The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-11 00:00:00

TTiE CONFEDERATE STATES. (F 7 om an Occasional Correspondent of the limes.) CHARLESTON, March 4. On the 14th of January we sailed from Nassau for Charleston, and on the following day were caught in ono of those terrific gales which burst with such fury over that part of the Atlantic which lies imme diately to the north of the Bahamas. The tempest sr,bsided on the 17th as we got nearer the land, but we had left the tepid waters of the Gulf Stream, and the air became bitterly cold. A biting north-east wind swept over the deck, and the sleet and rain fell inces santly. it seemed impossible for us ever to get warm, and our teeth chattered as if we had a shivering fir. :But in the morning we saw in the hazy distance the shore of South Carolina, and then shortly afterwards the low, dark hull of one of the blockading ships. This was a fresh source of anxiety, and great was our relief when we found that we had not been ob served. We passed the vessel, and got in safely half a mile ahead up the channel. We had scarcely done SO when the look-outs whispered " Two more for ward." We thought ye had eluded them also, but we were mistaken. A bright flash, the rush of a ball over head, and then the loud report of a gun let us know that the fleet was aware of our presence. Then rockets were discharged on all sides, and more gun s were fired. We were within no great distance of the bar that guards the entrance of Charleston, some four miles or so from Fort Sumter, inside of which the hostile fleet never venture. In another 10 minutes we should have been perfectly safe; but as we approached two more ships were seen lying right in the narrow channel over the bar, through which it was necessary to pass. The captain hesitated about proceeding further, and so nervous did he become that he turned the ship's head round and ran her out to sea again. She was followed by a howling pick of cruisers, but speed, good luck, and darkness favoured us, and by daybreak we were some 30 miles from shore, tossing about again in the Gulf Stream. The same programme was gene through next day, and then we had to return to Nassau for coals. Under another Captain we returned on Jan. 29th to try our fortune again, and this time there was no hesitation. " Charleston, or beach her,"said our new commander, and in one hour we ran through the channel, and arrived safe and sound under the guns of Fort Beauregard. I had good reason to feel gratified with my recep tion at Charleston. I staid about a week in the town, visiting all places of interest, making friends, and enjoying Southern hospitality. One's first idea, after speaking to the people, was that they are an intolerable set of boasters ; but I came to form a better opinion of them. I found that they never ex press resolutions without making a determined effort to carry out their purposes, The more I see of the Southern ladies, and the more I hear of their actions, the more I wonder at their heroism and self sacrifice, Words, indeed, cannot express any ad miration for them. The war could not have gone on Without them. The women of all classes have sent, without a murmur, their husbands, sons, and those they hold raost dear to the war; and in the absence of the men they have tilled the fields, made clothes for tha troops, and nursed the sick. When I consider the firmness of purpose and spirit of self sacrifice with the empty bragging and indifference so prevalent in the Nortb, I have no doubt of the issue of the struggle. The Federals may bring three millions of men into the field, but the South will never be vanquished, On the 31st of January, two days after my arrival, the ironclads went out from Charleston and considerably damaged the blockading fleet. Of course we were ail much in terested in the event, and the capture of a ship-of war carrying nine guns up one of the rivers the day before wonderfully raised the spirits of the people of Charleston. At the end of the week I started for Richmond, bearing letters of introduction from En gland to some of the principal men, and farther forti fied with additional recommendations from my friends in Charleston. The journey by rail, of 500 miles, was very tedious, as the rails and rolling stock are in very bad order, there having been no importations of material since the blockade. The speed of the trains has in consequence been greatly moderated to prevent accidents. However, I arrived safe in the capital of the Confederacy on the 13th of February. The pity is one great camp, and every one is endeavour ing to obtain an appointment in the army. I saw at once that the chances of an Englishman getting a military appointment were very small. I paid a visit to the Secretary of War and other in fluential men, and received from all of them that kindness and courtesy so distinctive in the South ern gentleman. I brought out from Nassau a box of goods for Gen. Stonewall Jackson, and he asked me when I was at Richmond to come to his camp and see him. I left the city one morning about 7 o'clock, and about 10 landed at a station distant about eight or nine miles from Jackson's, or, as his men call him, Old Jack's camp. A heavy fall of snow had covered the country for some time before to the depth of a foot, and formed a crust over the Virginian mud, which is quite as villainous as tha of Balaclava. The day before had been mild and wet, and my journey was made in a drenching shower, which soon cleared away the white mantle of snow. You cannot imagine the Slough of De spond I had to pass through. Wet to the skin, I stumbled through mud, I waded through creeks, I passed through pine woods, and at last I got into camp about 2 o'clock. I then made my way to a small houEe occupied by the General as his head quarters. I wrote down my name and gave it to the orderly, and I was immediately told to walk in. The General rose and greeted me warmly. I expected to Lee an old untidy recto, and was most agreeably surprised and pleased with his appear ance. He is tall, handsome, and powerfully built, but thin. He has brown hair and a brown beard. His mouth expresses great determination. Thelips are thin and compressed firmly together; his eyes are blue and dark, with a keen searching expres sion. I was told that his age was 38, and he looks about 40. The General, who is indescribably simple and unaffected in all his Ways, took off my wet overcoat with his own hands, made up the fire, brought wood for me to put my feet on to keep them warm while my boots were drying, and then began to ask me questions on various sub- jects. At the dinner hour we went out and joined the members of his Staff. At this meal the General said grace in a fervent, quiet manner, which struck me ranch. After dinner I returned to his room, and he again talked to me for a long time. The servant !alma in and took his mattress out of a cupboard and laid it on the floor. As I rose to retire the General said, " Captain , there is plenty of room in my bed ; I hope son will share it with me," I thanked him avnerdyslmepucthinforah.is courtesy, but said " Good night," tent, sharing the blankets of one of his aides-decamp. I n the time 1 noticed th at the Ge morning at breakfast er l al said grace before the meal with the same fervourhad remark e d b e f ore . An hour or two afterwards oitwaasu was time for me to re a turnhorse ,to the and I stationthis ec however, I had turned up to the General' s ner quarters to bid him adieu. His littl e room wasavrgtBc stepped in and stood before th e fi re. I ther , s° I my greatcoat stretched before it on a chair. Shortedil°ticed afterwards the General entered th e room. He said, " Captain, I have been trying to dry your greatcoat, but I am afraid I have not succeeded very well." That little act illustrates the man's character. With the cares and responsibilities of a vast army on hi s shoulders he finds time to do little acts of kindness and thoughtfulness which make him the darling of his men, who never seem to tire of talking of him. Gen. Jackson is a man of great endurance; he drinks nothing stronger than water, and never uses tobacco or any stimulant. He has been known to ride for three days and nights at a time, and if there is any labour to be undergone, he never fails to take his share of it. I thought of entering the army as a volunteer, as many Englishmen have done, but I have had the unexpected good luck to receive an appointment in the inspecting department• Ise. lected Charleston as the scene of try labours, my reason being that the whole force of the Yankee armada is about to ba thrown against this portion of the State. I accordingly returned to this place, and I an ' n ow awaiting the fight. I have very good 134Y' en joy en excellent table, and am accommodated in most comfortable quarters, with some other tog. lishmen, in a well-furnished house. MA' (11 5 . I have been at church to-day, the Governor of South Carolina having proclaimed it as a day of prayer. I leave to-morrow morniig ith the In spector-General to examine some trocps at Seces sionville, a town some 10 miles from here. At any moment we may be called out to fight, so I feel glad to have a long letter in readiness in case I should unexpectedly be disposed of by a Yankee bullet. For some time we had an idea that there was a peace party in the North sufficiently strong to detach some of the States and to oppose Lincoln and his uncon stitutional acts; but the passing of the Conscription Act and Finance Bills by Congress has dashed these hopes to the ground, and the South is prepared to conduct the war on a more gigantic scale this spring than heretofore. The Emancipation Scheme is be lieved here to be nonsense. The slaves do not want to rise, and will not do so unless under the pressure of Northern bayonets. The Yankees thought they could raise a servile war, but they have failed sig nally. I sk.e little chance now, though I thought differently some time ago, of this war ending until Lincoln retires from office ; but it cannot be carried on at its present prodigious scale unless the Yankees meet with some great success. MARCH 10, I am finishing up this scrawl, as the gentleman who is taking this to England leaves to-morrow. We are living here very comfortably, and enjoying ourselves, although we still expect to be attacked every day by the Yankee armada. The weather is lovely. THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) CR ACO W, MAY 4. Whether the Ruosians are not exerting them selves at the present moment, and are alluwing the insurrection to assume at once its full dimensions, that they may have an opportunity of crushing their most determined opponents in Poland at one great blow, or whether they are really unable to stop the movement, equally certain it is in either case that the insurgents during the last ten days have gained numerous victories, especially in the pro vince of Kalisch, in the west of the kingdom, and that of Lublin, in the east. Without mentioning too many names in "ski," I may remind the reader briefly that Taczanowski is the great man in the Kalisch country, and that the principal chiefs in the Lublin country are Jezioranski, Smiechowski, and Waligorski—a trio concertante of Generals, with Jezioranski for leader, During the last few days, however, Taczanowski has found a worthy rival in a French officer calling himself " Faucher" (or faucheur—a sitheman ?) and the performances of the Jezioranski trio have been quite equalled by those of a soloist named Lelewl in the neighbour ing province of Sandomir. In the South a number of new detachments are first beginning to act in the vicinity of Cracow, and far to the north of War saw and far to the east of St. Petersburg the Lithuanian bands are holding their ground ad mirably, under the command of Narbutt and others. The railway between Warsaw and Cracow and between Warsaw and Wilna is threa►ened at various points, and there are a few insurgent camps in close proximity to the capital; but, speaking generally, it may be said the insurrection keeps as far as possible from Warsaw, without ever going too much in the direction of St. Petersburg, Moscow, or even Kieff. It prefers the south of the " Kingdom" to the north, the west to the east, and the south-west to the north-west. In Volhynia and Podolia the insurrection has scarcely made its appearance, and the tranquillity of the province of Kieff has not been for one moment disturbed. Letters from Posen are delivered here very irre gularly just now, and sometimes not at all. The true explanation of this, no doubt, is that they are not allowed to leave the Prussian dominions until they have been examined to see whether they con tain ally news of Polish victories. The Berlin telegraph-office has notified to the telegraph- office of Cracow in a formal manner—with citation of chapter and veise from some telegraph statute— that it will not receive messages relating to the affairs of Poland. It has not, however, hitherto found means of suppressing objectionable Polish news in the journals of Posen. The ordinary mode of persecuting Polish writers in constitutional Prussia is by forbiddieg publishers, through the police, to sell their books, and by threatening prin ters who undertake to bring out their newspapers with the suspension of their printing licences. The Posen journal, Dienntk Poznanski, being already legally established, and being conducted in a legal manner, cannot, however, be suddenly put down, and all that can be done to injure it is to seize the number from time to time and to institute sham pro secutions against the editors, which, if they cannot be maintained, at least have the effect of keeping the defendants for a time in prison, and impeding them in the performance of their duties. We learn from private letters and from the correspondence of the said Djennik Poznanski what you have probably already heard, that the Russian soldiers driven over the frontier during the action of the 27th were taken care of by the Prussians in the most subservient manner. The In perial troops were conducted back to the kingdom of Poland between two bands of Prussian infantry. While they were on Prussian territory the Russians were kind enough to frater nise with their feudatories. The Russian soldiers are said to have complained that they had not changed their shirts for three months, and their Prussian hosts seem to have reasons for believing in the truthfulness of the lament. Some of the letters from Posen speak of the " nay" astonishment caused by the Russians taking cigars from the mouths of their ignoble allies as they passed along the streets. The Prussians seem to have half fancied that their intrusive visitors would treat them with some sort of respect. The Cracow police continue their domiciliary visits. Every night, or early every morning, some hotel is broken into by a commissary, attended by a guard of soldiers. Two or three persons are generally arrested—probably, in most cases, as a mere matter of form, and for the sake of showing that the Austrian Government does not consider itself bound by its own laws. Sometimes, how ever, the police come with special orders for the arrest of such and such an one. In these cases no accusation is made, and the prisoner is kept in confinement in defiance of the sta tute passed last session in the Reichsrath, which pro vides that no one shall be arrested without a war rant, nor deprived of his liberty for more than 24 hours without being brought before a tribunal. It may be argued that these are exceptional times, but it is with a view to such times that laws for the pro tection of the subject are passed, Every one knows that neither the Austrian nor the Russian, nor any other Government, is likely to send soldiers to break into bedrooms and take people out of their beds without assigning the least reason in periods of pro found quiet. Such things have, it is true, been done in Russia any time during the last 38 years; but ever since 1825 the Russian Government has m e t ewitheducated a persistent R us Russians opposition answ h ohad n from o a certainGe Germanised number of been and demorali se d by b ureaucr atic service. We have anised heard very little of this opposition in the west of E urope, but we may judge what it has been from the energy with which some eight or ten Russians of various degrees of literary merit have kept up unceasing attacks upon their Government from abroad —attacks which, from the publication of M. Ivan Tourgueneff's work on Russia, in 1826, until the issue of the latest numbers of the journals edited respectively by M. Herzen and Prince Dolgoroukoff have neverceased. In Cracow, however, at the pre sent moment there is not even a thought of opposing or in any way annoying the A ustrian Government. Moreover, th e su b jects of the Austrian empire are supposed to li ve under a eonstitntionnl system, though it seems t o b e a settled thing that this system is ()ply to be tolerated as long as it does not interfere with the designs of the Executive ; and accordingly the inhabitants of Cracow are now ruled with all the arbitrariness of a pure despotism. Although the town is as quiet as the most quiet of London suburbs, and although even when it was full of insurgents it was never the scene of any disturb. tunes, a couple of patrols are marched about th e market place all day long, as though the authorities wished to persuade themselves that there was some danger of a popular outbreak. One of these patrols killed a refractory fireman a few nights ago (in accordance, I believe, with the Austrian rules of war) for objecting to be arrested. The poetical version of the story, which has already taken a le gendary form, is that the patrol seized an insurgent, that the insurgent seized a sergeant's sabre and broke it, and that the soldiers then rushed upon the offender, pierced him with their bayonets, and finished him by beating his head on the pavement. The facts, however, are simply as I have stated them above. It is to the credit of the Viennese journalists that many of them have protested, and lose no opportu nity of protesting, against the present state of things in Austrian Poland. Such protests would not be permitted, however, on the part of the well-known Polish journal published here, for which a special set of laws would seem to exist. I observe that the Czas has not ventured upon the publication of Count Mensdorff's circular to the officials of Galicia, though it has been printed and commented on in befitting terms by several of the Vienna journals. The Cuts, too, was condemned and fined the other day for having published Langiewicz's first procla mation as Dictator—a document which has appeared in every journal in Europe, and for which no jour nal published in the Austrian dominions elsewhere than in Galicia has been prosecuted. The Poles are not at all inclined to submit quietly to the illegal violence of which so many have already been the victims. Ido not mean to say that there is any thought of a rising or of a demonstration of any kind against the Government, but simply that several Poles have complained to the superior au th )rities of the unlawful conduct of the police, and that they claim justice, though justice is not granted to them. One curious case has occurred, in which a gentleman from Polish Prussia, who has been re sident here for some time, was knocked up in the night and obliged to let the police examine the con tents of his trunks. Early in the morning he laid a complaint before the police master, and pressed it with so much vigour that he was ordered to leave Cracow. He refused to do so, appealed to his Am bassador at Vienna, and ultimately received per mission to remain It seems strange that a Pole should have an Ambassador or possess recognized rights of any kind, but in this instance the repre • sentative of Prussia at the Austrian Court stood up fairly to see justice done to the native of Posen. Another Pole, until lately an officer in a foreign army, came home a few mornings since at half-past 5 (driven, no doubt, to late hours by the persecu tions of the police),rand found that the commissary and his guard had already paid their visit, so that he could at length go to bed without fear of being disturbed in his repose. His domiciliary visitors had not left their cards, but they had broken open his boxes and stolen his uniform, which they con cluded, on wholly insufficient grounds, to be that of an insurgent General! Among the foreigners recently arrested here I may mention M. de Rolland, the correspondent of the Courrier de Lyon. The arrest of this gentleman will he a serious blow to General Mieroslawski, as :t deprives him of his one supporter in the press of Europe. But, whatever M. de Roland's political views may be, his imprisonment is a grossly illegal act, against which his Government ought to protest. M. de Rolland is being treated very much like a criminal—l mean an Austrian criminal—and I hear from comparatively disinterested sources, that the account of his place of confinement which he has contrived (thanks to the venality of his gaolors) to forward to the Courrier de Lyon is by no means highly coloured, and that it is indeed a foul, ill-ven tilated, unfurnished, overcrowded hole. The rations served out to him consist of bran in the form of a loaf and broad beans; but he is allowed to order his dinner from an hotel. There are only enough beds for half the prisoners, so that one half walk about while the others sleep. Still worse is the position of M. Chrzanowski, the late editor of the Czas, of General Kruszewski, and a number of Polish gentlemen (altogether nearly 100), who, without being formally accused, are de tained in deep cells, on the ground that they are " suspected of having wished to assist the insurrec tion." Why, there is no one in Cracow who does not wish to assist the insurrection, with the excel). tion of the German officials, whose sons, neverthe lesEi, have in many cases actually joined it ! Fresh stories of atrocities committed by the Rus sian troops arrive here from time to time. These ants arc exasperating the country people, and in many places have driven them to take up arms against the Government, though in some others they have inspired a feeling of terror and utter helpless ness. A belief seems to be gaining ground that after the 13th—the last day for the acceptance of the amnesty—the Muscovite hordes will be let loose to do their worst, and that the horrors perpetrated at Tomaszow and Bialaszew will be repeated in all the towns and villages of Poland. Not, however, that this idea has the least effect in damping the ardour of the insurgents. On the contrary, every exertion is made to get as many men as possible in the field during the next fortnight, and there are plenty of indications to show that the insurrection, much as it has increased during the last month, is nevertheless far from having yet attained its max mum of force. Detachments will continue to leave Cracow every day this week, and the last companies of the one formed and to be commanded in person by Gene rAl Mieroslawki move for the frontier to-morrow night. Much, no doubt, will be pardoned to the would-be Dictator if he fights much and gains many victories; but at the present moment he holds no command under the national Government, and is acting entirely on his own responsibility. There are said to be a great many foreigners in his corps, which is variously estimated at 200, 300, and 400 strong. The precise number is difficult to ascertain. The Franco-Italian "legion," formed under the auspices of Garibaldi's son-in-law, is also, it ap pears, to act independently, whereas the Zouaves and several other detachments which have already left, or are on the point of leaving Cracow, will b e under the general direction of the distinguished officer who has just been appointed to the command of the military division of Cracow and Sandomir. Altogether, I do not think more than 2,000 insur gents at the utmost will have started from Cracow in the course of thu present week, but they reckon on their numbers being greatly increased as soon as they set foot in the kingdom. Already I hear of Jezioranski's forces in the palatinate of Lublin having been trebled, and it is certain that they have been considerably augmented, and that many estates in the province have been quite deserted by the farm-labourers and servants, who have gone to join the insurrection under the guidance, for the most part, of the stewards. Servants are also leaving Cracow in large num bers. A lady engaged to dine yesterday with a friend sent to excuse herself on the ground that her coachman had suddenly gone off to fight the Rus sians. She received a reply to the effect that it was of no consequence, as the cook had started on the same mission the night before, leaving behinds bill of fare for the following day, and an apology for not being able to carry it out. I spoke in a recent letter of children having joined, or attempted to join, the insurgents. A band of 17 boys, of from 12 to 15 years of age, started for the frontier yesterday, and it is feared that they have already come to grief of some kind, as three have already returned without being able to give any account of the others. The story cur rent on the subject—which, however, like so many others circulated here at this period of excitement, seems to be based on no positive information—is to ,he effect that the band of children met with a Rus- sian picket, when three of them took to their heels and the 14 who remained were cut to pieces. If the parents desired it, and the notion were not utterly absurd, there would be no trouble in getting up a child's crusade in Poland against the Russians. As it so Il i:, s a h l a l i t l h w e a f i a t t u h n e r t i s l a t n h d ey m a r o e th l e B r , s w ask is h en they ey t p a r t om theirpromise e taoweogru;sp, somee them. The dozen and a-h a lf b o y s w h o in vaded Russia th e o th er d ay seem to h ave b een armed in the most indifferent style. Some had pistols, and a few of the bigger ones had i nvested their accumulations of pocket money and the produce of the sale of all their disposable clothes in rifles. is a positive fact that one night last week an THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1861 Englishman went deliberately into a wood between Sandomir and the Galician frontier and slept there. When he was asked why he did so, he replied that he wished to see whether the life of an insurgent would suit him. His decision has not yet been made known. The Turkish Government and the Suez Canal. The Courser du Dimanche publishes a despatch from the Turkish Government upon the subject of the Isthmus of Suez Canal, which it has received from Constantinople. The following is a translation of this highly important document :-- The Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Represen tatives of the Sublime Porte at Paris and London. Monsieur l'Ambassadeur,—When some years ago the Sublime Porto was first called upon to consider the question of the Suez Canal, it reserved to itself the right to meke conditions regarding certain parts of the proposed contract which was laid before it, and declared that it would desire to see a preliminary understanding established b.tween the two principal maritime powers as to the guarantees which the opening of a channel of this importance demanded. No such underst - sliding has yet been come to, and the new Go vernor-General of Egypt, his Highness Ismail Pacha, hav ing addressed to the Sultan's Government an official demand by a letter to the Grand Vizier, to regularise his position in this respect, and to give him clear and precise instructions as to what he is to say and do, we feel it a duty to inform him of all the conditions to which the authorisation of the Sublime Porte has been always subordinate, and which conditions, by order of our august master, we submit to the equitable and friendly appreciation of his Imperial Majesty's august allies. We feel ourselves all the more obliged to Pronounce our opinion without further delay, because, to our great regret, we see the works rapidly going on without there having been any previcus solution of the important questions connected with them. We are therefore com pelled frankly to state what must be done, having regard to the interests of the empire, before this undertaking can be considered as realisable with the authorisation of the sove reign of the country. It does not enter into the ideas of tho Porto to prevent the realisation of an enterprise which may be of general utility, but it can only consent to it 1. On being assured of international stipulations which will guarantee the complete neutrality of the canal in a manner analogous to the existing guarantees for the neutrality of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus; and 2. On such conditions as will secure the important interests which it is the duty of the Porte to protect. Now the pre sent scheme offers none of these indispensable guarantees. There are, in particul,r, two facts which from the begin ning attracted our most serious attention, namely :-1. That notwithstanding the abolition in the empire of forced la bour, and notwithstanding the recent decree of the Viceroy establishing the same prohibition, the preparatory works are being carried on by forced labour alone. The Egyptian administration forces 20,000 men per month to abandon their families and their callings to work at this canal. These 'men at the end of their term of labour are left to return to their families at their own cost, and most of them have very long distances to go, to say nothing of the loss which they suffer from the compulsory neglect of their interests. The number of hands thus diverted from agriculture, manufac tures, and commerce is not limited to 20,000. While 20,000 are at work, as many as 40,000 are always on the road, or preparing to set out, so that 60,000 men are permanently abstracted from their homes and business. I think it super fluous to enlarge upon the necessary results of such a sys tern. The inconveniences of it are manifest, The Sublime Porte cannot possibly sanction such practices in Egypt while it does not permit the n in any other part of its empire. The second fact to which I above allude is, that together with the fresh water canals, the adjoining territory is ceded to the company. According to the proposed contract the com pany is to have a right to claim all the land bordering upon the canals in question, wherever they may be carried. Thus the towns of Suez Timsah, and Port Said, as well as the entire frontier of Syria, would necessarily and naturally pass into the hands of a joint stock company, composed in great part of foreigners, subjected to the jurisdiction of the authorities of their respective countries. The company might, therefore, at its pleasure create on important points of the Ottoman empire colonies almost independent of the empire. We are sure there is no Government in the world possessing any proper feeling of independence and duty which would subscribe to a transaction of this nature. Con sequently the Sublime Porte would lie wanting iu all its duties, would lose the esteem of all its friends, and would allow the establishment of a state of things destined to lead to continual conflicts if it were not to declare that this clause will never receive its sanction. To resume : the con sent of the Sublime Porte is and must be indissolubly de pendent upon the solution of the three following questions, namely : the neutrality of the canal, the abolition of forced labour, and the abandonment by the company of the clause concerning the fresh water canals and the cession of the ad joining territory. When once these three points shall be settled, the Sultan, in accord with his Highness Ismail Pacha, will readily take into his serious consideration every clause of the contract. As to the enseinbl6 of the contract in question, it exists only as a project. You know that it has never been approved by the Porte. The company itself cannot say it was ignorant of the necessity of obtaining the previous sanction of the Sublime Porte, since the proposed contract itself makes that consent a fundamental condition of the concession. It is, moreover, known that when, at a subsequent period, M. de Letseps asked new favours from the late Viceroy on behalf of the company, ho undertook to obtain that consent within eighteen months, and he did not fulfil the engagement. The Sublime Porte now addresses itself, in the fullest confidence, to its two most sincere allies, to ask them what they would have done under similar circumstances. Could we have allowed a joint-stock company to establish itself in the territory of the erepiro, to arrogate to itself rights which the Sublime Porte could not recognise, and that on the plea of a con cession promised by the high personage who governs that territory under the sovereignty of the Sultan, and on the express condition that the confirmation of the territorial sovereign should be obtained ? All that remained for us to do in order to give a fresh proof of the good will by which our august master is ani.. mated, is to repeat once more that, in spite of the infractions of which we have to complain, when once the inadmissible clauses I have indicate.' above are withdrawn, we shall be prepared to examine the othsr dispositions of the contract without the slightest prejudice (prevention), In the strictest equity the company will have no right to say that it has already incurred expense. It knew that one of the principal conditions of the con tract not being fulfilled, it would incur that expense at its own risk and peril. Nevertheless, being willing to take into consideration the private interests involved in this enterprise, the Sublime Porte will endeavour, in conjunc tion with his Highness Ismail Pacha, to take the necessary measures for returning the money the company may have spent, in the event of its not wishing to continue the works without advantages which cannot be conceded to it, and in that case the said company will of coarse surrender the works it has already commenced, and all the land it holds as property. We may add also that, in the event just alluded to, of the company renouncing the continuance of the projected work, the Sublime Porte being sincerely desirous of doing all in its power to facilitate communication will, in concert with the Viceroy, adopt such measures as may be most approp riate for realising the execution of that work. We are certain, M. l'Ambassadeur, that the above frank and straightforward explanations will not fail to meet with the entire approbation of his Majesty the Emperor. I beg of you, consequently, to read this despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affrirs, and to leave a copy of it with him.— Accept, &c.. AALI. The above heavy blow and great discouragement to M. de Lesseps' scht me, inflicted by the Turkish despatch upon the Suez Canal, published by the Courrier du Dimanche, will certainly produce a great sensation in France, and may perhaps lead to serious consequences. RUMOURED DISSENSIONS IN THE FRENCH CABI NET.—" The attitude of the minister of the Interior at the approach of the electoral struggle and the restrictive mea sures which have been only too frequent lately." says the Independence Beige, " appear to have occasioned some rather serious dissensions in the Council of Ministers. It is asserted that a very warm discussion upon this subject occurred at the last council in presence of the the Emperor, Count Walewski and M. Drouyu de Lhuys having taken M. do Pcrsigny to task for the pressure he brings to bear upon the electors before even the day of voting is fixed. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of State are said to have been mainly induced to offer this Opposition to the colleague by his exclusion of certain members of the present chamber and by various fresh selections he has made, the tendencies of which do not meet with their approval." THE GREEK DEPUTATION AT COPENHAGEN.— We read in the .Dagbladet of the sth inst. :—" The Greek deputation which arrived in Copenhagen on the 25th of April has not yet succeeded in fulfilling its mission of presenting its homage to the young king elected by the National Assembly of Greece. The negotiotions respect. ing the conditi ons attached to th e a c ce pt ance o f thi s selection are still p roceeding, an d it i s i m p oss ibl e t o f orm an idea when th ey will be concluded ; meanwhile the members of the d eputation were presen t y es t er d a y a t a grand dinner given by his Majesty, where, for the first time, they found themselves in the presence of their future king, Prince William of Denmark, who, by the way, ' has been suffering for some little time from the fracture of a bone of the wrist." [ADVER TISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Indisputable remedies for old wounds, sores and ulcers.—lf used according to directions given with them, there is no wound or ulcerous sore, or bad breast, however obstinate, or long st an di ng, but will yield to their healing and cura tive proper t i es. Numbers of perso ns who have been patients in several of th e large hospitals, and under the care of emi nent surgeons, without deriving the slightest benefit, have been thoroughly cured by H o ll o way's ointment and pills. For glandular swellings, t umours, scurvy, and diseases of the skin, there is no medicine that can be used with so good an efft ct. In fact, in the worst forms of disease dependent upon the conditition of the blood these medicines are irre sistible, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, SATURDAY REVIEW.—Mr. Gladstone deliberately commits Parliamentary suicide, by throwing him self in the way of majorities that run over him. Sir George Grey, on the other hand, like a nervous old lady at a crossing, generally contrives to be run over from sheer anxiety to get out of everybody's way. There is something fine in the knight-errant like spirit in which Mr. Gladstone seeks out a diffi culty. His position as Chancellor of the Exchequer furnishes him with considerable facilities for aggra vation. It is always possible in a budget, even if you have a serplus,to tread on a great many people's toss. In fee', the possession of a surplus rather increases than diminishes a Minister's power of giving offence. People will submit to he taxed, even according to very unjust or very ridiculous principles, when it is absolutely necessary that the money should be raised somehow. But to be worried or insulted by a small demand from the tax-gatherer, in order merely to accommodate the Minieter's sense of symmetry, is a circumstance of irritation which will try the tem per of the most patient tax-payer. Shearing is all very well when there is some fleece to be got ; but to have the point of the shears run into his back, merely for the purpose of trimming one or two dis orderly hairs, is a sort of thine which no animal can be expected to stand. Mr. Gladstone, however, has proved that he is not dependent on a dexterous manipulation of his finance for success in provoking hostility. He has shown that he can still flay the managers of charities alive, even though he is not allowed to carry off the skin. No doubt, if his tax on clubs should fail, he will be able, by descanting on the wit kedness of which members of clubs have at all periods been guilty, to offend every member of a club quite as much as if he had imposed the tax specially upon him. He shows a similar dex terity in frightening numbers of people beyond those whom it is his intention to tax. The actual proposal of very dangerous taxes is attended with difficulties in the Cabinet; but as Mr. Gladstone has shown, by repeated experiments, it is quite pos sible to propose an innocuous tax, or even a remis sion of taxation, in language that shall effectually alarm every capitalist in the country. In a Minister who was designed to be safe, this might be a dan gerous qualification ; but in a Minister whose chief function it is to be pulled by Lord Palmerston out of a political ditch, it will deserve eulogy in propor tion to the frequency with which he has created an opportunity for displaying the adroitness of his chief. SPECTATOR.—This session the slaughter of the innocents is beginning early. About the end of July, when everything looks dusty and hot, and everybody looks cynical and exhausted, one esteems it quite a relief when the Minister jauntily mas sacres his own legislative offspring, and is disposed to regard it as rather a clever thing than not. But May is really too early. If, indeed, the Cabinet had given birth to such an enormous family of use ful and important measures, that the disappearance of one or two of them could be regarded as only an ordinary occurrence just as one expects a certain per centage of a brood of chickens to die of the croup—it would be more tolerable. But Govern ment introduces only two measures into the house of the least importance—the bill for the amalgama tion of the City and Metropolitan police, and the proposal to deprive property left to so-called chari table uses of the exemption from income tax which it now enjoys ; and although both are measures of reform essentially just and necessary, we have scarcely time to scrutinise their fair proportions, before the one is ruthlessly murdered and the other disappears. Indeed, the Home Secretary is perfectly shameless. He hands over his progeny to the Stand ing Orders Committee to be quietly put out of sight just as the bad uncle did the "Babes in the Wood," and seems to be quite willing to leave it to chance to play " Cock Robin," and decently conceal the corpse. Mr. Gladstone was at all events decorous. He, indeed, sacrifi ce d hi s o ff spr i ng, b u t , at l east , before the perpetration of the offence, he lifted up his voice and wept. We do not care to conceal our opinioa that a Government in circumstances such as these—a Government which affects to lead the House of Commons, and clearly does not lead it— which has not strength enough to force through bills which strike at local abuses nor prudence enough to avoid a contest with the classes who pro fit by them—presents, even to its own supporters, a sorry sight. No doubt the late Lady Macbeth con demned every such admission against interest as a foolish Thought, but Lady Macbeth was an accom plice, and we are certainly not. The complaint against the Cabinet is that it does not pass any measures, but that it introduces what it ought to have foreseen that it could not pass. LONDON REVIEW.—The residence at Marl boroegh of the newly-married Prince and Pi inJess seems likely to make the month of May brighter even than it usually is in the summer-loving metro polis. Few prettier sights are to be seen in Europe than Hyde Park on a declining afternoon ; and dur ing the season which has recently begun, the ci owds, in the eye of a loyal Englishman, will seem gayer, the trees greener, and the Row more fashionable than common. If the young heir to the throne is of a reflective turn of mind, he cannot but be struck with the reception accorded by the throngs through which his daily drive lies, both to himself and to his bride, neither of whom have long emerged from boyhood and girl hood, as the case may be, and whose respective merits or demerits are almost entirely unknown to the world. The sight of two happy young people who are not oppressed either by worldly care or, in all probability, by the problems of philosophy, is always enlivening. The young and inexperienced are generally popular, and when refinement and de licacy come in to crown the combination, predilec tion very naturally turns into enthusiasm. Senti ment has, no doubt, something to do with the cor dial welcome given this year to our future King and Queen. The same kind of feeling with which Mr. Thackeray looks on youth, gives a zest to the ad miration and attention they attract. The older a man grows the fonder he gets of the dim distances of childhood and of the light-hearted pleasure which he has left so far behind him. The words youth and beauty stir in his mind the old associations of the past, and call up within him springs of indis tinct fondness. He has here before his eyes what may serve as an embodiment of youth and beauty ; for there is just that sort of pleasant impersonality about princes and princesses of whom we know no thing, and just that sort of vague uncertainty about the sphere in which they move, which renders the transition from abstract and general ideas to these Royal impersonations easy and impalpable. In England, says M.Montalembert, Royalty is nothing more than liberty crowned—la liberte couronnee. Partly, no doubt, M. Montalembert is right, but he does not exhaust the idealizing tendencies of humanity, if he supposes that the Crown and Court in this country are simply popu lar from political reasons. Royalty is not " liberty crowned" only, though no doubt it is something " crowned." A few months back it was domestic happiness and Goodness crowned. Of late it has been Widowhood and noble grief. To-day and for our present purpose it is, as we have said, youth and beauty crowned. We see, or think we see, on a Royal eminence, the qualities which interest us most in private life. The distance at which we stand prevents us from criticising too narrowly the drawbacksor the blemishes in the tableau. For us the picture has no dark side ; all is radiant and bright. Between the royal carriage, as it drives along the Serpentine, and the gaily-dressed ladies and gentle men who look on, there is a sufficient space and in terval to enable them all to idealize a little. What they admire so much is - a creation of their own hearts, which imagination allows them to transfer to the inside of the passing equipage. It is not the Prince and Princess that are seated there ; it is La Jeunesse Doree—the sunshine of Golden Age— Youth and Happiness and Beauty ; and we people the palace with the figures and the attributes that more properly belong to Cloudland. THE MlRROR.—Despite his matchless gifts of rhetoric, which suffice for the hour to make any proposal appear a good one, and to invest a crotchet with the air of a self-evident proposition, it is obvi ous that there is a want of breadth and balance in Mr. Gladstone's judgment which ever and anon leads him into grievous and irritating mistakes. In a Premier this defect would be fatal; in a sub ordinate it is merely embarrassing. And yet, but for the timely intervention of the Jupiter of the Cabinet, one of these mistakes on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer would on Monday have subjected the Ministry to a defeat which would have damaged its prestige if not endangered its ex istence. In his Budget speech, Mr. Gladstone corn menced the practical part of his exposition with an announcement which seemed to promise that what ever may have been his tendency to financial crot chets in the past, such crotchets would find favour with him no more. With frankness and good humour he represented himself as a second Brutus, compelled by a sense of duty to sacrifice his off spring —to wit, those petty taxes on commercial transactions which he had imposed two years before, hut which had proved exceedingly irksome to the trading community, and had added almost nothing to the revenue. But no sooner had he cancelled these mistakes, than with perverse ingenuity he rushes into others still worse. Revoking his plague upon commerce, he sought and found other victims for his petty torture in clubs, charities, and carriers. But the House of Commons this year has grown somewhat restive, and declines to put any more victims on the rack for nothing. Both the carriers and the charities have already escaped from the pincers of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the clubs have now proved equally fortunate. LAW TIMES. —Mr. Bouverie has withdrawn his Writs Prohibition Bill, frankly admitting that such was the opposition it encountered he could not hope to carry it, While congratulating the profession on this result of their timely protest, we may per naps be permitted to use the privilege of an old and tried friend, taught by long experience, to suggest to them the moral of this incident in the history of the law and the lawyers, and it is, that when the profession pleases to put forth its power, it car per fectly protect itself against unjust or injudicious legislation. When we first sounded the alarm on the production of Mr. Bouverie's scheme for confis cating debts under £2O, the profession bestirred itself promptly, iu good earnest, and in the right manner. Instead of leaving its defence to the slow action of societies, we counselled the adoption of individual efforts for self-protection, by personal in vocation to representatives to present a petition, and support its prayer. It was the influence thus brought to bear upon individual M P.'s. without reference to party, that sealed the fate of Mr. Bou vetie's B 11, and informed him that he would be beaten on a division, inducing that graceful retreat to avoid a majority which we record with so much pleasure to-day. As the solicitors have done on this occasion, so they might and should do on all future occasions, whenever their implacable foes forge a new weapon for their destruction. ATHENIEUM.—One of the grievances to which the Royal Academicians have hitherto clung has, to some extent, been removed. Candidates for admission as Associates have always been compelled to attend at the Academy in the month of May, and inscribe their names in a book kept there. Many a high-spirited artist has been kept out of the Society by this regulation, because he considered it such an indignity that he never would submit to it; or else he ultimately became disgusted with, and avoided the annual humiliation imposed upon him of thus soliciting to he permitted to compete for the honour of being elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. What valid reason is it possible to assign for thus practically compelling an artist, either annually, or even once, to solicit the consideration of his pro fessional claims by the Royal Academicians ? Surely the fact of a man sending his works for exhibition at the Academy might and ought to be deemed sufficient evidence of his desire to be elected an Associate. Can it be doubted that the honour would be enhanced to the recipient from the tact of its having been conferred without any solicitation upon his part ? It may be well to remind the Royal Academicians that the existence of their most questionable monopoly of the professional honours ,nd powers they enjoy depends exclusively on the will and pleasure of the Crown. Also, that, in fact, they are but trustees appointed for promoting British Art. They well know how galling the regulation has always been considered, and how keenly sensitive most artists are. Consequently we submit that in deference to the feelings of the non members of the Academy the whole of the regula tion in question ought to be entirely abolished. THE QUEEN.—Some ill-natured persons are ask ing " did the Prince of Wales compose the speech delivered at the Royal Academy himself ?" We ask what reason there is to doubt it It is far from being an elaborate or a pretentious composition. It is just such a simple utterance of feeling as a well bred, right-minded young English gentleman would be likely to speak on the spur of the moment. It certainly bears no sort of resemblance to the com position of General Knollys, the erudite Commis sioner of Military Education, who has the credit for being the Prince's literary father confessor. Why, then, should not his Royal Highness be the author of his own very feeling and simply eloquent little speech ? In the lifetime of his august father it used sometimes to be doubted whether be wrote his own speeches, and the credit of their composi tion used to be assigned to all manner of persons ; and yet before he had been a year in the grave, the world was furnished with the best possible proof that he had composed them himself, in the form of an edition of them printed from copies in his own handwriting, and authenticated by the Queen her self. The impression which the Prince's speech made upon the distinguished audience was highly favourable to him, and no speech, not even that in which the Premier offered his audience one of the strongest doses of flattery possible, by telling them that " there was assembled in these rooms a greater amount of cultivation of mind, of natural genius, of everything which constitutes the develop ment of human intellect, than perhaps ever is assem bled within the same space elsewhere; not even this wholesale supply of intellectual butter was received with greate r grat ifi cat i on. T o b e sure, t h e au di ence, like ourselves, may have heard of certain collections of works of ar t, an d certa i n creat i ons o f art an d science which affo r d f ar hi g h er ill ustra ti ons o f "everything which constitutes the development of human intellect" th an a R oya l A ca d emy Exhibi tion can possibly do, and held their peace for very shame. Extensive Forgeries of Federal Notes. On the 16th ult, two men named Edwin Hides and Henry Light, engravers and lithographers, were brought before the Sheffield magistrates on a charge of forging and uttering large numbers of Fedtral Treasury notes (greenbacks) of 5, 10, and 20 dollars. They were remanded until Saturday last, when a mass of evidence was adduced to prove their complicity in the forgery, Mr. Sleigh, bar rister, of London, appeared for the prosecution (in structed by the American Consular agent in Shef fieli,) ; Mr. Fretson defended the prisoners. The main facts to which the witnesses deposed may be stated as follows :—The prisoner Hides was an en graver in a considerable way of business in George street, Sheffield, and the other prisoner was a litho grapher in his employ. In the spring of last year Light went over to Ireland, and in Dublin he met with an American named Clifford Webster, who was engaged in preparing a plate from which to engrave forged American bank notes. Light agreed to assist him, and the American handed over to him a partially engraved 10 dollars plate, and furnished the funds for the purchase of a lithographic press, and with these Light returned to Sheffield. He appears to have gone at once to Hides, and asked him to join in the " good thing" he had on hand, and Hides agreed to do so. They sought the assistance of a Sheffield engraver, named Pigott, to whom Hides showed a genuine 0-dollar note, and asked him if he conid make a copy of the vignette (a figure representing Colum bia) as nearly resembling the original as possible. Pigott refused, and Hides, attributing his refusal to fear of the consequences, told him he had no occa sion to be afraid, as " we did not make laws for the protection of foreigners in this country." Pigott, however, persistently refused, and Hides then left him, but subsequently repeated his request, and told him he would make a large sum of money if he would give his assistance, but was again repulsed. Light then went to a Wakefield engraver, named Gascoigne, showed him one of the notes, and endea voured to procure his assistance in making the plate, but Gascoigne refused. Light subsequently wrote and told him that the front part of the plate was being done in steel, and that if he would assist in finishing it he should have " as high a figure" as he chose to ask for. Being unable to obtain assistance, the two prisoners did the work at the plate them selves; and they engaged two men named Southard and Wood, who printed off 3,000 copies of the 10- dollar note. The prisoners also completed a plate for 5 dols. and another for 20 dols., and it is believed they printed off large numbers from each. Pigott, he engraver mentioned above, went on one occasion' to Hides's shop, and Hides told him they "had done £7,000 worth of the notes, and that the American (Clifford Webster) had been over to Sheffield and got the notes, and had gone away without giving them the money for which they had bargained." He added that the American had been trying to pass some of the notes in the neigh bourhood of Sheffield, and that that had alarmed him, and he had sent Light after him, partly to get the money and partly to put him on his guard. A letter was found in the possession of Light's wife, in which he said (writing from Dublin) that he should return home at once, " be cause Webster had gone." Information was given to the American authorities in Liverpool and Leeds, and Sergeant Spital, of the city foroe, has had the case in his hands for some months. When Hides was apprehended he admitted having had a forged plate in his possession. One of the strongest pieces of evidence was supplied by one of Hides's appren tices, named Fretwell. He said he had been " mysti fied" by the great precautions the prisoners took to evade observation in the workshop, and on one morning, after they had been working all night, he went into their room, and found in a drawer a partly engraved steel plate. He took an impression, which he produced, and which was evidently from a plate of a five-dollar note. The lines "American Bank Note Co., New York," the date, and the words "Receivable in payment of all public dues," and the vignette were very distinct, and evident copies of portions of a genuine note. One of the approvers, named Southard, was engaged to complete the 10 dollar plate, and he had a genuine note given hi as a copy. He soon knew, as a matter of tours that he was engaged in a forgery; but the prisons laughed at his fears. It may be stated here that tl engraving on the genuine notes is or a very con plicated and expensive character, and so beautiful, designed and finished as to be very difficult of im tation. Some of the notes contain figures represent ing "Liberty," " America,", and portraits of 14 Lincoln, and the edges and backs are covered wit numerals in sections, the figures denoting the fait of the instrument. The workmanship is mo highly finished. The forgeries are not h well finished, but the American Consul said the w( tvd deceive any one not well acquainted wit the uto!•ey. After t e evidences of the Il e who printed the notes, Pigott and GdScoign e, th apprentices, and others, it was shown that Light 116 purchased the lithographic press, and had brough it to Sheffield, where it had been used in printio, the notes. Mr. 0 verend, the magistrate who hear, the case, at once committed the prisoners to th assizes at York, and refused to accept bail. Ib case was brought under the Consolidat( d Act, sai d makes the offence with which the prisoners ar charged a felony, punishable with 14 years' servitude. Close of the Suit against Professor Jowett' The following letter has been sent by the Pr.' moters of this suit to the Vice-Chancellor:— " Mr-Vice-Chancellor,—We, the promoters of suit against Professor Jowett, beg leave to you at the earliest possible moment that we " L I: given up the intention of maki ng a pplic a tion to to Court of Queen's Bench for a mand a mus to coul ei ~ your Assessor to hear that cause ; w hi c h apoicat io we thought, in the first instance, to be our legal remedy. We have consulted competent lawyers, who vise us that a mandamus ought to issue in this cal But the same lawyers think that, as the Que en' , Bench has a discretion to exercise, it might i f case relating to academical discipline (and it is ad ded 0 1 by another legal authority partly on the g round se the long forbearance in instituting this suit), re f the mandamus, and that this would most proh eb ; be the course which the Court would take. 138 0 1 ! stated that they mild not guarantee the succe ss at the application. Without a moral certainty ° sr the mandamus would be issued, we thought it 11 becoming to make the application. „ fo al We have appended to this stat e ment a DI opinion given by the Queen's Advocate and Coleridge, Esq., Q.C. " We wish to a dd i n exp l anat i on t h a t had Tle - fi been aware that ( a s i s i nt i mate d i n this 01);7118r there was any appeal to C ourts w i th i n the Vil'lo-e sity from a mere refusal on th e p art o f t h e M e , sor to hear a cause we should not h ave t h o ught ota o 4 selves at liberty (under our o bli gat i on to t h e stall` to make application to the Queen's Bench. , ;ng " The time allowed by th e s t a t u t es for rol l ''. o , o such an appeal having passed long since, mobile .e were taking steps to bring the question to so in what we understood to be the proper Courtfto nave no longer any legal means for testing re validity of the Assessor's refusal.—We beg t° main your obedient servants, "Christ Church, May 8. " C. A. Ocinvio . " E. B Pussit. " C. A. liEtraTlAl. n I Di (4 OrINION OF THE QUEEN'S ADVOCATE AN- ' COLERIDGE, ESQ Q.C. " We are of opinion that th e course ta k en b y the Age° It in this trial was incorrect, and cannot be justified. I :40 well be that in former times th e Vi ce -Ch ance llor, alone or conjointly with other Un ivers it y au thoritieSt 0 1- 0 1 have acted personally in the correction of the (learn de' manners of the members of the University and with ; It it gree of discretion and freedom from legal rules such - 0 1 suggested in thejudgment of the Assessor. But wil f,o lo , authority, whatever it may have been originally, ea7„ - dieio vested in and to be exercised by a court and by r v i l ick officer such as the Assessor (and this is the case wit h I .. adg e we have to deal), we think that, even if such Court or t o could have refused leave to issue a citation origina llY ' c or Court could not refuse to entertain a s uit prePer l i„ Sal menced, and over which th ere existed jurisdiction? ° 7 c ost such ground as the general i nex p e di enc y o f the Ps rtl a Juage having to deal with it. The Assessor'S O u t r i ß i e d by pears to us an inconsistent course, and not to be P s any legal precdent of which we are aware. "We think, e further, that in accordance with wale.- ° fe ll authorities on the subject o f v i s i tat i ona l jurisdiction , as t o as the established practice in regard to inferior courts , t y Court of Queen's Bench might by mandanitis comb 4 Assessor to hear a cause properly commenced before hoit parties having an interest in the matter, and in reeP ec which he had jurisdiction. "But the Court of Queen's Bench itself has a '"'" Thi° in regard to the issuing of the writ of mandamus. 4 1d discretion must, it is true, be regulated, and no doubt COO be regulated, by legal p r i nc i p l es . B ut i n t hi s case th e v it would certainly be very reluctant to interfere, and ter 0 most probable, i n our op i n i on , t h at, trea ti ng the matow ,i one of academical discipline, they would leave the r wed to the suit to their remedy in that course of appea l Pc out by the University statut3s. " ROBERT PIIILLI2IIOO' , ''JJOHNDUKE COLE III9aO " Westminster, May 4." COUNTRY MARKETS. b , NOTTINGIIAM—SATURDAT. y e a $ This corn market to-d a y was mo d erate ly eaP.P ceo be il e j o wheat, and there was a s l ew d eman d , late P i na ta //, barely support e d. B ar l ey stea d y, at l ate ra tes. .`', o r0,`5 0 , scarce. Only a sam pl e or two o f b eans , a t Pre; OLO White wheat, from 44 s to 54 8 ; re d w heat, „j s , Barley —malting, 31s ,to 418:; grinding, 278 to , oui old, at 25s t o 31 s Od ; new , 22 s t o 28 s. Beans to 45s per qr. Flour, 31s to 40s. YORK— SATURDAY. .4 Sa le° P l i The show of wheat was limited to-day, an— th 8 olie inactive, at lather lower prices. Barley scarce, W ri l oo k d o demand, at extreme pric es . O a t s i n healthy dew 7. readily made Gd per qr advance on last week. j 9 24' steady. 0 Wheat, red 42s to 46s Oats.... ....... .o r to „st White do .46s:to 50s Beans ........... ...„80 2 0 , Barley .29s to 35s Peas ".0 , 00 0 Malt, 62s to 64s per qr.; rye, 34s per qr ; to 35s per sack. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. 3 6°1 '! 0' New white wheat, 48s to 51s; red, 45s to 48°21ft0,. malting barley, 38s to 43 s p er qr ; gr i n di n g ', o V' old oats, 23s tons; beans, 35 8 to 38 s; peas ) 5 6 LEICESTER—SATunDAY• 600 r , o p Old white wheat, —s to —s •, new, 44s to 03111 , O tis A stone. Oid r e d, 48 s t o 6 2s per 36 stone. Ba r ' ie l'o t s` 00 9 ' new, 34s to 39s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 300 ;. 27s to 30s ; new oa t s , 22 s to 28s per 24 sto ny. new, 35s to 398; old, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. i Jr N RW ICH—SATURDAY. ,;11X t 0P with There was a better supply of wheat to-day, - Th e 0 ad mand. at rather lower prices than last week. jow; o k, of barley is now virtually exhausted, and rata; .`""410 ,1 ' 0 F 1 White wheat. 46s to 48. I Red wheat.. •• • ' t pP Malting barley ... 38s to 40s 1 Chevalier harleY•'./4% • lei, Distilling d 0..... 33s to 35s I Oats.. .......... Flour, 32s 6d to 33s ed per sack from the .4. _ hv Full benefit of reduced dut y btained:#o chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at::), I S :01 4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 41' is is strongest and most delicious imported. Agez town supply it in packets. 1/ 11/ Births. <, the ADAMS.—On the sth inst., at Eastbourne, ou' g o- _,, m ot of George Adams, Esq., of a da ug hter. d , P A Eir HANROTT.—On the 6th inst., H at 22, O x ford.r ° t of - the wife of Howard Augustus unrott, P 6 ' . ' .41 1, and heir. aO O9 o8 r $ T h ym e ' THYNNE.—On the Bth inst,, at Pen towet f Cornwall, the wife of the R ev . A r thur C. daughter. Marriages. vert COOPER—DRAPER.--On the 9th inst., at S, i t• h rge llll gent's-park, James, eldest son of the late e - ro 10- Esq., of Caversham, near Reading, t° Laura O ft' youngest daughter of the late George Dr B P e t ' at Preto WIN TERINGHAM—WORSLEY—On the 6tla ilVeoes s ;r I ' l Lincolnshire, Henry Winterin h am, Bgli ft re° youngest daughter of the Rev. g W / N °B t 3 in. Bratoft. shire, Mr. Addington , ADDINGTON.—On the 6t h • Eaton P-1:1' , D a g e e a d t 7 h 5 .2 . • gton Inst., at rto D eaf" s.—On the 7th inst., at Lean) a l" DUNDI Of° Dundas, Esq , aged 56. $ Ag Leaming ton ' -' l-h°15.6 MITCHELL.--On the 7th inst., at 26, Car , gr. Ni M sn it :T h . e -- ll' On the sth inst., e y Nog: 1 1 40 1 r od, ar e, James N isbet, late of Wi gmor a e t • Finch s t ro al- , " Vella° i ,ree_ A l i ' aged 75. . ho ovulte' s T o l i. ,o A a c c H h z e: — 3l O . en.,tahgee aged 30. inst.. a Ric kW. Surrey, Louisa Maria, eldest daughter of ale I I Olt ~,, lib,' A g STROTHER.—On the 7th inst , at Eastfielu Pcl'f s w 9 orth, Northumberland, Anthony Strotiler, Lon Printed and published byivicLlAo4?.l4s_?; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SO V 0-ceopt, Strand, in the Precinct of the "Savoy, in tl4 hildetleses,—mpuoay, !lay 11, 1803.