The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

THE CONFEDERATE STATES, (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) RICHMOND, Jan. 16. The winter creeps slowly and wearily on, checkered by few incidents of moment, save, since the commencement cf the new year, a spell of the severest frost which this continent has seen since 1844. It has been accompanied by but little snow, and there has, therefore, been every facility for gathering in throughout Virginia, and even so far south as Charleston, the most abundant ice crop ever collected. Three previous summers have taught the Southerners to appreciate the value of ice, which in 1861 and 1862 was so scarce as to be inadequate for the supply of their hospitals, while in 1863 there was a sufficiency not only for the sick but also for the wealthy families in Richmond, and for that nu merous class which thinks little of two or three dollars in Confederate currency as compared with cue of those iced drinks which are so greatly and so naturally to the taste of Americans in the dog days. Thera is no doubt that the summer of 1864 will find Virginia, Northern Alabama, Northern Georgia, and the Carolinas better supplied with ice than they have ever been since they were thrown in this respect on their own resources ; nor is it impos sible that even Montgomery, Mobile, and other ex treme Southern towns, which have for three sum mers drunk lukewarm water, may derive benefit from the unusually cold " snap" which is now neon us. There are few hot countries in which an army in the field suffers so little from caloric as Virginia. There is, it is true, an exceedingly dry and thirsty section of the State which adjoins Warrington, and is circumjacent to the battlefield of Manassas, but as it happens, this section has been almost constantly occupied by the Federal armies. Many persons in the Confederate army still speak with horror of their sufferings in the August of 1862, when Stonewall Jackson and Longatreet were advancing against Pope, and were delayed by the burning heat and the paucity of water in this region ; nor are there wanting Federals who will testify to their own ex haustion when Hooker suddenly broke up in June, 1863, and made during two or three intensely hot days forced but futile marches to intercept General lee's army, then on its advance into Pennsylvania. But in the mountain regions of Virginia and throughout the valley the finest springs of ice-cold limestone water abound, which, added to the pro fuse shade afforded by the thick forests, mitigate the intensity of the sun's rays. Thus far it cannot be pretended that any of the exceptional trials and hardships with which the South has this winter been threatened have begun to overtake Richmond. It is the universal remark that provisions of all kinds are better and more plentiful this winter than last. It is especially im possible not to be struck with the abundance of deer which hang daily at the doors of the restaurants and eating-houses, while there is an affluence of wild and tame turkeys, of partridges, ducks, fish, and oysters, which laugh all threats of starvation to scorn. Perhaps there never yet was a country which can so little be dragooned into terms by hunger as these magnificent Southern States, teeming with the richest gifts of river and forest, sparsely occupied by a scanty population, and warmed by a bountiful and enriching sun. There is hardly a foot of the lower portions of the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, or James Rivers, but is paved with oysters, and the same can be said of Mobile Bay (more than 30 miles long), of the rivers about Wilming ton, Charleston, and Savannah, and of the inlets of Florida and Texas. There are two, and only two, manifest perplexities with which the South has to cope—an unreasonably depreciated currency, and great deficiency in railroad transport. We are promised an early improvement in the former by the Confederate Congress—a body about whose ability to execute a colossal task it is hard to be sanguine ; the latter is obviously all but irremedia ble so long as the war lasts. But it must be patent to Englishmen that by neither can the South ever be coerced into accepting terms against its will. History exhibits many instances of countries wrest ling in the death throes of defensive warfare under vattly severer financial pressure than the South can ever experience ; but where can the first instance be cited of a country so struggling and succumbing from impecuniosity ? In regard to facilities of rail road transport, they have hitherto been found suffi cient for Southern resistance, and they will this Sear be rather enhanced than diminished by the huh which will connect Danville, in Virginia, with Greensborough, in North Carolina, and which will be opened for traffic in a couple of months from this time. If any statement in a Northern journal could awaken astonishment, it will be imagined that the assertion credited to the Federal Admiral Lee, to the effect that only one steamer succeeded in enter ing Wilmington during December, has not failed to provoke much indignant comment here. Daring the month in question I happened to receive two letters from a friend who resides in Wilmington, and who is especially interested in blockade r unning steamers. In one of these letters he re ported nine, in the other letter seven, steamers as lying in the port at the time when he wrote. As it is an almost unheard-of thing for a steamer to lie in a harbour longer than from the dark of one mocn to the dark of the next, it will be obvious how much credence should be attached to Admiral Lee's statement. The truth is that while the blockade of 'Wilmington is rendered vastly more stringent by the 26 Federal vessels now lying outside the port, it would take three times 26 vessels to verify Ad miral Lee's boast that but one vessel could find ievese in a month, and half the Federal navy to seal the harbour hermetically. The history of the blockade-running steamers lies in a nutshell. One successful trip in and out of - Wilmington or any other port pays the whole cost and expense of a steamer ; another round trip secures a handsome fortune. There are few steamers engaged in the blockade running business which do not safely effect one in gress, while there are many which have got safely in and out 20 times, There is comparatively no risk or difficulty in getting out. An outgoing ves sel can watch her opportunity, can secure a favour able night, can put back if disappointed, and has everything in her favour. On the other hand, when attempting to run in her coal is almost exhausted, and s'ne has in the darkness of night to hit the mouth of a small river on a long and monotonous lino of coast, and is compelled to push on, " hit or miss." It will be obvious that while the chance of entire failure, or, in other words, of capture, during her first attempt at an ingreis is infini tesimal, and while the reward of two successful round trips is go alluring, it will require more than 26 Federal vessels and boastful representations from Admiral Lee to check such a lucrative com merce. It must not be imagined that there is at present much profit on the incoming cargo. For months past the market has been flooded with wines, brandies, calicoes, and medicines, and the high prices which they fetch in Confederate paper afford evidence only of the depreciated condition of the currency. When this Confederate paper is conv er ted into sterling exchan ge it will be found that there is little or no profit on the transaction. In fact, it has for some time past been t h e policy of the shrewd est blockade runners to bring in little or nothing but Government goods on freight, and to receive in payment for this freight cotton at Wilmington, which it is frequently hard, inconsequence of the deflciencl of railroad transport, for private persons to obtain at that crowded and busy port. But if a vessel fully laden with cotton gets safely out (as they almost all do) her profits are enormous. So long as cotton fetches 2s. a lb. and more at -Bermuda and Nassau, the blockade will be again and again run ; nor will the capture of two vessels out of every three which en gage in this trade be looked upon otherwise than as one of its necessary incidents, certain, sooner or later, to befall every vessel taking part in it, and falling harmlessly upon all those who have made one successful round trip. It is rumoured that the Federal Government has announced its intention hereafter to treat all British subjects captured when attempting, either as pas sengers or as interested in the pecca nt vessels, to run the blockade as though they wer o Confederates. But there is little chance of this or any Federal ukase deterring Englishmen fro IA running the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1864. blockade. If the moral reprobation of mankind and a pirate's doom which awaits the captured have not deterred speculators in Boston and New Y k from engaging in the slave trade, it will be imagzned that the threat of imprisonment will not hinder English men from venturing upon a cornmer ;:. , 4 not less lucra tive, and sanctioned by the sympaty of three fourths of their countrymen. The heart of Richmond has been deeply stirred by the recent arrival here of General Morgan, fresh from the indignation of the Ohio Penitentiary and a felon's punishment. It will be believed that the sight of his shorn locks and the narrative of his escape have provoked indignation and triumph such as has not been elicited by any previous incident of the war. It is for obvious reasons hardly pro bable that the details of his escape, as given in the Richmond journals, embrace the whole truth. The subsequent arrival here of Captain Hines, the partner of his imprisonment and the principal ag ent in their joint escape, has been scarcely less ac ceptable to the people of Richmond. General Morgan is one of the few Americans who have a horror of speechmaking, and he has contented himself with acknowledging the compliments of the Virginia Legislature, and other similar corporate bodies, in the briefest utterances. Whatever may be General Morgan's hidden sentiments about the treatment he has received (and they are said to be very bitter), he has had the wisdom not to give them public ex pression. But the indignation of his staff and his private friends knows no bounds, and it is said that his future regiments (which will be numerous) are already busied in electing to a novel office an occu• pant who will be worthy of his opportunities. The friseur et coiffeur a Sa Majeste, who followed the courtly campaigns of Louis XIV., will be revived on this Republican soil, and the " Barber to the 11th Tennessee" and other similar cavalry regiments will exercise his skill on many a Yankee poll which the fortune of war may bring within General Mor gan's grasp. There will be plenty of work in the West, not only for General Wheeler, who is General Johnston's principal cavalry officer, but also for the detached commands of Generals Forrest, S. D. Lee, and Morgan, and those of Colonels Ferguson and Dibrell. But both East and West, and especially where the influence of Generals Lee and Long- street is felt, there is less and less disposition to engage in the ostentatious cavalry raids by which in the earlier part of the war the reputation of Gene ral J. E. B. Stuart was established. It is known that the Federal policy is to encourage these raids ; that they inflict upon the enemy who sustains them less danger than upon the troops which perpetrate them ; that they convert the wild Confederates en gaged in them into undisciplined thieving marauders and cost vastly more in horseflesh (which is precious) than they gain in the destruction of property. It is to hoped that we have seen the last of such Quixotic enterprises as that which carried General Morgan into Indiana and Ohio, and subjected him to the atrocities which, for the first time in the history of nations, the Federal Government has sanctioned to wards a prisoner of war. The sight this day in the streets of Richmond of General Hood's tall and stately form, seen for the first time on horseback since he lost his leg at Chicamanga, has occasioned general gratification. There are few officers dearer to the people of Secession than General Hood. Modest as a child, fearless as his intimate friend, General Longstreet, unselfish and unsullied as a Bayard, he has already given his right leg and four inches of the bone of his left arm to the cause which is so dear to his heart, and again in a few weeks he will be found foremost among the foremost, offering up perhaps another limb, perhaps life itself, on that altar for which no sacrifice is too costly. A singular commentary upon the old text that " necessity is the mother of invention" may be observed in the artificial leg which supplies the place of General Hood's lost limb. When this war commenced there was through out the length and breadth of the South no artificer cunning in the construction of artificial limbs; but such was the demand occasioned by the fierce battles of the bloodiest war of the century that Richmond is now teeming with every variety of wooden leg and crutch, and there has arisen in Charlottsville (a little town in the interior of Virginia) an artist who has attained no inconsiderable skill in patching np and supplementing lost arms and legs, and enabling the maimed again to take the field. Is this a peo ple to be subjugated by the sweepings of Germany and Ireland—a people whose sons are not satisfied with giving an arm or a leg to their country, but insist again and again on carrying their mutilated forms into the deadliest hail of the battle front, and whose appetite for danger and suffering does but increase with the urgency of their country's need ? A great many stories have been current about "the generosity towards General Lee" of the muni cipality of Richmond, which is represented as having offered to the General a sum of money, amounting, if report speaks truth, to 50,000 dots. or 60,000 dols., with a view to his purchase of a house. It is known that General Lee's wife and daughters, shorn of the comforts of their former homes on Arlington Heights and at the White House on the Pamunkey River (the latter of which was burnt to the ground by General M'Clellan's soldiers), are living in an obscure little house in Richmond, and, upon the principle of " Date obolum Belisario," it is felt that Richmond, which owes to General Lee so infinite a debt, can scarcely retain its own self-respect while it contemplates such a spectacle. Itiis hardly neces sary to state that from the acceptance of any such gift General Lee's proud simplicity has recoiled. It is stated that his answer, when the offer was made to him, was to the effect that if Richmond had so much money to give away, he begged to call atten tion to the destitute wives and widows of many of his noble soldiers, and to divert into this channel the bounty misapplied to himself. General Longstreet, who has shown his wonted tenacity in holding on to East Tennessee while the bridges in his rear over the Holston and Watanga Rivers were being rebuilt, and his communications with Virginia re-opened, is still clinging to his old position between the Holston and Clinch Rivers, and has been engaged in supplying shoes and clothes to his men, of which after the hardships of their march from Chattanooga to Knoxville they stood greatly in need. It is probable that before long we shall hear of some movement which will flatter the Yankee garrisons in Knox ville and Cumberland Gap. General Buckner, be tween whom and General Longstreet very friendly relations exist, is about to join the latter. What ever may be the comparative merits of General Joseph E. Johnston as contrasted with Gen. Bragg, there will undoubtedly be hereafter a harmony among the Generals of the Western army which was looked for in vein when Gen. Bragg was at its head. Gen. Johnston, bound to Gen. Longstreet by the recollections of the battle of Williamsburg fought when Gen. M'Clellan was advancing upon Richmond by the peninsula), is understood to enter tain warm regard and admiration for Longstreet, and therefore full concert of action may be looked for between the two Generals in the momentous campaign on the eve of which we are standing. It is not dissembled either at Washington or Rich mond that to the Western campaign the principal interest of the war will attach. It seems to me that if disaster ever assumed the shape of a blessing in disguise, the defeat sustained by Gen. Bragg's army on the 25th November should be ranked in the cate gory. If, with Gen. Bragg still in command, the Western Confederate army had dragged through an inactive and spiritless winter, with morale deterio rating day after day, decimated by desertion, and radically disaffected, it would he ve taken no pro phet to predict that the first collision next spring between Grant and Bragg could have had no other result than the defeat, if not the annihilation, of the latter. How different is at this moment the prospect! With great energy Generals Johnston and Hardee are straining every nerve te reorganise, inspirit, and recruit the wreck handed over to them by General Bragg. At their back are all the resources of the rouse d and excited State of Georgia, prepared now to dispute every inch of the 138 diffalult miles which separate Chatanooga from Atlanta, and which, it may be predicted, will be found at least as hard to surmount as the 60 miles which are interposed be tween Fredericksburg and Richmond. It is pro bable that the lesson taught to Gen. Grant by Gen. Cleburne during the retreat of the ( ../ l onfederate army from Missionary Ridge (a lesson of which the North ern journals eagerly eupprese all the details) will be repeated dozens and dozens of times before Atlanta is approaohed. It is a matter of surprise to all Englishmen in the Confederate States that the Foreign-office (guided as I have again and again been tauntingly told, by Mr. Adams), takes no more heed of British subjects in Secessia than it does of the codfish in the Atlantic. My own impression has always been that British subjects in the South are not materially worse off without Consuls than they were before the " decapitation" of Mr. Moore and his collagues. I have seen dozens of instances in which a hearty desire to act justly between con scripts claiming to be foreigners and the enrolling officers has been exhibited at Richmond. The efforts of Mr. Gustavus A. Myers, gratuitously and with much self-sacrifice extended to British subjects, have been unremitting; and they have been cordially se conded by the Assistant Secretary of War, Judge Campbell, who brings to the duties of his present post the same mild legal sagacity and uprightness of character which distinguished him while seated on the bench of the Supreme Court at Washington. Exceptional cases of hardship, such as that of Mr. Belshaw, have occasionally occurred, but they have been made the most of in England by the rabid par tisans of the North, who are never tired of claiming for the Federal Government the very largest mea sure of indulgence for high-handedness in the" hour of their agony," but who refuse to the Confederate Government and nation the smallest charity under circumstances of vastly superior trial. Bat I confess it does appear to me strange that the Foreign-office should not endeavour to retain within the Confede rate States one trusted consular agent in a capacity which he might hold without offence to the Confe derate Government. Mr. Cridland, who was Mr. Moore's locum tenens at Richmond during the first two years of the war, and who is now residing as a private person at Mobile, is, if I am not mis taken, the last of the quondam British Consuls left upon the soil of Secessia. It is well known that the archives of the British Consulates are left to take their chance in the various towns where the Foreign office was once represented. If these archives are of as much consequence as is vulgarly imagined, and if the Foreign-office still desires to retain one correspondent within the insurgent States, why not appoint Mr. Cridland custodian of the archives of the British Consulates in the South (or what the French call Chancellier), and give him authority to proceed at intervals from town to town, and see that those archives are in safe keeping ? In no other way can the Foreign-office obtain such trust worthy private information from an agent in whom they will consent to repose confidence. Perhaps Lord Russell,' guided by Mr. Adams, and Lord Lyons, hoodwinked by Mr. Seward, think that yet a few weeks and British Consuls will. resume their functions at Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, and Mobile under the shelter of the stars and stripes. There are places and circumstances in which oppor tunity of observation is of more moment than saga city of induction, and entitles ordinary men who possess it to instruct philosophers who generalise at a distance. I will venture, therefore, in conclusion, to assure Lord Russell that the gigantic task which President Lincoln has taken in hand is not hitherto half way towards its accomplishment ; that before its completion rivers of blood will flow where rivu lets have flowed before ; that, if necessary, where one slave is found fighting for Mrs. Stowe, and Mr. Sumner, ten slaves will be found fighting for their masters and for slavery; that the fourth year of the war finds the two sections under circum stances of far greater equality as regards men and material of war than its predecessors; that the North is, perhaps unconsciously, bolstering up its faith and stiffening its backbone by a diet of inge nious mendacity ; and that if ever it should suc ceed in driving its enemy from the field, it will find itself face to face with a problem the difficulties of which it has not begun to gauge, but which are such as have baffled solution by any other nation since the creation of man, and which will baffle and exhaust even the irrepressible Yankee. Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Sick Fund Association. Last night the friends and surportere of this association celebrated their eighth anniversary festival at Willis's Rooms; Mr. BUCKSTONE in the chair. The company included Mr. B. Webster, Mr. E. Bell, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. AV, H. Ashurst, Mr. H, Stanton, Mr. J. Clarke, Capt, Cooke, Capt. Hanley, Mr. J. Mahews, Mrs. Stirling, Mr. . _ and Mrs. Howard Panl, Mrs. Bilington, and several other ladies connected with the dramatic and musical professions. After the usual loyal toasts, "The Health of the Ladies," coupled with the name of Mrs. Stirling, was proposed by Mr. 8.. BELL. Mrs. STIRLING, in replying to the tout, said—lra being called on once more, as the spokeswoman for my sex, to acknowledge this toast, 1 feel that lam at once an honoured and illused person—honoured inbeing called on to discharge a debt for which I am jointly liable with every other lady— illused in being expected to p a y the debt in sterling coin. (Laughter to y )It is mor e i n accor d an ce with the profession means of bills, b u t I su pp os e the reason r and a applause.) by y l a use. why you expect ready money from me this evening is that theatrical bills are drawn for sach a long date, and keep ._. • running for such an indefinite period, that nobody knows when they may be honoured. ('` Hear," and laughter.) We of the theatrical profession do not keep much ready talk about us. We prefer to draw upon our friends, the authors, for what we require in the way of speech currency, and our drafts are generally honoured. (Hear.) But ladies' debts must be paid, and I am proud to play the mistress on this occasion. Like Lady Burleigh, " I must bear the burden of an honour to which I was not born." But there may be call. In looking around I which I have acted lately something y i h n a s v o e m s li e g o gc f the sted parts ths see a large preponderance of black coats. At most public dinners they generally represent the "dark cloud." (" Hear," and laughter.) Your committee has been the first to give that dark cloud a "silver lining" in the shape of the ladies. (Cheers.) Instead of sending poor Gill to that dreary hill—the ladies' gallery —to dine on cold chicken and sherry, you have brought her down to the good cheer of Jack's table, and Jack ougtt to feel much happier with Gill beside him. (Applause) Ido not of course allude to the half-pint of wine, but to the guardian angel in crino line. (Laughter and cheers.) Then I have lately figured in the " Hen and Chickens." Here lam again figuring in the same character, for I feel monstrously like an old hen clacking away to her chickens—her younger sisters of the stage—or, as I may more properly call them, her ducks. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Ah, yes, that is the more fit image, for it expresses not only the object of Dame Partlet's affection, but the subject of her fond anxiety. (Cheers.) She sees her brood playing by the water's edge into which so many little chicks have fallen, and her heart flutters with apprehension for their safety in the voyage. (Cheers.) She knows not which can swim and which cannot. All she knows is that the water is deep and dangerous, and you must pardon her if she is fussy and sad at heart in thinking of the probable trials and sufferings that may be in store for her bright -winged happy looking ducklings. (Applause.) I thank heaven there are safeguards and preservatives which foresight can bestow, but there are dangers that no foresight can avert. (Hear.) There are accidents, distresses, sicknesses, and sorrows—a a hard life before them—the probability of privation, the certainty of labour, the liability of disappointed hopes and baffied aspirations. (Hear.) For more material evils a society like this can do much, and deeply grateful do we feel for your good efforts—which are especially valuable to women, as the weaker vessels in the voyage of theatrical e life. (Cheers.) It is a voyage o f dan g ers and storms to the best vessels, even to those whi ch are re g ister ed A 1 at the Theatrical Lloyds'. (Hear, hear.) But to us little craft it is always a dangerous voyage, aa wind proves not the least fatal. (hdia sometimesr, hear.) even a fair To those whoso liberality has established and maintained this society, I can only say in the name of my sisterhood, I thank you simply, honestly, and heartily for your good offices. (Hear, hear.) To those of this good company who have not helped the society, or who have sparingly helped it, let me—for woman's sake—plead it cause and ask for your warm sup port. (Hear, hear.) You cannot take away with you a happier thought than that your liberality has shed some rays of happiness on the dark hours of those whose lifelong labour has been to please you. (Cheers.) Your own hours of sadness will be lightened if you feel that earnest sense of will to help the lowly, to give " An arm of strength to the weak ; A friendly hand to the friendless; Kind words so short to speak, But whose echo is endless. The world is large, these things are small • They may be nothing but they are all," (Cheers,) I am digressing, as ladies are wont to do if they have a subject near the heart. (Hear, hear.) But if you call us down and let loose our tongues after dinner you must take the consequeaces. (Laughter.) Let me pull up now, but before doing so I must thank you sin cerely for the cordiality with which you have drunk that toast of the ladies. (Mrs. Stirling resumed her seat amidst several rounds of applause ) The CIZAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening, said he took the chair at the request of his friend Mr. Web ster, the treasurer of the society. He could not refuse such a request from Mr. Webster, who performed a similar friendly act for the society of which he (Mr. Buckatone) was treasurer—the General Theatrical Fund, This society's object was to assist members of the dramatic profession when they were cast down by illness, to assist them in obtaining engagements when they recovered, and to supply them with advances of money without interest, to enable them to go to the places where they were engaged. To the honour of the profession be it said that all the loans of money had been punctually returned, except in a few instances where the manager failed or sickness supervened. (Hear.) As an in stance of the benefit of the society, he might mention the case of an old actor who had a wife and two children in Lancashire. He was offered an engagement in Scotland, but he had no means of going. He then wrote to this so ciety, and by return of post he received what enabled him to accept the engagement. (Hear, hear.) There were several similar instances of the benefit done by the society. The object of the Drury-lane Fund, the Covent Garden Fund, and the General Theatrical Fund, was to give annuities to subscribing members who were no longer able to follow their profession, but this society gave immediate relief to those poor creatures who were unable to dress for Hamlet, or Sir Peter, or Mr. Box—(laughter)—those poor singers who were unable to bring oat a falsetto—(laughter) —those musicians who had not wind enough to fill a trombone—(laughter) — and those equestrians who were unable to obtain a " leg up" for a rapid act of horsemanship —(laughter)—while as for those who succumbed to their maladies, it buried them ; and what more could it do ? (Laughter.) The chairman then related one or two anec dotes of his early life when such an institution as this would have been of service to him. He then made a strong appeal to the pockets of the company, and maintained that the members of the theatrical profession, as a provident, a labo rious, a temperate, a kind-hearted and charitable class, de served to be assisted when misfortune overtook them. (Hear, hear.) The Drury-lane, the Covent-garden, and the Ge neral Theatrical Funds, the Dramatic College, and this association, proved their disposition to assist one another, and that the dramatic profession was not liable to the impu tations cast upon it by fanatical and ignorant impertinence. He hoped they would do the best they could for the society, for a friend in need was a friend indeed. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Health of the Trea surer of the Society," Mr. 'Webster, who returned thanks. The other toasts of the evening wore " The Chairman," and "The Secretary," Mr. Anderson. The subscriptions amounted to £2d6 10s. The pleasure of the evening was very much enhanced by Mr. and Mrs. H. Paul, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Chip perfield, Mr W. H. Eburne, and others who kindly proffered their aid for the benefit of the institution. After the dinner a ball took place, which was kept up to ' a late hour. _ . GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND. The annual general meeting of the members of this fund was held yesterday, in the saloon of the Lyceum Theatre, granted for the purpose by Mr. Fechter. Mr. J. B. Buck stone occupied the chair, and a large number of ladies and gentlemen belonging to the profession were present. Mr. Cullenford, the secretary, read the report, which stated that there were at present 21 annuitants on the fund, four hav ing been elected during the year, 15 of whom were females, and that there were three claima nts for the p resent y ear. and the grosesxpinecnodmiteurfeo,rintheelapdainstgyveaor7 10s paid to annuitants,had been £1,356 12s 4d, had been £1,050 4s Bd, leaving a balance of £406 8s 2d. The amount of stock invested was now £12,273 Os 9d, and £5OO in the hands of the bankers. The number of sub scribing members to the fund was now 177. On the mo tion of Mr. 'Worrell, seconded by Mr. Dyas, the report was ador ted. Messrs. Buckstone, Cathcart, Villiers, Williams, Worrell, and Ray were re-elected as directors, and Mr. Gaston Murray was elected as a director in tho place of Mr G. Cooke, deceased. Messrs. B. B. Cabbell, Chas. Dickens, and W. C. Macready were re-elected as trustees, and Mr. Buckstono as treasurer. Dr. Hastings was also re-appointed as physician, Mr. Jerwood as solicitor, and Messrs. Austin, Lee, and Weathersly as auditors, anal Mr. Cullenford as secretary. Mr. Buckstone, in replying to a vote of thanks for his services, said ho had beenoonnected with the society for 22 years, and had eaten 17 of its dinners. Ho was happy to be able to congratulate the members on its prosperity. He was constantly in the habit of looking into the columns of the newspapers which recorded the wills and bequests, in the hope of seeing that some of those who had led a blame less life as admirers of the drama had not forgotten those who had often afforded them amuseme nt, but generally in vain, and ho believed the actor must mainly depend upon himself. (Hear.) His best exertions would be always given in aid of the fund. Chester Cup, Liverpool Chase. Guineas. Derby, Oaks, Waterloo Cup, training reports, Ice , 13 st an 5. s. Lincoln Handicap, Handicap, Northamptonshire Sta kes, City and Surbur and Metropolitan included, 36 stamps. Remember, for the above-named events last year I sent the follovving Ivinners, viz., Asteroid for the Chester Cup, Emblem for for Liv Lincolnerpool Chase, Maccaroni for 2,000 and D arb y , Manrico Handicap, Adventurer for City and Suburban, and Hadding, , - ton for Metropolitan. Information like that speaks for itself. Terms —One week, 13 stamps ; one month, 36; to tllB Derby. 15e. ; IMAM, wzi a L, jugc LO, THE WEATHER. On Tuesday night the thermometer at the Itoyalnumane Society's receiving-house fell to 20 deg. The barometer stood at 29.51 in., and the wind was N.N.E. At 9 yester day morning the thermometer stood at 21 deg., and the baro meter was then at 2932 in., the wind being in the same quarter as on the preceding day. As might have been ex pected, the lakes in the Royal parks were completely frozen. over, but the ice was exceedingly unsafe, and will remain so unless the frost continues for a day or two longer, esterday St. James's-park was visited at an early hour by many thousands. In spite of the exertions of Deputy- Superintendent Perry and the men under him, about 2,000 men, women, and children Went upon the ice. About noon some persons who were on the bridge began to throw half pence on the ice, which caused a great number to rush to the spot in the hopes of picking up some of the coin; 12 men and boys, who had scrambled together, broko the ice and were immersed. They were rescued by Deputy-Super intendent Perry and his assistants, and removed to the so ciety's marquee, where they were attended to. Fortunately they all recovered. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon three girls and a boy fell through the ice, and the former became so alarmed that when the lines were thrown to them they were unable to lay hold of them. Iceman Smith and a park constable rushed in after them,and succeeded in saving them, but the men got their hands badly cut by the sharp edges of the ice. At the Long Water, Kensington-gardens, Mr. Young having represented that the ice was very inse cure, the members of the club, with only one exception, re paired to Battersea-park,where the ice is exceedingly strong, and there sliding and skating were well kept up, In spite of the exertions of tho police and the Royal Humane Society's men, men, women, and children rushed upon the ice in crowds. The result was that at about a quarter past three o'clockEfour men and a woman fell into deep water. They were, however, all rescued by the icemen. About five o'clock four boys and a young woman also fell through the ice, but they were also rescued. A Mr. Joy, who was trying to save a Mr. Shute, of Albert-gate, and some others, also had a narrow escape from being drowned. In Regent's Park there were, owing to the exertions of the Royal Humane Society's men and the park constables, only six immersions out of 6,000 sliders and skaters. On Monday Admiral Fitzroy telegraphed to the north as to other parts of the coast that dangerous winds might be expected, and, though the wind has been mild upon the coasts of Northumberland and Durham, it was quite clear from the heavy sea that rolled in upon the shore on Monday night and Tuesday that rough weather had been experienced further out in the German Ocean. On Monday night after dark, as the Norwegian bark San Francisco was towing into the Tyne, she struck upon the Hard Sand, having attempted to take the harbour after the harbour lights were extin guished. The crew of this vessel were rescued by the Tyne pilots with their lifeboat. The heavy sea has cora pletely broken the vessel up, and portions of her wreck drove into Shields harbour on Tuesday. The snow is lying several inches thick upon the Northumberland coast, bul there appears to have been not quite so severe a fall of sno in the bill districts. The weather was very cold on Tues day, and on that evening there was not much appearance of a thaw in the country. At Nottingham the weather has been very winterly during the past five days. A keen frost set in on Primly evening last, which continued up to yesterday. On Tues day evening, however, the frost was less severe, and the barometer lowering. There was a slight fall of snow on Sunday and again on Tuesday, with the wind E. by N.B. With reference to the weather in Scotland the Scotsman says :—" Although the frost yesterday was hardly so keen as it has been for the past low days, all the lochs near Edinburgh wsro visited by largo numbers of skaters. The ice was no stronger than it was on Monday, and the number of immersions in Duddingston was much larger, no fewer than 16 persons, including four women and a policeman, having gone down. The unfortunate skaters were rescued by means of ropes and ladders, but seve ral of them had a very narrow ()nape, going down in places of considerable depth. The policeman who went down was very gallantly endeavouring to rescue a young woman when the ice gave way with him. He was soon after rescued, and escaped with no more serious mishap thai the loss of his hat. A young lady was skating in the centre and deepest part of Lochend, in company with two gentlemen, when the ice broke and all three went down. The gentle men managed to scramble out, and the lady, who was left in the hole, was buoyed up by her crinoline. She was ulti mately rescued from her perilous position by means of ropes. The thermometer rose considerably last evening, but about midnight it showed about four degrees of frost." [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Rheumatism and Gout.—Theso purifying and soothing remedies demand the earnest attention of all persona liable to rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The Ointment should be applied after the affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water, when the unguent should be diligently rubbed upon the adjacent skin, unless the friction should cause pain. Holloway's Pills should be simultaneously taken, to reduce inflammation and to purify the blood. This treatment abates the violence and lesseng the frequency of gout, rheumatism, and all spasmodic diseases, which spring from hereditary predisposition, or from any accidental weakness of constitution. The Ointment checks the local malady, the rills restore the vital powers. FIRES AT THEATRES, The Lord Chamberlain has received a letter from the Coroner of Middlesex, conveying the recommendation of the jury at the inquest held on Miss Thorne, so unfortu nately burnt to death at the Pavilion Theatre, to the follow ing effect:— "That in future the dresses of ballet dancers should be rendered uninflaramable, and that all ground lights should be protected." In this recommendation the coroner concurs. At the meeting of managers held this (Feb. 5) day, their opinion was so strongly expressed as to the difficulties which would attend an order for the compulsory use of uninflam- Limbic muslin, &c., that the Lord Chamberlain cannot at present undertake to give a general order for its adoption. Ho would wish, however, that managers should employ it whenever possible, and should generally impress upon the ladies engaged by them the dangers to which they expose themselves by refusing to avail themselves of this simple precaution. The Lord Chamberlain is glad to find that in most of the theatres under his control guards to the ground and other fixed lights have already been adopted. He has thought it necessary to issue a general order on this important point. _ _ The Lord Chamberlain begs to impress upon the mana gers that the public is becoming more and more disposed to hold them responsible for accidents by fire occurring in the houses under their control, and would suggest that speedy and certain punishment should be inflicted by them upon all persons in their set vice guilty of carelessness in this re spect. The Lord Chamberlain would also urge upon the mana gers the importance of facilitating by every means in their power the egress of all classes of their audiences from their theatres. He acknowledges with pleasure, that much has of late years been effected; but much room for improve ment still exists, and he hopes to find that his caution in this respect has been attended to when the next annual in spection takes place. The Lord Chamberlain encloses herewith a copy of regu lations to be posted in a conspicuous position in the theatres, To these regulations, which in substance have already been coni, eyed to the managers, he desires again to call their special attention, and begs that the receipt of them may be acknowledged. SYDNEY, Lord Chamberlain. Lord Chamberlain's-office, Feb, 5. REGULATIONS FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION AGAINST ACCIDENTS By FIRE AT THEATRES LICENSED BY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN. 1. All fixed and ordinary gas burners to be furnished with efficient guards. Movable and occasional lights to be, when possible, protected in the same manner, or put under charge of persons responsible for lighting, watching, and extin guishing them. 2. The floats to be protected by a wire guard. The first ground-line to be always without gas, and unconnected with gas, whether at the wings or elsewhere. Sufficient space to be left between each ground-line, so as to lessen risk from accident to all persons standing or moving among such lines. 3. The rows or lines of gas. burners at wings to commence four feet at least from the level of the stage. 4. Wet blankets or rugs, with buckets or water-pots, to be always kept in the wings ; and attention to be directed to them by placards legibly printed or painted, and fixed immediately above them. As in rule 1, some person to be responsible for keeping the blankets, buckets, &0., ready for immediate use. 5. These regulations to be always posted in some conspi cuous place, so that all parsons belonging to the theatre may be acquainted with their contents ; every breach or neglect of them, or any act of carelessness as regards fire, to be punished by fines or dismissal by the managers. SYDNEY, Lord Chamberlain. Lord Chamberlain's office, St. James's Palace, Feb.s. SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. POST.—Now that the greater portion of Schleswig as well as Holstein are in possession of the German Powers, it is probable that no very long interval will elapse before Europe is informed what will be done with them. The strong positions still held by the Danes on the eastern coast will probably supply the aggressive Powers with a pretext for alleging that they do not yet possess that " material guaran tee" which they made a condition precedent to acknowledging the rights of the Danish Sovereign and making restitution of his sequestrated posses sions. If such a pretext should be advanced, the least that can be said of it is that it will be of a piece with the reasons assigned in the first instance for invading the Danish territory. The German Powers intend to retain possession of Schleswig, and so long as a single Danish soldier remains in the Duchy the object of the invasion will not be secured. Already the work of appropriation has commenced. That the guns with which the Dannewirke was mounted should be seized by the invaders as tro phies of war was what might have been expected ; but what excuse can be given for razing that line of fortifications to the ground ? If all that Austria and Prussia require be the revocation of the Con stitution of November, cannot they put the neces sary degree of pressure upon Denmark by the occu pation of Schleswig, without wantonly destroying the defences of that Duchy ? Is it not, however, but too apparent that the Dannewirke will be razed to the ground because it is never to be of any fur ther use? If Schleswig be annexed to Germany, there will be no more need of a line of fortifications across that Duchy than there would be of one across that of Saxe-Coburg. But, in the presence of the events which are daily occurring, it is lettle less than puerile to assume that the German Powers intend at no distant period to restore to Denmark her lost possessions. An opportunity like the present is what Germany has been long waiting, and it is absurd to suppose that she will not now turn it to account. Neither the Emperor of Austria nor the King of Prussia are supporters of the popular party which at the present moment clamours so noisily for the spoliation of Denmark. But the Prussian. King has interests which, though they clash with those of the minor German Powers, equally conflict with the vested rights of the Danish Crown, and Austria is content to aid in the accom plishment of the designs of her powerful neighbour. The result to Denmark is in either case the same. She must at any rate be despoiled, and the Duchies whinu heretofore constituted a portion of her domi nions must be absorbed in that singular agglomera tion of States which is popularly described as Ger many. Whatever other effect their recent reverses may have had, they certainly have not caused dis couragement to the Danish people. The resolution passed by the Rigsdag in favour of the energetic prosecution of the war cannot be considered as the simple prompting of despair. The Danes have been worsted at their weakest point, and they not unrea sonably conclude that they have now suffered at the hands of the Germans the greatest evils in the power of the latter to inflict. Events have followed an almost similar course to those of the campaign of 1848. And as that year saw Denmark stripped of the Duchies, only to be restored at a subsequent period, so the Danes fondly hope that in all respects the parallel now afforded may be complete. It may be rash, and doubtless is rash, for them to suppose so, but the supposition is so natural that one cannot be surprised at its being entertained. The Danes, as we pointed out a few days since, are in a posi tion to carry on a defensive war in Schleswig with comparative ease for many months to come. They occupy the Island of Alsen on the eastern coast of the Duchy, together with the strongly fortified po sition of Duppel on the adjoining mainland. From the island it will be next to impossible for the Ger mans to dislodge them ; and yet, so long as the Danish forces are concentrated there, the allied Powers will be compelled to maintain a large army of occupation in Schleswig. Meanwhile, however, the Danes with their fleet may blockade the Ger man ports, and though at present only at war with Austria and Prussia, may find it convenient for the purposes of blockade to declare war against the entire Confederation. By such a proceeding they would only nominally increase the numbers of their enemies, since the German Powers are without a fleet. Meanwhile, however, the Danes may not unreasonably expect that events may spring up to divert the attention of their enemies. If the state of Europe was settled, and if nothing disturbed the universal tranquillity but the Dano-German quarrel, then indeed it might be a matter of consideration for the Danes whether it would not be expedient to withdraw from an unavailing contest. But casting our eyes over the map of Europe, and more espe cially over the territories of her present foes, Den mark may possibly discover a door of escape from her present difficulties. Deserted though she has been in her extremity by every State in Europe, she may still detect a gleam of sunshine piercing the heavy clouds which are now accumulating over the heads of her enemies. If the Daniell Government should fancy that we are on the eve of a great Euro pean war they might possibly be mistaken, but they certainly would not be singular in entertaining that idea. If they should suppose that a few months hence will witness an Italian armyentering Venetia, and a French army marching on the Rhine, they might prove to be in error, but they would at least have the excuse that their error was shared by many observant and impartial persons. But surely, if there was a general European war, does any one pretend to say that in such an event Denmark would not stand a fair chance either of reconquering her Duchies, or having them reassigned to her by the Congress which world remap Europe at the conclusion of hostilities ? It is very well for those who are interested in the maintenance of European peace, and who lose nothing by the spoliation of Denmark, to advise her to lay down her arms, and accept what they are pleased to consider accona plished facts. But Denmark may well hesitate before accepting counsel dictated by such palpably selfish considerations. Blot out England from the map of Europe, and still the Danes might find in L the proboble dissensions of the other continental beStates sufficient justification for maintaining, for and that a friendly Power has suffered ca that at least some time to come, the struggle on which Though we believe that no culpable inches c. out they have now entered. tender no advice, we brought home to one Government, an d ue u ,et n, we hold out no hope, we simply wish to state the there is even a primit facie ease for arbitteiumu atter reasons which most probably actuste th e D an i s h ere f ar f rom b eing disposed to tre at the hcarch, s e people in prolonging a resistance which some effect lightly. So long ago as the 26J1 of lest hc o , 3) to think most unavailing. We have hitherto we learn from a v er y instructive deal ) refused to give Denmark any material assistance, from Lord Russell to Lord Lyons, the f° e ri t u nat th e and we have no right to assume the office of men- mitted, in an interview with Mr. Adam s, co da], atch l er a d. tors when we are not asked for our advice. Unless cases of the Alabama and the Oreto we re as e We we put ourselves in the position of the Danes, we and in some degree a reproach to our la w l' A r t , cannot possibly appreci a te their sentiments ; but, have no wish to retract that admission• a nd placed in their position, we venture to say that cerely lament this gross abuse of our neutra.lwoity t h o ughts of submission would be the last which while we cannot blame ourselves for the 101) wou ld occur to the national mind. which the Alabama enjoys, we give the I) ,,e , s ir t eta . 'TIDIES.—A very important series of despatches dente of our good faith by anticipating siral; iiance on the subject of the Alabama and her consorts has sions of the Foreign Enlistment Act with a Tig just been presented to Parliament. It contains a which some denounce as inquisitorial. collection of documents, such as protests, affidavits, and consular reports, relative to the depredations of these cruisers, as well as the cornmunie iticns which have passed between the Foreign-office and Mr. Adams, or his Government, upon tt e claims pre ferred on behalf of American citizens. These last do not include any arising out of the Alexandra case, or those which have been exchanged with re. ference to the ironclads, on both of which topics Lord Russell and Mr. Layard claimed the privilege of reticence on Tuesday, night, on the ground that they involve questions still pending. For a different reason the remarkable letter of Mr. Seward, dated July 11, which appeared in our columns on Monday, has no place among these papers, although it has been laid before Congress. It now appears, from the statements made in both Houses, that this letter, though authentic, was never delivered by Mr. Adams to Lord Russell. No one who has perused it will find fault with the discretion exer cised by the United States Minister, to whose pacific efforts Lord Russell himself bears emphatic testimony. A remonstrance which, though it con eludes with a compliment to the dignity of Great Britain, warns us that, unless we lay an embargo on Confederate privateers, they shall be pursued " into the ports which thus, in violation of the law of nations and the obligations of neutra lity, become harbours for the pirates," was scarcely likely to promote the object which Mr. Adams had at heart. It was probably judicious to treat this missive as an isolated ebullition, written in an interval of very natural but not very statesmanlike vexation. At all events, it is out of harmony with the moderate and argumentative tone which cha racterises the representations actually made to our Government. The first despatch in this correspon dence which requires our attention is that of Lord Russell to Mr. Adams, dated March 9, with respect to a demand from the New York Mutual Insurance Company. This demand may be taken as a type of those which follow in rapid succession throughout these pages. The claimants urge that since the Alabama was built, fitted out, and despatched from a British port, chiefly manned by British sailors, taken out of British jurisdiction by a trick, pro tected by the use of the British flag, and admitted to British ports in the colonies as a man-of war, she was, " to all intents and purposes, a British vessel." In some of these memorials, several of which are framed on a uniform model, or " common form," as lawyers would call it, two further arguments are used. The one is that she was allowed to leave our waters after due notice of her character and desti nation had been furnished to our Government ; the other, that since, if she had been seized by the Tus eirora or any other Federal man-of-war after leaving our territory, she would infallibly have claimed the priviieges of British ownership, she must be a Bri tish "piratical craft." We have not space to discuss points founded on the supposition of what the Ala bama would have done under circumstances which, thanks to the inactivity of the Federal navy, never occurred. We have to deal only with Lord Russell's answers, which have always embodied an entire and explicit disclaimer of responsibility. On July 13 he adheres to what he had said on March 9, and on September 14 ne protests against such pretensions on account of captures made by vessels " originally built" here, but " fitted oat" as warlike cruisers in foreign ports, as "entirely at variance with the principles of international law, and with the de cisions of American Courts of the highest au thority." He adds that he hopes Mr. Adams may not again be instructed to put forward claims which her Majesty's Government can not admit to be founded on any grounds of law or justice." It was after this that Mr. Adams applied to Washington for instructions es to the course which he should thenceforth pursue, and the result is announced in the important de spatch of October 23. As this despatch and Lord Russell's reply to it represent with great accuracy the two conflicting views, and complete the plead ings, so to speak, on either side, it may be worth while to give a summary of their contents. Mr. Adams starts by pointing out that Great Britain and the United States are at peace, and mutually bound by treaty to restrain their respective subjects from making war upon each other. He next dwells on the ravages of the Alabema, roving over the seas " without lawful authority" that can be recognised by international law, and "in open defiance of all judicial tribunals" that can take cognisance of piracy. Then comes the gravamen of the charge. She was " built with the intent to make war against the United States by British subjects, in a British port, and prepared there to be armed and equipped with a specific armament adapted to her construction for the very purpose" of preying on American com merce. That armament and equipment were "simultaneously prepared by British subjects, in a British port, with the intent to complete her pre paration for her career," and the transfer of the ar mament to the hull was clandestinely arranged end carried out "with the connivance of her British holders." From these circumstances, taken together, Mr. Adams infers " one single criminal intent run ning equally through all the portions of this pre paration," and, inasmuch as our Government, though "bound by treaty obligations and the law of nations to prevent the execution of it," did not act with "promptness and energy enough" to frus trate the enterprise, he continues to insist that we ought to indemnify American shipowners for the losses which they have sustained. On the other hand, he assures Lord Russell that " the United States desire to maintain amity as well as peace," that they fully appreciate our difficulties, and that they are willing to defer the settlement of their claims for the present, or even to submit them to arbitration. Lord Russell's response, dated Oct. 26, is more succinct and less controversial. He avails himself of the admission that the present moment is not the most favourable for the calm and candid examination of the facts and principles in dispute. At the same time he seizes the opportunity to show the material distinction between such proceedings as Washington's Government prohibited, when the French attempted to make American ports their basis of operations against this country, and those which are the subject of these complaints. "'The British Governmeni must decline to be responsible for the acts of parties who fit out a seeming mer chant ship, send her to a port or to waters far from the jurisdiction of a British Court, and there com mission, equip, and man her as a vessel of war." Mr. Adams meets this in his rejoinder, dated Oct. 31, by denying that the Alabama and other vessels of the same class " ever bore the semblance of mer chant ships, even to her Majesty's officers who re ported upon them." This is virtually the close of the correspondence, for we can hardly treat the allegation that the Alabama adopted at pleasure the British or any other flag that might suit her pur pose as a substantive grievance. We have no inten tion of reopening the controvery which is thus sus pended, especially as we have so recently examined the theory on which Mr. Adams' reasoning is based. There are one or two considerations, however, which will bear repetition, and cannot be excluded from any review of this question. The first of these is that the case of the Alabama, Florida, and Oreto is alto• gether new, and cannot be directly brought under any definite rule of international law. The fact is, that it is only since steam power has revolutionised naval warfare that the construction of one or two such vessels in neutral building yards has been capable of inflicting such annoyance on an enemy and it is the peculiar fact that the harbours of the Southern Confederacy are blockaded that makes the power of procuring a navy elsewh ere so i nvaluable netnfinde contem plated , e to them. If we refer to the text-writers,as,fri a W s that the violations o t h l a e t m i o na are eo fneutraldifferent kind, the capture of a belligerent vessel within three miles of a neutral coast. When, therefore, we are told that the duties of n eu t ra li ty are prior to all municipal laws and must be enforced, whether or not there be any municipal Astute sufficient for the purpose, we are entitled to ask for a clear definition of these duties, as well as proof that a neutral Go vernment is answerable for all breaches of such duties by its subjects. Rights are .e not always cor relative to duti es , or even remedies by no means followsthat because e west o o r u i g g h h t t s , , o a u n t d o it of self-respect or for reasons of domestic policy, to pro hibit or punish certain acts, a foreign Government has a right t o ca ll us to account where we fail to do so, because it s own intereet 2 may be affected. There is such a thing as damnuni abspe znfuria, and this may be an example of it. Nor can we help endors ing Lord Russell's pertinent remark that no efficient measures seem to h ave b een ta k en b y t h e U n i te d States Government to capture the Alabama. In the despat c h w hi c h we h ave already quoted Mr. Seward being informed us th a t a nava l force was prepared for thi s o bj ec t w i t h the utmost vigour, bat we have heard nothing more of it as yet. The default of the plaintiff himself is often a good defence on an action for negligence, and we are far from cps , that it might not be pleaded here. `"*. remains that in the (mini-- auttwrities Dor 1-- - STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Feb. 9.—la shipping P r° I ,ic had a better demand yesterday, with considera'f, more business than of late. ro-day the f e eling, h not quite so good, except for water-twist , for hicai, a fair demand has been experienced for the a*vs terranean. For other descriptions of export Y a eTs the demand has been slow, owing to many ai,i3arc asking higher prices. For home trade yarns sce had more activity and a stronger market. A 5 ecib, pared with last Tuesday, prices are id. to Id. P er o higher for numbers up to 40's, while for 60's alb, upwards prices have advanced id. to ld. peeper' There has been but a limited business, tosvicg in home trade yarns to-day, peopl e bal a nd mostly supplied their wants, on Friday ye a yesterday. The cloth-market has also ba d quieter to-day than yesterday. Yesterday cceness quite an active demand, and a very fa ir hnsi" to was done in quarters where sellers were take old prices. The same more cheerful feedice which prevailed yesterday continued to -day) s ti bto i. have had on all sides inquiries for goods; h ut , t o ness has been a good deal restricted, °Piing 10' advance now asked by manufacturers, wh o fee doe posed to demand higher prices, from the lol°Wi , e a t io 4 that, in addition to stocks being small, the Pt".,00 tion of cloth has been a good deal lessened io the last few weeks. The chief demand 1 1014°1 0 40-inch shirtings and figured goods for Ch ina ' the advance is practically 3d. per piece hig her ' many sellers are asking even a larger advan ce : tett P LEEDS, 9th.—There was a tolerably goa da oll l ance of buyers, as well as sellers, in the cloth' gas this morning, and a fair amount of htlail ieas p e def done in spring goods, including meltons,by and fancy cloakings. The purchases were toe sty t Le the home trade houses, the aspect of affair s ° w ith Continent of Europe still checking operat i°°tl cor the Germanic Powers, and the bulk of th e vier s dian trade for spring fabrics now being °l er ,' t a io is a steady but not very brisk business acybere plain black cloths of good make and finish' o f tD° is no falling off in the general activ it Y,i s tric t ' woolien manufacturers of the surrounding "'l a ced' and those in this borough are all well ev 3 P t - or there being little or no short time-running enrol to chinery. Wools still keep up in price , 6.- Jo ls° ...erne may be said as to other raw materia ls, ° T .- ac tor° to almost every description of woollen Ina ll° made in the West Riding. if lide NOTTINGHAM, 9th.—To-day being a h,e . " . „ 13 13 ° or, there was a very small attendance at this-u 45- : T itli ° hall. The demand for lace yarns was fla t ' a it e clf° amount of business done was exceedingly 1° 4 030 11 little or no alteration in prices. There was nwet° passing in hosiery yarns, and recent curNnc'e; toi) fully quoted. In silks no change of import6fices lac place. The demand for brown nets coo ti°ll- quid, and prices remain stationary. hr li°te ROCHDALE, Bth.—To-day's has been 9 " -Ile wee -10 animated market than we have had for sore chose° past. Although goods are easier to sell, P lir oc ce°' are only made by the merchants as imn3ed iate h igt< sities require. Prices of all goods keeP s- t ati c ' higher than for years past—and this ve l., : c i t io o depresses the demand for Yorkshire goods, ce"rot, of which, except scourers, are saleable. 'aotiot° tions in wool are trifling, owing to the cantle tions temper of the manufacturers and the absence nduccment in the way of price. COUNTRY MARKETS• LYNN—TUESDAY. ° f 110 0 At to-day's market there was a middling s ;0 8 o f fo))) which met a slow sale, and the extreme) P r i A rlei week were made. Both malting and grinding to 4 o/ and a better sale for beans and oats. 365 W 0 , 4 White wheat 42s to 48s I Barley. '''''''' 0 "" tO } 0 Red.. 39s to 44s I Grinding ..... , 0 Beans .33s to 35s Oats.. ........ • is New 358 to 37s I Peas .......... .* to ll , HULL—TUESDAY. ,1101111 trod Since our last the wheat trade has been s y c o ef 14 0 4 Secondary qualities of English red wheat bac wo re ° Q. l t e3 l ; sale, and advanced is per qr. ; fine qualitfe„LAis?„ 0 1 At to-day's market there was a fair show Of -t`T or ei,s , n o which sold slowly at fully last week's rates; lii 4 45' 4 was nothing doing, but holders firm. A „ OCI , t i ., ° 40 OD Wheat.... Old white per qr. ........ ' oa -do 0 Old red ), ........ 1.8 1 :t 0 5 Nev white New red .. • • ~ b ....... 2 7° od t o ci,t3 s 61 Barley.... English malting ............ rs,. a Oa t ,5 ,5 00 Grinding qO s v,to d 0; Saal and Orlerbruck Holstein and Danish Grinding Oats English, 22s 7 0 to .......... 01: , 0 0. Archangel and Riga per st. • 0 ,13(1 , 1 to 0 4 0,1 Friesland and Dutch ' ........ 001 to °': C 6 Swedish and Danish ........ Aos 0, to 4:, ott, Beans ....English, old, per qr ......... 'l2 O Oc,L to 4: 3 ,; og New pigeon ................ 00 Oa to Oa New tick. ' 4 oc l 3 0 0 ,1 300 ,d to 4 i Egyptian .................. 320 v• to ' • 0 0 Peas 6a /' Foreign boilers .. ........... 32s „ ci. tO ,45 ,3 Grinding .................. ~....-s -„ a t o ~ o , VA Tares Spring ..................... 33 0 u od to °, 14 0 , Indian Corn ........................ os , to 5 , „' v ''' Oa' 1 9 11 0 Linseed, feeding ...................... 400 i 0 0 crushing f , ..... _ o to 9 0 Linseed cakes (Hull) I 9 ° ot o 0 a o Foreign: 1 S 5 o to oI- Rape cakes 5 10 oto 5 1 Bones P ---- „ D xl , i che,; MELTON MOWBRAY—TI.I:, whil e sto°;; The following were the currencies :-- -I ?" v er o v r 3S °" {o 't 42s Od 3 t0 45 46 t0 s 0: 6 ;s for rew melting,red, 38s Od to 4 ' s 370 per ( i t ' . 63 beans, 37s to 418 for old • new sorts 34s to , s at i d, ; d ' 2 6 3 to ,: e ; °' an grinding; new oats, 16s to 2'?s Od per `2 4 st° to 28s. COAL Prioes of Coal per Ton a' NthARK ET. 00 t e 01ose of tllO v. Walls 15 '0 ~.° l 9 6 elloe ...... „.• 'l 9 9 K South .„..•' 1 9 6 Hartlepool • • • 6 East Hartlertroel." IS 6 Trimdon li_f, o fr el••" ..ll ,l 6 South flar"er 0° • 11 11 6 Riddell ...... ,•'• " I.Vharneliffe.• • •00 o Tunstall .. • • ' 6 Braddyll W ' Raton ..• • " 0 s a t l: o n n d South 11ett0ri...•..„ • elosforth .... 6 H 19 0 1 Hart i Caal2r u sai7e 1:91 (116 Russel's Hetton 19 0 Trimdou 1-u ora Ships at market, 87; sold. V' _ s. d. Bates'sWest Hartley..l4 6 Bower's West Hartley.l4 9 Byass's Belmido West Hartley . ... 14 9 Lambert's West Hart- ley l4 6 Walker Primrose 12 9 Hastings Hartley l4 9 West Hartley Davison's West Hart- ley l5 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 15 0 Eden Main lB 6 Holywell 17 6 Wylam 16 6 tll d Births. ' rus l3l( • ep 13 hall, l'° t 0 1 0 SOWER.—On the 9th inst , at Firby B wife of R. H. Bower, E;q. of a daughter. a 0 , BEST.—On the 6th inst., the wife of Dlr. Ikifre tilg a, son. s i.o o CHEETHAM.—On the 10th inst., at klor Tipperilter. eiter wife of George Cheethani, of a cl3ug, Were VERNON.— B On the 9th inst., Vernon,t San of '- . l,l l ter• hire, the Lady Georgina V of a o 0" Marriages. , sor toV„t i l 6 '': DAwsoN—PANsoN.—On the 9th inst.. ili. dg e.,,. 11' church, Mr. T. S. Dawson of Tupgil ~.'",° r o' or ham, to Elizabeth Flintoff,9fourth daug'' a Pi lf I'Anson, of Spring-cottage, lqalton. , r , s ole ~, OP MILLER—WARDE.—On the 9th inst., a t t o l ‘ l e irl o , se t a P ero. W. Miller, late of the Scots Greys, daughter of the late R, F. «and©, Esq./ ° C©, 0 14 Deaths. BENTLEY—On the Sth inst., at .„,,,,rovv, A 15, prilt°erti 40. 3 3 , vs Brompton, John Higgins leutley, 1.14 / u4i ic h- r , °, 33. BUNNETT.—On . the 9th inst at Lewishlo`. a gea 6 00 A. Bunnett, of the firm of"l3unnett and ;Jobe NN.—On the Bth inst., Ou a t dinlArgh' o,,ilPli Esq., R . N. Wel HALLOWES—On the 6th inst. at Ttlab r iag e, or lower, Lieut. R.N ao•ed 67 li i '• , li t, 1 ,, Ore Sec II .9 . s 7• at nh°Pe. Oh° uNT.—On the 10th inst., at 621 P.,ll*3llier ° ach stead- . road, W. H. Hunt, Esq. , — 7 r o. ell' of Painters in Water Colours, as , 'go Our or M`NicizoLL.—On the 10th inst., aged io ' jol3fid 1 Islington, Mr. T. G. D.ViVickoll, ag e ' . 0 061, t '.l i ''' VILLm,—On the 9th inst, at 51, Cl of .I.C. wood , Captai John Willim, late a th© 1 1 ' 87. ...,/- 1 0. 0 i . --- if A 1417 1 0 ' 11 ~.Aill the - fact ----------i:,/,O- ‘,OlOO ...4 I, al , London: Prin;ed and Fri:1011:rd a ll 7 0 - ` a silrt ', D C of No. 112, Strand, Prin , 10r0i,,, ..ii of the highest legal strand, in the Precinct of vie ii lei' •-•4 vvis nave been iliarnel l ava i eulY infringed, taidieges.r-nuracig, r.:, o, Nit No tlTbe I P RriaW a Y Peb; 1 1111 (Th e b , 415 'irp, t he li cal ~ e °ore J 88 ake I' 4 4 4 t 4i,t