The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. LIVERPOOL, Thursday. The Cunard steamer Asia, Captain Grace, arrived here this morning, bringing 52 passengers, and 427,373 dole. in specie. She did not leave New York till the morning of the 16th inst., two days beyond her regular time, owing to the prevalence of a dense fog ; but we have only received by her New York journals of the evening of the 15th inst. The steamship Jura arrived at Portland Jan. 13, and the steamship China at New York Jan. 14. The New York Herald of Jan. 14 publishes the following as the " situation":— " There are no movements whatever to report from the army on the Rappahannock. Flags of truce are almost daily sent between the armies. The river has risen con t iderably since the late rain storm, and the roads are in a bad condition. " Despatches from Memphis state that Commodore Por ter's squadron, together with a land force under General M'Clernand, have gone up the White River. General Grant had arrived at Memphis. Holly Springs is said to be nearly consumed, The rebels destroyed the steamer Charter, six teen miles below Nashville, and captured a number of men. The vessel was loaded with stores. The rebel cavalry of General Wheeler, 500 strong, are encamped within twelve miles of Nashville, on the Hardin Pike, and Gen. Stanley has been sent after them. Skirmishing was going on all day yesterday in the vicinity of Harpeth Shoals. " The Richmond papers say that General Roger A. Pryor had a fight on Saturday with some of our mounted Rifle men, five miles from Suffolk, and routed them with con siderable loss. He then pushed his cavalry towards Cars ville, where he learned that a force of Union troops over 8,000 strong were located; but, according to the Richmond story, they fled precipitately before Pryor. The battles . at Murfreesboro are still claimed as great rebel victories by the Richmond Examiner. " Governor Letcher, in response to a requisition from. Jeff. Davis, has called out all the militia in the oounties of Virginia bordering on North Carolina, for the protection of the state against invasion. 6, The Union officers taken at Murfreesboro are to be held in close confinement until General Butler is delivered up to the tender mercies of Mr. Davis. At least so says the Richmond Whig. "Despatches from Newbern, N.C., state that numbers of troops are pouring in there, and that very important movements were pending. " General Wool has been appointed to the command of the newly created department of the East, which embraces the two former departments of the East and New York. General Wool is eminently fitted for the position, and had been connected with this department for several years pre vious to the war. His head-quarters are now located in this city. He has issued general orders, commanding all officers belonging to the various staff corps of the army, and all officers of the line on detached service, serving in this department, promptly to report in writing their location, the nature of the duty they are performing, and the autho rity assigning them to such duty. And in like manner ordering all such officers, whether of the regular or volun teer service, now on leave of absence within this depart ment, to report their residence and the authority under which they are absent from their respective regiments or corps, from what date their leave of absence took effect, and for how long a period. 46 This will probably soon lessen the number of gentle men in uniform now unemployed in this city. Deserters are warned to deliver themselves up at once in order to escape condign punishment." The same journal of the 15th says:— "Reports from the headquarters of the Potomac army represent the health of the troops to be in fine condition. There is almost a total absence of sickness amongst them. " It was thought at Memphis yesterday that the expedi tion of Commodore Porter and Gen. M'Clernand up the White River had reached Little Rock, Arkansas. The evacuation of Holly Springs is confirmed. It was reported that a force of 8,000 rebels had arrived at Lumpkin's six miles below the Springs. On Sunday night the steamer Grampus was surprised and burned by a small body of re bels at the mouth of the Wolf River, five miles from Mem phis. It is evident from these facts that the guerilla move ments in the South-west are very active. "We have Richmond papers of the 12th instant, from which we give some interesting extracts. They have nothing to say of any recent movements at Port Hudson or Vicksburg. The Examiner, in describing the late cap ture of Galveston, says that it was one of the most com plete and ingenious expeditions of the war, and gloats exult ingly over the capture of the Harriet Lane. It denies that Commodore Renshaw blew up the Westfield and perished with her, but asserts that he ran away from the rebel tug boats with their formidable breastworks of cotton and dangerous sharpshooters. The Dispatch says that great fears are entertained in North Carolina for the safety of Raleigh, and the Examiner prognosticates a serious campaign in that State, to which it thinks the theatre of war is about to be transferred. " It would appear from the Mobile Register of Sunday that Alabama is about to relieve herself of a portion of her State debt. That journal says that a British war vessel was expected to arrive there that day, the object of her late visit being to communicate with the British consul and to receive the interest on the Alabama State debt due to foreign bondholders. The amount is ready for payment in gold." The dead lock in the New York Assembly on the question of the Speakership still continued. Se- venty-four ballots had been taken without a choice being effected, 63 votes being cast for the Democra tic and a like number for the Republican candi dates. A resolution was pending, making the test for the election of a Speaker of this house the sup port—and endorsement of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. A similar difficulty prevailed in the California Legislature, on the question of the United States senatorship. Numerous ballots had been taken, without accomplishing the desired result. The Legislature of New Jersey, much to the disgust of the abolitionists and supporters of the Lincoln Administration, had elected Col. Wall as United States senator from New Jersey by a vote of two to one. Colonel Wall was regarded as a strong opponent of the Government, The Richmond Dispatch of the 9th inst., com menting on the Northern accounts of the fighting at Vicksburg, says that the following from the Vicksburg 'Vag of the 27th is the best exposition of those lying dispatches : " Our cause has been growing brighter every day since the commencement of skirmishing on the Yazoo. Every attempt at advance that the enemy has yet made has been promptly met and effectually checked at every point. Heavy losses have already been sustained by the enemy. On yesterday the most signal success of our arms was ob tained at Willow Bayou, where the enemy attempted to ad vance en our works ; 2,800 of our soldiers engaged a force of 8,000 Yankees and whipped them, killing over 200, tak ing 300 prisoners, and capturing five stand of colours. The :';(1 Tennessee and 28th Louisiana have the credit of this work. The Yankees advanced with a view of storming our works, and made th ree d esperate charges, which were repulsed every time. On the third charge our men opened a deadly volley upon them, with such stinging effect that the Yankees fell back in disorder and confusion, when our men I leaped over their breastworks and charged the enemy, cap- Wring five stand of colours, and routing them completely. 4, Col. Thomas, of the 28th Louisiana, at a critical mo ment executed a flank movement in a masterly style, cut ting off a part of the Yankee forces, which secured us 300 prisoners. The enemy was signally defeated, and after they had retired a flag of truce was sent in asking permis sion to bury their dead, This was a most glorious and de cisive victory, fought, as ft was, by a force of nearly three to one." _ _ The Richmond Inquirer of the 12th contains the following:— "TO THE HON. J. A. SELDON. " Vicksburg, Jan. 8, 1863. "Prom the latest information I am satisfied the enemy's transports have gone up the river. There are only seven gunboats between the mouth of the Yazoo and Milliken's Loud. Vicksburg is daily growing stronger. We intend to hold iz. " J, C. VEXIIERTON 2 Lieut.-General Commanding." The following despatch has been received from Vicksburg "An arrival to-night fro the m:ui:iirecir, S th a e n.ll. r eYazoo r u brings authentic accounts- - f I General uner Sherman's repulse was complete. dThreieltehrg enti n rei orce under , the direction of Gon. M , ruythe re-embarked on Satur day in transports, closely pressed by rebel advance, which, coming in range of the gunboats, wa w ith severe loss. At the last accounts the entire driven back t r ansports, with troops, had arrived at Island No. 82n h fleet of way to Napoleon. There is nothing definite from Banks or Farragut, though rumours of their advance are in circula tion. The engagement was less general than heretofore re ported. The principal fighting was done by the centre under command of Gene. Smith and Blair. The conduct of the latter is highly spoken or. Our lose, as nearly as could be mew taine,l, was 600 Mlle:1, 1,600 wounded, and 1,000 miss ing, Capt. Gwynn, of the gunboat Benton, died of wounds received at tha recent attack at Haines Bluff. The steamer Mussalman was burned by guerillas at Bradley's Land ing, 10 m il es a b ove M emp hi s, on the Bth. Capt. Moore, with about 100 men, attacked a carat) of about 300 rebels at II unteon's Mills 35 miles , east of Fort Pillow, on the morn ing of the Bth, "A council cf war was held on board the Tigress, which vessel General ll'elernand has for the present se lected as his head-quarters. Admiral Porter, Major- Generals 6hcrman and M'Clernand, with the generals of division of the army in Kentucky, were present. It was determined at this council that it would be folly again to attempt anything further against Vicksburg with the present force. The rebels had means of communication by which they were too rapidly and heavily reinforced, while the Unionists had no such prospect or opportunity of receiving reinforcements. It was therefore deemed ex pedient that the campaign should be abandoned, or that Vicksburg should be operated against from some other point of attack. The precise spot has been decided upon, but ita publicity is forbidden." The following are the particulars of the attack on Vicksburg : "On Monday, Jan. 12, preparations were made by General Sherman for a general assault. The brigades of Generals Thayer, Blair, and Decourcy were selected to storm the enemy's works. On Monday a most furious cannonading was opened on both sides, lasting until the af ternoon at one o'clock. The charge was made amidst a storm of shells and bullets from all sides, The rebel defences con sisted of sloughs, earthworks, abattis, and rifle-pits, cover ing the road through which our troops were compelled to ad vance. The brigade of General Blair took the lead, and advanced with a furious charge to the highest tier of entrenchments, where he was met by an over whelming force of rebels, and after a hand-to hand conflict of nearly two hours, in which the loss of life was most disastrous, was compelled to fall back for want of proper and timely support from the right and the reserve. The carnage was fearful, each foot of ground was contested inch by inch, and held with determined re sistance. The total loss in the engagement was 1,500 killed and wounded and 300 prisoners. No general officers were killed. Had the supports been promptly sent forward the storming party would have maintained their position and captured the entire fortifications. At nightfall our forces retired without molestation to the position previously occu pied. The rebels stated that General Banks had attacked Port Hudson and been driven off. They also declared that all officers falling into their hands would be shot, and the soldiers taken would be compelled to labour on their fortifi cations in retaliation for the proclamation of President Lin coln." In regard to the capture of Galveston by the Confederates, the purser of the steamer Creole, arrived at New York from New Orleans, had fur nished the following report : " By the arrival of the United States gun boat Clifton at South-west Pass on the 3d of January, I learn that early in the morning of January the Ist the Union forces were attacked at Galveston by land and water. Our gunboats were attacked by five rebel steamers, protected by double rows of bales of cotton, and loaded with troops armed with guns, rifles, shot guns, &c. The Harriet Lane was cap tured by boarding, after about all of her officers, including Captain Wainwright and Lieutenant Lee, and nearly the whole crew of 13f, all told, had been killed by musketry from the rebel steamers. But one or two officers and 12 or 15 of the crew escaped death. The gunboats Clifton and Owasca were engaged and escaped, the former losing no men and but one wounded. The Owasca lost one killed and 13 wounded. Two barques, loaded with coal, fell into the hands of the enemy. The Westfield, flag ship, Commodore Renshaw, was not engaged, being ashore in another channel. Her crew were transferred to transports, and Commodore Renshaw, fearing she would fall into the hands of the rebels, blew her up. By some mismanagement or accident the explosion took place before a boat, containing Commodore Renshaw, First Lieutenant Zimmermann, and the boat's crew got away, and they were, consequently, blown up with the ship. The crew of the Westfield arrived at New Orleans in transports, and the remaining troops are on their way back. They did not arrive until the place had been evacuated. The fleet are on their way to New Orleans. The rebel force was estimated at 5,000, under the command of Gen. Magruder. Our land force, under command of Gen. Burrell, of Massa chusetts, probably did not exceed 300, the residue not hav ing arrived or not having disembarked at the time of the fight. Our loss was estimated at from 150 to 160 killed and wounded, and 200 taken prisoners. The navy suffered most. It is thought that the rebel loss must have been much more, as our guns were firing grape and canister continually in their midst. The rebels had several bat teries on shore. The Federal troops were on one of the long wharves, and it is said they repulsed two charges of the rebels before they surrendered. "These particulars were told to me at South-west Pass on the 4th by Executive Office: Summerton, of the United States ship Pampero, and are doubtless in the main correct." The following is General Magruder's official re port of the capture : "Head -quarters , Galveston, Texas. . _ "This morning, the Ist of Januar y, at three o'clock I attacked the enemy's fleet and garrison at this place, and captured the latter and the steamer Harriet Lane and two barges and a schooner of the former. The rest, four or five, escaped ignominously under cover of a flag of truce. I have about 600 prisoners and a large quantity of valuable stores, arms, &c. The Harriet Lane is very little injured. She was carried by boarding from two high-pressure cot ton steamers, manned by Texas cavalry and artillery. The line troops were gallantly commanded by Col. Green, of Sibley's brigade, and the ships and artillery by Major Leon Smith, to whose indomitable energy and heroic daring the country is indebted for the successful execution of a plan which I had considered for the destruction of the enemy's fleet. Col, Bagley, of Sibley's Brigade, also com manded the volunteers from his regiment for the naval ex pedition, in which every officer and every man won for him self imperishable renown. " J . BANKHEAD MAGRUDER, Major-General." The following is the official report of the repulse of the Confederates from Springfield, Missouri : " St. Louis, Jan. 11. "Major General Halleck,—l have good news from Springfield. Our troops have repulsed the rebels, and we hold the place. The rebels were retreating. I have three columns going towards them. Gen. Brown loses an arm. Col. Crabb, of the 19th lowa Regiment, succeeds him in command. The troops, including the enrolled militia, be haved nobly. " R. S. CURTIS, Major General." A Washington telegram of the 14th says The committee on naval affairs have, according to the resolution passed unanimously on Monday, commenced an inquiry into the practicability of connecting all our naval and military stations between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans by submarine telegraph cables. Cyrus W. Field, - Esq., of New York, now here, has presented to the Govern ment an offer from the celebrated firm of Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., of London, to manufacture and submerge cables connecting all the points between Washington and New Orleans. They are to be paid only on the successful completion and delivery to the Government of the lines in good working order. In other words, they take the entire risk of manufacture, shipping across the Atlantic, laying down and working the lines, &c. The importance of such arrangements for telegraphing is admitted by all parties, both as a matter of economy and an actual military necessity Hence there seems to be no doubt that Congress will, with out unnecessary delay, make an appropriation for that pur• pose• 'I he proposition received the favourable consideration of the military and naval committees of the house in joint meeting." The following is a summary of the proceedings of Congress : In the United States Senate on the 12th inst„ the bill providing for a further issue of bonds and United States notes, with a view to the prompt payment of the army and navy, was passed. A resolution was adopted requesting the President to inform the Senate what measures had been taken to enforce the Confiscation Bill, and whether any additional legislation was necessary for the enforcemen of such act. A resolution requesting the committee on the conduct of the war to report the causes of the non-onforce ment of the confiscation, especially in the district of Colum bia, was also adopted. A bill appropriating 886,500 dols. for an arsenal and ordnance depot in New York Harbour was postponed. In. the House of Representatives a resolution to dis charge the ways and means committee from the further consideration of the bill reducing the duty on imported paper, and that the same be considered forthwith, was laid on the table. A joint resolution ratifying and approving of the Presi dent's emancipation proclamation was introduced, and a motion to lay it on the table was disagreed to by 50 against 85. Mr. Stevens then introduced a bill for the employment of 150,000 negroes in the military service. A motion to lay it on the table was lost by 53 against 83, and the bill was then laid aside till the following week. In the committee of the whole the bill providing ways and means for the support of the Government was taken up, and Mr. Spaulding delivered an important speech on the subject. He concluded by saying that by military succeks only could the national finances be maintained and the Union restored. _ _ In the Senate on the 13th a petition in favour of media tion in American affairs by Switzerland was reported back from the foreign affairs committee, with the recommenda tion that it be indefinitely postponed, which was agreed to. A resolution was adopted, requesting the President to furnish the Senate with all official correspondence in refer ence to the capture of British vessels carrying articles con traband of war intended for the Southern rebels. A resolu tion was also adopted requesting the President to commu nicate the correspondence, if there be any, between the State Department and the Mexican Minister, relative to exportation of contraband of war from any of the United States to those of Mexico. On the 14th th e j udiciary committee reported back the House Bill, granti ng a i d for the emancipation of slaves in Missouri,n th Representatives on the 14th Mr. Val landigham, of Ohio, made a strong speech iil favour of peace. He argued th a t t h e war ought not to continue, and that the re-union was possible and inevitabl e , defeated by th e d e lib erate folly and wickedness of unless public men and the peopl e . H e ma i ntained that slavery was notthe cause, but only t h e d evelopment of the cause of section alism, and that the Union could be restored on its old basis, He approved of mediation as a means of suspending hos tilities, but rejected arbitration. The Government had failed to crush out the rebellion, and would always fail. The only difficulty in the way of a re-union was the want of the will to re-unite, and while the war lasted that would never exist. If the country were really tired of the war, and thought the military experiment had been tried long enough, and enough of blood and treasure had been ex pended, and misery inflicted on both, he would then pro pose this :—" Stop fighting ; make an armistice, no formal treaty ; withdraw your army from the seceded states ; re duce both armies to a fair and sufficient peace establish ment; declare absolute free trade between the North and South; buy and sell ; agree upon a zollverein ; re call your fleets ; break up your blockade ; reduce your navy ; restore travel ; open up the railroads ; re establish the telegraphs ; reunite your express compa nies; make no more Monitors and iron -clads, but set your friendly steamers and steam ships again in motion; visit the North and West; visit the South; exchange news papers; migrate; intermarry; let slavery alone; hold elections at the appointed times ; let us choose a new President in 1861, and when the gospel of peace shall have sounded again from Heaven into their hearts,and the gospel of abolition and hate been expelled, let your clergy and the Churches meet again in Christian intercourse North and South; let secret orders and voluntary asso ciations everywhere reunite as brethren once more. In short, give to all the natural and all the artificial causes which impel us together the fullest sway." Mr. Vallandigham's views were strongly opposed by other speakers. The New York Tribune of the 14th has the fol lowing on the subject of mediation : " It is well known that the French Emperor has taken up the idea of a speedy settlement, through friendly media tion, and that he is not apt to forego or change his purposes lightly. Great Britain assures him that she would gladly aid him if she could. His success would be very generally applauded in Europe, and would sensibly increase his pres tige and moral power. That intervention or mediation of some sort is preparing —that it will be upon us before June if our arms shall not meantime be crowned with decisive successes—is morally certain. " Now we do not invoke this mediation—we have in no manner invited or sought it—we but consider how our Government should receive and treat it in case it is proffered. And our counsel is—take the weapon by the hilt rather than the point —assume that it is friendly and generous, not sinister and hostile. Meet it with the inquiry, When you shall have obtained the adhesion of the Confederates to the arbitration—if arbitration it be— that you propose, we will at once take it into earnest con sideration, with a sincere desire to find its acceptance compatible with our imperative duties.' Such we hold to be the wise, humane, Christian way of meeting this mo mentous overture. " But the rebels will not listen to arbitration, unless on a basis which concedes to them the main point in dispute.' "So much the worse for them, then. They will then stand before Christendom responsible for all the carnage and world-wide misery that may follow. " Oh then, you are only finessing—your assent to arbi tration is only a dodge.' "Not at all. Our assent is perfect, hearty, sincere. The assumption that the Confederates will reject arbitration is not ours—it is the world's. We are not in Jeff. Davis's confidence, and never aspired to be. We do not know, and have not assumed to decide, what he will do in the pre mises. We only say, You strengthen the argument for acceptance on our part.' If we were to evince a willingness to consider favourably the project of arbitration after the rebels should have adopted it, and they were thereupon to reject it, or insist on conditions which make it a farce, we shall have gained immensely by our treatment of the proffer, and lost nothing at all. And there we drop the subject." The Richmond Enqutrer of the 9th makes an extract from an article in the New York World its text, and urges a truce for six months. It says— Since war has failed after its most persistent effort to restore the Union, common sense would suggest an armis tice to Fee if agencies other than war would have any effect upon the rebellious and recalcitrant people.' Let six months of truce try its powers of adjustment, its argu ments, and persuasions, and if these fail—if neither by arms nor persuasion—by conflict nor argument—by cannon nor compromise, the Union can be restored, the folly of longer delaying the recognition of Confederate nationality will be so great that permanent peace will result long before the six months of truce shall have expired. "For eighteen months the people of the Confederate States have stood the fiery ordeal of unparalleled battle; they have never wavered nor shrunk from the conflict; and the Ist of January, 1863, finds their army larger in numbers, more efficient in equipment, more confident of success, great in their resources, and, though openly avowing great anxiety for peace, yet perfectly willing to continue the con flict. Will our defeated, disheartened, and disappointed enemies ever learn the folly of restoring the Union by force of arms—of conquering our consent to their tyrannical Go vernment ? " War has failed to restore the Union. Scott, M'Dowell, M'Clellan, Pope, and Burnside in the East; Halleck, Grant, Buell, and Rosecranz, in the West; Butler and Banks in New Orleans; Hunter in South Carolina, and Foster in North Carolina, have all failed. War is a played out' restorative. It is a sad confession for the United States, but it is true. The sooner the fact is recognised, admitted, and acted upon, the happier will be their people. Separa tion is inevitable, war has failed to prevent it; peace can not stop it. An armisticewith proposition for reconstruction by constitutional amendments, of conventions of States, would very soon reveal the fact that separation was final, and, so far as one generation can speak for its successes, it is eternal. " Then why not stop the conflict, and set about, like sen sible people, to adjust the terms upon which the two nations can live upon the same continent in peace and harmony ? To this end the contest has got to come. Enough blood has been shed to test the valour and approve the manhood of both nations, as well as to teach each the blessings of peace in the future, and make each chary of giving offence. The continent is large enough for both , its capabilities of production can employ the energies of two nations. War can accomplish only the exhaustion of both—it can effect the conquest of neither, but it can only be etopped by the United States. In the eyes of God and man they are responsible for its longer continuance. It the . world will elevate all its energies to stopping the war it will soon re lieve the future of all its gloom, restore peace to the coun try, and prosperity to both nations." The New York _Herald, speaking of the view taken of the battle of Fredericksburg by European journals, says: " Under these circumstances it is the duty of the Presi dent to make such a change in his policy and in his Cabinet as will prevent a repetition of similar disasters. Another such defeat as that on the RappahanziOck, and who can answer for the consequences ? Dir. Lincoln . ougb t not to lose a moment in convincing the Powers of Europe by practicable demonstration that the loyal States of the Aim. rican Republic are not yet prepared to surrender the prize for which this war was inaugurated. As our affairs are now managed it is not to be wondered at that foreign Powers should be tempted very soon to interfere in our quarrel." The Federal general commanding at Winchester had issued a proclamation for the carrying out of President Lincoln's emancipation edict. In it he says : " I therefore hereby notify the citizens of the city of Winchester, and of said county, of said proclamation, and of my intention to maintain and enforce the same. I ex pect all citizens to yield a ready compliance with the pro clamation of the chief executive, and I admonish all per sons disposed to resist its peaceful enforcement that upon manifesting such disposition by acts they will be regarded as rebels in arms against the lawful authority of the Fede ral Government, and dealt with accordingly. All persons liberated by said proclamation are admo nished to abstain from all violence, and immediately betake themselves to useful occupations. " The officers of this command are admonished and or dered to act in accordance with said proclamation, and to yield their ready co-operation in its enforcement." STATEMENT FROM SECRETARY CHASE-WHY THE SOL- DIEM HAVE NOT BEEN PAID, &C. Washington, Jan. 13. Secretary Chase, in answering a resolution from the house, says that the soldiers have not been paid because he is not authorised to raise the loan by practicable me thods under existing laws, and that the five-twenty bonds have not been sold because they could not be under the re strictions imposed by the Congress. He says the arrears of army pay amount to treble the sum he can raise by the existing act, exclusive of that providing for the five twenties. The original act proviftg for their issue pro vided also for conversions into them of any multiples of 50 dollars United States notes, at the pleasure of the holders, and permitted sales only at the market rate, ascer tained from the daily quotations of the New York sales. Had the supplemental act passed, omitting the conversion and market rate clauses, the difficulty would have been avoided. As it is, acting in accordance with the letter c i n e p t t h i n a g t t m o od thee. H and spirit o f th e law he (Chase) has made no sales, ex amoaudntthoe m t twenty it - n four he a e n n d le a se h o a r lf th m e illions mili tary success greater, m ore m i ght have been sold, There has been obtained since July 1, from all sources, 287,304,618 dole., exclusive of receipts from the customs, &c., making the total 32 5,000,000 dole. in round numbers. There has been paid : • Dollars. To the troops 70,825,583 67 To the Quartermaster's department 110,482,486 27 To the Commissary department 30,647,402 83 Miscellaneous --- Total 243,701,771 09 [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills. Paralysis, deep-seated rheumatism, and stiff contracted joints may always be cured by these medicines, if they the huwater. have a fair trial. But such diseases are not cured in a single day. The patient must have a little perseverance and determination, and then with these powerful medicines Directions for he cannot fail to conquer his disease, however obstinate it may be. The Ointment should be briskly rubbed into the pwaarrtms affected, after they have been fomented with luke- The Pills, by their action en the blood, and menrs a the body, are an admirable auxiliary to the Ointment, and improve and the and invigorate the whole system. pot and box. use of these medicines accompany each A DESPERATE BURGLAR. Yesterday, at the Thames Police Court, Joseph Fran cisco, sometimes called Roderick, was charged with com mitting numerous burglaries and robberies. The prisoner was stated t be a native of one of the Cape de Verd Islands, aged 22. Although he can speak English, he pretended at first that he did not. On being informed that a Spanish interpreter should be provided, he exclaimed " All right." On the second examination, and again yesterday, Mr. Clough acted as Spanish interpreter. The prisoner, however, interrupted the witnesses, and called out "that it was not true " and "all wrong" when any statement particularly affected him. In the early part of last year the prisoner was committed f,r trial for burglary. He entered several houses in Mill-lane, Lime house, in the night time, and six or sever bed rooms where people were sleeping. He stole numerous articles of very trifling value, and left untouched property worth a good deal more, which he might have carried away. This cir cumstance, and his singular behaviour on the trial at the Old Bailey Sessions, successfully imposed on the judge and jury, who considered he was not in his right senses, and not only acquitted him, but entered into a subscription for his relief. In May last the prisoner made his appearance for several nights in the houses, yards, and gardens of Queen-street, Stepney. Mr. Woolrych convicted the pri soner summarily, and sentenced him to three months im prisonment and hard labour. When he came out of pri son he associated with a gang of desperate burglars, and formed an intimacy with a German woman, an omnibus thief, with whom he lived up to the time of his apprehen sion. Twenty charges of burglary were now brought against him. _ _ Mr. Samuel Read, of No. 7, Scouter-street, Poplar,stated that on the night of Thursday, the 15th inst., at 11 o'clock, he fastened and secured his doors and windows in the usual manner. On the following morning between 4 and 5, he was aroused by his wife. He sprang from his bed, and called out " Give me my pistols." He opened the street door, but saw no one. He went out into the backyard,and there saw two men on the wall of the garden. They dropped into another yard and made their escape. He afterwards discovered that the frame and shutter of the back window had been forced open, and an entrance effected. A writing desk had been removed from the parlour into the kitchen and forced open, and a silver watch and a gold stud taken away. " ' George Blake, a boiler maker, dwelling with his family in Read's house, said his room was also entered, and various articles of dress stolen. The money was in a box, which the burglars broke open. Wm. South, of No. 4, Naval-row, at the back of Read's house, said he found a pair of boots and a coat in his garden behind his dwelling at daylight on the morning of the 15th. There was a silver watch, latch-key, knife, and portmonnaie in the pocket- of the coat. He delivered the whole of the things to the police. Police-sergeant Simpson, No. 21 K, who had charge of the case, said the boots were part of the proceeds of a bur glary in the Mile-end-I oad. 'I he prisoner was supposed when the alarm was given to have dropped them in his flight. Chadwick, a police-constable, said that he had managed to trace the prisoner by a directed envelope found in the coat referred to. Sophia Elizabeth Mayor, of South Shields, stated that she was now staying at No. 103, Lucas-street, Commercial road, and that three weeks ago she was in company with Mrs. Ellen Scott and met with the prisoner. He said he was a Roman Catholic, and wished to see some of the Ro man. Catholic churches in this country. She wrote upon the envelope new produced "Mrs. George Mayor, No. 103, Commercial-road, London, E.," and said if he called upon her she would take him over some of the Catholic churches in London. Ellen Scott confirmed the evidence of the last witness. Harriet Wellington, of No. 22, Oriental-street, Poplar, said her house was broken into on the night of the 29th of December last, and various articles stolen. Her daughter had been ill ever since. She heard some one in the house in the course of the night walking softly and without shoes over the stairs. She struck a light, got up, and found the back parlour window open. Mrs. Wellington then identi fied a coat as her husband's property. It was one of the three stolen from her house, and the prisoner was wearing it when he was apprehended by Chadwick on the 20th inst. in Albert-street, Shadwell. Mr. George Pound, butcher, of 58, Dempsey-street, Stepney, said that on Saturday morning, the 17th inst, his house was burglariously entered. He heard a noise between 4 and 5 in the morning, and rose in his bed. A great draught of air rushed into the apartment. It was caused by the opening of the window. He saw the hand of a man on the table close to the window, and made a blow at it with a piece of iron. He missed the hand and saw the form of a man retreating from the room. He missed a silver watch and a gold chain from the table. Chadwick, the constable, produced the watch and chain. They were pawned by a woman, Elia tbeth Ann Terry, alias Thomp son, a dressmaker, of 21, Angel zardens, Shadwell, who received them of a woman named Jane Rees, a prostitute ) of No. 30, Angel-gardens. Rees received the watch and chain from the prisoner, and gave him 305., the money advanced. Rees had pawned a large quantity of stolen property, the produce of numerous burglaries committed by the prisoner, who employed her to raise money on the booty. Many persons whose houses had been broken into and plundered advanced towards the witness box. The Prisoner—l don't know what the -- they mean. Every one who has had a robbery committed brings it against me. Mr. Selfe—So it appears. Edward Conly, a police-constable, No. 417 K, said that on Sunday morning, the 4th instant, he was passing along Jubilee• place, Stepney, and heard the catch of a s reet door unfastened. He listened, and heard some one moving in the passage. The door was ajar. Ho called out, " What's the matter here ?" and some one called out, " All right." He thought it was all wrong, and seized the knocker of the door. Immediately afterwards the prisoner rushed out of the houee with a cloak over his shoulder, which fell from him as he entered the street. He knew the prisoner, and pursued him. The prisoner directly turned round and threw a large and valuable timepiece at him. He held up an umbrella, which partially warded off the blow. He continued the pursuit along Clark-street, Dempsey-street, and other places, ant sprang his rattle. He called out, " The black man, stop him, for God's sake 1" The prisoner turned and threw a bundle at him, which knocked him down. He then darted off and soon distanced all his pursuers, Mr. Henry Webb, 33, Jubilee-place, said the property was his, His house was broken into and plundered of articles worth £22. Mr. Selfe asked who had tried the prisoner last year, and a constable replied that it was Mr. Commissioner Kerr. Both judge and jury thought the prisoner was a poor inno cent fellow. The prisoner was then told he would be committed for trial for committing four burglaries. iie;;;;;;er quitted the dock than he attempted to bite Roche, the gaoler, and seized him by the throat at the same time. A fearful struggle took place, and the excitement in the court was great. The women screamed aloud. The people at the back of the court, among whom were many thieves, attempted to get over a partition two feet high. Mr. Selfe peremptorily ordered them to stand back. All the police-constables in court rushed to the assistance of Roche. The prisoner, who seemed to be endowed with superhuman strength, kicked and plunged and fought despe rately. Several were rolling over the floor of the court, and the yells of the prisoner were frightful. He was over powered by numbers, pinioned, and carried to the lock-up cell, yelling and swearing in the most horrid manner. When the prison van arrived at half-past 6 o'clock to convey him to Newgate another struggle took place. It was some time before he could be dragged out of the cell. He took a trun cheon from one constable and knocked another down with it, broke down the door of the van, and laid prostrate on the ground seven or eight strong men, before he was securely locked up in the van. The contest in the 3 and lasted nearly an hour. " What is that with which you are striking fire on your steel to light your pipe ?" said a gentle man to a contadito, whom he had stopped to ask a ques tion. " Una pieira—a atone I found here some months ago," he replied. " Would your excellency like to see it ?" and he extended to him a stone, the edge of which he had worn away on his steel. It was a magnificent tntaglio in pietra dura, one of the rarest and largest of the antique stones that exists, and undoubtedly was the shoulder brooch of an' imperial mantle worn by one of the Camara. For a few pauls the ignorant contadino sold an antique gem which was worth a fortune, and which had for its possessor no other value or use than a common flint —l?oba di Roma, by William W. Story. OUR (ITALIAN) VILLAGE POLITICIAN.—The " Order of the Course" prescribes that the walkers should pass before a certain stone bench, where our highest dignitaries usually seat themselves; and of these let me present the chief —our great man llt is with pride lam able to name the Signor Corroni, late vice-consul of Sar dinia at Termatopolis, a diplomatist of the first order, a man of fashion, a man of pleasure, a man of letters, and a 'wit. His family for centuries belongedto Porto Stretto, and it was with t graceful good feeling towards his native town that he cane back from all the turmoil and ambition of a public life to pass his las' years amongst us. Though common eyes might only see in him a thin, shrivelled-up, pinched featured man, with a pompous air and pretentious expression, wearing clothes of a very ancient cut, and a hat hill-shaped and towering, we know better ; we recognise him as he is—the rival of Thiers, and Palmerston, and Gortschakoff, cone to meditate in retirement over that dis memberment of Europe he has long predicted and now waits for. In tlis respect he is a terror to us. Dr. Cum ming is a bland and sanguine prophet compared to him. He has had it ell revealed to him. The Cossacks are to win, and the Pcpe be "nowhere." He says he told Ca your so; he declares that the last days of that great man were embittered by not having listened to his counsels, which were to make Porto Stretto the capital of the king don), and declare war with France at once.-41U the Year Bound. 30, 1863. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. HERALD —We have, almost for the first time in our history, a Government recommended to public confidence, not for its judicious management of English affairs, but for its tender concern for the welfare of other nations. The choice of the battle field shows the terrible straits to which the Govern ment is reduced. It is precisely the one which its opponents would themselves have selected. Great as is the mismanagement of home affairs, it is an evil upon which strong opposition may put some check, whilst it affords no good grounds for raising a party fight. Sir Charles Wood's incessant inter ference with the governing authorities in India, his persistent opposition to all measures for developing the resources of India, excite great disgust, no doubt, amongst all who interest themselves in the welfare of India, but how few is their number P It would be difficult to get a house of 200 members to gether to listen to any arraignment of the Indian Secretary, however urgently it might be demanded by the earnest men of all parties. Sir G. Grey's singular want of discretion—his continual interfer ence with the due course of justice, although they may be censured and perhaps corrected, afford no scope for an attack upon a Ministry. Mr. Cowper's blunders are too contemptible to be made the subject of a formal condemnation. A Govern ment which avoids bringing forward any important political measures may exist a long time in spite of its general inefficiency. The Conservatives feel no call to overthrow the Ministry on account of its abandonment of reform. They can watch with satisfaction the general process of disintegration, division, and decay going on on the Ministerial benches. They are not sorry to see the men who would not take a Reform Bill because it was not quite up to their standard, sold by the Minister with whom they made a corrupt bargain. They can wait patiently whilst the Ministry, by its dis honesty and jobbery, its blunders and its tricks, discredits itself with the nation. A great party cannot be brought to make an attempt to overt row a Ministry merely because its administration is con temptible. There must be some great danger to avert, some great principle to maintain, to unite it in such an assault. Unless Mr. Gladstone brings forward another reckless budget, there is not likely to be any question of home interest this session which would stimulate the Conservatives to under take the overthrow of the Ministry. It is quite different, however, with the foreign policy to which the Government organs invite attention, And up which they ask that the question of confilleoce be tried. There the policy of the Government has proved not only generally inefficient and injurious to English interests, but it now threatens, unless decisively checked, to dreg the nation into a emirs, involving certain sacrifices of considerable rnagni• tude, and dangers both probable and serious. A:, this side of the foreign policy the Governmett: prints, in their glorification, leave entirely unnotice One might fancy that the writers had been sleeping for the past twelve months and knew nothing of what had occurred in that time. The whole foreign policy of the Government is summed up for them in Italy and the Trent affair; and of Italy they ap parently know nothing since the annexation of the Two Sicilies. We have no particular quarrel with the conduct of the Government in the Trent busi ness, but we cannot allow them any particular merit ; they acted with some energy, but they did so only under an irresistibl e p ressure o f E ng li s h pu bli c opinion. The Government in some part owed its accession to office to its profession of sympathy with Italy and to its misrepresentation of the policy of the Conservative Administration. As soon as he was in office, and the falsehood had done its work, Earl Russell admitted that the policy of the Earl of Malmesbury was the only one an English states man could have pursued. Since then Earl Russell has given Italy many sympathetic words, but in what manner has he really aided her P If she owes in some degree to his intrigues the annexation of the Legations, she owes equally to them the cession of Savoy and Nice, which has given France the means of overwhelming the country with an im mense army, and will render her, however aggran dised, always dependent. He has done nothing more for her. He encouraged her to waste all her energies in the effort to obtain Rome, and he forced the French Emperor to declare explicitly that he will never let her have Rome. We cannot see how the sympathy of the Government has helped Italy ; we know that its injudicious manifestations have created a coolness between the G( vernments of France and England. These very questionable merits make up the whole of the credit which the defenders of the Government upon its toreign policy can claim. Let us see what stands to the other side of the account, the weight of which they admit by the care with which they avoid all mention of it. A shoal of questions at once rise up in which Rid Rus sell has sacrificed English interests to his vanity, his ignorance, his arrogance, and his timidity. When France bad formed no project of intervening in Mexico he managed to get up an intervention, all the evil consequences of which at the time he fore saw, but thought he could ward off by his wonderfu ':cuteness. England has spent hundreds ot thous , quis ter tIJ purpose, and France has embarked upre: (l. c•inquest of Mexico. He has betrayed 1111 exce,sive dread of offending Mt . Seward ; he has allowed Eng lishmen to be maltreated without remonstrance, He refused to join in the mediation proposed by France which would have been welcomed then by both North and South, would have saved the lives of tens of thousands of brave men, and re stored prosperity to the beggared counties of Eng - land. The refusal has not reduced in the slightest degree the hatred of the North ; it has lost, to no small extent, the friendship of the South. Ho has taken the occasion of the betrothal of a Danish Princess to the heir of the English throne to endea vour to force upon the Danish people a scheme which would be fatal to its national existence, and the mere proposal of which it regards as a cruel insult. He has sought to destroy that integrity of the Danish monarchy which England has solemnly guaranteed, and which it is her urgent interest to maintain. He has offered Greece, as the reward of revolution, the lonian Islands; and with the cer tainty that he can obtain no guarsntees that Corfu will not soon fall into the hands of France, or the islands be used for the promotion of projects of aggression upon Turkey which he has himself stig matised as criminal, and declared that England could under no circumstances permit, has, as far as he can, abandoned a fortress which contributed powerfully to the maintenance of our power in the Mediterranean. By his strange offer of Malta to the Pope, and the still stranger menace by which he enforced it, he has insulted the Pope, annoyed France, and made England herself ridiculous. No one act of Earl Russell's since he assumed the direc tion of the Foreign-office can be instanced to show the advantage derived from his administration ; there are many to attest that be has not served the peoples whom he undertook to befriend, whilst he has sacrificed the prestige, the influence, and the most important interests of England. TlMM—Twenty-nine of the principal commercial houses in China have signed a memorial to Lord Russell, begging him " to hold a firm and decided tone" towards the Chinese Imperial authorities. This is a very serious matter. We cast our eye down the list of names printed on the circular copy of this memorial, and we recognise signatures which represent - nearly the whole body of wealthy and ecergetic men who have, by all and every means ne cessary to the end, broken down the old moral wall of China. Our wars have been, in fact, their wars, our victories have been their victories, our occasional defeats have been their defeats. Successors of the old East India Company, they pushed their traffic silently and submissively so long as these means served their purpose, but hailed to England for ships and armies th hen their views became more extended and the objects within their reach more precious. This important body has ir sligated us to two Chinese wars, of which the coat has pressed heavily upon the country. They have been as much our guides and leaders as if we had once again incorporated a body of rulers, and had let them loose to make conquests in the East. What paths they have led us through we would rather not at this time of day discuss. These powerful and wealthy merchants will more safelyjustify the course through which they have led us by the results which have been attained. These have been so enormous that, when we contemplate the contrast of China as she was and China as she is, we must all believe that, howe-ver questionable may h•eve been some of our earlier acts, (he ultimate re suit has been a great good, both to us and to the Chinese. Looking at our trade' statistics also, we must admit that, if these energetic sons of commerce, busy upon the spot, have gathered the first fruits of every victory, yet the wider and the later harvests have been so shared by the people of these islands that every cottage feels the benefit in employment widened and in comforts cheapened. These are the two grievances which have been thought of sufficient magnitude to produce the very important memorial which we publish elsewhere—first, there are Custom houses on the Yang-tze ; and, secondly, merchants may not build or buy houses. We are by no means inclined to underrate the importance of either of these complaints. It would undoubtedly contribute greatly to the freedom of our relations with the Chinese if all the duties upon oar goods were paid once for all at the outport and if they then passed free, without hindrance from customhouses, through all t he inland waters. It is also a fair expectation that with the advance of our commerce British Hongs should arise upon the banks of the Yang-tze just as they have risen at Hongkong and Shanghai. There may, indeed, possibly be something to be said upon the Chinese side with respect to the Custom-houses on the Yang-tze, for there may be some lack of cer tainty that a ship which proposes to break bulk some 600 miles up the river has paid quite all its duties at the Custom-house near the mouth of the river; but the refusal to allow our merchants to oc cupy houses could only be conceived in a grudging and illiberal spirit. These vexations, however, are not matters to take a " firm tone" about. That " firm tone" policy is a worn-out tradition now. China is passing into another phase of existence. The door has been sufficiently opened for the strong tide from the West to stream in, and not the united force of the black-haired race of Han will ever be able to shut it again. Instead of using resolute ex postulation, it is wiser now to await the current of circumstances which is certain to carry us on to the full development of our commercial relations with that part of ill' , word. , ,•, X ‘ l ",,fr.. i` iP ace, and, uniess t' e i-s; exte inty, it behoves us not to cramp her movements while exerting her self to obtain peace. Already, in despair of being able to make anything of th 3 Imperial military system, as it exists in the Southern pr vinces of China, the local authorities have accepted the assis . once of Ain.rican officers, who I , Ave drilled their eljneNe troops atter the Kurope.oi .sitioo mud have or the first time obtained some successes over the rebels by means of Chinamen alone. A much more efficient and reliable aid has been obtained by Prince Kun,g himself through the favour of our Government. that power will now very soon he upon the field of operation. It any reliance can be placed upon the sews received through Wrigkong, the French 'ld Russians about Shanghai are both anxious to con ribute to tne pacification of China, and their en rolment in the service of the newly-appointed raoutai is only opposed by the influence of an American named Burgovine, who had succeeded Colonel Ward in the command of the Taoutai's disciplined Chinese, and who, excited by his recent success over a party of rebels, is anxious to mono polize to himself the glory and the booty to be ob tained at Nankin. He, however, is the leader only of a local Chinese force and is but the instrument of a provincial magistrate. It is highly improbable that he could take and hold Nankin. He will do good service if he prevent the rebels from attaining their present object of getting to the seacoast and scattering themselves all over the Chinese seas in piratical junks. The only Imperial force directly commissioned by the Imperial Government goes from this country under the command of Captain Sherard Osborn. If that officer should, as we trust he will, succeed in giving peace to all the lands watered by the great river, he must at the same time be the instrument of pouring into the Imperial Treasury at Pekin an enormous revenue derived from European commerce. We would put it to the very eminent firms who are parties to this Memorial that it would be much better to wait a while, and see what can be effected in favour of commerc by these influences, than go back to the old system of threats and force at a time when the Chinese Go vernment seems to be anxious to do everything it can to propitiate us, and certainly is putting itself almost into the hands of the Western nations. POST.—The address of the French Senate, in an swer to the Emperor's Stretch from the Throne, is more than a mere echo of the imperial language. It is a manifesto of national feeling. Necessarily for mal and official, it could not possibly contain any thing out of consonance with all the acts and spirit. of the Government. It must give its adhesion to the imperial policy. Nevertheless, it is a truth-tell ing statement, and in spite of its official inspiration, is a fair exponent of the mind of the French people Towards their Sovereigo. L comes also as a most appropriate sequel to the Emperor's recent words on the comparative liberty of France and England, and the general tendency of his rule. It regards the condition of France from a different point of view, but arrives at the same conclusion. In his peach ~n Suoday. hough addressed to ilifferenl body, the Emperor expia.intd the principles of his policy. In their address on Monday the legisla tive body virtually express their confidence in those principles. In mutual accord and confidence .ike this the hopes of France are founded Ch .rnb. s ertve c er through tie rt-gukr p.riod. A tr. sh appeal ha. 110 w 10 b. made to the silt. ages of the people, and as gouti opportunity is therefore Gffered to the nation of summing up the work of the last five years, and of surveying the present situation of public affairs. There is a past to review, and a very wonderful past, during which the legislative body just dis solved has witnessed an immense advance over its predecessor. Within its existence the arms of France have won new glories, the liberty of the people has been enlarged, the control of the national purse has passed from imperial to parliamentary hands, and commerce has, by new treaties, received an almost incredible stimulus. These are not trifling events in a nation's history. They have taken place silently and without political excitement, but they will produce fruit that will last for all time. The constitutional administration of the national finances and the abolition of monopolies by the com uercial treaty are, in their admirable working, the best proofs that could be given of the Empress's hearty efforts to assimilate the circumstances of France, so far as they will bear it, to those of Eng land, and to extend to his own subjects the freedom which he has seen exercised with so much modera tion and social happiness in this country. Here is a tangible good with which to go to the French con - stituencies. The people have but to look around them, and in the growing wealth and prosperity of their nation they can see the good effects of the policy by which they are governed. If they still yearn for a freer press, for less official dictation, for more independence of speech and action, they have the means in their own hands. They have only to show that these, it' granted, will be used with due regard to authority and the necessary claims of rulers, and in due time all that they desire must comb. The course of things is moving naturally to the desired end, and a few more years of such mutual confidence as now exists between the French people and their Sovereign will bring about all that can be wished. Bin it must be hearty co-operation, and it must be consistent. It must b- the fruit of broad, not narrow, views It must trust the Imperial policy as a whole, and go with it to the last inch. It must not support it with one hand and thwart it with the other, as it has done and is doing in the question of Rome. Jr must not applaud broad views at , Italian unity when the advancement of it brings glory to the French arms, and then stultify it by a false view of the !,mporal rights of the Pope; nor uphold the priricip a of free trade and yet clamour for protective duties in favour of their own manu factures; nor talk about competition with the world, and at the same time place their competitors at a dis advantage by an unequal tariff. Jo these matters the French have much to learn. They will learn it best by according a hearty support to the general policy of their Government, by patriotically looking for gradual concessions, by loyally waiting the most desirable opportunity of granting them, and by an honest use of them when granted, in fact, by moving uniformly with the Government in the direction already indicated by the policy orthe last ten years. Toe terms in which Italian affairs are spoken of will not meet with much response in this country, where it is only too well knowu that at Turin people do still speak of Rome, though the address says that they do not; and that at Rome the autho rities are not busying themselves about any serious reforms, though the address says that they are. It may be that in Italy " the period of compromises is approaching ;" but the scheme of Italian unity is not given up, nor will it be while things continue as they are in the ancient capital of the peninsula. The &man question would probably have been set tled by this time on a basis permanently beneficial to the Catholic Church but for the Church's own enemies, the priests, who, by their influence over the women of France, have wrought a popular ob stacle to the carrying out of the full views of the Emperor. The confessional has been stronger than the council-room, and the interests both of France and I aly have suffered thereby. But time will mend this also, and the French nation will yet come to see that the emancipation of Rome does not mean the overthrow of the Papacy. The people have now to address themselves to the elections, which they may do with the more cheerfulness now that they can look back upon a decade of peace, glory, and prosperity, such as their great country has not seen before for centuries. COUNTRY MARKETS. I' MANCHESTER-JAN. 29. This morning at our market there was a fair attend ance, with only a moderate demand for wheat. The cur rencies of last week were maintained for both English and American. Oats and oatmeal were inactive, and unchanged in price. Beans and Indian corn a fair sale. Flour a very quiet sale, at prices in favour of the buyer. BIRMINGHAM-JAN 29. English wheat was sold at 48s to 56s for white, and 40a to 568 per 36 stone for red, Barley, new malting, 33s to 42s per qr; grinding, 24s to 28s. Oats, old, 24s to 308 per 30 stone; Irish, 22s to 255. Beans, 408 to 44s per qr. Peas, 40s to 488 per 36 stone. PLYMOUTH-JAN. 27. White, 56s to 60s ; red, 54s to 568 per qr ; Dantzie, 57s to 58s ; American, Us to 55s ; Spanish, —s to —s ; Rus sian, —s to - s. Barley at prPvii.us rates-34s to 38s pet qr for malting ; grinding, 278 to 28s; oats, 23s to27s; and beans, —s to —s ; flour, 38s to 41s Od. EDINBURGH GRAIN-JAN. 28. A less supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which met a slow sale at 6d to is under the prices of this day week Wheat on the top 2s Od up ..average 2s Od down. Barley on the top 3s 3d up Oats on the top Is Od up average Os 41 up. Beans on the top Os 6d down .. average Os Id up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat B9l qrs Sold 292 qrs Barley... 1877 qrs Sold 1288 qrs Oats Beans l3O qrs Sold 80 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 46s Od ; extras, 43s 6d ; superfine, 41s 6d ; fine, 39s 6d CORK-JAN. 28 the following were the quotations this morning d wheat, 6s dto 98 6 , 1; white, 7s 6d to Ils Id , barley, 6s to 7s 4d ; oats, 5s 6d to 8s Od. ; new bere, —s Od to —a Od. DERBY SMITH 'IELD-J AN. 27. A moderate supply of fat beasts to-day, with a brisk de mand, and a clearance was effected. Sheep in average sup ply, but a less number of pigs. Calves scarce. Beet .. 6d to 6fd Veal 7d to 7/d Mutton ... 70 to 81c 1 Pork Lamb —d to —d Rough fat, 4s Od per atoll,. Hides, 3d to 4td; calf skins, 5d to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. ➢LALLS DUE. tue . .ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Feb. 18 via Marseilles .. Feb. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Feb. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. H e l ena. F e b . 1 . China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Feb. 1. via Marseilles ...Feb 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 1 _ . via Marseill s es Feb. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Feb. 10 via Marseilles Feb. 6. Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb 1. via Marseilles Feb. 5. Newfoundland .. Feb. 4. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. An:lades, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 29 'by U.S. packet by Canadian packet Jan. 30. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Feb. 10. Bahamas, via New York Feb. 12. Mexico A li parts of West Indies, including Chili, California, and British Columbia.. Pent ' 1 Jan. 28. AIR. SHERIDAN, M.P., AT DUDLEY.—Mr. Sheridan addressed a meeting of his constituents on Tuesday evening at Dudley on the events of the last ses sion. He alluded to all the topics of the day, and con cluded his speech with a very impartial review of the state of the American question. On both sides, he said, there are many matters of objection, and I think English men would do well to avoid expressing an opinion, and to wai'. and see the result of the next few months. FRP. IRON CROWN OF ITALY.--On the 23d of M a y, 18u5, when the Emperor Napoleon the First was crowned King of Italy at Milan, he with his own hands placed the ancient iron crown of Lombardy on his head, say ing "God has given it to me : let him beware who would touch it ;" thus assuming, as Sir Walter Scott observes, the haughty motto attached to the antique diadem by its early possessors. This celebrated crown is composed of a broad circle of gold, set with large rubies, emeralds, ant sapphires, on a ground of blue and gold enamel. The jewels and embossed gold exhibit a very close resemblance to the workmanship of an enamelled gold ornament, inscribed with the name of King Alfred the Great, which was found in the isle of Athelney, in Somer setshire, about the close of the seventeenth century, and is now carefully preserved in the Ashmolean museum at Oxford. But the most important pare of the iron croon, trout which, indeed, it derives its name, is a narrow band of iron, about three-eighths of an inch broad, and one-tenth of an inch in thickness, .ttached to the inner eircuinfetenee of the circlet. This inner band of sacred iron is said to have been made out of one of the nails used at the crucifixion, given by the Empress Helena, the discoverer of the cross, to her son Constantine, us a miraculous protection from the dangers of the battle-field. The ecclesiastics, who exhibit the crown, point out as .a 'permanent miracle,' that there is not a single speck of rust upon the iron, though it has now been exposed more than fifteen hundred years. The earliest quasi-historicrl notice of the iron crown is, that it was used at the coronation of Agilulfus, King of Nor mandy, in the year 691. Bonaparte, after his coronation at Milan, instituted a new order of knighthood for Italy, en titled the Iron Crown, on the same principle as that of the Legion of Honour for France. GARIBALDI.—The following letter WAS addressed some short time back by Garibaldi from Caprera to a young Russian girl who had aunt him her portrait : " My dear Child,—You ask me for a word of sympathy for Russia, the country of your birth. Our Saviour was born on the banks of the river Jordan, and when he proclaimed that all men are brothers, he did not ask whether their birthplace was the banks of the Neva or those of the Vis tula. The Russians are therefore our brothers, because I have seen that the same sun ripens the fine grapes of Italy and the splendid corn in the immense fields of your native land--I affectionately kiss your forehead, GARI BALDI." Advices from Caprera are favourable. Garibaldi does not yet leave his bed, as the wound has not closed ; but the cure is making rapid progress. Births. CLOETE —On the 29th inst., at The Elms, Southampton, Lady Cloete, of a son. HICKS.—On the 28 , h inst., the wife of Colonel Beach Hicks, Southwick crescent, Hyde-park, of a son, who survived only a tow hour.. PORTSMOUTH.—On the 27th inst„ at Eggesford House, the Counters of Portsmouth, of a daughter. Marriages. ITZMAYER—SIVEWRIGHT.-6n the 27th inst , at Burnt- Fiteshire, Colon() Fitztnayer, C. 8., Commanding the Royal Artiliery in Ireland, to Lucy, eldest daughter of C. K. Sivewright, Esq., Burntisland. WETHERED—ELLIsoN. — en the 28th inst., at St. Mary's, Bryauston.square, Owen Peel `tethered, Esq., of Great Marlow, to Frances Alice the eldest daughter ,Jf G. T. Ellis o n, Esq., of Upper Seyniour-street. Deaths. ALDERSON.—On the 27th inst., at Risby, BIL y Saint Ed mund's, the Rev. S. H. Alderson, vicar of Risby, aged 75. CAIN.—On the 29th inst., at Richmond, S.W., Mr. James Cain, aged 74. CARR.—On the 27th inst., at Friern-park, Friern Barnet. John Smith Carr, formerly of Hatton-garden, aged 81, second son of Ralph Carr, Esq., of Wiling, county of York. FLUDYER.—On the 28th inst., at Ayston, Rutland, Lieut.- General Fludyer. late Grenadier Guards, aged Gl. OTTEY.—On the 27th inst., Franc a FerrandOrtey, Esq., of Broxbourne, Herts, late of H.M.'s Exchequer, aged 67. TUCKER.—On the 28th inst. Wm. Duncan Tuck er , E s q. of Clyde Hous e , East India-road, E., and 5, Nicholas lane, city. London : hinted and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. ,12, Strand, Printer, at ma Sum °face, No. 11 2, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Mitidleseic.—Friclay, January 30,1883. -- tst