonstration" in Lcndon in favour of the North. Provincial meetings had been already held, and had been most provokingly avoided by any one whose opinion was of the slightest importance. But in London better luck might be hoped for. This is a great metropolis, and on the 29th January, a week before the meeting of Parliament, it must be full of persons of considerable eminence and of all shades of opinion. The most distinguished names of a coun try where freedom of thought is carried into eccen tricity were sure to be within reach of the Emanci pation Society's circulars and and advertisements. What doubt, then, what an imposing meeting, at tended by men of genius, of high attainments, of great social position, of political renown, would bear witness to the interest with which large and influ ential sections of English society follow the pro gress of Mr. Lincoln's policy ? If even what is called the world—the frivolous, unthinking people who take their opinions from the Press, who dislike Yan kees for their pertness and boasting, and admire Lee and Jackson for their unexampled heroism,—if even jealous politicians or illiberal soldiers stood apart, surely there would be enough of the more original thinkers to fill a platform? More than this, in the centre of this great capital, with its hundreds of churches, in the neighbourhood of men who have spent their lives in advocating every charitable cause, it might have been thought that a meeting professedly in favour of Negro Emancipation would not have wanted names of eminence. After weeks of preparation the meeting took place the day before yesterday. The speakers were a minor novelist and two or three Dissenting ministers, who seem to be of the usual intellectual calibre. Not one man whose opinion the country would listen to on any political subject, not one statesman, not one person endowed with genius, however self-willed and erratic; no representative of the Peerage, only one of the House of Commons, not one of the Church, or the gentry, or the com mercial world—was found to stand on that platform and make himself responsible for Mr. Lincoln's pro clamation. Of the eminent men who in past years have struggled, and will still struggle on for years to come, against oppression and evil-doing all over the world—of the philanthropists whose names are identified with this very phase of negro emancipa tion—there was not one who felt that he could in conscience come forward and encourage a ruthless invasion, and a still more hateful scheme of domes tic warfare, by giving aid and comfort to Mr. Lin coln's tottering Cabinet. The persons we alluded to were left alone to hold forth to the audience. What they said it is needless to comment upon, for it is quite in accord with their personal insignifi cance. For our own part we cannot but rejoice that there has been at length an organised attempt to evoke English opinion in favour of the war. It is well to know the full strength of one's own opinions, and to be able to calculate with certainty on the mea sure of assent which the world will give to them. That for two or three months a number of men have been agitating to change the sentiments of Englishmen on this important subject, and that the result of the mountain's labour is the birth of a most ridiculous mouse, is especially satisfactory to us, who have for so long been labouring to promote a peaceful settlement of an unnatural quarrel. We now know that, in spite of importunity the most pertinacious and offensive, every man with a poli tical character to lose has stood aloof from the Federal partisans in this country. Even the mem bers for our populous boroughs, though their posi tion often compels them to succumb to schemes of this kind, Lave in this case felt it necessary to their own dignity and the feelings of their respectable constituents to give a rebuff to the agitators. Hap pily, the situation of affairs in America is becoming such that the friends of peace in this country need tear no misrepresentations of the " Emancipation Society," or of the' wire pullers'' who itzotd I)•.!it,i; :t. Whiir welli tit .a,i tat; - It are c,mgr 1 ulat'ng P e sident Lincoln from this side of the water, the public 1 opinion of his own country is becoming every day more settled against him. The Proclamation, by the confession of its authors, 'N as intended to eo two things--first, to conciliate European opinion ; and, secondly, to terrify the south into submission. Th , t the first object has not been attained we think is pretty clear, and the other, which is by far the more important, has been equally missed. Whatever may be the merits or faults of Mr. Lincoln's policy, his Proclamation has had but one effect, and that is to make the Confedetites more fierce and resolute than ever. When the last news left more than a fortnight had elapsed since the Proclamation, and no sign of wavering had appeared at the South. The Confede rates had opened the new year with a victory at Galvaston, and at Vicksburg had inflicted on the Federals a defeat hardly less bloody, and quite as important as that of Fredericksburg. Two military disasters and a rise of gold to 50 premium are the first fruits of the masterly document of the 2d of January, and a still more important matter is the widespread anger of all but the Republican zealots. New York has spoken through Mr. Seymour, and now the Governor of Kentucky, a firm Unionist, and a man to whom the North is mainly indebted for keeping the State from Secession, denounces the President and his schemes in a State paper which is certainly one of the most remarkable we have ever read. There are at last signs abroad that the bank ruptcy of the North, the desolation of the South, and the ruin both of white man and negro will pro i yoke some political reaction in the Federal States. At such a conjuncture it behoves us to stand aloof, and not to applaud assumptions of arbitrary power which are being sternly rebuked by the ablest men of the country where they have taken place. POST.—For the first time we find ourselves in a position to believe that the question of the Greek succession is virtually arranged. The various pro posals on this subject which have been before the protecting Powers have succeeded each other with such rapidity that the intelligence of one day has antiquated that of the preceding one. Hitherto there has, properly speaking, been no candidate for the Greek throne. We have ourselves on successive occasions mentioned the names of the princes most in favour among the Greeks and with the protecting Powers. In an unofficial sense, indeed, there may have been many who would gladly have accepted the throne if offered to them by the three protec tors. But between those who would not accept it and those to whom it was not offered there has been no candidate formally put forward until the present announcement of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg as the nominee of those who are entitled to recommend one to the Greek people. We believe that the course of the negotiation was as follows. After the joint withdrawal of the names of Prince Alfred and the Duke de Leuchtenberg from the list of possible candidates—during the course of which other names, such as those of the Archduke Maximilian and Prince Nicolas of Nassau, were discussed at the Courts—it was resolved to offer the throne to King Ferdinand of Portugal. This prince, however, was better known to the diplomatic world than to the Greek people ; and his own retired habits of life led him to decline the proposal. By that time a con siderable number of royal and serene names, never, perhaps, seriously entertained, had been eliminated. It was then subsequently resolved to make the same offer to the Duke of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha. But after some negotiation with this prince his condi tions of acceptance were regarded as inadmissible. t, Among these conditions was that of his serene high ness's retention of his ducal dom iniiins , n Ger many. It was felt th-sirab!e that tl ►e new King of Greece should become naturalised as much as possible to his new country ; that - he should be henceforth as much of a Greek and as little of a German, as was possible. On the raising of these and some other conditions, the British Government then proposed to offer the throne to the Prince of Leiningen. With the fullest recognition of the great merits of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, there was at the same time this constitutional diffi culty to be encountered in his case, that the Duke is required, by the constitution of one or other of his two duchies, to rcside in that duchy for a consider able period of the year. The choice of the Prince of Leiningen also recommended itself on the ground that he was free from any restriction of this sort. Until, therefore, within the last three days, the ne gotiations were actually taking place with the Prince of Leiningen, and with him alone. But this prince, for the reasons which we stated yesterday, declined the arduous responsibility which it was proposed to throw upon him. There then became no alternative but to resume negotiations with the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. We understand, therefore, that it has been wisely resolved to take Duke Ernest at his own terms ; and on these the Duke is consistently prepared to accept the throne of Greece, with remainder to his nephew. We believe that the Russian Government will offer no objection to what, in all circumstances, is the best settlement of the Greek throne that could be devised. Russia has even a distinct object in the realisation of such a choice. The Duke of Sixe-Coburg has long been the consistent and vigorous opponent of Russian in tervention in Germany, and his presence in the Con federation has long been the mainstay of the Na tional and Liberal party—that is, the party who oppose foreign meddling and interference, such as Russia has so long exercised in Germany. Russia, therefore, could desire, for the sake of her German policy, nothing more than that the Duke of Saxe- Coburg should go to Greece, where also his good administration might be supposed to favour her traditional policy of raising the condition of the Hellenic people. At the same time, it is scarcely necessary to rest the acquiescence of Russia on such grounds as these, substantial as they nevertheless are. Since the withdrawal of the names of Prince Alfred and the Duke de Leuchten berg Russia has shown every disposition to agree with France or England on the Greek question. The concert of the British and French Governments, now conclusively arrived at with the Duke of Saxe- Coburg, really settles the discussion ; but we have no duubt of the en tire harmony of the three Powers. It now, therefore, remains for the Duke to obtain the requisite alteration in the terms of the Gotha constitution, which he and his council have autho rity to do. We incline to believe that this choice, though arrived at late, is one of the best that could have been made. Duke Ernest has commonly passed for the ablest crowned head in Germany. His abilities, equal, probably, to those of the late Prince Consort, have taken a practical and administrative turn. He is understood to express a desire to govern the Greek kingdom with a view, not to showy de monstrations, but to solid and permanent improve ment, and to make his Administration conduct itself with credit in the eyes of Europe. He has long been known in Germany as an energetic reformer of abuses. In Greece the field before him will be almost illimitable. That the Greeks will cheerfully receive him there can hardly be a doubt; and we could call to mind no other man more likely to im press them with a sense of authority and good counsel. We have no doubt that the meeting of Parliament will be found to lend a formal and offi cial corroboration to this view of the Greek ques tion, and that the new King may, with little further delay, commence his administration. COUNTRY MARKETS. ,v - LIVERPOOL-JAN. 30. At this day's market there was a small attendance of the town and country trade, and wheat met a limited demand ; holders, however, remained firm. Flour in fair request at 5d per barrel lower. Oats realised fully former prices, and oatmeal 6d per load advance. Barley, beans, and peas re mained steady as last quoted. Indian corn was scarcely asked for, and must be quoted Gd per qr cheaper on the week. WAKEFIELD-JAN. 30. The wheat trade rules dull to-day, and factors generally require last week's prices. Beans and barley steady. In oats and shelling there was no alteration. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,703 qrs., at 49s 514 8ar1ey......... 318 ... 33s 64 peas Oats 5O .. 20s Od Rye — Beans EXETER-JAN. 30. Wheat, white..6s 3d to!6s 6d Barley ... 48 3d to 48 6d Ditto red. .6s Od to 6s 6d Oats 9d to 3s 0 Flour, fine, 36s to 37s ; seconds, 34s to 35s per sack. CATTLE. We again had a small supply of all descriptions of stock to-day. Business dull. 1 Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 10s6d Ewes, per 11.‘ ....Rd to 6/d Pork carcases, 7s 6d to 8s 6d Wethers, d 0...., 61d to 7d Lamb, p 1b.......—d to - d Fat calves, d0...61d to 7 . Rough fat, 31d per lb. STAMFORD-TAx. 30. New wheat, 50s to 52s red, 46s to 50s per 36 stone. Barley. malting, 38s to 425; grinding, 32s to 34s per qr. Oats, 20s to 26. per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 44s per qr. ; new, 36s to 38s. BRISTOL SUGAR-lAN. 30. We have again to report a quiet market, but a fair de mend exists for good sugars, and at the lately reduced rates several parcels have changed hands. Low sorts neglected. The refined market is very dull. No sales in rum. COAL f Moen of Coal per Ton ai ARKET. the close of the market. s. d. Aedley's Hartley ....14 0 Hastings Hartley ....15 9 Byass's Bebside West Walls End. s. d. Hartley l5 9 Carway and Duthyn Malting ...... 22 0 Do. Anthracite.. 20 0 Lambert's West Hart- ley 15 9 North Pelton Ga5.....14 6 Cowpen Hartley 15 9 Wylam ..16 0 Tunstall Eletton .. l7 6 South Kelloe . l7 0 Hartlepool 17 0 Haswell l7 6 South Hatton.. 17 6 Braddyll's Hetton 16 6 Framwellgate l6 0 Cassop .. . 16 6 K elloe South Hart1ep001......16 0 Trinidon Hartlepool ..17 0 Keiper Grange.... ..16 0 Russers Hatton 17 0 Harton l6 3 130; sold, 66. WallB End. Thorpe .. .15 01 Riddell..... 15 6 Ships at market, - [ADVERTISEMENT.] -- Holloway's Pills.—surpassing Excellence.—This medicine is composed of the finest bal samic obtainable from the vegetable kingdom. Unlike mineral or mercurial preparations Holloway's Pills are perfectly innocent, and may be safely taken by children and the most delicate females. 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O Bengal the Staff ff h inst.,Corps, s ,a and t Resident Edinburgh, BURN— s Councillor of Malacca , to Jessie Mills. only dau g hter of the late Eagle Henderson, Esq,, Edi n b urg h . MACLEAN—WARREN. — On the 30th i nst. , J o h n L . Mac lea,,,, I„q., M.D., the second so n o f t h e l ate Si r G eorge H B E u N rn D , E C RS artair Ma, l e ,n, K.O 8., to Harriet Warren, of 87, Gloucester place, Portman• square, third daughter of the late Robert Warren, Esq. Deaths. AIt3isTRONG. - 0n the 25th inst., at Chester, Sir Andrew Armstrong, Bart., of Gallen Priory, King's County, Irelant', aged 76. BAmBER.—On the 29th inst.. suddenly, at 42, Beaufort street, Chelsea, Richard Btimber, Esq., aged 81. DutruY.—On the 25th inst., at the Vicarage, Brerahill, Wilts, th Rev. Henry Drury, M.A., aged 50. FiTzGERALD.— On the 25th inst., at Carton, nee , Dublin, Ed ward Fox Fitzgerald, Esq only son of the lure Lord Edward Fitzgerald. HONYMAN.—On the 27th inst., at Nice, Colonel Sir Ord Honyman, Bart., l a t e of Grenadier Guards, aged 68. HENRICHSEN.—On the 29th inst., at 8, Highbury New park, Henry Henrichsen, Esq., aged 62. WYVILL—On the 28th inst., atThe Grange, Bedale, York shire, Rear-Admiral Christopher Wyvili, aged 71. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Yreeinet of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex,--Saturday, January 31, 1261 ~~