The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-02 00:00:00

TW Z. CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 'The perplexities of Diogenes in search of an ho ne st man bid fair to be equalled by those of Presi dent Lincoln in search of a General. Up to this time the American has scarcely been more success ful than the Greek. If the ancient cynic happened to light upon what the poet has since declared to be the noblest work of God," he had not sagacity enough to know the treasure by its outward appear ance ; and if Mr. Lincoln in the course of his long inquiry has had for a while in his possession the greatly coveted preserver of the Union, he has not known either how to prize or how to use him. M'Clellan was the nearest approach to an effective commander that Mr. Lincoln's search has elicited; and up to the recent occupation of Chattanooga it seemed as if Gen. Rosencranz was the very man in pursuit of whom the President was perambulating his dominions. B ut R osencranz h av in g , like his pre decessors, failed in accomplishing the impossible, has, like his predecessors, been hurled from the pe destal by the ruthless iconoclasts of the Cabinet. It is Mr. Linco u's fault or misfortune, as it has been that of all his countrymen, to honour the fighting general more than the contriving one ; to set the sword above the spade ; and to think more highly of mere personal valour than of military science and of far reaching strategy. Hence Gen. Rosencranz, who was the idol of the day as long as people ex pected that he would win a decisive victory, no sooner lost a battle, which was at best a drawn game, if so much as that, than the confidence placed in him melted away. The public was daily informed for a whole month that the position of Rosencranz at Chattanooga was impregnable, that he had been or certainly would be, largely reinforced, and that issuing forth in his irresistible might he would, in his own time, scatter the legions of Bragg like chaff before the wind, break the neck of the rebellion, and, effecting with Gen. Meade a movement upon Richmond, would capture President DAvis and all his Cabinet, and bring them to Washingtm to b© hanged on gibbets as high as that of H aman. But people were slow to credit what it was evident that neither Mr. Lincoln nor Mr. Stanton believed ; and no one has been surprised by the announcement made yesterday that General Rosencranz has been deprived of the command of the Army of the Cum berland, or that General Thomas has been appointed in his place. No one knows anything of the mili tary qualities of this General. He rescued the Army of the Cumberland from total destruction by his ob stinate valour, when General Rosencranz was asleep in Chattanooga, unsuspicious of danger, and for that reason alone he has been chosen to command it. But whether he can lead and manage an army as well as he can fight at the head of a division is a problem which the future must solve. Those who remember the promotion of Gererals Pope, Burn side, and Hooker for the same reason, and the igno minous failures which they severally made, have no great faith that " fighting Thomas" will prove better than "fighting Hooker," and a growing feeling of distrust prevails that the greediness of the Cabinet for speedy victory—desired on political more than on military grounds—prevents the President from knowing a good general when he has found him. General Grant, though not in immediate command of the Army of the Cumberland, is to have control over the whole South-western campaign, so that General Thomas will in effect act in subordination to him, and do the fighting, not so much to achieve victory over the Confederates imfore Chattanooga as to withdraw the Federal force from a position in the highest degree critical. As the Americans worship the rising but never the setting sun, General Grant is the present object of their exaggerated homage. He and he only is declared to be the reel and in disputable Napoleon of the North, a man who in taking Vicksburg achieved a far greater and more glorious deed than Bonaparte ever accomplished ; and who exceeds the French commander in genius and fortune as much as Federal America exceeds France in length, breadth, and area. Gen. Grant will doubtless share the fate of his predecessors. For a brief space every military efficer who comes to the surface of political favour is held to be the biggest man in the world—a man who by his mighty deeds is to eclipse the fame of Cxeir, Charles XII , Marlborough, Wellington, and Napoleon, and to prove to the unwilling and envious nations of effete old Europe that they must send to America if they wish to learn the art of war and how to kill the greatest possible number of soldiers in the least pos sible time and to the least possible purpose. So for awhile Gen. Grant will sun himself in the rays of Presidential and popular favour. If he defeat Gen. Bragg thoroughly and finally he will rise to still higher appreciation, and become a candidate for the Presidency. Having reached that point the star of his glory will have culminated. He will be in Mr. Lincoln's way, and in that of Mr. Chase, of Mr. Stanton, of Gen. Halleck, and of a host of political enemies, and will speedily be unmade by the hand . _ which made him. Then the President will take his lantern once more, and prowl about the camps keen-eyed and jocose, in search of that unattainable general who is always coming, but never comes, and of that self-sacrificing hero, who will consent only to achieve each an amount of success in the field as will make him tolerable to an impatient people, without making himself obnoxious to the President In es B es or the countless Presidents in posse, who hate by anticipation every man in military or civil life who threatens to become too pecular and too Powerf u l. But lir. an Lincolnarm is not only in search of a general, but of that it was nalvis He has learnt from experience Davis,e in him, as he thought it cruel in Mr Jefferson to drive unwilling conscripts to the battle-field ,c like act Ike bullocks to the slaughter pen." Without Northern abandoning the design of impressing the c ern youth to serve in his Southern wars, a n d as aontinuing to hold that un palatable measure sword i n t errorem over th e heads of the ablebodied West, b y he has announced males of the North and proclamation that he will give the voluntary syst em more trial. He requ i r es 300,000 men by th e first lit!eek in January, 1864, to whom he offers the usual 100 dole. and a dvance pay. ThiZ of . nntY money of not be the sol e inducement held oat for the libe rality of the c ities and towns, and of indi viduals growirg rich out of contracts, i ncrea se that sum by p ublic subscrip tions cetort4in to "hat ever amount may be come necessary to p urc hase, rish. men and Germans. It cannot be supposed i that it Wi I be necessary t o p urchase Amer cans,for it Would be a libellonE denial of their patriotism t o anpno _ . that any one of them w ould take the dirty ninni;; the State as a bribe for doing his duty in the hour o r his country's peril. Should volunteering be not sufficiently brisk in the interval, a conscription will again be tried, and, although Mr. Lincoln does not say as much in his proclamation, it will probably he a conscription after the fashion of the Prussian Landsturm, in which every ablebodied man of the fighting age will be compelled to serve without right of exemption. The proclamation, though only three days old, has already had a remarkable effect upon the Republican journals. Three months ago they were all loud in praise of the draught as the fairest and most equitable mode of r aisin g it narmy. Bat as Mr. Lincoln has changed h is opinions, so also have they. It was one of the (1118 " e 'l of M V- ' • r. allandigham which brought upon his head the condemnation of General Burnside first, of M r. Lincoln the wh o l e Re ‘. second, and afterwards of military conscription 'lean party, that he denounced a Re publican liberty, I as alien to the spirit of t was, until new light broke upon the Administration,. brought against the one of the main charges ~ Copperheads" that Democratic party and the " tere.smably," raaintaiZy "disloyally," if not Union could not be r,,pier iti d by v o l un t eers th ere that if th e arm i es o f th e w Is an end of the Union, inasmuch plocurahle, which was more than 43 cons cr i pt s, i f t h e worst p o ahible materi a l f or scar.. doubtful, were in any war, and especia ll y in a civil War, between sam e race and lang ua g e. B ut now a n ew face has been put upon the matter by all th e friend s and organs of the Administration. Ina constitutional country the King ca n do no wron g , becau se he acts ai through retiponsible3linisters, who may be made to pay the penalty for his misdeeds. But in this coun try (for the pres'nt) the President can neither do wrong nor think wrongly, in the estimation of the war faction. The constitutional fiction of other nations does not screen him as chief magistrate from the responsibility of his actions, but such a divinity hedges him iu the minds of all the sup- porters of the Government, that tie is held as incapable of saying a foolish thing as Charles 11., but more fortunate than he, in never doing a wrong one. When he supports a consciption, his devoted followers never weary of praising his wisdom When he declares a conscription to be needless, they repeat his words with delighted sympathy and every one is lost in wonder at his sagacity. After all, they say, voluntary service is not only the cheapest but the best defence of nations ; and the Copperheads were in this respect not so wrong as we thought them. Meanwhile the Copperheads chuckle. The war Democrats as well as the peace Democrats are agreed that the supply of fighting Americans is exhausted, and that unless the Irish and the Germans come largely to the rescue, it will not be possible to raise a hundred thousand volunteers in the time specified. The demand for labour is ex cessive. There are no honest, hard k . •wor _ Ing men Who cannot make more money at work than at war. 'The rowdies who rushed so jauntily into the field two years and a half ago have had their day, and have either been killed off or limp about the streets, the maimed remembrancers of the strife; or having escaped wounds and fever, are too much disgusted with their military experience to renew it at Mr. Lincoln's call. The adventurous patriots who once thought they could subdue the South in three months, and rushed to arms at the first insult to the flag at Fort Sumter, are either in their graves or sadder and wiser living men. The " plug-uglies" are for the South. The " Bowery boys" are indif ferent to " glory." The fact is, let political parti sanship disguise it as it may, the effervescence of American patriotism has subsided, The illusion is dulled. It was a great and glorious thing, under old Gen. Scott, to conquer Mexico in three months; but not to conquer the South in three Sears is an- other kind of business, which has no charms for the imagination of the wild and reckless spitits who originally plunged into the strife. Governor Seymour has been the first State fune- tionary to reply to the President's call. In a pro clamation to the people of New York, dated yester day, at Albany, be has done his best to encourage present enlistments and to discourage a future con scription. He draws but a gloomy picture of the state of public aff_tirs—a picture that in a Republi- can Governor would be described as faithful, but which in a Democratic one is certain to be held as a factious exaggeration of the facts. He says that the defenders of the national capital are menaced by a superior force ; that the Army of the Cumberland is imperilled, and that the military operations of the Government are de layed by the want of adequate military power, and are threatened with serious military disaster. However much Mr. Seymour may be abused for the confession, it was the part of true patriotism to make it. General Meade's army does not exceed 50,000 men, and though the numbers of General Lee's are not known, it is probable, as the latter has chosen to assume the offensive, and Meade deemed it prudent to retreat before him, that he has the superiority of force. The army of the Cumberland, cooped up in Chattanooga for the last 30 days, with provisions not ca ' culated to hold out for more than a month, must either be relieved, fight its way out, or surrender. But Governor Seymour sees in noon of these things a reason for the conscription. He thinks, or, at all events, he says that voluntary effort w ill provide the armies necessary for the safety of the Repub.ic, and denounces the conscription as a system which unavoidably inflicts unequal burdens on society, causes great distress and injury to indi viduals, and is more hurtful to the whole commu nity than the equalised cost and sacrifices of volun teering. The document does not satisfy the Govern ment, and is all the more distasteful to the Repub licans because it is so cautiously worded as to give no handle to the charge of " disloyalty," which is already growled against it by the watch-dogs of the party. Mr. Seward desires just now to encourage ami- cable sentiments towards Great Britain. The speech of Lord Russell at Blairgo wrie has put him in good humour; and the hint has gone forth from Washin gton to the Ministerial press in other cities to indulge for the present in no more attacks against England or Englishmen. It is not to be said that the British Government is " afraid" of Federal vengeance if Mr. Laird's rams are prevented from leaving the Mersey; but only that Lord Russell, with that desire to do justice which is his chief characteristic, has at last seen the error of his ways in shutting his eyes against the misdeeds of greedy shipbuilders and Confederate " pirates," and has resolved to be more watchful for the future, lest so great a calamity should happen to the world as war between the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon family and the reduc tion of Great Britain to the rank of a second or third-rate Power. But the hint is not kindly or generally taken, and in this city especially the An glophobia excited by the presence of the Russian fleet breaks out in all sorts of odd ways and im proper places. The last manifestation was at the municipal dinner given to the Russian officers yester day evening—a dinner which appears to have been very greatly mismanaged as regards the invitations sent out, and which were almost exclusively confined to the Aldermen and Common Councilmen and their immediate friends and retainers. A reverend gentle man named Boole—peaceful as a Christian should be whenever he mentioned Russia, and as warlike as a Christian should not be whenever he mentioned England—said in the coarse of a speech which his friends declared to be an oration, " that America and Russia clasped hands across the ocean, and the breadth of England's isle was no impediment to their embrace." The sentiment elicited such rounds of applause as to give the cue to the temper of the meeting to all the succeeding speakers. One of them, the Hon. Dudley Field, brother of Mr. Cyrus Field, of the Atlantic Telegraph, in responding to the toast of " Neutrality," purposely introducea into the list to afford an opportunity for the display of the anti- British rancour that fills the heart of America, ex patiated at great length upon the " false" neutrality of Great Britain and France, and especially of the former. He declared that " Americans would never forget it; and, more than this," he said, warming with his subject, ‘.' the men of this generation, who have smarted under these wrongs, will not rest until some of them are righted. We see the ground fresh with graves, half of which would never have been opened but for the countenance which England and France have given to the rebellion ; and whether it shall be procured from their apprehension of the consequences, or from their sense of justice, repara tion must yet be made, or the seed which has been sown in these three years will ripen into an iron harvest of future war, of which no man can foresee the end 2, The most rapturous applause followed the officers, who ought not to have wards the It st of unreasoning spite—as unseemly to been mad e dinner-tabl e , a: it t ecipients for such acerbities at a was unjust towards the two great Powers of E urope , Whohave done so little and suf fered so much i n % is gentlemen war. The Russian officers are said t o b e tiemen in the true sense of the word, and to discover that they have been duped and made tools of ; and that in all the dinners, fes tivities, and celebrations ineti-ttuet:di:ii their inthe ho p n o o p u u r . t h e concealed object was greater than the avowed on e, and that had ther e been no ill -Ri ll . lar mind against Great Britain no such exuberance of exaggerated friendship would have b een d i splayed towards Russia. As a proof that the Russian Admiral has b een made aware at l ast that he and his countr ymen hav e endured too much of this ill-bred persecution, he has stipulated that in the tour to the Falls of Nia g ar a , to which ho and a hundred fellow officers h ave been invited by the directors of the Hudson River Steam. Moat Company, of the New York Central and Erie Railway, and on which he is to start the day after to-morrow, there shall be no s peech -making, and lest Yankee orators should prove irrepressible, it has been wisely resolved by the projectors of the excursion that no reporters from the American press shall be present. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman'a pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 4a. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in rockets. ORIGIN 'OF THE MHOW SCANDAL, Demoralised as was the official condition of the Inniskillings when Colonel Crawley assumed the command of that corps, its social state, according to the same authority, was if possible worse. Its engaged in discreditable officers were incessantly squabbles with each other; their language was habitually violent and low ; and a " moral and social" difficulty, which baffled all Col. Crawley's calm and judicious efforts at arrangement, soon de prived him of the support of the married members of the mess, and laid the foundation of the ill feel ing between himself and his paymaster, which ended, as will be seen, in the professional ruin of Captain Smales. The nature of this "moral and social" difficulty has been entirely kept out of sight by the president and members of the court-martial at Mhow. It is, however, absolutely necessary, in order to un derstand the merits of the story which the Blue-book professes to relate, that it should be distinctly indi cated, and I will do no more than indicate it, referring those who may be anxious for further particulars to the proceedings of the Court of Divorce, in May, 1858. When the 6th Dragoons proceed,. dto India in that year, several changes occurred among its officers, and about a year before Colonel Crawley took command of it a captain and his wife ex changed into the regiment from the -- Light Dragoons, and were cordially received into its so ciety. Bat shortly afterwards it came to be known that the lady was a divorcée, and that her former marriage had been dissolved, according to Lord Campbell, by whom the operation had been per formed, " under circumstances of peculiar profligacy." This painful disclosure created, as may be supposed, considerable scandal among the small European society of the station ; and all the married officers of the Inniskillings, with the exception of Colonel Crawley, declined to con cede any longer to the lady the local rank which she had hitherto enjoyed among their wives and daughters as an honest woman. Colonel Crawley, it would seem, espoused the divorced lady's cause with considerable warmth, urging upon his married officers that they ought to allow " by-goner to be by-gones ;" and endeavouring to enforce the liberal doctrine that as long as a male or female Inniskil linger conducted himself or herself with propriety after joining the regiment, no member of the corps was entitled to inquire into any peccadillos of which the party might have been previously guilty else where. He even went so far as express to his officers his opinion that if a certain official tin box, containing old regimental papers, which Colonel Crawley, with delicate irony, called " Colonel Shute's legacy," was examined, there were very few of them whose characters would stand the scru-. tiny. And, finally, Colonel Crawley issued a formal memorandum, in which he peremptorily ordered " that the harmony and good feeling which should always exist between officers of the same corps, should not be jeopardised by any further allusion to this moral and social difficulty by any officer under his command" (p. 53). The two indviduals who seem to have resisted most firmly Colone► Crawley's liberality on the subject of the Seventh Commandment were, as might have been expected, the two senior married officers of his regiment, Sur geon Turnbull and Paymaster Smales. From the data of the memorandum which has just been quoted, all friendly intimacy between these two gentlemen and their commanding officer ceased ; constant squabbles between the parties are indicated throughout the evidence recorded in the Bluebook; and very grave complaints against Messrs. Suaales and Turnbull, on apparently very trivial grounds, appear to have been forwarded from time to time to the superior authorities with varying results.— Coradll Magazine for November. - The Bombardment of Kagosima. (Front the London Gazette of Friday Evening•) " Euryalus. at Kagosima, Aug. 17. " Sir, —I have the honour to transmit for the informa tion of the Commander• in-Chief a detailed account of the casualties in the squadron engaged with the Forts at Kago sima, on tho aftcLuoon of tho 15th inot. "I would beg to bring to the notice of the Commander in-Chief the able assistance rendered me by Mr. Charles it. Godfrey, acting-surgeon of her Majesty's ship Vulcan, who was awaiting passage to that vessel, trusting the com mander• in-chief will be pleased to bring the same before the favourable notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty. "Mr. Edward A. Birch, acting-assistant surgeon, I would beg also to mention, who was untiring in his atten tion to the wounded.—l have, &c., "I). L. MORGAN, Surgeon. " Commander James E. Hunter, Commanding Officer of her Majesty's ship EuryAlus.. " "Euryalus, Kagosima Bay, Aug. 17. " LIST OP CASUALTIES IN THE SQUADRON EMPLOYED AGAINST THE FORTS AT KAGOSIMA ON THE 14111 OF AUGUST. "Her Majesty's ship Euryalus.-J. J. S. Josling, cap tain, age 37, killed-skull shot away, E. Wilmot, com mander, age 30, killed-back part of skull shot away. Michael Hegarty, A. 8., age 22, killed-compound fracture of skull and jaws. Patrick Fleming, private, R.M. Light Infantry, age 23, killed-fracture of base of skull. William Lindsey, A,8., age 21, killed-fracture of base of skull. John Warren, ordinary, age 19, killed-compound fracture of skull. John Smith, A. 8., age 22, killed-compound fracture of skull, and compound fracture of pelvis. William Yardeley, A. 8., age 24, killed-compound fracture of skull. John Hawkins, ordinary, age 19 -mortally (died the same evening)-compound fracture of pelvis and upper third of femur. Thomas Harding, boy, first class, age 17, mortally (since dead)-right side of cheat torn away by shell, ribs, fractured, lungs lacerated, also compound fracture of arm. Alfred Jephson, Lieutenant, age 22, slightly-contused wound from shell on right shoulder, face burnt by explo sion, also various minor contusions. Geo.W. Jones, assist.- paymaster, first class, age 26, slightly-contused splinter wound, right leg. Jas, Kennett, ordinary, age 28, slightly -face and arms burt by explosion of shell. John Pittman, ordinary. age 20, slightly-splinter scalp wound, face burnt by explosion of shell. Silvanus Abbott, A. 8., age 22, slightly-splinter wound in back of both forearms, and con tusion of inside of left thigh. John Skinner, ordinary, aged 19, slightly-face scorched with powder. W. Mitchell, or dinary, aged 22, slightly-scalp wound (splinter). George Roeder, leading seaman, age 23, slightly-contusion of right arm (splinter). Samuel Fox, A. 8., age 22, slightly - contusion of both arms, contusion of right groi n and leg. Henry Oram, ordinary, age 19, slightly -contused wound of left leg (splinter). Isaac New berry, ordinary, age 19, slightly-wound of scalp and left foot by splinters. William BRdcock, wardroom cook, aged 40, slightly-contusion of left side and arm (splinter). William Huggett, ordinary, age 19, slightly-contusion of right leg (splinter). W. Howden, private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, age 26, dangerously-right side of face shattered by shell, right half of lower jaw excised. Daniel Leary, private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, age 21, severely-shell wound of right thigh-eyes, face, and arms scorched by explosion. William Sale, gunner, Royal Ma rano Artillery, age 27, slightly-contusion of chest from splinter. Eugene Neil, leading seaman, age 24, slightly contusion of left arm, fingers and face scorched by explosion of shell. John Stiff, A. 8., aged 23, slightly-lacerate] wound of left foot by splinter. George Bartlett, ordinary, age 19, slightly-face burnt by explosion. George Alexan der, ordinary, age 19, slightly-contusion of right thigh (splinter). Thomas Mitchell, A. 8., age 22, slightly, splinter wound of foot, faced scored by explosion of shell. " Her Majesty's Ship Pearl.-Mr. Armstrong, carpenter 2d class, age 38, slightly-splinter wound of forehead and ankle. James Friend, quartermaster, aged 44, dangerously --splinter wounds of face and left thigh, William Farrell, drummer, Royal Marine Light Infantry, aged 18, severely -splinter wounds of buttocks, thighs, and feet. H. Mercer, A. 8., age 26, slightly-splinter wounds of ankles. George Kimmins, ordinary, ago 21, slightly-splinter wound of calf of leg. F. Dobson, blacksmith, age 32, slightly-splinter wound of finger. James Mitchell, boy, 2d class, age 16, slightly-splinter wound of calf of leg. "Her Majesty's Ship Coquette.-Thomas Finn, gunner Royal Marine Artillery, age 27, killed-compound fracture of pelvis. Henry Gale, captain maintop, age 29, mortally (dead) -compound fracture of upper third of right thigh. D. A. Denny, lieutenant, age 26, dangerously-gunshot wound of left knee. Wm. Harris, gunner, Royal Marine Artillery, age 80, dangerously-gunshot wound of left leg. William Mumford, private, R.M., ago 35, severely-con tused wound of right thigh. Win. Vernon, boy, Ist class, age 17, slightly-contused wound of left side. "Her Majesty's ship Perseus,-George,Head, boy, 2d class, age 16, mortally (dead) -compound fracture of both legs. ca Fr anc i s J. Pi t t, li eu t enan t, age 22, slightly-in se • , wound on left leg and contusion of right leg. Robert Gilpin, master, age 33, slightly-burn of right hand from effects of a shell. Henry Cook, acting chief engineer, age 40, eli ghtly-ineised wound of the third finger of right hand from splint pula from splinter n a T 'id h John R. Aylen, midshipman, age 17, slightly-contusion Punctured wound under right soa p Biggs, second captain foretop, are 29, wound of right arm. William A.l7p. Ber Knight, cooper, age 25, slighus ineised wound of left arm from splinter. Charles Suitors' ' splinte r , William Gibson, wound of left ankle from ordinary, age 21 , severely - lacerated a n d contus mimwoundooi b'th arms from splinter. Charles Gale, private, RM. Light THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1863 Infantry, dangerously; compound fracture of right arm and wound of right thigh from splinter. •' Her Majesty's ship Argus.—William Barnes, captain afterguard, age 31, slightly—splinter wound of leg. John Fountain, A. 8., age 29, slightly —splinter wound of face. James Hemett, ordinary, age 20, slightly—splinter wound of leg. Thomas Lardner, private R. M, Light Infantry, age 27, slightly—splinter wound of leg. George Doyne, gunner's mate, age 30, slightly—splinter wound of arm. William Cooper, captain forecastle, age 41, slightly—splinter wound of face. "Her Majesty's ship Racehorse,—Wm. Chilton, A. 8., age 28, dangerously—amputation of left arm. Jas. Keenan, second captain foretop, age 2S, slightly—laceration of thumb on right hand. Jas. Purr, boy, Ist class, age 19, slightly— contusion of right arm. • - 46 D. L. MORGAN, F.R.C.S., Surgeon. (Approved) JAMES HUNTER, Commander." " GENERAL MEMORANDUM, " Euryalus, off Kagosima, Aug. 16, 1863. " The Commander-in-Chief desires the several captains and officers commanding her Majesty's ships under-men tioned will convey to the officers and ships' companies of their respective ships the expression of his thanks for the assistance rendered by them during the engagement, yes terday, with the batteries at Kagosima. " The Commander-in-Chief, while deeply regretting the serious losses the squadron has sustained in the recent action, particularly in his flig-hip, has observed with gra • tification the zeal and gallantry displayed by the officers and men, under circumstances unusually trying, which it will be his duty to represent for the favourable notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, (Signed) AUGUSTUS L. KUPER, Vice-Admiral and Commanding-in-Chief. To the Officers commanding her Majesty's ships Euryalus. Pearl, Coquette, Argus, Perseus, Racehorse, and Havoc." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWAIARKET---SATURDAY. A Handicap Plate of 50 sous, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Cambridgeshire course. Mr Fleming's Cadiz 3 yrs, Gst . (L oa t es ) 1 Mr Handley's Cheerful, 3 yrs, Est 131 b .... (Williamson) 2 Mr G. Lambert's Aurelian, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b ..(J Goater) 3 Lord Uxbridge's Liston, 3 yrs, sst 101 b .. (J. Grimshaw) 4 Mr Bowes's Sauterelle, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Nlordan) 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Aurelian, 3to 1 agst Liston, 7to 2 agst Cheerful, and 9 to 2 agst Cadiz. Cadiz, with a slight lead, made the running, closely fol lowed by the others to the site of the Old Duke's Stand, where Cheerful came out, and made an effort to reach the leader, but without avail, Cadiz winning with great ease by three lengths; a bad third; Sauterelle walked in last lame. A Sweepstakes of 10 SOW each, for 3 .yr-olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 120 soya if demanded, &c. R M. 5 sow. Mr Watt's Birthday filly, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ..(J, Snowden) 1 Lord Westmoreland's Country Maid, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (G. Fordham) t Mr Reeves's Topsy, 3 yrs, 7,t 121 b (Challoner) t Mr J. Dawson's Village Belle, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (fl. Bradley) 4 Betting-5 to 4 agst Topsy, 2to 1 agst the Birthday filly, and 5 to 1 each agst Village Belle and Country Maid. The last-named, with Topsy at her girths, made play to within a dozen strides of the post, when the Birthday filly got up and won a fine race by a neck ; the other two finished with a dead heat for second. Village Belle was beaten off some distance. A Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for 2-yr-olds. T Y.C. Mr Naylor's Iphigenia, 75t.... Mr W. Robertson's Corsica. Gat 7th ... (E. Taylor) 2 Mr Carr's Sister to Knave of Trumps, 6st 10th (A. Woodhouse) 3 Mr Marsh's Orphene, 7st 121 b (H. Grimshaw) 4 The following also ran : —Diploma, Wild Thyme, Bel lasius, Royston, Flaneur, Wheldrake, Miss Shepherd, Miss Eva colt, Bangle, Woodcraft, Moulsey, Vauxhall, Pelios, and Overcast. Betting-7 to 4 agst Iphigenia, 4to 1 agat Moulsey, 10 to 1 (at first 5 to 1) agst Orpheno, and 12 to 1 each agst Wild Thyme, Sister to Knave of Trumps, and Bellasius. After two or three failures, an excellent start was ob tained, Corsica taking the lead, waited upon by Iphigenia. and Sister to Knave of Trumps in the centre. Orphene and Moulsey lying next on the left. They retained these positions till within a few strides of home, when the fa vourite deprived Corsica of her advantage, and won easily by half a length; a like distance separa ink the second and third. Orphene was an indifferent tourth, Moulsey fifth, and Wild Thyme sixth, close together; Bellasius and Fl near were the two next; the others were widely spread, and distributed all over the course. A Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Sat 1016; Sst 71b; the winner to be sold for 400 soya, if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. 6 subs. Mr Rayner's Lady Constance filly, Sst 716 _ (H. Grirushaw) 1 Mr Bird's Tadmor cult, Bst 10Ib (J. Osborne) 2 Capt. Handley's Wang!e Lye, fist 7[b (Cast ance) 3 Lord Westmoreland's Annington, Bst 101 b (J. Guater) 4 Betting -7 to 4 agst the Tad mor colt, sto 2 agst Wangle Eye, 100 to 3 agst the Lady Constance filly, and 5 to I ua,at A rinin A stro-t The Tadtnor colt cut out the work into the cords, where he was headed by the Lady Constance filly, who won cleverly at last by a neck; three lengths between the se cond and third. The winner was claimed by Mr. H. Bird. The Houghton Handicap of 15 sovs each, and only 5 ft if declared, &c., for 3-yr-olds and upwards; forfeits to go to the second. T.Y.C. 33 subs., 10 of whom pay 5 sous forfeit. Mr Payne's Alchyrn;st, 4 yrs, 7st 41b .... (J Grimshaw) 1 Mr It. T, Brcook's Peignoir, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Murfet) 2 Lord Chesterll-Act's 13athilde, 5 yrs, Bst.. (H Grimshaw) 3 Mr Naylor's Biondella, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (T. French) 4 The following also ran;—Twilight, Man-at-Arms, Wel land, The Monk, Almack, Fravola, St. Alexis, Despair,(lato Fig), Vivid, Merry Hart, Kingswood, Peahen, Lady Ab bess, and Amelia. _ Betting-7 to 2 agst Biondella, 4to 1 agst St. Alexis, 7 to 1 agst Lady Abbess, 10 to 1 each agst Despair, The Monk, Merry Hart, and Welland, 100 to 8 agst Man-at- Arms, 100 to 7 each agst Almack, Peignor, and Peahen, and 20 to 1 agst 'Twilight. Through repeated breakings away half-an-hour had passed before the starter lowered his flag, when they left the post in anything but a satisfactory manner. Biondella, on their fairly settling into their places, showed in advance, followed by Alchymist and Almack, the others, who laid wide on their left, being headed by St. Alexis, Welland, Peignoir, Bathilde, aad Man-at-Arms. In these positions they ran until half-way in the cords, where Alchymist shot in advance, having Peignoir, the favourite, and Bathilde, as his immediate followers, but without having a chance of reaching him, and won in a canter by a couple of lengths. There was a length and a half between the second and third, and a head between the third and fourth; St. Alexis was fifth, and Peahen sixth. Some distance in the rear of these came Merry Hart and Lady Abbess; Kingswood, who got badly off, bringing up the rear. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds and up wards; the winner to be sold for 200 eovs, if de manded, &c.; if for 100 soya allowed 71b. T.Y.C. 9 subs. Mr. Hart's Airedale, 3 yrs, Bst 31b (100 sovs) (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. Hart's Loafer, 2 yrs, Est 31b (£100) ....... . (Loates) 2 Mr. Craven's Little Savage, 2 yrs, 6st 31b (£100) (Morden) 3 Mr. W . Bevill's Royston, 2 yrs, 6st, 31b (£100) (J. Marson) 4 Lord Westmoreland's Rothschild, 2 yrs, 6st 31b (£100) (Morris) 5 Betting-7 to 4 agst Airedale, 3to 1 agst Loafer, 4to 1 agst Rothschild, and 5 to 1 agst Little Savage. Loafer was the first away, and made the running with the favourite and Royston in hot pursuit, Little Savage lying up to the distance, where Royston was done with, and he immediately after dropped into the rear. Fordham at the same time drew forward, and when within a few strides of home he came with one of his rushes, and landed the odds cleverly by a short head, Little Savage was a bad third. A Sweepstakes of 5 soars each, for 2-yr-olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 25 sovs if demanded, &c. Bret by Stakes course. 13 subs. Mr Hughes's Miss Emma, 5 yrs, 9st 31b (D. Hughes) 1 Mr H. Marsh's Jessie, 2 yrs, 7 st 31b (cannon) 2 Mr Payne's Foreteller, 2 yrs, 7st 31b .... (J. Grimshaw) 3 Cellarius, Balderdash, Hadji Stavros, Little Star, Atlas, Kate Coventry, Faretra, and Weatherden's dam colt. Betting-5 to 2 agst Cellarius, sto 1 each agst Miss Emma and Hadji Stavros, and 7 to 1 agst Faretra. Faretra made play, but for a few strides only, when he was headed by Miss Emma, who, with Foreteller and Jessie on either side, came on together to the end, the former winning very cleverly at last by a neck, two lengths divid ing the second and third ; Atlas was fourth, Balderdash fifth, Faretra sixth, and Cellarius next. Little Stag was the absolute last. The Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya each, 5 ft if declared, &c., for 2-yr-olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 120 sovs if demanded, &c. A.E.C. 8 subs, 1 of whom declared. Mr Ten Broeck's Canzonette, 3 yrs, Bst 31b (G. Fordham) 1 Count Batthyany's Actaeon, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (11. Bradley) 2 Mr Fleet's Glow Worm, 3 yrs, Bst (H. Grimshaw) 3 Mr G. Lambert's Faruhuret, '2 yrs, Est 131 h ..(Morgan) 4 Mr Mundy's Hedworth, 2 yrs, 6st llb (Morris) 5 Captain Christie's Balderdash, 2 yrs, Est 71b (Morden) 6 Mr Hughes's Tiptoe, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (D. Hughes) 7 Betting—Even agst Hedworth, 4 to 1 each agst Canzo nette and Farnhure, and 5 to 1 agst Tiptoe. Garnhurst, trying the cutting down system, jumped away with a decided lead, followed by Actceon, Canzonette, and Balderash, in the order we have given them to a quarter of a mile of home, where Mr. Ten Broeck's filly went to the front and won very cleverly by a length, three-quarters of that distance separating the second and third; Farnhurst finished a bad fourth. L Si o r rd H u . D xb e r s id lr g ce e, u s x N ' Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C. Dead. filly Dead. Bst 101 b Received, seAttlgerfialel THE ELDEST SON OF THE LATE SIR FREDERICK Slade has succeeded to the baronetcy. Captain Sir Alfred Slade is of the 100th Regiment. A CUTTING OBSERVATION.—" Sir," said a man in Pall Mall, to Walpole, who had ignored his salute, "Sir, you knew me in Bath!" " Aye, sir," replied Walpole, " and when we are in Bath I shall be glad to know you again 1" SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SPECTATOR.—It may seem at first sight a fan ciful analogy, and yet there is something by no means fanciful in the subtle connection between utility and art in Mr. Gladstone's political nature. The whole school of so-called Peelites, including the late Sit Robert Peel, the late Sir James Graham, the late Lord Herbert, Mr. Cardwell, and others of less note, as well as the one great survivor of the school, who in art, at least, far surpasses them all —were, in a very remarkable degree, men apt and graceful in the minor political utilities—what were then called administrative reformers even more than statesmen. All politics, though justice is their first law, must, to a certain extent, be also utilitarian ; and in large departments of political duty states men must study human happiness and convenience first—greatness or beauty of design only in the second place. Bat there are departments of states manship which resemble architecture in the magni tude and grandeur of their scope, and also those which are more akin to the art of the potter — which shape the smaller political industries with more or less of skill and more or less of artistic power. It was to the latter region of politics that tail disciples of the late Sir Robert Peel chitfiy de voted themselves—the abler of them to the art of political pottery, the feebler to that of political pottering. There was always in that school a pre ference for inventing comparatively small and neatly adapted political instruments—the greatest want, no doubt, of our age, which had launched its greater schemes of legislative policy fairly before they came upon the stage. So Sir James Graham recast—looking to the result, we can, perhaps, scarcely say, reformed—the Admiralty; Lord Her bert, the War Office ; and the late Sir Robert Peel himself, whose statesmanship was, however, a good deal more than administrative, the finance. Mr. Gladstone's genius is of the same kind, though it shows less breadth and strength, but higher art than his master's; it is at once artistic and utilitarian, evinces a real preference for the pacific and genial humanities of statesmanship, a thorough dislike to any appeal to broad popular passions, but is chiefly remarkable for combining taste for useful detail with a most subtle dexterity and sense of beauty. There is something thoroughly classical about his work manship, though he works in English clay, and usually on a very moderate scale. If he has to make a statement about the malt credits, there is a finish in his description which makes promissory malt duties seem for the time something ideal; if he has to speak of Italian progress, his thoughts fall into shapes of almost statuesque grace. As he says of Mr. Wedgwood's works, we may say of almost all his speeches on finance, " they are so tasteful that they would not disgrace a cabinet, so plain that they would suit a counting-house. They have no preten sion—all his works, from the lowest upwards, abhor pretension." He tells us that Mr. Wedgwood sel dom coloured highly, but preferred a somewhatcold grey ; " the general character of his colouring may be justly described as a strict sobriety, derived from and strictly following the antique." There is the same effect about Mr. Gladstone's own political thought and speeches—a careful avoidance of high colour, a sobriety - in strict accordance with his wish to fix the eye first on the clear outline of his thought. But the chief resemblance of Mr. G:ad stone's own political art to the subject-matter of his eulogy lies, as we have said, in the mixed utilita rianism and gracefulness—the taste for economy governing the taste for harmony—i❑ his mind es pecially in relation to minor politics. He lives in the "intermediate region" of polities between that of pure principle and that of pure practice—in a world prolific of reconciling theories—which is neither close to the fountain head of politics nor limited to its final practical field. His political end ranter is of the Lancashire clay moulded and elabo rated at Oxford—and in all his writings and speeches you see that the minor adaptations are more original and perfect than the constitution of the whole. In all his books, from the "Church Principles consi dered in their Results" down to the Homer," you see the great multipliciy ot detail in his mind, and the great superiority of nis artistic workmanship on smaller questions to the art of his workmanship on large. Me. Gladstone is not a wondertu; piece ot political architecture, but he is a very wondertu museum of minor political art. No one could ear pa a him in his treatment of technical politics, — his view of the charities,—his various expositions of the financial situations.—his app'ication of a principle like non-intervention to single foreign questions,—but as a general statesman there is some want of grasp, largeness, and tenacity. In what Mr. Gladstone calls " the homely sphere of simple utility" he is not at home. " A dustman," he says, "cannot be expected to move with the grace of a fairy, nor can his cart be constructed on the flowing lines of a Greek chariot at war." So we may say that a political Secretary to the Treasury, a flay ter or a Brand, who has to look after the political desthole, cannot ba expected to move with the grace of a Gladstone, nor would the Chancellor of the Exchequer be eminently fitted perhaps to the homely druagery of work like Mr. F. Peel's. Oa the other hand, the highest reach of s'atesmanship, the " pure thought" of Burke, the firm audacity of Cavour, the aristocratic loftiness of Ricasoli, is also beyond him. It is in the interme diate world that his wonderful fertility of resource and flexibility of talent shows itself—in inventing all kinds of graceful forms and moulds for ideas of secondary political importance—not always secon dary at least, but secondary in critical times. The Peelite party always used to strike us as con sisting more or less of minor political utilities seftened by grace of form*" earthen vessels" moulded some to honour, and some at least to but little honour, like the late Sir J. Graham—though never mere political utensils, like the sons of the late Sir IL Peel. Mr. Gladstone is something a good deal more than this—not only a graceful political " vessel," but a graceful political artist, who has turned the Treasury into a perfect Etruria of beau tiful utilities, and stowed away figures and finance in shapes of the most exquisite form. Yet he re mains a politician of the same stamp—of adaptive administrative ingenuity—moulding dull subjects to comely forms, uniting the maximum of beauty with the maximum of utility. In him the earthen vessel is almost transfigured by its classical symmetry into political power of another order. His tamer Peelite colleagues might almost say, with regard to him and his flowing silver oratory, " though he has lien among the pots, yet has he the wings of a dove,that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold." SATURDAY REVlEW.—Mr.Beecherts speeches on English platforms will have accomplished some practical good, if the applause which he has re ceived so tar propitiates his vanity as to induce him to discontinue, on his return to America, his agita tion against England. The classes which are in fluenced by philanthropic declaimers are the same in both countries, but it is only in the United States that they possess political influence. If all the hundreds of thousands who have listened to Mr. Beecher's spaeches had been Parliamentary electors they would nevertheless fail to secure the reproduc tion in the House of Commons of the fallacies which they expect and admire in the congenial sphere of Exeter Hall. The aristocratic element in English institutions has been preserved chiefly by the tradi tional habit of choosing educated representatives. Popular clamour is accordingly forced to express itself through channels which effectually modify its character. The nonsense of the hustings dies away in the House, not because it is arbitrarily repressed but through dread of the ridicule and moral disap probation which await sentimental exaggeration or dishonest claptrap. Mr. Bright himself acknow ledges the validity of the unwritten Parliamentary law,and the wholesome constraint almost raises him, for the time, from a demagogue to a statesman. The feminine reasoning and effeminate passion•of poli tical preachers such as Mr. Beecher are happily im possible where competent critics have the oppotu nity of reply ; and the arguments and opinions which are not good enough for Parliament are with out operation in public affairs. The very shop keepers, and perhaps even the Dissenting ministers who crowded Mr. Beecher's meetings, would rather be governed by men of the world than by irrespon sible spouters. In England the national conscience instinctively repudiates the loose morality of the sectarian pulpit, but it seems that the distribution of power in America is wholly different, although the practical effect of popular rhetoric may perhaps be exaggerated by foreigners. Mr. Beecher eau scarcely have influenced the judgment of any Eng lishman on American affAiro, but at home he has disciples who may possibly have it in their power to inflame or to check the national fury against the unoffending mother country. Having hitherto used his utmost efforts to stimulate the vulgar clamour, Mr. Beecher will ucw pro bably be inclined to attribute the success of his own speeches to the friendly feelings of English men ; and for some time to come he will suspend his demands for the best blood of England to be shed in compensation for the surrender of Mason and Slidell. It is the fault of clerical participators in secular con troversies that they seldom find it possible to be tho roughly in earnest. Accustomed to vague plati tudes, to conventional dogmatism, and to the entire that, absence of opposition, they fail to understandd err or are in legal or financial discussions, truth a sketch of of serious importance. An ingenious theory of the motives of Jeroboam, or a pleasant fancy the private life of Hezekiah, amuses devout idlers, while it leaves the foundations of morality unin jured; but even Mr. Beecher might reflect that the tSSUCS of peace and war might be hereafter affected by a deliberate falsification of the history of the -e-izure of the Trent. A popular preacher is probably incapable of apprehending the rent question which arose between the neutral and belligerent Govern ments, but the narrative which was addressed to the meeting at Manchester, though perhaps not con sciously untrue, was entirely imaginary. Mr. Beecher is one of those placable disputants who are willing to forgive an adversary, while they are in capable of admitting they were themselves origi nally in the wrong. When he professes to leave England in a more amicable state of mind, he by no means conceals his belief that in every dispute or conflict of opinion America has been fully justified. The enthusiasm of Exeter Hall against slavery is allowed, in some degree, to atone for the recogni tion of belligerent rights, and for the demand of satisfaction after the outrage on the Trent. Yet the Manchester audience by to means expressed the sentiment of the country if they were content with the condescension of a pardon which is neither asked nor required. Mr. Beecher's version or the story of the Trent has the merit of originality, and the defect of utter variance from the truth. He asserts that the English precedents were confessedly in favour of the lawfulness of the seizure, while the American doctrine was opposed to the claim of the belligerent. Mr. Seward, with a refined courtesy, waited to know whether the English Government would renounce its own principles by demanding satisfaction, or acquiesce in the enforcement of a law which had been deduced from its own practice. As soon as it appeared that England preferred immediate success to legal consistency, Mr. Seward conceded the surrender of the prisoners ; and the nation, though taken by sur prise, unanimously accepted the decision of the Go vernment. It is hardly necessary to say that the demand of the English Government was exclusively founded on the law and supported by the precedents which are accepted by the courts of both countries. Admiral Wilkes thought fit to declare that the Southern Commissioners were embodied despatchee, and no American lawyer succeeded in inventing a more plausible excuse for the capture. Mr. Seward deserves credit for the pressure which he exercised on his colleagues and on the President himself in favour of law and peace; but he thought himself compelled by popular opinion to pretend, in his ela borate communication to the English Government, that he only surrendered the prisoners because they were personally unimportant. Two days before the final decision, the rest of the Cabinet was una nimously opposed to concession, and the English Minister at Washington warned his Government that the preparations for war must be pressed for ward with the utmost vigour. In the meantime, Admiral Wilkes had received the freedom of a dozen cities in reward for an exploit which was important only as it was offensive, and the Governor of Mas sachusetts publicly congratulated him on the affront which he had offered to the English flag. At this moment Mr, Beecher would fail to find a lawyer either in England or in America who would venture to defend the interference with the Trent ; yet, after two years spent in urging his countrymen to avenge their miscarriage, he is now prepared to extend a tardy forgiveness to the community which he has done his utmost to injure. Philanthropy and piety are not sufficient excuses for the indulgence of spite ful passions, and those who incessantly describe themselves as ministers of the Gospel ought to re member that even white men have rights and feel ings which are entitled to respect. Mr. Beecher may be in some degree excused on the ground of professional laxity, as the trumpeter in lE3op may perhaps scarcely have been conscious of the sangui nary tendency of his performance; but the indis criminate severity of the ancient court-martial has been perpetuated as a moral precedent by all collec tors of fables. EXAMINER.—Prussia is in the throes of a genera I election. Those delegates who are to choose the actual members have been already designated, tied they consist of all the more eminent citizens op posed to the Court throughout the kingdom. Can or does the army reject and remain a stranger to those sentiments which pervade the whole mass of the Prussian nation ? That is the question, A sol• dier cannot alone fly in the face of the order and discipline which fetter him, and it takes a consi derable lapse of time to render general that feeling of dislf , ction which would throw obedience off; hut an accident, a position, might occur or be offered, that would render it much easier for the Prussian soldier. In face of en armed and turbulent insur rection he would. no doubt, do what he stile holds to be his dniy. But as things go he will SOUR be called upon to put down passive resistance and shoot unarmed fellow. citizens. The general refusal of taxes by not only a whole town, but a whole district, would severely try Bismark's authority over the army. Such things, we hear,.are mooted. The feel ing in great towns may be judged from that of Cologne, where the King dared not be present at the inauguration of the Cathedral. Elberfeld is the Manchester of Prussia; what if it refused, as it :should, to pay taxes which have been -vet un voted by the Parliament ? In the meantime the other Powers and Princes of Germany, great and small, are making preparations so as to be ready for the great catastrophe. They expect nothing less than a revolution in Prussia,—a new 1848. They entertain very different views on the subject. Some dread lest the conflagration should extend to their territories, and set their ill-ordered houses on fire ; whilst certain princes, who feel themselves strong, and are, therefore, sanguine and arrogant, think only of taking advantage of the utter break up of Prussia to appropriate to themselves some of the fragments. This may seem very absurd ; but nothing is too absurd for some small German Courts. A happy pretext for covering and concealing all these designs, these hopes and fears, is offere by the Danish quarrel. All the northern Princes, and some of the southern, have seized the opportunity to arm and swell their contingents to the full. Han over and Saxony have each got up a corps dorm& under the plea of entering and occupying Holstein; yet the Kings both of Hanover and Saxony have dealt less liberally with their subjects than the Danish King can have dealt with the Holsteiners. However, Savons and Hanoverians are armed and mustered on the frontiers. Prussia and Austria have undertaken to support the two others by corps of reserve. This enables Prussia to keep a large force in disaffected Westphalia ; and Aus tria, at the same time, to mass her troops in Bohemia. Austria has collected all the minor Powers, with three or four exceptions, in her scheme for the reorganisation of the Confe deration, They have just passed resolutions which amount to a new Confederetion, leaving out Prussia. If this is to be the case, what is to be come of the Zollverein ? what of the political, mili tary, or commercial union of Germany ? All threaten shipwreck and dispersion. In fact, Ger many is a chaos, and an irremediable chaos, if in the opinion of its own Princes it were not on the eve of revolution. LONDON REVIEW.—There are signs that the French policy in Mexico is about to receive its final development. The ostensible design of founding an independent empire under the Archduke Maxi milian has always been hard to understand. That it would entail an immense sacrifice of blood and treasure was quite apparent, but it was difficult to see in what mode France was to derive any material compensation. If, indeed, the enterprise had been popular, another and an adequate compensa tion might have been found in the gratifica tion of the national vanity and love of glory. But, in spite of all the laboured productions of inspired writers, our neighbours have mani fested an unmistakeable repugnance to making war for so singular an idea as the establishment of a Latin empire under a German emperor. It appeared clear that sooner or later this dislike would become a source of embarrassment to the Government, and it was difficult to suppase that the Emperor was blind to the danger or to the necessity of averting it. Many shrewd observers have, therefore, long maintained that the project of conferring the crown on an Austrian prince was only a cover for the real intention to convert Mexico into a French depen dency. These suspicions derive some confirmation from the fact that while the Archduke has been induced to make the acceptance of the throne de pendent upon guarantees which he is not likely to obtain, the official organs of the French Govern ment have ceased to chaunt, as they did but lately, the popularity of his candidature, and hints are already being thrown out that, after all, the true c desire of the Mexicans is for annexation to Farasunere. As the Emperor Napoleon has now nment tabled that no one but the Federa l Gvr would raise any serious objection to his t_isaaac oi of an American province, it is probable tsubiesiwtiiolal, before long, take steps for convincing that their resources have . not bee my, a his subjects been w spteerdhounpas,psuarfeellyy philanthropic enterpme • He h u e ire f d ar i g u r o ea ra te e r r sacrificesrelyupon w t h h i e o i h r r w e i a i d l iuneeartsaitnolymbauk set ci .ttyn ofe an c e i e i n o t u j e u m u ffi n t c ulti for t t s h e i i n r the way of ca rrying out the arrangement for their an to secure so o so utezuma., , glitterin g pire o threatens s wa y of u a r t r o y interposehiraue nhpaferor arrangement e v g a n e e sr m s d ‘ ne.eation to Greece. tthat our h We readinessad ee r ttoaiusulyrreander the protectorate would be met by an equal readiness on their part to concur in such measures as might be requisite to satisfy our fair claims on account of money expended in the improvement and defence of the islands, to disarm the apprehensions of foreign powers whose concurrence is necessary for their transfer to Greece, or to meet the natural anxiety of the Danish Royal family in regard to a suitable provision for br m eyci a i au n ni t s a i t i ae n u, i t n hh g oo wr t i h ot e av te d irv i , g et n ov i a t o y st oe o e f ro tf t a li iin e h e n i n e a w st she t em h fi r b o rls n yt e if n tt ta was desired to join their kinsman on the mainland, and the Lord High Commission er therefore proposed that that body should first decide this point, leaving other mAtters for stai6equent discussion, Nothing could be more reasonable; but instead of pursuin g the course marked out for them the lonian Parlia ment has not only decreed that the Septinsular Republic should be forthwith annexed to Greece, but by a resolution in favour of his own immediate dissolution it has practically refused even to con sider the further propositions of the English Go vernment. It is probable that Sir H. Storks took the only course open to him in proroguing for six months so impracticable an assembly. Time will thus be gained for negotiation with the powers in terested; and the lonian people will have an oppor tunity of compelling their representatives to recog nise the inevit.:ble conditions of their union to Greece. In the meantime the position of the Eng lish Government is certainly one of considerable difficulty. It is impossible for us to disregard the provisions of treaties, toe remonstrances of friendly powers, the terms of the convention into which we have lately entered, and even our own claims. But every question thus raised is rendered either insoluble, for the time, or more difficult of solution, by the conduct of those persons who for the last 20 years have clamoured for the very thing which we are most anxious to give them. It is said that the course taken by the lonian Parliament is due to the intrigues of the ex-King Otho's partisans; and un doubtedly nothing could serve their purpose better. It gives us, however, but a poor opinion of the public spirit or the practical saguctty of those who are probably destined to play a leading part in the councils of Greece. IRELAND, DUBLIN, Oat. 31. We have had a succession of tremendous gales, with showers of hail, all through this country since Thursday. In Belfast, Cork, and Limerick it blew a perfect hurricane, hurling slates off the roofs of the houses, throwing down chimneys, demolishing glass windows, lifting children off their feet, and. dashing them about fearfully. The storm swept with all its force across the Channel, and the ship ping felt its full force. It is said that there has been a tremendous sea running mid-Channel and off the Welsh coast. The gale seems to have been too much for the Prince Consort. Having sprung a leak, she is said to have been kept from sinking only by the great exertions of the officers and crew. Having been anchored in the Man-of-War Road, off Kingstown, the fury of the gale was such that she soon parted her cables. A second anchor was dropped, and she now rides steadily. The leakage has not increased. Campbell the diver, is to examine her, and ascertain the amount of injury she has sustained. The storms still continue, with hail showers and bitter cold. The Tyrawley Herald of Thursday contains a long report of the proceedings in the Court-house of Ballina on the previous day. Colonel Knox Gore, Major Knox, Captain Jackson, and other gentlemen had called a meeting for the purpose of organizing an Agricultural Improvement Society. The meet ing was numerously attended, and excited great interest. It was remarkable for the free discussion of the land question, and for the statements made regarding the causes of " Irish decline" and the emigration of the agricultural classes. The chair was taken by Colonel Knox Gore, who spoke at some length on the present state of the agricultural interest in this country. He is a good resident landlord, a man of superior intelligence, and has studied the subject, and, after much consideration, has submitted the result of his reflections to the public. Having referred to the prosperous state of the country 20 years ago, and to the famine, he said he attributed the difficulties of the country since that period to the fact that the potato was to be for the future a root of uncertainty and not root of plenty, and to the bad system of husbandry'. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, and quite equal to the demand. The sales made were at fully late rates for all samples. Late prices were maintained for barley, with a good show. Flour in favour of the buyer. Other articles about the same. White wheat. 43s to 45. I Red wheat 38s to 41s Malting barley ...36s to 38s I Chevalier barley 36s to 370 Distilling d 0..... 33s to 35s I Oats.. to 28s Flour, 31s Od to —a Od per sack from the miller. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 408 to 448; red, 40s to 438-per ~ 365 t.) pew white, 40sto 438; red, 38a to 40s. Malting barley , 3ls 'to 625 s per qr ; grualla6, zoo (... so., cob t 30s; new, 20s to24s ; beans, 40s to 425; peas, 34s to 40s. NORTHAMPTON-SATURDAY. There was a fair show of wheat today, at former rates. —White wheat, 40s to 445., red, 35s to 42s ; fine, to —s per qr. Barley, 35s to 39a—grinding, 288 to 30s Oats, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, 38s to 425. Peas; 34s to 40s per qr. YORK—SATURDAY. We were moderately supplied with wheat to-day, an d the best sorts were held at about late currencies. Barley and other articles unaltered. Wheat, s red 36s to:4os Oats.... l Bs to 201 White do .40s to 44s Beans to Barley .30s to 32s Peas 4 oto Malt, 62s to 61s per qr.; rye, 308 per qr.; flour, 303 to 32s per sack. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. A moderate supply of wheat at market to-day, and abou t the usual attendance of farmers. A fair trade, as follows" —White wheat, from 41s to 455; red wheat, 35s to 4 26 : Barley—malting, 338 to 408 ; grinding, 28s to 31s. Oa!' old, at 24s to 31s Od ; new, 22s to 265. Beans sold at 3 8° to 43s per qr, ; new, 388 to 425. LEICESTER--.SATunnAY. There was a good demand for the best sorts of wheat, s t last week's prices. Barley at full rates. Beans inactiv o l —New white wheat, 41s to 44 s ; red, 39 s to 41s per Jv stone. Old red, 39s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, maltiugt new, 34s to 38s per qr.; grinding, 29s to 325; old oats , 25s to 30s; new oats, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. Beall° , old, 38s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour. 30s to 35s per 20 btone. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAI.Lo D LE. 15. 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