The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. " THIS EVENING, Balfes popular Opera, THE PURI TAN'S DAUTER : Madlle. Parep GH a and Miss Susan Pyne : Messrs. Santley , W. H. Weiss, Patey, A. St. Albyn, J. Rouse, C. Lyall, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Ater which, the Grand Comic Christmas , titlefd HARLEQUIN BEAU TY AND THE BEASTPantomime. en- Doors open at half-past B—Commence at 7. THE ATRE-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.— Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the Comic Drama of THE NEXT OF SIN. Alter which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES. Commence at 7. THEATRE-R 0 Y A HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck f tone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. After which, a new and original Extravaizanza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. THIS EVENING. Jan. 24, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdkomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Prologue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by_Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widdi eembe, W. M`lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond. is : Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are en shortly appear. engaged' an d will Doors open at half-past Six, performance 1 - com mence eo at Seven. Private Boxes, £2 125. 6d., and X 2 a. ; upper registered. Stalls, 6s. 6d. ; Dress Circle, Dress Circle, ss. - Circle, 4s. 6d. Prices at doors—Stalls, 674.; half-price. ox: Ter Circle, 45.; Pit, 29. ; Gallery ,e are entreated to hce open daily from 11 till 5. take notice that no charge is mad l e e to the occ upants thesa o t f e b k o e x e e p s 2 box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for ing of hats and cloaks and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden receive any gratuities whatever stage-manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, - Z , l- Lindus. THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver. Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, ..RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. CoLlinson, and Mr. Salford. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE LIVILE TREASURE. Mr Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE Messrs. Wilt on . L.Toole, I' Bedford. and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with " GEORGE ,DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in theßealm sot Fancy." Toole, Miss Woolgar, d- Miss K. Kelly, Miss Se aman ; Messrs. J. L. P. Be ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ; pantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and Bertrand. Commence at 7: The WEATHER. —Sun Office, Jan. 24, 1863 THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday. Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Barometer-29.73. Wind --Westerly; fresh, and variable, with fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DAY.—Morning, sh. 18m.—Afternoon, sh. 38m, To-moßstow.-Morning, 59m.—Afternoon, 6h. 17m g, *lmmo. LODMON, SATURDAN, JANUARY 24, 1863, Gloomily as the old year closed for the Federals —still mere gloomily for them is the new year opening. An enumeration of the principal events marking the turn of the twelvemonths will better than any syllable of comment indicate the fortunes of the war between the fratricidal belligerents. Our intelligence, last arrived, brings the narrative of those events down to the 12th of this present month of January. And from the momentary flashes of the Telegram we learn the nature of the very latest of the salient incidents—further particulars in re gard to which will come to us a little later on. As to the occurrences at 'Murfreesboro, we now know for certain that on the last day of this last year the Federals met with a signal dis comfiture at the hands of General BRAGG; and if the victors withdrew afterwards (as they did) dur ing the night of the 3d inst., they did so distinctly as victors ! Carrying away with them all the stores, and, together with the stores, four thousand pri soners, five thousand stand of arms, and a quarter of a hundred guns as evidences of their success. Instead of retreating into Alabama, however, as it was at first conjectured they would, the Confede rate force under BRAGG appear to have established themselves on the Duck River (a tributary of the Tennessee), at a point some score of miles to the youth-west of Murfreesboro. Shelbyville, in fact, is understood to be the exact scene of the Confede rate General's whereabouts. _ _ A journal, more distinguished for smartness of style than for soundness of judgment, assures no that the Ballot is but a superstition. An antiquated superstition, it hardly ventures to say, seeing that Beyond this partial advantage to the Confede rates—the safe withdrawal of all the stores and all the trophies of the 31st December from Murfrees boro—what are not the successesithey have won, not partially or in any way questionably,elsewhere? The Federala have been beaten back unmistakeably from Vicksburg. The Confederates have simultaneously achieved a victory by sea and by land at Texas. The Southern triumph in Mississippi is unmistakeable. And, as we have just seen, the opponent of General BRAGG has been completely outwitted and out manoeuvred in Tennessee. As to the double ad vantage gained in the Gulf of Texas, an advantage both ashore and afloat, that is, of all the events recently brought to light, incomparably the most important in its significance. That the Federala could have been so entirely put down" at sea by the Confederates was hardly a tbing to be looked for. Yet the facts related are beyond all dispute. They demonstrate an advantage on the Southern side of the most signal character. Five Confederate steamers, unexpectedly dropping down the river, seize upon what is familiarly known as the Gate of the Galf- State of Texas--while effecting this result, by a coup de main, conveying destruction to the Federal gunboat squadron, or scattering the remnants of it iu flight. In demonstration of the unmistakeable completeness of the victory achieved, there remains inthepossession of the Confederates, when all is over, a war-ship as famous, in her way, and hitherto,appa rently, far more seaworthy than the renowned but unfortunate Monitor—which sank, it may be remem bered very recently, at a sudden puff, or what sailors call half a gale o f wi • nd, off Cape Hatteras_ "Harriet Lane" is the vessel just captured from the Federals by the Confederates. And the Harriet Lane will probably, in giving an account of herself, in the hereafter under her changed colou rs , say ditto, so to speak, to the Alabama! There she remains, however, in the possession of the Confed era t es . There, in their pos session to o , south of Baton Rouge, is the reclaimed city of Galveston. The Federal flagship lies wrecked off shore in deep water —her larger fragments sunk to the bottom after an es des t ru ctive, in its way (though upon e xplosion a smaller sc ale ) , as that of the l'Orient. The remnants of the Northern fleet found safety enly, it would seem, in fight to New Or leans. All this twixitime success on t he side of the Confederates being attributable to the dashing onslaught of their five audacious war steamers armed with guns w•erked amon g ramparts of cotton bales. The triumphs won by the South in effect have preyed in these last inatancts to be as various as they ere, we repeat, beyond all dispute. so large a majority of the Liberal candidates have to make it one of their hustings articles of faith ; nod is it liked, on those occasions, if the candidate does not give his " unfeigned assent and consent" to its necessity. It is, however, a superstition, in the sense that it is a merely inherited belief, or point in the creed, is believed in without conscious reason by constituents, and accepted by candidates as a me:e matter of form. Indeed, we are told respect- ing the candidates, that their reason for consenting so easily to vote for the Ballot, is the certainty that their votes will never carry their ostensible object. Of too many of the candidates we can easily believe this. Why we should believe it of electors is not so apparent. Many a candidate must be aware that he has no title whatever on the ground of mental and political qualifications to appeal to a constitu ency at all, and he may reasonably dread a system which would deprive him of adventitious and irre velant influence, and throw him upon his merits solely. It is not so clear that electors can, from an y but party motives, dislike the mode of voting which leaves them every present advantage untouched, and confers on them others, which can be secured by no other known means. For our part, if the demand for the Ballot be likened to a worship, we must think that, so far from being a superstition, the electors well know what they worship. But few of the respectable electors have not, in some form, had to do with the Ballot. It is employed in so many societies, social► commercial, and literary—its essential principle is so strictly, and properly, adhered to in courts mar tial, and even our jury and militia systems appeal to its equivalent—that it is not easy to think of a man's occupying the electoral status in society, and being unacquainted with the simple and ra- tional device which excludes unfair partiality, un. due influence, and bribery. If superstition be cre• dulous and unreasonable worship, we should say that the elector who asks the candidate to vote for the ballot is a man of easy faith, only because the reason for his faith is so simple and obvious, that it seems like a truism if put into express terms. To the unsophisticated Liberal elector there is no point in his Liberal creed which he less takes on trust. On the duration of Parliaments, on the extension of the Franchise, on the fairer ap portionment of Members, and the like, he may lean a good deal on the opinion of others. In regard to the Ballot, he trusts his personal observation and knowledge. In hardly any town, city, or county in Great Britain, can he have passed through many elections, without having either personally felt the need of the Ballot, or without having witnessed with pain the humiliation, through the want of it, of many of his brother electors. Superstition often believes in the existence of what is non-existent. But if the evils to remedy which the Ballot is demanded, exist, like witchcraft and sorcery, in imagination only, all we can say is, that a long list of abortive Acts of Parliament, and certain expensive Royal Commissions, are strong evidences of superstition in quarters supposed to be tolerably free from it ; not to mention the facts de tailed to us by the confessors at St. Alban's, Glou cester, Wakefield, and other distinguished places. Lord RUSSELL and good Mr. WALroLE must have been very superstitious men, when they combined their skill to produce a " Corrupt Practices at Elections Prevention Act." Unless, indeed, we presume, from their expunging from the Act as proposed the clauses most calculated to prevent such practices, that the Act was mere political quackery, and concocted to make a show of believing what they did not believe. We admit, indeed, that it was passed to make a show of preventing -what they did not wish to prevent; but we take it as proof that they could not deny the existence of the facts on I which it was based. Another common mark of superstition is, faith in fanciful means and remedies. Homoeopathy, and all the devices of medical quackery, charms, amu lets, and idle ceremonies to avert the wrath or pro cure the favour of Heaven, are every day illustra tions. Now, we may be told we expect too much from the Ballot—that is quite possible, though we doubt it. The advocates of the Ballot, like those who have struggled for any of the social or political reforms of late years, may easily, in their hard fight with the bitter defenders of existing abuses, exagge rate the value of what they fight for. If, for instance, any of the Liberal party have imagined that it would place their party in undisputed possession of power for an indefinite period, we have no such thought. We believe there is quite as much con servatism as desire for progress in the English mind, and that, too, amongst the humbler as well as among the richer classes. Even the Radicals of England are not destructives. Under the Ballot each of the great parties would be as liable as ever to disgust the electors who respec tively support them as they now are; and we may add, would, have as much opportunity to gain their goodwill. The supporters of the Ballot ought not to have, and generally, we believe, have not any oblique purpose. Their single object may be expressed in the short sentence, sent over, we believe, originally from that tabooed source of political instruction, Ame rica,—" The Ballot enables every man to do his own voting." Where is the superstition of believing that it does this ? We mean, of course, when the Ballot is a bona fide one—when it is conducted, as it easily may be, and is every day, in England itself, for other than political matters—that no one can know before, at the poll, or after it, any person's vote, ,unless he himself discloses it. The t easonableness of the Ballot, as the means of enabling each indivi dual to vote in freedom from unfair external influ ences, must be very obvious, when we find it in use from almost the earliest periods of civilised political freedom; and when it has been spontaneously adopted by bodies and communities of the most diverse character, for the one object of securing a free vote. Resort to it, for this purpose, must really be either an instinct of the race, or one of those first conclu sions of reason which most resemble instinct. Many of the private or public societies who have adopted it cannot, in numberless cases, have learned it of predecessors, yet it occurred to them as soon as the circumstances required it. A few individuals, com bined for a common object, aonrd cit p iz ro en te s ct u i n o i n ti , o a g g f r o e r e their common government that the will of the maj.lrity shallsodnecaildienfldiusepnucteesd, questions. Warmth of feeling, per fear of giving offence, and sometimes corrupt in athueee:teurtss' are soon observed to infl uence some of to repre sen t a l ways the cool an d un bi ass ed judgment of the and to cause the majority o f votes, not majority of give his vote that no persons. ext " ra ne L o u e s t i e n a fl e h of u enc u e es, can bias so it," is, under the circumstances, the first demand of common sense; the idea of superstition in tho matter is simply ludicrous. If experience be appealed to, we really k now o f none which does not prove that common sense was right in resorting to the Ballot as the means to se cure a free vote. We are pointed to America— well, thero the mischief is all due to the formerly dominant party appealing to the ballot, and then rejecting its decision, because it was against them. That party was itself in power at the time the Bal lot was taken ; yet with all the immense patronage of the American Government, it could not prevent THE stiN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24. 1863. a fair Ballot. It rebelled, indeed, but it never de nied the fairness of the Ballot. We are pointed again to France—there, too, the Ballot has " enabled every man to do his own Toting. It is no fault of " the Iliallot that the peasantry at the time of the EMPED.OR,S election were Napoleonists ; it is no fault of the Ballot that, now, the masses of the people are favourable to an Emperor who has so cleverly con ciliated their good will; the Ballot is not answer able for the motsures taken by French Prefects to deter opposition candidates from coming forward, or to mislead the voters. The people, after all, vote as they please. But the grand proof of the efficiency of the Ballot is that, even in France, first rate opposition candidates can get a seat in the Chamber in the teeth of the Minister of the Interior, the Prefect, and all the influence of Government. It may be safely asserted thqt, with open voting, not one opposition member would be returned. The experience of all other countries, specially that of our own Australian Colonies, is not denied to be in favour of the reasonableness of the Ballot. To term it a superstition, where it had been some time in practice, would but expose a man to deserved con tempt. If there be superstition anywhere we should say it is amongst those who oppose and dread the Ballot. It is superstition to shrink from reason, and this they do. The only alternative—and we fear the true one—is that their fear is not superstition, because it is a fear of losing what the Ballot would certainly deprive them of—the power to bribe, inti midate, and coerce those who ought to be the free and independent voters of Great Britain and Ireland. We publish in another part of our impression an account of the recent tyrannical proceedings of the Russian Government in Warsaw, which can scarcely fail to excite the reader's indignation. It is a re cital of the means adopted to carry out the recruit ing, by which Polish youths were to be forced into the service of their country's oppressors. As might be supposed the mere threat of such an act aroused the deepest indignation among the injured Poles, and had it not been for an appeal judiciously circulated by those who have the true welfare of their country at heart, there.is little doubt that it would have been the occasion of a violent outbreak. It was addressed to those who were likely to be the victims of this unjust con scription, and conjured them, for the sake of their oppressed country, to submit quietly to this fresh act of tyranny. It reminded them that, although torn from the country they longed to serve, and associated with her enemies, their life and actions might still be of service to Poland. They might carry with them their sentiments of freedom and indepen dence to diffuse them among the Russian soldiery. These and similar exhortations produced the desired effect, for although, as our correspondent informs us, it were impossible to describe the lamentations, and the gloom that hung over the city after the forced conscription was carried into effect, no vio lent resistance was attempted. '[he manner in which the recruiting was carried out could only be attempted in a semi-barbarous country. At an hour verging on midnight the streets were cleared of stray passengers, every street being occupied by he military, while strong patrols perambulated _ . the town, and cannon were pointed at each extremity. When these preparations were com pleted, the superintendent of police, with a military policeman and six soldiers, all armed, approached the doomed houses, and knocked. No sooner was the door unfastened than in they rushed like a band of brigands, dragged from their beds the victims of the conscription, and conveyed them to the citadel. In some instances the young men qualified for conscription had contrived to leave Warsaw, and in these cases they seized on their fathers or younger brothers as hostages. In one instance a middle-aged man, the father of five chil dren, was dragged off because his eldest son bad contrived to elude the police. No plea for exemp tion was admitted—age, sickness, the care of a family, the support of a widowed mother, were dis regarded alike. There was scarcely a house, we are told, in which there was not one taken, and from many five or six were carried off. We can fancy the desolation of the city—the lamentations of the bereaved mothers, wives, and children, the burning resentment which smoulders in the hearts of the captives. Forced into the ranks of their hated op pressors, torn from their homes, and, in many in stances, conscious of the distress and poverty of their deserted families, it will be with little heart that they will fight the battles of the CZAR. The account given in the Monde of these tyrannical proceedings coincides with all we have heard from other sources. A complete razzia, we are told, was made among the officials of the railway from Warsaw to Vienna, and the University itself, notwithstanding the fine promises made to it, was not spared, several young students being taken. The numbers arrested amount, it is conjectured, to several thousands, and when we remember that these include tradesmen and workmen of all kinds, we can have some faint idea of the injury inflicted on the city in a commercial sense. Who can help regretting that the youthful monarch who seemed at first so willing to redeem the errors of his father, and to whom so much praise is justly due for carrying out the emancipation of the serfs, in the face of his powerful nobility, should permit his reign to be tarnished by such acts of cruel oppression. Surely the teachings of history, and even the experience of his own times, might convince him that thrones built on tyranny rest on a hollow foundation, and that the extent of his empire, and the irresponsibility of his power, may not suffice to save him from the fate of despots who ',empt too far the endurance of suffering humanity. At a special meeting of the Nottingham Town Council on Thursday, a resolution was adopted 'appointing a committee to take steps for the fitting Telelii:l7- tion, in that town, of the:occasion of the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The magistrates, it was said, were prepared to co-operate with the Town Conn oil in the matter. ST. THOMAS'S AND BETHLEM HOSPITALS.—Whea St. Thomas's Hospital was required for railway purposes the site was valued by Mr. Currey, the surveyor to the governors, at £478,000; underthe award of the arbi trator only £290,000 was obtained for the property. On a recent occasion the actual value of Bethlem was brought in question, when the authorities appealed against their as sessment to the parish of St. George's, and valued them selves, or rather placed their then estimated value on the ir own property, which result, by being made public, may serve thatpvbraa e rl s ug e xaa n ti 1n ti valuation, ordwpa which, year was sa correctrrt. Paine, a e i e n , foe t r,h utmostseui ratingrrr e s v n u e r yt a v opl e r a y u, sorprt whoh, then aosi us acted ged contended toseododf hffooirsr :ae sale. l is the Home-office, under the sanction of the Poor-law Board, &c.,/on behalf of St. George's, contended for £4,200. The award of the arbitrator was £3,728. Mr. Johnson, the Governor of Bridewell and Bethleis, and Mr. Lee, his sur ve3 or, argued that Bethlem was almost worthless, because at the present time it, wa- " totally unfit for the purposes and practice of a lunatic asylum under the altered and almost reversed system of treatment of lunacy ;" therefore £l,BOO a year was an adequate rent. Such being the case, certainly 30 years' purchase, or £54,000, will approximate towards the current value of the property in tee. AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH LAN CASHIRE.—The ship Hope arrived at Liverp Joi yest the erday from Ne w relief of the dis- York, with a cargo of flour, &c., for t tress in Lancashire. The Hope, which is a fine new vessel, is commanded by Captain Hancock, who, we believe, gave his services free. She left New York on the 22d Decem ber, laden with 1,010 barrels of flour, and 987 tons guano, all of which will be sold, and the proceeds forwarded to the relief fund. The vessel is, we understand, consigned to Messrs. Babcock and Co., of Liverpool, who undertake to unship the cargo, free of expanse. The Hope was towed up the Mersey, free of charge, and all the cust oms and harbour, dock, a n d other dues will be dispensed with in this mid other similar cues, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 24. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ellora, Captain Kellock, with the heavy por tion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 23 passengers, 1 package specie (L 200) ; also 282 boxes oranges, 750 bags beans, 86 packages sun dries, 29 cases silk, and 600 bales raw silk, value £50,000 sterling. The Ellora left Alexandria on the 11th, Malta 14th, and Gibraltar the 19th inst. In the Medi teranean she experienced fine weather, along the coast of Spain and Portugal light north-easterly winds, and in the bay and up the channel mode rate winds from the south-west. Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Firefly, Alac rity, Magicienne, and Medina were at Malta, and at Gibraltar the Firebrand and Procris. The Massilia, with the outward mails of the 12th, arrived at Gibraltar on the morning of the 17th, and resumed her voyage for Malta and Alexandria. Her Majesty's screw line-of -battle ship Meannee left Gibraltar on the 17th, for the East. and a Spanish slo T op h - e of F -w eda a e r r ,w l e g r u e nboa cruising peinCghiopfrtwhae, rock when the Ellora left Gibraltar. The sum of £B3O 19s. 3d,, collected at Gibraltar for the relief of the Lancashire operatives, has been remitted to the Lord Mayor of London by this packet. The following British vessels had arrived out at Gibraltar since the 10th inst. : Steamer Hellenis, 10 days from London ; schooner Eliza, 19 days from Swansea; steamer Regina, eight days from London ; steamer Orontes, 10 days from Liverpool; steamer Maranthon, Eve days from Liverpool ; steamer Norma, 12 days from London ; steamer Corinthian, five days from Liverpool; steamer Peninsular, seven days from Southampton ; steamer Rhone, 6,1 days from Liverpool ; steamer Olympus, five days from Liverpool; steamer Messina, 15 days from Glasgow ; and steamer Gibraltar, eight days from London. Gibraltar exchanges on the 19th were quoted— London, 90 days' date, Sot ; Paris, sf. 28c.; Mar seilles and Genoa, sf. 29c. ; Madrid, eight days' sight, t- prem. ; Cadiz, dia. ; Seville, die. ; Ma laga, par ; Barcelona, 4- prem. ; Almeira, par ; Va lentia, to prem.; Alicant, par; prem. on sf. pieces, 4to t per cent. Freights unaltered. CAPE OP GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, 10 A.M. The Union Mail Steamship Company's screw steamer Cambrian, Commander William Strutt, from the Cape of Cood Hope, St. Helena, and As cension, is now entering the Sound. A strong gale from the south-west has been blowing all night, and continues. At 3 a.m. it was accompanied by a heavy storm of hail. 10.45 A.M. The force of the gale, which is now due west, has compelled the Cambrian to drop Ler anchor in the middle of the Sound, a mile to the eastward of her proper berth. Her Majesty's ship London, 86, which, for the last three days has been prevented by the weather from going up Hamoaze, remains inside the break water, with topgallant masts struck ; all snug. SPAIN. CADIZ, JAN. 24. News received here from Vera Cruz, dated the 26th of December, states that the French army, having left garrisons in Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Cor dova, Orizaba, and Tampico, was advancing upon Puebla. The Commander of the Normandie was dead of the vomito. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 24. The 7foniteur of this morning publishes a de spatch from Admiral Jurien de Lagraviere, dated Vera Cruz, Dec. 16, giving good news of the army, which was advancing, and finding supplies upon the plains in its route. 1,200 mules and 250 waggons had arrived from New York, and 450 mules from Santiago. The Emperor received yesterday, at the Tuileries, a special letter from the President of Hayti. The Opinion Nationale tells us that M. Ber themy, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Empre, whose departure for China has been previously announced, h as put himself in communication , since his passage through Lyons and Marseilles, with the Chambers of Commerce in those two t ow ns, who have so great an interest in the deve lopment of the commercial relations of France with 'the East. The same journal tells us from a German source that the Duke of Modena will visit Vienna at the end of January to take leave of his troops. The Modenese brigades will be dissolved in February, the greater part of the officers taking commissions in the Austrian army. The ( ) pinion Nat i onale also speaks decidedly on the address of the Prussian Chambers, and It asks warmly applauds its firm and dignifi e d ton e . w ill the King see his error after hearing such language. Experience forbids the hope. E Opinion Nationale rather thinks that his Majesty will content himself with celebrating grand fetes in Berlin and throughout the provinces, in the hopes of outvying the Chambers in the affections of the people, and after enumerating the prospective festi vities, our French contemporary gravely asks, with a touch of national esprit, whether such fetes and cele brations are not after all worth more than a Con stitution P :Le Constitutionel learns from the Cologne Gazette that the Duke of Saxe Coburg has positively refused the Crown of Greece. It does not, however, pledge itself to the authenticity of this rumour. It denies very strongly the accusa tions brought against the employment of forced labour by the Suez Canal Company, and asserts that it par its workmen and supports them, giving them the option of re-engagement after a short time. .Le Siecle tells us that the fortune left by the francs. IN e find in the same journal a paragraph of Egypt is valued at 2 0 0 millions l s a t t a e t i n V g i c that h r oy a t three vessels and a transport from Brest are about to remove to Cherbourg. They are intended to convey troops to Mexico. The war department has received orders to forward ammunition to Cherbourg without delay. The Moniteur has the following note : . " On receivi ng the news t h a t the Vi ceroy o f E gypt I had placed an Egyptian battalion at the disposal of the Emperor o f the F renc h, th e E ng li s h press in dulged in supp os itions, the rectification of which is desirable. The facts of the case are these:—Ex perience having proved by the example of the black companies in the French West India Islands sent to Vera Cruz, t h at the negro race i s not li a bl e , lik e the whites, to the influence of the yellow fever, the Em per request e d f rom the Vi ceroy , no t p er mission to , recruit soldiers, as the English Government did at the time of w ar i n I nd i a, b u t th e temporary cesiion of en organizod negro regiment of 1,200 men with its officers and sub-officers. The Viceroy could not for the moment spare more than 450 men, who are to garrison Vera Cruz. This measure, adopted with a humane object, cannot leave room for the slightest criticism." The distribution of the medals awarded to the successful. French competitors at the late Exhibi tion in London, Emperor in person , in the Grand which is to be eff ected at one on Sunday, by the Hull of th e L ouvre, is to b e at t e nded with conside rable pimp, The Moniteur publis hes a notice to 1 the Ministers, the Members of the Privy Council, the Great a of the Crown, and other high dignitaries, that they are to assemble at the Tuile ries, to accompany their Majesties to the Pavilion Denon. The other person: who are invited to attend must alight at the door of the Pavilion, and take their places by a quarter past 12 at latest. BOURSE, Jan. 23.—The market continues in the same dormant state, the quotations of Threes, for the Account, alternating from 69f. 95c. to 70f. 5c., but with little doing. Railway Shares are gene rally heavy, with a slight decline on some of the lines. Mobilier Shares show a slight improvement. The market slightly receded towards the close, and left off as follows : 4t per Cents. .. Do, end month.... Bank Shares 3400 Credit Fancier 1475 Piedmontese Fives Italian Loan . 70 70 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 53 Home Debt 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 90 NTew 3 per Cents .. Do. end month.... Credit M0bi1ier....1157 50 Do, end m0nth....1160 Cash. Account. IC9O .. 1091 50 _ _ Orleans Northern .... 1023 75 , . 1025 New, ditto — .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 1156 50 Geneva Southern .. B2O .. 821 25 Western _ _ .. 545 - Eastern Sardinian 370 Austrian 10yrTl;arti North of Spain Saragossa 661 50 .. 662 50 Ditto to Barcelona PRUSSIA. The following is the text of the principal passages of the Address drawn up by the Liberal fractions of of the Berlin Chamber of Deputies ; _ " The Chamber of Deputies assembled in due course by order of the King. It was animated by feelings of unchangeable fidelity to his Majesty, and was solely preoccupied with again manifesting its attachment to the Constitution. The session was closed before the Budget for 1862 was legally fixed. That for 1863 was withdrawn by the Government. The invitation made by the Chamber to present it again at a convenient moment remained without any result. Since then the Ministers appointed by the King have continued to direct the affairs of the State without any legal Budget and contrary to the Constitution. They have even, in opposition to the formal declarations of the Chamber of Depu- ties, decreed expenses which the Chamber had disallowed. The first of the rights of the repre sentatives of the country, that of voting the ex penditure, has thus been infringed upon, and. the country, which has seen with the greatest regret its constitutional institutions placed in question, has ranged itself on the side of its deputies. A small minority only, supported by the Ministry, has carried to the . eery steps of the throne gross defamations against the representatives of the na tion, and has attempted to mislead the judgment of the King upon the most simple rights of the Constitution. At the same time, abuses of power have taken place. Public functionaries faithful to the Constitution, who happened to be deputies, have been the object of vexatious proceedings. The press has been harshly treated ; attempts have been made to impede the exercise of the civic rights of citizens not belonging to the army, by the intervention of the superior officers of the Land ' wehr. The King has declared that no one should place in doubt his desire to maintain the Constitu tion to which he had sworn. No one has, in fact, any doubt ; but your Majesty will permit us to say to him frankly—the Constitution is already violated by the Ministers. Article 99 no longer exists, in fact. We are governed without a budget, and the session has opened without the hope of seeing the finances re-established in their normal state, and the army organised upon legal bases. This unfor tunate conflict menaces to compromise the conside ration for Prussia abroad. She can only recover her legitimate influence in Germany by the re-esta blishment of a constitutional state of things. We hope that the wisdom of the King will know how to distinguish between the loyal voice of the Deputies and the councils of the men who cover their party interests with his Majesty's name. As represen. , tatives of the country, we must solemnly declare that peace at home and power abroad are only pos sible by a return to a constitutional situation." NAPLES AND ROME. Letters from Naples and Rome, both dated Jan. 17, speak of the sensation made in Italy by the arrest of the Princess Barberini. The Naples letter says that when General de Lamarmora received the telegram from General de Montebello, praying for her release, he replied that she should be treated with every due regard to her rank and sex, but that all subjects of the new kingdom of Italy were equally amenable to the law, and that he could not protect her from a judicial inquiry. The noble delinquent is not in prison. She is lodged in a suite of apartments in the Questra of the Gia como palace. Her own lady's maids have been separated from her, and she is furnished with two others by the procureur-general. She is very taci turn, and refuses to give any explanation whatever touching the two long letters in cipher which were found upon her. These letters are alleged to have been given her for transmission to Francis IL by the King's old tutor, M. Roberti. The princess has made an ineffectual attempt to bribe the offi cers in charge of her to let her escape. All applica tions from friends to pay her a visit have been re fused. According to the letter from Rome, it was not of his own mere motion, but at the instigation of Mr. Odo Russell, that General de Montebello took up the cause of the princess. Mr. Russell, it is said, first applied to the French ambassador, the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, and begged him to intercede with General de Lamamora. The prince excused himself on the ground that he had no official relations or private acquaintance with the Italian commandant at Naples, and did not feel justified in writing to him. Thereupon Mr. Odo Russell, with better success, canvassed General de Montebello. These are curious details, which, if untrue, should be contradicted, and if true, ex plained. The letter last referred to says that the Princess Barberini at the time of her arrest was ac companied by a young Swiss who escaped, and now boasts in Rome that he brought away with him some papers which would have been highly compromising. POLAND. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, JAN. 10. Previous to the day on which the recruiting, or rather proscription, has been effected in this metro polis, and with a desire to cam the excitement and dispair occasioned by this most atrocious measure of Russian tyranny, an appeal was addressed to those who were likely to become the victims of it, couched in terms most eloquent and affectionate, persuading them to submit to this act of cruelty, for the sake of their oppressed country :—" Called upon to enter the Russian ranks," says the appeal, " you will before renew your oath to serve faith fully your country, and to spare no sacrifice for it. Enter you will the milit ar y service of Russia, not to renounce your fatherland, or forget your own feelings, but to carry with you those s entiments of freedom and'independence, which it will be your duty to infuse into the hearts of the Russian sol diers. Your own life, which the intended proscrip tion wants to sever from the country, will find its continuation in yourselves, and through you in the Russian regiments. Be then of good cheer, and bear with manly courage this sacrifice, this heavy sacrifice of your beloved country." This touching and well-timed appeal produced a great effect, and saved the country from the most imminent danger. For to describe the gloom, the shrieks and the lamentations which were spread over this city in consequence of the proscripti n having been partly effected last night, is really impossible. Ido not remember such a painful feeling ever having pervaded the p eop l e b e f ore. This first instalment of Polish bhod was taken in a most violent and perfidious manner, On the 14th inst., at 11 o'clock p.m., the police and soldiers, with lanterns in their hands, were ordered to march out and tear away from the bosoms of their families these young and cherished children. Every street was occupied by the military, and at each extremity cannons were pointed, while strong patrols peram bulated the town. The superintendent of police, with a military policeman rnd six soldiers, all armed, then quietly approached the houses already marked for their visit. The whole town was en veloped in a sound repose, and if any one happened to have been in the streets, he was at once seized and lodged in a police station. A knock at the door soon called up the porter, who, not knowing what awoke him, naturally opened the door, when the recruiting parties rushed in, and dragged out from their beds the young men, and when these contrived to hide themselves, or make their escape, they forcibly carried to the citadel, as hostages, fathers or younger brothers.' A large number of young men qualified for con scription left Warsaw, and thus exposed their rela tives to be imprisoned in their places. In one in stance a father of five children had to go because his eldest son evaded the vigilance of the police, and this father a man of more than fifty years of age. Many manufactories and trades were deprived of their workmen, much to their own detriment, and the general suffering of the country. In spite of all this persecution the national spirit is at its highest pitch, and an invisible authority issuing its orders and regulations it. most implicitly obeyed. This is a proof of the moral, and never subdued force of the Polish nation—a force that must have its ultimate triumph ; and the more brilliant as it shall have been bought at the cost of such sufferings and sacrifices. The Jews have shared the fate of the Christians, and numbers have been kidnapped, most of these tradesmen. Now and then a resist ance, ending in a seffiue, was offered, but no fight ing took piace. So rare a moderation of the Warsaw. population plainly demonstrates that the people give no cause for the persecution which the Russian Go vernment pursues so systematically and relentlessly. That proscription deprives the country of its best and most industrious population, and deprives it in a way at once cruel and savage. It is a most in human ravage upon this oppressed nation, and so poignant in its effects, that it may be truly stated as one of the greatest scourges that have been in flicted, within a century, by the Russian Govern ment in Poland. Orders have been forwarded to the governors of the provinces to commence a similar work, and God only knows how it will be carried out there, as the military governors are acting the part of indepen dent pashas, and disregard any civil interference with their business. They receive the orders, and this is all—and, as to their execution, they follow out their own impulses, and no one, even the Grand Duke Constantine, possesses the power of stopping their abuse. I shall not fail to inform you of the progress of this dreadful and unprovoked operation. Nothing could have illustrated more the nnpopu- larity of the Marquis Wielopolski than the following circumstance :—His lady having officially, as a patroness of a girl's school, visited the establish ment on the Ist of January, employed all her artful means to win the goodwill and affection of the pupils. Perceiving her failure, she sent the choicest bon-bons, and other sweetmeats, that could be got, as a present from her. But what a consternation had taken possession of the Marchioness when she heard that none of the young misses would touch or receive one bon-bon, and the sweet offerings had to be distributed out of doors. The long and the short is, that the name of Wielopolski is hated, while that of Count Andrew Zamoyski, who, to our sorrow, is now an exile, is in everybody's mouth ; for a man of his pure patriotic feelings and his abilities would have been the man at this trying moment of our patience and resignation. The chair of the Solavonic literature is now in full activity, the inauguration having taken place a few days ago by the Rector, M. Mianowski, and the address delivered by M. Kuist, the Bohemian professor, produced a favourable impression. M. Kuist took especial care to inveigh against the Germans, as the most vehement enemies of the Slaves, and particularly of the Poles, whom they always misrepresent in their press, and tax with deeds and stories which only a sickly German imagination is capable of inventing. COLNEY-HATC/I ASTLVM--The annual winter entertainment to the patients, now numbering nearly 1,900, of this institution took place on the 20th inst. before a large assemblage of the county magistrates, their friends, and others interested in the subject of insanity. At 4 o'clock about 250 men and 350 women assembled in the large hall, which was very brilliantly lighted, and deco rated with flags, Chinese lamps, and evergreens. The amuse ments commenced with the tricks of a professed conjuror, engaged for the occasion, who was followed by Mr. Punch, Mrs. Judy, and the faithful dog. Tn,by. Atter this, at 6 o'clock, the patients retired to their wards, where they were regaled with plumcake, oranges, spiced ale, and lemonade, in which those who were unable to be present in the hall participated. At seven o'clock the hall was again filled with the busy and happy population, when dancing commenced, and was kep up until nearly ten, when the National An , them closed the proceedings. We are happy to record that not a single casualty or unpleasantness occurred to mar the pleasure of the evening. During the time the patients were a , supper the magistrates entertained the company at a very sumptuous repast. It is right to add that all joined in dancing and the various efforts made to amuse the patients, and it was universally admitted that the Colney • hatch winter fete of 1863 is entitled to rank as the most brilliant and successful in the asylum's history. METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION,— The twenty-second Annual Court of this Institution (which has its Asylum at Walton-on-Thames) was held on Tuesday last, at the office in Sackville-street, Pic cadilly. The Hon. J. W. Percy, presided. The report showed that, during the year there had been a very con siderable extension of the benefits of this charity, 1,696 hav ing enjoyed such benefits within that period, with fully the usual amount of relief. The number of recipients had more than doubled in the past 10 years. Of the 1,606 within the short period allowed for their recovery (about a month) 1,330 became well and able to return to their re spective employments,and the chief portion of the remainder were discharged much improved, and the conduct of the patients generally had been highly satisfactory. The do nations of the year for general purposes were, £725 3s, and the number of donors 74, including Messrs. Barclay, Mr. A. Hobhouse, aid Sir R. Frederick for £5O each ; five sermons had realised £360 17s ld ; and there had been 184 new annual subscribers. The contributions to the ex tension fund were £323 Ils 11d, of which the late chairman of the board, Colonel F. Paget, had given £52 10s, and Robert Vyner, Esq., £5O. The much needed enlargement of the asylum had been accomplished, and the original house put in thorough repair. The estimated cost of the new wing, giving space for 60 additional beds, was £3,500, and the repairs, &c., £5OO. It had been hoped that the fund opened for this purpose would have realised sufficient, but the board had to regret that there was a deficiency (pro bably on account of the cotton famine), and had, therefore, been compelled to draw from the general fund £1,735 15s sd, the small reserve fund of the institution being thereby nearly exhausted, For the means of replacing the fore going sum, and also of providing the requisite furniture for the new portion of the asylum, the board urgently appealed to the friends of the charity and the public. The total re ceipts of the general fund were t,995 10s 6d, of which there was a balance at the bankers of £35 6s Bd. After the adoption of the report and the disposal of routine business, the proceedings closed with thanks to the chairman. COAST DEFENCES.—Captain Dahlgren, in his report of Nov. 22, 1862, to the Secretary of the United States Navy, states--" It behoves us therefore in goad season to estimate the danger rightly and the remedy. In regard to the latter there will naturally be some difference of opinion; still, taking our own great seaport as an exam ple (alluding to New York), my own views are that a trustworthy and thorough defence can only be made by a harmonious and just combination of forts, iron -clads, and rams, with such other minor auxiliaries as may be contri buted to the general purpose ; singly, neither would be effectual. Whatever may be selected as the material of the interior structure of the fort, the exterior must be iron. Lines of earthworks will also be useful in assisting and com pleting the position of the main works, but by no means should bare masonry be exposed to the action of rifled cannon." FRENCH CONVICTS.—The position of convicts in France at present occupies the attention of the Government. According to the last official accounts, there are 7,690 convicts under sentence to hard labour. Of these 1,961 are sentenced to hard labour for life; 3,070 to from 5 to 10 years ; 2,259 from 11 to 20 years; 282 to from 21 to 30 years, 41 to from 31 to 40 years ; and 9 to from 51 years and upwards. 4,750 were convicted of rob bery, 1,027 of murder, 452 of attacks on women. 233 of in cenoiarisra, 168 of assassination,l62 of cutting and maiming 150 of forgery, 140 of coining, 24 of fraudulent bankruptcy, and 26 of parricide. The half of these convicts are formed of men from twenty to forty years of age. There are 123 yo ung men of from sixteen to twenty years of age, and 270 old men above sixty. The agricultural districts supply more than half the convicts. We find 4,595 born in the country, 2,452 born in towns, and 645 foreigners. Of the convicts, 3,992 can neither read or write ; 91 alone have received superior primary instruction. Agricultural labourers and gardeners form about a sixth of the convicts. There are 1,078 navies, 467 masons, 345 weavers, 245 domestic ser vants, 175 tailors, and 184 blacksmiths and locksmiths. The following extract is from a paper written by the Hon. W. B. Reed, of Philadelphia, late United States minister in China, and published in the Index :—" These I frankly avow to be my wishes and opinions as to,the immediate future. They aim at once at peace ; and when, without offence or dis respect, the questions are put me whether I would give up without a struggle the Union and govern ment which two years ago existed, and how, if the power were mine, I would arrange the terms of re cognition and separation, I now have no difficulty in answering. In the first place, I think there has been a struggle with at most a questionable suc cess ; and if the choice be between the continu ance of the war, with its attendant suffering and demoralisation, certain miseries and uncer tain results, and a recognition of the South ern Confederacy, I am in favour of recognition— of course making the abolition party responsible for this dread necessity. The blood of the Union is on them. If it be a choice between the slow, but ultimately successful conduct of the war, the sub jugation of the Southern states, their tenure as mere military provinces, involving, of course, a radical change in the political organisation of the triumphant North, so as virtually to abrogate state rights and create a centralised domination with the heresies of the day engrafted and peaceable re cognition, I still prefer recognition. To continue a war to the bitter end of mutual ruin for a mere point of honour, or from temper, is mischievously absurd. The moment a practical result becomes impossible, as I think it now is, the war ought to cease ; and it is the part of true statesmans;nip to dis..ern in advance when the moment is coming. If the inquiry be further pressed as, to how I would arrange the terms of pacification and re cognition, and adjust the difficulty of boun daries anti river rights, my answer is I would begin by a cessation of hostilities and an armistice for a fixed period, not too short. It is the idlest of delu sions to imagine that im the heat and smoke of actual conflict we can ]snake our plans for the future, or even see what that future is likely to be. If arms were laid dowdn for a time, there would be a repug nance to take them up again, which of itself would be favourable to satisfactory adjustment. This, I am quite aware, is but postponing the inevitable decision which sooner or later must be made ; and I do not hesitate to say that, dodge and defer as we may, in my opinion the decision—l mean as to. limits, and possibly as to debt—must be made by the States and their citizens, acting as they did when seventy years ago they entered into the Federal compact. There is no other conceivable mode. Maryland and Kentucky, after all, each for herself, will have to determine where her lot shall be cast, and what her pecuniary liability must be, whether for a share of the Federal or of the Confederate debt, or whether to be exempt from both. What Maryland and Kentucky do Pennsyl vania and Ohio have a right to do. This settles the question of boundaries, and nothing else will ; and if the decision involves the abandonment of Washington, and leaving it a monument of what was once the capital of a great republic, be it so. I would rather see it a ruin than what it is now—a garrison town of an uncertain frontier—a mere bar rier fortress—a huge encampment of half-tenanted' houses, deserted by respectable inhabitants, and. given up to the occupation of soldiers and contrac tors, and disreputable men and women of all descrip tions. These are sad realities, but they must be looked at. Our mistake all along hue been a reluc tance to look realities in the face." RAIL' 'AYB. RECOGNI TION OF THE SOUTH. THE DISTRESS IN FRANCE. The Moniteur of yeysterday contains a report, signed by M. Rouher, the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, and M. de Persigny, the Minister of the Interior, recommending that in each of their departments a credit of 2,500,000 f. shall be opened for carrying out local and other public works, with the view of relieving the distress of the operatives thrown out of employ by the cot ton famine. The report thus commences: Sire,—Upon opening the session of the Corps Legislatif, your Majesty announced that a credit would be applied for in aid of the operatives out of employ. In order to fulfil the intentions of your Majesty we have the honour to propose to you to submit at once to the sanc tion of the Corps Legislatif a measure for opening extraor dinary credits of 2,500,000 f. each upon the budget of the Department of the Interior, and upon that of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, for the purpose of assisting useful communal works, of affording aid to the charitable institutions, and of carrying out public works at the expense of the state in those places where the ' suffering of the, operatives is greatest. We have no hesitation at this moment in limiting to this sum the total of the grant necessary for the relief of the operatives deprived of their ordinary employment. Amid a crisis in which so many interests are involved we certainly ought not to deceive ourselves as to the extent of the evil, or the suffering it occasions; but it is also the duty of the Government to ascertain the exact state of things, to look upon the facts as they really are, to dissipate exaggerated fears, and to define the limits and the measure of its inter vention. The evil now is local, and while all business last year felt the influence of the events taking place in America, the crisis which the country is deploring in 1863 extends only to those districts where cotton is an article of primary necessity, It is in the Seine Inferieure that it is most severe ; and it is in the Somme, the Nord, the Hant Rhin, the Eure, the Loire, the Orne, the Vosges, in part of the department of the Rhone, at Limoges, Troyes, Saint Quentin, Falaise, &c. that employment is diminished or suspended; it is there that the efforts of Government and of private charity should be exerted. In neither case have they yet failed in their duties. As soon as the industrial crisis began to make itself felt, the Emperor's Government took the necessary measures for insuring employment to the population of the manufactur ing districts. In the department of the Seine Inferieure, especially, the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works opened numerous workshops for the rectifi cation of the levels of the imperial roads. The report then alludes to other public works, and to the railways, canals, &c., in course of for mation in various departments, which haveafforded occupation to the unemployed. These undertakings not being, however, able to meet all the exigencies of the crisis, the Minister of Public Works is under the necessity, we are told, of applying for extra ordinary resources. The report concludes in the following terms : The communes have joined with an ardour worthy of all praise in the sacrifices everywhere imposed upon the lead ing firms in order to mitigate the severity of a crisis so pro longed. They have voted taxes and loans, measuring their burthen only by the suffering they were desirous of reliev ing. In the Seine Inferieure, 78 communes have voted extra taxes for 1863, amounting in all to 103,575 f. The same de partment has voted a loan of one million of francs for useful communal works, and for the relief of the distressed. A bill sanctioning the vote of tht Council-General is now under examin :tion by the Council of State. As to private charity, it has as usual accomplished its benevolent mission, without parade and without display,and with a constancy nothing discourages. Throughout all the departments it has come to the assistance of the distress in the Seine Inferieure, and there is not a single town muttering from the industrial crisis in which the voluntary subscrip tions of the inhabitants have not been added to the grants of the government or those of the municipalities. These subscriptions, up to the present gate, have amounted to nearly a million of francs in the Seine Inferieure, and it is in great part owing t o them that more than 30,000 families have been assisted. The ardour of private charity will not be diminished by the intervention of the government. It will, on the con tary, derive new energy from it, and this noble emulation will still contribute to the r elief of the wo rking classes; for it, the misery caused by w a nt of em not be fully relieved except by th e d a ily e fforts t p h io e y re m i e s n n t ocadnisguising of benevolence. We beg of you, Sire, to allow the following measure to be submitted to the examination of the Council of State. We doubt not that the Corps Legislatif will eagerly respond to your Majesty's appeal. Last year it unanimously voted the subventions applied for under similar circumstances, and it has always identified itself with the intentions of your government for ameliorating the position of the working classes. We have the honour to be, with the post profound'. re spect, &c., E. ROUHEIL. F. DE PB.ESIGDIY. This bill is appended for opening a credit of 2,500,000 f. in each of the departments named. GRAVING ACCOMMODATION FOR THE GREAT EASTERN AT LIVERPOOL.—Mr. Yates, the secretary' of the Great Ship Company, having applied to the Mersey Dock Board for a gridiron for the Great Eastern, th e sub' ject was partially discussed at the weekly meeting of th e board yesterday. It was stated that it would be difficult t? find a suitable spot for a gridiron of the required size, and that the cost would amount to at least £16,000. Ultimate/ 1 As subject was referred to the works committee,