The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-16 00:00:00

THE INSUE,RECTION IN POLAND, ..-..-...- , f?. - (Fr)in tite Sycc , :al CO2 ooncle;d of the Times) ,ow, Jar, S 'Alose The news received 'here from Poland gives bat Ettie iJoa of tbe -exact sate of the Polish !nEarrec tiQu. In Lithuania, now that Mackicwicz's band is debtroyed and Maeltiewiez himself hanged, there can scarcely be much further t&istance to the legiti mate Government of the countrv, which in all the disturbed districts has exiled or imprisoned the landed proprietors, taxed the estates more than they can bear, made roads through the great woods, and cut down or burnt the smaller ones. , The Lithuanian insurrection appears now to have been a mistake from beginning to end. Nobody de sired it, and it is even difficult to determine who the insurgents really were. Not the nobility ; for we read every day of fresh addresses having been pre . __ sen ted in which the mobility of this or that district in Lithuania condemn the insurrection as a move- ment got up only by a few misguided and perverse men. Not the peasants ; for except in the Catholic districts, where the priests are men of some cultiva tion, and, apart from their religious authority, have a natural influence as teachers which the Russian "orthodox" priests, knowing nothing themselves, cannot be expected to exercise ; except in the Catholic districts of the Wilna and *Kovno Govern nients the peasants have been either completely passive or have allowed themselves to be armed against their masters. Almost the only positive outrages on the part of the peasant r y in Lithuania appear, it is true, to have been those committed at the very beginning of the insurrection by the Russian sectarians (rask,olniki), whose ancestors, after being driven oat of Russia, had been hospitably received in Poland. But, as a general rule, the peasantry in Lithuania, as in all other parts of Poland, except the Grand Duchy of Posen (where the serf of former times has long been a landed proprietor) are too degraded to have any notion of patriotism, and they can, if necessary, be raised up against the actual owners of the soil as easily as in Russia itself. In Russia previous to the Emancipation Act numbers of proprietors were murdered every year by their peasants, of course without any incitement On the part of the Government, which on its own natural territory cannot desire to see societyentirely disorganised. But what proves beyond doubt the hatred of the Lithuanian peasantry for all ideas of Polish nation• ality is the fact that they, like the nobility, disavow with honest warmth all participation in the late criminal attempt to replace the established Russian Government by a government of Poles. The pea sants' addresses are very explicit on this point. ,Besides the peasantry, who cannot be supposed to care much for anything not immediately connected with their daily wants, and the country gentry and small freeholders, who are represented in secret official reports as detesting everything Russian, and in public official addresses as filled with the highest veneration for the Russian Government, there are also the Jews, who form a greater part of the tract, ing classes in the towns. They also are very fond of the Russians, but nothing is astonishing on the part of the Jews of Lithuania, for it appears that they have a high admiration even for Christianity, espe cially of the Russian pattern. A number of poor, humiliated, persecuted Lithuanian Jews had to pre seat an address the other day, in which devotion was expressed for that Government which, until within the last few years, made it penal for a Jew wearing his ancient traditional costume to remain more than three days in the holy city of Moscow, and abhor rence for the nation which gave an asylum to the Jews when in all other parts of Europe they were cruelly oppressed. The Jewish deputation having expressed a wish to make some sort of gift (appa rently by way of peace offering) inquired, according to the Journa? de St. Petersbourg , what would be the most appropriate thing for them to offer. "An orthodox church," was the reply; and it is stated in the foreign official or semi-official organ of the Rus sian Government that the orthodox church required is really about to be built with Jewish money. Dan any one imegiso that the Jews of Lithuania do not really desire to increase the number of Chris tian places of worship ? They desire it quite as much as the Lithuanians in general do to perpetuate the Russian Government in their unhappy country; and the gift of an orthodox church comes as spon taneously from the Jews as the presentation of loyal addresses does from the Poles, whether in Lithuania or in the kingdom. Just about the time that Mackiewiez, already a fusitive, was disbovered in his hiding-place and made prisoner, Chmelinski, one of the three prin cipal leaders in the kingdom, was taken, and before now has prob ably, like Mackie wiez, been executed. At least it was announced, immediately after his capture, that having been conducted to Radom he would there be " punished for his crimes." Chme linski had commanded for some months past in what the Poles call "the palatinate of Cracow"--that is to say, the district adjoining the Cracow territory, on the other side of the frontier, which before the partition .Tormed, with the co entry around Cracow, hat one province. Chmelinski's district was said to be held by as meny as 15,000 Russians, and con sidering that the Russian army in the kingdom now numbers 180,000 men, this estimate does not appear at all exaggerated. Since Langiewicz's time the Palatinate of Cracow—the scone of that leader's principal exploits—has always been occupied by the Russians in great strength. It is not only an easy country for an enemy well acquainted with the ground to defend, being thickly wooded and broken up by a chain of hills, but the frontier is only four miles distant froTn the city of Cracow. It was essens. till for the Rtiusians to prevent the Poles from este lishing themselves in a district whence they could kespup a close and constant communication with the place from which they i'ave hitherto drawn the grouter pert of their supplies, and the bands in the Pelatinete have usually" been defeated forthwith when they have entered from the neighbourhood of Cracow ready formed, while they have seldom main tained themselves for many weeks together even when they have been organised in the country itself. Chmelinski had been acting some time in the Pa latinate when in the month of October " '2ossak" came to the city of Cracew and began to send across the frontier, in parties of four and five, the detach zeta with which Chmelinski's afterwards co-ope rated. Chmelinski, after the two detachments had joined, for ultimately they formed but one, appears to have done duty as chief of the staff, " Bossak" assuming th e general command. Chmelinski and " Bessak" have done as hard fighting as any leaders who have appeared in Poland since the beginning of the insurrection, and have had to fight against better troops than those who took the field during the first few months. Both had been officers in the Russian army , which they only quitted to join their own countrymen in arms. Chmelinski was a lieutenant in the ar till ery. tc B ossa k" had the rank of colonel, and had served, I believe, in the guard and on the general staff. Ile had also seen active service in the Caucasus, where ho was twice badly wounded. The affair in which Chmelinski was taken has been represented in Polish telegrams as a victory for the Poles, and in Russian printed reports as a vic tory for the Russiane. It appears, however, from a letter of tolerably veracious aspect in one of the Russian newspapers that there was no battle at all on the ocewion. The Russians, under Gen. Czengery, coming np from several polnts and in great force to attack the insurgent band, Bossak led his men across a river. Chmelinksi, atteneed by cne aide-de-camp, waited behind to see the rear-guard safely over the bridge, and the last of the cavalry were just cross ing, when the Cossacks and dragoons composing the advanced guard of the Russians made their appear ance. The two Polish officers dresv their revelvers and fired, but the Russians firing at the same time, she aide-de•cemp's horse was brought down, and Chmelinski received a wound in the head. The rest cf the story is not likely to be true. The dragoons, we are told, having made a rus h a t th e c hi ef of the staff, and having seized him, he exclaimed," Do not kill me, I am Chmelins.i. It is not at all improbable that the wound Chmelinski received in the head was from his own hand. The Rassians would have endeavoured to take him alive, in order to have the pleasure of heeeging him, and he knew the fate that inevitably awaited him if alive he fell into the power of his enemm• Czachowski, shot himself when escape from the Rus3ians bad becime impossible, which did nft prevent a Krsiar. cfiiear from claiming a e merit of having administered to him:liis dean-wound. According to the Ruuian newipaper3 Chmelinski waa concerned in tha attempt made the life of the Grand Duke Constantine immediately after his arrival in Wrarsaw. The party least guilty is that *hanieful affair was the half-witted fanatic who --------- _ actually find the shot, but, according to Polish accounts, it was not Chmelinski, the chief of in surgent; but some relation of his who prompted the act of which the well calculated political effect was to render impossible the work of conciliation undertaken by the Russian Government (at least a couple of years after the proper time), and to leave the extreme party—the party bent upon in surrection at all hazards—face to face with Russian repression. Chmelinski, like so many of the Poles who have served in the Russian army, was among the extremest of the " extremes ;" and when he first appeared in the field his harsh and overbearing conduct to the Polish proprietors of his district was much complained of,--a fact, by the way, well worth the consideration of those Russians who speak of the Polish insurrection as an aristocratic movement. But when Chmelinski had won a few fights and had proved himself one of the most skilful as well as one of the most daring of the Polish Chiefs, no one said anything more about his exactions, nor about the roughness and violence of a man who in common with all the revolutionary i party was convinced that nothing but a general rising would suffice to drive the Russians out of Poland ; who had no faith in a partial insurrection kept up in order to give foreign Governments an opportunity of interfering in a struggle for which they have no taste ; and who thought no sacrifice too great to enforce from the landowners who, what ever else they gave, did not, like himself and his comrades, give their blood. Patriotism is the one cardinal virtue in Poland, and the man who fights for his country may do or leave undone whatever he pleases without incurring the smallest reproach. On the other hand, if a Pole shows himself devoid of patriotism, it is a Sid against the Spirit, for which there is no atonement. Neither he nor even his children can be forgiven, unless, indeed, the latter give some striking, un questionable proofs of not having inherited the paternal stain. Now " Bossak," or Colonel Hauke (to give him his real name, already well known to the Russians), inherited from his father the title of Count, but not the reputa tion of a Polish patriot. General Henke was one of the five officers who, during the outbreak of the 29th of November, 1830, which was the prelude to the general rising, endeavoured to prevent the troops from joining the insurgents, and were, in consequence, torn from their horses and massacred. This incident does not by any means prove that the officers in question did not love their country. They perhaps wished to save it from the ruin which they may have foreseen awaited it if it engaged in a struggle with the whole force of the Russian Em pire. But however that may be, the Emperor Nicholas settled their reputation for them by erect ing a monument to their memory in the principal square of Warsaw, and inscribing their names upon it as faithful servants of the Russian Crown. He erected a similar monument at Tsarskoe Selo to a horse—the one that carried him safely through the affair with the St. Petersburg insurgents in 1825; bat the officers whose infidelity to their country, or at least to their countrymen, is commemorated on the gigantic tea-urn that stands in the Saxon Square, are looked upon by the inhabitants of War saw and by all the Poles as something much lower than the Emperor's horse: _ _ As for the present Count Hanke, the " Bossak" of the Cracow Palatinate, he seems personally to have had nothing to complain of from the Russians. The Emperor Nicholas took charge of his education, and his path was made pleasant in the Russian army. It was not, however, the path of peace, and his friends say that by the wounds he received in the Caucasus he may be considered to have paid off his debt to the Russian Imperial family (with which, by the way, he is also connected by the marriage of one of his nearest relations to a member of the Hesse Darmstadt family). Ho will be accused all the same of ingratitude, and he certainly cannot be grateful in the Rochefoucauld sense of the word, for he has henceforth no favours to expect, and already the Russian newspapers are publishing the most malicious and at the same time stupid calum nies against him, and are representing a highly educated and accomplished gentleman who has left fortune, position, and every worldly advantage for the sake of his country, and perhaps also for the honour of his own family, as a brigand and cut-throat of the vilest description. To " Bossak" and "Kruk" (whose real name is still not generally known, but who, it may be men tioned, was also an officer in the Russian service) the duty of keeping up the insurrection in the king dom during the winter seems chiefly to have been assigned. " Bossak," though he is always moving about, still has his headquarters in the Palatinate of Cracow. " Kruk" has the general direction of several bands in the Lublin country, bat, by the last reliable accounts that have reached me (cot very recently), had not yet entered himself. "Kruk," it may be remembered, gained a few months ago the best regular battle that the Poles had fought since Jezioranski's victory at Kobylanka last May, and one of the very few that have been fought in the whole course of the insurrection. It was he who sent some 200 prisoners with a letter expressing a vain hope that the 11'193illIS would profit by the example set them, and at last behave with some mercy to the Poles who fell into their hands. This has, of course, not prevented the Russians from sending all their Polish captives to Siberia, with the exception of those who are thought distinguished enough to be shot or hanged. After his victory (which would have attracted a little more attention if the Poles had not been in the habit of representing all their defeats as victo ries) "Kruk" had overpowering forces brought against him; and ultimately he was obliged to re tire to Galicia, where he began to organise new bands, the proprietors of Lublin having got up a special subscription of a million Polish florins (.-C25,00G) to enable him to equip them in a suitable manner. Of the four leaders who a month ago would have been named as the main supporters of the Polish in surrection, in the kingdom and in Lithuania, two only remain. Besides " Kruk " there are several miaor chiefs in the province of Lublin, and " Bos sak " is said to have good lieutenants in his Cracow detachment. Ther© are smaller bands, too, in other parts of the country ; but " Bossak " and " Kruk" are regarded—or were (for life is remarkably uncer tain among the Polish insurgents)—as the chief on whom fell the special and difficult duty of keeping up the insurrection during the winter months. The Russians say once more that the insurrection is at an end. It might be better for the Poles were such really the case, for it is difficult to understand what they can gain—easy to see that they must lose —by prolonging the unequal struggle. The object of the Poles is, of course, to keep the Polish sore open, in the hope that Western doctors will feel compelled to attend to it should they find it still unclosed in the spring. That this sore irritates the whole European body is undeniable ; but it is equally certain that it has proved terribly enfeeblin g to Poland. It is evident that the Russians are now more anxious than ever to make short work of the spring as of something not under any circumstances zo be tolerated. Unless, however, they can cut it, burn it, or feeze it out during the next two months there will be thousands of volunteers ready to take up arms again in the spring—supposing always that the arms are to be had. The losses of Poland in men have, after all, been nothing compared to its losses in money and in property of all kinds, and if material resources were not wanting its personal resources would be almoat inexhaustible. [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Ointment.— Cold AVeather.—Turn which way you will, go where you please, nersons will be found who have a ready word of praise for ;his Ointment. For chaps, chafes, scalds, bruises, and sprains it is an invaluable remedy ; for bad legs, ceased by accident or cold, it may be confidently relied upon for effecting a sound and permanent cure. In all cases of swelled ankles, erysipelas, gout, and rheumatism, Hollo way's Ointment gives the greatest comfort by reducing the inflammation, cooling the blood. soothing the nerves, ad - jusiing, the circulation, and expelling impurities. Thi3 Ointment should have a place in every nursery. It will cure the long list of skin affections which originate in afid -11,1Q(13 attd gain strength with the child's growth, TIM SON. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1861. Me french Circular on the Conferenc43, -->-- II() following is the tat of the Note aldu,, , ssed , by M. Dronyn de Lhuys to the French Ministers at the minor German Courts relative to the Conference proposed by England : M. le Ministre,—On the 31st December the English Go vernment forwarded a communication to the Government of the Emperor, in which it proposed the assembly of a Con ference, either at Paris or London, which should be sum moned to consult upon the affairs of the Duchies. It would consist of representatives of the Powers by which the Treaty of 1852 was signed, to whom would be added an accredited envoy from the German Confederation. When the Government of the Emperor was first sounded on this subject, it felt itself called upon, in order to avoid every error, to point out clearly the material difference exist ing between a Conference which discussed a special question and between the general or more restricted Congress, the idea of which emanated from the Emperor. A Congress which is to regulate interests of the most various kinds offered elements of arrangement which, of ne cessity, would be wanting when the deliberation is confined to an isolated interest. While the Emperor allowed himself to be guided by this reflection, and as he was, in addition, no longer willing to take a negotiation under his auspices, from which he would have been obliged to exclude several of the Powers who had assented to the idea of a Congress, no other course was open to him but to decline to permit the Congress to assemble in Paris. But the Government of the Emperor is not on that'ac count less desirous to support the attempt which may be made to prevent more serious complications. The preserva tion of peace was the aim of my august master, when he in vited the Sovereigns to an explanation among themselves to fortify still further the political system of Europe. The object of the Emperor is still the same, and, although he still remains convinced that only one way can lead to it, he has yet no absolute objection to the combination which has been announced by the English Government. Certain pre liminary explanations would, notwithstanding, be neces sary, and the same have been offered by the Powers. The London Conference of 1852 has only accomplished an impotent work, as the present condition of affairs more than abundantly proves. Its resolutions are contested at the present time by the majority of the lesser States, as well as by some of those by whom it was agreed to. If they were to :assemble again at the present time it would be mainly to come to resolutions which would be calculated to give hopes of a more satisfac tory result. In the first place, it is of importance not to place the Conference in opposition to the Federal Diet by Leviting the Plenipotentiaries to discuss questions which may practically already be decided, and the Government of the Emperor has applied to the Powers to learn if they were inclined to take the actual status quo in Schleswig and Holstein as the point of departure—that is, to reserve the pending question. At the same time the Emperor, actively engaged on one subject which appears to be of great interest for Germany, is of opinion with the English Government that the parti cipation of the Germanic Confederation in the negotiations which may ensue would be of great assistance. But it is questionable if the Federal Diet would decide to adopt the line of action. In the midst of a general or more restricted Congress, which discussed other questions besides that of the Duchies, the German Diet, as I believe, would have no hesitation in laying its affairs before :an European tribunal. One of the advantages of this conciliatory plan was to make a just share of allowance for the sensibility and interests of each. But since the Federal Diet has on several earlier occasions de clined all the prepositions which had for their object the arrangement of their difference with Denmark by the Powers who signed the Treaty of London, the Emperor must first be convinced whether the views of the German States in this respect have undergone any change before he on his part accepts the proposition of the English Cabinet. This is the communication, M. le Ministre, which I am directed to transmit to you. I should, therefore, esteem it a favour if you would place me in a position to announce to my Government whether the idea of a Conference is ap proved by the -- Government, and whether it would be inclined to vote at Frankfort that Germany should be re presented at this assembly by a special plenipotentiary. - - MX T. BARNES, 31,P„ AT BOLTON, On Thursday evening, Mr. T. Barnes, M.P. for Bolton, addressed the electors and non-electors of that borough in the Temperance Hall. Mr Alderman Robert Heywood pre sided. The room was crowded. Mr, BARNES, on pre• senting himself, was received with enthusiastic cheering. The hon. gentleman said that it was with very great pleasure for many reasons that he appeared among them again, especially as he was conscious of having done his best both for his constituency and the country. He thought he might congratulate the borough on many things which had happened during the past year—a year that would be remembered by many for some time to come, such a year as had seldom been experienced in this country—a year of suffering and want, and a year that would hereafter be pointed to as exhibiting on the part of the operative classes a noble endurance and fortitude. They had also this consolation, which he believed was a sound one, that they had seen the worst of the distress. In Bolton there had been less suffering than in other neighbouring districts, and he hoped that what there was would gradually melt away and that the sun would again shine upon them as it did three or four years ago. (Applause.) Two years since when addressing them he had to express, in words of con dolence and regret, his sense of the loss of that good and distinguished man, Prince Albert; but ho had now to con gratulate them on the way in which the marriage of the Prince of Wales was celebrated in Bolton and throughout the country. (Applause.) In March the Prince of Wales brought his wife through London amid such a scene of con gratulation as he believed no heir to the throne ever before enjoyed. The marriage of the Prince of Wales was rejoiced over from one end of the country to the other. And now it was evident that the good lady had made quick work of it, for she had brought herself and her husband to Babbicombe Bay already. (Laughter.) They might ex press a wish that all who proceeded from that stock might he as good as the reigning sovereign. (Applause.) None of them wished to see a successor to the throne; but when in the course of nature such an event did happen he trusted that those who followed the Queen might follow the bright example she had set. (Loud applause.) He believed that the ruling thought in her heart was the good of the people over whom she ruled. It would be perhaps expected from him that he should review the session which had just closed. He did not think it desirable to follow the course he had parsut.d on former occasions and take the different questions which had engaged the attention of Parliateent. If he did so, ; he should be merely repeating what he bad previously said. The past session was striking for its quietness, From some cause or other the Opposition never menaced the Treasury benches. It had been said that the Tories were in power, but the Whigs were in place, To some extent this was true, and described the position of affairs, though how long it would last he c,,uld not say, inasmuch as men were not generally content with power without pay or patrpnage. (Hear, hear.) At all events it could not last very long. The legal life of the pre sent Parliament would end next year, and they should see some sort of change then if all the elements of discord did not cause some sort of split in the Cabinet, on some subject or other, before then, Upon some ques tions the country was absolutely at a dead lock. The questions ho referred to were those of the reduction of expenditure, those of an ecclesiastical character, and those bearing upon reform. Nothing would unlock the wheels of the State carriage but a general elec tion. (Applause.) The expenditure of the last year had been reduced. They had an excellent Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose anxiety, he believed, it was to bring down the expenditure of the country, and in this he would be backed by publics opinion. (Applause.) The ecclesiastical questions upon which there had been a dead lock were prin cipally the questions of church rates and the Irish Church. Church rates were very little felt in Lancashire; but if the Marquis of Blandford's District Churches Aot was to in. volve the imposition of church rates, as was contended, they might soon have the question raised. The question of the Irish Church was one that called for investigation. In 1835 there was a return published of the parochial benefices in Ireland containing less than 50 members of the Established Church. It gives the following results :—The number of p:rishes without churches and glebes, and with not more than fifty Protestant members of the Established Church, was 608, and the revenue of those parishes was L 50,432. But of that number there wore 131 parishes, with benefices amounting to 17,557, in which there was neither glebe nor Protestant. Somebody or other filled these livings and re ceived the money, but it was evident that they had no Pro- teatants to (look after.) (Hear.) The Lancashire notion was that if a man received wages he should have something to do for it. The Irish Church, however, was called a Mis sionary Church. It had been 200 years in existence ; the re turn he had quoted was 27 years old, and they might rea sonably expect some returns by this time; but the number of parishes with not more than 50 Protestants was 124; and the value of the livings was £17,061. According to the census of 1831 the number of Catholics in Ireland was 4,494,583 ; the number of Churchmen, 678,661; the num ber of Dissenters of diiierent sorts, 586,563; the number of other sorts, 8,414; and of Jews, 322; making a total of 5,764,543, Out of every hundred persons in Ireland 78 wero Catholics, 12 were Churchmen, 9 were Protestant Dissen ters, and ono belonged to some other body. He contended that this was a subject for inquiry. Another subject of dis cussion in the House of Commons had been the Uniformity Act, which was a favourite topic with Dissenters 200 years ago, but was now brought forward by Churchmen, and he wished them success with all his heart, (Applause.) The question of reform was hardly alluded to in the House of Commons last year, and was wisely so, inasmuch as it was no use talking about the subject year by year, when it was quite certain they should get nothing for their talk, It was felt that it was better to postpone the question until there was more likelihood of good being done. The question was like a becalmed vessel, and there must be something like a hurricane outside before the vessel would cove again. (Ap lause.) Lord Palmerston on this question was like a debtor who wanted plataty of dulling, (Laughter.) no last go- after all was net unfruitful. They had a good budget. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had £300,000,000 to dis- Tom of, which he divided between the rich and the poor by taking off 21. from the income tax, and 51. from tea and by a little doctoring of tobacco. They had also some excite ment about the proposition for the purchase of the Exhibi tion building, which created such a raw in the house that anybody would have taken it to be drunk. (Laughter.) There was also an excitement with reference to Mr. Somes's bill, for which ho had voted. (Applause.) The state of Lan cashire had also hoen discussed, and the Public Works Act had been the result. Emigration had been suggested as a remedy for Lancashire distress, but ho was no advocate for transporting people by thousands, which he thought would be a desperate remedy for the ills of the country. The only system of relief was more cotton, and he was glad to say there was a prospect of a good supply from Egypt, Africa, Greece, Italy, Algiers, and some of our colonies. He had himself tried, he believed with success, the experiment of cultivating cotton in the West Indies. Rascality and dis honesty had disappointed them in reference to India, but oven from there they might expect a greater quantity and a better quality. Upon the dispute in Ame ice and the affairs of Schleswig-Holstein, our course should be that of neu trality. He wished to see old England weather the storm —looking upon the storm indeed, but taking no part in it ourselves; but husbanding our strength for a better time. He was glad to believe that there was a prospect of a re turn to a state of prosperity. Let us but have a supply of cotton—the means of employing the people—and old Eng land would again be one of the most prosperous countries under Heaven. (Loud cheering.) Several questions were put to the hon. gentlemat. Mr. Barnes was asked if he would support the Permissive Bill of Mr. Lawson, member for Carlisle. Mr. Binyns said he could not say what he should do until he saw the bill. Mr. Alderman Hanvfoon moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Barnes for his services during the past session of Par liament. Mr. Alderman]OuTog:seconcled the motion, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. BARNES acknowledged the compliment, and the meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT, Yesterday Mr' Raffles, the Liverpool stipendiary magis trate, was engaged in the investigation of a charge of in fringing the Foreign Enlistment Act, preferred against Mr. Thomas Highat, a member of the firm of Jones and Co., ship.store dealers and chandlers, of Chapel-street, Liverpool. The summons included the names of John Jones (principal) and John Wilding (a clerk to the firm), but these parties did not appear. Mr. Vernon Lushington appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Deighton for the defence. The facts of the case, as stated by Mr. Lushington, were that in 1863 a vessel called the Japan was built at Dum barton, the sole registered owner being Mr. Thomas Bold, partner in the firm of Jones and Co., though he was not proceeded against yesterday, as there was no evidence against him. The ship remained registered in his name until the 23d of June, when Mr. Bold informed the customs that he had sold her to a foreigner. Towards the end of March, the vessel being nearly ready for sea, it was then necessary to get a crow, which was done partly at Greenock and partly at Liverpool. At the latter place several persons were induced to sign articles for a voyage in the Japan to Singapore and back for two years. The men were directed to take their clothes to the office of Jones and Co„ where they got their advance notes, and in ono case money was paid by the defendant. The men, including John Stanley, Benja min Conolly, and Francis Glassbrook, went on board the Greenock boat (where they saw Mr. Jones and Mr. Highat) and each man having answered to his name, they sailed to Greenock, and went on board the Japan. Oa the 3d of April the Japan left the Clyde under the guise of a "trial trip," went down the Channel, and stood towards the coast of France. At a short distance from Brest they fell in with a small steamer, which they towed into that harbour. Here a number of boxes were sent on board the Japan from the small steamer, and which packages contained arms and ammunition, Mr. Jones himself coming on board, and superintending the tranship ment of the articles. Lieut. Maury came on board the Japan, took the command, and assumed the uniform of the Confe derate navy. He told the men that the vessel was to become a Confederate ship of war, and promised them £lO bounty, and Li lOs per month if they would enlist. Mr. Jones was there during the whole time, and was actively engaged in persuading the men to volunteer for the service. Benjamin Conolly, the first witness called, said he shipped in March last, at the Liverpool Sailors' Home, for the Japan steamer. He was a coal trimmer. After signing articles, _he went to the office of Messrs. Jones and Co., where he saw Mr. Highat, who told him to come down next day for his advance note. He went and got the note for M. He after wards went on board the Greenock steamer, where he again saw Mr. Highat. At Greenock he went on board the Japan, and they sailed three or four days afterwards. When they had been oat a few days they fell in with a steamer, and took her into Bre, t. They then took in guns and ammuni tion from the steamer, in which Mr. Jones took a " clever part." Mr. Highat was not there. Capt. Maury came on board next day, and put on the grey uniform of the Confe derate navy, and said he was about to hoist the Confederate flag. He told the men they would have a good ship, and that he would make them all very comfortable, He then read his commission. He said ho would give the men higher wages than they had had at Liverpool. Witness asked the captain about the prize money. He (witness) did i not want to go, but Mr. Jones endeavoured to induce him by telling him he would make plenty of money. Witness, how. ever, refused to go, though he did afterwards sign an agree merit to sail, and received LlO bounty from the purser. Mr. Jones was there then, and got £0 from him (witness) again, promising to send it to his parents. Numbers of others signed papers alas. They were to have £1 lOs per month. Mr. Jones promised that all the men would get prize money. They hoisted the Confederate flag the same evening amidst the cheers of the crew, and sailed. They soon afterwards met with several Federal ships, some of which were burnt, They returned to Franco about two months ago, and ported at Cherbourg. Witness obtained leave of absence, and came to Liverpool and called at Jones's office. He saw Jones and Highat there, but Mr. Jones did not seem to know him, and witness said, " You knew me well enough in Franco, when you wanted me to serve under a foreign flag for you." Jones said, " Don't melee a noise, there will be something done for you." Mr. Highat must have heard this, as he was sitting at a d es k c l ose by. Wit mer." Highat said, " All, this is Maury's writing, call ness then spoke to Mr. Highat, and showed his " cit izen regain. Wo will send a telegram to the ship about you." He saw Mr. Highat ono) or twice afterwards, and he told him to gather all the men belongin g to the Georgia, and pat them on board the Itavre boat, Received £3 at Mr. Jones's office to pay his expenses, but witness become afraid of breaking the Queen't, proclamation by going on board the Georgia again, and so ho ran away with the £3. There was 'MOW then that due to him for his s ervices on board the Georgia. In cross.examination by M ssei r. ghton (who appeared for Mr. Highat), the evidence of Conolly was not materially affected, It was elicited that he was now, with Stanley, Glassbrook, and other men wh o had been in the Ge or g ia, in the service of Mr. M'Cluire ( a private detective officer in the pry of the United States Consul at Liverpool) , a nd that he received excellent pay for picking up information. He denied, however, that he was a spy in the Federal service. Witness also denied having solicited Mr. Highat for em ployment in the Confederate service, and that Mr, Highat said it was illegal. He admitted that on one occa sion Mr. Jones advised him not to join a Confederate ship. When he went to the office of Jones and Co., on the Geo r g ia's re. turning to France, his object was to get money to enable him to go back to Cherbourg and get the wages w hich were duo to him from Captain Maury, John Stanley was the next witness, and he generally cor- roborated the previous evidence. In cross-examination by Mr. Deighton the witness stated that he had been in communication with the U nited States consul in Liverpool, and that h e h a d received, lik e Conoll y , a weekly salary of £l. 1 9s 4d, the same wages that he had received on board the Georgia, and that he was paid by Maguire, the private detective. Francis Glassbrook followed, his evidence being of the same description. He stated in cross examination that he was retained by the United States consul to give evidence in the present prosecution. The wife of the last witness was called, and identified Mr. Highat as the gentleman who gave her the £lO bounty due to her husband for servin g on board the Georgia. Mr. Highat also gave her half pay several times on her husband's account. Thomas Mathews, who had else made the cruise in the G eo rgia, was examined, an d id en tified Mr. Highat as being connected with the ship and payment of m en on board the Georgia. This witness a l so rece ived £1 19s 4d a week, but he did not know who paid it. He had tho money at Mr. Maguire's office from " somebody." At the conclusion of the case the defendant was commit ted to take his trial at the assizes, bail being accepted, him self in £3OO and two sureties in £l5O each. ADVERTISEMENT.]--Avoid m edicines ; they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but D Restoring Revalenta Ar a bi ca Food, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedie s , i nv ariably cure s them, restoring Du Barry's Delic ious Health perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sl ee p, f un ctional reg ularit y , and energy t) the most disordered o r en f ee bled. 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In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6,1 ; 51b., 11e. ; 121 b ., 228 . ; 2.41 b 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, liege nt-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all GlNVere Alla Viaemiatti in every Wiwi of the Vuited Eillgclom. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMLS.—A nunaber of cceeur, ant ied;ce isess prove only too clearly that the last desperate etruggle of the Polish nation is drawing, to 9. conclusion. One by one the insurgent leaders are captured, their bands dispersed, and themselves consigned, after a decent interval of a few days, to the gibbet or to the bullet. It is rather mortifying to reflect that the present success of the Russians is in a great measure owing to the misappropriation of a loan contracted ostensibly for the purpose of restoring the value of their currency. Still, if the insurrection is to fail, the shorter the agony the better. No one can hear without regret and indignation of the cruelties and enormities that have been perpetrated, and we may reasonably hope that at least the extremity of rigour will cease with the cessation of the cause whence it arose. Assuming, however, that the Emperor has successfully disposed of the question of serfdom and of the Polish insurection, he has yet to deal with another problem perhaps more diffi cult than either of its predecessors, Russia expects from the hands of its present monarch a Constitu tion, and he is under some engagement to meet her expectations. Now, Russia is a country to frame a Constitution for which would, we think, have very seriously puzzled even the Abbe Keyes. The Emperor, in granting a Constitution, has not, we believe, the slightest intention of doing what in most cases is nearly identical—effecting a vast re volution. He professes himself friendly to progress and:willing to allow his people a voice in their own affairs, but we have no idea that he means for one moment to divest himself of absolute power, or to descend from the position of Emperor, Auto crat, Head of the Church, and almost a Deity on earth, to that of a chief magistrate, exercising cer tain delegated attribut ons under the advice of Mini sters responsible to a freely-elected Parliament. The first question the Emperor of Russia will have to consider is how he means to treat his aristocracy, Is he prepared to place the supreme powers of go vernment virtually in their hands? Such an act would be one of signal self-sacrifice; but, supposing the objections of the Emperor to despoil himself of absolute power have been overcome, it is quite cer tain that the good of the country would be pro moted by an act which would give it many masters instead of one? The Emperor may call to his aid the most enlightened advice, and when he has ascer tained what is best to be done he is so immeasurably raised above his subject that there would seem to be nothing to disturb his judgment. Would this state of thines be mended by placing the supreme power in the hands of an aristocracy hitherto, for the most part, inexperienced in public affairs, and having little knowledge of any profession except the use of arms ? Of course the removal of a supreme authority would at once split the aristocracy into factions, and the direction of public affairs would be contested with a cor ruption and violence exaggerated by the magni tude of the stake, the uncivilised state of the mass of the people, and the great power placed in the hands of the combatants. For the present century the Russian aristocracy has renounced the privilege of tempering autocracy by assassination. Is it quite certain that the Crown could enter into partnership with this powerful body without running some risk of a recurrence to ancient practices ? Shall, then, the Emperor create a House of Commons, to vote the Supplies and share with himself and the nobility the powers of legislation ? For such a body, in the English sense of the term, we fear there are in Russia no materials. The Russian middle class can hardly yet be said to have any existence. The House that would be elected would repre3cat the peasants ; it would naturally be bitterly hostile to the nobility from whose hands it had only lately been e ma n ': , pate'd and would probably seek to place the Ec.peror at its head with a view to changes in a i s - Sommunistic sense. Looked at even in this general way, the prospect is not at first sight very encouraging. The difficulty of finding a Constitution for Russia is, however, very greatly increased when we consider the vast numbers of the population, and the im mense space 'of land over which they are spread. In many of the western provinces, for instance, the opinion of the educated part of the community is so decidedly Polish that popular Assemblies could not be relied on even for the first essential requisite of loyalty to the Crown. In Siberia, whore there are no nobles, the landowners are said to be animated by a free and independent spirit very different from the slavish ideas which have so long prevailed in European Russia. What is to be done with Poland ? Can Russia afford to leave her out of the scheme of the Constitution, or will she venture to include her in it ? The first would be anomalous, the second highly, dangerous. There is indeed a solution which we believe has been thought of, but to which the Emperor is understood to be opposed, that is, to avoid the difficulties arising from dis cordant political opinions and jarring interests by placing power in the hands of a class which, sunk in ignorance and till lately in slavery, is below the region of politics, and would find, as we have said, in the Emperor its natural guide and pro tector. No doubt, for the present at least, if the Emperor chose to ally himself with those who were lately eerfs, he might, under the form of a free constitution, be nearly as absolute as ever. Universal suffrage would in this, as in most other eases, evince its affinity for arbitrary power, and its hostility to every class that intervehes between the lowest and the highest. Yet the Emperor may well pause before he exchanges his position is the head of a brilliant aristocracy and the earthly Providence of so vast a nation for the Dictatorship of an enormous predial democracy, ignorant, fanatical, inconstant, and unreasonableao be indulged with the extreme of license, or kept within bounds only by military violence. Among so many difficulties it is not wonderful that the Russian Government should hesitate, and though pledged to give a Constitution in the early part of the present year, should be still deliberating what that Constitution is to be. It is not unlikely that the result may be the abandonment of the idea of a general Legislative Body for the whole Empire, and the substitution for it of some sort of local machi eery. Nay, it is, we believe, not improbable that provincial Parliaments will, be found nearly as im practicable as Imperial Asserablies, and that the Russian Constitution may, after all, end in the ap pointment of Councils to manage the affairs of every parish. We are far from undervaluing even such a concession as this, for which the machinery already exists in every Russian village. But doubt less a proposal for a new Constitution which should end in the appointment of a number of select veetries would hardly escape the ridicule which attaches to an anti-climax. The truth is that a Constitution which is intended to work ought to be the refiem and result of the existing state of society in the, nation for which it is intended. To invest 12,000,000 slaves just emancipated, and perhaps three or four times as many persons - who can neither read nor write, with political power, would be to give influence in the Government to classes which have es yet been able to assert for themselves no social influence at all, and to surrenderpower which ought to be confided to rational and skilful hands to something worse than blind chance—to igno rance, stupidity, and brutality. And yet a Consti tution which pointedly excluded the whole body of the people must appear •ridiculous in the eyes of foreign countries, and illusory in the eyes of that people themselves. Serfdom may be abolished by a change of law, Poland may be subdued by the sabre and the bayonet, bat Russia has still to contend against her own internal barbarism, and that will neither yield to laws nor suffer itself to be dragooned into intelligence. Before he can give a satisfactory Constitution, the Emperor must educate a new generation to understand its rights and perform its duties. DAILY NEWS.—At length the Duke of Cam bridge has published his remarks on the Crawley Court-martial. The result is that whilst Colonel Crawley is directed "to resume the command of the 6th InniskillingDragoons," Major Swindley, Lieu tenant Fitzsimon, and Surgeon Turnbull are re moved from the regiment. Nothing is said of the other officers, non-commissioned officers and men. But the Commander-in. Chief " trusts that the Colonel will prove by tact and judgment in the per formance of his duties, that he appreciates the im portance of his position as a commanding officer, and that the painful experience of the past will not be lost upon him." Under circumstances so pectsliar there must be every disposition to put such a con struction upon the conduct of the Horse Guards as will make it, if possible, consistent. But the task is far from easy. According to the " re marks," Colonel Crawley has been fully and honourably acquitted" by the court—its proceedings have been confirmed and approved, and the verdict we are told, " should now be carried out." "Lieu tenant-Colonel Crawley will therefore resume the command" of his regiment. But why ? How did the Duke of Cambridge arrive at this conclusion ? The fitness of Colonel Crawley for command was never before the Court-martial at all. That officer has been tried upon two charges, and upon two charges only—excessive severity toward Sergeant- Major Lil'ey, and uttering a false charge against Adjutant Fitzsimon. It certainly must have oc curred to the Duke, as it did occur to many reason able people, that Colonel Crawley might well be acquitted of both those charges, and might never theless be utterly unfit to command a regiment. Surely there are many things less heinous than toriuring a sergeant-major and slandering an ad jutant which ought to disqualify a man for the command of a regiment. But what thinks the Duae of Cambridge on this question ? It is difficult to say. If the Duke thinks that because Colonel Crawley has been fully and honourably acquitted of the two heinous charges for which he was tried he has proved himself fit fig commod,:why cloys he Allude "to the pai . aful es.pc:rience of the past ? ' If, on the othei • hand, the Duke thinks that it is on ly b y a h a p py zzimoinati . 4n of tercpt.r, aci's dizere.t;,,n that the comnaand c a regiment can be properly conducted, what evidence has been furnished dur ing the late court martial Co!. Crawley pos,- sesqes those essential qualiacations ? One of two things—either the Commander in Chief has admi nietLred a rebuke to Col. Crawley which is unde served, or he has replaced that officer in command of a regiment without duo :consideration, and in violation of all consistency. Contrast for a moment his treatment of Major Swindley with that of Major Swindley's Colonel. In the remarks just published, the Commander in Chief says:—"The Court has remarked on the animus displayed by Major Swind ley in giving his evidence. He has not ceased to entertain feelings which strike at the root of all discipline :" " and Major Swindley will be removed from the regiment accordingly." Only six months ago the Commander in Chief said—" Col. Crawley's rejoinder to Mr. Smales's defence his Royal High ness considered as exceedingly vindictive, and likely to raise a spirit of resistance among his officers." But, notwithstanding, his Royal Highness pro ceeds to say that he will allow the Colonel to re main at the head of his regiment. Thus the Major who displays animus against his Colonel in giving evidence is removed from his regiment because such feelings strike at the root of all discipline, whilst the commanding officer of this Major, whose con duct is denounced as exceedingly vindictive, and likely to raise the spirit of resistance, is retained in command. The army and the • public have just been reminded, by command of his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief, that without discipline an army is worse than useless, and that under all circumstances it must and will be maintained. It might seem superAttous to re mind a Commander in Chief that discipline, how ever essential, Cannot be maintained unless the chief has mind enough to distinguish be tween justice and injustice, and firmness enough to act upon this distinction. But the painful inconsistencies of which the Duke of Cambridge has been guilty in dealing with the Inniskilling Dragoons prove that principles so elementary are either ignored or forgotten. After all, however, neither the weakness and inconsis tencies of the Commander-in-Chief, the alleged tyranny of Colonel Crawley, nor even the sufferings endured by Lilley and his wife, are the real ques tions at issue. The real question is, whether the law of the land can be overridden, and the rights of the soldier violated in India or elsewhere with impunity. There is no doubt whatever that three non-commissioned officers were kept under arrest from the 26th of April until the 25th of May, 1862‘. And it has been admitted by Lord Hartington in the House of Commons, by the Judge Advocate, and the official prosecutor at Aldershot, that this con tinued arrest was illegal by the Articles of War, and by the Mutiny Act. By the 99th article of war, " when any soldier or officer commits an offence deserving of punishment he shall be ordered into arrest or confinement until released by lawful authority ; and no officer or soldier shall continue in such arrest or confinement more than eight clays, or until such time as a court-martial care conve niently be held." The 79th article art' 6 0 sa y s : " Whosoever shall unnecessarily detPf en any pr i soner in confinement with ou t bringir-- g him to trial shall, if an officer, be liable to h' such other punishment as, by the judgment of a cashiered, or to suffer general courtemart;: el, may three sergeant..., were in be awarded." Now, the e- eight da .1 d i and not one of them was tried by court - Aeal. This was a grossly illegal act committed by some person. Who committed this illegal act was the question originally raised in Parliament by Mr.For teseue and others? That question has not yet been answered. On the contrary, the utmost care has been taken that it shall not be answered. It is our conviction, as it has been throughout, that the officer really responsible for this grievous wrong is Lieut.-Colonel Crawley, but he has never been distinctly tried upon this charge. At all events, the responsibility lies between three men—Colonel Crawley, General Farrell, and Sir William Mans field. It is for the Commander-in-Chief and the War Secretary to find out and to punish the officer who is really guilty. The penalties attached to keeping an officer unnecessarily in confinement furnish conclusive proof of the serious character of the charge which some person or other is now bound to answer. There is no such thing known to the law of England as arbitrary arrest or imprisonment for an indefinite period. It is needless at this time of day for civilians to insist upon the necessity of visitingthose who violate its provisions with condign punishment. Soldiers aro equally entitled to the like privileges. Those who have dared to violate them at Mhow must be dragged to the light, and the common soldiers and non-commissioned officers must be assured that their rights are to be guarded with as much jealousy as the rights of the most illustrious man who ever grasped a marshal's truncheon ; and unless Parliament is content to abdicate its functions it will see that right is done. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London _News.) The will of Bellamy Dobree, Esq., a city merchant, and a director and late Governor of the Bank of England, was proved in London on the 20th ult., by his only son,Bonamy Dobree, Esq., sole executor, 'Use personalty was swornunder £70,000. The will bears date 1841, leaving his personal estate between his son and two daughters. In a codicil, deated Dee. 11, 1860, attested by Alfred Lytham, Esq., then Deputy• Governor of the Bank of England, and Henry Freshfield, Esq. of Bank-buildings, the testator states that, " whilst holding the office of Governor of the Bank of Eng land, I received from his Majesty the Emperor of Russia a malachite vase, with an inscription, in acknowledgment of the services which his Imperial Majesty considered had been rendered to him by the Corporation of the Bank of England, and also of the care which his Majesty was pleased to con sider I had individually bestowed in his interest." The testator, highly prizising this memorial, has requested that it should be held as an heirloom In his family, and has be queathed it on tbose terms to his son and to his issue. The 'will of Thos. Brown Young, Esq., of Clapham road, was proved in London under £20,000 personalty. The bulk of the property is to be held by the legatees for each of their respective lives, and the reversions, as each life falls off, will revert to certain charities enumerated in the will, the amounts varying from £4,000 to £2,000. The residue, which is left to the testator's three brothers-in-law, is held in like manner ; the share of each, expiring at his death, will re veet to the Infirmary for Children and Widows, Waterloo • Bridge-road. The other societies are the Dreadnought, Cancer Hospital, British Lying in Hospital, Royal Infir mary for Asthma and Consumption, City-road ; Royal Free Hospital, East London Hospital, Victoria Park; Surrey Die[tensary, and Middlesex Hospital. The will of Thos. Peters, Esq., of the Grange, St, John's wood, was proved in .London under £140,000 personalty, the executors and trustees being his three sons—John W. Peters, Wm. W. Peters, and Joseph Peters, Esqrs., toge ther with Thos. Gasccigne Norcutt, Esq. The will was executed in 1859, and two codicils in 1861 and 1863. To his executors he leaves .Ll,OOO ; to St. Paul's Chapel Schools, Kilburn, and the Operative Coachmakera' Bene volent Society, each £lOO. There are legacies to his nephews, nieces, and grandchildren, and to his servants, To his daughter he leaves the sum of £30,000, and the residue of his property to his three sons before named. Shocking Occurrence at the Fishmongers' Almshouses, Yesterday evening an occurrence of a painful nature took place at the almshouses erected by the Fishmongers' Com pany in the Wandsworth-road for decayed members Of their company, which created considerable excitement amongst the peaceful inhabitants of those buildings. The age of the sufferer, and the still more advanced age of her husband, added considerably to the sympathy expressed by all to whom the occurrence became knewn. lc appears that Mr, Mecham, formerly of Newington butts, now aged 87, and who has for the last 12 years been a recipient of the bounty of the above liberal and wealthy company, being very infirm, had requested his wife, herself 74 years of age, to fetch him a pillow, and whilst upstairs for that purpose her clothes unfortunately became ignited by the candle she was carrying. Her screams aroused her husband, who in spite of his infirmity, hurried upstairs as promptly as he could, and endeavoured, but in vain, to ex tinguish the flames. He then went to call the assistance of neighbours, and by their joint exertions the burning clothes were got away from the poor old lady. The Lady Superin tendent sent at once for Dr. March, of St• John's-hill, who with a medical friend who chanced to be with him, at once attended, and did everything which experience could sug gest to allay present suffering, and, if possible, prevent a fatal termination to the case. The great age of the sufferer, however, leaves but little hope that her system can recover from the severe shock consequent upon the extensive inju ries she has sustained. MORE INCENDIARISM IN YORKSIIIRE.—On Mon day a fire broke out in the stack...yard belonging to Mr. Daniel Gibson, the Grange, 0 ttringhana, Holderness, in such a manner as to lead t o the belief that it was the work of an incendiary. In the yard there were 11 sucks, and the fire commenced in the centre one. On tho alarm being given Mr. Gibson and his men took steps to prevent the spread of the fire by covering the adjoining stacks with wet blankets, &c. A telegraphic message was sent to Hull for a fire-engine, and after the lapse of about an hour and a half the engine belonging to the Local Board of Health was on the spot. There was a good supply of water, and the large number of labourers who collected from the adjoining farms rendered good service. Fortunately, the flames were confined to the stack in which they originated, but it was totally destroyed. A man had been seen lurking about the place in the early morning, and he was apprehended near the spot by Super intendent Wilkinson, of the East Ridin COnittiblllarYl On snspieim 9 PeiDg the COUNTRY LTLRRETS. ....... ------ .11N LIVERP 0 OL--FRIDAY. There was a moderato attendance of the tral° to -43) 1 but a small Lusiness was done. Wheat met a blow sa le, 2d per eent.al lower. Flour was dull, and Cd per barrel and sack decline. Indian corn very dull—mixed, 3N to 30304 per qr. Oats and oatmeal unchanged. Beans quiet. WAKEFFIELD—FRIDAY. Wheat in fair supply to-day. Trade dull, and the ss leg made were at barely last Friday's prices. Barley was a . l° , ° a dull sale, and rather lower in price. Other articles brill; late rates, Averages for the week Wheat 2,193 qrs., at 4ls lid Rye — —s Od Beans Oats — - -3 Od Peas 8ar1ey......... 561 LINCOLN—FRIDAY. A fair quantity of wheat on offer at our market to ' ( n with a moderato business, at about the rates of the p revia week, White wheat new, 41s to 47s Barley, grinding.. 27B to 3,9,1 Red do. 39s to 41s Oats, old, .. ...... 238 to V?_ Old white —s to —s New do 2 0 s to 210 Red do. 4os to CIS Barley, —s to —s 1 Beans. na--. 1 timg....348 to 37s 1 Beans, new 370 t° 4°ll STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 04s to'44s ; red, 388 to 40s per 3613 013 ' ~° Barley, malting, 32s to 365; grinding, 29s to 31s Pe r ..,. (I. ' Oats, 18s to 22s per 24:stone. Beans, old, 40s to qr. ; new, 36s to —s. CORK-FRIDAY, • Red The following were the quotations this morning 63 wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od to 9s 8d , b a rleh to 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 6s 2d ; black do., 48 5s 3d. DUBLIN. s. d. 8. d. Wheat, white.. 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red .. 21 6 to 24 0 Do., new .... 0 to 0 Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 d' s. d. 0 Oatmeal lO 0 to 1 3 0 Beans.. 0 o 0 B ere 0to :,0 Rapeseed — oto „ 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn -FRIDAY. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. Tho raw sugar market has again become quiet, and g trade will only purchase as their wants compel them. ; .iy fined goods are also difficult to sell, and lower. 'lul u fair demand. COAL Pricea of Coal per Ton at lARKET. the dose of the market, i. d, e. d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 18 9 Cowpen Hartley 18 9 Hastings Hartley lB 9 Eden Main 22 6 Walls End. o i 6 Harton .............. (1 . Haswell .......... Tunstall Hetton ......... 15; sold, 15. Ships at marks RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WBO' ts. , Mlles Opened. ite°J,2l-3 Railways. 1863. 1862. Belfast and N, Counties . 136 136 Ballast and County Down.... 49 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 Bristol and Exeter l2li 1214 Caledonian 2341 £34i Cockermouth & WPrkington Bk 84 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blacluock, & Passage 616 Cork and Youghal . 324 Cornwall 3621 531 53t Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 484 Edinburgh and Glasgow l69} 1694 Furness, &c 5O Si Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 353 351 Great North of Scotland 6B 58 (It. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3734 329 Great Western 10564 10324 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 864 864 Inverness & Perth Junction 119 k Irish North-Western 145 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 Limerick and Ennis... 241 Limerick and Foynes 26k Llanelly 461 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, kS. Coast 261 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 Do. Metropolitan Extension 10 Loud., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield,&Lincolnsh Blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l Maryport and Carlisle 2B Metropolitan 5l Midland lincl. N.-Western) 641 Midland Cit.Westn. of Irind 239i Moukland 7li Monmouthsh. RaiL & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dan 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Oswestry and Newton... 5O Rhymney 194 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 Scottish Central B9 Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon South-Eastern 306 Taff Vale 67 Ulster 1054 Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath 321 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 271 W.llartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 52 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 Whitehaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 26f Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185} Buffalo and Lake Huron l6li Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish lOBl Eastern Bengal Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 0384 Great Luxembourg 334 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 Northern of Canada Northern of France...., 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO3 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 774 Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France .• • . 770 Victorian lO6 Welland ,...—.... 25 West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France 145 895} 6:30 2591 714 44 4104 10791 1315 151 sg9 03 30 9 48,854 Foreign Mail Packet Lief 1S• MAILS DUE. Sall' .. 12. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton.':., .Jall' 3 , Brazil and Cape Verde, by vi a ß l‘ ri l t a i r s s h eili pa e :k° 7 ' ''' ..../ ttell.b. .-... 29. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Hel ena. San' China, Penan g , and Singapore , via ilso cilies • • s o uthaoP t° s9o. 29' Falkland Isiauds Gibraltar via Brit. packs 0 11 . . a 11, Ceylon, via w 0 8.. .• Jan. ..' ..-. via gars° ****** ** .: . .•,.. _0:.•tit.11,,i13.....p....t0:n.......3;a8111;.::4:. Jan. '''' India ( Bombay ), SouthamPton 000000000000 01. via • ...... Jan. ,%" P0rtu,..,,, zgypt, andvAia:lnarfeilles .................... raj ,. D gal.. yLai ,_" .. .................. ! ... _ .. Newfoundland .................. .Ja'-' U. S. and British N. America, by Oporto and Vigo ............... ............. Jn. 2°' by U.S. packet ..., .„ .0 25, W.C. of Africa, Madeira , and T via Marseilles ........ t _., g o, via Sirtynlmnadpiautonp.:k. et.i.: ., ane.b. 2 1 1 0 .. ellen e ........ ~.. . Bahamas, via New York ' ....... .r1:0u. 2 Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, } .10 1. California. and British Columbia. ........... —..0 0 ------"------' Births. f bier ELITES.—On the 14th inst., at Pendell Court, 131e-C3,1,. of lay, Surrey, the wife of Dudley G. Cary Wives, -r."" a son. th e ELERS.—On the 14th inst., at Fovant Rectory, Wilt* wife of the Rev. E. H. Biers, of a daughter. ,;„0. the MAY.—On the 14th inst., at 4, Eldon -road, iteaP wife of Edwin May, Esq., of a daughter. .. os ter , PAGET.—On the 13th inst., at Charrainster, D° l.cl 'A v rtil' . the wife of Captain Lecpold Fagot, Royal' 0 2 ' 13° ..- lery, of a son, Marriages. PonsEs—Stme.—On the 13th inst.. at St. Georg? - n ° t o vati• over-square, Charles Pulteney Forbes, Esq.+ f t he H.M.'s 109th Foot, to Hannah, second daugh*e- late John Sims, Esq., of Norwich. 01 01* HUSTLER—RAMSEY.— 0 On the 14th inst., at Sa=a- / 08 16 1 02 4, Hackney, W. B. Hustler, Esq , Earl's H all, Suffolk. to Elizabeth, yougest *daughter of e• Esq., Upper Homerton, Middlesex. Deaths. E of A.' --- ALLisoN.—On the 14th inst., - Joseph AlliO n / Friar's.place, Acton, aged 6 5 .,. 0 00 BARRON —Captain Barron, b ro ther of Sir K• Barron, Bart., formerly o f the 17th Lancers. voile, FOWLER.—On the 14th i ns t., at Datchet , John Eeq., aged 94. i r eA rsie f GI N 't o l l t T s . , — S O i r H Ti O r u H m . b — er o la n nd t , h a e g n James e l els o d4R f t, h holb i . n ien s r s t t t . inst., u r aa d nt d t e ,3 n o3 l: . t. a . , p t f :le Upper i f . o ; r ao a rti , e ,1 37 1 1:00 10 1 9 Frederick Huih, Esq., aged 87. W eft Moss.—On the 13th inst., at Kensington, Mr' ' 133' „ A r I. l ° Sh aged 72. -17, 10 136 P KING.—On the 16th •t ' Brighton,Wi llialli --. ins ~ at hl F-' ,( 1.) aged 84. ritOf STOTT.—On tho 13th inst., Sc. 0 0 ' iiil at t. 0 't Stott, aged 91. .r"'- i ' Louden : Prinzed and Published -y-WILLLOIA:n.h."‘IIn2i ai No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SuN OLuc e co oly Strand, in the Precinct of the Eiavoy , lit 1 44 7-41441e§ekr§AtUrtlay, cianuary 361..180i• 138 39i 75/ SOS 828 264 167 i 1611 185 1081 1081 E4l} 1090 495 134 481 1678 1431 1 z(