The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-28 00:00:00

GRAND BAL MASQUE (by special request). NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Holborn, The Proprietor has the honour to announce that this Fete of the Season will take place TO-MORROW, the 20th inst., when. every available means will be brought into requisition to ociipse,all fetes of the kind that have ever preceded it, at any rate In this country. The greatest care will be taken in the arrangements for the comfort of the numerous visitors. The bandkunder the able direction of Mr.W. M. Packer) will be considerably augmented, and the staff of M. C.'s supervised by Messrs. Prndy, Mott, and Page. The demand for tickets being so numerous, no complimentary admissions can be given. Tickets may be had of Cramer and Co., Regent-street ; Chappell and Co„ Bond-street; Mitchell's, Royal Library; Hammond's (Jullien's), Regent-street ; and on the premises. Supper, consisting of everything choice in season, will be served at I o'clock. Tickets is. each. N.B.—Mr. Nathan, of Castle-street, Leicester-square, is appointed costumier. "OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- L GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Sole Lessees. T HIS EVENING, to commence with HUY BL AS : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susa, Pyne. Miss Thirlwatl. and Madame Laura Baxter; Messrs. Santley, Patey, Lyall, Aynsleyeooke, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en led tiARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Dimrs open at halt-past 6—Commence at 7. IHEA TRE-ROY AL, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. !TIS EVE.N DIG, the Comic Drama of THE .NEX J OF After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GO DDY TWO SHOES. Commence at 7'. T tIEAT It E-R OVA HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed C Ult AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Bock - F tone ; Lord Dundre a ry, M r . S o th ern . Atter which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled _ RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The 11 IVY Valley. ltasselas, Miss Louise Kcaey. Concluding with OUR MARY ANNE. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Manaaement of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, Jan. 2,3, to commence with an Orizinal Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. Alter which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3lozue, entitled THE DUKE'S NIOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, suoported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. NI iddi combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenne, and 1421sworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will shortly appear. Doors open at half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven. Private Boxes, Z 2 Us. dd., and £2 2s. Places registered. Stalls, 6s. 6d. ; Dress Circle, ss. 6cL ; Upper Circle, 4s. lid. Prices at doors—Stalls, Os. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Circle, 45.; Pit, 28. ; Gallery, is. No half-price. Box office open daily from 11 till 5. 'the public are entreated to take notice that no charge is made to the occupants of bixes, box places, or stalls, either for playbills or for the safe keep ing of hats and cloaks: and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever Stage-Manage; Mr. G. Vining. Acting,-Manager, Mr. 11. Barnett. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Jib Lessee and Manae:er, Yir THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE : Miss M. Oliver. Followed by ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES AN OTHER. Mr. R. Roxby and Miss Amy Sedg•wick. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, " RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Scyton, Misses Gray and I-Indspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Halford. NTEW THEATRE-ROYAL, J-11 ADELPHL— Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE LI I. TLE TRE SURE. Mr Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L.Toole, P. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with " GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Follyin the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolg - ar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Took, P. Bed ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; tolumbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and ertraad. Commence at 7. The WEATHER.—Sun Office, Jan. 28, 1863. TIIEIIIIOI4 ETER. Highest since Noon yesterday .. 43 Lowest during the night This day at N00n.....: Barometer-30.98. Wind—West; fresh, with cold and cloudy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This D&Y,—Morning, Bh. 16m.—Afternoon, Bh. 48m. To-monßaw.-itorning, 9h. 22m.—Afternoon, 10h. 3m. . , 4 . 4ov7teri. 41,1 t, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1863. The strength of the PALMERSTON Government, it is seriously to be feared, has within the last few months become its weakness. That most gifted of our administrators, Earl RUSSELL—stiII familiarly known to this generation by Lord DERBY'S humor ous sobriquet as " JOHNNY, who upset the coach"— has been at it again. Though promoted, like his brother Earl his well-tempered satirist and once upon a time his colleague (in Lord GREY'S administration), "to the prim benches of the upper school," Lord RUSSELL has during this last recess or long vacation very notably indicated his time-honoured reputation as a fabrication of diplomatic imbroglios. As Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs he was, as we all remember, with a still lively sense of exultation, a very tower of strength to the Cabinet—a Cabinet of which he was, as he could hardly fail to be in regard to any Cabinet, under any conceivable conjunction of cir cumstances, one of the foremost members, one of the most powerful and distinguished among its Leaders. That he is still, almost as a matter of course. But, while he is so, while he is yet among the first and foremost, among the most powerful and the most distinguished of our administrators, he has again abruptly (thanks to his own exceeding wilfulness !) become one of the most perillous and unreliable. As if incited by some eccentric Demon of Mischief, the noble earl the Foreign Secretary has, quite wantonly and wilfully, as it would seem, carried confusion right and left into some of the most delicate and difficult of the great diplomatic queitions yet agitating, more or less directly, the chief powers of Christendom. With such singular perversity, in some instances, has this startling transformation been accomplished, that what was order before the close of last session under Earl RUSSELL'S auspices, has, before the coming session could commence, become utter con fusion, and, in some instances, threatens every day to become even more and more distressingly confusion worse confounded. It is only necessary to glance for a moment, in almost any direction, to realise upon the instant the odd and astounding manner in which this wonderfully strange result has been arrived at. _ _ Here, for example, just to begin with—is the lick to the Crown of these realms about to espouse, in the early spring-time of this very year, one of the fair young Princesses of Denmark, the Princess ALEXANDRA. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES was recently upon the very eve of his betrothal. The negotiation of these nuptials was actually preparing between the Courts of St. James's and Copenhagen. When, as though animated by some perverse solicitude to cause heartburnings and embarrassments—if not in any way whatever (that being in truth, we believe, just absolutely impossible under the circumstances) between the two august families, then being drawn more and more closely together by the bonds of a most intimate alliance, at any rate between their respective Goveinments—Earl RUSSELL, all of a sudden, at about the unlikeliest of all imaginable moments, flagrantly outrages the long wounded pride of Denaiark in regard to a difficulty of the most delicate and entangled character : the noto rious to Schleswig Hol stein difficulty, that is , re latin g stein! Earl RUSSELL contrives, moreover, thus flagrantly to outrage the susceptible pride of Den- . mark, on this matter, by falsifying th e whole of England's policy on the Schleswig-Holstein ques tion—opposing Denmark and coinciding with Prussia! That, we repeat, just to begin with. As if, however, his unfortunate despatch in respect to the ScWeswig-Holstein difficulty was in no way adequate, as a wholly unl oo k e d -for embarrass nes in anticip a ti on c f tha• ment to his colleagues went—Earl RUSSELL, greatly' of P. daring in the way of diplomatic eccentricities plunges (altogether out of his depth !) by what Mr. BOUCICAULT, were he describing the movement, might again aptly enough call " a header," plunges (quite voluntarily, observe ! and, as o .e may say, body and soul together) into that wonderful Roman escapade ! The noble Earl's namesake, Mr. ODO RUSSELL, being his alter ego in this very singular transaction. A transaction as it cannot fail to be deemed on all hands as whimsical in its way as any ever dreamt of by an European statesman. The circumstances of the transaction referred to are certainly not at all likely to be forgotten very readily, or given the go by, sub silentio , either in the Lords or the Commons. In its extravagance altogether, in its amazing inopportuneness and per versity, it went even beyond the Schleswig Hol stein despatch already alluded to. The spectacle now beheld was in all essential particulars far more painful, and even, we will add Jar more ludicrously ma'apropos. - rho author of the Durham Letter appears, in this new diplomatic extravaganza, strangely transformed into the well-wisher and the would be protector of the author of the Papal Aggression ! A transformation—that—far beyond any ?tow being nightly witnessed upon the stage of any London theatre when the burlesque opening of the pantomime merges in a twinkling into the har lequinado. Every one knows well enough by this time the eggregious result of this pre posterous intrusion of British diplomacy (wholly unsolicited) at the Vatican, Parliament is safe to have the whole story within a few weeks told all over again. The sudden discovery (as he fancied!) by Earl RUSSELL of a solution to the Roman Problem ! The attempted application of it ! The reiteration of that attempt, in spite of repulsions in themselves surely the most significant. The POPE'S colloquial enforcement upon Mr. ODO RUSSELL'S acceptance of the proverbial nen a possumus—virtu ally familiarised in this instance into "Exceedingly obliged, but—wouk/rather not!" The Cardinal's, that is Cardinal ANTONELLI'S manifestation for once, (or twice, as it happened) of " a great talent for silence"—signifying in that instance what is proverbially known amongst ourselves as the application of the cold shoulder. The ulterior result of this most ill-judged proceeding being from first to last that no one was pleased! On the contrary every one being more or less offended by Earl RUSSELL'S utterly futile proceedings. Alike the most devoted champions of the Papacy and the most systematic of its assailants. To the former the proposition of Lord RUSSELL was nothing less than an insult, to the latter it was something more than an outrage. Added to which the disclosure of these underhanded proceedings of EaIIRUSSELL'S, through his agent—Mr. ODO Rus- SELL—at Rome, in the name of England—must have appeared to the French EMPEROR'S Government at Paris, something very much indeed like treachery on the part of that one member at least in the English Cabinet, supposing Earl RUSSELL (as everyone presumes) acted in this matter very much upon his own responsibility. Bolder in its way, even, however, than the offer of Malta to his Holiness as temporary asylum for the Papacy until the political storm of Italy should have blown over, has been yet another proceeding of Earl RUSSELL'S. A proceeding, this, nevertheless, it is to be presumed, in which Earl RUSSELL'S col leagues are more directly implicated. Allusion being here made, of course, to the daringly inde pendent proposition that the lonian Islands should be made over bodily to Greece—a proposition boldly thrown out before the Houses of Parliament or the councils of Europe could be consulted upon the matter. Probably no better arrange. ment could be eventually arrived at in respect to the future status of the Seven Islands. But—decidedly, obviously, undeniably—that was not The Way To Do It ! Nearly half a century ago England was formally entrusted by the Great Powers of Europe with the responsibility of go verning the lonian Islands, for the good of all, under the aegis of a British Protectorate. The abandon ment of that weighty responsibility could not, therefore, by any possibility, be lightly decided upon. The responsibility is of such a character, is one so onerous of its kind and so delicate in its bearings, that it ought not even to have been lightly talked of. Earl RUSSELL'S proposition, conse quently, to say the least of it, has been precipitate. The opinion of the Legislature should first of all have been consulted. The Schleswig- Holstein Despatch—the Roman Escapade—the coolly out-spoken proposition in regard to the hand ing over of the lonian Islands bodily to Greece : all these are very toothsome bones to pick between Earl RUSSELL and the Lords and Commons. About the only judicious display of consistency on the part of the noble Earl since the close of the last session— about the only rational and manly maintenance by him of what was wise and discreet in his foreign policy, relates to the bearing of that policy upon the fratricidal strife still unhappily raging in North America. Immediately before going to press, news (brought by the Asia) three days later from America, comes to us, in a string of brief but for the most part afflicting telegrams, From these latest tidings it becomes more than ever apparent that the fury of the contest between North and South increases rather than diminishes in its intensity. The belli gerents are becoming manifestly more infuriated with each other as time advances and as the for tunes of the war fluctuate. The principal incidents now recorded are acts of retaliation. Now it is resolved by the Confederates that the Federal officers captared at Murfreesboro' shall be detained prisoners until General BUTLER has been delivered up. NJW it is related of those same Confederates that—with a deadly cruelty in the way of revenge —because of the atrocities perpetrated by General M'NElL—ten Federal officers have been executed in Arkansas. So that by way of indicatin g their horror at certain acts of infamy, other acts o f i n f am y of the like kind are deliberately perpetrated in cold blood ! If this inhuman system be persisted in, the consequences are likely to be. come truly frightful. Simultaneously with these isolated proceedings, other events of a alr.vo arge:sirgstnedi ficance are transpiring at th e seat of w in their attack upon Vicksburg theetdheeriarlsar are preparing for a vigorous descent u p on anta gonists at a quite different point. At Newbern they are estimated as not less than fifty thousand. From Springfield they are said to be driving back the Southerners. It now appears that the Confederates at Murfreesboro' was considerably larger than was at first anticipated. As many as nine thousand, it is believed, were there put hors de combat, 9,000, that is to say, of the Confederates alone! In furiated by the mere thought of men like M'NEIL and BULTER, and by the recollection of many months now of fast and furious slaughter, the Southerners are not, alas, contenting themselves even with retaliatory executions like those just already pa r . ticularised. Captain SWING seems to be among their leaders, if one may judge from the burning down of the State Capitol (with all its contents) at Baton Rouge--a wanton act of destruction, attri buted to the hands of Southern incendiaries. The deadly game of war, in truth, is fairly afoot now, alike in North and in South. Among the statesmen of Europe, the realisation of the noblest ambition would be his—who should thurst back at length into their scabbards the dripping blades of those " brothers-in arms and rivals"—yet we will hope—" in renown," the opposing forces of the Federals and Confederates. Mr. TAYLOR made some suggestive remarks in his speech of last night at the Temperance Hall, Leicester. He commenced by alluding to the ques tion of Reform, and, after some remarks on that subject, he passed to the distress in Lancashire. He alluded, in the highest terms, to the conduct of the operatives, and expressed himself in the warmest terms. The following passage evidences his views :—" The have justified the notion of philoso phers, who argue that the world's progress is taking a newer and higher plan of action than the world has witnessed before. Hitherto we have known the rise, culmination, and fall of empires; but the world has never before witnessed such a scene as Lancashire has presented for the last few months. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, instead of the patience and the manly forbearance dis played by the people, there would have been dis turbances little short of insurrection, and instead of sending them loaves and benefactions we should have been sending them troops and ammunition. What now must be the feelings of those who, in times past, have uttered predictions and ex pressed apprehensions of the effect of giving political power to those who might be savaged by passion or poverty. Of poverty and destitution, GOD knows, there has been plenty ; of passion none, unless the patience of the people has been sublimated into the elevation of passion." This theme has been often spoken of by members of Parliament, but it cannot be dwelt upon too often, and no language can sufficiently extol the endur ance and. energy of that much-tried community. Mr: TAYLOR then passed on to the question of cburch•rates, on which he said that there could be no compromise whatever. If the adherents of the cause had a little more patience they would have more chance of obtaining their object than when they are so uncompromising, and and will accept no terms whatever. On the ques tion of retrenchment Mr. TAYLOR seemed anything but satisfied, " 1, for one," he exclaimed, " am not going to vote for economy, if it is to be an excuse for regarding the Emperor of the FRENCH as a lion of such a description as the lamb could lie down with. My views have always been that England must not only for her honour, but her safety and economy be strong enough to stand against the worst that can be done." Next the hon. gentleman touched upon the important point of the War in America, on this question Mr. GIBSON appears to entertain some mistaken notions. He lays done as an arbi trary condition that slavery is the root and the origin of the war. He compared the position of the North to that of a territory visited by a tor nado, when the hurricane was over the atmosphere was purer. So said he when the tornado of war is over, the accursed barque of slavery will have sunk forever beneath it. This is really quite absurd, when we remember that President LINCOLN'S proclamation does not set free the slaves of the States who remain constant to the Union. After a calm consideration of events, recent and remote, it is difficult for any unprejudiced person to coincide with this conclu sion, that " What the North is really fighting for is, that slavery shall be for ever abolished in the United States." The hon. gentleman went further still in speaking of the proclamation itself, and said that it made us thankful to GOD that we lived in 1863. It is amazing that people can deceive them selves so. How can there be any benefit in a man issuing orders to those over whom he has no con trol; what wonderful end can it attain, and what good results can flow therefrom. This enthusiasm among the advocates of the North in favour of President LINCOLN'S proclamation is far more sur prising and unaccountable than the converse opinion that Mr. GIBSON so rails at. " Nor can we account for the phenomenon that, in freedom loving England, public opinion in certain classes should have gone so widely astray upon this question." The reason is that Englishmen are too clear-sighted to be deceived, and they are aware that it is all talk and not action on the part of the North about slavery. Now that it serves the pur pose of partisans, it is very well to cry out against the South and its sanction of slavery ; but had the South not sought to secede we should have heard very , little about its wrong-doings. It is a pity that so many members should seek to promulgate such extreme views among their constituents, as the American war has been from the outset one in which we can have no sympathy, although it appears that we are to pay a heavy price in the shape of suffering. Mr. TAYLOR con cluded his address by some strong remarks against the South, and stated that it was all through the virulence of that community that such violent opinions were entertained against England. This oration appears to have been very well received; but it is to be regretted that it was not as liberal in is notions as it was able in its style and tenour. A number of influential names have just been appended to a petition presented to the Commis slow rs of the Board of Works. It is in behalf of the working men who, availing themselves of the customary half-holiday, assemble in great numbers in Victoria Park for the practice of cricket playing. men have taken a lively interest in the formation of cricket clubs, and a portion of ground is set aside for the purpose. It is, however, rough and uneven, and ill-adapted for the purpose, and accordingly the members of the large City firms have made this appeal to the commissioners, to induce them to make inquiry as to the possibility of forming a properly kept and more extensive cricket ground for the benefit of the dense masses of our City working population, and thereby afford ing duo encouragement to a healthy and innocent recreation, and diminishing the risk of the accidents that now frequently occur from the balls. We wish the project every success. DEATH OF SIR ST. VINCENT COTTON.—We record the death of Sir Vincent Cotton, Bart., whose name was familiar to the public many years ago. By his death the title becomes extinct. The deceased, who was the sixth baronet, was 62 years of age. The first baronet was high sheriff of Cambridge at the commencement of the civil war, and took an active part in the Royal cause. A Glasgow pawnbroker was fined £lO, on Mon day, for having, through his assistant, taken in pledge a properly-marked volunteer's carbine. The Glasgow police returns for the year ending September last, include upwards of 17,000 " drunk and disorderly" cases. THE ACCIDENT AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — In reply to inquiries made at the Middlesex Hospital last night, shortly before 11 o'clock, it was stated that Miss Smith's condition was much the same as it had been on Monday. The hopes of her recovery were extremely faint. Mrs. Hunt's illness was not considered dangerous. The various persons connected with the Princess's Theatre in dicate by their numerous inquiries at the hospital the deep interest they feel in the fate of the sufferers. They speak of them as decent and deserving women. The leaden roof of the Temple Church is now in comae of being thoroughly repaired, for which purpose a lofty scaffold has been erected on the south side of the circular vestibule. The rubble work on the north aide of this portion of the church and the western porch have just been restored with much care under the super vision of the Temple architects. A portion of this ancient structure was recased with stone by Mr. Smirks in 1828. A TRIPLE MURDER.—The man Ramon, who was recently condemned to death for a triple murder at Fos (Boucher-du-Rhone) has just suffered the extreme pe nalty of the law at Air. He was in such a complete state of prostration that it was found necessary almost to carry him to the scaffold.—Galignani. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WAR IN AMERICA. (Per the Asia, via Roche's Point, 8.35 a.m.) NE W YORK, JAN. 14. The defeat of the Faderals at Vicksburg and their retreat up the Mississippi will enable the Confede rates to spare troops from that point to assist in the defence of Port Hudson, which is to be forthwith attacked by Gen. Banks and a flotilla of gunboats and ironclads. Despatches from Colonel Crabbe, at Springfield, Missouri, state that the Confederates were repulsed in their attack upon the town, and retired, leaving a portion of their killed and wounded on the field. The Confederates are again concentrating their forces in Tennessee. A detachment, under Generals Forrest, Wheeler, and Stearns, with two full batteries of cannon, are advancing upon Charlotte, with the intention of capturing the supplies of Gen. Rosecranz. They have burnt one steamboat, and captured 20 prisoners. The Confederate General Morgan has re-entered Kentucky. Gen. Wool, late of Baltimore, has been appointed to the military command of the eastern department, including New York and the New England States. His headquarters will be in New York city. Twenty-six Republican members of the Senate, forming a clear majority of that body, have pre sented a memorial to the President expressing a want of confidence-in the Administration. They assert that the President is not aided by a Cabinet Council agreeing with him in political principles and general policy, and urge that he make such changes as will secure a unity of purpose and action. They also admonish him that it is unwise and unsafe to intrust any important military opera tion to any officer who is not a cordial supporter of the Government. General Butler had an enthusiastic reception in Boston yesterday. He stated that his plan for paying the war debt was the introduction of free labour into the South, by which abundant crops of cotton • could be produced with profit, at 10 cents per pound. He proposed to lay on this a tax of 10 cents, thus raising the price to 20 cents per pound, which France and England would be obliged to pay. This tax alone he said would pay the inte rest on a debt three times as large as has been contracted for the prosecution of the war. Mr. Chase's ,interviews with the leading New York bankers have been unsatisfactory. The Government Bill for the issue of 900,000,000 of United States Bonds passed the Senate on the 12th. In anticipation of this new flood of irre deemable paper money the speculative mania has largely increased in Wall-street. Gold has gone up to 1441, and all kinds of securities have shared in the inflation. It is :announced that a French army of 4,000 men has landed at Matamoras. NEW YORK, JAN. 14, EVENING. A rumour is current on the Stock Exchange that General Banks and Commodore Farragut have been repulsed on the Mississippi. NEW YORK, JAN. 15, MORNING. M'Clennard's expedition has gone up the White River. In Congress, Mr. Vallandigham has made a speech favouring an armistice or foreign mediation, but repudiating arbitration. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAN. 13, EVENING. Money easy. Gold 431 premium. Exchange 157. Stocks, large speculative sales. Now York Cen trals, 1161; Illinois, 891; Erie, 74. Cotton very firm. Middling upland, 70-1. Flour, good inquiry and 15c. higher. Wheat in good demand, at an advance of 2c. Corn steady. Provisions good inquiry. Coffee and sugar very firm. Molasses steady. JAN. 15, Evening. Money easy. Gokl 48 per cent. prem. Exchange, 163. Stocks very firm. New York Centrals, 117 ; Illinois, 90-1, ; Erie, 73,1.. Cotton very firm. Middling upland, 71e. Flour, good inquiry. Wheat in good demand for export, and 2c. higher. Corn and provisions steady. Coffee, sugar, and molasses very firm. FRANCE AND AMERICA. PARIS, JAN. 28. The following is a summery of a note addressed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to M. Mercier, the French Minister at Washington, dated 9th January, in re ference to fresh proposals for peace to be submitted to the Federal Cabinet. M. Drouyn els Lhuys says : "In adopting this course, France is above a ll guided by her friendship for the Govern men t o f Washington. " The Government of the Emperor has therefore thoroughly examined the objections which can be raised against friendly intervention. Among these objections were the reluctance of the Republic to admit any foreign influence, and the hope enter tained by the Americans of a solution being arrived at by the force of arms. " The assistance of the good offices of foreign Powers has nothing incompatible with the pride of a great facilitate negotiations between the belligerents, we e have abstained from prejudging these bases. France in no way disputes the right of America to decline the assistance of the great maritime Powers, but this assistance is the only means of hastening the end of the war. Should the American Government, nevertheless, reject foreign mediation, could it not at least enter into direct negotiations with the authorities of the South ? The open ing of negotiations between the belligerents would not 'necessarily involve the cessation of hos tilities. Nothing would hinder the Federal Govern ment from retaining the advantages which the con tinuation of the war might offer, and it might, nevertheless, enter into negotiations with the South. "If the South consented, representatives of the two parties might meet in a city which could be de clared ne u t ai . The grievances which have led to the separation Could be examined. The represen tatives might als o cons id er w h et h er secess i on i s the unavoidable ext rem i ty, an d whether the recollec tion of former ti mes and common i nterests is not more powerful than the causes which have brought the two peoples under arms. " Negotiations of this character would not be open to the objections which have been raised to European intervention, and, without giving rise even to any hope of immediate reconciliation, the armistice would nevertheless exercise an amelio rating influence upon present events." M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in conclusion, authorises M. Mercier to leave a copy of the despatch with Mr. Seward. INSURRECTION IN POLAND. ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 27. The Journal d e St. Petersbourg of to - day pub lishes the spee c h of the Emperor to th e army, of which a telegraphic summary has already appeared. The same paper eotithins news fr.ml. Warsaw tt.,! the afternoon of the 26th, received by way of Ber lin, stating that telegraphic communication at War saw was still interrupted. Upon the night of the 23d a band of insurgents had damaged the Soura Railway. Upon the 24th troops were sent from Warsaw, Bialystock, and Grodno to restore the line. Forces were also despatched to various other places upon the frontier with the same object, but up to the present time the communication between Bialystock and Warsaw has not been re-estab lished. Telegrams of the 25th state that bands of insur gents baying been seen at Giotzkow and other loca lities, troops had been sent to meet them. The rebels had attacked travellers. During the previous night telegraphic communication with Warsaw by way of Kowno has also been interrupted. PRUSSIA. BERLIN ; JAN. 27, Evening. In the Chamber of Deputies to-eby the debate upon the Address was commenced. Herr von Sybel said that Herr von Bismark- Schonhausen, in denying the statement of the Chamber that no identity existed between the King and the Ministry, had insulted the honour of the King. Herr von Waldeck said that Herr von Grabow, in his opening speech, had deserved well of his country. The Minister-President, Herr von Bismark- Schonhausen, stated that the Address made mani fest the relation between the Chamber and the Government. It demanded of the House of Hohen zollern to renounce rights belonging to it by the constitution. He maintained that there could be no distinction between the Ministry and the Crown, and said that the position occupied by the Ministry was based upon constitutional rights. The co ope ration of the three principal bodies of the State—the Crown, the Upper House, and the Lower House — was necessary for the establishment of the budget. The constitution made no provision for the case of the non-voting of the budget. Compromises were therefore necessary to obviate conflicts between the Chamber and the Government, which raise the question in whom the actual power lies. The Chamber by refusing the supplies requisite for the reorgani sation of the army, had abused its constitutional rights, and the Upper House was therefore justified in rejecting the budget. The Ministry was deter mined to resist the demands of the Chamber to en large its constitutional privileges, and to maintain unimpaired the rights of the House of Hohen zollern. The debate continues. SERVIA. PARIS, JAN. 27. The Presse of this evening says :—" The Turkish Ambassador at Vienna has handed to Count Rech berg a despatch upon the subject of the arms sent to Servia, pointing out the complicity of Russia, whose constant aim it was to incite Servia to attack the Turkish frontier. The despatch states that Russia has assembled considerable parks of artil lery in the southern provinces, especially in Bes sarabia, and that numbers of Russian agents, sup plied with money, had been sent into Servia. " The despatch expresses the thanks of the Turkish Government to Austria for having asso ciated an Austrian commissioner with the Turkish commission for a pacific settlement of the question which has arisen out of the transport of arms to Servia." The Presse says that the Turkish Ambassador has made a similar communication to the English Cabinet. FRANCE. The draft of the Address of the is to. day reported in the Siecle, which reserves the full con sideration of each paragrah until the opening of the debate, but its attention is attracted by an enig matical passage, which runs thus :—" Italy by her attitude seconds herself the pacification of the fears which she had created. The era of conflicts is passed—that of compromise seems approaching. At Turin no one speaks of Rome ; at Rome people occupy themselves with reforms, and the Holy Father, sustained by the presence of an army, expresses loudly his gratitude to the Empe ror." "We ask," says the Siecle "in what manner the silence preserved at Turin, and the gratitude which. Pius IX. feels for the Government that sup ports him, removes the era of conflicts, and brings nearer that of compromise ?" L' Opinion Nationale, referring to the paragraph in question, observes that if the Senate adopts it, it will have pledged itself more distinctly than ever to the maintenance of the temporal pa wer. Le Pays, judging from the favourable reception met with by the Address, believes that the debates upon it will neither be very animated nor very pro longed. It applauds the calmness of its tone especially as regards Italian affairs, and hopes that advantage will be taken of the present lull to reconcile the interests of Rome and Turin. Le Constztutionnel is enthusiastic on the subjec of the Emperor's Address to the French exhibitors. It was more, it observes, than rewards given to en terprising workers, it was the consecration of the triumph of a grand idea, and the triumph, also, of a Sovereign who, notwithstanding prejudices and obstacles, had reckoned on the forces of that nation which he governs, and which he knows so well to conduct to victory on the battlefields of peace as well as of war. The speech of the Emperor was the crowning of one of the most fruitful acts of his reign. The Corps Legislatif, yesterday, voted unani mously, immediately after the reading of the report of M. Pouyer-Quartier, the credit of 5,000,000 fr., asked by the Government for the operatives in the cotton districts. In the Sleds we meet with a long account of the execution of Ronca. This triple assassin expiated his crime last Thursday at Aix. It is worthy of remark that the man who nearly fell a victim to this murderer's attempt has since died in consequence of the excitement and the emotions of that sad event. An immense crowd assembled to witness the execu tion, and from the preceding day the inhabitants of the neighbouring localities had stationed themselves in the vicinity. The courage of the unhappy man completely gave way at the last, and the execu • tioners were obliged almost to carry him to the scaffold. This terrible scene appears to have caused a considerable sensation among the spectators, BOURSE, Jan. 27.—The market continues heavy in consequence of a further decline in Consols, but the price of yesterday is well maintained at 691 r. 85c. for Threes, for the Account. Railway Share Market also dull. The market closed as follows Bank Shares 3400 Credit p Dueler Piedmontese Fives. Italian Loan 7O Russian Austrian .. B3 25 Spaniel]. Threes 5O 25 Home Debt 4i per Cents. 9B 60 Do. end 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 75 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1152 50 Do, end month 1150 BAIL" _ AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ICBO .. 1080 Northern .. 1027 60 .. 1025 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1152 50 1152 50 Geneva 4OO .. 400 ~.. __ Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon.bard North of Spain Saragossa. Ditto to Barcelona Mrs. Sheridan Knowles, formerly Mi ss Elphin stone, and now th e w id ow of the cele b ra t e d d r amatist, is likely to receive a pension for life, on the recommendation of Lord Palmerston, The Sardinia and Sicily Telegraph Cable. To secure a more immediate and closer connexion with Sicily and Southern Daly, and to have a rorre !or the Indian telegraphic triAc other than that through the disturbed district of the Calabrias, the Indian Government decided to lay a cable from the south-west part of the Island of Sardinia, near Cag liari, to a point in Sicily between Trapani and Marsala ; and Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., the well-known contractors for submarine telegraphs, engaged to make, lay, and maintain a submarine communication between those places. The main cable consists of a seven-strand copper wire covered with three coats of gutta percha and three of compound to a diameter of three-eighths of an inch, then served with tarred yarn, and closed with 14 No. 10 gauge best charcoal bright iro❑ wire. Its weight in air is two tons per nautical mile, with a specific gravity of 2-68, and it bears a strain of nearly seven tons. The shore end is the same core, served with tarred yarn, and closed with 12 No. 2 gauge best annealed iron wire. It neighs seven tons per nautical mile, and will bear a strain of about 20 tons. The screw steamer Hawthorns, 1,000 tons burden, which had just completed the Ziuclvoort cable for the same firm, having had an iron tank 24ft. in diameter and 14ft. deep fitted in her, and the cable coiled into it, left Greenhithe on the sth of December last, and arrived at Cagliari on the 17th. Mr. Canning joined her on the 22d, having travelled by Turin, and after several soundings had been taken along the proposed route, and wait ing for favourable weather, on Monday, the 29th of December, at 11 a.m., the end was landed at Porto Gionco, a little to the northward of the Cavali light, Cape Carbonara, where there was a fine sandy beach, and deep water half a mile from it. The paddle war steamer Malfatano had been de tailed by the Italian Government to pilot the course, as the compasses of a ship paying out cable cannot be relied upon, owing to the constant changing of the mass of iron cable on board, and to assist the Hawthorns in case it was required. The captain of the Malfatano having some further soundings to take left on the 24th of December, having notice that the work of laying would commence on the following morning if it was fine. Accerdingly at 2 p.m., with a smooth sea, the Hawthorns began paying out, although the Malfatano had not re turned, as a fine day could not be risked, owing to the weather being so very changeable and bois terous at this season. After three miles of the heavy shore-end cable had been laid (depth of water 150 fathoms) the change was made to the main cable, and the course set S.S.E., to bring the cable into the shoal water north of the Keith Reef, on the Skerki or Esquerquis Bank, distant 100 miles, after which it was intended to steer E. until abreast of the island of Maritimo. This course was selected, as accurate soundings have been taken on it at various times by the Eng lish Hydrographical Department, and no one but those actually engaged can appreciate the full ad vantages of laying a cable over a route which has been thoroughly and carefully sounded. At daybreak next morning a buoy which had been placed on the Keith shoal ought to have been in sight. The ship during the night went about six knots, and it was very interesting to note by the varying indications of the dynamometer the different changes in the depth. From 9. p.m. on the 29th to 2 a.m. on the 30th the greatest depth was met with, and at 11 p.m., in the middle of it, a barque gave great anxiety by constantly crossing the bows and keeping abreast of the Hawthorns, curious to know what was doing with so many lights about the ship. Had she known the trouble she was causing she would no doubt have altered her course. It is a pity that the excellent arrange ments of the Board of Trade for the protection of telegraph ships when engaged with cables are not better known among shipping, as a cable ship,when at work is unable to go out of her course without great risk and danger to the cable. The regulations are—" That a telegraph ship shall, when at work, carry at night two bright red lights, hung vertically below the white light at the foremast head, each of the intervals between the lights to be four feet. By day—two opaque black balls hung vertically from the foremast head. The lower ball to be four feet from the upper, and each ball to be three feet in diameter." At midnig h t a steamer was sighted, apparently brought up; the Hawthorns sent up a rocket, hop ing it was her lost consort, the Malfatano, but no reply was received. At 8 a.rn. it was found by observation that the ship had been out of her course. A sounding gave 150 fathoms, sandy bottom ; and the ship was headed to the eastward. At noon it was found that the ship had been carried by the very uncertain currents which prevail hereletween 14 and 15 miles to the south-west of the arranged course, and also that there was not sufficient cable in the ship to reach the destination. " Imray's Sailing Direc tions for the Mediterranean," at page 140, speaking of the Skerki Bank, &c., says :—" The currents run ning so strongly, and without any positive direc tion, render this part of the Mediterranean ex tremely difficult to navigate," &c. At 12 30 p.m. the island of Maritimo was sighted, distant by observation 43 miles, and Mr. Canning decided to run the cable into shoal water there. Set ting the course for Maritimo direct, it was found that more currents were running; but, having the island in sight, the helm was altered accordingly. At 3 p.m. there was a heavy and increasing swell. At 7 p.m. the ship was abreast of Ma ritimo, and, as the wind and sea were increasing, with signs of bad weather, the end of the cable was sealed and buoyed about mile from the shore, in 60 fathoms water, and the ship stood off and on until daylight, intending to land the end; but next morning it blew a gale of wind, and she went for shelter to Farignano, where the Malfatano, her in tended escort, joined her, and both steamed into Trapani to wait answer to a request transmitted through the cable to London, that the surplus Malta and Alexandria cable, which was landed at Malta in Sept., 1861, might be used to complete this work. On Saturday, January 3, the Hawthorns left for Malta, shipped the extra cable required, returned here, and after waiting for flue weather until Jan. 12, it was thought a fine day had been secured; The end of the cable was picked up, the splice made, and paying out recommenced, but the ship had not gone many miles before she met a very heavy short beam sea, making the proposed landing place a lee shore. At 10 p.m. it was very dark, with a low shore and reefs about the Hawthorns, so she let go her anchor. At daybreak she ran within a mile of the landing place, but, as there were too much wind and sea to trust the boats in landing the end, the cable was cut and buoyed. In England we hear about the beautiful smooth sea that is always to be met with in the Mediter ranean at this season, but unfortunately this is not the case. You do get a very fine day now and then, but it changes very suddenly, and a nasty sea soon gets up. The sea on Wednesday was really smooth, and the Hawthorns appreciated it, for the cable had:to be carried by her raft of boats over very shallow water to the landing place. At four p.m. the end was put into an old Saracenic tower called Torre Nubia, distant about one and a half miles from Trapani and twelve from Marsala. A message from the agents of the Italian Government, who were on board during the operations, was sent through the cable, via Cagliari, to the Director- General of Telegraphs at Turin, announcing the successful completion and the very satisfactory state of the tests. The electrical arrangements during the p lying out of the cable were superintended by Mr. C. V. de Sauty, and were similar to those used in the Al gerine, Corsican, Malta, Wexford, Zaudvoort, and previous cables, and everything went well during the work. The cable has from the first tested very well ; it has slightly but steadily improved during the pro cess of immersion, and from the final tests there is every reason to hope this will be a permanent and lasting cable. The length payed out was 211 nau tical miles. It could have been wished that a cable with a less specific gravity had been chosen for the depths which were encountered in this route, as unless careful ex periments are previously made to determine the pro per materials with which the cable shall be con structed, having a due regard to the depth of water and the strength of the cable, the risk of successful immersion and of its permanent durability is very materially increased. The paying -out machinery was designed by Messrs. Canning and Clifford, and is the same as that used by them in laying the cables before men tioned. It worked well and smoothly., r Bcrq 4 , v 44 1,, ,- dititrr*lGN DlE..Cirtulat HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 27. The Queen and Princess Helena, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, drove out yesterday. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse also drove out. The Prince of Wales. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 27. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to make the following appointments : Sir William Dunbar, Bart., M.P., to be Keeper of the Privy Seal of his Royal Highness. Sir William John Alexander, Bart., Q.C., to be Attorney.. General of his Royal Highness. To be the Council of his Royal Highness : The Duke of Newcastle, K.G., Lord Warden of the Stannaries. Sir William Dunbar, Bart., mx., Keeper of the Privy Seal. Sir William John Alexander, Bart., Q.C., Attorney 6reneral. Colonel the Honourable Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, K.C.8., Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall. Lieut.-General William Thomas Knollys, Comptroller and Treasurer of the Household of his Royal Highness. The Lord Portman. The Prince of Wales visited Marlborough House yesterday. His Royal Highness, attended by Lieutenant- General Kilollys and Captain Grey, honoured the perform ance at the Adelphi Theatre last evening with his presence. A public meting was held at the Town• hall, Windsor, yesterday, for the purpose of making arrange ments to give a proper reception to the Princess Alex andra of Denmark on her arrival at the Castle. The Mayor was called to the chair. A resolution was pro posed, in an appropriate speech, by Mr. Vansittart, M.P., to the Effect that on the occasion of the ap proaching marriage of the Prince of Wales with her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the inhabitants of Windsor should manifest their loyalty by giving the illustrious Princess a cordial welcome. He con gratulated the inhabitants of Windsor on the honour which was about to be conferred on their good town by the cele bration of the marriage within its precincts. The motion was seconded by Captain Seymour. The Vicar of Windsor moved a resolution that congratulatory addresses to the Queen and the Prince of Wales should be prepared. Other resolutions were adopted for carrying out the necessary arrangements for the erection of triumphal arches, illumi nations, a public ball, a public dinner, and a distribution of money to the poor. Upwards of £3OO was subscribed in the hall, Mr. Vansittart heading the list for £5O. After a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting broke up. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in London on Monday evening from his seat, Clumber Park, Notts. The Duchess of Inverness entertained at dinner last evening, at her apartments in Kensington Palace, his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency the Portuguese Minis ter, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, Hon. Gerald and Lady Maria Ponsonby, Mr. George Ruz sell and Lady Char lotte Russell, Miss Adelaide Gore, Mr. Wm. Peel, Sc. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll arrived at their residence on Campden-hill yesterday. The Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and the Ladies Geraldine and Edith Somerset are still staying at Badminton. The Earl and Countess of Airlie and family are expected at Holly Lodge, Campden-hill, early next week from Cortachy Castle, Forfarshire. The Earl Russell will leave Pembroke Lodge to day for Osborne. The Earl and Countess Delawarr and family will leave town in a few days for Hastings. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln have left Brighton for Hastings. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan are enter taining a select circle at Deene Park, amongst whom aro the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the Hon. Henry Forester, Colonel and Mrs. Charles Baring, Captain and Mrs. Bulkeley, Mr. Cathcart, Mr. Bernal and Mr. Dorrien Magens, Lord Gardner, the Hon. Julian Fane, &c. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from his seat, Broadlands, Hants. Lord and Lady Cremorne have arrived at their residence in Curzon-street, from Dartrey House, county Monaghan. Lord Forbes and the Hon. Courteurty Forbes have arrived at Brighton from the North. The Bight Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, M.P., was prevented attending the Cabinet Council held yesterday by indisposition, the right hon. gentleman being confined to his residence by a severe cold. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Rus sell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner:Gibson, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Aldeiley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. MARRIAGES IN INDIA.—•A bill has been intro duced in the Legislative Council of India to legalise all marriages of Christians in India contracted since 1851 in the presence of persons not in holy orders, and to prevent all doubts as to the legality of Dissenters' and native Chris tians' marriages for the future, caused by the decision of the House of Lords that the English common law applies to Indian marriages. As native Christians in thousands are scattered over parts of India under pastors of their own race, far from clergymen and marriage registrars, persons are to be appointed for this class to register in a simple form, Lefore witnesses, the consent of a oouple to become man and wife. Being Christians they are to be subject to the Chris tian law of affinity and consanguinity, and polygamy is not permitted. CHILD MURDER IN HOXTON.—Yesterday morn ing an inquiry was held by Mr. H. R. Walthew, the deputy-coroner, at the Black Horse Tavern, Kingsland road, respecting the death of a fenlale child, found mur dered in Hoxton-square, under the following circumstances —William Wright said that he was keeper of the square, and last Wednesday morning, while going his rounds, he found a large canvas bag lying on the pavement. It con tained the body of deceased child. The bag had evidently belonged to a wholesale grocer, and it was marked with the letters "T. R.," in a diamond. The bag had not been in the place where he found it four minutes before it was picked up, but he saw no one going towards the spot with a bundle. He gave the child to the police. Dr. J. Cluer Griffith, police-surgeon, said that deceased was a fully-de veloped healthy child. It had been killed by a blow on the side of the head, the injury from which was quite apparent. There appeared to have been also some bruises on the face from blows or pressure. The Coroner summed up, and ex pressed a hope that in this instance, at all events, the police might be able to follow out the clue to the perpetrators of the murder. The discovery and punishment of the offenders in even one such case might do much to check the shocking practice of child murder, but he had little hope of seeing it put an end to until the laws on the subject were altered. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and recommended that the authorities should offer a reward for the apprehension of the guilty parties. A CHILD KILLED BY CAMPHOR.—On Monday Mr. W. Carter held an inquiry at the Dun Cow Tavern, High-street, Peckham, on the body of Harriet Auna Castledine, aged 15 months, whose death took place under the following circumstances :—The child, it appeared, had not been well, and having asked for a drink, its father took from a shelf a bottle which he supposed contained medicine which it had been taking, and administered a teaspoonful of the mixture. Immediately he had done so his wife discovered that the bottle contained camphorated oil, whi,h had been supplied by Mr. Plummer, a chemist in the neighbourhood, and was so labelled. The wrong bottle had been taken, and the label had not been noticed. The child shook a great deal after taking the mixture, and the father immediately went to the chemist who supplied it, and was told he need not be alarmed, as camphorated oil was not injurious. The child, however, became worse in the course of the day, and was seized with convulsions. Medical assistance was called in, and though the child rallied for a short time, it died in 13 hours. The jury returned a verdict that the child died from the administra tion of camphorated oil given by misadventure. THE CAMPAGNA. this - ;agnificent amphitheatre lies the Campagna of Rome, and nothing can be more rich and varied, with every kind of beauty—sometimes, as around Ostia, flat as an American prairie, with miles of canni and reeds rustling in the wind, fields of exquisite feathery grasses waving to and fro, and forests of tall golden-truaked stone-pines poising their spreading umbrellas of rich green high in the air, and weaving a murmurous roof against the sun; sometimes drear, mysterious, and melancholy, as in the desolate stretches between Civita Vecchia and Rome, with lonely hollows and hi.l without a habitation, where sheep and oxen feed, and the wind roams over treeless and deserted slopes and silence makes its home; sometimes rolling like an inland sea whose waves have suddenly been checked and stiffened, green with grass, golden with grain, and gracious with myriads of wild flowers, where scarlet poppies blaze over acres and acres, and pink-frilled daisies cover the vast meadows, and pendant vines shroud the picturesque ruins of antique villas, aqueducts, and tombs, or Stoop from mediteval towers and fortresses.—Storys" Bac; ch. 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