The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Manag em ent of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. 'H ar rison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING Wallace's new Opera e. Lau of LOVE'S TRIUMPH : Miss Louisa l'yne, and Mdmra Cooke, Barter ; Messrs. George Perren , W . EL Weiss, H. Corri, A. and W. Harrison. Conductor —Mr. A. Mellon. Alter which, the Grand Comic Cu:lamas Pantomime, en titled HA Doors open at half-past i',---fiommence at 7. Tg E A TRE-R 0 Y DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT OF EIN. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LIT'LE GO )DY TWO SHOES. Commence at 7. T ILEATB E 7A HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dunclreary, Mr. Sothern. After which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled IASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Concluding with OUR MARY AN-NE. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE R. THIS EVENING, Feb. 3, to commence with an Orioinal Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled TRE DUKE'S _MOTTO, by Paul Feval a nd John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter w , iddi supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, combe, W. M`lntyre, F. Charles , Garden, -Raymond, Butler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, I . Idavenne, and Elaworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will shortly appear. er f o rmance to Doors open at half-past Si x, p commence at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 Is. cid, and is£2 2s ; Upper . Places registered. Stalls, 6s. 6 d. ; Dress Circle, . 6d. Circle, 4s. ed. Prices at doors—Stalls, 65.; Dress Circle 59 • Upper Circle, 4. ; Pit, 2s. Gall tails, o half-price. Box office open daily from 11 till 5. The public are entreated to take notice that no charge is made to . the occupants of boxes, box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the safe keep ing of hats and cloaks and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting - Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. f,::ssee and Manager, Mr Linduh. THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver. Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick. • After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, "RIQUET WITH THE ruFT; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and Iludspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Halford. NEW THEATRE-110 PAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE and I TLE TRF, \ SURE. Mr. Billing,ton, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie 'Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole, r Bedford. and Mrs. Billington. To be followed by " GEORGE DE BARN - WELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy.'' Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, Slephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Nr. John Lauri; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. llildyard ; ranta l o on, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and Zertrand Commence at 7. The Weather.—Sun Office, Feb. 3, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at Noon 4B Barometer-29.77. Wind —Westerly ; light, dull and rainy, with light rain yesterday afternoon and during the night. lIIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Moraing, 2h. Bm.—Afternoon, 2h. 26m, TO-mo.nitow.-Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 2h. 59m. gjr dfr, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. The Bust of BRUTUS would really appear to be ' nothing compared to the Prince NAPOLEON. Like that particularly dull man who was spoken of by the French wit so very cynically as having " a great talent of silence," H. I. H. seems to be re garded by some as having been wonderfully con vpieuous the other day by his absence from the Palace of the Tuileries when the Senate presented their loyal address to the Emperor. Precisely for that same reason, the Bust of BRuTtis aforesaid was the most thought of, we are told, among all the memorials of the great men of Ancient Rome, be cause nowhere visible in the procession. As it happens, however, a great deal more importance than, it appears to us, is any way reasonably worth while attributing to his Imperial Highness's say ings and doings in France, is attached to them by certain observers, from this side of the Channel, of events occurring there in Continental Europe. Almost all the influence really appertaining to the Prince NAPOLEON is nevertheless in point of fact simply reflected. He stands very near to the throne of his particularly able cousin the reigning Sovereign of France. Until the birth of the Prince Imperial, H. I. H. the Prince NAPOLEON was, moreover, the Heir Presumptive to the Crown Of NAPOLEON 111. Since the advent of that youthful Hope of the BONAPARTES, the Prince NAPOLEON has shrunk back into the subordinate position of being no more than one of their Impe rial Highnesses. The first of them, if you will ; but still only an Imperial Highness. Before the advent of the second Empire—long before the coup d'etat—nay, for that matter, prior to the passing from view of the National Assembly— the Prince NAPOLEON, then, observe, not in any way affecting to be an Imperial Highness at all, but priding himself, it would seem, above all things, upon being one of the popular representa tives in the great Democratic Parliament : at that fugitive epoch of enthusiasm for Republican In stitutions, it cannot be forgotten that the Prince NAPOLEON almost settled down, for a time, among the avowed Reds, upon one of the benches of the Mountain. hovered about in the neighbourhood of those benches. He loitered into the lobbies of the ultra democrats. He rubbed elbows with political op timists of all kinds ; evidenced something of a pro clivity towards the ouvrier set, of which Citizen ALBERT was, so to speak, Xhe arch prophet ; could upon occasion lend an ear to the speeches of BARBES, or an eye to the writings of PROUDHON. -La proprieto c'est le vol did not so much affect him, for example—probably from the simple reason that he had none! However this may or may no t have been—a very little time had elapsed after the Presi dent Louis NAPOLEON had somewhat further ad vancedon his way towards the acquis ition of a throne, thelmperial throne of the BONAPARTES, when —from having regarded his cousin,the P resident, as it were, askance—the Prince NAPOLEON gradually be came more and more that cousin's " most obedient." Actuated, probably,Prinee NAPOLEON was, in this, at the particular time we are referring to, by what spok en o f as " a li ve l y sense o f has been whimsically favours to come." Stepby step as the BONAPABTES were then borne onward, " the coming events," to use the already proverbial metaphor of CAMP BELL, " cast their shadows before." The Presi dent of tw French Republic became after a while the " Prince President?' Then "Monseigneur the Prince President." Then finally, before the coup d'etat had come to prepare the way for something yet more authoritative, the Prince assumed, at that transition period, the incongruous and contra dietory name, style, and .itle—ithis was the strange superscription, in fact, upon the majJrity of letters and documentepoured in, ,at that time, upon the chief personage then inhabiting the Palace of the Elysee] .—the utterly extravagant and contradictory name, style, and title of Monsiegneur, 5.A.1., Le Prince President de hi Republique Franeaise. Evan Mr. KINGLAKE, in the midst of his poiso nous outpourings of vitriol-like vituperation, even Mr. KINGLAKE does mercifully drop, as it were, one eivgle refreshing drop of cold water upon one at least of the race of 80/4APA.RTE, when (it is in Chapter Fourteen) he intimates that PRINCE NAPOLEON (and his father also, by the way) held aloof from the doings of the Con- spirators ! All very well and very fine, no doubt, on the part of the late Prince JEROME and his son Prince NAPOLEON—OnIy, they did not, as it ap pears, afterwards hesitate for one instant to avail themselves of all the good things that, upon the successful accomplishment of the coup d'etat (without their help or co-operation; remember ! in any way—nay, we are told, with their distinct repudiation at the time) poured in, more or less abundantly, upon all having a legitimate right to the name of BONAPARTE. Prince JEROME, for example, became in due course (as became him !) Governor of the Invalides, and guardian of the tomb of the Great NAPOLEON. Prince NAPOLEON became, in his turn, not merely (like the rest of them) an Imperial Highness—that is when the Elysee was forsaken for the Tuileries ! But—more than that, as already intimated in the course of these remarks—he be came, in a manner, the Imperial Highness : having been adopted by his Cousin as the Heir Presump tive to the newly restored Imperial Throne. The red flag was dropped for the glorious tricolour as sociated, as LAMARTINE had reminded even Repub lican France, in the February of '4B, with the Im perial glories of the First Empire. From the flag staff of the tricolour—accepted tardily in lieu of the " red" by H.l.H.—had, in a manner, bour geoned the Napoleonic eagle. The fre quenter of the National Assembly, the haunter of the Benches of the Mountain in those earlier halcyon days of the Republic became (not so very long . afterwards) the frequenter of the salons of the Tuileries, the haunter of the steps of the throne. Afterwards, at little remoter intervals than marked the division of time between those preliminary changes, H.I.H. the Prince NAPOLEON took part as a General of Division in the Crimean war— attempted to take part (very slowly and hesitatingly as it happened) in the Italian war, conducted in reality in person by his cousin the EMPEROR —was married to the Princess CLOTILDE, the eldest daughter of King VICTOR EMMANUEL—and, as the latest inci dent in this eventful history, conducted, as President of the French Commissioners, the organisation of the Gallic department in the Great International Exhibition at South Kensirgton. All this while, the Republican BONAPARTE, the Democratic NA POLEON of 1848, has once, and once only, spoken right out from the parliamentary pulpit of the Tribune in the Imperial Smite. It was a somewhat memorable occasion: memorable among other rea sons, perhaps, because of the very circumstance of its having about it this distinguishing and excep tional character. The speech was clever enough in its way, no doubt : but it was a purely isolated display of oratory. If never followed up by another, it will leave the Prince with the rhetorical reputa tion of being the Single Speech HAMILTON of France. It sounded a very chivalric and magnani mous argument at the time of its delivery. But, when it comes to be locked back to, its magnanimity seems rather questionable of its kind. For its para mount aim and object was, when put into plain words, the aggrandisement of his Imperial Highness's father-in-law, the King VICTOR EMMANUEL! Having, possibly, besides, an arriere pensee in regard to the discovery somewhere (who shall say where ?—at Naples ? at Florence ? or where else ?) of a snug little throne, to be manntac tured out of the debris of the revolutionise d Italian I States, for that wholly unselfish and perfectly dis interested champion of Italian liberty, the Prince NAPOLEON himself ! No—we acknowledge it : we have no faith whatever in this hypothetical magnanimity, any more than in this supposititious " powerful in fluence," of H.I.H. the Prince NAPOLEON. As for the amount of the influence exercised by him in France well, he is still there spoken of (not so very reverentially) as chou chou by the vast majority of educated French men. While as to his magnanimity and disinte restedness and all that—why. it is perfectly noto rious and manifest to everybody that his Impe rial Highness, during these last ten or twelve years, has had his share of the pickings! Alto gether, we fancy, that bust of BRUTUS could be very well dispensed with, in the recent procession of the Senate to the presence of the EMPEROR at the Turneries. In other words, viewing the matter quite calmly and dispassionately, we cannot for the life of us, attach any importance whatever to the fact that his Imperial Highness took no part at all in the presentation of the Address. The continued successes of the Alabama have called forth from the people of the Northern States, if possible, a more acrimonious feeling towards England than they have hitherto displayed. They seem to have overlooked (if they ever were ac quainted with it) the text—" As you sow, so shall you reap." They do not choose to remember that during the late Russian war, American merchants did a good stroke of trade with the Russians ; and that England declined to interfere with Ame rican ships entering Memel, although it was very well known that revolvers, rifles, and other con traband of war were smuggled in bales of cotton. Moreover, in the year 1856 a frigate, named the America, was built in the United States for the Russian Government, and loaded with arms and munitions of war, she sailed to the port of Petropauloveki, on the Pacific, under the command of an officer of the United States navy. But England did not make Europe ring with tirades against the breach of neutrality by a friendly 'power. She knew better. She gave the United States Government the benefit of the doubt as to compli city in the affair, and relying on her own strength, let the matter pass. The Alabama was built at Liverpool, and so secret was her destination kept, that when the builders, Messrs. LAIRD and Co., asked the party on whose authority she was built, what was to be her name, he would not give it, and they, therefore, christened her, for the non ce , being the two hundred and yard. nm A at t io le n ng w t a h s (when, however, it wa s too late)'n'irnrehteiet2h9voes"seslheeonstructedin their iti an sent to the Government o f her probable destina tion, and an order for her detention wa s immedi ately dispatched to Liverpool ; but she had already gone out on a TRIAL TRIP, which proved so satis factory that she never returned. Was our Government responsible for this? Do the United States expect that a secret espionage is to be kept up at all our building yards ? and, even if yu ah a practice were to prevail, there are a hundred ways by which the scrutiny could be evaded. It is impossible for any Government to restrain its subjects from aiding foreign belligerents. The QUEEN'S proclamation warned all, that if they in any way infringed the laws of neutrality laid down in that proclamation, they would do so at their own risk, and could not look to the English Government for protection in case of failure or capture by an enemy. It is with this knowledge that the Alabama was built. It is with this knowledge that she is in all probability supplied with coals and ammunition from this country. J is with this knowledge that the make- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1863. believe blockades of the Southern pots are-daity LATEST INTELLIGENCE• broken by fast steamers. " in English bosoms, A n d chance of profit still calls fo . th H e r people's enterprise." The For germ.deep co mmercial lies, What are the Americans about al; this time ? Where is the fiery spirit of that go-a-head nation who in the time of peace boasted i:s ability to " whip creation ?" What has become of the fleet, and where are the thousand privateers will which they threatened to sweep the commerce of England from the seas in the event of a war ? They still boast of the rapidity with which they can cons•ruct vessels, and they have certainly turned out .ome curious ' ones in a very short space of time. Why cannot they build some half-dozen fast vessels, and hunt down and capture this so-called pirate, end so protect their commerce in a straightforward and independent way, rather than admit their weakness by railing against England, and accusing us of partiality to the Southern States. Partiality has been shown during this war; but it has not been shown to the South. The North has had tenfold the advantages from us that the South have ever had. They have had every faci lity to transport warlike stores from British ports to New York, while the Southern Confederacy have been obliged to trust to the skill of their pilots, and the enterprise of foreigners for what supplies they wanted, and these had to run the gauntlet of a blockading fleet—bow efficient its ill success can testify. That a blockade, to be binding upon foreign States, must be effective, is an estab- lished law of nations. Yet while that of the Northern States was preposterously ineffective, the Government of Great Britain forbore to take ad vantage of it on a punctilio of honour; thus leaving her manufactories without supply, and driving to starvation hundreds of thousands of operatives, besides acting a more ungenerous part to States struggling for independence. Yet, after all this, the ill will to this country of a discontented people who are striving for an impossibility, the hope of which every day becomes more remote, is truly ridi culous. They declare that intervention on our part to endeavour to stop this unnatural and unholy war would probably bring about a reconcilia- THE WAR IN AMERICA. (Per the City of Baltimore, via Roche's Point, Feb. 3, 8.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, JAN. 24. The orders given on Saturday to the Army of the Potomac to cross the Rappahannock were counter manded till Sunday. On that day they were again postponed to Monday, and on Monday (for the third time) until Tuesday, the 20th, when the following address was issued to the troops by Gen. Burnside : "Headquarters of the Potomac Camp, near Falmouth, Jan. 20, 1863. " The Commanding General announces to the Army of the Potomac that they are about to meet the enemy once more. " The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock ; and the auspi cious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country. " Let the gallant soldiers of so many brilliant battle•fields accomplish this achievement, and a fame the most glorious awaits them. " The Commanding-General calls for a firm and united action of officers and men, and, under the Providence of God, the Army of the Potomac will have taken the great step towards restoring peace to the country and the Government to its rightful authority.—By command of Major-Gen. Burnside, (Signed) " LEWIS RICHMOND, Assistant- Adjutant-General. tion between the two contending parties to form a coalition for the conquest of Canada and the humi liation of England! Tne Yankees can " talk big,” but this is a little too much. What ! when with all " (Official.) " EDWARD M. NEILL, Captain, and Acting Assistant Adj utan t-General." There ate no accounts from the army later than the 20th, but it was asserted in Washington yester day that General Hooker's division had crossed the river, 12 miles above Falmouth. Much solicitude continues to prevail in New York, aggravated by the absence of all authentic ❑ews for three days. The state of the army, which is reported to amount to 135 000 men, inclusive of the reserves under General Sigel, is not considered hopeful. The men are dissatisfied at not receiving their pay, and openly express their want of confidence in General Burnside. Confederate accounts state that the Federal gun boats made an unsuccessful attack upon Fort Fas well, one of the defences of the water approach to Wilmington, North Carolina, on the 13th. On the 13th General Whiting had addressed the citizens of Wilmington, stating his belief that the city would be attacked in a few days both by land and water, and urged the necessity of removing the women and children to a place of greater safety. The Federals, estimated at 60,000 strong, were reported to have appeared near Kingston on the 14th. The Confederate pickets were driven in, and a great battle was considered imminent. The steamer Columbia, which was captured by the Federals while attempting to run the blockade at Charleston about a year ago, and subsequently turned into a vessel of war, grounded off the North Carolina coast on the evening of the 14th. On the 16th she was captured by the Confederates ; her commander, twelve officers, and twenty-eight men their naval power the utmost they can do is to send a bullying captain to kidnap four passengers on board of an English mail packet, far which great deed they first feted the hero, and then, in fear of the consequences, ate humble pie to prevent a war with the country which they boasted to despise ; or to despatch a fleet of gunboats to do the only real service that they were capable of, viz., to protect their grand armies, who when defeated and pursued by the enemy found refuge under cover of their guns. While all this has been going on, English merchant men have been stopped almost in British waters, and the renowned WILKES has insulted our flag at Bermuda and elsewhere, while the corvette Tusca rora, and one or two others, have spent the last two years in vainly searching after two commercial steamers which the Confederate Government with difficulty equipped and armed. These vessels inter cepted many American traders which they captured anddestroyed—they were here,there,and everywhere. At least the Sumter was, for the Nashville having more speed than strength was occupied in supplying the South with stores. We had a sample of the cool impudence of the Americans in the conduct of the officers of the Tuscarora in Southampton water, when in the dead of night a boat's crew was despatched to watch the proceedings of this ship lying in the duck, and who only desisted when threatened with forcible ejectment by the dock officials; and but for the presence of an English frigate specially charged to keep order and see that the inviolability of a British port was respected woald have attacked her in the river. Denied a market for their prizes in every neutral port, what was left to these cruisers of a belligerent State, whose duty it was to prevent as far as possible the commerce of an enemy, but to destroy the vessels they captured ? At first this seemed a ruthless waste of property, but on consideration all must see that it was their only course. The Northerners carried their prizes into their own ports. The Southerners, their ports being blockaded, had but one resource, viz,, to burn or scuttle them. Yet this is denounced as piracy by the countrymen of General BUTLER. It were well that some of the Northern Generals would learn moderation from Captain Semmes of the Alabama, and contrast his conduct to the troops and marines on board the Ariel, and the crews of other captured vessels, with that of General M'NEIL and murderers of his class, who not only committed crime them selves but drove their opponents to a like course in self-defence. We acquit neither party of the guilt, for it does not follow that because one side does wrong that the other side should fellow suit, but the temptation is nevertheless great. Yet, notwith standing the vindictive declaration of the Govern ment at Washington, that he should be hanged as a pirate when caught, Captain SEMMES has main tained the even tenor of his way, taking all that he can, but not acting with unnecessary harsh ness. In fact, what Stonewall JACKSON is on land, SEMMES is upon the sea—equally daring and equally considerate to prisoners. But what of all this. The navy of the North cannot catch him, or perhaps do not care to do so, for every capture that the Alabama makes, properly managed, augments the hatred of the Northern rabble against England. It is better that the Tuscarora should be lying off Gibraltar watching the Sumter, now the property of some private English firm, for the sake of giving annoyance to the authorities of that place, than run the risk of meeting the Alabama, and thus ruin the chance the Ameri cans have of making peace with those whom they cannot conquer under pretext of a war with Eng land. Such a war might perhaps be of service. Six months would probably see New York in our hands and Portland a permanent British port, and the State of Maine, which was obtained from Eng land by fraud, restored to British rule, Thus the arrogance of the Yankees would receive a check , and communication with Canada would be open to our shippi ng all the year round. But this will not once show nobodyearnest, him. be. J ONATHAN, with all his b ounce, h as common sense to back hi m. H e w i ll talk bi g an d bl us t e r so n e long a s that she answers is in " No offence meant u a t nd let theey England r ois, ; I beg your pardon." The Trent affair is evidence enough of this fact. If America hates England, she likewise respects her, and will take very good care not to come to blows. were taken prisoners. Accounts from the south-west report skirmishing in the vicinity of Port Hudson. Part of the Federal fleet is anchored three miles below the town. One of the Federal gunboats had been disabled by a Confederate battery. The Howe of Representatives has rejected all that portion of Mr. Chase's financial project which relates to the taxation of the banks and a uniform currency. The trial of Gen. Fitz John Porter has, con trary to the general expectation, resulted in the conviction of that officer of shameful disobedi ence of the orders of Gen. Pope. The Court has sentenced Gen. Porter to be dismissed the service, and the President has approved the finding. General Hitchcock has publicly accused General M'Clellan of disobedience of the President's orders, and it is supposed to be the intention to try General M'Clellan by court-martial. Governor Seydour has declined to act upon the suggestion of the Senate to call out the militia in the difficulties existing at Albany on the question of the Speakership, asserting that it would be im proper for him to interfere with the proceedings of any co-ordinate branch of the Government unless requested so to do by its members. No Speaker has yet been elected. Gold, 148, Middling uplands cotton, 16k. SATURDAY MORNING. P.S.--A telegram from the Rappahannock, dated last night, states that alt the previous rumours of the passage of the river wer e untrue. The army had broken up its encam pment and prepared to cross, but, i s consequence of h eav y s t orms an d the impassable state of the roads, the movement of the heavy artillery and am munition waggons has become impossible. The army had, th ere fore, returned to its previous quarters. It is not known whether the advance will be resumed. (per the Jura, via Londonderry.) NEW YORK, JAN. 24 (Evening). At a meeting of the Gresham Committee on Fri day Lieut.-Colonel Palmer proposed that the area of the Royal Exchange should be placed at the disposal of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the City of London for one day during the ensuing spring or summer, for the pur pose of an entertainment to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his bride, the Princess Alexandra, with a dejeuner ala fourchette. In a similar manner her Majesty th e Q ueen and his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort wereenterta E in x e h d ib b i y tio th n e . Gresham Committee upon the occa• BIM of the opening of that building ; and such an enter tainment was proposed to have been offered to his Majesty the he Emperor lmrn ter ooffßtthEe patients F H re o nch last summer, had he been able to come to this country for the purpose of visiting the In ternational relievedP I TA HOSPITAL, , at this ending Jan. 31, was 3,363, ROYAL F week Y'S hospital l i 5- during ßOAi) ‘ tl; ii, eases, Gold 50 per cent. premium. The Federals have captured St, Charles, Duval's Bluff, and Derarc, on the White River, Arkansas. Their light draught gunboats are 300 miles above the mouth of the White River. The most intense excitement continues at Al bany. No Speaker has yet been elected. General Wool, appointed by the Washington Government to command the troops in New York and New England States, has to-day notified to the commanders of the several regiments of the New York Militia that they must report to him. Some did—others boldly refused. General Hall, Com mander of the Militia, has entered a vigorous pro test against General Wool's proceedings. Much excitement prevails on the subject. Governor Sey mour has been notified of Gen. Wool's interference. No action h as yet ta k en pl ace . Heavy ra i ns, making the roads impassable, have rendered the advance of General Burnside's army beyond the Rappahannock for the present im possible. The condition of the roads delayed the transportation of the pontoons and heavy artillery, and prevented the surprise of the enemy at the points designated for crossing the river. No troops, therefore, crossed, and the whole army returned to its former position. Wester n j ourna l s an ti c i pa t e an i mme di a t e a ttack on Roscc ranz b y L ongstreet. 4,800 at Cairo, prisone r s f r om Arkansas Post have arrived A . resoluti on h as b een o ff e red in Congress inquir ing if General Burnside had formed any plans for movements since the battle of Fredericksburg, and there had b een any i nter f erenc e, by what authority. whethe r su b ord i nate off i cers h a d wr itten to Wash ington to i n t er f ere w i t h su ch movement, and , if Congres s h as re j ected the S ec retary of the Trea sury's banki ng scheme, as presented by the Com . mittee of W ays and M eans . The NeW York A ssem bly has reached its 19th ballot for a Speaker, nut none has yei bet The Mexican Minister at Washington n chosen. has com- plained to the Federal Government that he was re fused permission to ship arms to a Mexican blockaded port, while it permitted the shipment of mules and waggons for the French in Mexico. Mr. Seward replied that he did not recognize a state of war as existing between Mexico and the allies, as there had been no declaration of war ; therefore the United States could not govern their conduct by the rules of neutrals; but the prohibi tion to ship arms applied to all nations on the ground of the military necessities of the United States. Gen. Burnside's intended forward movement has been postponed in consequence of the state of the weather. No troops have crossed the Rappahan nock. Tha New York Tribune asserts that Gen. Butler will return to take the command at New Orleans. The Republican journals approve the dismissal of Gen. Fitz John Porter. The The New World says : —" The Administration has struck another blow at ,he army. General Porter's dismissal is a sovereign nj ustice." The tnrretted steamer Weehawker has safely arrived at Fortress :Monroe, after encountering severe gales. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAN. 23, Eve:lng. Exchange on London—bankers' bills, 163. Stocks lower. New York Centrals, 1194 ; Illinois, 921 ; Erie, 784. Cotton unchanged. Flour, corn, and provisions good inquiry. Wheat slightly firmer. Coffee, sugar, and molasses very firm. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JAN. 24. Advices have been received from Vera Cruz to the 3a of January. It was rumoured that General Doblado had committed suicide. It was also re ported that there was a serious misunderstanding between Generals Ortega and Comonfort, and that numerous desertions from the Mexican garrison at Puebla were taking place. A conspiracy had been discovered in the brigade of General O'Horan, and five Mexican officers were shot. 35,000 Mexican troops were at Puebla, ana 10,000 more between there and the capital, There were 12,000 troops at the capital, 8,000 in Quere taro, and 12,000 at Guerrero, mostly badly armed. The fortifications of Puebla are mounted with 200 guns, and those of the city of Mexico with a like number. The courier, who arrived at Mazatlan on the 3d inst., stated that the French were encamped at Puebla, and were disposing their farces for an attack on the city. THE GREEK THRONE. GO FHA, FEB. 2. It is asserted that the negotiations with the Duke of Saxe Coburg, relative to the candidature for the throne of Greece, have again failed. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, FEB. 2. The alarming rumours which recently circulated at Vienna and Paris relative to the state of affairs in the Danubian Principalities are entirely un- rounded. FRANCE. Russia, therefore, makes use of all means for calling out an opportunity for crushing by a blow the national resistance, and to weaken the strength of the nation. The terrible ukases, ordering a dis proportionate forced levy from among the more enlightened classes, the manner of effecting this barbarous measure, and the dread of the awful fate which awaits the proscribed, are the last trials to which patience and the resignation of the Poles are subjected to. This moment is arrived, the eranka began in Warsaw, and as it is said also in some provincial towns. Some 2,50) young men have been dragged out of their dwellings by soldiers and policemen breaking in, in the middle of the night. It was an agonising night, which can only be imagined by the idea of a town taken by storm and delivered up for pillage. Nothing can describe the mournful aspect of Warsaw. All the shops are closed, and large numbers of handcuffed recruits, or parents of those who have not been found and were taken awe) as hostages, are driven by drunken i.nd savage soldiery, like cattle, into the Russian police dens, surrounded by crowds of mothers and wives following these moving hecatombs. The greatest uneasiness pre vails here that this violent measure might give occasion for some individual resistance, which, of course, would be represented by the Russians as an insurrectional attempt. A certain number of young men left Warsaw, following the advice of thht mythic committee which for the last few months is said to be acting secretly in the midst of Russian police and spies, and have taken refuge in the forests of Kaguiros and the marshes near Serock. Flying 'columns are concentrating around them, in order to prevent their escaping out of the country. Probably this will be represented to the world by the Russians as a❑ open insurrection, and taken advantage of for boasting afterwards that a most formidabte move ment bed been heroically crushed, threatening society, religion, and civilisation. I beg to caution you against she telegrams which may be sent over to England just at this moment from Russia and Prussia, and against the great alarm likely to be evinced by the Russian Govern ment, possessing an army of 270,000 men among a disarmed population, and no less than 54,000 meu in Warsaw alone. It may happen that in some part of the vast Polish territory some resistance may be ffered ; but be certain that it would be neither a popular rising, nor the result of any preconcerted plan, but merely despair and rage excited to the highest degree. Still, should an armed resistance occur in some place or other, Russia will try to make good use of it, and it remains with the public opinion in Europe to detect its infernal policy. Le Pays thinks that the efforts now making in Italy to effect a reconciliation between the two great interests which France protects 'are less hopeless than hasty spirits choose to believe. BOURSE, Feb. 2.—Market firm at previous quota tions, Threes for the present settlement being at 69t. 80c. Railway Share Market quiet, but prices pretty well maintained. The market improved to wards the close, and left off as follows : per Cents. . . 98 75 Do end month 98 80 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 95 New 3 per Cents - Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 1185 r m . end month 1178 75 RA IL' Bank Shares 3395 Credit koncier 1492 Piedmontese Fives Italian Loan 7O 45 Russian .. — -- Austrian Spaniela Threes 52 75 dome Debt 'AYS. Cash. Account,. Orleans Northern 'Sew ditto -- - - - . .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1165 .. 1165 Geneva .. Southern Western Eastern .... ..... .., Sardinian — __ _ •s •—•—.• Austrian I ATP bard 507 50 585 - 586 25 North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona - POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NOrf , HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 2. The Queen took a drive in the grounds this morning. Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat have arrived at Osborne, in succession to Major-General the Hon. A. Hood and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. WARSAW, Jan. 24. We have now arrived at the culminating point of the terrible drama enacted in this country by its oppressors. The solemn protest of the nation against its annihilation, expressed by unanimous, though pacific, manifestations of national spirit, brought gloriously the Polish cause before the tribunal of public opinion in Europe—undone the tissue of falsehoods, misrepresentations, and calumnies of many years' work, and torn down the mask of Liberalism spurned by the present self-ruler of Russia. A nation possessing such an historical past as Poland, and standing so far in advance in civilisation and progress before the Muscovites, could not be subdued and absorbed but by brutal force. But semi-barbarous Russia is not only con tented with becoming, by conquest and duplicity, one of the great Powers of Europe, but she lays claim now to equal the other nations in enlighten ment and progress. This mask assumed by Russia has been torn asunder by the indomitable spirit, but passive countenance of the Poles; and the savage, cruel, Asiatic intruder stands before the eyes of deluded Europe. From the beginning of this peaceful struggle the Muscovite Government had two objects in view : to break down by brutal force and artifice the pas sive resistants of the Poles, and to deceive Europe on the real character of the movement and the i means for repressing it resorted to. Notwithstand ing, however, the false representations of the Russian press in Europe, the mendacious tele grams fabricated in Russia and Prussia , and the 1 pompous announcements of concessions and graces I (as reforms bear this name in Russia) granted to Poland, the real position cannot be concealed. Thence arose for the Muscovite Government the its doings of finding a cause, if not an excuse, for doings in Poland. For a long time the people, particularly in the towns, have been irritated and provoked to the highest degree in order to force them into some desperate resistance which could be represented as a revolutionary outbreak. The country was v i r tually made a prey to a lot of adventurers, f or whom neither their own honour nor that of Russia was of any consideration. Conspiracies have been announced as existing or dis covered which, in fact, never existed, excep , •that m agnificent one, consisting of a whole nation moved by the same thought and spirit. All means were resorted to, in order to provoke an outbreak, as nothing could better serve Russia than to have an opportunity to crush it, and th us h ave an occa sion for exercising its revengefulness, Fortunately the Poles have Withstood all these provocations, and by their dignified and contemptible attitude of pas sive endurance, left to the Muscovites the whole re sponsibility of the situation. The Russian Government is not fit for introduc ducing any thing without violence, despotism, and artifice, as it has no real moral basis to lean upon. Such an attitude as that assumed by the Poles put them into a position perhaps more untenable than that of the oppressed themselves. On the other Prince Frederick Louis, the son of George 11. It is also hand, the events is the East force Russia to make worthy of remark that close by the new, bright em herself ready f or an y emergenc y w h i ch might occur, blazon which bea rs th e s hi e ld o f " t h e rose an d and k 8 long as P o l an d s t an d s w i t h h er ar ms crossed expectancy of b y of time,this fair State" is one all darkened but which still tells, in old Norman waiting for the day of j us ti ce and redemption, a French, how e agreat ancestor of his present bride was in- Russia can scarcely think at undertaking a war, stalled in that very seat just 250 years ago. nay, even of interfering powerfully with the affairs With these old storied carvings there is, of course, no of Europe. meddling. Each seat, properly subdivided, would accom- modate—we had almost said three ladies, but certainly two, even dressed in the widest amplitude of the present fashion. Besides, the Knights of the Garter have a right to their stalls on all occasions, and pre-eminently so when the Chief of the Order—the Sovereign—is present at any ceremonial in the chapel. The stalls of the knights, therefore, are to be left untouched, in all their ancient, angular, hard-backed integrity, and all can take their seats on this occasion, from the last and newest knight—Earl Fitzwilliam, whose bright banner has just been hung— up to the senior of the order— the Marquis of Exeter, whose once rich flag is now gray with dust and age. On the space now occupied by the communion rails a raised dais is to be erected and covered with the richest carpeting. On this the ceremony will be performed. On the left side of the altar, between the ter mination of the knights' stalls and the private entrance to the Chapel from the Castle, a small block of seats will be erected for 35 visitors, and on the raised dais the immediate members of the English and Danish Royal families will be seated—her Majesty, with the Royal family and illustrious foreign guests to the number of 14, on the right, with the remainder of the chosen guests and members of the Royal bride's family to the number of 12, on the left. Behind the station for our Royal family will be a raised block of seats, rising tier over tier, to accommodate the diplomatic body, who, with their ladies and first attaches, will be pre sent to the number of 100. Outside the west door of the Chapel, on the green between it and the horse-shoe cloisters, a large temporary building has been begun. This structure ) though of wood and purely temporary, will be decorated in the inside in the most exquisite style. This will contain a fine central hall 60 feet long by 40 broad, and 26 feet high, in which the procession, to pass up the nave of the chapel, will be marshalled and arranged by the Deputy Chamber lain as the members comprising it arrive from the Castle. Built out from this hall, and entirely enclosing it on every side, will be a series of smaller rooms, 20 feet long by 20 broad. On the north aide will be one for the bridesmaids, one for the bride, and one for the Royal Princesses. No thieg has yet been arranged as to the adornment of these saloons, but it is almost needless to say that they are in tended to be as rich and beautiful as taste and money can make them. On the opposite side of the hall ire to be simi lar apartments for the bridegroom's attendants, the bride groom, and one for the Duke of Cambridge and Royal visitors. The outer hall which gives ingress to this tempo rary palace will be 12 feet wide by 70 feet long, and there will be a handsome covered way for the carriages in which the procession will arrive to set down their occupants at this entrance. Visitors to witness the procession up the nave of the Chapel will also, we believe, arrive here, and be conducted to their seats in the nave. The more select few who will be honoured with invitations for the Chapel itself will probably have a separate entrance allotted to them. The ambassadors and their suites will assemble in the Wel sey Chapel, and thence be conducted by the chief Master of the Ceremonies to their places on the right of the altar. The bridal procession will pass in State carriages from the private apartments of the Castle to the ca riage entrance we have spoken of as giving admission to the temporary building outside the west door. Here, while the proces sion is formed and arranged, the bride and bridesmaids and the Lridegroom and his attendants will remain in the re ception rooms set apart for them. Her Majesty will enter the chapel by the private way, and on her arrival the pro cession will move forward up the temporary hall through the nave to the altar. As customary, the bridegroom's procession will move first, so that on the arrival of the bride's cortege at the altar the marriage may be at once pro ceeded with. At present the workmen are busy under the superintendence of Mr. Gilbert Scott in restoring, or rather completing, the exquisite interior of the Wolsey Chapel. The groined roof of this fine old structure was only exe cuted in plaster and composition. This has been entirely removed, and the plaster work replaced in carved stone— the spaces between the rich tracery of the stone work being filled in with tiles, to be covered as soon as possible with the brilliant gas mosaics of Signor Salviati, which attracted attention in the Exhibition last year. The now cheer less-looking windows are also to be filled in with stained glass. When complete this will be one of the most beautiful little shrines in the kingdom. It is intended, we believe, as a memorial chapel to the late Prince Consort, and the expense of its restoration, which will amount to between £25,000 and £30,000, is entirely defrayed by the royal children. It seems scarcely possible, however, that the whole of the interior can be completed in time for the mar riage festivity. The eastern end of St. George's Chapel is also muffled up in canvass, where the workmen are busy removing that monument of George bad taste—the window designed by Sir Benjamin West. This is to be re placed by her Majesty with marriagee m a e m n t a s g c n o i sm il h o op e ul n el t tde dbeinfi memorial xteimd e, more e t'or: arrangements especiallywoek to get if all th ihedeasye sth instead of the 10th of M arc h . — T imes. for win dow to the late Prince. It will need hard work and l a t e The Mayor of Gravesend received from Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, the following reply to a communication addressed to his lordship by the corpora tion respecting the arrangements to be carried out for the reception of the Princess Alexandra on her disembarkation at the port from the royal yacht :—" Sir,—l have to ac knowledge the receipt of a letter addressed to me by the Town-clerk of Gravesend, on the part of the municipal authorities of the borough, relative to the disembarkation of her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Danmark, which will take place at that port on her arrival in this country. I have the honour to inform you, in reply, that as soon as the period of arrival of her oyal highness is de cided upon, I will take an eat ly opportunity of communi cating with the authorities of the borough, with a view to promoting the suitable reception of the princess in the town of Gravesend. I rejoice to hear that the Terrace Pier will be available fur the disembarkation, which, in the event of tb e tide serving, will be a great convenience in the arrange ments.—Your obedient servant, " SYDNEY." The Marriage of the Prince of Wales. The marriage of a Prince of Wales is an event of perfeci novelty to the present generation. It is in fact an event o rarer occurrence in the annals of English history than mos people are aware of or would readily believe. Of all the 14 Princes who have borne this title, only five married when they were in possession of it, and out of this small number one was married abroad. These Princes were, first, the renowned knight who won the triple plume and motto, Edward the Black Prince, who married Joan of Kent; second, Edward, the son of Henry VI., who at Amboise married Lady Anne Neville, the daughter of the King maker; third, Prince Arthur, the son of Henry VII., who at 15 years of age pledged his boyish vows to the unhappy Catherine of Arragon, afterwards the first of the many wives of his next brother Henry ; fourth, Frederick, eldest son of George II , who at the age of 29 married the Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha in the Chapel Royal, St. James's ; and fifth and last, the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV., to the ill-fated Caroline of Brunswick. Nearly 70 years have passed away since that last scandal was enacted, when the Prince Regent put the corner stone to the cruel theory that Princes must marry without affection by taking his wife literally according to Act of Parliament, and in re turn for the payment of his debts. In the long interval that has elapsed since that masquerade of matrimony was gone through, the Chapel Royal has been hallowed by two mar riages based on the purest affection—those of her Majesty and the Princess Royal. We wish, indeed, we could add that the approaching ceremony, equally founded on sincere affection, and promising to be equally auspicious, was to be solemnised in the same building of happ3 augury. But this is not to be, and it would be idle to conceal the fact that the decision that the marriage should take plaee at Windsor has caused a deep and general disapp intment in London. At Windsor, then, the ceremonial is to be, and already arrangements are being made that the occasion may be celebrated with all the festive pageantry and state that become a day so eventful in our history. Our readers will readily understand that at present none of the minor de tails of the ceremony, or even the date for its celebration, are positively fixed. It has been announced by many of our contemporaries that the 12th of March has been de cided on, but the statement is certainly premature, and almost as certainly incorrect, inasmu ch as it remains with the Danish Court to fix the day, and we believe that no in timation on this point has yet reached this country. Ac cording to present anticipa tions it s expected that the mar riage will take place either on Thursday, the sth, or Tues day, the 10th of March, but, as we have said, this matter is still unsettled. At the end of this month, or very early in March, the Princess Alexandra will arrive in this country, and disembark in state at Gravesend, where it is be hoped the Corporation will welcome her with as good taste as they displayed at the embarkation of the Princess Royal. On landing the Princess will be received by his Royal High. ness the Prince of Wales, who will accompany her to town by rail. From the railway station to Buckingham Palace their Royal Highnesses, with their attendant suit, will be conveyed in state carriages —there will, in fact, be a public procession to the Palace—and after this, it is scarcely ne cessary to say a word about the way in whica London will welcome the bride of the Prince and its future Queen. The few days that elapsed after the arrival of the Prince of Prussia in this country and before the day of marriage were spent in reviews, or visits and ceremonials more or less public, It is not likely, for many reasons—the strongest being that the illustrious visitor on this occasion is a young princess of 18—that much of the time which in tervenes will be passed in public, but as to this we believe nothing whatever is known at present. Arrangements in the interior of the Chapel Royal at Windsor are to be made forthwith to give sitting accom modation for 769 distinguished visitors to be invited at the marriage ceremony. About 50 more will stand in proces- Biota during the marriage, and these with 101 choris ters, 50 musical performers, and 50 officials and atten dants-1,000 in all—are the 'very most who can stand in the chapel, for there is literally, even with the crowding resorted to on the last occasion in the little Chapel Royal at St. James's, no room for any more. Along the nave from its west door, between the tall slender columns rising "high overarched, with echoing walls between," blocks of seats nine deep are to be erected for those who will be pri vileged to witness the bridal procession into the chapel, but who cannot be accommodated within the smaller space be yond the screen where the ceremony itself is to take place. There will be 608 visitors seated here, the majority, as is usual on these occasions, being ladies. On the right of the organ loft the band of choristers will be placed. In the little chapel of Sirßeginald Bray, the builder, if not indeed the designer of the whole structure, and whose quaint arms, a flax-scutching machine of 500 years ago, cover even the lintel and panels of the doors, the musical performers will be stationed. With the chapel of the Knights of the Garter there can be very little tampering in the way of temporary erections. With the square squat outlines of the old hospital which Henry VIII. altered into a banquet ing-room and the House of Hanover into a Chapel Royal at St. James's, anything might be attempted. Architects could not improve it nor carpenters make it worse. But the case is very different with the grand old interior of St. George's Chapel, with its deep traceried windows and ex quisite oaken canopies of the knights' stalls. Each of these, with its quaint blazonments of knights who were Governors of Calais or Paris, down to the Peers and statesmen of the present day, is a niche in history. Curiously enough, if few of our Princes of Wales have been married, still fewer, apparently, have been installed as Knights of the Garter. In the old oak pew allotted to the Heirs Apparent who are members of this order there are only three escocheons —those of the present Prince, the Prince Regent, and Foreign Courts. PARIS, Jan• 31. The tenth anniversary of the Emperor Napoleon's mar riage at Notre Fame occurred on Thursday, that ceremony having taken place on the 29th January, 1853. The King of Holland having forwarded to the burgo masters of Amsterdam and Rotterdam the promulgation of the bill upon the improvement of the navigation of those places, the merchants of the former town have sent an ad' dress to his Majesty, thanking him for having so warmly taken to heart the interests of the capital. The Levant Herald says: —" The Sultan has, it is said, abandoned the idea of converting the palace at Yeni-lienit recently retaken from Nevrez Pasha, into a barrack, having decided, instead, on furnishing it as a mussafir• bane for distinguished guests. During the past week several mem bers of the corps diplomatique visited Mehemet Ali Pasha. On Saturday, also, the Sultan sent to inquire after the health of his highness, who has been indisposed for some days, Sir Henry Bulwer had a long private audience of the Sultan on Saturday. On Sunday his Majesty pre sented his excellency with two ma zmficent Arab horses— said to be amongst the very finest in the imperial stables." Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has returned to town, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton, The Earl of Fife arrived in town yesterday, from visiting Mr. and Lady Louisa Brooke, at Aston-park Wrexham. The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope come to town to-day, from their seat, Chevening park, near Sevenoaks. THE STATES DIVORCED AND SETTLED -Our arithmetician informs us that the only way to solve the American question is by " simple division." The Earl and Countess of Orkney ai rived at th E it residence in Bnnismore-place, yesterday, from visiting Mr. and Lady Isabella Schuster, at the Grange, Leatherhead. The Earl and Countess of Dundonald have arrived in town from Tunbridge Wells. Tne Dowager Countess Somers has arrived at her residence in Grosvenor-place from Bournemouth. Viscount de Coutades wilt leave Albert gate House today for Paris. Lady Hennikt r and the Hon. Misses Henniker arrived in town a few days since from a tour of visits. Her ladyship and daughters will leave town to morrow for Thornham Hall. Suffolk. Lady Carew was safely delivered of a son 00 Sunday last, at the family mansion in Belgrave-square• Her ladysbip and infant are progressing favourably. Baron and B troness Lionel de Rothsctild arrive d at Kingston House a few days since from morquay. evening, Edar d Howard ColonelHoo.the Ewarillsol D x Egerton Leigh, H on. M r. H er b ert, an d the m Liverpool and Blackburn, after t h e me eti°: ea-mayors -ttrthebaenY: Yesterdayrs of Central Lord r Executive Committee of the Belief Fani" were entertained at the Union Club, Manchester, by rt uv bers of th e executive being members of the club. After dinner, Lord D er b y left to resume his Parliamentary du ties in London. A statuette of the Princess Alexandra has ju st been modeller, and published by M. L. A. MaletriPle: It is a m os t graceful work of art, bearin grea t resecablahc; to her roy a l hi ghness. Casts of the statuette, whi ch 11 :e been e xecuted in aid of the Lancashire operatives, are offered for sal e a t the price of one guinea each. Half t y sum will be appropriated to Lancashire, the rest to defl!,o e xpenses The casts are on view and sale at the art's studio, 11, Charles-street, Manchester square. lyfottejles to be m a d e t o Mi ss Si mpson, 11 , Ch ar l es - s t re et, A's — t ter-squate, if by money-o r d er , p a y a ble at Vere street,Fabc;ro office. Miss Simison w ill rem it th e m oney let La uca n dii to the Rev. Edward Eardley Wilmot, w h o has uudertakei to transmit it and to audit the accounts.