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

R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. - Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, to commence with the Second and Third Acts of THE BOEIEMIAN GIRL. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. THE A TRE-R YA L, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT' OF After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES. Commence at 7. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. R. Rnckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. After which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy :Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Followed by A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Rogers, and Miss Harfienr. THEATRE -ROYAL, LYCEUM, Will OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER, on SATURDAY, 10th January, 180, with a New Romantic Drama, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, in which the prin cipal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdicombe, tyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson ; Iffsges Carlotta Leclereq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenne, and Els worthy. Box-office open This Day, Ist January, from 11 till 5. NEW THRATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. r"TIIIS EVENING, MARGERY PAW. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J.L.Toole, P. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington. • To conclude with (Gth time)"GEORGE DE BARNWELL w tgar, or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of FancyL". Tlllolosioseinrrt ISliss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. lord, Stephenson, C. .J. Smith. Harlequin , Mr. midyard Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, lifr- W . l'antaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrat ed Arthur and -Bertrand. Commence at 7. R OYAL pRINcESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr Undue. 'THIS EVENING, TIME TRIES ALL: Mr. H. Vezin VA Miss Constance Aylmer. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, " RIQUET WITH THEor, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. lielmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and ndspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and 311 r. laalford. 4 The WEATHER,.--Sun Office, Jan. 1, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday. Lowest during the night This day at Noon . Barometer-29.89. Wind—S.W.; blowing a gale, with dirty weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tste DAT.—Morning, 11h. 35m.—Afternoon, h. —m To-moßlio w.-Morning, 12h. 7m. —Afternoon, 12h. 36m _AI e i t g LI I. 't~' gllll, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1863, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE opens before us propitiously. Even the Revenue Tables, when we come to :ook into them, appear to be, on the whole, highly satisfactory. Notwithstanding the gloom, and doubt, and stagnation incidental to the year that has just now passed away, the Balance Sheet of the Nation for that year tells a welcome tale to us all in many particulars. If it is borne in mind how many millions sterling have had to be docked from the wealth of this industrial country during 1862, in artisan's wages and in the manu factured products of their skill —ordinarily exercised harmoniously with the agencies of ma chinery—it is something surprising to find that in spite of all this glaring deficiency, in spite of this wide -spread and long-sustained interruption of one of our most important trades, the net increase upon 1862 (the Year of the Cotton Famine) exceeds by two round millions and very nearly a half million into the bargain, the net increase of its immediate predecessor ! Sixty-One, in that one particular, was good, but Sixty-Two proves to be better—the net increase upon the latter, as compared with the net increase upon the former, amounting precisely to £2,392,578. In other words, it should be said that, whereas the gross produce of the revenue reached upon the New Year's-eve of 1861 the sum of £68,603,85 1 , it attained yesterday a total of no less than £70,996,429. This, notwithstanding a dropping down in the Excise returns from £18,161,000 (as it was at the close of 1861 on the 31st day of December) to (what it proved to be yes terday) £17,534,000. Otherwise, a falling-of in the duties—by reason of a diminution in the con sumption of spirits—to the amount of exactly £626,000. It is in the Excise Department alone, however, that the Returns exhibit any appreciable diminution whatever. In all the other departments is a slight noticeable increase—that is to say, in Customs, stamps, Taxes, Property Tax, Post-office, Crown Lands, and Miscellaneous. In each and all of these there is moderate but appre ciable improvement. The Post-office increase we take now as really and truly a matter of course. It is in one sense inevitable. As it lives, so by ne cessity it grows. What it will come to eventually —who shall say ? To conjecture any limit might belie even, we should conceive, the imagination of Sir RoWLAND HILL. This last twelvemonth, but just now dead and gone, has given a ripe plum to the great letter-carrying institution of St. Martin's le-Grand, in addition to its revenue of the year preceding. At the termination of 1861 the Post office returns amounted to exactly £3,500,000. Yesterday they turned out to be precisely £lOO,OOO more, or to a nicety £3,600,000. The Customs again—notwithstanding all the draw backs of 1862 in regard both to the extent of our imports and of our exports—has declined be tween the last two New Year's Days from an aggre gate of £23,774,000, as those returns were at the end of 1861, to £24,036,000, as they were yester day. Again, the Stamps show a rise of a little O ver 1:300,000 —having yielded £8,488,170 the year before last, and during this year £8,913,945. The Taxes (so called by an odd particularity as if none of the other returns upon the tables came under the head of that unwelcome noun " of multitude, signifying many I") The Taxes par excellence are, as nearly as could reasonably have been looked for, equipoised at the end of the last two Decembers — £3,119,000 in 1861 Notwithstanding in 186 2 ; or £ 29,000 to the good! the Property-tax will be e the drop of a pe nn y , E t o have expanded in its productiveness from 9,962nn O ---,or close upon £10,000,000 sterling, to £11,104,000. Even the Crown Lands show a slight advance in these re turus—namely, from having been 1223,479 in Max becoming this last year £ 208,521 . Finall y , there) is noticeable under the head of Miscellaneous an expansion from £1,306,202 to £2,361,962. Every thing considered by no means an unsatisfactory Balance-Sheet for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to lay before the nation just after Christmas. Only— that the bloom is taken off the ripe plumspoured forth so abundantly from the seven cornucopias—by the circumstance of their king littered amongst a yet more affluent outpouring of Bills perpetually re quiring payment. If only the returns for the year —extending as they do to £7o,ooo,ooo—were not counterbalanced so very heavily by an equivalent in the shap e of our annual national expenditure! A different tale, however, will have to be told now upon that head by the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer. A new leaf is about to be turned over at the Treasury. That ererybody knot" already to have been resolved upon by her Majesty's Ministers. It is their only chance indeed of rema • 'lung in office. There it is that the screw has been put on effec.. tually—namely, in regard to their selfish fears, te to the possibility of being summarily dismissed from office by a combination between the powerful Conservative Opposition and the chiefs of the in dependent section of the Liberals below the gangway. As broad a hint as ever pro bably was vouchsafed by a Tribune of the People to the administrative holders of power was the one given to Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues by Mr. COBDEN immediately prior to the close of last session. Already it has told. It has brought con viction home to the minds of statesmen always I exquisitely sensitive, we may even with a more or less invidious stress upon the phrase add, constitu tionally sensitive, of the advantages accruing to them from the tenure of place, with its prerogatives of power and patronage. Her MAJESTT'S Ministers are prepared, upon mature consideration, to mode rate their previously expressed views in regard to the requirements of the Government in the way of expenditure. They will, however tardil y or reluctantlj, it matters little —they will—to a cer tain extent—economise. As a commencement, perhaps that is enough. The member for Rochdale may con gratulate himself upon how adroitly he thrust in the small end of the wedge. It rests with himself, and with others thinking and sympathising with him, to drive it later on fairly home. A comprehensive change for the better in the way of economy can only be brought about by degrees. Ce West que le premier pas qui coute. And that pretty " pass," as we are fain for the nonce to spell it, our own veteran Premier is in a fair way of being brought to, at length, by the exigency of circumstances. Financially, therefore, in a twofold sense, retro spectively viewed in regard to the returns, and anticipatorily viewed in regard to the probable re duction of the expenditure, the new year begins, as we have said propitiously. The " North American" has brought us some further particulars of the recent Federal catas trophe at Fredericksburg, and its consequences. Notwithstanding the statements of La France, the news just arrived indicates no lack of determina tion to continue the war. On the Confederate side this is natural, and we are not surprised to read of fresh aggressive movements on their part ; and, apparently, of a determination to extend the area of attack to the West and the Mississippi. But the Federals also appear equally determined. Though defeated, they are bent, rather on tracing the disaster to its primary causes, and on stimulat ing the Government to more efficient action, than on accepting the conclusion which Europe deduces —that the South is not to be vanquished. On the 19th, we were told that a public meeting was to have been called " to inform the Administration of the people's opinion regarding their misconduct of the war; but the Senate having ordered an in quiry to be made into the facts of the disaster at Fredericksburg, ,the next day's telegrams inform us that the meeting was postponed pending the report of the Senate. Meantime the tendency of popular opinion is to throw all the blame on the Administration. This is natural enough. Our Crimean war will remind us of like feeling so recently, in England ; but we apprehend there are far weightier reasons for dis content with Messrs. SEWARD and STANTON, than there were with our Premier and War Minis ter at the time of the Crimean disasters. The im portant fact, however, for Europe, for Lancashire, for India, and for all cotton-producing and cotton manufacturing countries is, that the fearful repulse of Fredericksburg affords no prospect of a termina tion of the war. It is surely of the last importance that all, practically concerned, should be fully awake to the temper of the North. While to all at a distance it seems as if the last five months of 1862 ought to convince the North that success is hope less, the North refuses to be convinced. It has had throughout the year abundant crops, and a good trade ; it has actually felt nothing of the miseries of war, and it will go on, so far as its temper can yet be judged of, for years, rather than recognise Secession. Perhaps the North may have made the best, basl as the best is, of its losses on the 13th; yet the offi cial account of a military man, like BURNSIDE, is not likely to be much wide of the truth. Ten or twenty thousand, it will be remembered, were the loose guesses at first. BURNSIDE makes the total 9,400, of whom 1,400 were killed. To these must be added 800 taken prisoners. He is said to have resigned, but his resignation, it is added, was not accepted. We hear nothing more of 11PCLELLAN, who by the first accounts had been sent for from Washington. BURNSIDE has officially reported that his retreat was a "military necessity." It would certainly seem to have been so. The great body of his army was exposed to the converging fire of almost an amphitheatre of batteries. To pierce the centre, according to the original inten tion, was hopeless, and had he attempted any crush ing movement against either flank of the enemy, the other flank would have been ready to attack him, almost in his rear. The best thing he could d• was to retreat, while he could, " without lops of property or of men." The Southern journals esti. mate their loss at only 500 killed, among them three generals, and 1,600 wounded. LEE says 1,800 killed and wounded. _ . We have accounts rather perplexing of exploits of both parties in North Carolina—the State im mediately south of Virginia. The Federals, it may be remembered, early in the war, seized on certain coast towns in that State, and have held them till the present time. They gained such a footing as to justify them, they thought, in setting up a rival Governor. We are now informed of a little fresh activity there. The Confederates are said, by one account, to have attacked Plymouth —a town occu pied by the Federals on the south side of Albe marle Sound, on the 9th; to have driven the Fe derals out of the town, and to have damaged a gunboat lying off the town. Probably it was a I surprise, a calamity to which the Federals appear to be everywhere liable. The other account refers to a Federal army further south in the State, at Beaufort and Newbern. It chiefly refers to a place called Kingston, some way inland on a railway. A Confederate General first reports, with much parti cularity, that on the 14th the Federals attacked Xingeten with nine g u nboats and 15,000 men, but wer e driven back to their gunboats after 10 hours' fighting ; but the Federa l Government, semi officially, announces, that it has heard no thing-- repulse. of thi s The next day ' s telegrams, however, tell us that the Con federates have "captured Kin gs t on, with 500 pr i sone rs and Bonthern 11 pieces of artillery." The journals an nounce that they "captured" th e t own , but were compelled to leave it on account of the i n j ury d o ne by the Federal bombardment. B u t t h en follow a much more mysterious two lines, inf orm i ng US tiutt the Federals " were advancing from Kingston, in the direction of Goldbborough and Weldon ; this would indicate that they had left Kingston, and their gunboats too, by a railroad direct for Rich mond or fur Norfolk ! Before the battle on the Rappahannock we had intimations that a move was to be made on Richmond from the South in combi nation with that from the North, but it was to be from Norfolk. Even a "Stonewall" JACKSON or a STUART would hardly attempt such a bold and desperate move as that now ascribed to the Federala starting from Kingston, and that too after a defeat. We must leave the solution to another mail. But the Confederates are showing activity else- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1863 where. They have even ventured an attack on Harper's Ferry, in which they were repulsed. But all looks like fresh movements in the West. JEF FERSON DAVIS himself has been in Tennessee, and avows his determination to secure that State for the South, even the Confederates seeming to think Kentucky and Missouri hopelessly gone to the North, From Tennessee he has gone to Mobile, the important remaining Confederate port on the Gulf, of whose intended capture we have so often heard ; thence he can go by railroad to Vicksburg, the yet remaining Confederate port on the Missis sippi, to inspect the army there. In the northern part of the same State, " fighting was going on at Corinth," from all which we augur that the Confe derates are planning some warm work for their opponents on the great river and on the Gulf. The Federals on their part seem to be moving in the same direction. BANKS' fleet appears to have gone to the Gulf of Mexico, and its rendezvous is fixed at Ship Island, an 'dead on the Gulf coast of the State of Mississippi, about midway between New Orleans and the bay of Mobile. The destination of the expedition is yet secret, and can be inferred only from its movements. Thus, whichever way we look, we see nothing but indications of continued activity in the war. North and South seem to be agreed on one point —to fight it out. The South wants nothing but a better cause than the slavery of four millions of men to attract the sympathy of all the world. Were they not fighting for independence :of the best faith of Christendom, for independence to en force the frightful dependence of slavery on one third of their population—the whole world would be unhesitatingly with them. We could all, heartily, sympathise with their desire to be inde pendent of the North, but how can Christian Eu rope sympathise with men who, with the "beam" of slavery in their " own eye," want to pluck out " the mote" of Federal Union from the Northern eye. Let the South be " chivalrous" enongh to free , its bondsmen, and the world will wish it free of the North. LATEST lITTELLIGENCE. THE KINGDOM OF ITALY. TURIN, JAN. 1. At the Court levee the King spoke to the follow. in g effect : "He entreated the Parliament to put trust in him, and expressed the hope that 1863 would be a happier year than 1862. He alluded to the folly of dreamers, who endangered public order. When the pacification of the Southern Provinces was achieved, the national cause would be fully triumphant. The spirit of the army was most excellent, and wholly Italian. With it and a con cordant nation the world might be defied." FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 1. The Moniteur of this morning publishes an Im perial decree, fixing the number of Deputies to be elected in future at 283. The Afoniteur also announces some nominations to the Legion of Honour. The body of the late Archbishop of Paris which was embalmed yesterday morning, will lie in state this afternoon in one of the rooms of the Archiepiscopal Palace arranged for the purpose. The funeral will, it is thought, take place on Mon day next. As Cardinals have a right to the same civil and military honours as Marshals of France, deputations of the great bodies of the State will attend, and the Emperor and the Princes of the Imperial family will be represented. The ♦arious French Cardinals will come to Paris to pay a last mark of respect to their late venerable col league. BOURSE, Dec. 31.—Speculators have been engaged in the arrangements for the settlement to the ex cluaion of anything in the shape of fresh operations. Threes opened at 70f. 53., and after receding to 69f. 90c. are now again at 70f. The Railway Share Market has been without animation, but previous prices up to the present time for the most part maintained. The market became heavy to wards the close, and left off as follows :- 4# per Cents _ .. 98 mont • Bank Shares 3325 Credit Fancier 1395 Piedmontese Fives 72 Italian Loan 72 50 • Russian • Austrian • Spanhth Threes — • Home Debt MAYS. 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 90 New '3 per Cents .. Do, end month.... Oren; 1155 -- Do. end month.... -- HAIL Cash. Account. 1070 -- .. 1071 25 Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1163 75 .. 1165 Geneva.. .. Southern B2l 25 .. 822 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian LON' bard North of Spain Saragossa 660 .. 662 50 Ditto to Barcelona SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 31, EVENING. Three editors of the Epoca, holding Government appointments, have, in consequence of their differ ing from the Government upon the Mexican ques• tion, tendered their resignation, which has been accepted. One of the Councillors of State has also sent in his resignation. Marshal O'Donnell has declared that he will ac cept any resignation which may be tendered. It is stated that he approves the acts of General Prim during his stay in Mexico, but not his lan guage towards France, nor his ideas relative to Juarez. Neither does Marshal O'Donnell favour General Prim's views in regard to the union of the Liberal party. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 1. An Imperial ukase, published today, extends the privilege of drawing bills of exchange to persons not follo w i ng commerc i a l p ursu it s , includ ing those belonging to civil or military profes sions. The ukase further states that the law on bills of exchange will, in future, be applicable to military officers and public functionaries. is indisputable, as is shown by the fearful losses they sustained. General Meagher's Irish Bri gade went into action 1,200 strong ; 250 alone survived. General Butterfield was engaged but half an hour, and lost nearly 3,000 men. General Hancock had 40 officers killed and 160 wounded, his total loss being one halt of his divi- mon. Burnside is receiving reinforcements, but is in no condition to renew the contest. He is expected to visit Washington, to consult personally with the Government. General Banks' expedition has proceeded to the Gulf, but it is not yet known whether its destination is Mobile or Texas. Five of his vessels have put into Philadelphia and Port Royal leaky or disabled, and a sixth has been wrecked on the Crays Fort Reef, on the coast of Florida. The late news from the armies of the West indi cate that no more forward movements are to be expected for the present. The M'Clernand dition against Vicksburg, and to open up the Mis sissippi River, is believed to be indefinitely post poned. There is much apprehension of further trouble with the Indians in the north-west, and a general massacre of the whites in Minnesota is threatened. The disaster at Fredericksburg has sent gold up to 321. An engagement has taken place at Kingston, North Carolina, between the Federal General Foster, with 15,000 men and nine gunboats, and the Confederate General Evans, at the head of a larger force. The latest accounts represent that the Federals gained the victory, which had previously been claimed by the other side. A party of 180 Confederates succeeded in destroy ing the town of Plymouth, North Carolina, by sur prising and routing the Federal garrison there. They captured several prisoners and severely damaged the United States gunboat Southfield, which lay in the river. On the 12th inst., the United States gunboat Cairo ran upon a torpedo sunk in the ZAZOO river, which exploded under her bows, shattering the hull so badly that she sank in 15 minutes afterwards, and will prove a total loss. The House of Representatives has passed, on the Army Appropriation Bill, 731,000,000 dols. for maintenance of the army for the year ending June 1864, by a vote of 107 to 3. The International Relief Committee has received 118,439 dole., and the Produce Exchange Commit tee 24,090 dols., contributed by merchants and others for the Lancashire operatives. The ship George Griswold is now loading for Liverpool, with supplies for the same, under the direction of the former. It is stated that Mrs. Beauregard is lying dan gerously ill at her residence in New Orleans, and that General Butler has sent General Beauregard an invitation to visit his wife, assuring him of every protection and courtesy. Postscript.—General M'Clellan has not yet been sent for by the President. Mr. Secretary Seward is reported in the Wash ington papers to have resigned office. It is also reported that General Burnside has asked to be relieved of his command. THE BANK OF DEPOSIT.—With a view to put an end to all litigation on the question of liability, the Marquis of Aberoorn has proposed to pay to the funds of the association the sum of £lO,OOO, in satisfaction of the claims against him as one of the directors of the defunct bank. After carefully considering the proposition, the representatives of the creditors, in conjunction with the committee of depositors, have unanimously resolved to ac cept it as a satisfactory settlement. MOVEMENTS OF THE ALABAMA.—Tha schooner J. W. Congdon, Captain Simmons, from Point Petro, Gaudaloupe, West Indies, which arrived at New York on the 17th ult., has reported that the Confederate cruiser Alabama had been at Dominica, whether she had gone in pursuit of a vessel that had taken refuge in the harbour of that port. The Federal steamer San Jacinto had been at Point Petro only a few days before, and had sailed for St. Thomas, The Toulonnais states that the tempestuous wea ther which has lately prevailed in that neighbour hood has been also felt on all the coasts of the Mediter ranean. The last accounts from the Levant mention that the regular service of the packets has teen very much im peded. The Archipelago has been visited by a series of storms, accompanied by bail and snow. THE MONKLAND IRON AND STEEL COMPANY.— There is now, according to a report that gains uni versal credence in this quarter (says the Airdrie correspon dent of the Scotsman). every prospect of the long-idle mal leable-iron works belonging to this company, at Calderbank, being put into activity in the course of a few days. A large order for the supply of a quantity of iron plate for Govern ment ship-building purposes is said to have been accepted by the company, and the fulfilment of so extensive an un dertaking will necessitate the employment of the large roll ing-mills at their disposal. Work will thus be found for at least 500 men, not to speak of the increased impetus given to their coal and ironstone mining traffic, in furnishing raw material for the manufacture. The intelligence brightens very considerably the prospects of the Airdrie traders, which have been somewhat gloomy for a length of time. A NOVELTY.—The South-Eastern Gazette states that in the town of Deal, one day during the late gale, the novel sight was seen of a small punt paddling up Alfred row, to afford assistance to the folks in flooded cottages, or, as was the case in one instance, to convey a dinner from a neighbouring bakehouse no longer accessible. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY (Limited.) --Traffic receipts for the week ending December 23, 1862, V. 1,368 17s. 7d. GALLANT RESCUE.—During the outward voyage of her Majesty's troopship Adventure to Samaica she was, on Nov.l9th, overtaken by a severe:thunderstorm. When it was at its height a lad fell overboard from the fera -1 topmast crosstrees. A seaman, Henry Widge, seeing the lad was unable to help himself, jumped overboard from the poop to his assistance, and supported him above water until a boat was lowered and rescued them both. The arrival of the boat was not a moment too soon, as the strength of Widge was all but gone. The military officers on board were so pleased with the spirit and promptitude displayed by Widge that they subscribed £l2 at once among them selves, which they presented to him as some reward for his courage. DISCOVERY OF GOLD AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Gold has been found upon the farm of Mr. Mostert. The gold has been analyzed by Mr. Schtnie• terloew, ch , mist, and the Argus is assured by the" Cali fornian Golddigger" who dug it up that Mr. Schmieter loew had pronounced it to be " quite pure."—Cap# and Natal News. It is stated in an American paper that General M'Clellan is preparing a history of military affairs while he was in command. FORDA TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND.—In my kitchen no hoop or crinoline is permitted; and this is easy to enforce, because in the parlour nobody desires to wear either. The servants must do as they choose out of doors ; and if they annoy fellow-worshippers at church I cannot help it but dinne f s w o i o l o l k n o o have om m a y n fa so m d il r y es fi s r e e madeds as sto invite destruction my family by burning. What I want to know is whether the responsible women of this country ever think of this class of their sisters; whether they are unaware that the same feelings which make them imitate empresses and princesses in style make our servant-maids imitate ladies ? I want to know whether the slavery is more degrading and absurd in one rank than in another; and whether the sense which should despise it ought to be expected among maid-servants while ladies are incapable of it ? I want to know whether any lady in England really expects the cot tager's wife to go buying patent starches, used in royal laundries, in order to render safe her child's cotton frock for school, or Molly's calico petticoats, when she goes to be scullion ac the Squire's ? If ladies are still burnt by the dozen in muslins and gauzes, are housemaids and cooks to be scolded for being burnt in calico and print ?-0 nee a Week. In the palmy days of the Edinburgh _Review, Sydney Smith happened to call on a colleague, whom he found to his surprise actually reading a book for the purpose of reviewing it. Having expressed his astonishment in the strongest terms, his friend inquired how he managed when performing the critical office. "Oh 1" said Smith, "I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so." Importing tea without colour on the leaf prevents the,Chinese passing off inferior brown leaves as in the usual Horniman•s tea is uncoloured, therefore always goo d alike, Sold in packets by 2,280 agents, MAGAZINE-DAY. Blackwood's Magazine. "A Month's Visit to the Confederate Headquar ters" is the first article met with, and it is one of con- siderable interest. A great deal of varied informa tion is afforded by this stirring sketch of personal observation, in a quarter to which the world has so lately turned with wonder and attention. Many little anecdotes testify to the superior skill and prowess of the troops of the South. When visit ing General Randolph, the Secretary of War, the travellers were surprised to see the numbers of Yankee regimental colours that were heaped in corners, and piled up in bunches. The infantry accoutrements had generally been taken from the Northerners, and the following passage still more forcibly illustrates the idea It was amusing to see "U.S." marked upon every wag gon and upon almost all ambulance -carts which we passed. The North have not only clothed and equipped the millions of men whom they boast of having had at various times en rolled, but they have also similarly supplied the Southern armies. Into whatever camp you go, you are sure to see tents, carts, horses, and guns all marked with the " - U.S." Officers have declared to me, that they have seen whole re giments go into action with smooth-bore muskets and with out greatcoats, and known them in the evening to be well provided with everything—having changed their old mus kets for rifles 1 The Northern troops have been so libe rally supplied with all, and, indeed, I may say, more than a soldier wants in the field, that they do not value their knapsacks or blankets, and in action invariably throw them away before they "skedaddle ;" knowing that if they suc ceed by their swiftness in living to "fight another day," their Government will provide them with a new kit, rifle, and all. An interesting account is given of an interview with the Southern Generals, and after describing some of their chief attributes, a comparison is insti tuted between them. We are told that the sol diers' feeling for General Lee is like what the troops of Wellington entertained for him, but that Jackson, like Napoleon, is idolised by his men. The writer of this sketch is of opinion that our policy has been a mistaken one in regard to America. Thucydides affirmed that he who declares for no party is not esteemed by any, and it le said that our timid policy has made no friends for us in the Northern States. This brilliant sketch is thus concluded, It seems to be the unanimous opinion of all in the South that nothing but foreign mediation in the form of a deter mined intervention by the great European Powers can ever end the war ; and it is evident, although they may not like to confess it, that the eyes of every Southerner are still turned to England. The next meeting of Parliament, how ever' will show what the feelings o f our p eop l e are w i t h re gard to the matter, and whether those who hold the reins of Government will consider that the time has come for putting an end to the most inhuman struggle that ever dis graced a great nation, such as the Republic of the United States once was, though now it is merely the military des • potism of a portion of the States striving under the dictator ship of an insignificant lawyer to crush out the freedom of tho rest. In the " Chronicles of Carlingford," Salem Chapel reaches its conclusion this month. The last portion of this story is very powerfully described, and par ticularly the scene at the meeting in which Vincent resigns his appointment, and to the regret and amazement of friends and foes flings back the olive branch so tardily held out to him, and tells his enemies to do their worst since he has forestalled their direst intention and resigned the post from which they purposed to dismiss him summarily. Some of the latter incidents are rather improba ble, but the tale is a success as being an exciting one, and in some parts it is rife with the sensation element now so prevalent. Perhaps the per sonage most pleasing to the reader is honest old Tozer. His genuine nature and straightforward independent conduct are a relief after the cunning of some, the mysteries of others, and the general confusion that reigned paramount in the circle that clustered in that perplexed little town of Carling ford. "Caxtoniana," contains a chapter on "Motive Power." Some of the thoughts are strikingly ex pressed, and we meet occasionally with a graceful passage that arrests notice, as for instance when a " garden" is described as a " poem and a picture, forming as it were the decorated border-land, between Man's house, and Nature's measureless domains." "Mr. Thomas Trollope'sltalian Novels," criticis"s, in a vigorous style, some of the chief points in these noticeable works. The striking characters of La Beata and the Artist Pippo are duly descanted upon, and some exaggerations of the author's, regarding Pippo's superstitions, are well exemplified. The story of Marietta is also shown to contain inconsistencies, while, at the same time, a just tribute is paid to Mr. Trol lope's merits, and to the skill with which he delineates the characters of the South. In his novels, it is said, we have the Italian sky always about us. " A Sketch from Babylon," is a lively end smartly-written sketch of fashionable life and the modes to which some resort, and the contrivances others adopt in order to gain their various desires, and further their several plans. In the last paper, entitled " Belligerent Rights at Sea," and the changes proposed in them, great doubt is expressed as to the soundness of the new plans, and it is most truely argued that at such a time as the present it behoves us to keep intact, in all its vigour, that naval power which is the sheet-anchor of our safety. There is an article on 4 ‘ Progress in China," which pre sents discursive questions to our consideration, and earnestly hopes that England will not pre judice a promising future, by leaving the Empire without assistance in its time of need. Altogether this New Year's number of Maga contains much desirable reading of a varied sort, and thus in augurates the season with an auspicious opening. Dublin Magazine. " A Souvenir of Chapelizod" is continued at some length, and the complicated narrative approaches its conclusion. This tale of Irish life has been a most successful one throughout, and mingled touches ' of feeling and pathos with ludicrous adventures and smart repartees. The illustrations of character have throughout been admirable, and the extraor dinary incidents recorded make the tale appear in parts like one of the old romances. " Shakspeare, his Biographers and Critics," is an elaborate article that will repay perusal. After descanting upon the rival merits of the numerous commentators, this wise advice is giyen to youth—" Young readers should read Dr. Johnson's preface once and again, and they will not only become familiar with one of the most masterly pieces of composition in our language, but they will know more of the great bard, and will glean a more distinct image of his character and genius, of the scope of his mind, and the depth of his knowledge than they will sub sequently extract from a whole library of misty conjecture and tiresome speculation." In conclu sion, it is asked, how will Shakespeare fare in his lawful home on the metropolitan stage in these days of sensation everything. It is most desirable ever and anon to turn aside from the host of novel ties that surround us and cast a backward glance at some old landmark of sterling excellence, or lasting renown. In studying the Bard of Avon, however, ' it is not altogether retrospective contemplation, since h© who lived not for an age but for all time ' belongs to us now, as he will do to posterity here ' after. The lines which are prefixed to these re ' marks are worthy of their subject : "Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new, Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toiled after him in vain." Another studious paper is "Voltaire his Life, and his Genius." It i s asserted that, did anyone' ask who was the most brilliant and powerful being of the eighteenth century, the universal reply would be "Voltaire." His life of eighty-four years is rife with material for comment, and it is truly said that his works resemble a gigantic tree, but it is a tree of good and evil with a harvest of healthy fruit, it has also cast a upaa shadow. After an elaborate analysis, perhaps we could hardly find a better summing up of this strange man's works than is given as follows The hundred Voltarian volumes wi,l always be attractive to mature minds, literary or other. Of the books of Voltaire, the Benefactor, their work is done, as far as they are concerned, or is perpetnited in other minds. The stimulus they have given to the world is progressive. As to the books of Monsieur de Voltaire, the De stoyer, their work is also partly achieved, and whatever evil they contain may in this happier and brighter century be safely permitted to remain unOisturbed in the dust of libraries." " The Eng lish Penal System—its Fail ures an d i ts V ices, " is a very sensible article on the important domestic question of the day. It begins by eulogising Baron Bramwell for the masterly manner in which he vindicated the outraged majesty of the law, but it gees on to inquire " How, if the good work thus promisingly begun by a bold English judge were to be hindered, if not undone, by the crotchets of a prison director or the indifference of a Secretary of State. The argument against the existing statutes of convict laws is clinched by the suggestion that in all probability some of those sentenced to life imprisonment will, be again all owe d to molest our ravage the public, w h o so l a t e ly re j o i ce d a prospect of not seein g th e i r f aces aga i n . I t streets in athe and y ee.s is truly said that the attempt to coddle convicts has signally broken down, and in future English rulers must be just before they are merciful. Let them remember that the first principle of penal discipline is to protect society by making an example of the wrong-doer throughout the whole of his imprison ment, the sense of penal suffering, however light ened by good behaviour, should never be allowed to lose all trace of its first bitterness. If these maxims are acted upon in high Plilf•les i it , a ill b e conducive of good and great results, an d t h e sooner t h e b etter , since innocent lives are being sacrificed in order that the guilty may go free i and after a few years of) 'uxorious idleness in gaol pass on pith renewed force to their old haunts and resume their ancient offences. This paper is well calculated to impress one forcibly with its arguments and explanations. There are amusing little Sketches met with, which come in agreeably to relieve the m ono t ony o f th e heavier eubjects to this serial. Fraser's Magazine. "Fraser" does not begin the year in holiday guise, for the number is somewhat heavy. It opens with an article of formidable dimensions on the sale of waste lands and redemption of the land tax in India. Without entering at length into the merits of this weighty question, we may r(-matk that while the writer is no doubt correct in depre cating hasty and conclusive legislation on a matter of such vital importance, he does not, we think, attach due value to tho immense advantage India herself will derive from improved cultivation and enlarged commerce, nor does he sufficiently consider that the ignorant and prejudiced natives may not be the.best judges of their own interests. An article from the pen of Miss Carpenter on any subject connected with the reformation of the fallen cannot fail to have weight and interest. The topic she selects is the present system of treating our female convicts, and the conclusion at which she arrives is very similar to the pubic opinion respect the male convict prisons, namely, that there is need of a sterner discipline. Many of the statistics which she gives are startling in their evidence that the prison system which taxes us so heavily is, at the the best, a dead letter, so far as reformation of the offender is concerned. If such a reflection is pain ful and alarming, when the offenders are men, what must it be when they are females, whose in fluence over their families is so dis astrously power ful. Miss Carpenter says emphatically, and cone can question her experience, that among the lower classes a family may be brought up well by a good mother, even if the father is worthless, but that she has never heard of any instance of children grow ing up well under a bad mother, however excellent may have been the influence of the father. She cites two instances. In one of them a widow was left with three sons and three daughters. The career of these unhappy children, as briefly stated by Miss Carpenter, affords forcible evidence of the interest which society has in the reformation of its female criminals. On one occasion the three girls were seen in gaol together—it being their eighth conviction, and the youngest of them being only fifteen. They had lived together in London by picking pockets, in which respectable profession they were adepts. They were once got into a refuge, but the mother soon removed them. The sons ran a similar race of crime, and the eldest is now under sentence of fourteen years' penal servitude. " How much," says the writer justly, " that one woman has cost to the Government and to society through her chil dren." The other case is even more painful, from the repeated frustration of benevolent efforts to re claim the girls by the evil influence of their wicked mother. This woman had not only brought her children up to theft, but, as she herself proudly stated, she had trained fifty young girls to the same trade. The reverse of the picture we have most of us seen in the influence of a good mother, under whatever disadvantages she may be placed, but it is for the reprobates that society has to answer, and through them it has to suffer, should the proposed system of punishment and reformation prove to be merely a suspension of opportunity and a transformation of the weak and inexpe rienced dupe into the hardened and shame less offender. Following this article is one of the most interesting papers in the number, a brief sketch of the career of Maurice de Guerin, one of those highly gifted and sensitive beings to whom, as to our own Keats and Chatt er ton, For tune and Nature have alike denied the full dew- lop ment of their rare faculties. He was a French. man, who died at the early age of 28, without having published any work. Yet that there was material enough in him to have raised him to a high position in the literature of his country, no one who reads the fragments ably translated by Mr. Matthew Arnold can hesitate to believe. He was a worshipper of Nature, one of those to whom the great mother possesses a charm and a fascination nothing else can supply. He possessed in a rare degree that sympathy with her spirit which puts us in harmony with the outer world. Of this quality Mr. Arnold says:— The interpretations of science do not give us this inti mate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it ; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus, or Cavendish, or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakapeare, with his Daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March of beauty; it is Wordsworth, with his voice . . . heard In spring -time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides ; it is Keats, with his moving waters at their priestlikc task Of cold ablution round Earth's human shores; it is Chateaubriand, with his "time iudeterminee des forts ;" it is Senaucour, with his mountain birch-tree. Guerin's career was brief and comparatively un eventful. The most remarkable event of his life was his sojourn at the retreat of La Chenaie, among the followers of the Abbe Lamennais. In that circle he met congenial spirits, and in the woods of Brittany the child of sunny Languedoc found new phases of the nature which was his idol. His life, after leaving this retreat, was less congenial. He passed a few happy months with a friend, and then he entered the whirl of Paris life. A literary career was open to him, but though his first at tempts met ready encouragement, his temperament was too fastidious, too uncertain, to accept such a profession. He took refuge in teaching, and for four years the worshipper of nature, gifted with rare powers of expression, passed his time in labo rious and unprofitable duties. In the autumn of 1838 he married a lady of some fortune, and the necessity for drudgery was over, but too late. He died of consumption the following summer. Promi nent among the remaining articles are a sketch of Edward Irving and a paper on Naval Architecture. We have also instalments of two tales, and several poetical contributions, none of which are above mediocrity. Bentley's Miscellany. First and foremost in the attractions of Bentley comes the continuation of Cardinal Pole, from the facile pen of its able editor. The scene lies, of course, in the days of Philip and Mary, and this instalment describes the arrival of the haughty Spaniard at Southampton. After an interesting account of the town as it was in 1554, we follow the fortunes of the Prince, who takes a ramble with one solitary att en d ant i ncogn i to i n hi s new king dom. His introduction to it is by no means pleasant, according to Mr. Ainsworth, for he first overhears many discourteous remarks about his own unpopular self; next some disparaging com ments on his Royal bride; and, lastly, becomes involved in a serious affray, and narrowly escapes With his life. The particulars of this last adven ture we will give in the author's own words : Scarcely were the words uttered, when the clashing of steel was heard without, accompanied by other sounds, proving that a desperate conflict was going on. " I must leave you, Constance, and fly to his assistance," cried the Prince, .plucking his rapier from its sheath. " No," she rejoined, holding him. "Your life is too precious to be thus sacrificed—too precious to the Queen." " I will strike down these assassins in her name," re joined Philip. " I am proof against their blades. The son of Charles V. is not destined to perish thus obscurely." " 'Twere far better you sought an asylum here; but, if go you will, may heaven and all good saints guard you 1" And as she relinquished her hold of him, and sought to enter the hospital, she found this door was fastened. Perceiving this, old Dorcas knocked against it, calling out lustily " Within 1 I say, within !" But there being no answer to the summons, she added despairingly, "Deaf old Absalom, the porter must have gone to bed. What will become of us 1" Meanwhile; the Prince had quickly divested himself of his cloak, and, wrapping part of it round his left arm, leaving the other half hanging down, he flew to the passage, rapier in hand. On reaching it, he found it oc3upied by Osbert and his assailants. The young man was defending himself like a lion against his opponents, one of whom he had already disabled, but he was compelled to retreat; his position being such, that for the moment the Prince could render him no assistance. But the foremost of the assis sin band caught sight of Philip, and shouting out to his comrades, "There stands the accursed Spanish Prince who would enslave us ! We have him now—we have him I" Where. upon, incited by the words, they attacked Osbert so furi ously that they drove him down the passage. " Ah I why do I find your Highness here ?" cried young Clinton, despairingly, as the Prince joined him, and helped him to keep off his assailants. " You hear what he says, comrades," cried the leader of the band, a formidable •looking ruffian in a buff jerkin and and steel cap, who looked like a disbanded soldier. "I was not mistaken, you see. 'Tis the Prince in person. 'Tis the bloodthirsty tyrant who would rob us of our liberties, and place us under a foreign yoke; who would force us by fagot and fire and other severities, conceived in hell, to re turn to the newish idolatries we have abjured. But he has been delivered into our hands ere the wicked devices of his heart can be accomplished. It is Heaven's will that he should die, and in putting him to death we shall earn the gratitude of our country." " Besides the hundred rose-nobles each that we are to have for the deed," cries one of his comrades. " I would do the deed for nothing," shouted another of the band, " for it will redound to our credit. So have at him 1" _ _ Harkye, young sir," cried the leader of the band, ad dressing Osbert, •‘ We do not desire your life—nay, we would willingly spare you. Our sole object is to crush this spawn of hell. Retire, and leave him to our justice." " Think you I will stand tamely by and see you execute your ruthless purposd villain ?" cried young Clinton. "No, I will defend the Prince to the last gasp." " Your blood be upon your own heal, then," rejoined the " ruillan. " Upon th em , comra d es I S tr i ke, and spare not, " Thou, at least, will never bo my executioner," cried the Prince. And as the rurfiah made A desperate lounge at him, he dexterously caught his sword in the hanging part of cloak, and returning with a full thrust, transfixed his anta gonist with his rapier. " This conies of Spanish practices," groaned the wretch, as he fell to the ground. "Had he fought like an Eng lishman, without the cloak, I had killed him. Revenge me, comrades," he added, with his last breath. " 1 have done thee too much honour in killing thee, vile caitiff," cried Philip, spurning the body with his foot. The death of their leader caused a momentary pause in the assault. But determined to make sure of their prey, three of the ruffians now attacked the Prince, leaving the fourth engaged with Osbert. But for his activity and ad dress it might now have fared ill with Philip. His cloak saved him from many a deadly thrust aimed at his breast, and distracted his assailants. Strange to say, he was en tirely untouched, though all three of his opponents had felt the point of his weapon. He tried to separate them, but without success. They were too wary to be caught by the stratagem. In this way he was driven back towards the door of the hospital, before which stood Constance and old Dorcas, un able to gain admittance, and filling the court with cries for help. Precisely at this juncture, and as if to afford him a means of retreat, the door of the hospital was thrown open by old Absalom, the porter, who held a lamp in his hand, and was shaking with terror. While stepping nimbly back wards in the hope of stepping through the doorway, Philip encountered some obstacle, and fell, thus lying at the mercy of his opponents. In another moment all had been over with him, if Con stance had not heroically thrown herself before him, and the ruffians, having some touch of manhood in their breasts, forbore to strike. With terrible oaths, however, they ordered her to stand aside, but, with unshaken resolution, she maintained her place, and they were preparing to exe cute their fell purpose in spite of her, when a loud clatter in the passage leading to the street warned them that suc cour was at hand, and made them pause. The next mo ment, Rodomont Bittern and his friends, shouting and flourishing their swords, and accompanied by two or three torch-bearers, rushed into the court. The continuation of a " Summer in America" de scribes a Canadian settler's home and the way he became possessed of it, fighting through all the difficulties of uncleared land. A traveller in Rus sia gives us his impressions of the empire of the Czar pleasantly enough, while the narrative of two Dutchmen describing a visit to Paris in the days of the Grand Monarque is full of quaint and entertaining comment on the events of those days. An imaginary colloquy between John Dryden and Samuel Pepys certainly goes far to confirm the as sertion that the conversation of wits is seldom witty. A full account of horses and studs in France will interest the sportsman. United Service Magazine. Notwithstanding that America takes precedence as far as space is concerned, there is room left for one or two other subjects; and the first that meets the eye in this number is a paper on the applica bility of iron plates to the defence of forts. We are sorry that the writer, having evidently taken much pains with his subject, started upon such false bases. To a milit ary or naval reader his re marks about guns will be taken for their worth, but to the general reader it is not fair to describe one class of gun, and endeavour to persuade credu lous mortals that all guns are made alike. There is a want of good faith throughout the article which carries its own condemnation. "The United States, Canada, and England," contains an elabo rate dissertation on the respective positions of Ca nada and the United States. The writer, notwith standing that he upholds the American Republic, sees that the annexation of Canada is about as re mote as the reconstruction of the Union, from the antipathy which Canadians entertain for Yankees and all their institutions. It is not likely that the heavy taxes which Mr. Bright's 'vaunted re public has imposed upon itself will induce free colonists to give up constitutional rights for demo cratic despotism ; and whatever her aspirations once might have been, the annexation of Canada is more impossible to the United States than the conquest of ' the South. Under the head of "Arms and Armies," a clever sketch of the armies of Europe is given, but the article speaks for itself : The French army of to-day is the creation of the First Napoleon. The saying of that Great Captain, that; " every French soldier carries his marshal's staff in his knapsack," has never been forgotten. Every soldier knows the history of the men who entered the army in blouses, and died in a marshal's uniform. They do not doubt that there are Murata and Neys now carrying a musket, and that they only want a great war to develope these characters. The character of the British army has been earned in battle and attested by victory. Whenever it has been even tolerably led, it has been victorious, nor is there any army in the world which has sustained so few serious reverses. They are the only troops in the world who look with indifference on cold points, and who are constantly im pelled by a powerful Instinct to close with their enemies. Their fire is close, steady, and destructive, and their charge irresistible. Fault has been found with the English soldiers for not having the same intelligence as the Frenoh, that they do not understand the principles of war. The French soldiers at Quatre-Bras blamed our men for not knowing when they were beaten. Long may they continue in this state of ignorance. We give the above as samples of the author's analysis of European soldiers. His criticisms of other nations are equally to the point, but not al ways so flattering. " The Royal and Indian Me dical Services" contains little of interest to others than those who are professionally interested, but the baneful influence of red tape in the proper organisation of medical staffs is well pourtrayed. " Greenwich Characters" is an amusing sketch of old salts, and what they say of the good old days of Howe, Jervis, and Nelson. A paper on " The United States and British Co lumbia" requires no comment. The pro-American feeling being strong, although the statistics are carefully collected, the inferences are wrong, and. the conclusions incorrect. Cornhill Magazine. " The Small House at Arlington" is now be coming more exciting as it proceeds. Lily Dale evinces great spirit and determination, but the reader regrets that she should be engaged to so cold and selfish a man as Adolphus Crosbie. The proceedings at Burton-cresce-et are ludicrous enough, and Johnny Eames is getting into an awful difficulty with Miss Roper. This writer possesses, in a great degree, the talent of descrip tion as regards mr.n and manners, and his efforts have the happ ; .est results, inasmuch as they are not labourer, but his style is flowing, and his conversations easy and natural. A paper sure to attrP.ct considerable notice is that entitled, " The S:olence of Garotting and Housebreaking." Here we find a full account of the whole nefarious system of crime which has so appalled the com munity, and stalked abroad in our streets as the pestilence that destroyeth at noonday. The writer prefaces his remarks by observing that it is wise to be informed fully of such doings, since "To fear the plague is to be half dead of it, and by the time a gang of desperadoes have intimidated a whole city, they have become to other rogues so glorious that they are sure to be imitated, and imitated by bungling ruffians, more dangerous even than the original practitioners." He goes on to explain that, at first, " garotting " was not so fatal, but ignorant wretches rushed in to emulate the success, and share the spoils of their friends, and hence the loss of life, and the other aggravated evils that have so rapidly ensued. Further on minute details are given of the system, which are really useful to know, and all who acknowledge that " forewarned is forearmed" will do well care fully to peruse these pages. Also about house breaking, the reader may improve this opportunity of instruction, and while we read o f th e a d ro i t cun ning and skilled manoeuvres of the thieves, NS e can not but regret that the emissaries of the law should be so far behind them. For instance, the practice of a policeman taking regular rounds is not calcu lated to detect burglaries, since the thieves, know ing exactly the time of his arrival at various places, act accordingly. To confront such sharpers care and caution are most needful, and it is earnestly to be hoped that all in authority, from the highest to the lowest, will make strenuous exertions to grapple with this difficulty, which is not only a great social danger, but a slur on their foresight and means of resistance. A very interesting paper on "Indian Cossacks" is written by one who is evidently master of his subject, and to whom the wild Mooltanees and their daring exploits are familiar. He begins by remarking that the commonly received opinion among us is, that the Indian irregular horseman is a sort of mounted bandit, ready to serve us if it be made worth his while, so long as he is permitted to do so in his own way. This impression he shows to be altogether unfounded, and pourtrays them as brave, devoted soldiers, whose daring carries all before them, and whose fidelity to their chief is un surpassed. The corps which he selects for example is Cureton's regiment of Mooltanee cavalry, Of this tribe he gives an especially high character. The Mooltanee, he says, is remarkable for gallantry, truthfulness, love of home, and a chivalrous sense of honour—qualities that we have certainly not been accustomed to associate with Asiatics. Splendid swordsmen, horsemen whom no exertion can weary, soldiers whom no odds can appal, sub jects whom no temptation can withdraw from their allegiance ; unsurpassed either in the charge, the pursuit, or the scouting party, and hating the Sikhs most intensely—the value of the Mooltanees to the Punjtiub government is great. Unfortunately the tribe is a small one, numbering no more than 2,500 fighting men." During the Sikh rebellion they formed part of the force under the command of Major,Edwardes. In the year of the Indian mutiny their former chief, then Lieut. Colonel Edwardes, was commissioner of Peshawur, and in a critical position. Remembering the courage and fidelity of his Mooltanee allies, he sent to invoke their aid. The appeal was promptly answered, and the station was saved. When no longer needed on the northern frontier they asked permission to form a regiment for service in Hindoostan. The request was granted, the appointment of commandant be stowed on Captain Cureton, an irregular officer of considerable experience, and the results were such as to surprise the most sanguine, Their leaders THE WAR IN AMERICA. (Per Kangaroo, via Roche's Point, Jan. 1, 3.5 a.m.l NEW YORK, DEC. 20. The disastrous defeat of the Federal forces at Fredericksburg has caused dismay among the war party, and public indignation against the Govern ment is very great. Public meetings are about to be called to con sider the state of the nation, and the President is in'teked in vehement terms to change his whole Cabinet. Th e Neu; Fork Journal of Com merce asserts th at if of compelling th er e were any constitutional method t' resignation of the President and Vice-President, and placing a new man in the seat of Abraham Lincoi ti , the people would em ploy it. In the Senate a resolution ha% b ee n introduced directing the Committee on the Condixet of the War to inquire into the facts relating to the battle, and particularly as to what officer or officers are respoi sible. The bravery of the Federal forces on the occasion t Cien if i bE C)l:lr ever, to fit _ Vision obtai r 17 ,0 th Peace . - eiders tho ug 41 118 in Which at the ho nou hitnse fori Peac e, tinuin is not War I)A] P l ieno v e° unti ....mica leiBUr i i tb WI NV( u 1 steri for t defic with