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(ants' soli" lavit ? 3 lordsh l l ) fa ' i he might he effida Yit ring of the aing. Eng fully inquired lifer,_ hits and oa i- IX of buyers; e 6d per L i te a nd 4 0 Iting, 1 33a to „ 0 I, 24s to 3v o 448 per clr• 4/e )antzio, u. ) —0; 1311s ' s to 380 PI t 0276; an 5. vhich tot s 5d dowo. s 6d down . Is Gd up. la 5d uP• ras, 42$ 6d; :8 qrs 6 qrs 7 qrs 1 qrs ming :- 11e 6 1 3, bar l 'Y m ' to Z . -. A sho t Che n nd to 0 1 , 5d to 5 d io per stone* id. rife of CLIO' vgon-streett dcock, of 6 11, Witubi e ' ughter. ton, Nott" __. o . 3n Graew , [all. ~ Gravell; )ad, tiff% • of E. 11 n, ESCP , Of phn ettroP" 'ousel M id : ) Id o n, AYI Eben aer C. lOgers9 ICS ND 10 3 o. Office , 1 the COO METROPOLITAN RAILWAY._ ALTERATION Or 'TRAINS. On and after the Ist of Mar Calling at Edgware-road and ;n the EXPRESS TRAINS, Baker-street only, will be as follows: UP TRAINS, leavin' Bishop's-road for Farringdon- Street, at 8.40 a.m., 9.10. a.m., 9.40 a.m., 10.10 a.m., 10.90 a.m., 11.10 a.m., and 11.40 % on , DOWN TRAp: , , s, 6 road, at 4.10 leaving Farringdon-street for Bislnp,s_ 4.40 p.m., 5.10 p.m.. 5.4 0 part, 1 :00 p.m., ." pan., am'. 7.10 P.m. These trains will be First, Second, and Third Class. Additional ORDINARY TRAINS, Calling at all stations, Will also be run as follows : In' TRAINS, leaving Bishop's-road for Farringdon street, 4,40 p,m , 5.10 p.m., 5.40 p.m., 6.10 p m., and 6.90 p.m. DOWN TRAINS, leaving Farringdon-street for Bishop's -1'0&4, 9.10 a.m., 9.40 a.m., 10.10 , 10.40 a.m., and 11.10 a.m. THE - GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Four-and-a-Half per rent. Preference Stock. The GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY is pre pared to receive applications for awns of £lOO, or upwards, of the above Stock, bearing a fix‘ z d Preferential Interest of l iper cent. per annum. Interest c mmences from VA date of payment. Applications to be made either personally or by letter to the undersigned. J. B. OWEN, Secretary. Ili shopsgate Termtitus, February, 1863. OiAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PA Tp orrEss-11 er Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. 1-131:81 bEN T —Vice -Adm iral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S, D Ep TmximArz -- Thos, Raring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. v- CnAutmAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. „The Committee of Management have to state that, since je g in ning of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat stitution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the ' Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland. h ave , i ng the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution in4trumental in rescuing tue Crews of the follow -4 n =eel ed Vessels:— 1 S chooner Ann Mitchell, of B6o. Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas. of Shi e lds • • Ship Ann M, of Glasgow • • • - - - Smack John itche Bull l , l of Yarmouth • • • • • • Schooner Catherine, of Newry -• • • • • 'Barque Niagara, of Shields •• • • • • •• A Barge of Teignmouth •• •• •• •• Brig George and James, of London • • • • Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• •• Coble Ho nour, o f C u ll erc o a t s • g• •• •• Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. :Barque Oberon, of Live 00l 3- higantine Nancy, of Tetgnmouth p Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth Brig Scotia, of Sundwiand . • • Sloop Three Brofilers, of Goole .. Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. Brig Ann, of itlyth .. • • • • Sloop Hope, of Dublin •• • • Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. Barque Vermont, of Halifax. U.S. .. Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon Brig Fbling• Fish ' of Whitby • • Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis Ste?..rn Dredge, at Newhaven .. .• Sejnooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester _ _ _ Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn .. •• •• .. 3 Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. .. 11 Trig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. • • • • 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn • • • • 7 Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .• • • • • 7 .. 1 .. 6 .. 3 Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other 210 means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1800 Total ..455 1861. Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham 6 Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. •• •• 5 S chooner Prospect, of Berwick • • •• .. 6 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives • •• • • 3 Ti shing - boat of Whitburn •• •• .. 4 Brig Arethusa of Blyth •• •• •• • 8 S chooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoe Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris • • • • '• 2 s Sc hooner William, of Morecambe •" • - S mack Gipsy, of New r y .. 4 Schooner M argaret Anne, of Preston •• •• .t Brig New Dra of Whitehaven .. • • •• 2 per, Sc hooner William, of Liverpool .. • • •• u Lugger „Nimrod, of Castletown ... •• .• 3 Brig Providence, of Shields .. •• " • • • 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle •- • • .. 8 Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. .. 4 Barque Guy Ina, of Glasgow .. .. .. .. 19 Brigßoman Empress, of Shields .. .. •• 10 Brig San , Spirld,one, of Galaxide .. .. .. 2 Schooner V oa d or d u Vouga, of Viana .. .. 8 French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese .. .. 6 Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. .. 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater • • •• 4 Sch ooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. .. _ 4 Ship Danube, of Belfast .. •• • • .. 17 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .• • • • • 4 ,, Brig, St. Michel, of Marans .. -- • • • • ' zPanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) - • • • • • • •• 1 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 4 Barque Frederick, of London .. .. 1 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (sa ve d vesse l and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) •• •• •• .• •• •• •• 6 Barge Peace, of London Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. .. .. H Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. .. .. 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. • • .. 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen. .. .. .. 11 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone _ _ .. 6 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish 1 Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. .. .. .. 5 Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. .. 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .• .. .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .. .. 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland ~ .. .. 5 Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. .. .. S Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew) 4 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. .. 5 288 Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1861 00 ,s4l, ..136 Total .. • • ..424 1 , 62. Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. • • .. 1 Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon .. • • ..• 1 Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich 5 Brig Minerva, of Workington Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6 Brig Sisters, of Vi hitby .. • • • • • • 9 Brigantine Matilda, of StoCkholm .. 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields .. 10 Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. • • • • • • 3 Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) • • • • • • • • • • ' • • 7 Brig Trial, of Poole .. . 7 Barque . Cedarine, of Bermuda • • .•: —134 Smack Fredsham, of Liverpool .. .. 2 Sloop William, of Liverpool .. „ „ 5 Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth „ 3 Barque Cruz, of Oporto Barque Druid, of Sunderland Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved yes and crew) • • • • • • •• • • • 3 Fishing Boats of Whitburn . • .. .•. 12 Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. .. 4 Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore, U. 5... .. 18 Schooner Rook, of Liverpool Schooner Ceres, of Arbroath (saved ves. and crew) 5 Sloop Loftus, of Padstow 4 Schooner Ellen, of Liverpool (saved yes. and crew) 3 Smae: Mary Elizabeth. of Padstow • • • • 3 Smack John, of Teignmoulh •• Schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh Schooner James Dwell, of Newcastle (saved ves sel and crew) . • • • • • • • • • •• 2 Schooner Champion, of Liverpool .. .. 10 Galiot Aremana, of Jaffa (assisted to save vessel and crew) • .• .• 6 Ship James Browne, of Philadelphia (assisted to save vessel and crew) .. 18 Smack Countess of Lisburne, of Aberystwith 3 Screw steamer Alice, of Leith • • • • •. 12 Barque Brazil, of Liverpool • • • • 1 3 Schooner Little Aggie, of Berwick • Schooner Sisters, of Wick .. • • • • • • 3 .. . Number of lives Total saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1862 .. SO .ep ..213 .. ..571 Total .. SUMMARY OF LIVES SAVED. 18 0-451 11861..424 I 18(32..571 I Total .. 1,550 ,Por these joint numerous services in saving 1,450 lives from sui r'vvreek, the Institution ha.. granted re xards amounting to £ 3 ,502 12s. 7d., in ddition to 68 Silver Medals. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society nd other means, since its formation , 18 12,800 ; which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and .A 16,480 in cash have been aid in rewards. The Institu hTrnas also expe n d e d £67, p 00 on Life-boats, Life - boat r ans porting-cari iacres, and Boat-houses. T he Committee de s i re t o e xpress their grateful sense of the nCrOll , 4 support which they have received from the ;thill public durinc , the past few ears, a suport which .I!ts enab'ed them to establish their present mag p nificent fleet 9 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom uceply sensib'e, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and i ts C rews pract i se d i n th e managemen t of their boats, whi li cau only be effected by a large and pe manent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee 6 .Tatefalty acknowledge the following con tributions : the Queen Z a. d Campbell, A.r a j es ty annual 50 0 0 .. .. .. the Hon. Dirs. G. .. annual 5 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R A • • • • annual 1 1 0 t 7 outts and Co., Dies • ers.; • Bank • ers :: :.• anneal 10 0 0 Currie, Wm., lesq. 4th don 10 0 0 Brle, Lord Cief justice . • : • • • • 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Si r A. , R.C.B. Fenwick, G. J., Esq , cost of aI, :: 2d don. 25 10 10010 0 ifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage . Harvey, Rev. G. G. and• Mrs. • • 250 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart.•••• .... don. 30 0 •.. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .. don. 15 15 0 '• • • Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich anneal 2 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. .. an '• 30 0 Thom . a Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected Ladby y , hip • • • • .. _ .. Y her • • 18 16 0 Willoughby d'Ere,by, Lord .. .• .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annual Fu' scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Bankers of t he Institut i on, Messrs. Willi. Percival, and 6, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and CO., 59, Strand; Co., Messrs. Berries, Farouhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the United kingdom ; and by the Secretary Rich ar d L ew i s . 14;s q., at the Office of the Institution, 14, J ohn -street, Adelphi, London. W.C. TEETH._ By MR. ESKELL'S IN VENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exqu i s it e ly enamelled to nature , are m ade and fitted in a fe n , hours by means of his patented soft elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, disp en sing with springs or unsiglitly fastenings, and defying d e tection by toe closest observer. 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WHITE'S MOC-M AIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT h.XHIfITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to he the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of Ft ERNI A. The use of a -steel• spring, so often hurtful in its effects, , s here avoided . —a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn :luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, - and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the air zumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. kn Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. led. 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As the firing did not terminate until a late hour, the only diagram commuted wes as follows :—Whitworth, 1.74 ; Parsons, 213 ; Baker, 2.75 ; Bissel, 2.97 ; and Turner, 2.71. In refutation of the plea given by the competitors against the use of the Government rest, Lord Elcho yesterday stated that on the first year of their meet ing at Wimbledon any kind of rest was allowed, second diht year caloneso . the s Ocp conditions supplied eo h n i own, t s shwi rder ye e a t a n hr d e, at e Woolwich, all fired from sbbaee whenm iant same, A t linernd. first r h tsh e h t s t Govern ment rests, and the same result followed ; and this year Mr. Waitworth is again victorious, he alone bringing his omn resf. It may be appropriately remarked that Major Raiford made a figure of 10 inches in firing from the shoulder at 500 yards, and the same rifle was shot immediately after wards from Westley Richarda'd mechanical rest, and gave six inches. Whether the opinion of the members or that of the Council is the more plausible is likely to be the subject of further discussion. The mean computation of the first three rifles at both ranges, as given by Captain Mildmay yesterday, is this :—Whitworth, 116 ; Parsons, 1.44; Baker, 1.70; Turner, 1.72; and Bissel, PO& The remainder of the diagrams will be announced at a later period. Before closing the proceedings yes terday, the Council stated it to be their desire to tender the thanks of the Association to their ener getic and praiseworthy armourer, Mr. Smith, who had so zealously and gratuitously attended the meeting each day at much inconvenience. Mr. Smith, gunmaker, London, produced some speci mens of granulated powder in round grains, very much in appearance resembling No. 8 shot, and of which the members of Council on the ground ex pressed their approbation. A number of Steward's improved rifle telescopes were arranged on the ground, and were especially patronised by the mem bers and the Council. With these telescopes the bullet marks on the target were easily distinguished over the long range without the necessity of moving from the firing sheds. Mr. Steward has presented three of these telescopes, of the value of 25 guineas, to be fired for at Wimbledon by the Volunteers, and has also promised to lend 40 others of hisbest glasses, so that each sqaad of riflemen firing for the Queen's prize shall be provided with one for their own spe cial use. One of Krupp's newly-invented breech -loading guns, on an improved principle, has been under a severe trial for some days past at Woolwich, having been fired to what is termed "destruction." The gun was tested yesterday up to the 100th round, and each time loaded with 141 b. of powder, and latterly with a cylinder weighing 1,0001 b., and extending 27in. beyond the muzzle. To the surprise and ad miration of the Select Committee and many scien tific visitors, the gun, on examination, exhibited no indications of weakness or blemish. Capt. Bunce, instructor of musketry to the Royal Marine division at Woolwich, has commenced his annual course of firing, with a captain, two subal terns, and 120 rank and file. PRICE..." —..4d. STAMPED ....sd. The unalterable determination of the South to be independent has been clearly enough proved to satisfy the North that the extermination of the Southern people is as impossible as it wculd be dis graceful, unnatural, and fiendish. The time for com promise has arrived. And it will hereafter be a humiliating thought for unborn generations of Ame ricans if living Americans wait for foreign agencies to do what, as Christians, no less than as men of the world, men of business, statesmen, and true patriots they should do for themselves. The voice of truculent and crazy fanatics has been heard too long. It is time for the vice of common sense to sound above the din ; and, if any portio❑ of that prieless commodity remains in the country, it will exert itself immediately, or the Northern States of America will incur the double danger of ruin i.nd ~/ ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—READING, Feb. 26. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) Robert Wrixton was indicted for forging at Ox ford a check for £7O, drawn upon the London and County Bank at Abingdon. The indictment also contained a count for uttering the same knowing it to have been forged, Mr. Sawyer appeared for the prosecution; the prisoner was undefended by counsel. It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Undershell, banker, of Oxford, that on the 11th December last the prisoner called at his bank, produced a cheque for £7O drawn upon the London and County Bank at Abingdon, signed "Arthur Gledstane," and bear ing the endorsements of "Gledstanes and Co., 26, Austinfriars," and " Gerald F. De Livers," and re presenting himself as a member of Exeter College, requested the witness to cash it, observing that he was in want of money to pay a bill at the Star Hotel, and defray the expenses of "going down," a phrase in use among members of the University, and signifying leaving at the end of term. Witness, knowing nothing of the prisoner, or of the persons whose names were on the cheque, declined to cash it, but offered, if the prisoner could do nothing bet ter with it, there being a branch of the London and County Bank at Oxford, to present it for him in the usual way. The prisoner then left, but shortly re turned, saying he had missed the train to Abingdon and consequently could not present it himself as he had intended, and left the cheque with witness for presentment. Witness undertook the presentment and gave the prisoner two blank cheques of his own bank, to be used as soon as the cheque on the Lon don and County Bank should be honoured. The latter cheque was forwarded in due course to Abing don, and returned marked—" No account at the Abingdon Bank." The prisoner called next day to know if the money had arrived, which could not, however, have been the case until the next day. One of the blank cheques given to the prisoner by the witness was presented filled up for £lO by the head waiter of the Star. A cashier, from the London and County Bank at Abingdon, proved the presentment of the cheque, the subject of the indictment, and that there was no customer of the bank bearing the name of " Arthur Gledstane : and, further, that the cheque thus signed was one contained in a blank cheque-book issued to a customer of theirs named Bullock. Mr. Bullock, a farmer, near Abingdon, proved that to accommodate a Mr. Williams, a friend of his, and a farmer in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, he had given him four blank checks from the book issued to him by the London and County Bank. This was some time between the 21st of July and the 9th of October in last year. Mr. Williams proved the receipts of the blank checks from Mr. Bullock, three of which were filled up and used by himself. Mrs. Williams, wife of the last witness, proved that the fourth check remained for some time in her workbox. The prisoner was a visitor at her hus band's house for some months up to the end of December, and she missed the check from her work box shortly after his departure. It was also proved by a clerk of Gledstanes and Co. that there was no person named Arthur Gledstanes connected with their firm, and Mr. De Livers, an undergraduate of Exeter College, deposed to the fact that the endorse ment of his name on the check was not written by him . or with his authority. The jury found the prisoner guilty of uttering the check knowing it to have been forged, and the learned Judge sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. VICKSBITRG. The Mississippi flows near Vicksburg through flats of its own deposit. Those flats vary from 20 to upwards of 100 miles in width. They are subject to an overflow of from four to 20 feet deep. At the city a breadth of hills runs out through these low flats to the very bank of the Mississippi. A narrow apron of overflowed land lies at a few points be tween those hills and the river; but in most instances the channel lies with its whirring current at their very base. A belt of land subject to overflow lies for a width of about 200 yards between the Mississippi and the base of the " bluff" on which Vicksburg stands. That hill presents to the river a contour similar to that of a truncated cone. It rises up in a rapid slope to a summit 300 or 400 feet high. The streets of the city are cut into the sides of the hill, and constitute a succession of terraces one above another. The system of defences adopted for the position is outside my knowledge, but must be as formidable as any such system can be in the case of a profile admitting of a dozen lines of earthwork around the whole sweep of the hill, each commanding the other, and all commanding the water approach so com pletely as to make a direct advance from the "landing" utterly impracticable. This bristling hill is but one of a chain that, equally formidable throughout, embraces the channel of the Mississippi as far south as Warrenton. This semicircular sweep of " bluffs" has doubtless been made— as it may have been very easily—unapproachable at any point by a hostile force from the river. The flank ap proaches to this breadth of hill country are very difficult. The Yazoo River constitutes the line of access to it on the north. The naked red clays of the whole region back of yicksburg are torn by heavy rain-storms into a tangled network of ravines deep and steep. This favours the de fence in general, and makes it from the line of the Yazoo perhaps irresistible. The weak point of the communications of Vicksburg lies, however, at the place where the railway from that city to Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, crosses on trestlework the swamp of Big Black River. That part of the railway is but a few miles back of Vicksburg, and is accessible from a point on the Mississippi below Warrenton, by way of the valley of the Big Black River. In high stages of water, as at the present, it is approachable by gunboats. In either case this appears to be the assailable point of the defences of Vicksburg. Vicksburg is situated on one of those bends in the chan nel of the Mississippi known locally from their shape as " horse shoes." The city occupies the toe, the range of hills extending south of it to Warrenton, rising up like a wall around one-half the circle of that "horse shoe," The tongue of land within the bend is subject to overflow. Across this the Federals have cut a canal with the expec tation that the Mississippi rushing through will widen and deepen it to the dimensions of a new bed. " Cut offs," such as the Federals expect to make in this instance, have been made similarly at other points on the river. In this case, however, the soil is stiff clay, and there is therefore grave reason to conclude that the river will fail in opening by its own action the shallow cuts into which they have intro duced it to the dimensions required. This canal is in fact set down as a failure. A new cut is being opened i b e e t another part of the horse shoe ; but this probably ewia_y found, unless carried down with th e quicksand, pi , an n y unavailable. At all even ts, it will fail t o result in a months. In order to p lace change useful for the purposesyonoinf navig at i on before several months. physical con ditions of the attack on Vicksburg it only necessary to repeat that wit h the exeption of the breadth of hill coun t r y on which that city is situated all the country around is a more or less reclaimed swamp. The whole region for 100 miles on every side of the Confederate defences, except in the rear, is subject to an overflow of from four to 20 feet deep, and even the rendezvous of the Federal army, pro tected temporarily by an embankment that may be cut through in half-an-hour, must in the present state of the Mississippi floods be saturated with wet. A further rise in the water would drive the Federal army to their transports, and yet immense reinforcements are being forwarded from Memphis to participate in its desperate and bloody enter prise.—Standard. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good mike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agent' MARRIAGE AT THE TURKISH COURT.—The Levant Herald of the 11th says :—" An incident worthy of mention, in the dearth of graver news, occurred at Dolmabaktche during the past week. Raif Bey, ex - Chamberlain was sent for, and, by Imperial Trade, was ordered forthwith to marry one of the palace ladies, whom he had never seen or heard of before. Within ten minutes after the order was communicated to him the spouse—not elect, but imposed—made her appearance, and, inside an hour, the conjugal knot was tiedi" Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, held a levee yesterday at the Admiralty, Whitehall. The following officers attended :—Ad miral Bethune, Admiral Sir J. Scott, Capt. R. B. Oldfield, Capt. A. J. Curtis, Capt. E. W. Turnour, Capt. M. H. Haswell, Capt. J. Walford, Capt. A. M. L. Lyons, Capt. T. R. Sulivan, Capt. J. M. Bruce, Capt. T. Fisher, Capt. Sir T. M'Clintock, Capt. H. E. Edgell, Capt. W. J. Lake, Capt. E. A. Sotheby, Capt. H. Broadhead, Capt. W. B. Bolland, Commander F. Rich, Commander J. W. T. Saulcz, Commander E. Madden, Commander W. Arthur, Commander R. Scott, Commander W. M. W. Dou glas, Commander D. Walker, COmmander J. R. Alexander, Commander W. A. B. Home, Comman- der J. C. Soady, and Lieut. J. D. Curtis. The Emerald, 34, screw, Capt. A. Cumming, has shipped her four-bladed screw in readiness for her third experimental trial, which will take place at Portsmouth in the early part of next week, if she should not, in the meantime, be ordered to accom- pany the Channel fleet to Flushing. The Powerful target ship has been brought:down Portsmouth harbour, and placed alongside the dock yard to receive a fresh supply of armour-plates for testing by the gun of the Stork gunboat. Three plates have arrived from the Elswick Ordnance Company, and two others are expected to arrive to day from France. The trial of these latter IE3 naturally looked forward to with much interest. Orders were received at Portsmouth yesterday for the Channel fleet, now lying at Spithead under the command of Rear Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., to sail at 1 p.m. to-day for Flushing to escort her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Den mark in the passage across from the Continent to England. In addition to the line-of-battle ships and other vessels which, in accordance with orders to that effect, are being prepared to join the flotilla to be stationed at tne Nore on the arrival of the squadron conveying her Royal Highness the Princess Alex andra, on the 7th proximo, orders have also been received at Chatham for four of the screw gunboats attached to the steam reserve in the Medway to take part in the display. The vessels composing the squadron will be the Formidable, 34, 2,289 tons, Capt. W. G. Luard, flagship of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.H., Commander in-Chief at the Nore ; the Cumberland, 70, 2,214 tons, Capt. T. P. Thompson, flagship of the steam reserve ; the Leander, 51, 2,760 tons, 400 horse power, attached to the first division of the Chatham steam reserve ; the Revenge; 73, 3,322 tons, 800 power, Capt. C. Fellowes, flagship of Rear- Admiral of the Red R. Smart, commanding the Channel fleet; the Warrior, 40, 6,109 tons, 1,260 -horse power, Capt the Hon. A. A. Cochrane; the Black Prince, 40, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse-power, Capt. J. F. B. Wainwright; the Resistance, 16, 3,710 tons, 600 horse p ower , C a pt. C. Chamberlain ; the Defence, 16, 3,720 tons, 600 horse power, Capt. A. Phillimore, and four gunboats. No orders have yet been received for the Wellesley, 72, Commander R. Studdert, training-ship at Chatham, to join the squadron, and as time and expense would have to be incurred in preparing her for the service it is not probable that she will take any part in the naval display. The Vigilant, 4, 250 horse power Commander Hobson, fitting for the East Indies, will be ready to leave the Medway on Tuesday next, when she is ordered to proceed round to the Thames, to join the Racoon, 22, 400 horse power, Capt. the Count Victor Gleichen. The whole of the State barges, gigs, shallops, and other boats belonging to the Admiralty are to be placed in store at Deptford dockyard, an d not a t Sheerness, as previously ordered. service, placed The 50-gun sailing frigates, and other vessels ordered to be fitted at Chathaanniy are, it appears, not to faorrmspameceianit on which they will be employed . OR board, and will only h h a e v required e fo fe r r th a e b s e e u r t vi l c B e It i s probable that they will be used theil months. the transport service. The vessels selected to be fitted are the Nankin, 60 ; the Worcester, Chichester, 50 ; the Isis, 27 ; and the Diamond ' , 27. Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., will on Monday next succeed Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Henry William Bruce, K.C.13., as Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. We regret to hear that Viee-Admiral Sir H. W. Bruce is still , suffering from severe indisposition. An Admiralty order has been received at Chatham directing that every person in the Gov..rnment em ploy is to have a holiday on March 10, and that the whole of the public establishments are to be closed. The entrance-gates of the dockyards, Royal Marine \ barracks, and naval hospitals are to be illuminated in the evening. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal Commanding•in-Chief, held a levee yesterday at the Horse Guards, It was attended by nearly 200 officers. A considerable number of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers, having completed their course of surveying, topographi cal, an I school in struction, an order has b een IgehnatthCat o m, d b i e recti selectedng a number to be received at the h ead- q uarters of the R oyal Engi neeroft h e ni es tablishment, ost i ntell employed on the Ordnance Survey. The 7th (Capt. Sim's) company of Royal - Engineers will pro ceed from headquarters to Dover , during next week, to be employed on the fortifications the coast. As the work on at that part of be employed will h we principallywhich the . company will mining, the non commissioned officers and men of various trades transferred to the 7th company, on its arrival from Nova Scotia, ' are again tojoin: their former com panies. THE SUN, LONDON, FIiIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1863. ART UNION OF LONDON.—Subscription, One Guinea.—Prizeholders select from the Public Ex hibitions. Every subscriber has a chance of a valuable prize, and in addition receives an Impression of a Line Engraving by H. C. Shenton and C. H. Jeeps, from the original picture by T. F. Dicksee, " A Labour of Love," together with a set of sixteen designs in outline, by P. Priolo, illustrating Tenny son's poem, Idylls of the Kings," now ready for delivery. GEORGE GODWIN, ) Hon. 5 LEWIS POCOCK, Secs. 444, West Strand, Feb. L EGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 10, Fleet-street, London. 26th February, 1863. The members of this Society are requested to take notice that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will ne held at the Office of the Society, at One o'clock precisely, on i UES DA , the 17th day of March next, when the vacancies then to be created, by four of the Directors and two of the Auditors retiring in rotation, will be filled up. The Directors and Auditors thus going out are eligible for immediate re-election. By order of the Board, JOHN NETTLE PON, Secretary. CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. London, 27th February, 1863. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the ANNUAL GENERAL COURT, and also that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT, will be held at the Society's House, No. 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on SATURDAY, the 21st day of March, at Two o'clock precisely, for the following purposes : ORDINARY GENERAL COURT. To receive the Auditors' Report of the Receipts and Dis bursements of the Society during the year 1862, and to eiect Auditors for the present year. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT. To consider a proposed amendment of the Article 82* of the Deed of Se ,tlement, by which the Directors will be em powered to grant Assurances to the extent of £lO,OOO, and, if approved of, to pass a Resolution to that effect. As the Resolutions of the Extraordinary General Court will require confirmation, so Saturday, the 28th March, is ap pointed for that purpose, at Two o'clock precisely. By order of the Board of Directors, ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. _ * Article 82.—That no Assuranee shall be granted by the Society, on the same Life or Lives, for more than the sum of Five Thousand Pounds. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINT() FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. James TuHoch, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. . . 1 Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq. T hos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In surers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the A mount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in rash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Liie Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, ndependent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at moderate rates. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Premium is required for service therein. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re ceived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge or Policy Stamps. _ Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIITS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. John Garrett Cattley,_ Esq. Chas. Jno, Manning, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrineton Smith, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Pobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.. William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL Sotax, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.— file usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured—: Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALE The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., 55. 6d., 108. ed., and 218. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s wigs, £1 10$. HOSPITALS, ON PRIVY COUNCIL* ACT SIGN, v. CHAPEL-WARDEN BOY EDW. VI. NOTICE.—In the stoppage. on Friday, of the Protestant 1 church service, by the life Montague trustee (sworn in as i of Geo. ll.'s Indian Carib College Hof Bermuda), being read I over, the assumed Lord-mayor, I, -aldermen. governors—as titular Roman Catholic O.S. Priors of the late Palace*Pry- ' ' Zone of King's-..?. sadly trinity : • Fish'ry data, Whence the following reasons, to clergy of St. Paul's, churchwarden oath-deputy of Irish Catholic Union Act, 1791, the Rev. E. HUDSON, and submitted to by Black-friars agent-presi dent Cope-land (under Julius 3's lannebrog Holstein Red - hat'd bishop's boy Edw. 6 on £-Exchange P*Grefham), for Elbe and Sound dues to Kt,—' which God forpid'est, Sles wig of May 's2—red-glove and turban of H. 4, cancelled, on 5 Eliz. 1, in 1832 Dutch Loan act, abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the same. I. That the re-seizin of ' Den-mark nesse life-copyhold of Rokesley, Mint-master's Bridewell Palace scite, as that of the House of Parliament to 1553-5, otherwise the aleet Court of the King's Custom-house fisc—built by the stone of ancient London wall and Baynard's rraiver castle—so " Sir Montfichet's lay-tower (monks of Blackfriars In Br idewell's fleet chapel,) Parleyment briar's' Thus, on the London stone Rib River-trust, requiring for Wotton validity, a re-set with Carib.&of the 13 Privy Council'rs sign—so prevent Chapel-warden a-privi-lege, of Blackfriar justices within the Verge-rod, attempted (H. 8, v. Catherine also, on Sir T, Moore.' Speaker') by Mr. Civil- Jus. Cardinal Wolsey, and Deputy-justice Campeggio, last Court Assumption, 21st June, 1529, on Sir Francis Bry an ' s g rant, 1547, in Brandon Estate, till 1825, X set over the Brazil'd Calvin-Swiss 1557 Cmsar-bishops of Peru. 2. That the Eau dspital of Christchurch and Bridewell's pry-zone of the C-L'arc-en-well fileet-court (late under the Swan -hopping fishmonger's 1536-grant) in ' super alt'm mare' now under poor-law audit data 25th March and 29th I September broad R 4 declination of the Polar Star—could not be admitted since the Lord M a yor Con s ervancy of the I river Thames had ceased, on Ed. 3's Mortimer-heir settle ment of the Crown-rota king as of England's meter. 3. That on withhold'ng the parish gown there can be no church rate imposition—So prevent like violation of the LVIII. canon induction truce, by the Rev. E. Walker, at Cheltenham—thro' his assumed i.e., churchwarden-take of Ch - h rood-acre—as the Prior Thames-7-font of the parish p a. c Evesham & Atkyns to Sic T. Chamberlayne, of ... resbury,duty keys, robe and rope, on 19th Feb., by seizing Cirencester's Lantheny Severn rie-trust' ' ' was absolved from le ( n see 8t h , an d(ss ) S soE Sun of yesterday) —saving HIS specia 1 by ) Car teretmoving Calendar' 1582-86-97-1603- 1 7 21 Mo nta g ue 19.58 are not s New-st le earthy ' of the Sky pry-zone year repugnant to the holy scripture . .. food, by 1824 Eliz, e a s s' t the C I:: p o e n, ' s Gregory of u.onif a ce 12 , for Common law-replenish of River-bailiff Act, in 5-6 W. 4, c, 63, the State meter Act, for Leet Crt. Jurats Ova Fishery-park in O.style plant. Note,--4. Stuart Wortley, M.P., is not a Mon ta g ue, but a Sidney Wortley-Newcomen, of illegitimate line, hang-on to the It, c. h priors, 20th Feb. at Itadley's hotel. So Bute's Rothsay Sir C. Stuart (Hobart ni/Edg c umbe Foster) yield up to undersigned 1825-Brazils Cwsar, Imp. Pedro Ist, as Edw. In.'s Gass - grandchild M Vmer's offspring in Anne or i Crown -heir trust of the 's * death, of Hen. 4th s i s t er Eliza. people, on . Richard 2 , Holland.--m A.P '' : :.. • (Eel-king signed) CHARLES ' ' A OKERLEY, J. P. Born, 'Montague Ed me. IT'S i brother J. gf i u o re Atkyns 4 Chamberlay , ne of No. 54 in Eyeeham's Plant a a nd's Sty-voice, in 1-2 W. 4, fish trust 14 J. i . exemv. - genestella o.S.—pollen-food peeral Prior --all H. 8 ,1 :, u ell 1 774-1837—as of itt3 late Ist through" trustees' privy councillors being nullified daughters intermarriage, one, as Geo. 3's Copenhagen-Fetter ge, save this life ! Hobart Vere Foster, as England's page, May 1814, before Denmark. II PETER BASQUET, England's Carib Ind. Chief of 1842-3 ae Admiralty Red flag Chain-b earer , e l ect 22 , the State 1584 Don Quixote and San o yrs. no pay on hc Panay cruelty, London-notice, February 21,1863. once mighty army of the Potomac peaks and pines like a ricketty child. It has ceased to inspire hops in its friends or terror in its foes; and will, accord ing to all present appearances, be sent for change of air and scene to North Carolina, and lose the dis tinctive appellation by which it acquired renown under the guidance of M'Clellan. This is a gloomy picture, and by no means overcharged with dark colours. A few days, however, may throw a little sunshine into the foreground. If Charleston be impregnable, Savannah may be vulnerable. The Mississippi may be coaxed into the canal which en- gineering science is digging out for it, and float the gunboats of the North to the other side of Vicks burg ; and, if the army of the Potomac should abandon " the sacred soil" of Virginia, General Rosecrans and Joseph Johnson may again come to blows in Tennessee, and fight a battle less indeci sive than that of Murfreesborough. In the meanwhile, although Mr. Seward may know or care to know nothing of the circumstance, offers of mediation and rumours of peace are on all men's tongues, and stir up the combativeness of parties and politicians in all the Federal States ; there are unpleasant symptoms in the West and North-West - which betoken that the enthusiasm of the people of those regions for the war and the Union has cooled down ; that no more volunteers can be had for love or money ; that no forced men can be draughted under tlie penalty of a new secession; and that, in fact, the great West is seriously debat ing whether it will not cast in its fortunes with th South. There is no stability anywhere. The poli tical pattern shifts from day to day, and is unsteady as the reduplications of a kaleidescope. The West is all alive with perilous discontent, and New York, which was once proud to call itself the Empire State, and to govern all the rest by the influence of its opinion, makes no sign. Its leading men are timid. Its Legislature is so evenly balanced between the rival factions that it can no longer speak with the ancient authority. Its great merchants and bankers hold aloof, uncertain what to do or what to think. Its triumphant democracy content themselves with disparaging the judgment and the honesty of the President, and of everybody about him, with complaining of the war, the taxes, the currency, the prospects of the country, and of all that the Government has done or left undone. Professing a great love for the Union, a great de testation of emancipation without the consent of the Slave States, and a bloody-minded determina tion to fight out the fight to what they call the " bitter end," they act as if their professions were all insincere, and as if they had set their hearts upon peace and a compromise, without daring to take the measures to hasten or secure the end which they desire. Perhaps, however, the day is not re mote when New York will be forced to declare itself with more distinctness, and when the dumb patriot ism of the people will find a voice sufficiently power ful to be heard above the roar of faction. A serious crisis is too palpably approaching to permit any one to doubt that the most stirring events of the war must occur during the next three months. The great question of an army or no army will have to be decided during that interval. On the Ist of June at least one-half of the existing military force of the -Republic will have ceased to exist by the expiration of the term of enlistment of the volunteers who en- gaged themselves for two years and of those who engaged for nine months. If these men will not re enlist, what is to be done ? Will the President, by a coup d'etat, seek to compel them to remain in the service P And, if so, what will be their fighting value ? Will he again try the potency of bounty money to induce Irishmen and Germans to lend their aid to the cause of free institutions in the North and of subjugation in the South P He may ; but are the men to be found ? And does not the very flower of the Irish and German immigration lie baried in the bloody battle fields of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Murfreesborough, and other Gol gothas of this merciless contest ? Or will he imitate the example of the Southern President, and resort to a conscription ? He may, no doubt; but, if he do, he may drive out of the Union not only the Border Slave States, but the great Prairie States of Indiana, Illinois, and lowa per- haps even New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Or will he rely upon " God and the Negroes," as Mr. Ward Beecher and Mr. Wendell Phillips recommend? The Negroes, if Mr. Frederick Douglass speaks their sentiments, will not lend the aid of their strong arms except upon► terms which the white race would reject with scorn and indigna tion. They are besides so few in numb:tr as to be incapable of rendering any real assistance. Look where he will, the President can find small comfort. The task set him is superhuman. There seems but one chance left—to call a general convention of the American people, and leave in their hands the issues which are beyond his control. The Constitu tion not only warrants, but commands such a course of action, and it will hereafter be considered a crime in Mr_ Lincoln by the world's judgment and that of history that he did not at an earlier period of the struggle remove the responsibility of blood shed from his own weak shoulders to those of the whole people that were better able to bear it. It was Mr. Lincoln's clear duty to have inaugu rated this movement. But it has been taken out of his hands. Those who from their position ought to be the leaders have, like him, suffered inferior agencies to perform their work. Even the great State of New York, as already observed, has allowed the lead in the efforts to procure an armistice and a convention to be taken by . States of less importance than herself. New Jersey, which is thoroughly De• mocratic, and has both a Democratic Governor and a Legislature, was the first to move, and has been rapidly followed by Illinois and Indiana, the people of which have done much of the fighting and suffered most of the real hardships of the war, and have not profited by war contracts like the Eastern and Atlantic States. New York, New England, and Pennsylvania have fought by deputy. Their trade and commerce have not been ruined, and many branches of both have actu ally been increased in consequence of the war ex= penditure ; but the Western States have not only given the life blood of their eons, but seen their fertile fields rendered useless, except for bare sub sistence, by the stoppage of the Mississippi and the utter destruction of their once profitable trade with the South. When these States speak Peace they mean Peace. New York and the Middle States are more quiescent because more prosperous. They love the Union so much that they would, if possible, restore it by unqualified submission to the South in the matter of slavery. They look upon the Pre sident's Emancipation policy as both a blunder and a crime. But, although some of their leading Demo crats talk of fighting to the last extremity, many of them would much rather dissolve the Union with out another battle, in the hope and expectation that the South might, under proper Democratic mani pulation, become the nucleus of a new Republic, which might include New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, as well as the Border Slave States, and they talk of war without caring to carry it on in the mode of President Lincoln, or by the agen cies of the party that elected him. In the North- Western States the Democratic party takes a more practical and intelligible as well as more honest • course. They do not say with Mr. J. Van Buron and other New York Democrats that the war must go on, butinsist that it must stop. New Jersey has appointed Commissioners to proceed to Richmond, if the Government will grant permission, to invite the Southern States to send delegates to meet those of the Northern States in a Grand National Conven tion to discuss the state of the country. The Le gislature of Illinois has also appointed Commis sioners to confer with the delegates appointed by other States to meet at Louisville, in Kentucky, in March, and has adjourned without the transaction of its ordinary business until June, when it proposes to reassemble to hear the report. In the Indiana Legislature the peace resolutions propose Nashville, in Tennessee, as the place of meeting ; but if there solutions be adopted, as appears probable, Louisville will be substituted for Nashville to secure the neces sary unity and harmony of action. The Assembly of Kentucky has appointed nine Commissioners , six from the House of Representatives, and three from the Senate, to meet the Commissioners of the other States at Louisville, and has invited New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri, as well as In,d r t n t a es are Illinois, to co-operate. The New Engla.na Dr not included in the invitation; but sit:rsiN the project widens, that all the Stat urgency no lest ° la s e s e ' a a what the case demaLds, a repre sented,ouisvi l a e n , dotehraetw, ilwill instead bs: ofa partial th e Convention at than the justice and mereyewo general Convention at N the party York,. Philad L e i l n p e h o i l a n , w it e a r lt e im op o e r n e, to I any: ash other ngt°a adviceor. Sl. thanui Louis. that t of M r : which trusts to emancipation. of the negroes as the sole cure for th e fri g htful evils of the nation, he would seize the opportunity which these movements present to act upon the advice tendered in the reso lutions that are now lying for consideration in the Indiana House of Representatives. They state that it is the imperative duty of the chief Executive of the nation to proclaim an armistice in order that a Convention of all the States may be held. There has been more than enough of useless bloodshed. The bravery of both sides has been sufficiently shown. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Tina Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Feb. 13. A personal difficulty has suddenly arisen between M. Mercier, the able and accomplished representa tive of the Emperor of the French, and Mr. Seward, which will probably lead to the withdrawal of the former from a post which he has filled with distin guished ability. In a despatch to M. Thouvenel, dated the 13th of April, 1862, recently published in the Livre Janne of the French Government, and which arrived in this country by the last steamer, M. Mercier states distinctly that he visited Rich mond with the thorough acquiescence of Mr. Se ward, and " almost, as it seemed, in compliance with his desire." He details the conversation he held with Mr. Seward preliminary to his departure. One of them was to the effect "that if any overtures were made to him (M. Mercier) relative to the re cognition of the Southern Confederacy, he should answer that it ought to be understood that in his position he could only speak of the restoration of the Union ; that in the disposition in which the popula tion of the North seemed to be, recognition would not decide the Federal Government to raise the blockade; that for us (the French) peace was the only prayer we could form ; and that we should be consequently disposed to do all which depended on us in order that it might be made as BOOR as possible in the convenience of both parties." In the last paragraph but one of the despatch M. Mercier records :—" It was understood besides that I should report to Mr. Seward only what I was authorized to repeat to him. Mr. Seward said to me that I might add, if I found an opportune occasion, that in his opinion the North was animated by no sentiment of vengeance, and that for himself he should, with pleasure, find himself again in the Senate in the presence of all those whom the South thought fit to send thither." No sooner was this document pub lished in Washington than a violent outcry against Mr. Seward was raised by the Republican and Abo litionist party. A secret meeting was held to demand his removal from office, and on Monday last, the 9th inst., a resolution was passed by the Senate calling upon the President, if not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate the character of the suggestions made by Mr. Seward to M. Mercier, and what representations, if any, M. Mercier was authorised to make at Richmond on the part of the Federal Government, or of the Secretary of State. Taking for granted that M. Mercier's despatch was substantially and verbally correct, there was nothing in it which Mr. Seward should have been ashamed to avow. Mr. Seward was not not represented as en couraging the idea of disunion. He held oat no pro spects of success to the Confederates. He only said what was quite consistent with true patriotism, as well as discretion—that the North entertained no vengeance, and that he, for one, would be glad if the South would once again send its senators to Washington. There was no treason in this—nothing, in fact, but the kindest and best feeling. But the Re publican senators seemed to think there was ; and Mr. Seward, unfortunately for his reputation, seemed to be of the same opinion. In a communication to the Senate the day before yesterday, he endeavoured to put himself right, when he had not been wrong, and did it in a manner that must render it difficult, if not impossible, for M. Mercier ever again to hold official or personal intercourse with him. He stated point blank that " no suggestions were made to M. Mercier by the Secretary of State that induced or were designed or calculated to induce him to un dertake a mission to Richmond in April last, or any other time. He (M. Mercier) was not then, nor has he, nor any other person, ever been authorised by this Government, or by the Secretary of State, to make any representations of any kind to the insur rectionary agents or so-called authorities at Rich mond, or to hold any communication with them on behalf of this Government." Mr. Seward over stated his case, and protested too much in this passage, but, not contented with a denial which virtually accused a high-minded gentleman of stating "that which was not," he went on to say that since the 4th of March, 1861, " no communi cation, direct or indirect, formal or informal, had been held by the Government, or by the Secre taryi of State, with the nsurgents, their eiders, or abettors." it is difficult to see how M. Mercier can remain longer in 'Washington as the representative of France, if Mr. Seward is allowed to continue in office with apology or explanation. Some of Mr. Seward's friends, desirou._ at finding a loophole of escape, suggests that, as he speaks no French, he may have misunderstood M. Mercier's English, or that M. Mercier (who speaks very good English) may not have correctly interpreted Mr. Seward's meaning. If this be a true explanation it is a pity that Mr. Seward did not himself think of it before rushing into print with so astounding and offensive a denial. But Mr. Seward is too clever by half, and alto gether too zealous for a diplomatist. On the 6th inst., as soon as intelligence arrived of the new pro• posal made on the part of the Emperor of the French, he sat down to his desk and penned a long and elaborate letter to Mr. Dayton, the United States' Ambassador at Paris, which is published in extenso in all the New York and Washington papers of this morning. He refuses in the most peremp tory manner the proposals of any conference or me diation whatever, in a tone of defiance which gives the utmost delight to the war party. The Now York Times, which has not hitherto been found in the ranks of Mr. Seward's admirers, says, " It is the old pristine Americanism which we hear; the same proud tone that used so signally to m urk this as a its honour." conscious of its strength and je alous of honour." It is a question, however, whether the de fiance accords with the public feeling, and f whether the Secretary is not a little too American or t o oc casion. Someof the arguments by which he supports his conclusions are sound, while others are mere puerilities ; and the whole document is of akind that might be more reasonably expected from an advocate than from a s tatesman and diplomatist. He scarcely comes up to the idea of the New York Times in the matter of conscious power when he refuses mediation on the ground that if the possi bility of disunion were admitted the quick result would be ever increasing anarchy ; nor does he alto gether do justice to history when he speaks of the constitution of the United States as a " sacred in strument." It has certainly not been sacred to him or to Mr. Lincoln, for both of them have trodden it under foot. Though in this very letter he constantly uses the words North and South to designate the belligerents, he lectures M. Drouyn de Lhuys, through Mr. Dayton, for the employment of those identical terms. " I must be allowed," he says, "to state that M. Drouyn de Lhuys errs in his descrip tion of the parties to the present conflict, We have here, in a political sense, no North, no South ; no Northern, no Southern States. We have an insur rectionary party which is located upon and is chiefly adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico." Surely this is the merest trifling—unworthy even of an ultra-casuist. When, in aaotherpaseage of the letter, Mr. Dayton shall learn, on Mr. Seward's authority, "that not one voice has been raised anywhere out of the im mediate field of the insurrection in favour of foreign intervention, or mediation or abitration, or compro mise with the relinquishment of one acre of the national domain or the surrender of even one con stitutional franchise"—Mr. Dayton may well ask himself—supposing always that he receives the newspapers of his own country—whether Mr. Se- ward knows anything of what has recently passed or is now passing in the Legislatures of New Jer sey, Illinois, and Indiana, wh ere compro mise are not only openly peace and debated but vigorously recommended. When Mr. Seward makes an asser tion of this kind he adds another reason to those which may already have existed in the minds of im partial readers of his reply to M. Mercier for be lieving that in the statement of the particular facts in dispute M. Mercier was wholly right, and the forgetful, careless, or inaccurate Secretary as wholly wrong. While the war of words is raging with a vehe mence which threatens to grow wilder as the diffi culties of the Republic increase, the war of deeds languishes at sea, on the rivers and in the field. Charleston is more formidably protected than was imagined. The force sent against it has been in adequate. General Hunter and Foster have quar relled on a question of precedency and authority, and the latter, having disembarked his troops on St. Helena Island, has left General Hunter in posses sion, and returned to -Washington to detail his grievances and demand fresh instructions. On the Mississippi General Banks makes no progress against Port Hudson. He has net men enough to risk a battle, and while his army is day by day de creasing, that of the enemy is augmenting, until it has become a question with the Confederates whether they shall not assume the offensive, and walk right over General Banks into New Orleans. At Vicksburg the whole fortun e of the war hangs upon the success of the (t me , that is to divert the Channel of the Mississippi. The work makes slow progress, and has not been attended with anything like the results anticipated. Awaiting it s comple tion, military operations are po s tp one d, and "the father of waters" remains impenetrably closed. In Tennessee General Rosecrans reposes on the laurels ook the of Murfroosborough,while.on tbiv Rappahann BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK OF BEAUTY. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d.