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of the Lortt: " and 8 p.m. "On In the C. E. (moral South "On tprov esbitt " The 3y Dr. ans of Plane ries of Skew Geo ra col ' By Medi - " On • Geo. :entific >ounds idge. •sary.) 'Non- " On alien dance. scarce. to 50s. Oats at 33s .at vise ere ra- Dderate ) prices s to 249 a to 44s 3 to —s us., 37s per 36 salting, d oats, Beans, ey, 280 280 , 32s to the de ported. . Not of the s to 46s e to 36a s to 28a .;b. 12. )b. 13. 31). 10. !b. 12. ;b. 28. 13. rRAL If age r good sorting about ~ says desig- Jack, up to st timo If 81 ,311 hanced ,ed ray is was mining have leave hole of tters i Love spirits to wife Mil" ~ of a of the I, of e of A. ! a riovil !ariovi, ~,0 0311 .hil, , aul'of 3 Neill a wsou Dray . istow r, Jr. ,h-st., adiag , :10 S ' i : - 0 , tulto; INLAND ll' ~ • rtiVTTV C. " /merset-house, Feb. 13. 18r ,3 . AIL)VANCTE NOTES. On the repeal of the M.ercantile Mar In c Act ,D , 18 ,, 0, sea men's Advance Notes bec'Jrne liable to S tamp Duty as Bills of Exchange. As inch liability does not appear to be generally known, the Board of Itevenuc.! deem it advisable to give notice that any pers-on who shah, make, sign, or issue, or shall accept or pay any s trill incur the penalf.,7 of £5O. An which is not duly stamped, An adhesive str Amp such notes, the 1 . cannot be used to denote the duty on aw requiring that. Mil's of Exchange shall be Written upon Paper impressed with the appropriate stamp. By order of the Board, T. SARGENT, Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS.--TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon on the ? d of March, ,ONTRACTS from persons who may be willing to enter into (- for the SUPPLY of 'WOOD for lighting tires in the London be required for l lilitary District, in such quattities as ivirl i Jned in any of the the Ilse of her Maiesty's land forces static following. places, from lstA.pril, 186', to slat March : lB64 , 1. Hyde - perk and Kensington Palaof, New Barracks. and Portman -street 2. Regent's-park, St. John's-woo,d, Barracks. 3 . Wellir gton, St. neorge's, and Buckingham Palace Bar racks, and infantry Guards, St. Jr tmes's-park. 4. The Tower. S. Hounslow and Kneller IlaT i L 6. Hampton Court. ... . - 7. Croydon. Separ te tenders must l',e made for each of the above-men- Ls as separately groupe , l and num timns or barracl here .. ed so atio Form. of tender and eon i dtions of contract may be obtained on application at this ( )Mee, by letter or i n p erson, between the hours of 0 and 4 .fclio .k. Tenders on the printed forms must be pn plly filled uo an' signed, and no tender will be noticed unless selleered at the undo rmeni ioned office, und r cored enyelo 4:,,,, marked on the out We, "Tender for Army Supplies") b efflre noon on the 3d Man h next. W. IL 31 ATURIN, Deput. Commissary-GeneraL Deputy Commi .ssary General's- ffi• e, 5, New-street, :. pring-2a J den 8, London, S. W'., Feb. 10, 1863. ---- ARMY CO - NTRACTS for FUEL and LTGITT. TF-NDFras will be received at this office until noon on the 3d f Marc},i, from persons who may be to enter into contract a for the SUPPLY of COAL-, COKE, and CANDLES, in su h quanti ies as may be required for the use of her in any , of '' ) ' , lajesty's Land Forces nd Military I )epartm. nts the following places, from Ist April, 1.63, to 31st Marco, lt ,64 ; , 1 • EYile-park, South Kensington, and Kensington-palace ew Biarracks :-050 tons Wallsend coals, 3 tons coke. 1,550 rx,mposite candles, 650 lb s . di p can dl es. 2 . Regent's -park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street nriaracks :-1,109 tons Wallsend coals, 11 tons coke, 1,685 lbs. C omposite 'andles 3,488 lbs. dip candl es . 3 . Wellington, St. George's, and Buckingham-palace Bar ; Horse Guards, Infantry Guards, St. James's-park, And Royal Engineer Office, Buckingham-gate :-1,667 tons Wallsend coals, 200 tons Wylam moor cools (tor Wellington Barracks), 12 tons coke, 2,206 lbs, composite candles, 1,214 lbs. 'din candles. 4. Military Store establishrnent, Pimlico:-228 tons Walls end coals. 364 tons Dowlar's Merthyr coals, 10 tons Tanfield Moor coals, 400 chaldrons coke, 3,0 lbs. composite candies, 200 lbs. dip candles. 5 - The Tower :-823 Wallsend coals 160 tons Dowlar's Merthyr coals, 10 tons Tanfield Moor coals, , 10 t tons coke, 920 lbs. composite candles, 200 lbs. dip candles. 6. Hounslow and Knller-hall :--740 tons Inland est coals, 28 tons coke, 1,000 lbs e . comiosite candles, 4,000 lbs. dip candles. 7. Hampton-court :-115 tons Inland best coals, 150 lbs. composite candles, 500 lbs. dip candles. 8. Windsor:-1,3x0 tons Wallsend coals, 6 tons coke, 2,250 lbs. composite candles, 600 lbs. dip candles. 9. Brighton, with Coast Farts from Newh even to Shore ham :-645 lons Wallsend coals, 3 tons coke, 1,630 lbs. com posite candles, 6,310 lbs. dip candles. 10. Croydon:-200 tons Wallsend coals, 3 tons coke, 250 lbs. composite c an dl es, 1 , 5 00 lbs. dip candles. The quantities above specified of each ?article of supply are only approximate estimates of what maTprobably be required 'within the period of the contract, but t, he contractor will be held liable to deliver such quantities as may be demanded under competent authority. whethe': more or less than the above. Separate tenders for fuel and for light must be made for each of the abovementioned stations or barracks as separately grouped and numbered. Forms of, tender, and conditions of contract, may be obtained on ap pThation at this office, by letter or in person, between the. hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms nmst be properly filled up and signed, and no tender will be 'noticed unless delivered at the und ermentioned office, under closed envelope (marked on the 3d side, out "T en d er f or Army F3upplies"), before noon on the arch next. De W. H. MATURIY., Deputy Commissary-GeneraL plItY Commi ssary - G'eneral's Office, 5, New-street, Spring -gardens, r...ondon, S.W., Feb. 10, 1863. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASS' LANCE ASSOCIATION. Established 1841. The 22d Anny"l G , eneral Meeting of 'this Association w as held on Wedne "lay, the 4th February, 1863. The Income, tor the year 1862 was £50,135 0 0 The Amur' Italated Fund .. The Rep' nt and Balance-sheet may be had on application to the Ag tints, or at the Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street E.C. MI. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Febr nary 5, 1863. GU ARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. Sir M DIRECTORS. •4 INTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P ., Ch a i rman. CHARLE WILLIAM CURTIS lesq., Deputy Chairman. Hen Hulse Berens, Esq., IG. Shaw lefevre, Esq. Henr y ry Bonham Carter, Esq. „John Martin, Esq. ( harles F. Devas, Esq ; Rowland Mitchell, Es rrancis Hart Dyke, Esq. 1 James Morris, Esq. q. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry It. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson llankey, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., 31. P. James Tulloch. Esq. John Labouchere, Esq, Henry Vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Corneliu s - I Paine, j an., Esq. Noel Whiting, Esq. Th os.Tallema.ch, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPA RTHENT.—UNDER TILE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OP PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In surers EIGMTY PER CENT, of the Profits, at Quinquennial Di visions, or a Lo w R a t e o f P rem i um without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary tonuses of £1,058,000. . . After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Liie Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Premium is required for sQrviee therein. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their Values, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re ceived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge or Policy Stamps. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every descripi ion of prrjperty at moderate rates. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by thi s Company. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Establis)lted by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRE k;TORS. 'Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. John Garratt Cattle_y, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. li , fark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. `William Davidson, Esq. The Ilon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrinaton Smith, Esq. Riyersdale Mr. Grenfell, Esq. William Soßau, Esq. Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes Esq., M.P. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' Wilham Wall'ace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., P.R.S. NOTICE.— rho usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged - nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Life Any sum not excee di ng £15,000 may b e i nsure d on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve 'n the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCFLANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. R OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vi c i n i ty of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN . President—The Duke of MI( CLEUCII, KG. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to Introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely dev.,ted to d estf tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is aeco m , Imnied by sickness and disease, and Is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of re casual sick of this (Treat metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have . 500 beds available for the reception of mese nenostw retched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, I t gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, va the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. ol i g r lVeekly Board feel it their impera tive duty to make an — "EsT APPEAL to the public for continued support, dailypbrlee s t4e t m th t e o ni s s d e m iv i e t s a . nd relieve the distressing cases that maontributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Co.. f ian, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and D rummond and P rescotteo, Grote, and Co ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and c". 0: ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison CO lliams, Deacon and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Nisbet and Co.; Messrs. Mimed and Co., Liverpool; and'at the Hospital, * * STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. 0 S E E ID o G Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 560. ABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE IIA L TEE 11 and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, sprimzs, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts 1 . ! , bletime a nd WARRANTED F OR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION, even when all others fail. Purest ma terials only, at half the usual cost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established De,ittists, 27, lIARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 dulness. One visit only required from country patients. Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. CAntsultations free, No. 22,039. MISS FREER'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vo l s., w i th Portraits, 215., THELAST DECADE OF A GLORIOUS REIGN : Being the Concluding Part of "The History of Henry IV., King of France and Navarre." From Original and Authentic Sources. By M. W. FREER. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. THORN BURY'S NEW NOVEL. On Friday, Feb. 2', in 3 vole., TRUE A S S TEEL. By WALTER THORNBURY. Also now ready, in 3 vole., ST. OLAVE'S. A NOVEL. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., A DACGH TER A NOVEL. OF EVE. By HAIN FRISWELL, Author of "Sham," "Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies." " A most striking wo-k, Lull of brilliant descriptions, ex citing incident, and ably-drawn characters."—Sun. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. MR. SENIOR'S NEW WORK Just published, in 1 vol., pos Bvo., price 10s. Ad., cloth, BIOGRAPHICAL, SKF,F('HE: ~z , Sketches connected with the Fren h Revolution, L• gal Sketches, and 3liscelaneuus ketches. By NASSAU W. SENIOR. London : Longman, Green, and Co., 14, Ludgate-hill. Mit. KINGLAKF,'S "INVASION OF THE CRIMEA." The S COND EDITION will be publ,shed TO-MORROW. Vols. I and 11. Svc.. P. ice 325. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY, At 28. Ed. each Person. SOUPS. Ox Tail. Printanier. FISH Soles Maitre D'Hotel. Fried Whitings. ENTREES. Veal Cutlets, Sauce Tomate. Fillets of Mutton aux Fines Herbes. JOINTS. Stewed Rumps of Beet. Saddles of Mutton. Potatoes a la Lyonnaise. SWEETS. Plum Puddings. Pancakes. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOSELLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for The London Dinner. THE LONDON, 19', FLEET-STREET. B HALL . NJ Great success of the Third Edition of the renowned Pantomimic Entertainment, THE ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, solely sustained by E. Marshall. The Comic by Unsworth, in his celebrated stump speech, "Or any other Man," Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Laura Sanders. GRAN D OPERATIC SELECTIONS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. T HEOX F O R B, 6. OXFORD STREET. Reappearance of Miss Russell. ALCESTE (the masterpiece of the renowned Composer Gracrex), Supported by the entire company, with lull band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Other Operatic Selections, Choruses, four-part Songs, Sre. George Hodson's Irish, Miscellaneous, and Ventriloquial Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Scenas and Dances. Miss Caroline Parkes' Pantomimic Sketch, "Little Red Riding Hood." W. Randall's New Comicalities, and other varied attractions EVERY EVENING. Hall, 6d.—Balcony and Stalls, Is.—Private Boxes, 10s. ed. In rehearsal, " HERNE THE HUNTER," a Cantata, composed by W. M. Lutz, Esq., words by 0. Summers, Esq. THE PRINCE of WALES' MARRIAGE w ill be celebrated ,t the LONDON PAVILION by a MONSTRE ENTERTAINMENT on the Evening of TUESDAY, the 10th of March. Each visitor will be presented with A HANDSOME SOUVENIR in commemoration of the auspicious event ; and no exrense or xertion will be spared to characterise the proceedings with that loyalty due to the occasioi of the nuptia a of Eig iand's future Ki, g, The London Pavilion, Tichbourne-street. MJULLIEN'S PRO\IENADE CONCERTS. • EVERY EVENING at the IRGYLL ROOMS. Great Success.—See pinions of the Press. Conductor —Mons. J,LLIE The celebrated Cornet-a- istun, Mr. J. LEVY, Will play at in ervals from 9 to 12 o'clock. The Concert, composed of Classic 1 Music from the GREAT MASTERS, will terminate at a quarter-past Ten, and the Dance music at five minutes to Twelve. Promenade, ls.—Re erved seats, 2s. Dcors open at Eight o'clock Manager, Mons. GRENET. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, -illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. Upen daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlem n only). Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-square, and 41A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don, W. Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Four. Illus trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, NA., a new Instrument, by Negretti and Zambra, will cor rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls for Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden; 57, Comhill ; and 122, Regent-street. ALLEGED SECOND - HAND SAFES. Any PERSON or PERSONS having recently PUR CHASED from Furniture Brokers or Dealers in SECOND HAND FIRE-PKOOF SAFES, any such Safes which WE RE STATED To► BE OF CHUBB'S MAKE, will oblige by COMMUNICATING with Messrs. Robinson and Hine Haycock, No. 32, Charterhouse-square, solicitors to Messrs. Chubb and Son. MOORE BROTHERS' TEAS. Choice SOUCHONG, recommended 3s. 9d. per if;. suitable for superior purposes, full rich Souchong flavour. Mixed ASSAM, 1 ighly recommended 4s. od. per lb. of very choice quality, and the cheapest Tea sold. ld per lb. deduction on 20%. Bags and 451 b. Chests. Prospectus free. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. USED by almost every FAMILY, by all OUT FITTERS, TIOTE L-KEEPERS, &c. BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK (the original) requires no preparation, and is by tar the best for writing on Linen, Silk, &c. It affords an indisputable means of identity for Towels. Shirts, Tablecloths, and every variety of wearing apparel. To be obtained of most Druggists, Medicine Ven dors. Stationers, &c., in the United Kingdom ; and at 28, Long-lane, West Smithfield, City, without which address on each label the ink is not genuine. Price ls. per battle. LUXURIANT WHISKERS Moustaches, and Eyebrows p ro d uced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION , t`e stimulative properties of which are unf a line, - in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price is. 6d., Ica. 6d.. 10s. d., and 21s. Forwarded on r. ceipt of postage stamps.—Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. K.'s wigs, £1 10s. T.‘p, 1 . 11 _By MR 1 , s,K INVENTION Roya: Seal ranted 17th !lily. P4um, Sets or partial nets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few hours by means of his patented sort elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the arum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensin_ with sprints or unsifthtly fastenin , s, and dcfyintr detection by t'.e chi,est observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention is, the re , diness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any chantzc of the month (even by the wearer); and as they act independently of all &stip hint! causes which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they a e tJuarantee,l tc last a life time, as will as for mastication and articuh lion. Mr. 11 K ELL'tS TREATISE, which fully explains htsinvention, post free for seven stamps.—lnspecti , ii of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.—g, Grosvenor st cet, Bond-street London ; and :t9, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. ~ p pTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WMOO -MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT xiiinmoris OF Iksl AND 1.621, is allowed by upwards of Two hundred Medical Gentlerien to , e the most effective uvention in the curative treatment of ERN I A. (he use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its fleets, s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the I,ody, while the requi s ite r es i s ti ng power i s supplied by the =while Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease rid closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn inring sleep. A descriptive circular may lie had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the dr lumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being lent to the manutucturer, Mr. WRITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 2 65. 6d., and 31 s. 6d. Postage, Is. Doubla Truss, 31s. 6d., 425.. and 525. 6d. Postage, 1s Bd. %n Umbilical Truss, 425. an d 525. Cd. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post- Ince, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT • ELASTIC STOCKI NGS, KNEE-CAPS, kc., for Varicose Veins and all eases o f Weakness and Swelling' 01 he Legs, Sprains, Am. They a re i;orOus, I i glit in texture, -Ind inexpensive, and are d rawn on 13 ean ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., 10 s., to 111 8 . ea, 11. Postage M. JOAN WHITE, Manufacturer. 228, Piccadilly. AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.—LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurabLe,itdmirably allays the tickling which pro vokes frequent coughii:ig. In approaching consumption its street, Charing effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprive] of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on re li e f in a s i , t. Ki l n 'r 2. e l p v a i r l e l d only and sold by W. iam cross, London, an d b y all druggists, in bottles, 130 ., an d three quantities in one , 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and I e w LAMBERT, minutes Niter Ch t e a m k i s n t g , ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and ad dress is engraved on the stamp. _ • 444. - „ , ~, • ,; , • , ' / 7 4 c? ?? • . (j .. 11111 (0 1P' . 0 IT. •Naißi.‘ :)., 1,1110 4 4 11A 0 ' 41 R° E S PA_P R ,VA\vt . Plymouth in his fiagship, acre teitsiatriamoiak?:,/ae z Sutlej, 35, Capt. M. Cannolly, on a:tib!tiitala' z 24'4 l , The paddlewheel steamer Locust,' =ice A/.7 fitted as a supernuinerary tender to . ; steam reserve, is ordered to be fitted withumit's S patent rudder and steering apparatus. This vessel being era-oe- -1 Exclusively on harbour service it is of the utmost importance that she should be able to turn in the smallest possible space, an advantage obtained by the use of Lumley's rudder,. In order to facilitate the coaling of vessels of war at Chatham and Sheerness, an operation which now causes considerable delay, Admiralty directions have been received for one of the spare steam en gines now in store to be fitted on board the Ocean coal depot, in order that, the work of coaling up the various steamvessels, which now occupies some days, may be completed in a few hours. An Admiralty order has been received at Chatham announcing that the percentage charge able to all officers on board vessels of .war for use of furniture, mess fittings. &c,, is reduced: 'from 71 to 5 per cent. Directions have also been received to fill up and keep complete in store the several articles of uleetro-plate, out! , ry, linen, china, glass, &c., required for all ships in the iilst division of tho steam reserve svi4ll the exceptio;l of gunboats. Letters reopived at Portsmouth by our corre spondent from Barbadoes, dated Jan. 22, announce the arrival there that morning of her Majesty's screw transport Adventure, Commander'. B. Leth bridge, with the head-quarters of the 3d West India Regiment from Jamaica. This vessel was appointed to sail for the Gambia, west coast of Africa, on Jan. 24. The Adventure, since leaving England on Nov. 1, 1862, had done remarkably well, and steamed no less than 9,711 nautical miles. She arrived at Madeira on Nov. 9, and left again on the 11th. Jamaica was reached on the 28th of the same month. There the Artillery taken out from Wool wich was disembarked, and the 3d company of the 14th Regiment, and the 2d company 3d West India Regiment, taken on board. The ship left for St. Lucia on Dec. 3, where she arrived on the 10th, discharged the troops on board and took others on board for Barbadoes, where she arrived on the 110. She again exchanged troops and sailed on the 13th for Demerara where she arrived on the 16th. Ex changes of troOpti were next carried out with Trini dad on the 17th, Barbadoes again on the 20th, Jamaica Dec, 29, Belize (Honduras) Jan. 2, 1863, Jamaica the 13th, ant', finally, Barbadoes on the 22d. Other letters received by our correspondent state that the Adventure sailed at 4 a.m. on Jan. 24 for Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, and Lagos, to relieve the troops stationed at those places. The Bombardment of Acapulco. PANAMA, Jan. 25, 1863. The enclosed is a translation of a letter received in this city from an eye-witness of the bombard ment of Acapulco by the French fleet. The writer is a Mexican, but gives a very correct and reliable account of the whole affair, which has been confirmed by other parties. It is evident that the Mexicans had a very respectable force on shore, and for that reason the French concluded it would not be prudent to remain on shore or in the port, and were compelled to leave for some other port where they could get fresh provisions and other supplies. During the bombardment the Mexi can flag was shot down three times; but the mo ment it fell they hoisted a new flagstaff. The Mexi cans conducted themselves with great bravery, and deserve credit for the gallant manner in which they defended their forts and city. ACAPULCO, Jan. 17, 1863. I will herewith give you an account of what has happened with the French squadron on the days of the 10th, 11th, and 12th inst. On the morning of the Bth came in sight the Pallas, the Galatea, the Cornelie, and the Diamant. Soon after the latter advanced with a white flag, making the following demands on the citizen Go vernor of the State, Diego Alvarez, as I have un derstood them : 1. That satisfaction should be given for and the official report made to the Government by General Ghiurdi, in connection with the Bayonnaise, be re tracted. 2. That the fortifications be dismantled outside, as they were nothing for such naval batteries, as they were only composed of two old 24-pounders, mounted on old marine carriages. 3. That they should be permitted to take in water and coal, and elso provisions. All of which was denied to them, although Mr. Van Brunt and others used their best endeavours to get some concessions for them. On the 9th their pretensions underwent some modification, to the effect that the Admiral aban doned the point of exacting the dismantling of the fortifications, but insisted upon the others ; and the captain of the Diamant added the threat that in the space of two hours they would sweep all the forti fications clean. Although Gen. Alvarez fully under stood the disadvantages of our old artillery, badly mounted and of short reach, in comparison with their modern pieces, he refused all their exactions with much dignity, adding, that if the French squa dron entered the port he would fire upon it. The resolution was communicated to them at 6 p.m. on the 9th. On the 10th, between 8 and 9 a.m., the French squadron entered, the Diamant towing the Galatea, and the Pallas the Cornelie. At 9 a.m. exactly the forts Hornos, Cameron, Grifo, and Can delaria opened fire about the same time. This last fort of the Condalaria had only a 12-pounder and another small piece, while our artillery were saved although dismounted. The look-out fort, called I. Alvarez, opened fire likewise. But pretty nearly all the forts had no piece large enough to reach the squadron. Particularly the guns of the Grifo and the Hornos were silenced immediately, as the pieces were dismounted by the enemy's projectiles, which came down on them in regular showers, or perhaps the carriages were too old already to stand the shock of firing. The Fort Cameron, which is nearly down at the entry of the harbour, probably fired the most shots. The Cora mandante of it, citizen Camilo Bracho, held out firing on the enemy until he had no guns left to oppose. The Candalaria also fired many shots. It appears that the Pallas was struck by a ball fired from the Cameron just above her water-line, by which she must have been severely damaged. The fort Candalaria, which had but one gun, was ob served by the United States ship Saranac at anchor in a corner of the Tambuco, and the Americans had to admire the valour of our soldiers fighting there, as they only left it with their small gun when all their ammunition had given out. Our forts were mostly without parapets. The commander of the Cadalaria was so much heated or fatigued that he took off his coat, taking "fresco" under a shower of bombs and balls of great calibre. Great things these French have done. When they observed that not a single soldier was left_ is the forts—all situated near the wate r ' s ed g e—the y rolling jumped ashore to finish the g u b n r s ea l k ef i t n , g w o h r ichthey readily accomplished by either While they disembarked d e c t t o e d . b T y h a e y h e fi a r v e y d them into the wate r. fi r i ng over the gro w h e e y re m p o r v o e t f r om their vessels uthnedyt sixty -pound bomb-shells out of rifled cannon. All this oecurred on the 10th. On the 11th and 12t h only the Pallas continued shelling the fort Alvarez. When they ceased firing, the fort answered by a few shots, but none of them reached the enemy, although these were the best of our guns. The Pal las continued to send us her bombs for three days —sixty-pounders out of rifled cannon—and fired in all about 1,300 shots, until the evening of the 12th, when the whole squadron left in the direction of Manzanillo and Mazatlan without obtaining any thing they demaudeu. Of our troops about eight or nine were killed; wounded but few. The city suffered a good deal, too, by the bombs that fell into it by accident. Several houses were set on fire, and others more or less injured. The house of P. Ravarte and Co. (formerly the house of A zuyet a, Huarte, and Co.) burnt down almost one half, causing a loss of merchandise, &c., of from 20,000 to 30,000 dollars, without counting the ma terial of the house. Several poor families, who had deposited here their few possessions, lost all by the fire. BANK ROBBERY AT MANCHESTE.R.—Bet ween Saturday effected night and yesterday morning an en t rance was by thieves into the n ew prem i ses erected in Pall-mall, Manchester, and occupied by the Bank of Man chester, who abstracted from an old safe a quantity of gold and silver, amounting to £1,060 4s. The principal safe had resisted all attempt to force it open. The thieves appear to have gained access through a wall from an adjoining build ing, in which they had secreted themselves before it was locked up on Saturday, THE SUN, LONi)ON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1863. THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. (From the limes' Special Correspondent.) HEAD-QUARTERS OF GEN. J. E. B. STUART, NEAR FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, Jan. 1. Yesterday gloomy skies and a murky atmosphere watched over the deathbed of the expiring year, and many a heart in camp turned fondly homeward in anticipation of that peace which it is hoped that the recent fight at Fri derickshurg has brought so much tearer, and which was selects st as r.ord for ti.e last countersign of the year Tnis moreing a cloud it-s s y and h genial temperature usher in the most eventful ye' r which t BE4 probably ever d- wned upon h , conlin--t , y roe ~ e-ceptcd ceptcd b 3 thi Virginians, over whose beautiful fieids and forests the bright sun is streaming, the har binger of that success in which men, women, and children south of the Potomac have never for a mo ment, ceased firmly to believe. If the aspirations atter pence which are universal throughout the South are lei, rpreted by the North as indicating faintness and fe,bleness of heart, then will this in terpretation prove a-. take as the Northern duel rine that there is stilt Union sentiment, smothered and stifled but ready to burst forth, somewhere in Se cessia. It is needless to repeat what cannot now be unknown anywhere inEngland,that if tiieNorth put it blank sheet of paper into President D ivis's hand, and bade him write a constitution for the whole original 34 States, there are not 50 men in the Con federacy who would be willing to enter again on those conditions into partnership with the North. It is not a new constitution and additional guaran tees for the protection of slavery that the Cont de rates want; they only ask good faith in the observ ance of the old Constitution—that good faith which no written obligations and stipulations can ever guarantee and insure. The old Constitution is pro nounced by thousands in the North to be a bawd of iniquity, " a compact with hell ;" but when the South desires to sunder that bond and set free New England from participation in this compact, some such words as " Southern wealth and North ern profits" are whispered throughout the North ; and to maintain the connexion between them thou sands of millions of dollars and hundreds of thou sands of lives are given, when a tithe of the sum lavished upon this war would have paved the way, without the expenditure of a single life, to the abatement of those evils in the system of slavery which both North and South agree in condemning. It is strange on a calm day like the present to mount the commanding hill from which Gen. Lee surveyed the recent action before Fredericksburg, and to contrast the stillness and repose of the scene with the hurly-burly of battle, and fire and smoke, and the death tumult of Saturday, Dec. 13. Below Marye's heights stretch the long low mounds be neath which the countless Federal dead sleep their last long sleep; nor is there in this spot any other evidence than these mounds, and a few dead and still unburied horses, of the fearful struggle upon which these heights so lately looked down. But as the observer travels eastward along the ground oc cupied by the Confederate 'ines, and examines the position held by Gen. A. P. Hill's troops, he will find abundant evidences, in the shattered trees and the furrowed hillsides, of the fury with which the battle raged along the Confederate right. Juat on be spot where a perfect tempest of round shot and shot appears to nave rent the torest, and.where every !tee is studded with bullets, is the station which h.Jielison ,ecir pied throughout the action. When I noticed to him thrl-e days ago that his positioh rimst have been most perilous and uncomturtable, he quietly observed that he had been in many notter fires than that which were poured upon him F,d ttek , burg. Ina former letter I observed 'oat the Con tea, rate force which General Lee th _night proper to detach from his army of Northern Virginia, with a view to employing it against Gen. Burnside's force at Fredericksburg, did not, in my opinion, exceed 90,000 men. Of course, in this estimate I do not include the reserves which, had they been required, Gen. Lee could have com manded, but for which it is abundantly appa rent (jndging from his address to the army, which I enclose), that there was little necessity. In that address, which, like eve, yt Ling which emanate from General Lee's pen, makes the least rather than the most of his success, he states that less than 20,000 of his men encountered the vast host of Gen. Burn side. It is a modest estimate of the slaughter which these 20,000 men inflicted upon the Federals, to compute that each Confederate engaged killed or wounded one of his enemies. It will be sufficient now to state that, although there seems in the minds of several of the Confederate Generals a disinclina tion to employ more than 100,000 men in any one army against their foe, be his numbers what they may, it will, nevertheless, be found by the Federals, whenever they resume their crusade upon Rich mond, that they will be met, if need be, man for man, be their advance through the Shenandoah Valley, or Fredericksburg, or Suffolk, or the coast of North Carolina. The return this evening of General Stuart and his staff from another of those successful raids in which he has so frequently indulged has shed a glow of cheerfulness throughout the camp, and has afforded much merriment by reason of the incidents which accompanied this expedition, and of which every one is talking. It appears that General Stuart started upon Christmas-eve with a considerable force of cavalry in the direction of Dumfries, dis tant about 30 miles from these headquarters. Thence he proceeded towards Occoquan Creek, where, as well as at Dumfries, he had skirmishes with the enemy, during which he took about 200 prisoners, and inflicted some loss upon them, himself sustain ing the loss of only man, Captain Bullock (a very gallant officer), who, it is feared, was mortally wounded. Atter crossing Occoquan Creek, General Stuart s , ruck the Orange and Alexandria railroad, and at Burke's station burst into the room where the elegrarol operator was at work, and commanded him, upon pain of ir.stant death if he misinterpreted, to tract , ff the messages which the click of ,he in 4rt umeort pronounced to be at that moment passing along the wires. In this manner General Stuart learnt the movements which Gen. Heintzelman and other Federal Generals w. , re concerting with a view ,!! int , !venting to retreat, and altered his course so is to it ffi their preparations. The luckless tele graph operator and his fellow-prisoners—all of them dismounted cavalry soldiers—were started off on toot to walk 45 miles to Culpepper station, in order that they might learn by practical experience what a long and weary travel was requisite to carry them to that Richmond which they have been so long in reaching. The submarine telegraph clock found at. Burke station is now a valuable acquisition at Gen. Stuart's headquarters, and will probably be the guide by which many a future reveillee and tattoo will be sounded. After leaving Burke's sta tion Gen. Stuart proceeded towards Alexandria, within eight miles of which town he turned towards the north-west, and returned hither by a circuit which brought him through Warrenton—which town was occupied by a. large body of Yankee cavalry e few hours after Gen. Stuart bad passed through it and Culpepper, thus concluding an expedition less important, but not less successful, than its prede cessors. without rests, thout s a a r m ln e i armies an themattewrioalacnitiaagnogneitshii: ro e they h e ld b efore the battle of Fredericksburg, and u ti n l occupy from which neither of them seems at present dis posed to withdraw. It is certain that Gen. Lee will never permit the Pederals to occupy Fredericksburg, and to convert it (as they are known eagerly to de sire) into a vast entrepot of stores and munitions of war, which might serve as a base whence to com• mence another expedition against Richmond next spring. The sufferings of the inhabitants of Frede ricksburg, who have lost everything which they pos sees upon earth, are likely to be protracted through out the winter; for in the present menacing attitude which the two armies preserve in regard to the town it is impossible for its former inhabitants to return to their ancient domiciles. Much sympathy has been evinced towards these hapless sufferers, and it is expected that by Gen. Lee's army alone not less than 100,000 dols. will be subscribed to wards their relief. It is singular to notice the in terest which the negroes in camp take in this sub scription, which they imagine is calculated iu some manner to injure the Yankees, •And to which they therefore great ,iiaerity in contributing. As an instance, four adult negroes flad a boy at Gen. Jenkins' head quarterssubscrib,d to the Fredericks • hurg fund no less a sum Than 22 dots. Whatever m- :c have heen the feeling of the slaves in North ri, VirL:tilia iu 'el; t.) emancipation at the commencement of the war, it is certain that they now entertain towards the Yankee a mingled feel ing of abhorrence and term!, which is continually increasing, and is stimulated by the reports which reach them of the misery of the runaway negroes at Washington and 11,1rper'a Ferry, and Craney Island. At this latter plice, which is near For tress Monroe, it i reporttd Oat a large body of negroes are kept in a kind or e.thfiatnent by the Federal authorities, in a miserable state of dirt, listless apathy, and disease. It is found that no work can be extorted from them by hope of re ward, or any of the stimulants which provoke the white man to industry, and the Washington Cabinet has the option of allowing tt.em to starve or driving them back into captivity. Ludicrous stories are told about the want of suc cess which has attended the efforts of the Federal generals upon the coast of South Carolina to drill and make soldiers out of negroes. It requires a thousand white soldiers to guard night and day a thousand negroes, to whom arms have been commit ted, and prevent their bolting with the muskets in trusted to them. When the negroes are called upon to fire, the scene, as described to me by an eye-wit ness, baffles belief. Some fall flat on their faces, others scramble up trees, nearly all fling away their muskets, and endeavour to break out of the ranks. If President Lincoln, and Mr. Wendell Phillips, and General Butler could witness the eagerness with which every Southerner who is acquainted with negro nature welcomes the news that many negro regiments are being organised at New Orleans and elsewhere, they would have qualms about em ploying the African as an engine of war, and would probably incline to the belief universally entertained throughout the South, that no better method of transferring muskets to the hands of Southern sol diers could easily be found. In many conversations in camp and elsewhere with free negroes I have never met one who, on being asked whether he would rather be free or have a master, did not re spond that he would prefer a good and kind master to freedom. It is useless to disguise the fact that liberty in the eyes of the negro means simply imma nity from work. In tropical climates, s uc h as t h e island of Hayti, where the ground teem s sponta neouslyht of with he y r fruit,ams and the tr ees b en d under the the negro b as k s i n the vert i cal weig t sun, and is in Paradise. But in such a climate as Virginia, where life cannot be supported without manual labour, the negro needs the guidance and support of the white man, and is conscious of this want. Pnilanthropists of all ages and all countries have loved to paint an African Utopia, in which the negro might be awakened to the dignity of self supporting work, and might be taught the blessing of unassisted independence. It was atter such an Utopia as this that "Old John Brown" yearned, and his ignorance of the constitutional tempera ment of the negro cost him his own life, while no man, white or black, was the gainer by its sacrifice. l'he r , mark lately Inc+de to me at Richmond, to he effect that this war would soon be brought to an end if 50,000 aged and infirm negroes and uegresses were driven into the Funeral lines, and thrown upon the Federals for their support, shows no inconsiderable acquaintance with human nature, both black and white. Generals Lee, Longstreet, and Stuart continue to occupy the same head qu -rters in which they had been living for nearly a month before the battle. General Burnside, on the contrary, is said to have placed his head quarters nearly halfway between the town of Fredericksburg and Acquia Creek. Upon every bright day the Federal balloon is ob served floating in the sky, but the experience of 20 months of warfare has taught the Confederates how tittle formidable such engines of warfare are, and very little heed is given to the learned professor about whose movements in the air the Northern journals have so much to say. Bat if in respect of balloons science has proved an inadequate coadjutor of Bellona, it must be confessed that upon another element she has incontestably asserted her supre macy. I allude to the superiority of the modern rifled cannon, and more especially of the Whitworth guns in the hands of the Confederates. It is im possible too highly to praise the performance, as a field gun, of the 20-pounder Whitworth. There is no other gun upon this continent which can com pare with it in lightness, in precision, and in length of range. Again and again one single Whitworth gun has forced Federal batteries to change their position, and eventually to fall back. The only objec tion here entertained to the Whitworth is the ab sence of shell which may be projected from it. The Confederate Ordnance Department has invented a shell which, it is hoped, will suit it, but I am not aware that it has, as yet, been successfully tried. Be this as it may, there has been more joy among the Ordnance officers over the arrival of five more Whitworth guns, which have just arrived safely at Wilmington in the steamer Giraffe, then there would be at the capture of 100 such guns as were in posi tion on both sides at the battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th of last month. It is curious to remark how tuck alternately favours and deserts the vessels which attempt to run the blockade. At this moment hardly a day passes without the announcement that some vessel has successfully run into Charleston, Mobile, or some other Southern port ; and, inasmuch 48 most of these vessels are the property of the Con federate Government. and bring cargoes of which he value at this moment can hardly be estimated, it will be understood that the profits of the venture do not go into the pockets of mere speculators, but, through the agency of the Government, find weir way to the Confederate soldier and citizen. Unques .ionably the Confederate Government could afford hereafter to lose many of its vessels in consideration of the success which has recently attended its in fraction of the blockade. RICHMOND, Jan. 4. Having been my own courier, and having con veyed this letter as far as Richmond, it is de sirable that I should add the latest impressions en tertained here in regard to the important battle at Murfreesborough, which raged during the last day of the departed and the first day of the current year, with a fury and vehemence which has throughout this war characterised the engagements of the West, and which culminated last summer at the dreadful battle of Shiloh. It should be premised that the attack directed by General Rosecrans against the Confederate lines at Murfreesbornugh was rendered necessary by the fact that the Confederate cavalry had got into his rear, and had cut off the communi cation between the important towns of Louisville and Nashville. General Rosecrans had no option but to advance against the Confederates, and, if possible, clear them out of Tennessee, or to fall back upon Nashville and abandon the whole of Eastern Tennessee to the Confederates. He chose the former alternative, encouraged by the fact that his own army outnumbered Gen. Bragg's two to one, and that he believed Gen. Bragg to be additionally weakened by the recent withdrawal of a large de tachment from his force. It is understood that the li n es occupied by Gen. Bragg at Murfreesbo roug h were seleced by President Davis and Gen. John ston, and that the great object of fighting a battle when the disparity of forces was so great was to Prevent cooperation between the force of Gen. I R osecran s in Tennessee and the force under Gen. Grant near Oxford, in Mississippi, which is threat ening Vicksburg. It was fully expected that Gen. Bragg would be defeated, but time was the great desideratum in order to enable Gen. Johnston to mature his preparations at a point further South which it is not advisable at present to mention, and to take that prominent part in the Western cam ign which he is expected to assume before many wet ks have flown. The battle of December 31 tz,elllS, judging by the destruction of Federal officers announced in the Northern journals, to have been one of the most sanguinary of the war. The results of that day's fighting were the capture by the Confederates of 4,000 prisoners, 25 pieces of artillery, and the destruction of six more, and simultaneously the cavalry of Generals Wheeler and Wharton was engaged in destroying long waggon trains belonging to the Federals, and inflicting upon them a loss which, in that devastated and inacces sible country, may be pronounced irreparable. Upon the first day of the New Year the battle was re sumed, and again it is believed here that victory inclined, to the Confederate side, and that a strong position of the Federals which resisted all attacks upon the 31st of December was abandoned by them upon the following day. But it was found by Gene ral Bragg that the Federal forces had only fallen back a short way and had got behind entrenchments, and that, moreover, they had been heavily reinforced. His own army was in no condition, after two days of severe fighting against a greatly superior force,to resume operations, and in compliance (as is here said) with the instructions of General Johnston, General Bragg fell back upon a strong position at Shellyville, leaving his enemy's army shattered and decimated, according to Northern accounts, to an extent far exceeding the anticipations entertained here at the time when the battle began. It cannot be denied that such a battle as that at Murfreesborough is, at this moment, a great gain to the Confederates. It is probable that both armies are so weakened and exhausted that neither of them will be able to resume operations for many weeks. In the meantime General Grant must pro ceed in his aggressive movements upon Vicksburg without any assistance from General Rosecrans. The great anxiety of the moment is whether that heroic little city will be able to hold out if attacked simultaneously by General Grant's land force and by a flotilla on the river. There is, it is true, some where in the neighbourhood of Jackson a Confede rate force, the nucleus of that army which General Johnston is hereafter to command. But it is pos sible that it may have to fall back before the large force commanded by Gen. Grant, which is estimated at 60,000 men, and which is reported to have been, or to be about to be, joined by General M'Clernand's army, loosely estimated at 30,000 more. Evidently the struggle for the possession of the Mississippi is destined this winter and next spring to be fiercely contested. It is incontestable that if the spring breaks and finds the river from Vicksburg to Port Hudson still in the hands of the Confederates, the North-West, which is already grumbling, will grow intolerant of the further duration of the war, and will make the best terms it can with the power wi ich commands the key to the Mississippi River. It is hoped by the North that the capture of Vicks burg and Port Hudson will reopen navigation be tween St. Louis and New Orleans. Nothing is, in my opinion, further from the truth. A few six pounders placed on any of the numerous bluffs along the river would effectually bar the passage of every trading vessel, and disappoint the commercial as pirations of St. Louis and Cincinnati. But the bisec tion of the Confederacy which would result if that great aorta of this continent, the Mississippi River, was throughout its whole length controlled by the Federals, would be a heavy blow to the Govern ment at Richmond; and with this fact in view the earnest words of President Davis, that " Vicksburg and Port Hudson must be held at all hazards," pos sess additional significance. It is an encouraging fact that one of the highest military authorities upon this continent believes that Vicksburg can be de fended by 15,000 men against any possible attack, by, whatever number of assailants it may be con ducted, upon its land side. The President has returned from his long tour in the Wrest and South, looking decidedly better than when I last saw him. He is in excellent spirits at the prospects of the Confederate armies both in the East and West, and responded to a sere nade in his honour upon his return to Richmond with that quiet dignity which seems never to desert him. The following words employed by Mr. Davis on the occasion in question, and addressed to his fellow-citizens, seem to me so appropriate that I cannot forbear quoting them here : " You have shown yourselves to be in no respect degene rate_sons of your fathers. You have fought mighty battles, and your deeds of valour will live among the richest triumphs of Time's ample page. It is true you have a cause which binds you together more firmly than your fathers. They fought to be free from the usurpation of the British Crown, but they fought against a manly foe. You fight against the offseourings of the entire earth. Men who were bound to you by the compact which they and their fathers had entered into to secure to you and your posterity for ever net only the rights enunciated in the Declaration of Inde pendence, but also those which Virginia, when she acceded to the Federation of the United States, plainly and wisely reserved for herself, now come to you with their hands steeped in blood, robbing the widow, destroying houses and property, warring against non-combatants, seizing the gray- ' haired father and plunging him into a dungeon because he refuses to be a traitor to the principles of his fathers and the land that gave him birth. Every crime that could characterize the conduct of demons has marked the course of the invader. The Northern frontier of Virginia has been ruthlessly desolated, the people deprived of their means of subsistence, their household property destroyed, and every indignity and ou' rage which a merciless and ingenious foe could invent inflicted, without regard to age, sex, or conditon. They have murdered prisoners of war, they have plundered the defenceless, and exhausted their malignant ingenuity to bring the deepest destitution upon those whose only offence is that their husbands and sons are fighting for their homes and their liberties. Every crime, from sacking and burning defenceless and unoffending towns to the stealing of silver forks, has marked their shameless career. In New Orleans General Butler has exerted himself to earn the execrations of the civilised world, and now returns with his dishonours thick upon him to receive the plaudits of the only people on earth that does not blush to think he wears the human form. . . . Do they hope to reconstruct the Union by striking at everything which is dear to man? To such a depth of disgrace and infamy have they fallen that were the question proposed to you whether you would combine with Yankees or hyaenas, I trust there is not one Virginian but would respond, Give me the hyaenas War is an evil in every form, but it has sometimes its pal liating circumstances. This is a new Government, formed of independent States, each jealous of its own sovereignty. It is necessary and advantageous that it should be tried in the severe crucible in which we are being tested, in order to weld us together. The enjoyments and comforts we have been forced to renounce, the long agony of anxiety we have endured, the unceasing labours we have undergone, the glory which we have conjointly secured, have combined to make us a band of brothers, and may wo be united and harmonious for evermore. 'When peace and prosperity re turn, may we go on assisting each other to develope the great political principles upon which our Government is based, and the boundless natural resources which have been committed to our keeping. To an appreciation of the deep significance of the former wo are at length awakening. In the latter direction we are displaying unexampled energy. Our mines have been made to yield long-neglected wealth; our manufactories start up as if by magic. lam not blind to the increasing power of our enemy, but mark that our own has been proportionably far greater, until I can see in the future nothing to mar our attainment of that indepen deucen for which w e s h a ll never ceas e to struggle. O Now eear hope ago many were d e p resse d, an d s ome despondent. and resolve are seen in every eye, and anueounetr zbolrenespaniridt nerves every aria. With such noble women be, invincible." iinhv ble, heroic men in the field, we are, and shall continuo to b be l ieved ppthreastssteysdul s tylee n It will e w r g o y r w s h a s ic t h h c e s h e a , r d a e c ith e that t er i ses President Davis's echo in the breast of g h o l f i stsetnreurg.gleßsu fort, though i P the end o f this n cann ot be far distant, it would seem mi everytiest that there are likely to be troubled times be fore the haven is reached. A fierce contest for the possession of the Mississippi Valley must be fought out to a decision, General Burnside's PRICE..... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. host still impends over the northern frontier of Vir ginia, and even if it be true that his numbers are diminished by the subtraction of General Sumner's corps, there yet remains a mighty army which will continue to engage the attention of General Lee. Upon the coast of North Carolina a Federal force estimated at 48,000 men is gathered at Newbern, end threatens Wilmington, while as large a force is likely to descend from Suffolk and co-ope rate with the force from Newbern. In Hampton Roads another large flotilla, the destination of which is unknown, threatens the whole Southern coast, while General Banks, with the forces lately carried by him ioto New Orleans, is likely to ascend the Mississippi and co-operate with the descending flotilla, commanded by Flog Officer Porter. If the energy of the Federal forces in the field equalled the energy which their authorities display in again and again marshalling their hosts, and sending them forth to fight, it would have been im possible for the Confederates, hampered by blockade and destitute of almost everything that is requisite for either army or navy, to have resisted for nearly two years these übiquitous onslaughts. But, what ever may be the qualms of an unrestricted looker on, never was the spirit of the Confederate authori ties more cheerful or confident; never was their conviction that this last and mightiest effort of their antagonists will be as futile as its predecessors more firmly entertained, or more unflinchingly acted on. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Lord Clarence Paget, Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, arrived at Portsmouth from town on Saturday, and visited the Royal Sovereign, con verting to a turret ship in the dockyard, under the direction of Capt. C. P. Coles, R.N. As we stated last week, there are about 100 hands altogether employed upon the ship. Six of her armour plates, three on each side, are being bolted on, and, so far as the external work of the ship's conversion is con cerned, she is now ready to receive the whole of her armour plating from below her water line to her topsides. To receive this part of her armour the ship has been strengthened outside with two layers of diagonal teak planking, the inner layer being of three and the outer of four inch. This diagonal strengthening extends lift. 9in. below the part of her topsides to which she was originally cut down. The lower ends of this diagonal planking rest in worked rabbits of longitudinal planking added to the original bottom of the ship, which project suffi ciently far beyond the level of the diagonal ends to form a shelf on which will rest the lower edges of the lower tier of armour plates. The lowest part of this longitudinal planking is 14ft. 10in. from the point to which the ship was originally cat down. The ship was cut with a sheer forward and aft, which Capt. Coles afterwards disapproved. The result was that the ship's topsides were filled in and raised, the greatest extent being amidships, where it was about 18in. Standing upon the upper-deck beams of the vessel, their form at once attracted attention. Sloping downwards from the centre in all directions, to allow of the required depression of the guns in the turrets, the appearance of the Royal Sovereign's upper deck, when complete, will be as nearly as possible like the under part of a butcher's tray, thus forming the glacis of the gun towers or turrets. The work of the ship, such as is in hand, or has been in hand, is being carried out in the most substantial manner. Thus it is almost impossible to create in the position any thing more massive and stable than the deck beams and supports of the upper deck. Where the towers stand, or rather are to stand, the original wooden beams have, of course, been removed, and their places taken by short rolled iron beams from the Butterly Works, which extend from the ship's side to the crown of tb . e glacis at its junct ion wits the tower. Where the removal of the original beams has not been necessitated by the fitting of the towers they have been retained, and to give the necessary slope outwards to the deck they have been doubled over by other beams. As in instance of the size of and distance between the beams thus doubled over we may mention that the beams forward of the fore most turret and abaft the aftermost one are 25ft. 2in. in depth and lft. sin. in width, of solid timber. Six of these double beams, in addition to massive inner strengthenings, are between the vessel's stern and forward turret, the distance between each beam being about 24ft. 4in. Amidships the beams are even closer and are alternated with rolled iron beams secured to longitudinal iron beams, clear of the turrets amid ships, where not extending right across the deck, by stout U-shaped kne es. The height of the origi nal wooden beams from the deck below is exactly 6ft., but where the old wooden beams have been re moved altogether and short iron ones substituted, as in the make of the turrets, an additional height is gained of 18in. at the combings of the hatchways and 14in. at the ship's Bide. The Royal Sovereign, as a turret ship will, without doubt, be very different from the American turret vessels, and when com pleted and fit for sea service there is no earthly rea son apparent at present why she should not go as far to sea as her coals will carry her. She has not been built expressly for a turret ship, and there fore, when tried, allowances must be made for certain qualifications which she will possess and which she would have done much better without. The Admiralty have also decided that she is not to be masted, and consequently she will be unable to steady herself at any time by her canvas. With all the faults which can possibly be summed up against her, however, the Royal Sovereign will solve the problem as to whether guns of much heavier calibre can be worked better on the central than on the broadside principle,—in fact, whether a gun of 20 tons cannot be worked more efficiently and with greater ease from a turret than a gun of seven or eight tons can ever be ex pected to be worked through a broadside port. The greater the facilities afforded to the crew of a gun for its working by its position on a ship's deck at sea the greater must be the efficiency pf the ship the guns of which are fitted on such a principle ; and herein lies the interest attached to the trial of the Royal Sovereign. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that although a good deal has appeared relative to the behaviour of the iron ships of Rear-Admira. Smart'a squadron off Lisbon recently in heavy weather, and on which occasi on the y have been declared ' to have proved themselves fit to go any where, nothing has been said about casting their Newt. maindeck guns loose and working them in moderately rough weather. If ships cannot do this their guns can be of but little use to them at sea. The Emerald, 34, screw frigate, Capt. Cumming, has gone into Portsmouth harbour, from Spithead, to be placed in dock and prepared for her trials of screw propellers. Her Majesty's steam sloop Alecto, Commander Blake, was yesterday inspected in the river by the Commodore-Superintendent of Woolwich dockyard, preparatory to her departure for service on the south-east coast of America. Sixty second-class lads for the Implacable and Impregnable, at Devon port, took passage on board to go through the usual course of training. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have rescinded the order recently issued to the effect that the boats of all ships in commission should be fitted exclusively with the late Capt. Kynaston's boat detaching hooks, on a special request being made by the commander the hooks were removed from the Alecto, and four of the boats were fitted with Clifford's loweringtogueanr: un dergo an official trial for their lo rds three of the Kynaston hooks being hip retained'ossr iron-clad a 1 tisfaction- The sea-going qualities of one of The screw u frigates has been very correctly _,687 tons, Captain tested. st eams hip London, 1 Chads, had left G.ihrBoa6filtagrunson. 2 h e r recent return to Pl ymo uth to be paid and was about 100 miles sou th-east of Cape St. Vincent ; her screw was up and she was under close-reefed a eefed . topsails ; the wind was so uth-east and blowing moderate gale. S o situated she was lying seven points from the wind, and going about four knots through the water. The iron screw steamship Defence, 16 guns, 3,720 tons, Capt. A. Phillimore, which left Gibraltar after the London, overtook her in this situation. The Defence was working her screw, with fore and aft canvas just drawing, she lay within four points of the wind and appeared to be making five knots through the sea, which was running heavily and at times break ing right over all as far aft as the ship's foremast. Letters received ,t Plymouth from the Pacific state that the screw steam frigatepacch an t e 39, Capt. D. M. L. M ac k enz i e , was at C allao on 'Jan. 13. and would leave about the 20th for Panama, where Rear-Admiral Sir T. Maitland, K.C.8,, the retiring Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, would land, and cross the Isthmus for the purpose of re turning to England. The screw steamteorvette Charybdis, 21, Capt. the Hon. G. D. Keane, wag also at Callao, but was to leave about Jan. 30 for 1 the rendezvous, Valparaiso, where she would wait the arrival of the newly-appointed Commander-in- Chief, Rear-Admiral John Jiiag a ombe, who left ,_. ‘ , 4 i 7 47 4.74,, for p.m. Ner- I and mare, By J. Ver- 4, On Rex'