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

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, the Second and Third Acts of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Conductor —Mr. A. Mellon. After which, the Grand Comic Carisfmas Pantomime, en titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Doors open at half-past 6-4 tommence at 7. THE ATR E-R 0Y A i DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT OF KIN. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GO DDT TWO SHOES. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone Lord Dnndreary, Mr. Sothern. After which, a new and original Extravartanza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE 01? ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE R. THIS EVENING, Feb. 2, to commence with an Orizinal 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 Prologue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, II- Butler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclereq, Kate Terry, N. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will shortly appear. Doors open at half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., and £2 25. registered. Stalls, 6s. 6d. ; Dress Circle, ss. 6d.; Upper Circle, 4s. 6d. Prices at doors—Stalls , 6s . ; Dress Circle, Upper Circle, 48.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price. Box offiM, 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. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindna. 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 TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Sevton, Misses Gray and Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Halford. 'NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE Ll'l TLE THE A SURE. Mr. Billing,ton, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole, P, Bedford, and Mrs. Billing - ton. To be followed by "GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, Siephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Columbine, Miss Carolindams ; Ciown, Mr. W. Hildyard ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. to The celebrated Arthur and Bertrand. Commence at 7. The Weather. --Sun Office, Feb. 1, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at Noon . Barometer-29.81. wi n d —Westerly, moderate; rainy weather in the morn ing, afternoon fine. Yesterday afternoon the barometer rose suddenly a.quarter of an inch, and the weather for a time became bright and clear. FEB. 2. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday 43 Lowest during the night .. 36 This day at Noon 45 Barometer-29.97. Wind—S.W., light ; with dull weather. - - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA.v.--Morning, lh. 25m.—Afternoon, lh. 47m. To-moltßow.-Morning, 2h. Bm.—Afternoon, 2h. 26m. _ T g t - : ..tlkitlUi;qp -1111,, . „ t ,..._,?, ji.e . ~,.,...k . lir LONDON, MONDAY : FEBRUARY 2, 1863. As noble a personage as any numbered amongst the patricians of England during more than the last two generations has but just now passed from the midst of us. When Parliament shall have met within a very few days, his place will be the first noticed as vacant, Ma name will be the first hon oured with the respectful and affectionate tributes of all parties alike—Whig or Tory, Liberal or Con servative --,tributes of admiration not less earnestly accorded to his memory by her MAJESTY'S Opposi tion than by those intimate personal friends and Ministerial colleagues of the departed Statesman, some of whom have been alternately at intervals during more than half a century the leaders of her MAJESTY'S Government. And yet the distinguished nobleman, whose fair fame all parties in both Houses will thus delight to honour, Was essentially himself, throughout his long life, though in no invidious sense, essentially a party man. As the NESTOR. of the Whigs, he was revered down to the moment of his demise by the surviving chiefs and the diminished ranks of that once powerful and, indeed, long dominant Party. A Whig of the old school the deceased Peer was so avowedly and undeniably that he carried about with him the colours of his political party in his very raiment. He was as recognisably Whig in his buff waistcoat and his blue coat garnished with its burnished brass buttons,as the blue-and-buff papering outside the Edinburgh _Review yet adver tises the honest fact of itsbeing also still thoroughly Whig as of old. No new-fangled or modernised Whig in any way was the good and almost great man whom we are now lamenting. HENRY PETTY Was a Whig as CHARLES Fox w as a Whig— Whig (as we have already expressed it) of the Old School —the champion of every liberal measure of his time, the consistent and unflinching advocate from first to last of every principle of social and mercantile, of political and religious toleration. As signally illustrative of the amplitude of the scope of his liberalism, it would almost be sufficient of itself to point, in Lord LANSDOWNE'S instance, to the significant circumstance, that he almost alone, among the great Whig leaders of his age, was from the very outset a cordial and resolute up holder of the doctrines of Free Trade—thinking upon that head, from the very commencement, himself, as ADAM SMITH wrote and as WILLIAM HUSICISSON spoke and voted. Exceptional this fact was in his instance in no particular. It may as s i m ply typical of be regarded, on th e contrary, the clear and distinct prevision generally of his sound and long ripened judgment. Calmly and without any fretting whate ver at delays in the reco g nition by others of truths he himself had years and years previously come quite fully to recognise, the late Marquis of LANSDOWNE was a man ,, very many respects long befo re his time. He was so, that is to my, exactly as in the in stance but je s t now particularised. He was a Free Trader when nearly all the world besides-- including amongst that overwhelming majority his associates and intimates the Whigs—was Protec tionist. As an enlightened Political Economist he has for sixty years stood in the foremost rank. A s an upholder of the cause of fiscal, financial, legal, and legislative reforms, he has never, during a ll that length ened interval, occupied, in the esti mation of his countrymen, a subordinate position. Yet he has throughout the whole of this long pu b l i c life resolutely maintained that position with a • we might say, un very, rare and ne arl y , paralleled unselfishness. Himself not without am bition, he has, nevertheless, always disdained his own ad vancement. The interests no t so much of his party as of his cause, as of the principles embodied in that cause and championed by that party' have been, invariably, unhesitatingly with him the foremost, indeed, the one paramount consideration. Again and again Lord LANSDOWNE might have been installed in power as Prime Minister of Eng- land. Again and again he has refrained from grasping that coveted responsibility, when placed within his reach, time after time, by the confidence of his SOVEREIGN. Once, in the earlier part of his career, tie refrained —solely by reason of the same magnanimous dictate of self-abnegation—from assuming, what he then might quite readily have assumed, the next golden prize to the supreme prize of all in this country (the Premiership)—the Leader of the British House of Commons ! Himself, again, the worthy and noble descendan t of that large-hearted and keen-witted Sir WILLIAM PETTY—son of a Romsey clothier, in the Days of the Commonwealth, founder of the fortunes of his house, and originator of the science of :Political Arithmetic, the basis of the fiscal and financial systems since that age so wondrously elaborated—the departed statesman, less in the spirit of his father, the first Marquis, than in th e spirit, we might suppose, of his ancestor the clothier of the days of the Commonwealth, declined a Dukedom ! Not a man amongst all his contemporaries during the eighty-three years of his honoured life but would have recognised in the garland of strawberry leaves a symbol honoured by, rather than honouring, the brow it encircled, had the ducal coronet been accepted in stead of being, as it was, declined by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE. Eighty-three years, marked by the love and re spect of all who approached him, lengthened out the span of Lord LANSDOWNE'S almost enviable exist ence. Sixty of those years have chequered wit h the interests of public life, the charms distinguish ing at every turn the private life of this eminently zefined and intellectual patrician. Born at Shel burne house on the 2d July, 1780—it was in the midst of the flames and . bloodshed of the infamous No Popery riots led on by Lord GEORGE GORDON, that wicked and most fantastic of crack-brained fanatics—Lord HENRY PETTY has survived for the enjoyment of a life of ease and honour, during a period of from eighty-two to eighty-three years (a strangely momentous period in the world's history !) breathing his last calmly and without ;pain on Saturday evening, the 31st of January, 1863, at his well known country seat of Bowood in Wiltshire. An accidental stumble, occurring less than a fort night since, while crossing the threshold of his house at Bowood from the garden-terrace, appears to have been tho immediate cause of death. It was not merely that the head of the marquis was cut by this fall, an artery was actually divided, the rupture of that artery resulting at the moment, of course, in a violent hemorrhage. Five days after the stumble the venerable statesman expired. Not struck down by any protracted or painful disesse, but quietly sinking into death as into a sleep. Scarcely of age when he entered the House of Com mons, Lord HENRY PETTY, there took his seat first of all as M.P. for the borough of Caine. His chosen metier was Finance. His maiden speech was on the Irish Bank Protection Bill. During those first years of his career as a legislator, the daring young political athlete frequently contended there, in that conspicous arena of the House of Commons, with no less formidable an antagonist than Mr. PITT him self, then the JUPITER TONANS of debate and the most potent master of the Science of Fi nance in the three kingdoms—in all Christen dom. On the impeachment of Lord MEL VILLE, the young member for Caine, the future Marquis of LANSDOWNE, delivered the most brilliant oration he had then uttered, an oration which, in re gard to its effectiveness, he never afterwards sur passed. In his twenty-sixth year he became—after the death of PlTT—Chancellor of the Exchequer. At the period of his assuming office in that capa city, Lord HENRY PETTY stood as a candidate for the University of Cambridge--Roming off as con queror in that still memorable tontest, in which he was opposed by Lord ATHORPE and the now Premier, Viscount PALMERSTON. Home Secretary in Mr. CANNING'S' dministration —Foreign Secretary in the Cabinet of CANNING'S successor—the late Marquis of LANSDOWNE held offices in the four famous Ministries presided over at different times by Earl GREY, by Viscount MEL BOURNE, by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and by Viscount PALMERSTON. It would be idle, however, to at tempt any detailed record of this remarkable life in these leading columns of The Sun—quoting, as we do in another part of our impression of this evening, the brilliant and masterly biography of Lord LANSDOWNE, which to day adorns the pages of our ohief morning contemporary. Al ways looked up to by the most distinguished of his colleagues as a man of enlarged intellect and of the soundest judgment, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE has been regarded all the while with implicit confidence in his liberalism by the People, and with equally implicit confidence in his loyalty by the SOVEREIGN. A true man, a wise admini strator, a sagacious statesman, a consistent Refor mer, a man of letters, an orator, pre-eminently a man of taste, open handed, open hearted, beloved, revered—Lord LANSDOWNE leaves behind him a reputation that will long be cherished with respect and affection, both of them unstinted. By the " Navy List" for January, 1863, we find that there are upwards of one thousand ships of one denomination or other mounting from one to 131 guns. Among these a new class of vessels has re cently been introduced which bids fair, in due time, to supersede the others. This class has of late ab sorbed public attention almost exclusively. Hitherto hearts of oak were our ships, as jolly tars were our men, but now bard iron, and harder steel, are to form the future of our navy. Not only is the I change from wood to iron working wonders in the quality of our ships, but exciting admiration at their size. Old "salts" shake their heads with scrutinising doubt at a novelty so " prodigious"—a tonnage too enormous to be " handy" in a rough seaway—but there the mammoth ships are, riding in beautiful symmetry, and steadiness of trim. Where will they find docks for repair ? That's going to discuss, at th e the question we are now suggestion of a gallant officer, wh o has done good service in attending her MAJESTY and the Royal Family in many a perilous gale. Rear-Admiral the Hon. JOSEPH DENMAN has addressed a letter to Lord PALMERSTON "On the Pressing Necessity for increased Docks and Basins at Portsmouth," which has now reached a t hird edition, published by Mr. RIDGWAY, Piccadilly. This is some criterion as to the interest which the public take in naval affairs, and the patriotic Admiral is not a day too soon with his pressing necessity for setting our docks in order. It certainly seems strange that our Admiralty should have overlooked so tangible a ne cessity—but the "Board," in their calculation, sel dom take the future into account, being quite re gardless of the maxim " look before you leap." Not they indeed! The " system" wo r ks by " dead- reckoni ng ," an d the Board .takes " observation' afterwards. • Admiral DENMAN says that unless we now take time by the forelock during Peace, the remedy will be attempted too late, if commenced only after Levents shall have proved our defictencies. And he i s quite right. Docks and steam basins are the measure of the force we can maintain in a seagoing s t a te, and if they have been proved to be inadequate in a t i me of peace they must be still more so in a time of war. N o w , t h e harbour of Portsmouth has capa city tain one half the British Nary. s ufficient to cOn rIE SAN, LONDON It has docks too, built for ships of large burden, but not for auch as are now brought forward with a tonnage so large, that one of our iron-cased Frigates, as they are termed, would make three first-rates of days gone by, when NELSON swayed the oceans. The " meteor flag of England" must now have a home to repair to, other than on the deep, and that home is Portsmouth, with all its vast na tural capabilities. There is room enough to build any number of docks, spacious and deep, for ships of the largest burden—indeed it is not likely that for warlike purposes any depth beyond 32 feet will be required; but, to make assurance doubly sure, why not construct some deeper still, say 36 feet, or thereabouts, for any state of tide, and steam basins to correspond. The first coat would be the last; but coat what they will the thing must be done—not at Portsmouth alone, but also at Devon port, Chatham, and Pembroke—but Portsmouth to begin with, for that is the central port in the Chan nel. It should have gridirons to boot. The question of expense will no doubt be pleaded for delay ; but no expense can justify delay in a mat ter of such grave national concern as the maintenance of our superiority at sea. If we once lose that our independence is gone, and we cease to exist !as the home of the free and the last hope of the forlorn refugee. The present extent of our basins is very limited, being scarcely one quarter the requisite dimensions, while our docks are unfit to take in ordinary large ships, save at spring tides. Now we ought to have basins so capacious that half a dozen iron ships of the largest size could enter at all hours of the tide and find accommodation for im mediate and simultaneous repair alongside the steam basins and dockyards, and that without re moving their guns or machinery stores. They manage these matters better in France : " At Keyham the basins contain 12 acres, and can be entered by heavy ships at spring tides, and this is the whole quay accommodation that exists for iron-plated ships (or for screw-ships of the line) when fitted out for sea, for the two basins at Portsmouth, 91 acres in the aggegate, from their shallowness, can never be entered by these ships except when lightened, and then only at spring tides. Whereas at Cherbourg, though there is no natural har bour, yet the artificial basins of 48 acres supply immensely more quay accommodation than Portsmouth Harbour. They are accessible from the safe and convenient anchor age inside the breakwater every day, and six first-class docks which open into the basins can be entered, or quitted, every hour of every day. There is no flow of tide, nor can there be any sea in the very heaviest weather to affect large ships, while the extent of the basin is sufficient to contain more than 30 such ships, of which a large number would come in actual contact with the dockyard alongside the quay. " Admiral DENMAN takes exception to the length of our iron ships making them so. difficult to turn, as to expose them to being run down in action— the combination of speed and weight being irresis tible. No doubt, if the opponent were so much larger in proportion—but such a contingency may be avoided by dexterity of manoeuvring, though not always. Still ships may be built too large for warlike as for useful purposes. There may be too much of a good thing—take the Great Eastern for example, but not for copy, if you would keep your hand out of the exchequer. Admiral ROBINSON, the Controller of the Navy, st eaking in reference to dock accommodation, says that a ship disabled in action being repaired with promptitude becomes equivalent to two in effect, against a disabled enemy. Hence the urgent ne cessity for docks and basins commensurate to our wants. In 1861 a committee of the House of Com mons, of which Mr. WHITBREAD was chairman, as a Lord of the Admiralty, sat to inquire into a pro posed extension of Chatham dockyari4 and made a report in which occurs the following :—"ln the event of this country being engaged in a maritime war, the existing means for fitting out ships, ina dequate as they are to even the present wants of the vary, tro,dd render it wholly impossible fa pli4 'rapidly and safely such a fleet as wbuld be required Apart from all question of cost and inconvenience delay might terminate in disaster." Nor will it mend the matter to learn that the facilities possessed by other Powers are incompar ably superior to those afforded by the naval esta blishments of this country. The merchant service have some docks long enough, but all, with one exception, fall far short in the depth required. We are adding greatly to the defences of Ports mouth all around, and if we mistake not, some pre parations are now being male for extending the harbour towards the foot of Portsdown Hill,whether for basins and docks time will prove. Admiral DENMAN agrees with Mr. COBDEN i❑ his "Three Panics," from which he quotes freely, that there can be no possible doubt that our expenditure has been immensely increased by the defective system which governs naval affairs. And owing to the great and just objections entertained to the system of naval administration, a committee of the House of Commons was appointed last session, says the Admiral— "To investigate this subject, and to report also `on the effect of that system on the Navy.' The enquiry arose from no personal attack or imputation, but those who had officially conducted our naval affairs were placed on the committee in great force. They identified themselves with the system they had administered, and treated the question as a matter personal to themselves. Thus it happened that the inquiry which was intended in the public interest to ascertain what were the defects of the system, was mainly directed to prove its perfection. " Every living statesman who had filled the office of First Lord of the Admiralty (several being members of the com mittee, and as such judge, jury, and witnesses in their own cause) was in his turn examined, and the evidence of First Lords alone occupies 315 pages of the blue book, con sisting of 636. Among the First Lords on the committee was Sir James Graham, who was the originator of the very system the value and results of which were under enquiry, and the determination to crush the enquiry was apparent throughout the proceedings. In the face of this immense array of official experience it was impossible for members of the committee unacquainted with the Admiralty, but whose opinions might be unfavourable to that system, i;c, struggle successfully. Mr. Bentinck, who was most conversant with naval affairs of those not connected with the profes sion, and was strongly opposed to the system, brought for ward in committee a motion to close its proceedings, on the ground that from the composition of the committee and other causes, no satisfactory conclusion could be arrived at,' and his motion being defeated, he absented himself from further attendance in despair. "One of the primary grounds brought forward as prov ing the effect of the system on the Navy' to be most inju- TiOne, was the state of the dockyards with regard to dock and basin accommodation ; but those who were known to hold this opinion had no opportunity given them of esta blishing the facts in their evidence, and it is to be feared that the break-down of the enquiry (for no report was made, and the committee was not re-appointed) has only strengthened a bad system. It is of very serious concern to the House of Commons, when it institutes enquiries on subjects of such immense national moment, not to allow them thus to be trifled with. "If no amendment, however, has resulted from this en quiry, and there is still reason to believe th a t nava l affairs are conducted on a mistaken system, it would be a h (i f a u r a t N e v l o y r s p e r o e v v i i d l etdo with t fi h e suffer resources the country asy ne c e t s o s a r re main in as the s a ip de : th ems elves, for without them the ships we possess would be nearly useless." PALMERSTON, by suggesting Lord a he Admiral concludes his patriotic th appealat upo to rts. m th ou b t u h ila be o uexposed in to ad lessa n ger i t exposedw ou s l i d t ü b a e t i f o a n r , w iser as Chatham, or in the Thames, and agree with hi m. Portsmouth would fi n d o ccupation enough in re p a i r i ng damaged ships an d en gines, but first it must b e ena b led to do so, an d t h e soo ner the better. we heartily MO N DAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1863 LATEST INTELIIGENCE. AMERICL (Per the Africa, via Roche's Point, 9.40 a.m.) NEW PORK, JAN. 22. The absence of all reliable inbrmation from the Army of the Potomac causes great anxiety. Among numberless rumours that prevail, is one that a terrible conflict has commenced, and that General Hooker is mortally wounded. The last intelligence receiTed from the armies from the West, states that General Grant is making extensive preparations at Memphis for some impor tant movement in a direction aot yet made public. General M'Clernand is athancing up Arkansas River, with the intention of attacking Little Rock, the capital of the State. General Rosecranz is bein; heavily reinforced, to enable him to push to Shelbyville, or to give battle to the Confederates at Murfreesboro', should they attack him there. The total loss of the Federals at Murfreesboro' is admitted by them to be 10,2 n killed, wounded, and missing. The Legislature at Albanyhas not yet agreed upon the choice of a speaker. Great agitation prevails. The town is filled with rovdies from New York. Judge Bend, the Democratic candidate, has with. drawn. Gold advanced from I, to I per cent. yesterday ; to-day it stands at 48 premium. Middling upland cotton, 754 e. to 76c. per pound. Resolutions have been introduced in the Senate, declaring that the attempt by France to subjugate Mexico is hostile to the United States and to free institutions anywhere, and that it is a violation of international law and a violation of the faith of France, pledged by the London treaty of October, 1861, between France, Spain. and England, and repeatedly assured to the Federal Government through the American Minister in Paris. The re solutions further declare that it is the duty of the Federal Government to require the withdrawal of the French forces, and now and always to lend such aid to Mexico as is required to prevent forcible European intervention in her political affairs. Pre sident Lincoln is requested to communicate to the Mexican Government the views expressed by Con gress, and to negotiate a treaty with Mexico to make these effective. The resolutions will be discussed' on the 22d inst. The rumour of General Burnside crossing the Rappahannock has not been confirmed. Despatches from Fortress Monroe state that the Confederate authorities have ordered that Federal officers cap tured after January 12 should be delivered to the governors of the states where captured. General Halleck has ordered that no more Con fedet ate officers shall be released on parole. President Lincoln has signed the bill for a fur ther issue of 100,000,000 dole. treasury notes for the payment of the army, and has sent a message to Congress urging it to restrict the issues of irre deemable paper currency, and to tax the circula tion of the banks. A bill has been reported to the Senate to autho rise letters of marque. The privateer Retribution is cruising off St. Thomes. The Washington Star states that General Burn • side has issued an address to h:s army, and that General Hooker's division crossed the Rappahan nock on the 20th. The remainder of General Burn side's army is now said to have also crossed the river, and his forces to be above and below Frede ricksburg. The New York limes contains a rumour that General Sumner's division had succeeded in flank ing the Confederate pisition and advancing two miles, and that General Hooker was mortally wounded. Longstreet's division was not with drawn into Tennessee, and General Lee's army re mained intact to encounter Burnside. It is impossible to say if the above accounts are ..;curate, and great pubi;, purinsity oxistcr for more authentic details. The Government has furnished nothing officially. ,The Southern journals conjecture that a storm upon the coast disarranged the Federal plans, and prevented their advance from Newbern. The Federals drove in the Confederate pickets 18 miles below Kingston, North Carolina, on the 16th, and were advancing 60,000 strong, with 20 days' rations. The Federals have attacked Fort Caswell, guard ing the approaches to Wilmington, without result. The Federal steamer Columbia ran ashore at Masonboro' Inlet, North Cbro:ina, and her com mander and crew had surrendered to the Confede- rates. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer asserts that a mutiny has occurred among the troops in Fort Sumter, which has been subdued. Much general dissatisfaction was said to exist among the Confederates in South Carolina• The Governor of Jersey, in his message to the legislature, denounces the Emancipation proclsma tion, and the illegal arrests, and recommends peace upon the basis of the union of the states with their equality and rights unimpaired. Another Republican cancas has been held at Washington. General Fitz-John Porter has been found guilty of the charges brought against him, and dismissed from the service. A bill has been introduced in the House of Re presentatives appropriating 10,000,000 d o l s . f or t h e emancipation of the slaves in Maryland. The steamer Sacramento, Capt. Boggs, will sail immediately in s earch of the Alab ama . The _Richmond Inquirer says a new financial scheme has been introduced into the Confederate Congress proposing an amendment to the Constitu tion, and legalising the issue of notes, to be legal tender during the war, and five years after its ter mination. The scheme also includes a proposal fo purchasing the whole of the Southern cotton crop, the present crop to be purchased at 10 to 15 cents. per pound. A steamer, supposed to be the Huntress, laden with 400 bales of cotton, was burned while enaea vouring to escape out of Charleston. The excitement at Albany continues concerning the election of a speaker for the Assembly. The balloting has led to no result as yet. The civil authorities have taken steps to prevent any breach of the peace. The American press generally approve the senti ments of the resolutions introduced in Congress concerning the French expedition to Mexico, but consider the moment inopportune for their intro duction and the carrying out of them imprac ticable, FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 2. The Monttettr of this morning announces the nomination of M. Rover as First President of the Cour des Comptes. The Moniteur also says :—" The Emperor re ceived a deputation with the Address of the Senate yesterday, and observed, in reply ;- 6' I receive with thanks the Address by which the Senate gives its approbation to my policy. The expressions of devotion which it contains touch me sincerely. The unanimity displayed in voting the Address has also given me deep satisfaction, be cause it testifies a harmony which cannot fail to bring about happy results.'" The same journal further states that, according to a despatch received from Alexandria, the party opposed to peace is in the ascendant at Hue. The Annanite Minister of Commerce has given Admiral Bonnard to understand that serious difficulties will be encountered in the execution of certain articles of the treaty. The Admiral is taking measures to meet all emergencies. The Menfeeur also contains ne from Mexico to Dec. 27. At that date General Forty was still at Orizaba with the main body of the expeditionary force, collecting provisions and ammunition, and preparing to march towards Puebla as soon as the necessary resources should have been brought together. Le Pays believes that the debate on the address in the Corps Legislatif will be as pacific es that in the Senate. The tone and form of the address read on Saturday in the Chamber is very similar to that adopted by the Senate; and after considering some paragraphs, Le Pays arrives at the conclusion, that no member sitting on the benches of the national assembly will hesitate to give it his hearty support. Le Constitutionnel of to-day, after stating the refusal of the King of Prussia to receive the depu tation with the Addresss, remarks that it is the first time that such a thing has happened in Prussia since the establishment of the constitution. The same journal cites a paragraph from Le Colonne, stating that, within the last few days, many hun dred bales of cotton have been disembarked at Bou logne by the steamers arriving from England, to the astonishment of the English visitors prome nading the quays, who were justly surprised that their merchants should send to France a raw material so greatly needed in their own country. BOURSE, Jan. 31.—Little change has taken place in the tone of the market, and prices continue to be well maintained, Threes, for the Account, being now at 69t. 50. The repense de primes (option) has been made at 69f. 771 c. Very little business doing in Railway Shares, quotations up to the present show ing but trifling variation. The market closed as follows : If per Cents .. 98 75 Bank Shares 3395 Do. end month.... Credit loncier 1485 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 85 Italian Loan 7O 25 New 3 Cents Russian per Do. end month.... Credit 14,4,11;,, r Do. end m0nth.....1 Austrian .. Spanish Threes 57 lieut., Debt RAIL' 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans IC9O .. 1091 25 '.Torthern New ditto . .. L.yons and Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 1156 25 Geneva 4OO .. Southern .. Bll 25 .. 810 Western . . Eastern .... Sardinian .. Austrian Lot - pilaw] North of Spain Saragossa 660 .. 661 25 Ditto to Barcelona SPAIN. The Epoca of Madrid of the 27th announces that the rumour of General Zavaia's probable accept ance of the Portfolio of the Marine, in consequence of General Bustillcs' resignation, has no foundation whatever, and that Marshal O'D,:,nnell will con tinue to direct that department. The El Eco del Pais of Madrid states that M. Calderon Collantes has, from motives of modesty, declined the honour of a title of Castille, which it was the Queen's in tention to confer upon him as a reward for his long services, - Caurt einsubtr. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 1. The Queen, Princess Helena, and Prince Leopold, attended Divine service at Osborne this morning, which was performed by the Rev. G. Prothero. the Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Princess Louisa attended th e morning service at Whippingham Church. Foreign Courts. BERLIN, Jan. 28. A grand children's festival was given by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess yesterday at their palace in Berlin, to celebrate the fourth birth-day of Prince William, their royal highnesses' eldest son. Their Majesties dined with the Crown Prince and Crown Princess on the occa sion, and remained to witness the entertainment which followed. The Bavarian Minister at the Court of Berlin goes to St. Petersburg in a few days on business connected with the marriage contract between the Princess of Leuchtenberg and Prince William of Baden, who are to be united in the course of next month. AUGSBURG, Jan. 28. In memory of the residence of Queen Marie of Naples at Augsburg, a silver medal has been granted to the female scholars in the St. Ursula Convent. The medal bears the inscription—" Souvenir of the visit of her Majesty Queen Marie of Naples in the conventual school of St. Ursula. Augsburg, Jan. 3, 1863." The nuns have received a copy of the medal in gold. The Prince of Wales has consented to inaugurate the Memorial of the 1851 Exhibition, designed by Mr. Durham, in the Gardens of the Royal Horticultural So ciety. The ceremony will take place on the sth of June next. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Colonel Da Plat, and suite honoured the performances at the Adelphi Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary honoured the Olympic Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening, and expressed their approbation of the entertainments. His Excellency the Italian Minister has returned to the residence of the Legation in Grosvenor-street, from the Continent. The E ,r 1 and Countess of Cork are expected in town to-morrow from Marston House, Somersetshire. The Eng and Countess Vane are expected in town in a few days. His lordship has taken a residence in Upper Grosvenor-street for the season. The Countess Dowager of Longford and Lady Louisa Paktnham have arrived in town from Brighton. Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton come to town to-day from their seat, Tatton.park, Cheshire. Lord Ashburton continues at Parts too unwell to proceed to the south of France or to bear the fatigue of being removed home. Although considered better, his lordship remains in very indifferent health. Lord and Lady John NI inners are expected in town on Wednesday, from visiting the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. Lord and Ltdy Faversham come to town to morrow from Duncombe-park, Yorkshire. The Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who has been suffering from indisposition for some days past, is now, we learn much better. PERORATIONS—Enumerated by a London Reviewer. Macaulay's first speech on the Reform Bill, one of the most highly wrought of all his speeches, thus terminated:— " The danger is terrible. The time is short. If this bill should be rejected, I pray to God that none of those who concur in rejecting it may ever remember their votes with unavailing remorse, amidst the wreck of laws, the confusion of ranks, the spoliation of property, and the dis solution of social order." Fox closed his speech on the state of Ireland thus:— " I shall now relinquish this subject, perhaps for ever, by repeating a sentiment that I have before thrown out during the discussion. I will not barter English commerce for Irish slavery. That is not the price I would pay, nor is the thing I would purchase." No illustration, however, can be better than the rival addresses delivered on the last night of the debate in December, 1852--the debate which cost Lord Derby's Government their office. The first passage quoted is the conclusion of Mr. Disraeli's peroration ; the second, that of Mr. Gladstone : " This I know, that England does not love coalitions. I appeal from the coalition to the public opinion, which governs the country—to that public opinion whose wise and irresistible influence can control even the dectees of Parlia ment, and without whose support the most august and ancient institutions are but the baseless fabric of a vision." You may refuse my appeal now—you may accompany the Chancellor of the Exchequer into the lobby—but the limo will surely come when you will look back upon this vote, as its consequences shall sooner or later unfold them selves, with bitter, but with late and ineffectual repen tance." By way of final illustration, the concluding pas sages of Bulwer's " Last Days of Poinptii," and 0 1 "Mill on the Floss," along with Mrs. Olipha"l's description of Irving's death, tilignt be instanced as worthy of study f or th e i r extreme rhythmical beauty, MAGAZINE DAY Blackwood, The first article is o❑ Progress in China,'' and continues the subject commenced before. In intro ducing the question the writer remarks that, "it would have required many cycles of Cathay to bring to the councils of the Court of Pekin the enlighen• merit we have alluded to in our last number, if the population over which it ruled had not threatened to outstrip the Government in the adoption of European ideas." Then follows a detailed account of proceedings, and an interesting commentary on various plans that have been adopted, making on the whole a highly instructive paper. The spirit which animates the writer is certainly that of pro gress, and hence it is peculiarly adapted to its subject, concerning, as it does, one of the most adventurous feats of Englishmen in pursuing their course of conquest and extending their wide-spread com merce: As it has been said— In the days of Queen Victoria see they have borne her sway, From the far Atlantic islands to the Island of Cathay. The conclusion of this article is worthy of notice, and thus forcibly sums up its several arguments : "England for years has spent wealth, energy, and pre cious lives in opening China to Western influence and civi lisation. To-day, her success is certain. The Govern ment and people of China both ask us to aid them in their hour of tfouble, and in return they will assuredly grant us that access and commercial freedom for which we have so long laboured and so often fought. The portals of ignorance and heathenism are opening. Shall we, who are in the van guard of nations, hesitate? No—assuredly not I Our motto must ever be 'Forward ;' and will not all enlightened t.hristendom join us in wishing God soeed' to those about to put forth in this fresh enterprise to the land of Cathay ?" The most brilliant essay in this periodical is un questionably that on " Henri Lacrdaire." It is a criticism on the life and works of one who would have been celebrated in any age or country, and whose care tiq,been worthily set forth in the writing> n l oelli,agtie Montalembert. The art - takes up this theme in the right sr, allowit,s for the partialities, perhaps for the prejudices of sect, in the true Christian idea of tolerance, and recognising the splendid gifts of intellect and imagination with that comprehensive recognition which makes thewhole world kin, and rejoices to find in its brother men a superior donation of heaven, un trammelled by the fetters of dogmas and the divi sions of creed. It is truly observed that "there are few of the leaders or servants of the public who interest the general mind so profoundly as the great preacher whose fame reaches the humblest as well as the most exalted, and within the reach of whose influence, more or less, an entire generation passes." This immense power, so often neglected, sometimes abused, is yet ever and anon, illumed ar,cl immor talised by some master spirit, who rightly appre ciates his heavenly mission on a sinful earth, and strives to the utmost to bring nearer to their God the erring children of the Fall. Throughout the whole of this memoir here eloquently epitomised, the in terest never flags, but carries the reader on to wonder, to admire, and to regret the fitful career so earnestly maintained in its unity of zeal, of sacrifice, andof devotion. Strange as it may appear Lacordaire was in early life an infidel, led away by the sophis tries of his infidel age he stumbled on the threshold of existence, but soon regained his footing and trod thenceforth undeviatingly the way of life everlast ing," He woke up out of his classic convictions into Christian life, and as soon as he believed, with characteristic promptitude devoted himself to the service of religion." An interesting point here met with is the account of the trials in which he became involved in revolutionary Paris. Out of all these conflicts the young aspirant came out victorious. On one occasion when an "avocet du roi" called him and his fellows the agents of a foreign power, Lacordaire cried "We are the ministers of One who is nowhere a stranger; of God." This impressed all who heard him, and when before the tribunal he again astonished his auditory by his combined simplicity and dignity. One passage is worthy of mention from its freedom and fearlessness:— " I rise,' he says "with a recollection that will not leave me. When the priest in former days rose amid the people, something which excited a profound love rose at the same time with him. Now, accused as 1 run, I know that my name of priest is mute for my defence, and I am re• signed to it, The people deprived the priest of that ancient love which they bore him, when the priest deprived himself of an august part of his character—wheu the Luau of Ciod ceased to be the man of freedom. I never knew freedom better,' he continues, with a burst of professional enthu siasm, than the day when I received, with the sacred unc tion, the right of speaking of God. The universe opened before me, and I learned that there was in man something inalienable, divine, eternally free -speech! The message of the priest was confided to me, and I was told to bear it to the ends of the world without any one having the right to seal my lips a single day of my life. I went out of the temple with these grand doctrines, and I met upon the threshold law and bondage I ' " It is a strange thing that the first time Lacordaire appeared as a preacher he failed, and some one went so far es to say that he was a man of talent, but could never be a preach:T. Some years after the walls of Notre Dime re-echaed to his eloquence, and the archbishop saluted him as the new prophet. The succeeding descriptions of this eventful life are worthily set forth, and bring us to the crowning point of his success, " the great victory which shalt immortalise his name, , ' according to Montalembert, when he made " his monkish frock splendid with the eloquence of a voice worthy of the old renown of the French pulpit," and finally gained his point and carried the day for his country and his religion. After the coup d'etat his work was over; he had to endure silence and inaction for speech and earnest effort. The bright faith of such a life was pre eminently manifest in the time of death. His end is thus touchingly described by his friend : " It was from Soraye he came, in his dominican frock, to receive from the French Academy the noblest re.cow ptinse which can, in our days, crown a glorious and nade pendent life.' He sat one day only in that illustrious as sembly, where he appeared , as he himself said, as the symbol of freedom accepted a nd fortified by religion.' Thi s last honour was the last public event which occurred in his life. He went tack laureated for his dying, and ended his life in Soraye, after a painful illness -80 far as we are able to make out, for M. de Montalembert is indistinct in the matter of dates —in the winter of 1861. It is the first time that my body has resisted my will,' he said, with a half playful melancholy, in the midst of his sufferings, and died exclaiming, My God, open to me, open to me!' with a sublime simplicity. God opened t him, and his agitations were over. Whether on the other side of that wonderful gateway he m ght discover that his monkish frock was less worth fighing for than it appeared, who can inquire? He lived a lite tull of worthy labour and service, and doubtless found his reward." At the conclusion of this article some comparison is instituted between Lacordaire and Irvi';g. It is stated that no two men could be more unlike, but both agreed in this, that something had to be done out of the common to rouse the sluggish heart of the time. Let us, exclaims the writer, "build the sepul chres of those prophets, whom our fathers, by Weil apathy and indifference drove into such a noble desperation. We too, doubtless, will do our share of the same work. Yet it is a kind of penitence of humanity for its ever-recurring mistakes, and misconceptions which prompts one generation to decorate the tombs into which the sins of a former:ge neration have urged and driven the not perfect, yet noble dead." " Lady iN4 organ's Memoirs" tarnishes a pleasing paper for perusal, and " A Sketch from Babylon " brings to a triumphant conclusion that complicated and confused story. Some of the vices and follies of these latter days are ably exposed in the author's satirical vein, and a striking tale is compiled out of the wrecks and ruins of society and its erring members. " Caxtoniana " continues its thought! ul routine, and again considers " Power." There are some very entertaining and edifying discourses and discm.sions met with in hiti instainient. The last article is called " Politics a , Home and Abroad." It, of course, enters upon all sorts of topics past, present, and to come. The most delightful prospects appear before the writer in the vista of the picture, he states that "the gains and losses at the elections, since the last change of Ministry, show a net balance of ten seats in favour of the Conservative party," and from thence augurs the most propitious auspices "that the Conservative party may find its tut difficulties vanquished before t quits its present position on the Oppositiot benches, and esters upon the pleasurable re6ponsi tniities of office which so soon await it, and of which it promises to have a lung term." Certainly, this seems hotiefoA comb, for these who desire a change of ministers, and Time only cdn prove whether or no these bright prophecies will meet with fulfilment, or be overtaken with failure. The Dublin University. "The House by the Churchyard," - which has long formed an attraction of this magazine, and interested by its exciting pages so many of its readers, is com pleted this month. It ends in a satisfactory man nery, only too well, it is to be feared, for real life, in which delinqueuts do not so readily meet the deserved doom of their iniquity. There are a great many eh aractersintroduced into this story, and some of them are very ably depicted. They are of all shades, too, so that any reader can choose his own style of favourite easily enough. For a specimen of old Irish life, full of stir, and replete with excite ment, this tale may long be referred to. There are some " Verses on the Rev. E. Coleridge," by Mrs. Norton, which refer to her sons. They are in no way remarkable for merit, but seem the natural expression of deep feeling, and express the sad state of one whose " task and hope are gone," as she mournfully exclaims. " Voltaire in London, Circy, Potsdam, Ferney—Deatb," concludes the career of this wonderful man. Great pains have been taken by the writer with his subject, and the result is satisfactory in affording us an insight into the life of one who is well worthy of notice and study. The accounts of his last hours are very im pressive, and there seems great force in the remark that the details of his last hours, as sketched in the Life of Condorcet, were not altogether authen tic, as they came from a prejudiced source. It is a strange thing that Voltaire died just one year be fore the great French Revolution, after which period he would, of course, have received a majestic inter ment_ However, this ovation was only delayed. His last words were addressed to his valet, " Adieu, mon cher Morand, je me meure." Thus rested at last the old poet-philosopher," fatigued with glory," to use the words of Miguet. It is hardly necessary to add that ho was ...fnaed burial in Paris, or that his body was clandestinely conveyed at night by his nephew, the Abbe Mignot, for sepulture in the monastery over which he presided, where it re mained until July, 1791 ; when it was conveyed to the Pantheon, " The St. Denis of the Kings of Thought," accompanied by the greatest cosmopo litan assemblage that ever fo lowtd the bier of a great man, since Caesar was borne to the pyre in the Campus Martius of old Rome. "Little Flaggs, the Almshouse Foundling," is continued, and there is more incident met ,with in this instalinel:t. It is evident that the unfortunate heroine is doomed to serious trouble in her future life, as there is some dark mystery going on in the interior of the " Halt ing Place." This story will most probably partake of the sensation style now so very prevalent. " The Life, Eccentricities, and 1 iterature of George Sand" is an article that contains some reasonable remarks on the character and condant of that strange and gifted individual. After criticifeng some of her chief works, the following observations are are made on her style :—" It is profoundly t o b e re gretted that the finest producti o ns of an ant exhibiting her imaginative and eloquent powers their perfection, were devoted to the r ‘ ph,,i a i ng of unholy love, and to determined ?assaults on the bulwarks of social order and family happiness." Also it states that whenever this authoress consults the dictates of her better feelings and judgment she is sure to produce the happiest effects, " and all touched with such charms of a sweet and rich and glowing style as we rarely see from the pen of any other novelist." On the other hand, whenever she fixes her thoughts on any wrongs sustained by her self or any other gifted woman from talented and capricious men, "adieu to anything edifying, or consoling, or commonly moral in her next publica tion. Probably she has no ill intention, but her own or her friend's wrongs make her unscrupu lous, and she enters into details, and uses langue.ge which, coming from the mouth of a refined lady in a mixed company, would astonish many of her hearers." This essay certainly maintains tie "fusee milieu ;" and while it awards due praise to the merits, it justly censures the Errors of one who so often has perverted her great powera to an unworthy end. "The Actual Posture of Irish Interests," is a suggestive paper which will afford to d for reflee tiun to those immediately concerned. At the con clusion we meet with some remarks on the con duct of the Gnv.rullaolit, by private considerations and a powerful clique, are standing in the way of advancement, by denying so small a boon es the Galway Subsidy." After discussing the question a litt,e further it adds justly enough that because one Government made the arrangement, another declines to confirm it, " though the Irish members of the legislature al most to a man of every party appealed to the Pre mier on the subject, and zeceived a conditionally favourable reply ; but the Post office authorities, the bankrupt experimentalists, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Radical retrenchment men have confederated themselves, and have been able up to this moment to withhold from the country its rights and arrest the most hopeful scheme ever devised for its commercial nd social welfare. All unprejudiced persons agree with us as to the justice of the claim, and the importance of the undertaking." ['here is a paper on " Modern Preaching as an art and ihfluence," which presents us with some suggestions of improvement that are worth consi dering, and it would be well if some high in autho rity in ecclesiastical dignity would consider them in the spirit in which they are offered. Fraser's Magazine. Fraser opens with an account of " Wanderings in West Africa," which seems of late to have be come a fashiont.ble locality for tourists and essay writers. Lady Morgan's autobiography receives a somewhat severe though not unjust criticism, in which comfortable anachronisms and solecisms are ruthlessly exposed in a manner little flattering to the lively old lady who liked to be admired even at eight 3 -five. The " White Republican," whose views on the great American struggle are pretty well known, gives us a paper on " Negroes and Slavery in the United States," in which of course the " domestic institution" appears in very favourable colours. We must confe s our views as to the principle of " involuntary servitude" are un changed by his fascinating pictures, however true may be his assertion of the inability of the negro to take care of himself. It is undoubtedly a difficult ques tion, and one little likely to be solved by President Linco,n's proclamation, butit is much to be regretted that the Southerners and their adherents show no inclination to admit the desirability of change or the least intention to contemplate the most gradual emancipation. Our old acquaintance A. K. H. B. takes up the cause of injured authors, and attacks with due severity the impertinent interference of editors and collectors with our good ola English poets. It is certainly very tantatising to take up some modern volume of selections, and find our old friends whose every line is treasured as " house hold words," touched up by the hand of some pre sumptuous modern, whose taste is to be thought fat better than that of the grand old masters—. " Whose distant footste ps Through the corridors of time." That enterprising traveller, Miss Frances Cobbe, gives us a narrative of a day spent on the gPoomy echo i snores of the Dead Sea; and the thoughtful and cultivated writer who adopts the pseudonym of Shirley, pays homage to the abilities of Robert Browning. Though the reader may probably dif fer from his estimate of the poet (and more especially demur to the place assigned him above the Laureate), the criticism afforus some pleasant read ing. A retired garotter sets forth a defence of the noble art, or science, should we call it P He declares the rights of the strong supeifluous prop erty of to help themselves to the the weak to be incontestable, and we appehend that a good many who, likd himself, hold a respectable position in society, are very much of his mind. Bentley's Miscellany. The editor's brilliant romancs is the chief feature in this serial, but as we have already extracted some passages, we may pass on to the rest of the contents, in which, as usual, light literature predominates. Monkshood discourses on the °ha._ sctelistics of J a ck L o fty, G o ldsmith's good-natu red 41,01 ) in an agreeable and entertaining paper• finds many followers of the Lofty School, even ,_,...i