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

ON ":43Y MARKET D COME LERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is no alteration in the Discount Market to day, the rates being firm and the demand rather active. T' k h ,• -"le impor 8 of (Wring the wee. _eve %mounted to £742,500, .ind the exports to £970,000 About £93,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Directors of the Alliance Bank of London eta Liverpool have made a call of £5 per share, Payable on the 15th, proximo. It transpired yes. tt , rday afternoon that Messrs. Pilkington Broth6,rs, Americas. merchants, had sus pended payment. Their liabilities are estimated at 4 40,000, bat no reliable opinion can be formed with regard to tha assets, which are dependent upon re ntittances from abroad. Two o'CLocK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were 69 f. 9 00.—Firra. The English Stock Market to-day has undergone !cry little cb.ange, and business has been exceed lngly inactilve. Some support is given to prices by the influx of gold into the Bank of England. Con sols are 91i 4 for money, and 921 Q for account. The Nora Three per Cents. and the Reduced are Ste ady at 901 ; Exchequer Bills, 3s. dis. to par ; India Stock is firm at 227 and 228 ; and do. 5 per Cent., 1088 1. A fair amount of business has been negotiated in the Foreign Market, and prices show no important c hange. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 68 Q ; do., 1862 , 684 to 694 ; Egyptian are 961 97, and the second issue 96 Q ; Greek Bonds have improved to 2 4 21 ; Mexican 31 I ; Italian are 69a 1 ; Spanish passive 261 e ; and Venezuelan 6 per Cents. are l 'etY heavy at 571 58. In the Railway Share Market there has been ' V ery little animation. North British, owing to the tin Favourable dividend declared, has receded about 41 ; while Midlands and South Easterns have e ach declined ss. ; Greet Westerns, South Westerns, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln improved s '. The other lines dealt in were without material e hhhge in luvs. The For , ign And Colonial undertakings were f lit. Paris and Orleans realised 44 1; Great western of Canada, 121 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 105 1 ; Els t Indian, 106 I ; and Punjaub, 104. ,Joint. Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares ex hittl lir6e variation. City Bank improved to 94 ; London and South African declined to 26i; lilc of Australasia, to 8311, and Electric Teie gtaPh to 100. 3 BRITISH FUNDS_CLOSING PR ICES. Per Cent. R e d uce d Annuities 3Per Cent. Consols Annuities w 3 p er C en t. A nnu ities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent. -Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100/ D tr, Bonds £l,OOO Ditto utider 11,000 2 0 nsols for Account, April 8 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent... • par Ditto Small BuenosFOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING t'RICES. Ayres 6 per Cent 1,,93 . .gVptian 7 pet Cent 961 7 6/ Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 2ok 1 201 Ditto Coupons Italian 5 per Cent. (Nlareinmana Railway) 711 Mexican 3 per Cent .• • • '''''' New Granada l4 13/ Ditto itto D 2 e p f e e r rr C ed ent -1 P eruvian 41 per Cent. .......... , ,Ditto 44 p er C e nt ~1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 94} 3i -- Ditto 5 per t Cent., 1862 D itto Scrip, £65 16s. paid............ i din Spanish 3 per Cent .................. 26 i Ditto Passive Ttirkish 6 per Cent. 1854 .............. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .............. 68 1 Ditto, £lOO Bonds 7li Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Italian, Dividends on the above payable in London. 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 631 1 TWO O'CLOCK.. Consols' Money Ditto Account ...... 921 The Danish Residents in London. - - Oa Thursday night a number of Danish gentle taen, mostly residents of London, sat down to din ner at St. James's Hall, to celebrate the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess Alexandra "enmartr. Tue hall was tastefully and appro priately decorated. Ia the background over the chairman was seen the Danish arms enframed with White and red rosee ; on the right side t he Danne b I °4, or Danish flag, and on the left the Prince of Wales's banner, both surmounted by the feathers and tailing over a group of union jacks. At the I : i clee of the hall the busts of the royal bride and bridegroom were surmounted by two large A's in W hite and re d roses, and festoons of roses crossed from walk to wall. 4 ' l (ma the lotnpany, numbering about 100, were , Excellency M. de Bitle, the D +nish Minister; A. Westenholz, the Consul- Gonersl; Captain C ttstensetijold, adjutant to Prince Christian; Cap tain Lund, R.A., adjutant to Prince F rederick; - Ideutenant Funck, R.N., tutor to Prince William; Nelthropp ; Messrs. Dalcomyn, Simonsen, 4 -"ensund, and Goseh, attached to the Danish Em bassy ; and the Rev. E. Magnusson. The stewards Were Messrs. C. Moller, J. H. Lundt, F. Fabricins, Chr. Lange, and S. E. Holten. His Excellency M. de Bitle took the chair, and W as supported by Mr. C. Moller, the senior Danish Merchant in London, and Captain Castenscbjold. After the cloth had been removed, his EXCELLENCY rose and said—We are here assembled to celebrate the union of the Prince of wales and Princess Alexandra. There is, I am sure, no one who more rejoices at this happy union t han his Majesty King Frederick VII. It is a union Which still closer connects our dear Denmark to a country to which we look up with admiration and a ffection. It places the Crown on th e com p act of fr iendship which for so many years has existed between England and Denmark. I again repeat that no one can feel more gratified at this union thanouorfhis most gracious Majesty King F rederick, the father people, to whom he gave a p rivilege so lon. benjoyed by the people of Englang—that of Governing themselves. We, the Danes, will there fore ever gratefully remember him, and I am sure of the full sympathy of the present assembly when Propose d , Long live Frederick VII." May he liv e lona. Niue thundering hurrahs followed this speech. 14'1- MARKE T THEATRE.— The benefit of Mr. 'Wilde is announc ed for Thursday next at this th eatre, where the respec t in which he is held, for the long and able conduct of arrangements relating to the com fort of the audience will, we have no doubt, ensure him the Patronage of every class of playgoers. The established popularity of " Our Am •rican Cousin" and "The Little Tr easure" is principally relied upon f or the occasion ; whilst tb two characters, will be the s peciality of Mr. Sot hern's a p pearance in ":° oharaciers, that gentleman having undertaken the part of Ca tain Walt, r Maide , .. blush in the last-named piece. The Spanish ballet of the " Fete" will conclude t he evening's performances. WOODS AND FORESTB.—TIIe accounts for the / e ar euoing M treti 31, 1862, show met the Ineomb of_ the land revenua amounted to £ 369 , 915, and t h e expen diture to £80366, whereof £13,193 was for rates and taxes, £ 2 8,423 tor repairs and improvements, and £7, 218 f or re °,..!atnation and improvement of portions of Dcia tnere forest. The receipt from Wi n d s or forest and parks amoun ted to 416 ' OBl , the expenditure to £ 21 ,9 13 . From the o ther Royal forest s and woodlands the receipt was £11,140, and the P'riditUro upon them £32,654. The balance left in hand I t ," he end of the year being smaller than at its beginn in g , ' a UM of £:95,000 was paid over to the Exchequer as 811r iAlls :bonne in the year before it was £290,568. P. is not all avail,ble surplus, because there is to be set against it l'n annual v o t e of a bout £26,000 for the expense of the office of Woods and Forests and the Landed Estates Re cord-offiee. ARRIVAL OF COTTON FROM NlATAMORAB.—Yes terday the screw steam ship Edward Hawkins arrived in the Mersey from Matamoras, with a cargo of 800 bales of gotton, 100 to ,emu- king a r at a re the ng up a mile ;ht by Rhce- I Ana nd the inning ng the dlds) 1 deli) 2 dall) 3 ;, 5 to 1 I of the rnately Le from engthe. Le win- re regret r be re- hat ru th, put is hold.. believe(' ) advance a won a revailed, in every •e would ukuovni , in that ; while, .ow it is rpuse of him. and I was the ):)sitively ould see. of events. mouneed the las t ay o f bit!) Lt on the RomehoVi mown or with our hing last t done so. itled to a riday we notniv al from Ne o clown ea give hira it in. TO w nothing —On San' ;ck to a ZO I he bad 1(4 octable umfort, the ve met NO' ty. T o S e Lis unsi.tt, tni c n e bout I , oov f [n favo ur °- he Goo de : &eat the dib We It tise l° , ) denions tre , uo P re it, w jet were 1,0- a I°l One sat 11 es t, oi s of their duti* SHARE MARKETS—This Day. )11.1)INAIZY STIARES ANI) STOuP,•-.;, Rut I ways. 8 Si 7 8 86 88 116 117 1181 61 4 40 12 13 14 83 20 107 109 49 50 46 48 Closing ; Busin,s, Price. done, 49i / 661 6 1 108/ 731 looi i 45} I 131 14 131 1241 4 )1 P 51i 501 1 911 i 241 25i 121 123 1:20 122 131 136 101 103 '6l ki ' ICBI It9i 7s I'4 114 115 :19 41 981 On 10 1014 4i6 45i 131 14 124 k24i 11 11p 94 96 50 52 24 26 981 9S/ - (1 55, 56i 67i Kt 114 116 1 1 p 16 161 11 11t 121 123 44 45 ICO 102 50 51 32 34 92 921 68 69 7 8 37 38 9 10 o 74 8 p 149 151 4,1 5 o 21 3} 1) 80 84 150 160 28 ;10 41i 424 35 37 98 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Sher- ttat twaVS P au l. Price. Business don. 100 ►t 'antic &St Lawrence 74.1.1 -7 61 64 . 0 , (iom.,Baroda&.Cen t In, t 104 5 1044 8 Gu. 5 per cent— ... ; . 20 it° New 20 Do. E. Shares... 5 1. P _O4 iiultatu aua Lathe t'or'e' 4 4f 8 10 Do. Preference ...... all 76100 Buatalo,Brant,&Godricli iv 77 E 0 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1 8 72 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 75 76 100 30. 110. June 1, 1-,:4 100 73 76 st 71cutta.&S.Eastn. ) 100 103 105 st • 7apeTown & Dock Scrl/ 100 108 109 7 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. s p. c 100 106 1, stock East Indian. gu. sp. e. 10, 1064 we} 1064 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 5 4 1 4p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 stock Grand Trunk of Canada 10t 204 14 100 Do. Ist Pre*. Bonds.. *ll 65 67 65 100 Do. co. del erred. ..... all 50 53 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. all 57 59 100 DJ. do defer , ed...... all 44 46 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... all 40 44 100 Do. do. d-lerri_d. .... all 34 34 100 Do. 4th Pref. s o .. all 2i 28 100 Do. do deferred.-- all 22 24 , A stock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua. s p.c 100 1054 106 v 54 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 4 1 '5ll 20 Do. January, 1 862 .. 4 1 I stock Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 102 104 1034 204 Gt• W. ot Canada Shares all 124 13 10 204 Do. New ....... 18 74 74 iO4 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 100 102 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. •• all 93 i 5 921 3 c 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 1/p 3 stock Madras guar., 5p.. .. 100 1034 IU 1034 stock Do. 44 p. a Extension 100 96 98 stock Dc. 44 d 0........ 100 03 5 95 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Nleih.corv. p. o. Buds. 300 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 49 51 100 Do. 7p. o. Slortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswickh Candor Class A en i B all 3 5 N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist f bds 100 83 85 Stock Scinde ........ • . (110 116 107 st Do. Do. Delhi 20 0 t D O O O. . 11 1 2 0 5 1034 ti 1044 101 do 2 10 4 1 ock Do. Indus. St. Flo. J ( . 100 98 100 994 t.' JLONIAL 1-i-OV ERN MEN f SECU ,Lun.CPO4 , . tip.e.Ja &dui) 1877-S1 Do. 6p. c. Feb. A Au, 100 105 107 Do. 6p. c. Mar. AL Sept 100 105 117 , Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 07 98 974 84 74 - Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 95 97 Cape G. Hope, 8 p 0.1871 - 100 109 111 Do.Ap & Oct. 1881 100 113 115 Do. 1891 100 114 116 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p 10' 1 - bleu itius 5 per cent .. 100 110 112 'Na al Gev. 6 per cent.. 130 11 111 'N. li.Gov. 6 p.c.J a.&.;til) 100 106 107 1) 0 . 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - , 1004 1016 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c., 18 ), 100 Do. sp. c.,1871 to LH 100 1004 1014 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwdt. 100 100 101 101 New Zealand 6 p tent. 100 110 112 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. ; sterling, 1875 lOO 1164 1 0 74 C lOO , Queensland Gov. 6 p. . 1 11:3 b. Aim (1t1p.c.1676.AZ up lOO 111 113 I VIO.Gov. 6 p.c. Js..&Jul) 100 108 110 Do. 1/, A D ,- 100 114 1114 11 1 1 11 1 filliTlSll MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 p th eiord Amal g amated.. 21 26 530 540 --Devon G. Con.. (Tavist. 1 East Bassett (Mogan 30 .80 83 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. is. 4d p - East Caradon l4. r, 44 45 45 4 4 East Carn Brea.... 3.0.0 Ot 5 01 E. Vrl Russel (Tavistk.; 7.19.0 4 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 571 16 18 Great South Tulgus 176 66 fi G. Wheal Vor (11elston 40 7 7.} Grenville . Herod's-Foot 8.12 46 48 Hingston Downs 4. 7. 0 2 4 3 Lady Bertha 3 4 \i4.rgaret (Uny Lelant 34 6 arke Valley. 4 tlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 21 1 / d New Setun .. 19f 13 3 145 .N ortli Downes 2/ 34 ; I';aset(lllo4aii !..17.( 4 4 N:nrth Wheal Crotty 1 I'ar Consols Blazey; 14 46 54 10 ttov idence( Huy L e l n t. ) 10.6.7 0 (2 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 405 415 4224 6 4. Cern Brea (I llozan) 0.15 .6 34 44 ••.Wheai Fran. 18.1 .9 90 95 Stray Park ...... .. . 5 tTamarSilv.& Lead biin. l 6 1 1 19 20 a to rin Crort .............. West Basset (Illogan).. 14 34 W Caro.don (Liskeard 5 33 35 West Seto' Wheal Basset (Illog,au,' 4 10 75 Wheal Buller( Itedruth) 614 674 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 7 g .e WhealLud ott Wheal Mary Ann (1/en ) 8 156 164 )f Wheal Seton . 584 r. 255 _ heal 'T w retaney (Lis.) 7 17 18 n wheal Union 3.17 5 54 ------- PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed, 655 Great orthern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent prem.,lo3 Gt.Westeru Verks & Hants Ext.), 45 per cent. red., 99 North dtaffordshire, 221 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 11 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Namur and Liege, 11f. per annum, 81 Paris and Orleans, 441 Sambre and Meuse FO , 105 REIGN MINES. East del Rey (lira.), 11 Port Philip, I',l Scottish AustraPan, 5 St. John del Rey (lira.), 574 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lira.), 4 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia, 81 3; Bank of Egypt, 271 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 95 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 22 City, 9S Eng., Scot., and Australian Chartered, 204 London. B. Ayres, and R. Plate (Urn.), 125 London and Colonial (limo, 34 London and County, 444 5 London Joint Stock, : , 54 (55 London and South African, 265 London and Westminster, 77 National Provincial of England, new, 34/ Ditto, new, Oriental Bank Corporation, 58 5 Ottoman Bank, 415 Scinde, Punjaub, and'Delhi (Rm.\ 3 Union of Australia, 52 Union of London, 34 MISCELLANEOUS. Electric Telegraph, 101 i 100 Great Ship (lim.) 174 per cent. pref., 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 5/ Joint •stock Discount, 21 f Madras Irrigation and Canal, 3 North British Australasian, Oriental Gas (lim.), Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, new, 44} 5 Royal Mail Steam, 664 60 Scottish Australian Investment (Rm.), 141* EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—The pre mises of Mr. Myers, jeweller, Market-place, Sheffield, were on Wednesday robbed of watches and jewellery to the MOUnt of about £2,000. No trace has yet been got of the obbers or their booty. A superb dinner service in Severe porcelain will, in the course of a fortnight, be presented by the ElllperOT Napoleon to the Princs and Princess of Wales, and a colossal vase in the same material has been ordered for them by the Empress. This vase will be adorned with two large portraits of their Imperial Majesties, and small medallions of the other members of the imperial family. A Gobelins carpet will also be included in the presents. CHARGE OF WATCH STEALING.—A young man named George Cress was this morning charged, at the Thames Police-court, with stealing a watch, the property of his brother Charles. He had frequently been forgiven • for other robberies. He was remanded, Sh ,- tre 3.14; Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val 25 !Blythe and Tyne. 10 ißost.,Sleal.,andMid.k.,:o., at ;Bristol and Exeter j at Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 20 'Corn wa I " lu ID( , A J.Junz J - ) ti'l6 L • an to,' 10 Do. B I' • been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast June., 25 ;Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. j at ;Edinburgh & Glasgow.! at Glasg. and S. Western. , at !GreatEastern, Ord. stk at Ditto A stock at Ditto East Anglian st! at ;GreatNorthot Scotland ai ,Great Northern st I Do A stock st I Do Bdo at Gt. S. an W. of Ireland at Great Western ..... at ! Do Str Val gua. stock at 'Lancashire & Yorkshire st !Loudon and Blackwall at Lou.,; Bright.,& S. Coast st Lou.,' Chat., and Dover st !Len. & North Western at Lon. & South Western at !Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 50 'Maryport and Carlisle. 121 Do a shares.. ...... 10 Metropolitan .......... s t I Midland .4.0 Do New Ist Do Birming. & Derbyl B 0 I Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 I Do. shares 25 iMid Kent 10 I Do Cray Line at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee st Nth. Eastern—Berwick 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase ,at Do Lecds at Do York at I Do Carlisle st North London 10 Do New L 9.16.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction st S c ottish Central st , Scot N. E., Aber. stock at I Do Scot. Mid. stock 10 !Shrews. and Welchpool it 'Shropshire Union at South Devon.. st ISouth Eastern at South Wales et 'S. York. and River Dun 20 'Staines, Wok.,andWok. 25 ',Stockton it Darlington 25 Do Do New, 1860 st Taff Vale. .. [0 Do B [0 , Do C lUlster 15 I Do 10 I Do • I t Vale of Neath st Victoria sta. and Pim st IWaterford & Kilkenny st West Cornwall :li'.yt Hartlepool Har.&R st 'West Midland Oxtord .51 110 N ewpor st ' Do Hereford all all all 100 "1" THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1863. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. CITY BETTING. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 9to 1 agst Knutsford (taken) 12 to 1 agst Grimstone (taken) EARL Si ENCER'S PLATE. 15 to lon the field (offered) TWO THOUSAND. Sto 1 agst Hospodar (taken freely) 6to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 10 to 1 agst Rapid Rhone (offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN, 15 to 1 agst Gleno(ity c (taken freely) CHESTER CUP. 16 to 1 agst Stradella Naval and Military Intelligence. The Resistance iron frigate, Capt. W. Chambr ',ain, sailed from Spithead at 3 p.m. yesterday for Devonport. The Warrior iron frigate, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., sailed for Devonport from Spithead, at 4 p.m. yesterday, after the return of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to Osborne in the Fairy yacht, from accompanying the yacht Osborne out to sea with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia on board for Antwerp. Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., and Staff were entertained last evening at dinner by the ward-room dicers of his flagship, Her Majesty's ship Victory, on entering upon his duties as naval Commander-in-Chief of the port and district. Twenty 110-pounder breech-loading Armstrong guns have been delivered at Sandown, Isle of Wight, With a corresponding supply of shot and shell, for the armament of the Yaverland, Redeliffe, and San down barrack batteries, all new works, and a de scription of which has already appeared in the Su*. A notice has been affixed at the entrance gates to Chatham dockyard announcing that on and after the Ist of April next no volunteer will be enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve who is above 30 years of age, to be ascertained by certificates of birth or baptism. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—E. Rivers, chief engineer, to the Asia for the Melpomene, when the latter is paid off ; R. Allen, chief engineer, to the Asia for the Imperieuse, when the latter is paid off; J. Crew, W. J. Wise, T. E. Williams, T. B. Jordan, Henry Rawlings, and Frederick Earnshaw, assistant engineer, to the Rattlesnake on the Coast of Africa, as supernumeraries; the Hon. Rothwell J. B. Wil loughby has been nominated to a naval cadetship; Edwin J. Jackson and William Terry, master's assistant, to the Nile. MARKETS—This Day COVENT GARDEN. To-day's market was seasonably well supplied with pro• duce. Most kinds of fruit ruled firm as to price, but vege tables met a slow sale. FRUIT. s. d. s. d. , s. d. s d Pine apples 8 otolo 0 . Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 0I Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0 Grapes,per lb 10 oto 12 01 Filberts, per lb .. 1 6to 1 9 Foreign do 1 oto 2 0 I Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Melons ... Nectarines. per dz 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 Bto 4 0 Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 3 II to 8 0( Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Lemons, per 120.. 3 oto 7 0 Plums, per db. .. 0 oto 0 0 Gooseberries hf eve° oto 0 0 I Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8 Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 0 Horseradish, pdu 1 oto 2 0 Red ditto 1 6So 3 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 0 9to 1 3 ; Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 6 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 3 0 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli, per bun. 0 Bto 1 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 100 to 150 01 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr put 1 oto 0 0 Mushrooms,p ptl. 0 9to 1 0 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 01 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6) Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers 0 oto 0 0 Mint and savory.. 0 oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas,ll.-sy. 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, 0 oto 0 0 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 1 6to 2 6 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn.. 1 6to 1 9 ) Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 01 Rhubarb, per bun 0 4to 1 0 French beans, h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 9to 1 6 NE WGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4. Od to 10s Od ; geese, Os Od to Os Od each ; goslings, 5s Od to 8s Od ; ducks, is tid to 3s lid ; ducklings, 3s 6d to 5s Od ; rabbits, is 3d to 2s each ; wild do., 10d to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 10d to is Od each; Surrey fowls, Ss Od to 12s Od ; chickens, 6s Od to 8s Od; barn-door fowls, 4s Od to 7s Od ; capons, Os Od • hares, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; ptarmigan, is 6d to Os each ; Pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, 3s 6cl to 4s ; snipes, Os to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od • wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, is Gd to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, 4s Od to 7s Od each; Ostend fresh butter, Ild to is Id • English, is ld to is 5d per lb ; English eggs, 9e Od to Os Od ; French do., 6s 6d to 7s 6d per 120 ; leverets, 3s Od to Os Od each. RICAN DESPATCHES. Subjoined are some of the most interesting of the recently printed despatches on American affairs. The following contains Earl Russell's views on the famous proclamation EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS. Foreign-office, Jan. 17, 1863. My Lord,—The proclamation of the President of the United States, enclosed in your lordship's de spatch of the 2d inst., appears to be of a very strange nature. It professes to emancipate all slaves in places where the United States authorities cannot exercise any jurisdiction, nor make emancipation a reality; but it does not decree emancipatio❑ of slaves in any States or parts of States occupied by Federal troops, and subject to United States jurisdiction, and where therefore emancipation, if decreed, might have been carried into effect. It would seem to follow that in the Border States, and also in New Orleans, a slavcowner may recover his fugitive slave by the ordinary process of law, but that in the ten States in which the prociama- lion decrees emancipation a fugitive slave arrested by legal warrant may resi,,,t, and his resistance, if successful, is to be upheld and aided by the United States authorities and the United States armed forces. The proclamation, therefore, makes slavery at once legal and illegal, and makes slaves either punishable for running away from their masters or entitled to be supported and encouraged in so doing, according to the locality of the plantation to which they belong and the loyalty of the State in which they may happen to be. There seems to be no declaration of a principle adverse to slavery in this proclamation. It is a measure of war, and a measure of war of a very questionable kind. As President Lincoln has twice appealed to the judgment of mankind in his proclamation, I ven ture to say I do not think it can or ought to satisfy the friends of abolition, who look for total and im partial freedom for the slave, and not for vengeance on the slaveowner.—l am, &c., (Signed) RUSSELL. _ _ The second series of despatches contains the cor respondence between Mr. Mason and Lord Russell, in which the former is constant in his endeavour to induce the British Government to break the blockade, and recognise the Confederacy. Earl Russell's replies are most cautious, and chiefly confined to the acknowledgments of the receipt of the letters addressed to him. With regard to the remarks that notwithstanding the determination of the South to maintain the independence they have offensive in an off e r g ßritish Government, o f achieved, mediation the they would h the part n o o f t the n with a view to terminate the war now hopelessly carried on against them. On another occasion Mr. Mason sums up forcibly the claims of the Confe deracy to recognition by the European Powers and proposes an interview with the Eng lish Foreign Secretary, which was declined. In January of this year , Mr. Mason remonstrates respecting their blockade. We sub join Lord Russell's answer. vi l e t w h s t o h n e t E h e n g q l u i e s s h t i o Governmentn EARL RUSSELL TO MR, MASON. Foreign-office, Feb. 10, 1863. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of the letter of the January, referring to the letter which you addressed to rue on the 7th of July last, respecting the interpretation placed by her Mjesty's Government on the declaration with regard to blockades appended to the treaty of Paris. I have, in the first place, to assure you that her Majesty's Government would much regret if you should feel that any want of respect was intended by the circumstance of a mere acknowledgment of your letter having hitherto been addressed to you. With regard to the question contained in it, I have to say that her Majesty's Government see no reason to qualify the language employed in my despatch to Lord Lyons of the 15th of February last. It appears to her Majesty's Government to be sufficiently clear that the declaration of Par;s could not be intended to mean that a port must be so blockaded as rc ally to prevent access in all winds, and independently of whether the communication might be carried on in a dark night, or by means of small low steamers or coasting craft creeping along the shore ; in short, that it was necessary that com munication with a port under blockade should be utterly and absolutely impossible under any circum stances. In further illustration of this remark, I may say there is no doubt that a blockade would be in legal existence, although a sudden storm or change of wind occasionally blew off the blockading squadron. This is a change to which, in the nature of things, every blockade is liable. Such an accident does not suspend, much less break, a blockade. Whereas, on the contrary, the driving off a blockading force by a superior force does break a blockade, which must be renewed de novo , in the usual form, to be bind ing upon neutrals, The Declaration of Paris was in truth directed against what were once termed paper blockades— that is, blockades not sustained by any actual force, or sustained by a notoriously inadequate naval force, such as the occasional appearance of a man-of-war in the offing, or the like. The adequacy of the force to maintain the blockade must indeed always to a certain extent be one of fact and evidence, but it does not appear that in any of the numerous cases brought before the prize courts in America the inadequacy of the force has been urged by those who would have been most in terested in urging it against the legality of the seizure. The interpretation, therefore, placed by her Majesty's Government on the D-Iclaration of Paris was that a blockade, in order to be re spected by neutrals, must be practically Effec tive. At the time I wrote my despatch to Lord Lyons her Majesty's Government were of opinion that the blockade of the Southern ports could not be other wise than so regarded ; and certainly the manner in which it has since been enforced gives to neutral Governments no excuse for asserting that the block ade has not been efficiently maintained. It is proper to add that the same view of the meaning and effect of the article of the declaration of Paris on the subject of blockades which is above explained was taken by the representatives of the United States at the Cow. t of St. James's (Mr. Dallas), during the communications which passed between the two Governments some years before the present war, with a view to the accession of the United States to that declaration.—l am, &c. (Signed) RUSSELL. The recent affair at Charleston has given rise to the two following despatches:—. same month ; a principle clearly stated in a letter I have had the honour to receive from your lord ship, dated on the 10th instant, in the following words :—" The driving off a blockading force, by a superior force, does break a blockade, which must be renewed de novo, in the usual form, to be bind ing upon neutrals ;" a principle uniformly ad mitted by all text-writers on public law, and estab• lished by decisions of Courts of Admiralty. I am aware that official information of either of these events may not yet have reached the Govern ment of her Majesty, but the consequences attend ing the removal of the blockade (whether to be re newed or not) are so important to the commercial interests involved, that I could lose no time in ask ing that such measures may be taken by her Ma jesty's Government, in relation thereto, as will best tend to the resumption of a commercial intercourse so long placed under restraint. I avail myself on this occasion to acknowledge receipt of your lordship's letter of the 10th of Feb ruary instant, to which I shall have the honour of sending a reply iu the course of a day or two.—l am, &e., (Signed) J. M. MASON. EARL RUSSELL TO MR. MASON. Foreign-office, Feb. 19, 1563. Sir,—With reference to my letter of the 16th inst. acknowledging the receipt of your letter of that day, calling attention to the accounts which had reached this country tending to show that the blockade of the ports of Galveston and Charleston had been put an end to by the action of the Confederate naval forces, I have the honour now to state to you that the information which her Majesty's Government have derived from your letter and from the public journals on this subject is not sufficiently accurate to admit of their forming an opinion, and they will accordingly by the first opportunity instruct Lord Lyons to report fully on the matter. W hen his lordship's report has been received and considered, I shall have the honour of making a further communication to you on the subject.—l am, &c., (Signed) RUSSELL, BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; trout, Od to Os; eels, 6d to Is ; prawns, Os to Os ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Od per lb. ; turbots, 2s 6d to 15s ; cod, 2s Od to 7s Od ; brills, is Od ►to 7s Od ; doreys, is Od to 5s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, is Od to 4s; crabs, is to 3s 6d ; plaice and gm-nets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 6d to 2s 6d per pair ; common oysters, s to —s ; natives, 48s to —s per bushel ; whitings, 3s Od to 10s; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, is Od to 2s Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 80s per 120 ; fresh herrings, Os per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and ench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 4d to Is 4d per Blbs by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Blbs. by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 'lid to 8d , of household do., 5d to 7d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 21d ; 641 b to 721 b, 2/d to 3d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3iolb o 881 b, 3d to 4d ; 881 b to 961 b, 3id to 4d; 96 d ; 1b to 8 1041b t , Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 8s 6d to lOs 6d ; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 3s 6d ; full, 6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds, 9s Od to lls Od ; Downs, 7s Od to 9s Od ; lambs, Os Od to Os Od ; ehearlings, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 5s to £4 4s Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 10s ; and straw, £1 10s to £1 18s per load. Supply moderate—trade slow. CUMBERLAND.--Meagow hay, £2 Ss to £4 4s ; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £l.los to Ll 18s per load. A slow demand. WHIIECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Ss to £4 4s; clove! do. £3 10s to lOs ; and straw, el lOs to £1 18s per load. Trade inactive. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, March 14. Dearer about id, above yesterday. Sales fully 2,000 bales. Import, 4,213. Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto .. 3 Months. 11 17t Rotterdam — 11 17} Antwerp — 25 46 Brussels — 25 45 Llamburgh — 13 7} Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankf o rt on Maine ll9l Vi en na Trieste Petersburgh ....... Berlin Madrid ........ Cadia .............. Legh0rn............ Milan .............. Genoa .............. Naples . ............ Palermo ............ Messina Lisbon .• Oporto 11 16 11 171 11 18 25 50 25 60 13 71 25 25 25 65 25 6f5 1191 n 90 11 90 49 49t 48k 49k 25 521 25 60 25 521 25 571 25 .521 25 671 25 571 25 62/ 26 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 52i 521 521 52 SHIPPING—This Days (By MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND Saturday Morn in g . Arrived, March 14—H anne , trout ' Horsens. Sailed, March 14—Jantze, for Konigsberg; Excelsior, steamer, tor Gottenburg. DEAL Saturday Morning. Passed, March 13 —Era, screw steamer, from London, for Bordeaux. BENEFIT OF MR. W. HARRISON.—The annual benefit of Mr. W. Harrison will take place at the Royal English Opera on Monday next, March 16, that night being the last but five of the season. Benedict's ro mantic opera of " The Lily of Killarney" will be performed on the occasion, with other attractive entertainments. The great services rendered by Mr. Harrison in fostering the taste for English musical art, and promoting the interests of its professors, will not be forgotten by his numerous friends and admirers on this evening, when he puts forth special claims on their support. MR. MASON TO EARL RUSSELL. 24, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square, February 16, 1863. My Lord,—l deem it incumbent on me to ask the attention of her Majesty's Government to recent intelligence received here, in regard to the block ade at Galveston, in the State of Texas, and at Charleston, in the State of South Carolina. Frst, as respects Galveston, it appears that the blockading E qu adr on of the United States was driven off from that port and harbour, by a superior Con federate force, on the Ist day of January last ; one ship of that squadron was captured, the flagship destroyed, and the rest escaped, making their way, it is said, to some point of the Southern coast occu pied by the United States forces. 'Whatever block ade of the port of Galveston, therefore, may have previously existed, I submit, was effectually raised and destroyed by the superior forces of the party blockaded. Again, as respects the port of Charleston ; through the ordinary channels of intelligence, we have information, uncontradicted, that the alleged blockade of that port, was, in like manner, raised and destroyed, by a superior Confederate force, at a very early hour on the 31 st of January ultimo ; two ships of the blockading squadron having been sunk, a third escaped disabled, and what remained of the squadron afloat was entirely driven off the coast. I have the honour to submit, therefore, that any alleged pre -existin g blockade of th e ports afore said w as terminated at Galv es t on t h e I s t d a y of January last, and at Charleston on the 31st of the THE POLISH INSURRECTION. (From the times' Correspondent.) POSEN, March 10. The Grand Duke calls upon the peasantry to catch, but not to rob the insurgents. The decree is hardly premature, and, with Russian officers to en force it, will not impair, to any serious extent, the prospects of the Imperial cause. Yet the question may be well asked whether, in the turmoil of mill- tary events, his Royal Highness has been sufficiently informed of the particular motives prompting the action of his rustic allies. A survey of the various classes of society, and their relation to the subject in hand, will furnish the reader with the necessary material to judge the question for himself. The wealthier portion of the nobility as yet stand aloof from the movement. They are not only warned by the unfortunate issue of many a preceding re bellion, but having long resigned the idea of an appeal to arms are but sparsely represented in the secret organisation which prepared and assumed the direction of the revolt. The Tories of revolu tion, they wish for independence without any very lively desire to make the peasantry landed pro prietors; the habitues of the European Courts, they yearn for the erection of a Polish throne, without, however, deeming it a primary duty of theirs to enforce the principles of liberty and tole- ration in the kingdom of the future. I don't wish to describe them as any very decided opponents of the ideas of the age, yet from a recollection of their sovereign past, and the position they have so long enjoyed in European society, their concurrence in he notions of the times is naturally not the most prominent trait in their political character. Mutually distrusting each other, they have been excluded from the commttees by the inferior and more democratic part of the nobility ; and now that rebellion has actually broken out find themselves isolated amid the heartrending struggles of their beloved compatriots. In the beginning of the move ment they furnished to the rebels neither money nor men. As the rising progresses and assumes a more serious character, their contributions have not been withheld from the national exchequer ; but it is only in the persons of a very few counts and princes that they are even at this moment bodily repre sented in the insurgents' ranks. The number of families who may be comprehended in this category are overrated rather than otherwise when estimating them at 200. Perhaps the removal of Mieroshswski, and the appointment of Wusocki in his stead, may lead to their active participation in the struggle. Of these two renowned generals, the former, a full- blood democrat, is the declared enemy of this iilua ,rious caste. A far different spectacle is offered by the rest o the nobility. This numerous class, which, accord ing to Sclavonian custom, includes every landed proprietor in the country, is the real soul and origin of the daring enterprise. Of this class, at any rate, the teachings of '3l have not been thrown away. Last time the standard of rebellion was unfurled the Slachziz, siding with the magnates, objected to calling the peasantry to arms. Both sections of the nobility agreed at that time that the practical abolition of serfdom and the concession of liberty and independence to the people would be the pro bable consequence of such a resolve. Averse from an idea incompatible with every tradition of the land, the half million Slachziz, together with the national army Poland possessed at that time, confidently entered the lists with the Russian giant. The de feat they then sustained, and the progressive en lightenment of the times have taught them another course in the present venture. In striking contrast to any previous affair of the kind the rebellion of 1863 has been inaugurated by the promise of land to the serf, and an (quality of rights to every class in the kingdom. The leaders of the movement cannot conceal from themselves in fact that in be stowing such a boon upon their former dependents they are in reality serving their own interests, and are, besides, giving away what they can hardly be said to possess. In the long run, insurrection can not be carried through, except by the cordial sym pathy and energetic participation of the lowest class ; while, on the other hand, the Russian Go vernment is sure enough to waive its former com punction, and now at length, enforce the law by which a portion of the soil is to be ceded to the tiller. Although, according to the old institutions, every landed proprietor must be a Slachziz, the sentence must not by any means be reversed, and every Slacbziz mistaken for a landed proprietor. By far the larger portion of the class are without landed or any other property on this side the grave. In the good old times of Polish independence they used to live upon their political rights, and in times of war formed that impetuous army which took many a province from the Russian and the Turk. Since then the ancient splendour of these military nobles has sorely faded away. The common servitude of all classes depreciated their votes and made it unne cessary for Government to buy their adhesion ; and when the Emperor Nicholas at the close of the last rebellion annulled the diplomas of all who could not pay for their renewal, the last day of the Slach ziz's glory seemed to have arrived. The majority then withdrew to the towns, devoting themselves to all kinds of useful professions, and in many cases changing the sword for the hammer and the gun for the brush, What little gentry exists in a Polisli town is of Slachziz origin, and 1 am morally sure that the secret papers of the National Committee are the handiwork of noble compositors, no less than the mental productions of writers of gentle blood. To get out of the way and render in nocuous this part of the population and the other artisans seduced by them was the object of this year's vation. They are chiefly residents of the luge ills of 3,e00 inhabitants and more, which, it iss ee of the characteristic features of the latest movement, have furnished the main body of the revolutionary force. Up to this moment, and despite of Polish endeavours to obscure the fact, three-fourths of the insurgents consist of Slacbziz settled in professional life, and the semi -urban, semi agricultural population inhabiting a Polish country town. Gathered by this municipal nobility, and headed by their wealthier brethren, in possession of land and title, the rebellion of 1863 is as entirely the work of the middle class, or 'what in Poland must be taken for it, as the revolution of 1831 is to be traced to the agency of the higher magnates. The disposition of the peasantry, although vary. ing according to time and locality, may be described as not very enthusiastic upon the whole. There has been too much sair+, both by Government and pro prietors, of tiaE:r right to the soil, to keep the people in their old feelings st) veneration and make them hurry to the camp at the call of the nobles. On the o'her hand, with th moral fruits of independence all to come, they are hardly advanced enough in point of dignity and self-respect to realise the idea of patriotism and the duties it imposes. On the border line between two phases of existence their former pliancy has been undermined, while their action, as independent individuals is yet influenced by motives of the grossest kind. The Provisional Government seems thoroughly to have understood the transition state of the rustic class. C:utious in every measure, no part of the public business has been treated with greater discretion than the relation of the insurgent bands to the pea• santry. While provender and victuals are taken indiscriminately from landed proprictors, and paid for with draughts upon the I'rovi clonal Governrnen: - , the Elightekt service ren dered by the peasants if possible, rewarded with the usual coinage of the coufitry. With the exception of the south-west, where rebellion is para mount, the peasantry have been neither forced nor invited to make common cause with an indepen dence the benighted clowns find it. so difficult to understand. Everywhere else the Provisional Go- vernment hardly deems it practical to confuse the popular mind by requiring them to fight for the country, when they have got, or at any rate are on the point of getting, the soil. It is but natural that, in spite of this prudential reserve, many a peasant should be driven to the camp by his hatred to the Muscovites ; yet, the business being headed by the nobility, his former tyrants, the agricultural notion of liberty, as a rule, is as yet in a state where the greater satisfaction is derived from thwarting the landlord rather than the Government. In some districts, especially in Kalisz and on the outskirts of the principal scenes of war, the peasantry have even abandoned their neutral attitude, and for love and money gone over to the Russians. Consi dering, however, the magnitude of the sums ex pended and the number of Russian agents employed on agrarian mutiny, the success of the Czar has been comparatively limited in this particular direc- tion. Now and then the inhabitants of a village, following the obliging request of a Cossack troop, have lent a helping hand in disembowelling a noble man's mansion ; or, instigated by the head-money of the Russian commanders, they have not only given up a number of insurgents, but arrested and handed over for condign punishment as many people in non-rustic cloth as could be laid hold of conveniently. Their loyalty getting a little too ex pensive in this wise, the payment of the bribe has been, however, refused in many instances; and, the insurgent hanging every accomplice in such prac tices, the villagers, it appears, are now tolerably up to the requirements of the time, and, bon gre mal gre, have relapsed into their former neutrality. In Plock, and all over the north of the kingdom, they have furnished no appreciable quantum to the in surrection ; but in Lithuania, where the national character is more pliant than in the old provinces, the co-operation of the rustics seems to have been as general and even more voluntary than in Radom and the roving ground of Gen. Langiewicz. If in the progress of the movement more cordial patriotism should be evinced by the million, the na tion will be indebted for the service to the restless activity of the priests. I have many reasons for be longing to the number of those who believe that the greater part of the clergy have taken the oath to the Provisional Government. That they have not begun preaching the holy war against the infidel must be probably ascribed to the directions of the secret authority they recognise. Underhand, however, and in the confessional, their earnest admonitions are being brought to bear on all classes of the king dom. Religions enemies of the orthodox faith, which has been forced upon too many of their Ca tholic brethren, and rabid nationalists, as the only depositaries of culture in the land, they have a secu lar as well as a transcendent reason to look upon the Russian Government as the scourge of the Poles. The Russiauised archbishop at the head of the Po lish Church, so far from preventing mischief, only serves to loosen the ties of discipline among the lower clergy. Apart from the Jews, who wash their hands in innocence and try to keep aside in the tar moil, the role of the bulking and manufacturing community may be alluded to in a few words. The manufacturers are all Germans, and the traders are Jews. If they don't fight in rank end file, itis they who have the satisfaction of supplying to a consi derable extent the sinews of war. Above all other classes they are regularly assessed and taxed —or, should they prefer it, murdered—by the Provi sional Government. With this distribution of parts the play has been duly opened, and, victorious or the reverse, promises to prove a grand success in the revolutionary line. The following account of the position of the in surgent forces, under the command of General Langiewicz, was received in Paris by a letter from Cracow, dated Sunday last. The corps commanded by Langiewicz occupies all the ground situated be tween Slonniki and Pzochontebe as far as Olknsk. The General has established his head-quarters at the village of Goszeza. The entire line between Svytze and Igolonia has been abandoned by' the Russian troops, who, in consequence of the repulse they experienced at Paskowa-Skala and at Skala, have retreated to Olkusk and Miechow. General Schachewskoi, who was beaten on the 4th at Paskowa-Skala, fell back in great haste on Strze mieszya, whence his troops were conveyed by rail to Czenetarhowa. The Russians feared an attack on Radowsk or Czenstarhowa. For that reason they are concentrating all their forces at the latter place, having abandoned their attack on the corps of Langiewicz. The Russian column under the cow man of Prince Schachowskoi, is completely worn out with fatigue, arid is further quite demoralised. The soldiers refuse to march, saying they have not tasted any warm food for five days. They have, moreover, lost all respect for their officers. Further details have also been received of the sanguinary action at Powitze. The Polish corps commanded by Milentzki was posted near the town of Kszimir, between the lake of Powitze, which crosses the Prussian frontier, and the town of Konin. The latter place was garrisoned by 3,000 Russians. The corps of Milentzki, which was reinforced on the 2d of March by 300 Poles, well armed and equipped, who came from the Grand Duchy of Posen, dis persed 300 Russian soldiers stationed at Minichow. The garrison of Kouin having been apprised by the Prussian authorities of what was going forward, suddenly attacked the corps of Milentzki on two sides, while the Prussian troops cut off its retreat to the frontier. The battle was desperate and sanguinary, and the losses were great on each side. Private letters estimate the loss of the Poles at 120 mee, and the loss of the Russians at a much greater number. But as the latter were more numerous they drove the insurgents into Pruesia. The retreat of the insurgents was followed by a skirmish between them and the Prussian sol diers. The corps of Milentzki suffered severely on this occasion. A number of young men of the first families found there a glorious death. A great number, however, were ab le to join other insurgent corps. The insurgent chief in the government of Plock is rapidly organising his forces in the neigh bourhood of Sulava. The corps commanded by Nieczrji, which consists of about 1,500 men, is established in the southern part of the government of Lublin, and is operating successfully against the Russian troops, who vainly attempted several times to surroune and destroy them. According to an official report received from the several insurgent chiefs, the insurrection is becoming general without being concentrated on any one point.. In conse quence of this system the Russian Generals despair of putting an end to the insurrection as quickly as they expected. The Invalid e .Russe publishes a despatch dated Wilna, the Ist of March, which states that General de Nostitz sent four columns in pursuit of the bands commanded by Ratchinskr. These bands were passing rapidly from one place to another. One of these columns, commanded by Captain Kinnoff, overtook the band of Ratohinski in the small town of Roski, on the road from Pinsk to Nieswiej, between the districts of Sloutzk and Pinsk. The insurgents replied to the Russian attack by a warm volley of musketry; but they quickly fled in disorder, leaving 24 prisoners, 18 viaggens, 49 horses, and a quantity of arms. The remainder of the band were met in their flight by another column of Russian troops. The peasants lay hold of the insurgents and deliver them up to the autho rities. General Nostitz admits only a loss of two men severely woun,ted. A letter from Warsaw of the 4th inst. states that General Berg has refused to seer pt the command of the army in Poland, which is now given to the Grand Dul , e Constantine. The reAgnation of General Ramsay has not - set been published. The Prussian Government in vain endeavours, by the athbiguous language of its organs, to envelope the Convention with Russia in a cloud of uncer tainty, and to obfuscate and confuse the public mind with respect to it, in the hope that people at last mrey ct;me to doubt, from sheer weariness and pf-r- plexity, whether such a thing ever existed. Ono day we ate told that there \TEAS no Convention--that it was a political bubble blow❑ by the factious Oppo sition, or a sea serpent invented by the malignant democratic press; that there was nothing ever drawn up or concluded, but merely negotiations— . pourpalers—at St. Petersburg. Then we Are in formed that the convention is in full force, as far as it ever went, and that nothing beyond what is now being carried out was ever contemplated, except as a possible, ulterior result of further agreement be tween the two Governments. But the conductors of the official press are not so cautious as they might be, and they occasionally let slip incon venient admissions to which the Opposition jour nals, of course, carefully call attention. Without tracing the controversy, it suffices to say that the main facts of the case are established to the satis faction of everybody here, that nobody doubts that he convention was to the full extent reported, and that it has been privately modified—the Russian Government caring little about the matter—and brought within the limits rendered necessary by exigencies which more prudent statesmen than those of Prussia would have foreseen. With respect to the present situation of the affair, as regards foreign diplomatic action, it is here generally believed that England, satisfied with the retrocession of Prussia in the matter of the ccnvention, is much less dis posed to offer further remonstrances in Berlin than to obtain from Russia such an observance of treaties lately neglected as might have a permanent good effect in warding off future insurrection in Poland. A Silesian paper gives some particulars of the Polish leaderLangiewicz, and vouches for their cor- rectness : • " Marian Langiewicz, a native of the Grand Duchy of Posen, is the son of a physician, and was entered at the University of Breslau, whence he went to that of Prague, in order to devote himself, under the guidance of Professor Czelakowsky, to the study of the Sclavonian languages. After a few months, however, he returned to Breslau, to study mathematics, and subsequently accepted a very ad vantageous situation as tutor in the family of M. von S., a Polish landed proprietor. Two years later he returned to Breslau to complete his studies, and then went to Berlin, where he served his year in the artillery. After that he went to Paris and to Italy, made the campaign of Sicily and Naples under Garibaldi, and, at its conclusion, was ap pointed one of the instructors at the Polish Military School at Cuneo. He is of small stature, and about 34 years of age. His elder brother practises as a physician at Witkowo, in the Grand Duchy of Posen." THE AFFAIRS OF POLAND. DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON. Yesterday a deputation from the - recent public meeting held at the British Institution, Cowper street, City-road, to express sympathy with the Poles in their ;present struggle, had an interview with the First Lord of the Treasury, by appointment, at the House of Commons, for the purpose of present ing to the noble viscount a memorial adopted at that meeting, praying her Majesty to make repre sentations to the Russian Government for a "cessa tion of the barbarities and withdrawal of the con scription ;" and further,'' with the other Powers of Europe, to it;siEt upon the re-establislanent of Poland as a nation." Mr. Wm. Cox, M.P., introduced the deputation to the noble Premier, and the Secretary read the following memorial:— " To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. "May it please your Majesty,--We, your Majesty's duti ful subjects of the borough of Finsbury, in public meeting assembled, this 4th day of March, 1863, at the British In stitution, Cowper-street, approach your Majesty in much sorrow and anxiety, for that your memorialists have learned that atrocities of the most inhuman character have been and are now being inflicted upon the inhabitants of that portion of Poland under Russian sway ; that a most cruel conscrip tion (before unheard of) has been enforced upon the male inhabitants of that unfortunate country ; that the infamous method of carrying out the mandate of conscription has caused the downtrodden people to resist, and hence have villages and towns been razed, and their dwellers cruelly massacred. Your memorialists, under these circumstances, have recourse to your Majesty's known generous feelings, to cause such representations to be made to the Emperor of the Russias as shall induce him to order the cessation of the barbarities, and the withdrawal of the conscription ; and further, with the other Powers of Europe, to insist upon the re-establishment of Poland as a nation. "And your memorialists will ever return their humble thanks." Mr. Cox, M.P., said that he had attended the meeting of the borough which he represented (held on the 4th inst.), and there the proceedings were mast unanimously carried out, the general feeling being one of the most perfect sympathy with the cause of unfortunate Poland. The SECRETARY said that the meeting at which the memorial was adopted was a representation of the feelings of the working classes of the country. There was not the slightest doubt that the country was fully alive to the importance of the subject. The working classes wished to strengthen the hands of the Government, and they felt that in making any representations to the Russian Court the people speaking out would enable the Ministers to act. On this matter the people were determined to speak out. Although war was to be always deplored, it was felt that a "brush" for a nation like Poland would be looked upon as heroism ; in fact, he believed that a penny tax would not be objected to if it resulted in the free dom of that unhappy people. England fought for en individual in the Crimea, but this was for a na tion to which Russia was bound by the treaty of Vienna to reestablish her institutions. The work ing classes felt that Russia had falsified her every promise towards Poland, and that our honour de• manded action on the part of the Government, and in it the Government would receive the support of the people. Lord PALMERSTON—Du you wish that we should have another war with Russia ? Mr. WALL—Yes, for the sake of Poland. Mr. Medley, Mr. Kent, and Mr. Stedman then briefly addressed his lordship in support of th e mem orial, and it was urged that this country had been engaged in the Algerian and other strugglzs for humanity's sake, and therefore argued that a struggle for the freedom of Poland would not be inconsistent with precedent. Lord PALMERSTON, in the course of a conversa tional discussion, said that there was no doubt cause for sympathy with Poland. Mr. WALL said that he was aware there was some iittl3 informality with regard to the presenta tion of the memorial. Lord PALMERSTON replied that, although there might b 3 some informality, as any memorial to her Majtsty should be presented throagh the Homo Secrutary, yet he would accept the memorial, and hand it over to Sir G. Grey for presentation to her Majesty. Mr. MEDLEY strongly urged upon the noble Pre mier that be shoull express some opinion which wou ld g i v e a ray of hope to the unhappyuPeovlee: the. Lord PALMERSTON said that it was province of a Minister to make any promise for the future, but he would hand the memorial to the Home Secretary. The deputation then thanked the noble Premier for his courteous reception, and withdrew, Mr. Elliot Galer and Miss Fanny Reeves appef next Saturday (21st) at the Crystal Palace Concert. I .. Lutz's pretty operetta of "Blonde or Brunette" is very judiciously selected for the debut of these clever and pleas ing vocalists,---,Era. ~~, j ~ ~' ,but ate the ten- erne ,and was Liter ' the e he ,rt in Leek ; Attle II 100 ) w.o. dicap A a- ite) 1 41b Lu.) 2 ption, Two 1201 i 921 1 i