The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-03 00:00:00

CONSERVATISM IN SOUTH DEVON, On Thursday evening a number of Conserva tives of the South of Devon, met at Newton Abbot, for the purpose of celebrating by a dinner the for mation of a Conservative Association in connexion with one that has been in existence for two or three years at Torquay. Mr. Disraeli, who is sojourning in the latter town, it was expected by some people would have been present, but he did not make his a ppearance. There was, however, a large and in fluential gathering of Devonshire Conservatives, and considerable enthusiasm prevailed during the after-dinner proceedings. Lord Courtenay presided, and his lordship was supported by his father, the Earl of Devon, by Lord Churston (who has been the chief promoter of these local Conservative Asso ciations), and by Sir S. H. Northcote, M.P,, Sir L. Palk, M.P., the Hon. F. Pellew, Mr. Kekewich, M.P., and Mr, Baldwin Fulford. The usual loyal toasts were warmly drunk, and the Earl of Devon responded to the toast of " The House of Lords." In responding to the toast of " The Conservative Members of the House of Commons," Sir S. NORTIICOTE said that the organisation and un weary ingefforts of the Conservative party during the last 30 years had been attended with the most gratifying results to their cause. About 30 years ago, when the Conservative members in the H o use of Commons were in a contemptibl e m i nor ity, men of intelligence, ability, experience, and courage came forward with moderate but firm counsels, and called upon the people throughout the land to sup port them in th e stan d t h e y wer e about to make, and to fight the battle of the constitution in the re gistration courts. They had, in fighting inch by inch, maintained and strengthened their position in Parliament, and had by degrees commanded, first respect and then the admiration both of the coun try and t h e i r opponents in Parliament. If th e y looked back to the period he had referred to and considered what the prospect of this country then was, and if they compared it with the present pro spects of the country, they would be led to think how much they had to be grateful for, what it was for which they were indebted to the Conservative party of the last 30 years. He dilated upon these things the more because many of their detractors and calumniators wished to take a narrow view and to fix attention upon the attitude which the Con servative party had assumed at particular moments and upon particular questions. (Hear.) They must look at the question broadly, and see what it had done during the interval which had elapsed since the passing of the Reform Bill. To the Conserva tive party they were indebted for the fact that they had now a c onstitutional and ancient monarchy, and that they did not live either under a republic or a despotism ; that they had a House of Lords respected and independent; that they had a House of Com mons such as, he would not say was ideally perfect, but such as fairly represented all classes—(applause) —that they had a pure and Established Protestant Church, which was at once established and regu lated by the law, and yet was not a slave or tool of the State; and that they had countless other blessings which he would not undertake to enume rate, because they all could do that for themselves. (Applause.) All this they owed to the gallant stand made by the Conservative party at that time and the way in which their exertions had been backed up by the people throughout the length and breadth of the land. (Applause.) lie looked back with pride to the conduct of the Opposition since they last quitted office. He did not need to say much upon that point, because most emphatically the country had shown that it was with them. (Cheers.) Wherever an election had occurred, in which there had been anything like a fair field, the result of the election had been in their favour. (Hear.) And he trusted they had not gone to the end of the win nings yet. (Applause.) Upon this subject he must not say much ; but, looking around him, he saw that they had the materials with which to win many a good battle. If they wanted to know what the Con servative party was,and what it was doing his advice was they should go and see it at work. Very kind reports were got up by their adversaries, who wished to show that they were a defeated party, or an effete party, or a party that did not know its own mind, or a mere faction that was struggling to get from the benches of the Opposition to the benches of the Ministry. He said, in reply to these state ments, " Come and look at the party yourselves, and see us under fair circumstances, when we are at our work," not some night when they were discussing some miserable question or some minor Ministerial delinquency—(a laugh)—or the detail of some question which nobody could understand; but some day, in the broad light of a Wednesday morning, when the gentlemen below the gangway were lead ing some onslaught on the Church or upon some vital part of the Constitution, and when the noble gentlemen upon the Treasury Bench were taking counsel with each other, putting the thing first in one light and then in another, backwards and for wards, and showing plainly not only that they dis liked the bill which they were supporting, but that they were straining their ingenuity for expedients to make it at all palatable to themselves and the country. (Laughter and applause.) If they would come and see the party at such times they would find it united to a man upon any great principle. (Hear, hear.) He asserted that there had been a marked disposition on the part of the country since 1859 to give to the Conservative party its confidence and support. (Loud applause.) He appealed to the great change which had come over the House of Commons—and in this his hon. friends Sir Law rence Palk and Mr. Kekewich would bear him out —the great change which had conic over the spirit of the Hous© of Commons upon questions with re gard to which some years ago they had almost ac knowledged themselves beaten. (Hear.) He might select, particularly, the question of church rates, not because it was the only one, by any means, but because it was a striking instance of the way in which the party had rallied after an apparent defeat. Some years ago the vote upon church rates had been 60 or 70 against the party, but, by un wearying effort, they had fought these majorities down to a minority. There were other questions which illustrated the same change. They had fought gallantly, and they had gone far to establish their right position in the House of Commons. (Hear.) it cou ld not be expected that all these questions Would be settled at once; and ho did not say that chureh rates was a question upon which no l eg i s l a . tion would be necessary. It involved great consi derations!, and many thought it was necessary to mak e some further arrangement with regard to it. Ile dared sa y th a t might be so intime ; but it would be most disastrous to settle it at a time when the majority was pledged to destroy the Church. (Loud applause.) His advice was that they should not be in a hurry with such questions; let them g et a ma jority first, and then that majority would deal with this and other questi ons in the true Conservative spirit of encreavouring to amend what required amendment. He had already appealed to two tests to prove the change which had taken place in the country with regard to th e positio n of the Conser vative party—first, the expression of feelin g in the country at large ; and, second, th e change which had taken place in the spirit of the party in the House of Commons. There was one more test to which he would appeal—it was the attitude which the Government itself took with reference to these ques tions now, when they saw how strong the Con servative, were. (Hear, hear.) It would be remem bered that Government had come int o Parlia ment w ith a majority, which majority had pl ace d them i n office and given th em the re gu l ation and the direction of the affairs of the country. But, if the Governm ent had undertaken the direc tion of the affairs of the country, it must be ad mitted that they had found it upon many ques tions ft very ea,v teak; for they had contrived to get through by shifting the responsibility upon the Conserv a ti ve party, an d b,9 following the lead of that party. (Laughter and applause.) Lord Palmerston was c ons t an tly taunted by his own supporters with being a Conservative in dis guise, and with being always ready to do the bid ding of the Conservative Opposition. (Laughter.) Some Conservati ves , t oo , asserted that they could not have a better Conservative in office, and they asked why the Conservatives should desire an chr.nge. He confessed that he was not quite so great a believer in Lord Palmereton's Conservatiera as some persons appeared to be—(hear, hear)—but I he was a believer in Lord Palmerston's s , gacity. (Laughter and applause.) He knew that if to a great extent the Premier tried to calm or moderate the impetuosity of some of his follower and pos sibly of some of his colleagues, and if I e appeared disposed to adopt prudent and Conservative mea sures, it was owing in a great degree to those 300 gentlemen whom he had the advantage of contem plating on the benches of the Opposition. (Cheers.) In conclusion the hon. baronet expressed a hope that this relation between the Conservative party and the country might continue. (Applause.) Captain CAREW proposed the health of the two Members for the South of Devon, and the toast was drunk with applause. Sir. L. PALK, ALP., in responding , alluded to an address which M r _ C o l er id ge , Q-C., had issued to the electors of Exeter, is which the hon. and learned gentleman said, "I desire to identify my self with, and to advance by all honourable means in my power, the great Liberal party in this country." Those he (Sir Lawrence) admitted at once were Liberal principles—(a laugh)—but the Conservative principle happened to be based on this rule —It is not for party, it is not for ourselves, but that we may benefit and do our best for the whole community. (Hear, hear, and applause.) He believed that he might appeal to the conduct of the Conservative party during the last session as a proof that they would bear all things so long as the best interests of the country were not damaged. (Hear, hear.) They permitted a Govern• ment without a majority in the House of Commons, without the confidence of the country at large, to meddle with the finances of the country, to pass laws of questionable utility, to alter and change its foreign policy—they permitted it to do all this, and it WIS only when they thought the interests of the country were in danger that they met together and put a bar on its proceedings. (Hear.) During the whole session of Parliament there was no factious movement attempted. They did this because they felt th t the time had not come when the Conser vative party could rise from that mass of obloquy which had been showered upon it by a venal press —a press supported by the Government whom they had written into power. The Conservatives felt that it was necessary that the country at large should know their friendship and motives. He (the hon. baronet) thought they had to thank Lord Derby, Mr. Disraeli, and Sir S. Northcote, the great leaders of their party—(applause)—for the very judicious eour:_ , e which was adopted, for he believed it had laid the foundation for a triumph of the Conservative party at no very distant period. Mr. KEKEIVICH, M.P., also responded, and made some humorous remarks on the state of parties in the House of Commons. It was thought by many that the two parties were in the position of two hostile armies arrayed on each side of the house. This was not the case ; they had a great many elements in those parties. They had Liberal-Con servatives, Conservative-Liberals, Whigs, Tories, and, he thought, he heard some person remark, although he scarcely believed it, that therb was a party in the House of Commons which they called the Tory-Radical party. (Laughter.) He was not a Liberal-Conservative. (Hear, hear.) He thought it was a distinction without a diffe rence. (Hear, hear.) He was not a Conservative- Liberal, because he felt that was neither one thing nor the other. (Hear, hear.) It was very much like that kind of creature they had heard of lately in a very humorous play, in which a certain noble lord said, " I hate a fellow who does not know his own mind." But he hoped he was a true, honest, and faithful Conservative—an advocate for safe, steady, sure progress, as opposed to rash inventions and chimerical changes. (Cheers.) The " Health of Lord Churston, and the Conser vative Association of Torquay," was next proposed by the chairman. Lord CHUASTON responded, and strongly advo cated the formation of local associations for the sup port of Conservatism. Several other toasts of a local and complimentary character were then given, and the company sepa rated. THE WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, DEC. 20. It is positively asserted from Washington, and fully believed in this city, that Mr. Seward has resigned the office of Secietary of State, and that the resignation will be accepted. The event excites no surprise. The faction of the ultra Abolitionists and Exterminators, to whose distrust and dislike General M'Clellan fell the first victim, de termined long ago that Mr. Seward should be the second. They appear to have succeeded in their object. He was too much of a Con servative on the subject of slavery to suit their views, and too greatly impressed with the spectacle of the power, resources, energy, and obstinacy of the South to work willingly with a party that preached servile war and extermination as the best or only means of building up a free and United Re public. It is true that his animus against Great Britain and his inclination to pick a quarrel with that country, if by so doing he could help to restore or mend the broken fabric of the Union, with more chances of success than domestic means allowed, recommended him to the tender consideration of the dominant party, but was not of itself sufr cien t to counterbalance his other defects and offences against the Republicans. Virtually he has gone over to the Democrats, and as a quasi Democrat he will probably figure in public life for the future, should he be permitted to serve the Republic in any capacity. This resignation, if truly reported, is the first fruits of the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg. Another result which every one anticipated has not occurred. General M'Clellan has not been sent for. The statement was so confidently made on the night before and the morning of the departure of the last steamer that it was difficult to avoid giving it credence. People of good position in the world said they had seen the telegram that sum moned him to Washington ; others declared that the General had himself told them of the fact ; while a third section of imaginative romancists had with their own eyes beheld him at the railway station with his travelling valise in his hand. But all these statements were pure ir.ventions, and up to this moment General APUleilan has received no intima tion whatever from M r . Li ncoln, or the War-office, that his services will be required. The univer- j satility of the belief that the Army of the Potomac had been again entrusted to his leadership is, how ever, a striking proof of the confidence which his name inspires ; and although it is now generally known that all the an nouncements made upon the subject were false, people obstinately continue to iassert that the rumours had no o th er error than prematurity, and that Gen. M'Clellan will and. must be sent for, to restore confidence to the dis pirited army and the still more greatly dispirited and desponding. country. However this may be, the fact remains that no confidence is felt in any one else. The people are thoroughly sick and disgusted,but,b eingavery slow, cau ti ous, l aw - a biding, an d patient communi ty, and by no means the impulsive mob which it was once the fashion In Europe to consider them, they have not boiled over with imlignation at the useless ei ednwetdahoerlemrnir thermometer a l dc i esodti contented non b oft u et ttdcdhhiesei dismiss with is at blood s the hoe Gen. isn . riii s ai Fredericksburg.resignationnnge kanadno if 3 iii. ,‘Bi.r. Mr. and Stanton, the signs and portents are that he himself the will be called t o a s t r i ct and immediate aeount. The statement, is that General Halleck , who never fought a b a ttl e , pos i t i vely " forgot" atno order the pontoons which he had promised General Burnside to despatch after him, so that he might cross the Rappahannock without delay, and thut the plan of campaign thus unfortunately, if not criminally inaugurated, was sketched by him self, in concert with the President and Mr. Stanton, and dictated to General Burnside, who disapproved it, but agreed to do his best to carry it out. Why General Burnside, under such circumstances, did not throw up his command is a mystery. Hitherto it has been the custom to speak of Mr. Lincoln with respect, as an honest man who meant well.. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY :EVENEN4, JANUARY 3, 1863 But those who still entertain that opinion are loud in their disparagement of his ability, and even of his common sense. The Republicans and Exter minators themselves are beginning to hint that he is the most egregious failure that the Ameri can system of government has ever yet pro duced, and that his resignation of office, ac companied by that of Mr. Hamblin, the Vice-Pre sident, would be the greatest boon he could confer upon a country which, under his guidance and that of the conceited lawyers whom he has called to his councils, has been brought as near to perdi tion as it is possible to be without positive anarchy. The Constitution, unluckily, is, or was, a fair weatherboat, not built and framed to endure any great stress of wind or buffeting of waves, and so utterly unworkable as to have been virtually aban doned. 111 r. Lincoln is at sea upon a raftof despotism on which he stands or sits without a single quality of head—whatever his heart may be—to fit him for navigating the ocean on so perilous a craft. If the Constitution had provided any means for getting rid of him, there cannot be a doubt that an effort would be immediately made to accomplish the ob ject. Under the Constitution the only means are an impeachment, which is not only a slow process, but one which the fag end of a Congress, now pre tending to inquire into the causes of the disaster at Fredericksburg, but maundering meanwhile about negroes and contrabands, and declaring them to be " mentally, physically, and morally superior" to the Southern whites, is not likely to attempt. The only other alternative for briningg about a change are the deposition of Mr. Lincoln by an armed mob, civilian or military, which no one yet advocates, though even that solution of the difficulty has pre sented itself to many minds which wish that it were possible ; or such a loud and emphatic ex pression of public opinion as shall convince Mr. Lincoln onto for all that he must surround himself with statesmen and generals whom the country can trust, and that he himself must refrain from further interference with military matters which he does not understand, and from any further viola tions of the letter and spirit of the constitution which he swore to maintain and hold. The Democratic party have taken this matter in hand, and New York was to have led off to-night with a meeting, the first of a long series in every city and town of the North. For some reason or other, not openly stated, the meeting was postponed for a few days, possibly to give the President a chance of antici pating the expression of public opinion, by the dis missal or reorganisation of his whole Cabinet. If such meetings take place, the proceedings are likely to teach Mr. Lincoln, if he has the capacity for re ceiving instruction which his friends assert, that he and his Ministers have utterly forfeited the confi dence, if not the respect, of the country, and that if he do not by fair means inaugurate a total and im mediate change of policy he will incur a very great risk of provoking a violent revolution either in the street or in the camp, or by the combined agencies of both. It must be confessed that there is little to cheer the Northern heart in the present prospects of the country. The Tribune newspaper believes, as Can dide might have done, that all is for the best. It even looked upon the retreat of Gen. Burnside across the Rappahannock as a circumstance full of cheer ing augury for the future prospect of the war, but the voice of that charmer has ceased to charm, and there is not perhaps another man in the country who shares the singularly beatific visions of Mr. Horace Greeley. Neither under Gen. Burnside nor any other commander can a second attempt be made this winter to approach Richmond by way of Fre dericksburg or by any other route. The army of the Potomac must inevitably go into winter quar ters or be driven into greater dangers than those from which it was extricated at Fredericksburg— an extrication that was not so cheaply effected as Mr. Stanton's revised telegrams would have the public believe. This of itself is sufficiently discouraging, but it is not the worst part of the public sorrow. Volun teering for the army has ceased. The conscription cannot be put in force. More than 100,000 men have deserted since June last. The officers, who are for the most part appointed for political and not for military reasons, are incompetent, and inspire the men with no confidence, The time of many of the regiments has expired. The nine months' vo lunteers have served six months and will not renew. The men are not paid their money, and are greatly dissatisfied. The inaction of winter quarters will more than decimate the ranks by the diseases which are certain to occur in the camp wherever the camp may be fixed. The soldiery are losing heart as well as the people, and are fast coming to the conclu sion that, managed as they have been managed, victory can never reward their efforts. Slaugh tered in vain at Fredericksburg with as much method as if they had been swine at Cincinnati, they ask one another why they should risk another such contest, without hope of achieving anything by it. Five of the ships that were chartered by the Go vernment to convey the troops of General Banks to his destination, wherever that may be, are rotten tubs, utterly unseaworthy, and have put into Phila delphia and other ports in stress of weather, where they have been condemned as unfit for further ser vice. General Banks, when he reaches his destina tion, will probably have an insufficient number :of men, in consequence of this scandalous break down, to carry out his plans, and will, at the best, make a useless lodgment in the enemy's country, and hold no more of it than the ground his camp will oc cupy, or that the range of his guns can protect. The Federal expedition up the Neun River, con ducted by General Foster, which was, it appears, to have played the important part of alarming the Confederates for the safety of Richmond in the rear, while Burnside was to beleaguer it in front, has taken the little town of Kingston, but done nothing to render the capture of Richmond more probable than if it had never started. The Government is one day beset by dishonest shipowners, who have in fluence enough over Mr. Lincoln or his secretaries to persuade him to undertake naval expeditions, of which the only real purpose is the sale or charter- , ing of their rotten craft ; and on another by equally I dishonest and scheming railroad directors and ma nagers, who denounce all naval expeditions as un called for, and urge the transport of troops by rail as the only possible salvation of the country. Mr. Chase cannot get his paper money printed fast enough to pay the soldiers, and the price of every article of food and clothing has doubled. With corruption and imbecility every where and con fidence nowhere, and with Washington all but undefended, and liable at any moment to be captured by " Stonewall" Jackson or some other preux chevalier of the South, is it surprising that the American people should be sad at heart ? Or will it be surprising to find hereafter that for such desperate situation they adopt a des perate remedy ? In grim jest, which is considerably BRITISH COLUMBIA.—The newspapers of Nov. more than three-fourths grim earnest, there are state that many of the miners had arrived in Vic people who suggest that the best solution of the toria for the winter, bringing news from "up country." At difficulty would be the installation of Mr. Jefferson 1 Lightning Creek the Sh a ft C ompan y had been raisin g a b ou t Davis as P res id ent i n li eu of Mr. Li ncoln—a new loom a day, and the Campbell Company had taken above Confederation of North and South, leaving out the 100,000 dols. out of a claim in three months. On Barker i t u o g C a a ti n o a n t ; Els a trh, iefythwaotuwldesrueClaim, Williams's Creek, there was taken in one week, with a New England States altogether, or making them a single pick, going day and night, 1,7000z b , of golddust. A rich present to the British Government as an addendum bjugat inadmissibleth e quartzleadhas been discovered in Cariboo. ato. topic The discovery s , their uth— sub-atid of gold in the Peace River is a chief pic of these papers. It is asserted that there is room there for 20,000 miners, their redaetion e to the condition of a conquered de- and that the region is more accessible than the Cariboo, pendency, held by and governed by if such a question could be put to less elevated country, an d m ore of o p en pra i r i e . Th e l arge the vote of the people of New York, of the middle and border party of emigrants from Canada au I Red River settlement States, and of the Great West, the chances are that who made their way down Fraser River a short time ago it would be carried by a very magnificent m "ori left part of their numb er , 36 persons , at T ete Jaune Cache, so great is the revulsion of feeli ng alty near the head of the r i ver , to bringtho animals down to the that has taken ' Thompson River, where they expected to be able to winter place on the question of negro slaves and abolition them. This company have arrived in Victoria. One of their —the incitements to servile war held out by M e . number was a woman, the first white woman who ever Lincoln—the subversion of the Constitution, and passed through that tract of country, and the journey was th e m i sitv irrigernent of every department of the marked way,arke she d bythe furtheruoveltythatat Fort Kamloops,the2 7 5 puNic se rvice that has signalised the Republican miles from Tete Ca gave Janne birth to che agirl She had walked carrying her little daughter Administration since its assumption of office. The of four years old on her back, and accompanied by her press of New York does not as a rule reflect public two children, six and eight years of age. Opinion, hut, w i t h s ome honourable exceptions, The Copenhagen Da/lb/cat of the 30th December writes for a rowdy public of the lowest moral and says that the King had held a council of state at intellectual grade. It has blown the war trumpet his lt i chatcau, at Frodensborg, the day before, at 'which obstreperously long of the public lt etMinisterswere present. It was supposed that the after the edge y am o ono. Earl Russell's despatch of November the 20th appetite fur war had been blunted, but, awakening reply the matters submitted to the council. at last to the real condition of the national mind , T • impel ting tea without colour on the leaf prevents which is one of disgust fast ripening into indigna tile Chinese passing off inferior brown leaves as in the usual tion, it has blown with unparalleled unanimity a kinds. Horniman's tea is uncoloured, therefore always still louder war-note against the President and the good fpeople who use or govern him for their own pur poses or theories. The disaster at Fredericksburg has for once put the press and the intelligent public in unison. Journals of all shades of politics agree in their estimate of the danger of the crisis and the remedies to be adopted; and even the most violent of the anti-slavery ultra-Republican papers call for a total change of men and measures to save the country from the ruin into which it is drifting. DREADFUL FIRE, PORTSMOUTH, Friday.—A fire broke out in a house in College-street, Portsea, this morning, which caused the destruction of the house and the loss of seven lives. A Mr. Palmer, a cattle dealer, residing in Portsea, was passing through College street towards his home, when he saw that a house and shop, occupied by a boot and shoe maker named Dennett Keene was on fire, apparently in the shop. He immediately gave an alarm, and the Dockyard engine, with a body of nearly 50 of the Dockyard (metropolitan) police, under Mr. Superintendent Guy, was almost immediately in front of the house. The flames by this time were bursting through the upper windows, and it was evident the house was on fire throughout from floor to roof. A wo man, who rented the second floor from Keene, dropped her child to the people in the street below from her window, and escaped herself in the same way. Keene himself also made his escape in a si milar manner, but his wife and six children were known to be inside the burning Wise. For twenty minutes the powerful engine of the Dockyard police stood in front of the fire useless for want of water, none being obtainable from the water company's mains. A publican living a few doors off suddenly remembered that he had a large unused cellar under his hose, which from the defec tive state of the town drainage was generally full of water. The cellar flap was wrenched off at once by a policeman's crowbar, and the cellar was found, fortunately, to have in it a considerable depth of water. The suction house was at once passed down, in company with that of the borough police engine, which had also arrived, and both engines began to play upon the fire. The fire, however, was not sub dued until the roof and flooring had all fallen in, and everything but the bare walls was destroyed. The fire did not extend, however, to the adjoining houses, which is attributed as much to the strength and substance of the party walls as to the action of the engines. Keene himself states that he, his wife, and two friends were sitting in the sitting-room at the back of the shop celebrating the new year. Their six children were asleep in the top rooms (the house is a three storied one), and their lodger and her child were in the middle room over the shop. They suddenly heard a crackling noise in the shop, and on opening the door found it full of flames. The two friends rushed out of the back-door and escaped over a wall. Keene and his wife rushed upstairs to save their children, calling to their lodger as they went by her room. From this point nothing can be learnt beyond that no fire was at first found in ascending the stairs by Keene and his wife, but the smoke was rising in dense masses from below, and rendered it, Keene says, impos sible to breathe, so that he was compelled to make his escape while he had breath and strength left. The woman pertinaciously stand by the chance of recovering her children, and perished with them. It is the opinion of Mr. Superin tendent Guy that Mrs. Keene and her children must have been partially suffocated and insensible from the smoke bef ore the f i re reac hed them. It is also certain that th ey must a ll h a ve been dead by the time the police en g i ne fi rs t arrived, so that had there been, as there o ug ht, an am ple supply of water in the mains, it would have been useless for saving life. The charred bodies have all been recovered from,the ruins, and await an inquest by the borough coroner. Destruction of the Sunnyside Works, Salford. On Thursday, at midnight, a fire broke out in the bleaching and finishing works of Mr, Henry Stat ham, late Messrs. Thorpe and Statham, Sunnyside 'Works, Ordsal-lane, Salford. These works are very extensive ; they comprise a four-story mill, measuring in length about 180 feet and two-story finishing, pressing, and packing rooms. The mill runs down to the bank of the Irwell, and is hugged on both sides by large mills. We are informed that no work had been in operation during the day, which, being New Year's-day, is customarily a holi day. On the appearance of the fire a messenger was despatched to the Salford Town-hall for the fire engine, and before its arrival a large number of men voluntarily entered the burning building, and the houses in the neighbourhood were stored with the goods that were saved. The mill was an old one, and was filled with a very valuable stock, business hav ing been exceedingly good and all the hands being in constant employment. The fire made rapid pro gress, and before the arrival of the fire brigade had obtained a complete mastery of the building. The floors burnt through in rapid succession, a loud re port marking the moment that each story gave way. The roof seemed to be burnt through in sections, and as each portion fell pillars of fire and smoke shot up into the heavens to great heights, illuminating the district by the fierceness of their glow, and people in streets a considerable distance off shrank before the intensity of the hot breezes that were borne on the wind. The Salford Fire Brigade, under Mr. Super intendent Atherton, worked heroically. The men scrambled up the roofs of the adjacent building, and, standing upright on the stone window-sills of rooms in an adjoining mill which had caught fire, directed jets of water upon the flames. Masses of burning ruins fell into the midst of groups of fire men who from the ground were directing streams of water upon the interior of the building, and great apprehensions were at one time excited for the safety of some men who had penetrated into the en gine-room, and who, with flames on every hand stood with great coolness playing on the burning mass. A large quantity of burning ruins fell while the men stood in the position described, and com pletely obscured them for a moment from sight, hut when the smoke cleared away they were seen to be standing in the same position, and apparently unhurt. The mill, which was burnt up to the wall of Mr. Statham's, was occupied by Mr. Billington, and was used for the manufacture of smallwares. One end caught fire, but the damage will be, com paratively speaking, slight. There was a large police force on the ground to keep the crowd in order, and, as there were many officious drunken men, the police had plenty of work. The total da mage is upwards of £20,000, but the building and contents also, we believe, are insured. SCREW SHIPS OF WAR. In 1844 the Arrogant, by the advice of the late Lord Herbert, then Secretary of the Admiralty, was laid down for a screw frigate, with auxiliary power, as an answer to the menacing attitude of France, the increasing proportion of her steam navy, and the celebrated pamphlet of the Prince de Joinville. To the auxiliary-powered Arrogant succeeded full powered frigates, blockships of evil renown, and magnificent liners,mounting from 90 to 130 guns, all propelled by the screw, and in some of the finest of the frigates and liners driven by engines of a thou sand nominal horse power, capable of working up to 4,000 horse at full pressure of steam. Next came the " iron" age, represented by the Warrior, of 6,030 tons, and carrying but 40 guns behind her iron walls, her screw driven by engines of 1,250 horse power. We are now entering upon a new phase in the introduction of Capt. Coles's turret and Mr. E. Reed's central square tower systems, the former being applied to the Royal Sovereign and Prince Albert and the latter to the Favourite and Enterprise. As we progressed through these dif ferent stages so has the cost of our ships increased. We still retain the screw as a means of propulsion, and we cover the lofty masts of each ship as we send her to see with a mass of wood and cordage suffi cient to foul and disable the screws of a whole fleet if knocked overboard in action or in a breeze. We have been engaged all these years in testing the powers of the screw, and have also learnt its great attendant fault. A turn or two of a rope's end, and the screw becomes fixed, and the 14-knot ship, with her magnificent engines, becomes helpless on the water, as far as her machinery is concerned. Since the commencement of the formation of our screw fleets by the launch of the Arrogant the thought ever dominant in the mind of the naval officer has been, How could a screw ship he rigged so as to lessen the danger of fouling the screw by falling spars and rigging or floating wreck? The question has in the meantime been often enough discussed by officers of the Royal and mercan tile marine and by shipbuilders and scientific men on shore. Some have contended for the retention of the ordinary three masts for a full rigged ship, while others have advocated the ad dition of a fourth or even fifth mast for the longest ships. Some few have even gone so far as to argue that our iron-clads can never, under any circumstances, if clothed with armour all round, like the Minotaur will be, be made safe seagoing ships; and, as they will possess engine power which they can use economically by a low pressure of steam, they ought to depend upon steam alone for their motive power. So far all the disputants have agreed that the present form and description of masts, yards, and sails must be made use of with three or four masts, or the ship must depend upon her steam power alone. There are, however, two existing modifications of rig and disposition of spars introduced by the Admiralty in the Defence and Resistance. No one, however, could wish to see such specimens multiplied. With the usefulness of their Cunningham self-reefing topsail marred by attaching it to a fixed Howe's (Ameri can) topsai'yard, they look everything that is ugly aloft in a seaman's eye, while they are perfectly in efficient under sail, as compared with the Warrior or Black Prince. The advent of the turret ships has, however, led to plans being laid before the Admiralty for mast ing and rigging our sea-going iron-clad ships on an entirely novel principle, superseding altogether hempen rigging, cordage, and wooden masts by iron tubing and chain, exactly as iron ships have superseded wooden ones for all future purposes of war. It is proposed i❑ these plans to give the ship tripod tubular iron masts, the central, or foremost, of the three tubes being of sufficient length to act es lowermast and topmast, and without tops or crosstrees. A long wooden topgallautmast fidded abaft the topmast head would carry topgallantsails and royals. Topgallant and royal yards would be of wood, but topsail and lower yards would be built of tubular iron, like the masts ; all three masts and spars to be of equal dimensions. The advantages claimed for the tripod over the ordinary system of masting are,-1. Having no lower stays, they pre sent no obstacle to the fire of the guns in the cylindrical shield or turret, in whatever direction they may be trained. 2. The yards can be braced up nearly fore and aft, or in a line with the keel, enabling the ship when under steam to set sail and steer her course when with the present rig she would be obliged to furl her sails. The last posi tion was forcibly illustrated in the escape of the English steamer Thistle from the United States corvette Tuscarora off Madeira on the 29th of November. 3. In action, the wooden topgallant masts being sent down, the ship is in her fight ing trim. Her topsail halliards and sheets leading down between decks through her tubular masts, sail is ret and taken in as required by the crew without exposing a man on deck. If all or any portion of the masts and yards are shot away, being of iron and having no rigging attached to them they would sink immediately on falling overboard, without a possibility of fouling the screw. 4. On the mast platforms, which are laid on the braces connecting the legs of the tripod, they furnish a set of fortresses for riflemen to repel boarders, &c. 5. From their great strength, they are well adapted for withstanding the shock of a collision when using the ship at full speed as a ram. 6. They will en able a ship to carry a greater spread of canvass, with less weight aloft, than can be done with ordi nary masts and rigging. They afford great means of ventilation, are durable as the hull of the ship itself, would not be subject to the effect of climate, and the enormous wear and tear of ordinary masts and rigging would be thus avoided. 7. The masts and yards being all equal in size and fixed at equal distances, the yards cannot lock when braced sharp up, and, the centre of effirt of the sails being thrown well forward of the line of resistance of the hull, the ship will wear easily and rapidly, a quality in which our iron ships afloat, and more especially the Warrior and Black Prince, are said to be very defi cient. The adoption of the tubular tripod masts would also, without doubt, save the enormous an nual expense which is now incurred in the dete rioration of the rigging of our ships of war kept ready for service in the first-class steam reserves. The following are the general dimensions of the shield-ship proposed by Capt. Coles as a sea-going vessel, compared with the Defence : Shield Ship Defence. Length Beam Tonnage Draught of water 54 „ .. 3,720 26 feet. Nominal Horse power .. 800 Height of ,suns out of water 13 feet • . .. 500 9 feet 6 inches As regards the spread of sail and weight aloft the following comparisons are drawn : Area of canvass in square feet. Weight in tons, Ship with tripod masts Defence A first-rate, or 120-gun ship This gives the tripod-masted ship a spread of 9,927 square feet more canvass than the Defence, at an increase of 28 tons more weight. In comparison with the first-rate, by which the Warrior and Black Prince may be judged, the tripod ship spreads 2,751 square feet more canvass, with a less weight of 36 tons, and as the tripod shield ship would draw less water, and have less beam, it is claimed that she would be much the faster ship under sail. The word " turret," made use of in referring to Captain Coles's ships has been used advisedly, the sloping shields which were to crown the towers having been abandoned by the Admiralty, together with breech loading ordnance for their armament. The Royal Sovereign at Portsmouth, and the Prince Albert, building by Messrs. Samuda, will therefore now be fitted with turrets of a similar fashion to the Monitor, and will carry as heavy muzzle-loading ordnance as can be made for theta. The Royal Sovereign is not to be fitted with masts, and con sequently can only be looked upon as forming a part of our home defences. REPRESENTATION OF EAST KENT.—The COM mittees of Sir Norton Knatchbull and Sir Edward Dering, the candidates for the representation of the eastern division of Kent, have completed their canvass, and, from the returns which have been received, there seems to be every probability of a severe contest. Tho nomination will take place on B ar h am Downs on Monday next, the 6 th inst., and the polling ou the following Thursday. JOHN HAMPDEN Mr William James Smith, in a communication to 11'otes and Queries, gives the following account of the exhumation of a body supposed to be that of Hampden, in the year 1828 :—" On Saturday the 19th of July, 1828, I left London with Lord Nugent and Mr. Denman (then Common-Sergeant of Lon don, afterwards Lord Denman). We halted at Chalfont to see the church and the house where Milton had for a time resided ; thence to Amersham and Aylesbury, where we visited the county gaol ; and upon that occasion I made my first, and I hope my last appearance on the treadmill, in company with the future Lord Chief Justice of England. We arrived in the evening at Lilies, Lord Nugent's residence, and on the following Monday morning started for Great Hampden, where, at the church door, we were met by the Rev. Mr. Brooks, the rector; Mr. Grace, Lord Buckingham's land steward; Mr. C. Moore, the eminent sculptor; Mr. Coventry, and one or two other gen tlemen. After the inscriptions on several coffins had been examined, one was found about 4t. from the surface, on the right hand (south ?) side of the communion table, on - which no letters were legible, and as the plate was not much decayed, it seemed probable that there never had been any inscription It was immediately determined that this should be opened. The outer coffin of wood had been covered with velvet; the inner coffin was a very thick leaden one. It was cut open, and the lead rolled back; the body was laid in a wooden shell, and upon removing the sawdust, was found to be enveloped in very nu merous folds of cerecloth, which would perhaps ac count for its remarkable preservation ; the flesh was white and firm, but with no other odour than that of the surrounding earth. The features were much compressed by the weight of the bandages. the eyes were covered with a white film ; the beard had been shaven, but there appeared a growth of about a 16th of an inch. The hair was long and flowing, as represented in the portraits of Hamp den ; it had been collected and tied with a black riband at the back of the head. In colour it corre sponds with the description given by Mrs. Grote. I cut off a lock, which is still in my possession. As there was no surgeon present Lord Nugent descended into the grave, and endeavoured to ascertain whe ther there was any wound upon or near the left shoulder, but it being found impossible thus to make a satisfactory examination, the coffin was raised and set upon tressels in the middle of the chancel. The body was placed in a sitting posture, with a shovel to support the head. The shoulders and arms were then carefully inspected, and the result proved that Lord Nugent's " foregone conclusion"—that Hamp den's death was caused by a gunshot wound in the shoulder—was at once dissipated. There did not appear any discolouration, or the slightest injury to the shoulders or arms; but, in order to be perfectly satisfied, Lord Nugent himself, with a small pocket knife borrowed from me at the instant, made seve ral incisions in the parts adjacent to the shoulder joint, without finding any fracture or displacement of the bones. Lord Nugent was evidently disap pointed; he did not care to establish the fact that Hampden's death was occasioned in any other man ner than by a shot frcm the King's troops. My own opinion rather leaned to the tradition related by Sir Robert Pye (Hampden's son-in-law), that his right hand was shattered by the bursting of his pistol, and that death probably ensued from lock jaw, arising out of extensive injury to the nervous system. When I took up the right hand it was con tained in a sort of funeral glove, like a pocket. On raising it I found it was entirely detached from the arm ; the bones of the wrist and the hand were much displaced, and had been evidently splintered bysome violent concussion; onlythe ends of the fingers were held together by the ligaments. The two bones of the forearm, for about three inches above the wrist, were without flesh or skin, but there were no marks of amputation ; both the bones were perfect. The left hand was in a similar glove, but it was firmly attached to the arm, and remained so when the glove was drawn away. There were slight por tions of the flesh upon the hand : the bones were complete, and still held in their places by the liga ments which supported them. This remarkable difference in the condition of the hands sufficiently proves the truth of Sir Robert Pye's relation of the cause of Hampden's death. EXECUTION AT WORCESTER Yesterday the last sentence of the law was exe cuted upon William Ockold, in front of Worcester county gaol, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. _ _ _ - The wretched criminal was tried at Worcester, on the 13th ult., before Mr. Justice Mellor, for the murder of his wife at Oldbury, near Birmingham. The persons were both far advanced in life, the con vict being in his 70th year, and his wife 74 or 75 years old. The couple had been married half a cen tury, within a few weeks, but had had many wran gles together, and they frequently fought, the old woman being as often the assailant as her husband. Before her death the deceased had suffered from a chronic affection of the kidneys,which caused her much pain at night, and in consequence the old man's rest was frequently disturbed. This seems to have irritated him greatly, and he was constantly grumbling about it. The last that was seen of the old woman alive was on Friday evening, Nov. 9, when a neighbour, going into the cottage of Ock old, found the deceased sitting on the floor groan ing, and her husband at work in his shop. He was a tailor by trade. The daughter-in-law and son cf the old people afterwards came in and gave the de ceased some tea, the son subsequently carrying her upstairs to bed. In the course of the same evening the prisoner had been heard to say that his wife only wanted to go to bed to keep him awake all night, but that she should not keep him awake again that night. Nothing more was heard at the house until about 4 o'clock next morning, when a police man and a man who was grooming some horses in an adjacent stable beard blows as of some man beat ing a woman in the house of the Ockolds, upstairs. The man was heard to curse and swear, and threaten the woman, who answered, " Oh, Bill, don't kill me !" or, " Oh, Bill, thou'lt kill me." Next morning, at 8 o'clock, the prisoner was found at work on his shop-board, and, being asked about his wife, an swered that he knew nothing about her. The neigh bours proceeded upstairs and found her lying dead on the floor, death having apparently been caused by violent blows inflicted by a broken mopstick. There was a good deal of blood in the room and on the stairs, which had flowed from the deceased's nose and face. The right cheekbone was broken, and there were many bruises about the body. Death was caused by pressure on the brain occasioned by these injuries. The circumstances of the previous life of Ockold and his wife and the advanced age of the criminal led to a general belief that the capital sentence would not be carried out, and it was not, therefore, until a few days ago that any representation was made by memorials to the Home-office on the subject. Three memorials, however, were then presented—one from the magistrates of the county of Worcester, one from the magistrates of the city, and one from the inhabitants of the district where the murder was committed. The high sheriff (Sir E. A. Lechmere) also had a personal interview with Sir G. Grey, in London ; but the Home Secretary returned the same answer to all the representations made to him— viz., that he saw nothing in the case calling for the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy. When this result was communicated to the condemned criminal he appeared to treat it with in difference, and altogether his conduct in prison was not that of a criminal conscious that his hours were numbered. He listened to the ministrations of the Rev. J. Adlington, the chaplain of the gaol, who was most assiduous in his attention to the condemned man, but frequently conversed upon other and indifferent subjects. His son visited him on Thursday to take his leave, and was met by his father with a salutation that it was well he came to see him then, for " if he had come next day he would have been too late." He retired to rest on Thursday night about nine o'clock, and in spite of a storm of wind and rain which raged during the by gre tie greater part rtot' the night slept soundly until visited morning. He ch a p lain at an tookearly hour breakfast, and subsequently evinced the greatest firmness when waited upon by the prison officers to perform the last ceremonies. He persisted to the last that he did not kill his wife, and declared he only struck her in the mouth, which had caused the flow of blood. At eight o'clock the prison bell tolled out a fune ral knell. In a few minutes the procession appeared on the scaffold. Ockold, whose appearance, with his blanohed face and white hair flying in the breeze, was pitiable in the eyes of the crowd, walked with a steady step and took his place under the fatal beam. The preliminary arrangements were soon completed. Calcraft adjusted the noose and shook hands with the culprit, who uttered a few long ejaculations for mercy, and the next moment he was dangling a lifeless corpse, THE STATE OF THE NATION. The frightful and unavailing sacrifice of the 10,000 heroic Union soldiers cut down in front, of the rebel redoubts masked batteries, intrencliments, stone walls, and rifle pits along the heights of Fredericksburg is universally regarded as the most dreadful and ominous disaster' of the war. It has shocked the public mind of the North to a state of dis appointment, anguish, despair, and indignation v, - lII 4 Ja not be satisfied withexplanationi or apologies. It 1,1141 to President Lincoln for redress, in a sweeping work of refo'oa and reconstruction. A great crime has been committed in. this Fredericksburg butchery, and a great blunder worse than the crime, for which a vigilant and intelligent people cannot be mistaken in fixing the responsibility. This de plorable disaster, however, seems to be but the principal item of a series of misadventures attending this ‘‘ anaconda" campaign of the War office. On the very day on which our gallant troops were repulsed from the rebel works on on the hills of Fredericksburg a Federal column (according to a despatch from the rebel General Evans to Richmond) , of 15,000 men, under Gan. Foster, was repulsed at King ston, North Carolina, and driven back to the shelter of the nine supporting gunboats. To the northward a Federal column from Suffolk, a few days ago, moving towards-Peters burg, 10,000 strong, was repulsed at the Blackwater river. These expeditions were intended to cut certain important rebel railroad arteries in connection with Gen, Burnsides advance, and like it they appear to have been arrested in the very first encounter with the enemy. To make the mat ter still worse, it appears that the promise of Jeff. Davis, on his recent visit to Tennessee—that he intended to recover that State —was no idle bit of bravado, but a promise which, he will make a bold effort to redeem. His plan, as we un derstand it is first to ascertain if 50,000 men can be spared for a month or two from ' the rebel army of Virginia ; and, if they can be spared, his purpose is to send them to Gen. Joe Johnston, to advance upon Nashville, with the hope of de feating the army of Gen. Rosencrans, and of capturing the important city he is guarding and its immense stores of munitions of war and other army supplies. Let Gen. Burn side go into winter quarters, and we may next hear of the loss of Nashville; let him continue in front of Fredericks burg, and Lee may still consider himself, behind his pro tecting intrenchments, strong enough to spare 50,000 mem for Tennessee. What, then, is the obvious line of policy' suggested to the Government? Is it the policy of sending little twopenny exploring expeditions here and there by way of military diversions, which only excite the contempt of the enemy, while we are attempting the very thing which. they roost desire in advancing on Richmond by:way of Frede ricksburg ? Evidently this programme will not do. Is Gen. Burnside, then, to go into winter quarters, and allow the rebels to appropriate two or three months in strengthening their barricades along every line of approach ? We hope not. What, then, are we to do? Advance upon Richmond by way of James River. Suppose it is fortified on both banks, for the whole 26 miles from the city down to Harri son's Landing ; we command the river to that point by our gunboats, and against rebel forts we can throw up Union earthworks, and bang 20 pieces of artillery to bear against every gun of the enemy in our front. Have the rebels an, inexhaustible supply of gunpowder ? Has that question never been suggested to the wise heads of the War-office? We think it has become abundantly manifest, however, that we have nothing to expect from the present radical and blundering managers of this war in the Cabinet and is Con gress ; nothing better than great disasters and exhausting defeats in exchange for small successes in unimportant loca lities. A concentration of the forces of Banks, Foster, and Dix on the James River, with an accompanying fleet of gunboats as a diversion in support of General Burnside, would surely have prevented this late terrible disaster to the finest army ever mustered on this Continent. As it is, the country has lost all hope of a successful issue to this wax under the disorganising and demoralising influence which have brought only disaster and disgrace upon every effort. made to reach the rebel capital. Is the nation to be saved or lost ? That is the question which is now thrust upon President Lincoln from every side. If he would revive the hopes of the people in the success of their great cause, and their confidence in his administration he has only one course to pursue. He must reconstruct his Cabinet, reorganise his whole system of military operations, discard the destructive abolition malignan.ts that surround him, and,:abandoning its unimportant extremities for a season, strike at the heart of the rebellion.—New York Herald. COUNTRY MARKETS. 1)- EXETER—JAN. 2. Wheat very firm, at the following prices : Wheat, white.. 6s Gd to 6s 9d Barley. 4s 3d to 4s 91 Ditto red. .Gs 3d to Gs Gd Oats .........2s 9d to 38 Od Flour, fine, 36s to 37s ; seconds, 34s to 35s per sack. CATTLE. We again had a small supply of all descriptions of stock to-day. Business dull. Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to llsOd Ewes, per lb ....54d to 61d Pork carcases, 7s 6d to 8s 6d Wethers, 6d to 7d Lamb, p 1b.......—d to —d Fat calves, d0...61d to 7€l. Rough fat, 3d per lb. STAMFORD-JAN. 2. New wheat, 46s to 48s—red, 44s to 46s per 3G stone. Barley, 32s to 40s per qr. Oats, 21s to 263 per 24 stone. Beans, 38s to 42s per qr. DUBLIN-Jix. 2 The corn exchange was but indifferently supported to day, and we do not note any quotable alteration in price. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 26 0 to 28 6 Do., red 23 0 to 26 0 Do. new Barley Oats Do., black ~10 0 to 12 0 s. d. s. d. Beans.. Bere Rapeseed Oatmeal l3 6 to 15 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn COAL IV illloes of Coal per Ton a :ARKET. , the Mose of the market. s. d . Bell's Primrose l3 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting 22 0 Do. Anthraeite 20 0 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 6 Craighead Steam 14 0 Cowpen Hartley ..14 6 Hastings Hartley ....14 6 Holywell 16 3 Walls End. S. dr Ships at market - Hetton .. lB 0 Haswell lB 0 Cassop l7 0 Hartlepool l7 6 South Hartlepool 16 9 K elloe Trimdon Hartlepool ..17 6 Framwellgate ... . l6 9 Eleugh Hall 17 0 Caradoc it, 71; sold, 35. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Auslralia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Jan. 18. via Marseilles Jan. 12. Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 18. via Marseilles Jan, 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 18. via Marseilles Jan. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 10. via Marseilles Jan. 4. Portugal.... Jan, 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 10. - via Marseilles Jan, 4. Newfoundland ..Tan. 4. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 7. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Jan. —. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 10. Bahamas, via New York Jan. 15. Mexico. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Jan. 28. California, and British Columbia.. 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