The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-21 00:00:00

ll classes her, the ted ruler r himself o honour ble lord's evasion. f) have a ) ", , trnish xpo c t to , ifetiutu - ity ; one a a mans ce whelk. but con ; foolish, d excite touching can but ?assessed tainable of what erve and of the thy with no one istry are country, L tive re v decry,. oble to )13 chose years • a couni as rare, a as the) ) cannot nination , at popU us ; and )3 , which he good to them inct an d in cele 7hicb the holiday ce of both v demand, lour met a except for I was still is and oat d. Beans es must be teady. ill lid 1 Od 1 —d 3d to 45 6d 9d to 3b 0 er sack. .5(1 to 60 60 to 7d •6#d to7u• a. 36 stone• 34s per qr• 5 to —s per 3 week, end ? ill trams& Laica. iarket. :nd. d• • ,15 6 • 5 6 16 3 • 15 15 00l l6 3 13 . 17 ° 17 3 15 13 6 13 6 14 9 . 16 9 ..Mar. 21. ..Mar. 16. ..Mar. 6. . Mar. 3. >n.Mar. 4. ..Feb '27 ..Mar. 6. ..Feb. 25. i.. Mar. 4 ...Feb. 27. ..Feb. 2 5 , ..Feb. 20• Mar. 6 .. Feb. 26. .. Feb, 4 .:0 , ..Mar. 7 ::Feb. 26 4•• [et.Feb. 20• Mar. W. ..Mar. 12 ..Feb. 28. Feb. 28 sat ball at ligence that al, had br , els lately on re• FARES.' by the pro- in the sam e Etailway, th e Lford-stree t, 4 being re' Ann-bridge, t BANIC.-"" arged with ought up at era gave hl° his refusal to duced as t° he prisoner ° r possession/ n published' Potter, we re i which the manded inary Cure Ir. J. Web b rin, Irela nd ' ' le had beell matic cough to subject to with heil.fl ectio fit. fession witir 1, and fruit' ienda, till be end resolved' them a OW* red hue. ead, the wife 1. 3, the wife of 3s-street, 010 ion. Mrs. saint Jobn' ° ' est son of I' ray, to Sarta l C. R. Clar-ef t., at Sal° eldest 0013 1, Norfolk , liodgsol Bonner•'r~~~' • ArLustronv rrace 1 - 1 9 ; yer' Witheridget Vicarage,lit 0 n-street, Clf 're bla lferri do;vne'PlAcel idence, Mill' •9 age d 7°' sot les PYrene vaS , '' AND No , 1.1 ti I n the CO• - ~u PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Established 184 ). The 22d Ann ua l Ge nera l M ee ti ng o f thi s Association was held on Wednesday, the 4th February, 1863. The Income for the year 1862 was.... T he Accumulated Fund £50,135 0 0 197,400 0 0 The Report and Balance-sheet may be had on application to th e A E.C. gerats, or at the Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street February 5, 1863. ITS.I. THOS. LINFORD , Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissar at Office, Alderslintt, February 19, 1853. TENDERS will he ceived at this Office, until Ir „ Noon on the 7th March next, from parties who may be "v 4. 0 en er into ONTRACTS for the SUPPLY of and LI G HT; eon - istinz of coals, coke, wood, com rsite in such quantities as may be required o r , and dip candles, `"e use of her Majesty's Forces and Military Departments at Alder,hott CamP, for one year, from the Ist April, 1863. forms o f tender and conditions of contract may be obtained ,aPpli c ation at this office; and no tender will he noticed un'ess made en such prescribed form, and delivered at this Office by the hour appointed. ITENRY B. MORSE', Deputy Commissary-General. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, A'dershott, February 19, 1863. TENDERS will he received nt this Office, until Noon on the 7th March next, from parties who may be wil bag' to enter into CONTRACT for the SUPPLY of HOUSE COALS (W•ll's-end), in such qua ,, tities as may be required, for ne yt ar, from the Ist prii, 1863, for the use of the Royal Military College, San burst. Forms of tender and conditions of con , rac t may be obtained on application at this office : and no tender will be noticed unless made on such prescribed form, and delivered at this office by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORS le, Deputy Commissary-General. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat office, Aldershott, February 19, 1t.63. TENDERS will he received 14....thioagaop,,„.watil" willing Noon on the 7th M arc h nex t , f rom par ti es w h o may be to enter into CONTRACT,' for the SUPPLY of COAL, (such as that known as Newport Sm iiis , in such Quantities as may be r e q u i re d, f or one year, from the let April, 1863, for the use of the Water Works at B,urley, near Aldershot'. Forms of tender and conditions of contract may be obtained on a , plication at th's office; and no tender will be noticed " l ess made on such prescribed form, and delivered at this office by the hour appo in t e d. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR, THIS DAY, At 2s, ed. each Person. SOUPS. Purée of Peas. Au Macaroni. FISH Soles Maitre D'Hotel. Fried Whitings. ENTREES. Haricot of Ox Tails. Chicten Patties. JOINTS. - Boiled Legs of Mutton. Beast Beef. Potatoes ala Lyonnaise. Choux Flom au Beurre. SWEETS. Muffin Puddings. Jam Tartlets. Cheese and Salad. TO-MORROW (SUNDAY) THE LONDON DINNER, At 2s. 6d. each Person. SOUPS. A la Regence. Printanier. FISH. Turbot, Sauce Hollan also. ENTREES. bintton Cutlets a L'ltalienne. Rissoles aux Salpicons. JOINTS. Sirlins ofeef. s of Mutton. traricots Blanca o Maitre ß Saddle D'HoteL Choux Fleurs ala Came. swv Black Cap Puddings.E TB. Swiss Pastry. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carelully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MO , ELLE, and other WINES, ex pressly for The Lond on Pi nner. imported THE LONDON, 191, FLEET-STREET. • Fried Smelts. . „ CANT ERBITR V HALL . canto Last Week of the Third Edition of the renowned m mio Ente r t a i nmen t , THE ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, so ely sustained by F. Marshall (per formed with immense success upwards of fifty nights!, at b all -past nine o'clock. ken Th e in Comic by Unsworth, the modern Demosthenes ; Eu his burlesque songs and dances ; Frank Hall, Arthur Lloyd, and Miss Laura Sanders. GRAND OPERATIC SELECTIONS, conducted by Mr. " g ht nalls• Principal Artiste—Miss Russell. T H EO X F 0 6, OXFORD STREET. THIS EVENING, First Night of the Cantata, by H. W. R Lutz, Esq., " HERNE THE HUNTER," 81 IPPOrted by Miss Russell, Miss Tow , ley, Mr. Bernardi, and Mr. Albert, with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. All the varied Musical and Comic attractions as usual. THE PRINCE of WALES' MARRIAGE will be celebrated »t the LONDON PAVILION by a MONSTRE ENTERTAINMENT on the Evening of TUESDAY, the 10th of' March. Each visitor will be presented with A HANDSOME SOUVENIR in commemoration of the auspiekossevent4-emml-ro.axpense Or"xertion will be spared- to characterise the proceedings with that loyalty due to the occasion of the nuptials of Eng land's future King, The London Pavilion, Tichbourne-street. MJULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. • EVERY EVENING at the A RGYLL ROOMS. Great Success.—See opinions of the Press. Conductor—Mons. JULLIE v. The celebrated Cornet-a-I iston, Mr. J. LEVY, Will play at intervals from 9 to 12 o'clock. _ l Te -oncert, composed of Classic 1 Music from the GREAT AhsTERS, Will terminate at a quarter-past Ten, and the Dance rausic at five minutes to Twelve. Promenade, Is.—Re , erved seats, 2s. Doors open at Eight o'clock Manager, Mons. GRENET. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innu merable superbly executed Models, illustrating every ci the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. open daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlem n only). Ad mission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-str ee t, Han don, W o yer-sonare ' and 41A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon- Explanatory Lecture every Afternoon at Four. Mus trated and Desor iptlye Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. MOORE BROTHERS' TEAS. Choice SOUCHI MT, recommended 3s. 9d. per tb. suitable for superior purposes, full rich Souchong flavour. Mixed ASSAM. ' ighly recommended 4q cd per lb. of very choice quality, and the cheapest Tea sold. ld per lb. deduction on 20Th. Bags and 451,. Chests. Prospectus free. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bride, City, E.C. T.UXURTANT WHISKERS, M .....mistanhep, and 1 Evebrovrs produced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unta , linz in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the moat sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its ia talltble power. I'rice 38. 6d.. . 6d., 108. i , d., stamps.—Thomas and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of po i d ame Ell lott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fen church-street. T. E.'s Wigs, £1 10s. OS TE O EI D O bi t Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 580. GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEEM and FLEXIBLE GEMS, without palates, sErings, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a 1 ne tinie, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and A RTICULATIO even when all others fail. Purest ma terials only, at half the usual oat. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, H ARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DIM r -STREET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 guineas. One visit only required from country patients. Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. Consultations free. TEETH. -By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th •luly, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few 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, dispensing with springs or unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by the closest observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention Is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed tk last a life time, as w(11 as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESKELL'6 TREATISE, which fully explains hisinvention, post free for seven stamps.—lnspecti , ,n of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate. --8, Grosvenor at eet, Bond-street, London ; and an, Bennett'a-hill, Bir tninOtam. RHEIIMATIS3I, CHILBLAINS, &C. COLES'S ALGA ------- MARINA is the on l y reall v -__ CONCENTRATED Essence of the Sea-weed It is daily Vcreasing in celebrity as a remedy for all kinds of Rheuma- Tx, whether Acute or Ch! ic, immediately relieving the P o n and sp edfly curing the disease. It is the best remedy s e „nrd_n , al Affections, Coitractions, Weakness of the Limb., . ''' ll us we.' inzs, and all those 2ffections for which the ...ee_Aai-aide is also AN ADMIRABLE APPLI CATION P:bwl v cs ou e a ~ originalprepara b ' a sking f "COLE S S ALGA MA RIN A,' each : itet h ld b ful to obtain the , or r o „ cases is enveloped . Sold in and Testimonials, without which none is genuine. in a Pamphlet containing flume -79 sbottles2s. 911 4s ~ t. 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A Sinute Truss, 165., 215., 265. M., and 31 s. 6 d. Postage, Is. N boubla Truss, 31s. 6d., 42e., and 525. 6d. Postage, le Bd. /In Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Post age, Is. 10d. P ost -office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post °Mee. Piccadilly. NEW PATENT FAST IC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CA PS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of he Legs, Sprains, en. They are porous, fight in texture, aid inexpensive, and are drawn on, lire an ordinary stocking. Price 48. 6d., 78. 6d., 108., to 16e. elkrb. Postage 6d. Joßki WHITS, 51anufsaturer, 228, Piondlll7. N°. 22,043 rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1863. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ST. L A V E'S. "'St. Olave's ' belongs to a lofty orderof fiction. It is a good novel, but it is something more ; many a reader will draw from it lessons that are not to be forgotten like a tale that is tuld, but remembered as wholesome counsel and good words. It is written with unfl4gging ability, and it is as even as it is clever. The author has determined to do nothing short of the best.and has succeeded."—Post. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street lowing news of the state of affairs at Vicksburg : " Our forces at Vicksburg are now engaged in repairing the crevasses of last fall to keep the water out of camp. The water in the old canal is six feet deep, but doing little execution. The rebel force at Vicksburg is estimated at 60,000. It is believed that this is the largest number that can be brought to its defence. A thousand negroes will be sent from Memphis to work on the canal." The Jackson Appeal has the following telegram: " Vicksburg, Jan. 23. " The enemy has been landing troops from his transports below Young's Point all day, and some 20 boats are now lying a mile and a half above the mouth of the canal. Troops can be seen from the city, and tents and camp fires are also visible this afternoon. Occasional shells have been thrown from our batteries during the day." The special correspondent of the New York World, writing from New Orleans, Jan. 28, says the expe dition to Port Hudson is likely to be delayed and its success endangered by the weak ness of the naval arm of the service. A Havannah despatch of3en. 31, contains the following : Popular Edition, is., with Portra t, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LORD DUN DONALD (Lord Cochrane). " lore full of interest than one of M arryat's Novels." — Economist. . . Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE FARMER'S BAROMETER , 505., a new Instrumen',, by Tv egretti and Zambra, will cor rectly indicate whether the Ba-ometer falls for Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden ; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street. AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.-LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurabie. admirably allays the tickling which pro vokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes atter taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, Kin , William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13d., and three quantities in nne, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and ad dress is engraved on the stamp. " Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Rinaldo came in yesterday from Galveston. An extra of the Houston 7elegraph, January 23, gives an account of the capture of Sabine Pass, of the United States brig Morning Light (?), and a schooner (name un known) on the 21st inst., by an expedition of a part of the Magruder fleet under Major 0. M. Watkins. I copy two despatches from:the redoubt able major, which differ in the number of guns captured. Still another account gives 11 as the number. R OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). rATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Manazement have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the toasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have een instrumental in rescuing tae Crews of the follow ing Wrecked Vessels : "' Sabine Pass, Texas, on board C. S. Gun boat Bell, Jan. 21. Captain,—we met the enemy this morning in the Gulf of Mexico. We whipped them, and brought everything to Sabine Pass. I fought him 10 guns to our one. My officers and men behaved nobly. We have captured two vessels, one of them a full-rigged ship and the other a schooner, and 12 fine guns, medical stores, and ammunition in abund ance, together with 100 prisoners. lam here, Cap tain, awaiting further orders from the Major-Gene ral commanding. This commun , ic w at h io o n m w l il h l a b v e n se a n p t . artillery, in pointedyo u by C a a C I) Captain a i D n a n n f accordance with the orders of the Major-General commanding and assigned him to duty as Commander of Shellbank battery. Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose •• Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone •• Brig Pallas, of Shields .. • • • • Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • • • • Smack John Bultl, 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 Honour, of Cullercoats • • •• Schooner Elizs, of North Shields •• Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .• Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. • • Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .• . • • • Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. • • Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. Brig Ann, of Blyth •• • • •• Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. •• Barque Vermont, of Halifax, V.S. • • •• Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvort • • Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby • • •• Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis • • Steam Dredge, at Newhaven . • • • •• Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester . • Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee . • Schooner Rose, of Lynn .. • • •• Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .• • • •• Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough •• •• Brigantine Frets, of Konigsberg • • • • Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn • • Brig Gloucester, of South Shields •• • • .. 11 ig i v er y respectfully, " OSCAR M. WATKINS, Major and Acting ..A_dju tant-General, Commanding on Sabine. "' To Edmund P. Turner, Captain and Acting Adjutant-General. " (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, FEB. 6. The town was startled the day before yesterday by the news that a Con federa te ram andiron-clad had broken out of the harbour of Charleston, at tacked the blockading squadron, destroyed one or more of the wooden ships, and dispersed the whole fleet. Yesterday the additional news was received that a Confederate steamer had taken advantage of the precious moment to leave Charleston for Nassau and notify to the British Admiral on the West India station and to the numerous British ships that were waiting to run the blockade the important fact that the blockade had been raised by superior force. There was for some time a great and very general inclination to treat the news as a fabrication con cocted in Richmond to produce an effect in Europe ; but the details were too circumstantial, and the official documents that supported the truth of the story were too evidently authentic, to admit any reasotiable doubt bf its §ubstautisl same Richmond papers that reported the raising of the blockade also reported its re-establishment a few hours later, and it is now known that a large portion of the formidable fleet of iron-clads and gun boats under Admiral Dupont, forming the naval con tingent of Gen. Foster's expedition, have not only fully re-established the blockade, but are prepared to commence the biege of Charleston. Every moment may bring the intelligence that the ships haveopened fire, and that the fiercest, if not the most decisive, battle of the war hae commenced. No one anticipates Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1860 Total . • 1861. Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford Schooner Prospect, of Berwick Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing-boat of Whitburn • Brig Arethusa, of Blyth • • • , Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. • • , 0 0 t t Wh Liv i e te r h p a w yr Schooner William, of Morecambe . • Smack Gipsy, of Newry •• • • chooner Margaret Anne. of Preston E gA g oo N n e e w r W pra ill P ia e m r, •• Lugget•Nimrod,--of Cartletown Brig Providence, of Shields Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle • • Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. • • • • Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spirid one, of (4alaxid e • Schooner Voador do Vouga, of Plana .. French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese • . Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. • Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater .• Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover . • • • • • Ship Danube, of Belfast •• •• •• •• Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. • . • • Brig St. Michel, of Marans Spanish Barque Prixnera 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 (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) •• •• •• •• •• Barge Peace, of London Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft • • Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. • • Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen .. Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone • . • • Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, • on the Irish coast .. •• •• •• •• Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. • • • • _ _ Watr of Sunderland that a desperate resistance will not be made, though few of the many friends of the South in this city believe that the resistance will be availing, or that Charleston is not doomed to destruction. The press, the politicians, the lawyers, and the jurists, and all the idle crowd that discuss public matters in hotel lobbies and bar-rooms, are engaged in debating the law of blockade. The general im pression is that the blockade of Charleston is actu ally raised, and that, although it may have been almost immediately re-established, it is incumbent upon the Federal Government, if it would avoid oc casion of dispute with foreign Powers, to give due notice of the fact to all the maritime and neutral nations that have commercial intercourse with Ame rica. Should any British vessels from Nassau or else where presume on the strength of this being the law to run the new blockade, they will be warned away, and if they disobey the warning they will infallibly be captured. The question of the legality . of their seizure will have afterwards to b e decided before the Admiralty Courts of the United States. In the mean time the Administration at Washington has already given such instructions to its naval and military officers as, if successful, will render all further block ade of the offending city unnecessary, by its restora tion to the authority of the Federal Government. The army of the Potomac vents its discontent in and at the mud, while Gen. Hooker, with the pro verbial activity of a new broom, is reorganising its shattered ranks, and endeavouring to improve the discipline both of the officers and the men. General Banks is detained at Baton Rouge for want of me dical stores for the force that was ere this to have attacked Port Hudson. The story runs that in con sequence of the secrecy with which his expedition was arranged, and the ignorance of everybody but himself and Commodore Vanderbilt of its destina tion, the stores in question were sent to James River, on the authority of the chiefs of the medical depart ment, who had made up their minds, without con sultation with the War-office, that Richmond. and not New Orleans, would be the place where they would be needed. Gen. M'Clernand is engaged in digging the " cut," or canal, that is to enable him to flank Vicksburg with his gunboats, and the Con federates are as busily engaged in shelling his exca vators from the other bank of the Mississippi, while on both sides such preparations are made for the third siege and defence of Vicksburg as will make that place, whatever the result of the attack may be, one of the most memorable in all the history of the war. In other districts of the South and West the hostilities are of mincr importance, but betoken the constant vigilance as well as the growing ani mosities of both parties. While these great events are in progress, and the Federal Government sorely needs the million of men under arms the, it boasted but a month ago of pos sessing, to enable it to make head against the well managed hosts of the South, the fact has been at last admitted in Congress, on the high authority of the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, that no such army is in the field. I endeavoured to prove in my letter of the 23d of December that the numbers of the army were grossly exaggerated in the official statements of people in authority at Washington, and that instead of possessing a force of a million of men the Government, though it might issue rations and owe pay for a million, did not really possess much more than half that number. Mr. Stevens admitted three days ago that the army was reduced to half a million of men, and was de creasing; and furthermore made the melancholy confession noticed in my last, that it was not pos sible to raise 50,000 additional men by bounty money, or any men whatever by a forced conscrip tion. Under these circumstances the Negro Bill has been forced through Congress with akind of despondent hope that somehow or other the black man may save the Republic, as Mr, Beecher pro mised, but without any preliminary calculations of the existing number of the negro populations from which the supply of any considerable force of black combatants might be drawn. The Border States having been excluded from the operation of the Bill, lest the recruiting officers should be introduced to Judge Lynch by the indignant white populace, and swung from the nearest tree or lamp-post, the only States where negroes can b e en li s ted are in the North, and in such portions of the South as are occupied by Federal armies. It appears, how ever, by the census of 1860 that in all the Federal free States, inclusive of California, there are but 225,621 negrees, male and female, of all ages. As there is to be no force used, as the negroes must volunteer if they go at all, and are not offered bo u nty money like t he Irish and Germans, it be cornea interesting to know first what pPrveutage of .. .. 11 .. .. 10 Barque RObert .• atson, Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. • • • • Schooner Elias Anne, of Dublin • • • • • • Brig Content, of Sunderland Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan •• • • • • Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew) 4 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam • • • • 1°62. Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. .„ Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon • • •• S c hooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich • • Prig Minerva, of Workington •• .• •• Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6 B r ig Sisters, of % hitby .. .. •,, .. •• 9 B r igantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. .. .. 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields .• .. .. .. 10 S c hooner Liberty, of Dublin .. .. .. .. 3 Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel an . d . 7 .. . crew) • • • • • • Brig Trial, of Poole .. • . Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. Sloop William, of Liverpool .. :. .• Sloop q •• •• •• • . Bar ue Cruz, of Oporto • • Elizabeth, of Teignmouth .. .. .. 14 Barque Druid, of Sunderlan d .. 9 Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved ves arid crew) • • • • • • • • • . • • • Fishing Bwits of Wbitburn . • • • - - Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester • • •• 4 Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore, U. 5... §-°, seih h oo r op le e r ri qg f o e f f A L r iv br er o p a o t t v . Schooner Ell, Padstow .. •• •• • giltnoulh s e e f rburgh sumer Smack Mary John, of Eliza be th , T of Padstow .. .. 3 Schooner Osprey, 0 (saved es and crew) ... 18 i 2 Schooner James Davell, rra6 ves sel and crew) ... Newcastle . (saved •• • • Schooner Champion, of Liverpool Galiot Aremana, of Jaffa (assisted i( • ; save 2 vessel and crew) .. Ship James Browne, of Philadelphia (assisted to save vessel and crew) • •. 10 Smack Countess of Lisburne, of Aberystwith .. 3 Screw steamer Alice, of Leith Barque Brazil, of Liverpool .. .. .. 13 Schooner Little Aggie, of Berwick • • • • 4 Schooner Sisters, of Wick .. • • ~ „ 3 ..134 Total .. .• HOSPITALS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL , SIGN BY THE BOY EDWARD VI. NOTICE.—In the stoppage, yesterday, of the Protestant church service, by the life trustee (sworn in as Montague) —as of Geo. ll.'s Hospital College of Bermuda—having performed before the assumed City aldermen governors — the titular Roman Catholic O.S. t-riors of the late Palace *Pry-Zone of the Holy Trinity Fish'ry data. Whence the following reasons assigned for the same,_ to clergy of St. Paul's, churchwarden deputy th e R ev . E. HUDSON, and submitted to by the Black-friars agent, President Cope land, and others. under Julius 3 cap. grant to boy Ed. 6. 1. That the re-sezin of the life-copyhold of Rokesley, ofuit Cour t. Mint Master, scite of the Palace of Bridewell, as that of the ancient Councillors —suspended g o f f he v the House of Parliament to 1553, otherwise of the aleet ril l , ku fvi ilt by the stone King's i o d n i cl y oChfwe re-appointmentna ale Chancery srni assumption p e r e t r i o i t nnheet precinct—built l e f t i lie e (T l4- P r ri r vv e- A . Catherine and " Blackfriar Justices d within the Verge," as was s atte of mp th te e cl Jus. Cardinal Wolsne Sir d T D . e Moore' ru .. J S u p s e t a i c e k e r' e ) a by p e M g r g i . o C t i l v a i s l t -2nYlo'swtanJi un t t, 1521, on Sir Francis Bryan's C (ll ou .B rt v official grant, 1547, 2. That the Hospitalsnof the Brandon Estate. Christchurch and Bridewell Pry-Zone of afieet-court of the late under the fishmonger ' s :536-granterSwan-hopping charge mare' now under poor-lew audit daathl 'super alt'- mare' broad U. 4 declination of the Polar-arpt and 29th I not be admitted since the Conservancy of the river ar—could Thames 1 in the City arid all others had ceased. 3. That, as a like violation of the state time induction truce, by the Rev. E. Walker, at Cheltenham--in demand ing, through his assumed churchwarden-take the keys sad vestry gown—had taken place yesterday, in seizing the parish Church Rood-acre as the Prior successor, Sir Thomas Chatnberlayne, of Prestbury, Evesham and Atkyns Lanthony Severn-trust—was absolved from acting (see isun of yesterday)—Saving the special clause of 25 Henry Bth, and Q. Eliza. on Pope ' Gregorian new-style earth moving Calendar' 1682-86-97-1602-1721 by Montague Cartret, so far as the Canon (58) and Archbishops are not repugnant to the holy scripture of the sky prye-zone year for the common law-replenishment of river food by 1824 Act, in 5 6 W. 4, c. 63, the State•meter Act, for Leet Crt. Jurats Ova Fishery-park plant. Note.—James Stuart Wortley, M.P., is not a Montague, but a Wortley-Newcomers, of illegitimate line, with the hospital, *priors yesterday. A '-` •• ' • (Signed) CHARLES 'W ACKERLEY, J. P. Born, Montague *Cham berlayne, of Ric. it's 1-brother J. Holland's Sty voice, in 1-2 W. 4, No. 54 in Planta- genestella O.S. Evesham's —pollen-food fish trust 14 J. I. exemplified 1774-1836 as—its late Ist peeral Prior. PETER BA.SQUET, England's Carib Ind. Chief, of 1842-3, as i Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, elect 22 yrs, no pay, London-notiee, February 21,1863. " 1 ' 7 (Oil° ,s • „:. 3 V . , 1111111 . \N„ Ato, 4. 4 . 441 - ' • 411111.1. \ 4 OW' DIE IVA 1,1111,1 DROIT• • them are able-bodied males, tit, for war, and secondly what percentage out of that number will leave their present avocations to fight for pay, for love of the cause, or for the emancipation of their race. Grant ing that 1 in 7 is en able-bodied male of the fight ing age—from 17 or 18 to 45 or 50—there would be an available force of only 32,230 men, supposing that every one of these were willing to take up arms. If these, a comparative handful, are the forlorn hope of the republic, it is forlorn indeed. Mr. Beecher is the most sanguine, if not the most san guinary, of men, and Mr. Greeley is right in his opinion that the day is fast approaching when a further prosecution of the war will become impos sible by the defection as well as disheartenment of the Northern people. It is impossible for the most careless observer of passing events not to see that great discouragement has taken possession of the public mind, and tbat confidence in Mr. Lincoln and his Government is at the lowest ebb. No one knows where to look for hope, the only hope existing being that which ani mates the sordid bosoms of contractors, stock gamblers, and others who are making money by the war. Their hope is that no ill-omened words of peace, whether breathed by despairing Republicans or indignant Democrats, or insinuated by France or England, may have the least avail in calling toge ther a Grand National Convention of North and South, to debate the terms of compromise or con ciliation, or, if these be impossible, the boundary lines between the estranged but not necessary hos tile nations. In all other quarters the deepest gloom and anxiety prevails. Those who desire the restoration of the Union admit it to be hopeless under Mr. Lincoln's management, and those who think the South ought to be allowed to work out its own destiny in its own way, by its own appointed rulers, are equally hopeless that the result can be attained under the auspices of the Re publican party. Mr. Lincoln and his generals can neither conquer the South nor let it go. Mr. Wen dell Phillips advocates the hanging or banishment of every slaveholder—without exception—as the first preliminary to success in the restoration of the Union ; but as that ruthless decree could only be carried into effect after military success—which does not come and cannot be expected to come, with in efficient generals and a dispirited, demoralised, and rapidly decreasing army—the specific of Mr. Phil lips cannot be administered, for the all-sufficient reason that before you can either hang or banish 347,000 men and women, you must first catch them. And this is precisely what Mr. Phillips and Mr. Lincoln and the noble army of preachers on the one side and of soldiers on toe other have failed and are likely to fail in accomplishing, unless some new life and energy shall be infused into the soul of the North, and unless that public opinion which is now split and divided into warring sections shall be as firmly united as the spirit and opinion of the South. But of this there is no prospect. The slaveholders are safe from the truculent orator, even were Mr. Lincoln and the North disposed to act upon his ad vice, which they decidedly are not. The city and State of New York make no move ment either in favour of or adverse to the Adminis tration. A meeting advertised to be held, to give vent to the rapidly accumulating dissatisfaction of the public, has been indefinitely postponed, but the Chamber of . Commerce has spoken mildly out, in a series of resolutions which were yesterday proposed at a full meeting of that body, and agreed to by a large majority. While supporting the Government generally, and urging the prosecution of the war for the restoration of the Union, which it by nomeans admitted to be hopeless, the Chamber confessed the uselessness of disguising that there was wanting at this time that unanimity of sentiment which existed a year ago; that public confidence in the Adminis tration had been impaired, and that a feeling pre vailed that the war had been conducted on partisan principles to the injury of the public service. This gentle rebuke is, however, but the precursor of some plainer speaking, or the ordinary signs of the rising of the storm of public displeasure are not to be depended upon. The Chamber at the same sitting passed another resolution to the effect that it "heartily deprecated the attempt of sympa thisers with Secession or others to injure the credit of the United States by depreciating its notes below those of non-specie banks.' The Chamber is not so powerful as it thinks itself. It is an indisput able fact that notes of the city banks command a premium of one, two, or three per cent. over Mr. Chase's greenbacks; just as it is a fact that gold commands a premium of 58 per cent. over the same paper promises to pay ; but the Chamber has no power to alter either state of things by its deprecia tion, or by its hard words. It was long ago dis covered that gold was a traitor for ranking itself so highly above greenbacks. It now appears that notes of the city banks must be considered traitors also for being appraisedby the mercantile community at a higher ratio than the paper money of the Go vernment. It might be supposed that if the laws which regulate these matters were understood any where it would be in such a body as the Chamber of Commerce; but that such is not the case is proved by the alacrity and the unanimity with which they passed resolutions so little creditable to their pro ficiency in that science of social and fiscal economics of which they profess themselves to be the expositors. It is a growing fashion in the North to proclaim that the war is undertaken by the Federal Govern ment for the defence of free democratic institutions against aristocratic despotism. This assertion ori ginated in New England, and is industriously pro pagated in Old England by Professor Cairnes and others. The institutions of the South are, as regards white men, as democratic and republican as those of the North, the main difference in the South being that the President is elected for six years instead of four, and that he is not re-eligible. The Northern Abolitionists and the English sympathisers with the attempt of the North to subjugate, or if necessary to exterminate ,the South go further than the Americans in depreciation of the Southern people. They assert that the war is a planters' war ; that the planters are a territorial and almost feudal aristocracy ; that between them and their slaves there is nothing worthy of the name of a middle class ; that what there is of it is ignorant and vile, as well as syste matically repressed, and denied political power; that all the white men of the South who are not planters and slaveowners are known as " mean whites" and " poor white trash," who lead a vaga bond and rowdy sort of life, and that they form the great material from which the Southern armies are recruited. There are Abolitionists and other theorists in New England who know as little of the South as they do of Kamshatka or Timbuctoo ; and there are Englishmen who are content to derive their supposed knowlege of the cotton regions of America from these prejudiced or utterly ignorant teachers • but the great bulk both of th e Northern and Southern' Americans are better informed. They treat such notions as poor Buncombe, when pro mulgated by Yankee philosophers and preachers, like Mr. Wendell Phillips and Mr. Beecher; and when repeated by Englishmen in books or news papers, the fact but goes to confirm the popular belief that it is utterly impossible for an English man to understand America. The following statements, based upon official documents, will show the real status of the white man and non-slaveowner in the Southern States, better than volumes of argument. In the first place it must be borne in mind that the Constitution of the Confederate States in respect to represen tation is precisely similar to that of the United States. But an interpretation has been given to the 3d section of the Ist Article of the Constitution which is accountable for much of the error that prevails on the subject of the political value of the non-slaveholding unit. The section declares that " Representatives and direct taxes shall be appor tioned among the several States which may be included within this Union acccrding to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, in cluding those bound to service for a term of years [apprentices], and including Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons [slaves]." The words in brackets are explanatory. Pointing to this clause in the Constitution, the be lievers in Southern feudalism assert that three-fifths of the slaves are counted in the representation, and, as the slaves do Lot vote, the masters must vote for them. Thus, they add,' the owner ov rsOfera l h e i s s casts not only his own v ote, but 60 on on. slaves, to which he is en titled by .the Constitution. If If this were the correct intereperedtateiortiettsieemAeboelixttieohnt ist and English opin io obfehtwhewholeeviearw, calculation of a P ri r s i t fri oc ° - - correct, and with the adnditwiiionl d thegeniture—long sinceabal üßis racy might ba created. is a misconception_ The number of representatives for the whole Union was . fixed by the Act of 1850, an d was limited to 233 (since altered to 241). At eve ry decennial period, when the census is taken, the whole number of free persons, with three-fifths of the slaves together, are divided by 241, the quo tient being the number of persons entitled to send one representative to Congress. By the census of 1850 the ratio was one represeutat iv e for every 93,702, by that of 1860 it was one for every 127,000. Assuming, for the sake of illustration, a commu nity composed of 100,000 slaves (estimated in the ).epresenttition a" the equivalent o f 60,000 persons) ( ( a( f ~1~ ~/ PRICE--; -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. owned by 10,000 individuals, and 57,000 persons who are non-slaveholders, these 67,000 white men, each having one vote and no more, would be en titled to one representative in Congress. There is no plurality of votes. The master does not vote for his slaves, but the whole white male population votes for them collectively. Presuming a contest in such a community, it, is evident that, man for man, the non-slaveholders would have it in their power to carry their candidate by a majority of 47,000. Thus in point of fact the non-slaveholder in the slavehold ing States, so far from being a mean white, is, as a political unit, a greater power in the State than the white Yankee, whether he be mean or the reverse. By the census of 1850 the whole number of slave holders in the United States was found to he 347,525. Of this number but two owned 1,000 slaves and upwards; nine owned 500 and less than 1,000; fifty-six owned 300 and less than 500 ; 187 owned 200 and less than 300; 1,479 owned 100 and less than 200; 6,196 owned 50 and less than 100 ; 29,733 owned 20 and less than 50 ; 54,595 owned 10 and less than 20; 80,765 owned five and less than 10 ; 105,683 owned two and less than five ; while 68,820 held one slave each. It will thus be seen that more than one half of the slaveholders OWN less than five slaves each, and that the cry of a slave holding aristocracy oppressing the " mean whites" has no tangible foundation. The phrases, " poor white trash," " mean whites," and " poor white Buckras," originated with the negroes. For many years in the towns and villages of the slaveholding kStates, cooks, chamber-maids, waiters, coachmen, footmen, &c., were exclusively negroes and mulattoes—a white coachman even now is a rarity. They also monopolised the positions of draymen, carters, barbers, porters, stevedores, mar ketmen, &c. Poor Yankees coming to the South or from European countries, who had been brought up to these several occupations, came into competi- Vem with the negroes if they sought employment in them. Th© competition prejudiced the negro against them. The negro ideal of a white man is like the oriental ideal of a Sultan. It is associated with wealth, dominion, and power, and a white man possessing neither was mean in Sambo's estimation. Following the example of their brethren in the towns and villages, whom they con sider their superiors, the country negroes applied the term in derision to any poor white man living in their neighbourhood who did not own slaves, and who happened to fall under their displeasure. In negro estimation Mr. Lincoln, when he honestly earned his bread by navigating a barge on the Mis sissippi, would have been a "mean white ;" but no white man, rich or poor, slaveholding or non-slave holding, would have applied such an epithet to him. The truth is that the white man in the slaveholding States, whatever his pecuniary condition, holds so cially a high, and palitically a higher, rank than one similarly situated in the free States. If there be an aristocracy in the South it is the aristocracy of colour, and the same aristocracy exists in the North and West, where the negro is free but a pariah. The idea that the mercantile and professional classes, the artificers, shopkeepers, merchants, and small traders, should be considered "mean whites" by men who had no other claim to superiority than their plantations is ludicrous to all who know the facts. Poverty is no greater bar to political advancement in the South than it is in the North. If Mr. Lincoln was a bargeman and a rail-splitter before he became a lawyer and a politician, the Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy was the son of parents too poor to give him an education, and the Secretary of the Confederate Treasury took his first honours in an orphan school. In the yet unsettled, wild, and swampy regions of the South-West, in Arkansas, and in Mississippi, there is no doubt a large class of white people who deserve to be called " mean"—rude, rough rowdies of the worst possible kind ; but many of them are Yankees, Germans, and Englishmen and Irishmen who have left New England because New England was too small for their predatory instincts, and Europe because they had made it too hot to hold them. The war has converted thousands of these into ex cellent soldiers and such of them who happen to have been born in New England are distinguished above their fellows for their love of the Southern cause and their detestation of the Yankees. Perhaps these are the " mean whites" of whom Professor Cairnes and others in England make such constant mention. lf not there are no others, except in the slang of the negroes, who associate dignity with a white skin, and think a white man must be mean indeed who consents to fill a menial position. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. (From the henna correspondent of the Times,) VIENNA, Feb. 17. The semi-official DonauZeztung contains an article on " The Polish Interests of Austria" which will hardly be to the taste of the Russian Government and its Prussian coadjutors. In substance it is as follows : _ _ . " In some of the Prussian newspapers we read that Aus tria ought to have acceded to the Russo-Prussian Conven tion, because her interests and those of Russia and Prussia are identical. We do not share this opinion, and therefore believe that the Austrian Government has acted wisely in having nothing to do with a convention, which would not contribute to the security of the Polish possessions of Aus tria, though it may lead to unpleasant complications. It was u nwillingly that Austria in the last century agreed to the partition of Poland. Since that tune there have been great territorial changes, but Austria has never either sym pathised with or rendered assistance to insurrectionists. Two of the most important things for the Poles are their nationality and their religion (the Roman Catholic), and both of them have been respected by Austria. The Poles in Galicia know that no attempt has been made to Germanise' them, and they also know that the Imperial Government has never disturbed their relafions with the Papal Chair. In consequence of her straightforward policy, Austria, notwith standing the storm raging, is not obliged to have recourse to extraordinary measures for securing her Polish pos sessions.' ' The Warsaw correspondent of a Prussian paper a few days ago stated that the Austrian Govern ment had privately sold some thousands of muskets which were in the citadel of Lemberg, and also that they in secret had given assistance to the insurgents ; but both assertions are totally un founded. Some of the Prussian papers have re cently spoken of the Archduke Ferdinand Max as a pretender to the throne of " regenerated" Poland, but people here laugh at a report which is as absurd as it is false. During the last few days Prince Gortschakoff has been exceedingly polite to the representatives of Austria and Turkey at the Russian Court, and it must therefore be supposed that he has some object of importance to attain. With the French Minister he is cooler than he used to be, and at St. Petersburg it is whispered that the Russian Court is dissatisfied with the present policy of France in the East. For a long time Prince Gortschakoff and Lord Napier could not agree, but recently their relations have been somewhat more satisfactory. The refusal of Count Rechberg to accede to the Russo-Prussian Convention has so much annoyed the St. Petersburg Cabinet that it would not surprise me if the Emperor Alexander should make a direct appeal to the Emperor Francis Joseph, and try to persuade him to renew that alliance which was so long the bane of Germany and Austria. At present there is no reason to be lieve that the Emperor of Austria is inclined to renew the Holy Alliance, but he is surrounded by people of reactionary principles, and it is therefore impossible positively to say that his Majesty will never follow the example given by the Prussian Government. It is obvious that the Russians are trying to drive the insurgents into the centre of Poland, in order to get them within a ring of bayonets, but as long as Austria remains neutral they will not be able to do so. The Russo-Aultrir boundary line is some 500 English miles long the 6 t get the insurgents will therefore always beheab latter are I into the rear of the Russians, unless able to keep garrisons in all t er towns t e ed .. that the in and villages. It is to be sup o surgents in Poland were aware p r u b l w i c h l y a t r w e p a o s r t i i d " tended, for as soon as it was that Prussian and Austrian plenipotentiaries were about to go to Warsaw they began to send large and Podo lia. to Lithuania, Volhynia, The Enssiaes boast, and with reason, of their strong position in the Kingdom of Poland, but in the a bove-mentioned provinces and iu the Ukraine they have very few points d'appui. By private letters from Poland we learn that.the insur rection was not to have broken out until after the 3d of March (19th of February, Old Style), on which day some twenty millions of serfs will become free men. It is here believed that there is a secret un derstanding between the Polish and Russian serfs, but we have no proofs that such is the case. In my opinion, the Russians will succeed in quelling the insurrection, but certainly not until torrents of blood have been shed. The wounded Poles, the majority of whom have been carried off to the woods, mast be in a most deplorable state, as they have neither bandages nor medicines. The political ferment in Roumania, Servia, and Montenegro is increasing, and I am inclined to suspect that Prince Gortschakoff is trying to bring about a general rising in European Turkey, in order that the atten tion of England and France may be diverted from Poland. By private letters from Germans residing in riff- .. 16 ..455 _• J ~. .. T .. 19 .. 6 .. 1 .. 5 .. 5 .. 6 .. 4 -.. 3 THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. An attack on Savannah, and possibly on Charles ton and Wilmington, is reported as imminent. The New ) ork, World says : " Although it would be imprudent to state all that we may know in reference to the matter, we may safely say that Gen. Hunter issued orders not long since i,hat. the work in the Government workshops at Port Royal must be completed by a certain day, in order that the combined land and naval forces might be in readiness to move on the inst. Pro bably we shall hear of the result of the movement through Southern sources. There is reason to think that a portion of the movement may have begun in the attack on Fort M'Allister, on the Ogeechee river, a little south of Savannah, of which we have the following account in the shape of a despatch to the Richmond papers of Feb. 3 : " Savannah, Feb. 1. "During the attack upon Fort M'Allister this morning, the fl igstaff of the Yankee iron-clad was shot away. She was anchored within 1,000 yards of the fort. She retired. She was evidently injured, as she did not reply to the shots from the fort when retiring. The parapet front of one gun of the fort was entirely demolished. The men remained firm at their guns. There is no excite ment, and the best spirit prevails. About three o'clock this afternoon an iron-clad and gunboat I approached within two miles of the Thunder bolt Battery, dipped a flag, fired two shots, and re- tired. The Thunderbolt Battery is five miles south of the city. Two gunboats came up to St. Mary's on Monday last. One of them went up the river and set fire to the houses on several plantations. Capt. Harrison's company of cavalry fired on them, when they hauled out of the range of small arms and shelled away furiously. Another boat was landing men at St. Mary's on Tuesday." A bulletin had been posted up in Richmond on the afternoon of the 3d, stating, in addition to what is published in papers of that date, that one gun at Genesis Point had been dismounted, and that all the churches an hotels in Savannah had been seized for hospital purposes, in anticipation of a general engagement. The Savannah Republican, under date Way's Sta tion, Jan. 27, 12.40 p.m., has the following account of the bombardment of Fort M'Allister " Seven Yankee vessels are bombarding Genesis Point. Two of them are iron -clads, similar to the Atlanta, and one of these is anchored 1,700 yards in front of our battery. The firing opened about 7 o'clock this morning, and the last courier reports that no damage has been done to the fort." " Later.—For five and a half hours the bombard ment continued; it ceased about half-past 12 o'clock. It commenced to rain, and the enemy's fleet left before 1 o'clock, having failed to injure a single man or gun. All the damage to the earthworks can be repaired in a day. The attack was made by four steamers, two schooners, and one iron-clad. The latter vessel was struck by a shot from the battery, which damaged her turret, when the firing ceased and the enemy hauled off." The Republican adds— " From persons who were at Genesis Point yes terday, we learn that the iron-clad Yankee steamer came up in fine style, squared herself for a fight, and after dipping her colours thrice opened upon the battery. She sat very low in the water and but little more than her turret could be seen. Our solid shot are said to have broken to pieces as they struck her sides. The other iron-clad lay further down, round the bend in the river, with the wooden vessels, the position enabling them to cross fire on the fort. The shots were fired at intervals of two or three minutes. The balls from the turret were 11 and 15 inch. We learn that four vessels, appa rently transports, were lying yesterday in Bear River below Kilkenny, about 12 miles from the Point. They probably contain troops, with the intention, if possible, of making a landing in the rear. There were some 160 Government negroes at work at the battery, who were sent into the in terior on Monday night, as soon as it was ascer tained that the enemy were coming up. The fort is garrisoned by the Republican Blues, Cap tain George W. Anderson, and the Emmett Rifles, Captain George A. Nicoll—all under the command of our townsman, Captain John B. Gallie, who, by the way, is an excellent artillerist, and brave enough for any emergency. A battalion of sharpshooters, Col. R. H. Anderson, have been ordered to support the battery in case of necessity. Our men, we learn, acted with perfect coolness throughout the action, and as our reporter repre sents, regarded the affair as rather a frolic than otherwise." The following telegrams have been received con cerning the Confederate attack on Fort Donelson r-- " Cairo, Feb. 4. "The captain of the steamer Bowen, from Paduch, reports a brilliant success at Fort Donel son. One battery of four guns was taken by the rebels in an overwhelming charge, but our men gallantly rallied and retook it. The rebel loss is re ported at 135 killed, 50 wounded and prisoners. The rebel General Forrest is reported among the wounded. Colonel M'Neil was killed. The num ber of the rebel force is estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000. From below we have information that all our divisions have arrived in front of Vicksburg ex cept Logan's, which is expected soon." " Nashville, Tennessee, Feb. 4. " About 5,000 cavalry, under Wheeler, Stearns, and Wharton, attacked our force at Fort Donelson yesterday, and were repulsed and utterly routed. General Mitchell selects the quarters of prominent Secessionists for wounded rebels. Forty-five are thus quartered. General Jeff. C. Davis's division, with a cavalry brigade, occupy Franklin." " Cairo, Feb. 5, 11 p.m. " A despatch from Fort Donelson to•night says that the fight lasted from 1 to 8 o'clock in the evening, when the rebels retired in great disorder southward. Their killed are estimated at 200, and wounded at 500. Our loss was two killed and 41 wounded and missing." A Cairo despatch of Feb. 3 gives the following account of an attack made by the Confederates on Island No. 10 : " Sunday night, about 11 o'clock, an attack was made on Island 10 by a large number of rebels, probably 2,000, composed of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They had crossed Obion river in flatboats and skiffs, and stationed themselves on the Tennes see shore with three 6-pounders. Transports with passing just as they arrived , and were fired dps at w ere gunboat and co mpelled to come to. The light draughtEra arrived, and with six 24-pounders, stationed at the Island, immediately returned the fire, a nd shots were exchanged for some time quite freely .t, urtb oat New er 10 at a rounds precipitatew e fired the enemy gave way After b e retreat, since which time t he y have not shown any disposition to renew the attack. The transports, of course. were released from their clutches. No casualties are reported. The troops on the island did The i Y ro a not participate in the fight, there being but a small g h a e r a r v i i s l o y n ar a m n cl ed no opportunity to effect anything The New Era continued to shell the Tennessee shore until n s a t te e r ita d hd a e y g eu island,n e b n el gunboat n,adn Eastport, dw c i o t n h v o tt y hh e ei d eNk p l ays plateds ing bo a a n t s d . respectful t al down dietan y c e e st ., e , rday morning remain sufficiently to protect the works there aenwel Era, ke p will t e enemy at a rs The following is a despatch concerning the affair : " Columbus, Feb. 3. " Brigadier-Gen eral J. M. Tuttle, Commanding Post at Cairo. "Island No. 10 is attacked by rebel cavalry and artillery, numbering 3,000 to 4,000. Send the steamer United States down with troops, as stated in your last telegram, but do not expect troops from here to-day. I need them at the island. ~ ASBOTH, Brigadier-General." A despatch from Cairo of the sth gives the fol- ~Lc v~i`~r~ a~—J ferent parts of Poland we learn hat the reports re lative to the barbarous cruelty the Russian troops are not exaggerated. As y put unarmed men, women, and children to the sword, the high mill dial. authorities are enabled to inform the foreign world "that thousands of insurgents have bit • the dust." A m ong the persons put to death in cold blood at Tomaszow, * on the Galician fron tier, were a military surgeon named Dombrow sky, a Russian officer of the same name, who was ill in bed ; M. Muchern, a captain in the Russian general staff; Dr. Zelkowski, who was tossed alive into a fire ; M. Chmielowsky, who was bayoneted while at prayer • M. Lewkowitz and his daughter, a girl of 18 ; Messrs. Czartoryski, Raszew ski, Brzesky (a man of 70 Years of age), and Jaruchowsky ; two citizens whotried to extinguish the fire which was consuming their houses, and four Jews. Almc•st all the towns and villages in the south-west corner of Poland are in the hands of the insurgents under Kurowski. In the east of the de partment of Radom is M. Langiewiez, who appears to be one of the most sk;lful leaders of the insur gents. The Russians are now in force at Miechow, Kielce, Kouskie, Szydiowice, and Czenstochow, places which are marked on all the better maps of Polan.l. Kurowski, who is at the head of 6,000 men, has his head-quartets at a place called Dom brava, which is not far from Olkusz, near Cracow. A few days ago a corps of insurgents marched to a place called Hrubietzow, on the frontier of Vol hynia, which is on the high road from Lublin to Vladimir. From Augustow, which is in the nor thern part of the kingdom of Poland, we learn that the insurrectian is "still spreading." It is possible that the Russians did really kill a thousand per sons at Semiliczy, in the department of Grodno, in the province of Lithuania, as "they put the peace ful inhabitants of the town to the sword after they had routed the insurgents." From Lemberg we learn that a Russian detachment has been " anni hilated" by the insurgent corps which is posted at Biala, near the fortress of Brzese-Litewski. M. Langiewicz haslagain posted his corps near Wous chock, which is between Radom and Kielce. Drum head law has been proclaimed in the provinces of Volhynia and Podolia ; and in Wilna, the capital of one of the departments of Lithuania, General Nazi moff has made the proprietors of the houses respon sible for the conduct of their tenants. The Rus sians do not allow the Poles to bury their slain, as the Grand Duke Constantine has declared that they shall be food for ravens. The troops which the Russian Government now has in Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine amount, on paper, to about 140,000 men. Eight regiments of the line are in the military district of Kisw, 12 regiments of the line in the military dis trict of Wilna, with Grodno and Mitau, and 20 regiments of the line in the other, parts of the above mentioned provinces, where there are also from 20 to 24 cavalry regiments. A letter from Cracow of the 15th inst. states that the journal the Czas of that city has been prose cuted for having endeavoured to disturb public tranquillity. The last accounts from the Polish insurgent provinces state that at the approach of any Russian troops to a town the entire population, including the Russian functionaries, take flight, to avoid the fate of the inhabitants of Tomaszow. On the Bth inst. about 50 insurgents, armed with sithes, and who were escorting two carts laden with arms, stopped to hear mass at the village of Karmiewo, near Maliow. Having been attacked by a party of Cossacks, they defended' themselves bravely, and finally routed the Cossacks, who lost 17 killed and 15 wounded. Unfortunately, the sithemen, on quit ting Karmiewo, went astray. They were again at tacked by Cossacks, reinforced by infantry, and again fought desperately. The Russians lost 70 men in this affair, and the sithemen 20, be sides 18 severely wounded. Among the killed are two young men of noble family, one named Steinkeller and the other Pomaski. The latter was a pupil of the Polish Military School of Genoa. General Nazimoff, Governor-General of Wilna, forwarded a despatch to St. Petersburg announcing that the insurgents had been dispersed at Siematyche, with the loss of 1,000 killed, while the Russians lost only one killed and a few wounded. The insurgents say that Gen. Manion kine summoned the commander of Siematyche to surrender on the 7th. This proposal was rejected with disdain by the small band of 300, who resolved to fight and sacrifice themselves for their country. The General then advised the women to quit the place with their children. They replied that in Poland women never abandoned their husbands un der such circumstances, and that they would die with their children beside their natural protectors. The Russian General then commanded a discharge of Congreve rockets, which sat the town on fire. At the same time the the assault was commanded, and after an unequal contest, which lasted four hours, the gallant defenders were exterminated. Then began the murder of the unarmed inhabitants and the pillage of the town. The Russians commenced with the castle of the Senator Baron Fanshawe, whose family has supplied the Russian army with many generals. These horrible scenes lasted all night. Nothing is to be now seen of Siematyche but a heap of ashes. The insurrectional force in the Government of Plock is very much reduced. It is commanded by Segismond Padlewski, late an officer of artillery in the Russian army. The Russian journal the Invalide contains the following " It is announced from Radziwilow that a corps of Poles from Galicia, more than 1,000 strong, and well armed, have entered the kingdom of Poland. This corps destroyed on its passage all the Russian guard-houses on the frontier. Two Russian officers and some privates were killed. Some agitation was being observed in the districts of Iwientziany and Lida, in Luthuania. A despatch was received at Wilna on the 10th inst., from Sutientriany, announcing that a band of about , lso insurgents had shown themselves in the neighbourhood of the Podbrodzo Railway. The Governor had adopted measures to disperse them." The Monde publishes the following observations on the question of Poland :-- "The ever-living Polish question is the most striking symptom of the instability of European Governments. The treaties of 1815 only very imperfectly reconstituted Europe; they reconstructed a part of the ruins which the Revolu tion had made, but they allowed the more ancient iniquity which tore Poland into shreds to subsist, and long before 1789 established a revolutionary right of nations by the par tition of 1772. The journals of Austria plead extenuating circumstances in favour of that country, and declare that it was unwillingly that she joined Russia and Prussia, and simply to maintain the proportions of the European balance of power. Austria has taken part in two great iniquities — the downfall of the Jesuits and the partition of Poland. She has repaired the first by the Concordat, but the second is still flagrant. Here it is that the dissensions of Christian nations, and especially of Catholic ones, must be regretted. These dissensions brought about the catastrophe of 1772, and philosophic Kings trampled under foot the rights and interests of their subjects. The act of complicity united the three Northern Courts, and was the germ of a permanent coalition against France. We now feel how prejudicial our ,isolation may be to the cause of European society, and how mush that state of things would tend to diminish our influ ence if it allowed two great Powers to join themselves to gether by a dose solidarity. The right of intervention is pregnant with grave events. If Prussia interferes in Poland with the consent of Russia, she legitimatizes all the inter ventions which France and England may oppose to her. Thus the question becomes generalised, and would soon result in a European war. The coalition of 1772 became strengthened in 1792, and attained its apogee in 1815. Since then the different interests have moved for ward; and the tendencies of the divers Governments have become more clearly defined. Prussia has at tempted to Germanise the portion of Polish territory which fell to her lot; every one knows with what craft and vio lence Russia has prosecuted Polish nationality. Austria alone has preserved a measure of moderation and. justice, which in the end proves to have been a good and wise policy. She has respected the nationality and religion of Poland. Being made up of different nationalities, she could easily receive another into her family ; as a Catholic country she natarally left to the Poles of Galicia the free exercise of the Catholic religion. That religion is the most living qty Polish nationality, and it has preserved to the nation unity of feelings, of remembrances, and of hope& eachssm sad ove: ment of Poland the religious element prefea di n t . . thus it is that Austria finds herself detachea from pol i cy thus pr?jects of plavism. t a h a lit f trleesh horhorror con tri buted oof re- r t e o : of 1772. Muscovite ambition and so insolently put forward, h a ji v e ec e :s . o w i t cool the Austro-Russian _fql The Revolution of 1848 in°P like Russia, wander in search of cannot, like and stability, for upon that in shaking Austria, volution. Shee e equilibrium reposs iatdivsenthatutre.Bs ropean The Sleek affirms that no cause can possibly arise so calculated to rouse the feelings of the French Itn e t s a a s ne t e h s a h t o o u f ld P n o o la w nd in . ter l f t er suggestprevent i n Ru additionssia /from again accomplishing her purposes of oppres sion. The remarks of our contemporary are in this wise : " In France this noble cause has the rare privilege of ral lying all opinions around it. Except the Constitutionnel, the time of which is not yet come, all the journals welcome the resurrection of the Polish nation. The clerical journals, asto nished to find themselves side by side with the Democratic organs, take care to make the sign of the cross, and declare that they are marching to the assistance of a Catholics nation ; that in this case there is no question of revolution after the fashion of Mazzini or Garibaldi, and that they protest; beforehand against any concealed democratical idea. Those are questions which may be raised after the victor y ; for the present let us be contented with preparing it. We have succeeded on one great point, since we have arrived at triumphing over public indifference, and never, during the last 12 years, have we seen public opinion interest itself as it now does • it is the:outburst of 1831, which, from a party, seems to have communicated itself to the entire na tion. In 1831 we saw th e g eneration which had been formed in Poland since the downfall of the Empire p er i s h by bullets, by the knout, in dungeons, and in Siberia ; a new generation now presents itself dettianding th e s am e rights and ready for the same sacrifices, and so long as Pcland shall be a living nation the same will constantly recur ; every 20 years it must be regularly mowed down. Shall we allow the Northern Sithemau this time to accom plish his bloody task? 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