The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-06 00:00:00

SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY. At 2s. M. each Person. SOUPS. Nevernaise. FISH. Soles, Maitre d'Hotel. Fried Whitings. ENTREES. Veal Cutlets aux Fines Herber. Toulouese. JOINTS. Stewed Beef. Roast Mutton. SWEETS. Puddings ala Royale. Lemon Jellies. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOSELLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for the London Dinner. THE LONDON. 191, FLEET-STREET. Hare. Vol au Vents a la CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. NOTICE.--ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT LES FRERES ATHOS. From the Cari2nan Theatre, Turin. Master EDWIN SAUNDERS, the Child of Song. THE NEAPOLITAN MINSTRELS. GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and CANTATAS. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, and Sh'nor Tivoli. Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans. - The celebrated UNSWOR I ITS NEW S'l UMP SPEECH - , The only Negro Orator of the day. EUGENE and DULEY, with new Eccentricities. ARTHUR LLOYD, Miss SAUNDER S, and Mr. HILTON, the Comic Ventriloquist and Modern Magician, EVERY EVENING. THOXF O R D, 6 , OXFORD STREET. "TH K 1 ROSE OF DENMARK," Sung every Evening by Miss Russell and the entire Company, also The New Cantata, by Herr Meyer Lutz, " HERNE THE I 'LINTER," ALCESTE, ERNANI, N BTJCO, and other Operatic , Supported by Miss Russell, Selections Miss Townley, and Miss °eaten, Mr. Green, Mr. Bernardi, Mr. J, B. Huish, and Mr. Albert, with full band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jong,hm.ns. Drew Dean's Flute Solos Ballads by Master Edwin Sanders, the juvenile vocalist, aged years. George Hodson's Irish, Miscellaneous, and Ventriloquial Entertainment linsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Scene. and Dances. a New Comisaiftfea. „1 = MisisCarolintl'arlooal and Terpsichorean Blietehes, and other.varied attractions. THIS EVENING. ARTHUR and BERTRAND will make their first appearance. Hall, 6d.—Balcony and Stalls, ls.—Private Boxes, lOs. 6d. MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED. with MR. JOHN PARRY—TO-NIGHT, at Eight, in an ENTIRELY NEW ENTERTAINMENT. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regmt-street.— Unreserve I Seats, Is., 2s. ; Stalls, Is. ; Stall Chairs, Ss. M JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. At the ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Continued success of J. LEVY, the celebrated Cornet-a- Piston ! Piave. Nightly, at Nine and Ten o'clock, one of his admired Solos, also at Eleven, Variations, "The Carnival de Venise." Revival of the Scotch Fantasia and Irish Quadrille, by M. Jullien. Solos by Tyler , , King, Horton, M'Ele^ey, &c. C ava ti na, `Di Nabuco,' on the Ituphonium. uy L. Mosca. Doors open at Eight o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager, Mons. GRENET. T HE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, containing the Wonders of Nature and Art. shown b innumerable Models, illustrating every part of the Human y Frame ; together with a variety of Natural Preparations, Malformations, monstrosities, ; also the Moving Ana tomical Dying Zonave, and other life-size figures. Open daily from 11 to 10, for Gentlemen only. Admission, One shilling. Entrance-44 A, Maddox-street, Regent-str ee t , London, W. Illustrated throughoutree by post for 12 stamps, sealed 20. Explanations the day. Lecture at 4. Address the Secretary, as above. THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 505., a new Instrument, by Negretti and Zambra, will cor rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls for Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden ; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION . (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATloNtsa—ller Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESID ENT — Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, 8.G., F.R.S. CITAIRBIAN—Thoa. Raring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. PEPUTY-ClIAIRMAN—Thornas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since 'he beginning of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments , in the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, ,ind other means, since its formation, is 12,500 ; for which services 52 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and . - £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67.e00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-eart 'ages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during, the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet or 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Dreply sensib, however, of the great responsibility that revs on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, whi h can only be effected by a large and pe manent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions : X s d Her Majesty th e Q ueen • .. annual 50 0 . 0 Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. Cr. • .. annual 5 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, 8.A... annual 1 1 0 Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers ~ • annual 10 0 0 Currie, Wm., ll:sq., .. • . .. 4th don 10 0 0 Erle, Lord Chi e f J us ti ce • • . don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 F enwlek, G. J., Esq , cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage • .••250 0 0 Harvey, R ev . G. G. an d M rs. .. don. 3 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. •• •• .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. • •• .. don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. • • 30 0 Stirling Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .• annual 2 0 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship •• •• •• •• •• •• 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Su ,, scriptions will be thankfully re reived by the Bankers of the Institution, 3fessrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Ceutts and Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. Berries Farauhar. and Co., 16, St. James's-street, L on d on ; by a' l' the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the 'UnitedKingdom ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. W.C. Lord Ann esley Lord Canterbury Lord Hartington Lord Set ton LordWestmoreland Sir L. Newman Col. Forester Col. C. P. Leslie Capt. Christie Capt. White Mr. G. Anzell ➢ir. Barber LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING . - SECOND DAY.— TUESDAY, JULY 14.—The LIVER root CUP, in specie, value 2'4 sovs. given by the Lessee, added to a /I andicap .weep takes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declar d on a day hereafter to be named, to Messrs. Weatherby, London; or to M. W. Topham, Clerk of the Course, Chester; the winner of any sweepstakes, cup, cup stakes, or plate, of the clear value of 500 soy- , alter she weights appear 513, two of such races 101 b extra, but this in any case to be the extreme penalty; the winner of the Manchester Union or Trades Cup, Ascot Stakes, Northumberland Plate, or Cumberland Plate, Inlb extra ; or of any other handicap race of the value of 200 Boys clear 51b, of 400 71b, or of any two of such last mentioned handicaps 81b extra ; the winner to pay 30 sovs to the judge, and 20 soya towards expenses of the course ; second to save his stake; two miles. Weights to be published in due time. ESENT SUBSCRIBERS. Mr. J. Bennett ' Mr. Jackson Mr. R. Bignell Mr. W. Lynn Mr. W. G. Craven Mr. J. Merry Mr. Dawson Mr. W. Owen Mr. Dicas Mr. Payne Mr. Frail Mr. W. R.lnh Mr. V. Hall Mr. R. Riddell Mr. Hargreaves Mr. R. Riddell Mr. Hart Mr. Saxon Mr. "odeman Mr. .T. Scott 1 Mr. T. Hughes M r . F . S w i n i e ll Mr. T. Hughes If the highest weigh - accepting be under Sst 121 b, it will be raised to that, and the others in proportion. The MERSEY STAKES of 1 5 sovs each, 5 ft, with 50 soya added, for two year olds ; colts Set 101 b, and fillies Rat 71b ; second to 'aye his stake : winners of 100 sovs clear 51b, 200 or more 81b extra, but not to be accumulative ; 8 subs or no race; T.Y.C. THIR 1) DAY.—WEDNESDAY, JULY 15.—The STANLEY STARES of 15 SOPS each, 5 ft, with 50 soya added, for two and three year olds ; two year olds 7st 41b, three 9st ; fillies and geldings allowed 21b; winners of plates or sweepstakes in the present year amounting to 100 Bove clear to carry 51b, 200 or more Blh extra, handicaps excepted ; the winner to pay 10 sovs to the fund; T.Y.C. PRESENT SUBSCRIBERS. Lord Annesley, Mr. W. G. Craven, I Mr. G. Payne. In all races, at Liverpool, where fewer than three horses start, the added money will be withheld. The Stanley Stales closes on Tuesday, the 17th of March, and names the evening preceding the race; and the Cup and Mersey Stakes also close and name on Tuesday, the 17th of March, being the Tuesday following the Liverpool Spring Meeting. Nominations received by Memsrs.Weatherby, London ,• Mr. Ti Johnson, St. Mary' a , Y ork ; and Mr. E. W. Topham, Chester. St TR ATFORD-ON- AVON STEEPLF • CHASES K} will take pace over the Borden Hill Grou n d, on Wed nesday, April 8, 18d3 The STRATFottp-ON-AVON OPEN STEEPLE CTIASE 'Han dicap) of 10 sovs each. 5 it, and 2 only if declared on or betr, r , Thursday, April 186 q, with , 0 soya added, over stout tour mil a of fair hunting country ; the winner of a"y handicap steeple chase, after the weights are declared, to carry lb extra ; the winner to pay 10 s vs towards expenses, and the mnd horse t , save his stake. To close and nam' to Capt. Hamilton, Shottery, Stratford-on-Av ,, n, on or before Mon day, March 23,1-83 ; weights to appear in " Bell's Life," on the 29th day of March ; the 5 soya ft, name of horse, and colours of rider to be enclosed tocrether, or the nomination will not be received ' • three horses to start or the publ ic money will not he added. The HUNTERS' 'TARES of 5 soya each, 3 forfeit, with 30 ?ova added, over about four miles of fair hunting country, for horses that have been regularly hunted with any established pack of foxhounds in the season 1862-63 ; lour years 12st, five f years 12i4 71h, six and aged 130; winners 71b extra; r onal riders 71b extra ; the winner to pay 5 soya to wardsShote expenses. To close and name to Capt. Hamilton, the 3 1 7, Stratford-on-Avon, on or before March 2 3 1863 ; sovs ft, name of horse, and colours of rider to be en trog,•ether, or the nomination will not be received three The l4es to start, or the public money will not be added. 13st 71b WET Cur ad led to a Sweer stakes of 10 sovs eac'i • ; about three miles ; a winner of 100 cove to carry 711; extra, and nation of 200 sovs 141 b extra ; gentlemen riders : Lore ' wittl erance-money, name of horse, and colours of rider, to be se nt to Capt. Hamilton, on or before Wednesday, April 1,1853. he FARMER A With '5 soya adderll7o TRADESMEN S STAKES of 2 soya each, rhorses bona fide and unconditionally the property of far mers A : r )r tradesmen residing within fifteen tradesmen, miles of Stratford. o ,_ ing stable for six months from and that have not been in a train reosm date of entry ; 12st each ; to be rid 'en by farmers, In ra en, or their sons ; winners of any steep or hurdle ( I . olb extra. To close and name (with entrance money) tepewa e pt. Hamilton, Shottery, St ratford-on- Avon. on or before dnesday, April 1; about three miles ; three horses to start, or the public money will not be added. Sir CFIARLES MORDAUNT, Bart. ltr Sir ROBERT HAMILTON, B art , K.C.B Capt. PEACH. •, Hon. W. H. NORTH, Stewards Lord CONYERS, F. W. HAMILTON, Shottery, Stratford -on-Avon, 110 secretary aud Treasurer. N°. 22,080 NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE Also now ready, in 3 vols., ST. OLAVE'S. A Novel. Hurst and Blackett, 13, GI eat Marlborough-street. DESERTED HOUSE OF HAWKSWORTII. This Day, Demy Octavo, price 55., UTILITARIANISM. By JOHN STUART MILL. Reprinted from " Fraser's Magazine." London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. SALE OF CHIPS, SAWDUST AND SHAVINGS, (to. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the SECRETARY of SPATE far WAR is prepared to receive TENDERS for the REMOVAL of the CHIP, SAWDUST, SHAVINGS, & 1, which may accumulate at ilie Royal Carriage Department, Woolwich, during a period of three years from the at April, 1863. Tenders must be made upon the proper printed form, wh ch may be obtained on application to the Director of Contracts, War-office, Pall-mall; or to the Superintendent of toe Royal Carriage Department, Woolwich ; and are to b? &livered at -the War-office, on or before the 9th April, 186:3, addressed to the Tinder Secretary of State for war, and marked on the outside, "Tender for Removal of Chips, The Secretary of State reserves the right of rejecting any or all of the Tenders. THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts. War-office, March 31, 1863. NOTICE TO BEST GUNMAKERS. THE SECRETARY of STATE for WAR desires to call the attention of beet Gunmakers to a consider able quantity of best quality GUN STOCKS. suitable for first-class Sporting Guns, which it is intended to SELL by TENDER. These Stocks have accumulated in the Government Stores in recent years. and are thoroughly seasoned and fit for im mediate use. The Stocks are lotted in small parcels, and are to be viewed at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, on any day of the week ;xcer t Saturday, on application to the Superintend: nt, for fourteen days from this date. Forms of tender are to be obtained on application to the Director of Contracts, War-office, Pall-mall, or to the Super intendent of the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield ; and are to be delivered at the War-office, Pall-mall, on or before the 14th April, 186.3, addressed to the Under Secretary of State for War, and marked on the outside •• Tender for Gun Stocks." Tne Secretary of State reserves the right of rejecting any or all of the tenders. THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts. War-office, March 30, 1863. THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those made by ELSTOB, of 60, New Bond•street. They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy as purchasers. "In media via tutissimus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER PAIR. T"' -By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few hours by mesas of his patented soft elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing with springs or unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by toe closest observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed tc last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains his invention, post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor street, Bond-street, London ; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. O S T Paten E t, Ma o rch 1, 18 E 62, N 1 0. 50 D 0. 0 N t GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEE PH and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, ,•Jrings, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION, even when all others fail. Purest ma terials only, at half the usual -ost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON ; 05, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 guineas. One visit only required from country patients. Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. ConsaltatiDno free. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre axed without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. -cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and tiver complaints, indigestion, wind. 4pasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera qon and grateful to the stomach, they create appe ite,, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, Ring William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert." engraved on the stamp. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail. way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. _ _ This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of eovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, It gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas erman, Esq. , Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Mains, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the HospitaL STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAJ LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT i.XHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, 's here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Roc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the dr mmterence of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Plo3adilly. A Single Truss, 165., 218., 265. Bd., and 315. 6d. Postage, ls. k Double Truss, 315. 6d., 425., and 528. 6d. Postage, 18 kn Umbilical Truss, 425. and 528. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post. office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of she Legs, Sprains, &a They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 75. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228. Plocadilly. °HESTER MEETING.' NJ The following races close and name on Tuesday next, the 17th of Mar.h. For conditions see Sheet Calendar and Ro-k Calendar. Nomination 4 received by Messrs. Weatherby, London ; Mr. R. Johnson, St. Mary's, York ; and Mr. E. W. Topham, Chester. The Palatine Cup Stakes. The Wynnstay Handicap. A Handicap Plate of 60 sovs. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each. The Eton Stakes (Handicap). A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. Handicap of 70 soya. '1 he Marquis of Westminster's Plate. The ('heahire Welter Cup. Handicap of 5 soya each. The Cheshire Stakes. The Stewards' Cup. A Handicap Plate of 60 sovs. In all races, where fewer than three horses start, the added money will be withheld. B E K R lm W m i e e rg K ha S m il e i -m ß a E ins, S w l t E m E nt P h L ie E emi C le H so A f S D E un S be , an a d t twelve of Berwick, on Wednesday, April 29th, 1863. L THE SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE of 100 sovs, added to a Free Handicap of 5 sovs each (in case of aoce( tance) ; the winner of any handicap steeple chase of the value of 50 sovs after the weights are published to carry 7 re albb o o n et; y ttrzr ai ; li the winner to pay 20 sovs towards expense", and the second to save hia stake ; five horses to start, or the added n(2..m0 mearowi„"ist n ,s3h o e l: be given with out the consent of the Stewards • J Itnapo:,:lreo:::::ritkaiw,oe, aoys e ee mil. s and s half over a eood huntin unt ' ntranoe,to go to the fund which must be remittedwith the entries, otherwise they wilenot be received. To close and ig th h e t, C i o 2 ur st se 7 , lb Dun H se a , n o d n ies o p r p b e e r f , o m re r 3l ß st . "B'B !:--uf--iour-lyrY STEEPLE CHASE of 60 soya., added to a ~ ' l . —The ir,' To w r e s e es that o l whalrbee"s e r _a_ch :a l r _forfeit to the fund, open to all houlndte; ii si the Earl 1 hor e to save hi 21h, six and aeed t n 4 S th eotland, a , nd with yawls in Northumberland • second 12st chase or hurdle race "—"; previo , five yr olds 12st value 50 us winners of any steeple pay 3 Fovs towards expenses Boys 71b extra the winner three to who has ridden for pay 71b grserainers, grooms , a half ; or any one M.—The TALLYHO HUNT .STEEPLE aided to a sweepstakes of 2 Bove each-- CHASE of 25 soya, for horses that have never won any steepl e forfeit to the fund: race, nor paid race horse duty Previous to chase or hurdle horses that have been regularly hunted in ° 4 88 3; oNen to all the Earl of Wemyss's Hounds in Northumberland ' ;e°an or with horse to save his stake; about three miles second and a half ; w eights and rid e rs same No. 2. IV.—The HUNTERS' SELLING STEEPLE CHASE o f 2 Roy . each, 1 forfeit to the fund, with 20 sovs added; the second to save his stake ; four year olds, list 41b ; five year olds, 12st 21b ; six and aged , 12st 71b ; the winner to be sold for 6o sovs: it entered t) be sold for 50 sovs allowed 71b, if for 40 soya 141 b, if for 30 soya 211 b, and it for 20 sovs 281 b; the winner to be Fold immediately after the race, and the surplus to go to the race fund; three horses to start, or the added money will not be given : about three miles and a half. Nos.'? and 3 being intended for bona fide hunters only, cer tificates e ro from the respective m asters of hounds must b p nly duced before starting, if requ ired, that they have not o been regularly hunted, but ridden to hounds, and must not have been in a public training stable in 1.63. Entries for Nos. 2 and 3 to be made to the Clerk of the Course, Dunse, on or before the 21st April, and objections to qualification oi hor,es to be made to him in writing not later than Monday, 27th ApriL Colours to be declared at time of entry for each race. BOSWALL, Bart, Sir DAVID BAIRD, Bart, Stewards: Major INNES, Major L'AMY , T. B, KELLIE. Clerk of Course. - ~~ C~ A __ ~_~~ L ---'' ....,--- ---'- , f15 , ,, (1,";; ;74 jj : ei ( # 7l ) t A Op. , , At e 71,/ 4 0 .. - - DIE 7' 4 '1111".."7"7"-•":"..**)' STAMPED ....sd. coasts of Syria and Alexandria. From Smyrna we learn that her Majesty's gunboat Wanderer,4, Com mander M. C. Seymour, was detained there by her Majesty's Consul, in con se q uence of apprehended disturbances between the Jews and Greeks during the festivities of Holy Week. Some disturbAnces had already occurred, in w hich two Jews w re so maltreated that they were not expected to live. Sixty Greeks were arrested in connexion with this affray, and a special commission was sitting to exa mine into it. Her Majesty's despatch boat Cara doc, Lieut. E. Wilkinson, arrived at Malta on the 28th inst., 39 days from Plymouth, Lisbon, Gibral tar and Algiers, to j )in the fket on the Mcditer ranean station. Mr. H. H. P. Shanks, Assistant- Paymaster, R.N., passed through Malta to-day by the Southampton steamer for Alexandria en route to Slrtnghae; where be has been appointed to the poet of Assist. -Storekeeper to the expedition under the command of Captain Sherard Osborn, with a salary of £7OO per annum. The appointment of Store keeper is already filled by Mr. H. S. Collins, Pay master, R.N., who receives a salary of £2,000, besides other advantages. The Pandora, 4, screw gun-vessel, Commander Ruxton, tested her speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay on Saturday, but, from attendant cir cumstances, will probably repeat the trial before sailing for bar destination, the West Coast of Africa. The Pandora's armament comprises one 110-pounder, two 20-pounders and tw0,12-pounders, all Armstrong breech-loaders. The Cnragoa, steam-frigate, and the Esk, screw corvette, fitting in the steam basin at Portsmouth, and now completing in their rig, storing, and arma ment, are expected to hoist their pennants of com mission almost immediately. Both ships have un dergone very elaborate and expensive repairs. The armaments of the two vessels have been supplied as follows :—The Caragoa—Ona 110-pounder, 6 40- pounders, and 2 12-pounders, breach -loading Arm strongs; 16 8-inch, of 65 cwt. each, 1 12-pounder howitzer, and 1 6-pounder smooth bore. The Esk —One 110-pounder, four 40-pounders, and one 12- pounder, breach-loading Armstrongs; 16 8-inch of 52 cwt. each, one 12-pounder howitzer, and one 6- pounder smooth bores. THE ARMY. Major Dunne, 99th Regiment, sailed in the Ripon the 4th inst., from Southampton for China. Major-General Lord William Paulet, C. 8., com manding the South-West Military District, attended by his staff, Colonel C. Somerset, C.B , Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General; Colonel Thack welt, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, and Capt. Milligan, Aide-de-Camp, has been at Brighton since Wednesday, superintending the preparations made for the grand Volunteer review of this day. .___ 7 Appalling Accident to an Express Train. STAMFORD, April 5. An express train on the Great Northern Rail way, travelling at the ordinary speed of 40 miles an hour, was literally dashed to pieces on Saturday evening, and yet, wonderful to relate, no lives were lost, although, of course, most of the passengers were severely hurt. The accident happened close to the Little Bytham station, about seven miles from Stamford. For some distance north of Little By tham the line runs along a high embankment, which on passing the village itself is elevated above the tops of the adjacent houses. Some 60 yards from the station are a series of what are• technically called "coal drops," by means of which coal trains are unloaded of their contents ; the coals passing through openings between the rails to the ground below, whence they are carted away. At this point the line appears to be elevated somewhere about 20ft. above the road below. On a siding over the coal drops stood a number of goods vans and cattle trucks on Saturday evening at the time of the ac cident, and to this circumstance must in a great measure be attributed the escape of any of the pas. sengers with their lives. An express train leaves Manchester for London a 3 p.m., and on Saturday it consisted of four compo site carriages, separated from the tender by a break van, the rear being brought up by a second break van, in which was the guard. The number of pas sengers is understood to have been between 20 and 30. At 6 o'clock the train had just passed Little Bytham village, and was within about 150 yards of the sta tion, the speed being, as already mentioned, at least 40 miles an hour, when the tire of the leading wheel of the engine suddenly snapped and flew off. The whole train immediately left the main line, ploughed up the ballast, and rushed through the metals of several sidings. The engine struck the first of the vans standing over the coal drops before mentioned. The noise of the shock is described as resembling the simultaneous discharge of a park of artillery, while the dust which was raised temporarily hid what had taken place from the view of those who were looking out from the station hard by. No descrip tion can convey any adequate idea of the wreck thus momentarily accomplished. Most of the cattle trucks and goods vans on the siding were completely shivered to fragments, the woodwork being detached from the wheels and strewn all round —strong tele • graph poles were snapped like slender reeds, and to add to the confusion the wires rendered temporarily useless for communication ; the engine and tender were " doubled up" in a way which plainly indi cates the terrible force of the collision, while the carriages of the train were shattered and piled about the embankment in a state of ruin which rendered it apparently hopeless to expect that any of the passengers could be found alive. One of the carriages, containing several persons, occupied a most extraordinary position ; the wheels at one end wore resting across the metals on the verge of the embankment, while the other end was sup ported by the telegraph wires, and thus prevented from falling a considerable depth. The accident occurring so near a station, assist ance was promptly rendered, and the terrified pas sengers were extricated from the fragments. Some were drawn through the windows of the dis mantled carriages. It was then found that happily no lives had been sacrificed, though many were stunned and bleeding. The chief sufferers among the passengers appeared to be Mr. and Mrs. Flet cher, of Holland-house , Clapham-common, who were on their way home from Newark. Mr. Fletc .d her s was severely cut about the head and face, b d es _ rs. hurt having sustained variou s other injuries ;Buontia M w ere Fletcher was still more severely . late of Har conveyed to an inn near the station, , wounds were dressed. Capt. Handley, the other suf evil ere their suf rowby, near Grantham, cut on the knee. :thrown with great ine to the ground, fe Chas.r e r s violence from his place o . n being feared that some of and is very badly hurt, it Clarke, h is ch chief fe driver,rY b ea l S l V is e n a a e f n his limbs are fractured, The stoker was thrown etowpoorfseofnoer of l e t he disaster. god little the The g uard als o esca p ed almost unh urt. Several of t he slightly wounded the passengers returned to tt.cir h o mes by a north train, and others proceeded on their journey by the Leeds express, which came up some time after the occurrence. Meanwhile, information of the accident was for warded to Peterborough and Grantham, and the medical officers of the district, including Messrs. Walker, Collingwood, Magor, Ferneley, and James, were conveyed to Little Bytham, with the least possible delay. They bestowed the attention which was necessary upon the wounded, and were enabled to leave in the course of the night. The " break down-gangs" from Peterborough and Grantham, with their powerful machinery and appliances, were soon engaged in clearing the main lines. They worked by the light of fires, made of the broken car riages ; and, as the greater part of the wreck was on the sidings, the general traffic was not long impeded. But for the obstruction offered by the trucks and vans standing on the siding the whole train must have gone over the embankment. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1863 AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Saturday. The Royal mail steamer Australasian has arrived bringing New York dates to the 25th of March. The Australasian was detained 26 hours at New York by fog. In furtherance of the new peace movement a special meeting of the Democratic General Com• mittee of Mcztrt-hall was held in New York, at which the following resolutions were enthusiasti cally agreed to : " 1. That the United States are a union of original, in destructible, and sovereign political communities called States; equal in political rights, independent in their re spective organizations, existing long precedent to the for mation of the Federal Constitution, and reserving to itself, at the time of making that great compact of union, every right, power, jurisdiction, and authority not therein and thereby specifically delegated to the Federal Government. " 2. That, while we assert our devotion to the Constitution and to the union of these States, and will, hereafter, as always, heretofore, support and respect the officials of the United States Government in the exercise of their lawful powers, we deliberately avow and announce that, in our judgment, the liberties of our people are at this time me naced and endangered by Federal usurpations,and can only be preserved to us by the energetic action of State autho rity ; and that we as citizens of the great and patriotic State of New York, are determined to maintain and defend the honour and the rights of our State and people. "3. That the masses of the American people throughout this whole land are now offering up their daily and heart felt prayers for peace, and demanding that this most un necessary, most ineffectual; most devastating,and most cruel war of modern times shall be brought to a close; that the Go verment at Washington must before long find itself power less to continue a conflict which the awakened judgment of a Christian and civilised people emphatically condemns and upon which the displeasure of Heaven would seem to have fallen ; that, in order to produce even a seeming and temporary unity of public sentiment at the North in favour of coercive war, it required the suppression of newspapers, the intimidation of the weak, and the lawless imprisonment of brave and consistent tribunes of the people in military bastiles, along with an unexampled profusion of the official favours of a corrupt administration, a lavish distribution of civil and military honours, and the shameless plunder of millions from the public treasury ; but now, after two years of this terrible fratricidal struggle, when hundreds of thou sands of our best and bravest youths lie in their bloody graves and the land is filled with mourning and suffering, while bankruptcy and grinding taxation are pressing upon us, and the declared object of the war has long sine. been lost sight of and abandoned, we recur to the words which Abraham Lincoln uttered on the day of his ill-omened inauguration, when he said, Suppose you go to war ? You cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain to either, you cease fighting, the identical questions are again upon you.' "4. That the policy of war having had a fair trial for two long, miserable, bloody years, and having failed to bring us, to all appearance, a single step nearer to the restoration of the Union, the people insist that a policy of peace should now be undertaken and attempted ; and that a convention should be called, as contemplated and provided for in such exigencies by the Constitution of the United States, at which convention all the States which were adhering to the Union on the Ist day of November, 1860, should be invited to be represented by delegates elected from their people, and that such a convention should be held at the earliest possible day, for the purpose of devising means for a reconstruction of the American Union and the restoration of peace. "5. That the Conscription Bill recently passed through Congress, and which is claimed by the Federal Government to be a law, is, in our judgment, grossly and palpably un constitutional in its provisions; that it is in direct violation of those express conditions and reservations as to the control of her militia, under which the sovereign State of New York entered into the Union ; that it is subver sive of the rights of State Governments, and designed to make them mere dependencies and provinces, to be ruled by military satraps, under a great, consolidated, usurping central despotism ; that the people everywhere should be awakened to the infamous distinction which it makes between rich and poor, whereby the former is allowed to buy his freedom for the sum of 300 dole., while the latter, unable to command that sum, is to be torn away from his employment, his home, and his family, and forced, at the point of the bayonet, into the ranks of the army; that we call upon the authorities of the State, in view of the in tolerable outrages of this conscription law, to advise the Executive of the United States against the enforcement of this Act here, until its constitutionality has been deter mined, with its provisions so repugnant to the sentiments of our citizens, and so insulting to their manhood and dignity as freemen. "6. That the Banking System,' recently enacted by the Congress of the United States, has been shown, by a few lines over the signature of the Republican Bank Superin tendent at Albany, to be in plain derogation and violation of the constitution ;and laws of the State of New York, inas much as it assumes to authorise the issue in this State of unsecured, worthless, and irredeemable paper money ; that, if our authorities were to suffer such a system to be imposed unlawfully upon our people, its effect would be destructive of every existing moneyed institution in the State, and the poeple would be beggared, that the Government and its fa vont ites might roll in ill-gotten wealth ; that this ingenious scheme was devised and designed to fasten upon us a vast centralised money power, more rapacious, more powerful, and more dangerous than 50 such national banks as Andrew Jackson overthrew; to erect a power which could grasp at every man's purse strings, and hold in its control the income of the millionaire and the daily wages of the poor labourer alike. a power unknown to the Constitution of the United States, and expresly forbidden and exorcised by the Consti tution of the State of New York. " 7. That the pretended enactment of Congress whereby Abraham Lincoln is deliberately created an absolute and despotic monarch, in all but name, and is authorised at his own discretion and pleasure to suspend and abrogate the great sacred charter of the personal freedom of 20,000,000 of American citizens—the writ of habeas corpus—and that too in States wherein no invasion or insurrection exists or has existed—we denounce as altogether unconstitutional, null, and void throughout; and we call for our protection upon the judiciary of the several courts of the State of New York, which were created and established by the people of this State. to maintain and viadicate its laws for the safety of the persons of our citizens. " 8. That we pledge our utmost influence to act in con junction with our fellow-citizens of other States to prevent the payment of a single dollar of the money of the people, wrung by taxation out of their hard earnings, which shall be appropriated from the Federal treasury for the emanci pation of negroes. "9. That we denounce the meetings recently gotten up in this and neighbouring cities, with the money and by the agency of office-holders, or would• be office holders, under Republican patronage, together with contractors, jobbers, and agents for Government plunder, for the purpose of or ganising' loyal leagues;' that in our judgment these leagues bear a marvellous and striking similarity to the Wide Awake Clubs of 1860, and appear to be controlled and offi cered by the very same class of men ; that we adjure all Democrats—if any there be—who have been seduced into these leagues under false pretences, to reflect whether the old Democratic party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson is not a sufficiently ' loyal' league to live and die in —that we point proudly to the historical evidence of the loyalty of the Democracy to the Constitution to be found in the fact that during the 60 years' ascendancy and control in the Federal Government, not one malcontent was convicted of treason, not one arbitrary arrest was made. not a single court or magistrate was impeded in legitimate powers, not one newspaper was suppressed, and not one drop of Ameri can blood was spilt for any political offence. We ask all men to contrast these 60 years with the two past years of Abolition ascendancy, and to remember that ' by their fruits ye shall know them.' " 10. That we tender our hearty congratulations to the Democracy of the Statesof Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, and New Hampshire, upon the glorious victories recently achieved by them in each of those states upon the common platform of opposition to the war for the emancipation of negroes and advocacy of convention of States, and we bid God speed to the gallant and fearless Democrats of the State of Connecticut, now grappling with their Abell.. tion opponents, and whose victory we anticipate and feel to be already half accomplished ; that we take this opportunity to assure Democrats everywhere, no matter what pensioned or cowed daily presses may say, the Island City stands firm; that our great majority of 30 odd thousand last fall has swollen to a much mightier majority since, and is increasing daily and hourly ; that the people of this great metropolis are for peace, for that peace which made us great, and prosperous, and powerful in times past; that four-fifths of our people have no interest in the blood money of war contracts ; that New Yorkers are not mere maniacs, ready to annihilate white That men, women, and children to liberate negroes ; that they are not wanton shedders of blood, but believers in the God of f peace and the Gospel of peace, hoping for peace, praying Institute on Friday or Pee , longing for peace, and whenever the polls are openedu. they will be found emphatically voting for peace. a public mass meeting be called at the Cooper ev th ening . , .the 3d day of April proximo, of arrangements for such • meeting, to give expressionyto city on public affairs, and e op t i ha ni t on th o e f cthhaei Democracy wltpow er o of this r appoint a tcommit tee co operate with any other committee that may be appointed for a similar purpose." Judge WCann and the Hon. Fernando Wood made speeches in the spirit of the resolutions. A Washington letter in the New York Times says that the question of the issue of letters of marque had not yet been affirmatively settled "That important matter is under Cabinet advisement. The main argument in favour of the issuance of the letters is understood to be the desire to provide additional means to thwart the voyages of the English privateer ships if they should succeed in getting to sea, In reply to this, it is urged upon the President that it will be impossible to organize a letter of marque of sufficient strength for that purpose, on the principle that underlies the whole system—compensa tions by booty. It would be otherwise, say the dissentients, if there were a profitable commerce to be seized. This question has been under discussion from time to time in Cabinet meetings for two weeks. It still goes on." The same paper, in a leader on the subject, after arguing that Northern privateers would lie effective against the Confederate cruisers, goes on to add " The time, indeed, may not be far distant when it will be both just and expedient to issue these commissions, not only against the Confederate flag, but against the English flag itself. The last Congress imposed no restrictions upon the authority of the President, for the express reason that it recognised the possibility of a necessity for making prompt reprisals upon British commerce before the next Congress shall assemble. There certainly is such a possibility. If the iron-clad ships which are now being built in England noto riously to depredate upon our commerce, under the rebel flag, be allowed to quit British waters, the Government ought not to wait an hour after hearing of the first 'capture made by one of them before commissioning American ves sels to make reprisals. At the last advices the Ministry had been interrogated in Parliament respecting the destined purpose of these vessels, and chose to answer that they had no legal proof on the subject. The same answer was given respecting the Alabama just prior to her leaving the Mer sey. Judging by that precedent, a moral certainty founded on circumstantial evidence, s uch as governs the ordinary conduct of States as well as of individuals, is not sufficient in this case. The proof must be sifted and analysed, and refined and sublimated into the very highest indubitable ness known to metaphysics ; so that the chance shall be a thousand to one that the pirates shall be well under way outside of the Channel before the process is completed. Our Administration, if it have a drop of American blood in its veins—and we know it has plenty of it—will stand no such trifling. The quiet toleration of one such imposition is quite enough. The excuses concerning the Alabama were treated with respect, because it was possible to reconcile them with good faith; but, after that lesson, the default, if repeated, can admit of no excuses, and, if such are made, they will de serve to be treated only with contempt. The launching of those vessels upon our commerce from the shores of Eng land should be taken by our Government on the instant as an act of deliberate war on her part against our commerce, and her own commerce should be made to answer for it." The Democratic members of the Indiana Legisla ture have issued a manifesto to the people of that State complaining of injudicious measures adopted for the suppression of the rebellion, and of the de spotic conduct of the Administration. An article in the Richmond Enquirer of the 21st contains the following : " The peace delusion is blown away. Neither from foreign intervention, nor from imperious decrees of King Cotton, nor from friendship of the North-west, nor from stupid rumours of demoralisation in Yankee armies, does any hope of peace dawn upon the land. We must fight or submit. If they can take Richmond, Charleston, and Vicks burg in six months, their financial credit is restored, and party feuds cease. The plain truth is, we are in the middle of war; and during coming spring and summer that war is to be more fierce and unrelenting than ever before. The Yankee enemy is just beginning to fight. Again Great Union meetings are the order of the day at the North. De mocrats bury the hatchet just lifted up against Lincoln. Vallandigham will soon stand where John Van Buren does.' The article winds up a most intense appeal for every man to be put in the army and every deserter returned." A Washington letter of the 22d, in the New York World, says :- 4 , The Government has advices from the West which are by no means cheering. The resistance to the arrest of de serters in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois will be succeeded by the obstruction of the Conscription Act, and a refusal to pay Excise taxes. Several governors of Western States, toge ther with influential citizens, had an interview with the President to-day on the subject, and measures to prevent such resistance have been taken. Governor Tod, of Ohio, who is a Democrat, it is presumed, will look to matters in Ohio under military authority. The sale of arms in all the principal Western cities has been stopped." The Richmond Despatch publishes the annexed " circular," addressed to the consular agents in the Confederate States : " Department of State, Richmond, Feb. 7. " Sir,—l have again to inform you of the raising of the blockade of two Southern ports by superior forces. This Government is officially informed of the total dispersion and disappearance of the blockading squadron recently stationed off Galveston harbour by the combined attack of land and n aval forces of the Confederacy. In this attack the enem y's s t eamer Harriet Lane was captured , and t he flagship of the squadron, the Westfield, was bl own u p and de stroyed. The blockade of the port of Galve ston is therefore at an end. The armed river boats which ra ised t he blockade at G a lveston then proceeded to Sabine ram; where they again a ttacked the enemy's blockaders, cap tured 13 gun s , a l arge qu antity of stores, and a number of prisoner. No blockad ing fleet now exists off Sabine Pass, and the steam ers o f the Confederacy were, at the last acc ounts, cruisin g off the Pass with no enemy in sight. This information is g i ven for the guidance of such of the merchants of your nation as may desire to trade with either of the open ports of Galves ton or Sabine Pass. " Respectfully your obedient servant, "J. P. BENJAIaIIf t Secretary of State." Some Federal prisoners arri ved at Washin g ton from Richmond give a start lin g account of the treatment they met with at the hands of the Con federates. In an interview with Judge-Advocate Holt it is stated— only four of th e ori " They related some startling stor ies of their punishment and imprisonment, they having be en captured b y blood hounds and confined in dungeons w ithout light for s evera l months, and handcuffed all the tinae. During last winter seven were taken out and hung, and ginal party of 22 are here, the rest having escaped whil e on their way from Knoxville to Richm ond, and but two were su bsequently heard from. These four now here will so on return to Ohio, where they belong. It is the intention o f the Government to adopt suitable Measures of retaliation, such as will deter the rebels from such harsh treatment of our prisoners in future." Federal accounts of the attack upon Fort Hudson have been published. The following was received at Washington, addressed to Colonel Stager, by steamer to New York : " (By Telegraph from Baton gouge, March 15. " Southwest Pass, Louisiana, March 15. "Commodore Farragut, leading in the Hartford, attacked the Fort Hudson batteries last night, at 11 o'clock, with his fleet. The steamer Mississippi ran aground, was aban doned, and burnt. The firing on both sides was rapid and severe. The army is within five miles of the enemy's works, in good spirits, and bound to win. Cavalry skirmishes have been the only fighting as yet. "C. S. BULKELEY, Assistant Superintendent of the Military Telegraph, Gulf Department." A Washington letter of the 23d says : " Information has been received by the Navy Depart ment to-day from Admiral Farragut's fleet on the Missis sippi, showing that the Admiral has safely made the passage by Port Hudson in the frigate Hartford, his flagship, and with his whole fleet, the Mississippi alone excepted. The destruction of the latter by burning was done by the order of Admiral Farragut, the vessel having got aground. The siege of Port Hudson will henceforth, therefore, be con ducted from above by the fleet, in co-operation with the land forces, which are only a few miles from the strong hold." Advices from New Orleans are to the 15th, They say : " On Monday, the 9th inst., a small rebel force was cap tured six miles below Port Hudson, together with the signal book containing the signals used in the rebel army. In con nection with this movement a detachment of our forces de stroyed the bridge across Comite river. A large number of vagrant negroes had been al rested in New Orleans. Gene ral Sherman is in command at the city during General Banks's absence. The prize steamer Peterhoff was still lying at Key West." The following are the latest despatches relative to the Yazoo Pass expedition and the siege of Ticks- burg : " St, Louis, March 21 "The Republican's Memphis despatch of the 20th says advices from Greenwood to Monday last are to the effect that the gunboat Chillicothe bombarded Fort Pemberton on Saturday and Sunday, but without decisive result. The rebel battery is so situated that it cannot be attacked by a land force on account of high water. The guns of the De Kalb have been taken ashore, and a land battery constructed near the rebel works. The rebel force is estimated at 6,000, under General Loring. Reinforcements are being rapidly sent to the seat of operations, and it is expected that our fleet will soon be able to reduce all the rebel fortifications on the Yazoo. "The Vicksburg Whig of the 11th says the crew of the Indianola, 92 in number, arrived there the day before." " Cincinnati, March 23. " Advices from the Yazoo Pass expedition represent that the movements are slow, but that there is every prospect of getting through successfully. Our forces had debarked near Greenwood and were besieging Fort Pemberton. A number of our transports were badly damaged in getting through ihe pass. The ram Lioness overhauled the steamer Parallel with 3,000 bales of cotton on the 10th inst., crowd ing her so closely that the rebels were compelled to run her ashore and burn her. The rebels burn the cotton ( n every plantation as the army advances " " Washington, March 23. " It is unt!er stood that the authorities here are in receipt of private despatches, leading to the belief that to-morrow or next day we shall have startling advices from 'Vicksburg. It is regarded as quite probable that Farragut has be ore this joined his fleet with that of Porter for a combined attack on the place Intelligence from Commodor Porter states that much sickness prevails in the rebel army at Vicksburg. He adds that the Yczoo expedition has been much delayed from sunken trees and other impediments in the channel. Gen. Hammon has despatches giving a good account of the health of Gen. Grant's army. It is thought that the choice for commander of the Department of the West lies between Generals Heintzelman and Siegel. The pressure for the immediate superseding of Curtis is very great. He was removed on the 9th inst., but was to have remained to hand over the department to the late Gen. Sumner." " Rear-Admiral Porter, in a second despatch, says he has received information from Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith that on the 7th inst. the whole expedition arrived in the Tallahatchie, which gives us control of the heart of Mississippi. The vessels all got through in fighting condi tion, except the Petrel, which lost her wheel entirely. This movement of the fleet evidently alarmed the rebels, as they are energetically at work preparing themselves against all contingencies. There is much distress in Vicksburg. The occupants have no meat, but are living almost exclusively ou corn meal. Secretary of the Interior Usher has returned from his visit to Indiana." " Washington, March 21.. "The startling intelligence received to-night from the Yazoo river,explain the mysterious rumours which prevailed in this city yesterday, relative to movements in the siege of Vicksburg ; it now appears that the passage of Fort Pem berton was not tho only plan relied on to bring about the success of the expedition. I have the best of reasons for asserting that the Government has for days past been in possession of advices from Commodore Porter which show that the demonstrative action of our fleet at the mouth of the Tallahatchie was partially a feint to distract the rebel attention, and gave the remainder of our forces time to ope rate at another and more important point with the success now announced. The news received, and which puts such a different face to affairs on the Yazoo, is that one of our steamers, the Diligent, having on board one regiment of volunteers, has entered Yazoo river above Hain& s Bluff, via the Cypress and Steele's bayous. Other iron-clads and a large number of troops followed, which will thus be placed between Hair.e's Bluff and Yazoo city, thus flanking the latter, and rendering the fall of Vicksburg certain." Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. On Saturday the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., one of the junior Lords of the Admiralty, accom panied by Col. G. T. Greene, director of Admiralty works, paid a visit to Chatham dockyard for the purpose of inspecting the works in progress for the extension of that establishment by the formation of additional docks, basins, and factories. His Lord- ship, who reached the dockyard shortly before noon, was received by Capt. Fanshawe, the superinten dent of the establishment, with whom he was occu pied some short time in the transaction of official business. He afterwards proceeded to St. Mary's Island, the site of the propcsed new locks, basins, and docks, and spent some time in making an in spection of the work, which is proceeding as rapidly as the difficult nature of the work will permit. He returned to the dockyard by the eastern env _ trance, and inspected the new buildings and fac tories which have recently been erected adjoining No. 7 slip, and fitted with the requisite machinery for bending, slotting, planing, and preparing the armour plates to be used in plating the Achilles, iron frigate. After partaking of luncheon at the official residence of Capttin Fanshawe, his Lordship inspected the block of buildings recently erected by Messrs. Foord and Sons, the Admiralty contractors, near the entrance to the dockyard, as quarters for the married officers and men of the metropolitan police. Leaving the dock yard, his lordship next visited the Royal Marine barracks, where he inspected the additional wing and block of buildings now in course of erection by Messrs. Foord, so as to provide barrack accommo dation for 800 officers and men beyond the number whom it is now possible to quarter in the barracks. After concluding his inspection of the Royal Marine barracks, the Marquis of Harlington re turned by train to the Admiralty. VALETTA, March 30.—His Royal Highness Prince Alfred left Malta perfectly recovered in health in her Majesty's ship Magicienne, 16, Capt. his Serene Highness Prince of Leiningen, on the 18th inst. From Marseilles the Magicienne will re turn to Malta, touching at Naples to give provisions to her Majesty's ship Meeanee, 60, Capt. J. G. Wodehouse, stationed there. It is expected that the Prince of Leiningen will then leave Malta, by the packet of the 7th proximo, for England, to take command of the Royal yacht, now vacant. The present commander-in-chief on this station, Sir W F. Martin, K.C.8., is to be relieved about the end of next month by Rear Admiral Smart, K.H., now in command of the Channel squadron. The latter will come out in the Revenge, 73, Capt. C. Fellowes, and, on arrival, transfer his flag to the Marlborough, 131, Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., the present flag ship of Vice-Admiral Martin. He, together with his suite, will go home in the Revenge, Rear-Ad miral Dacres, C. 8., is to take the command of the Channel squadron in the place of Rear-Admiral Smart, but it is not yet known who will take his place out here, or who will succeed at the Naval Arsenal Rear-Admiral Codrington, C. 8., whose term of service is also on the point of expiring. It is considered not improbable that the post may be offered to Rear-Admiral Yelverton, C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Keppel's name has also been mentioned for the appointment. Admiral Martin, in giving up the Mediterranean command, will hand over to his successor a fleet in the highest state of discipline and order. Her Majesty's iron screw storeship Supply, 2, Master-Commander W. H. Balliston, returned from Corfu on the 27th inst. She left at Corfu, on the 25th inst., her Majesty's ship Marlborough, 131, Capt. W. H. Stewart, C.B. (arrived on the 21st on a cruize from Malta) ; Edgar, 89, flagship of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., Capt. F. A. Foley ; the Trafalgar, 70, Captain the Hon. T. Baillie ; and Chanticleer, 17, Commander C. Stirling. The Chanticleer was employed en deavouring to get off the Italian steamer Cairo, be longing to the Ancona and Alexandria line, which grounded on the 23d inst. at the back of the Island of Vido. The Cairo was lying with her bows in four feet water, and her stern in as many fathoms. The Phoebe, 35, Capt. T. D. A. Fortescue, was to leave the Pia cells for Corfu, on the 27th inst., to re lieve the Chanticleer, which has been ordered to Beyrout. The Shannon, 35, Capt. 0. J. Jones, is also under orders to proceed to Corfu, from Patras. The Supply will leave Malta, for England, to morrow, the 31st inst. The Marlborough is ex pected back at Malta about the 7th of April, when the Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, which now bears the Commander-in-Chief's flag, will resign her post of flagship and return to Corfu or the Ph yeas, where the Liffey, 39, Capt. G. Parker, and l the Pelican, 17, Commander it Brock, are at pre sentstationed. Letters from Na p les say that 11 Meeanee, 60, Capt. Wodeh ouse, and the learns,, Commander N. Salmon, V.C. , were at Baja on the 22d inst. The latter vessel was on the point of leaving, on return to Malta, calling at Palermo and Marsala. We learn by telegraphic despatch from Alexandria of the departure of her Majesty's ship Malacca 17, Captain G. J. Napier, from that port on the, 27th inst., on return to Beyrout. The Trident, 6, Commander C. J. Balfour, and the Surprise, 4, Commander W. Whyte, left Malta on the 17th inst.—the former for Gibraltar, to be sta tioned these, and the latter with a mail for Corfu. The surveying vessel Firefly, 5, Commander A. ' Mansell, leaves on the 2d proximo for Corfu, for the purpose of surveying the Corfu Channel, having completed her hydrographical operations on the ~~ fs r.; WS PA 1 7 ` 4 Y, - P , ; .5 , ... ' THE POLISH QITEST =•-: 'l- . "% , - ; -- ~v.."--, __- - 1--K 44 The Courier du Limanche publishes ""trii t fdai. ' lowing documents. the first is a circular atdresaelt S by Lord Russell to Lord Nepier, dated the 2d of March; the second is a circular addressed on the 4th of the same month to the representatives of England abroad. We translate them from the French translation of the originals. " LORD RUSSELL TO LORD NAPIER, AMBASSADOR OF -t ' <. ENGLAND AT ST. PETERSBURG. " Foreign-offiee, March 2, 1863. " NY Lord,—Tho Government of her Majesty is much concerned at the state of things in the kingdom of Poland. It sees, on the one hand, a great portion of the people in open insurrection against the Government; a considerable military force occupied in putting down that insurrection. The natural and probable re suit of such a struggle will be, it may be supposed, the triumph of the military forces; but this triumph, if it is obtained by a series of combats, will necessari y be aecompeni , d by a lantentab:e effueion of blood, by a considerable eacrifiee of human life, and by ma terial calamities of every descriwioe, the effect of which. will be felt for many years to con.e. On the other hand, the acts of reciprocal violence and cestructioe, inseparable) from a struggle of this nature, will fo> eibi y engender hatreds which will envenom in future the relations of the Ruesian Government with the Polish. nation. "Nevertheless, while regretting the existence of this sa d state of things in a foreign country, the Government of the Queen would not deem it a dvisable to express its sentiments ect in an official manner, if special circumstances on the subj did not place it, as regards the act al conditolion and was of Poland, in a peculiar position. The kingdom of P con stituted and bound to they ussian empire by the treaties of 1815, to which the Engh Government is a contracting party. The present unhappy state of affairs must be attri buted to the fact that Poland is not in the position laid down by treaties. Poland, moreover, in no longer in the position in which it was placed by the Emperor Alexander I. Under his reign a national Diet sat at Warsaw, and the Poles of the kingdom enjoyed the nece ssar y privileges to insure their public welfare. "Since the year 1832 symptoms of discotent n and agita tion commenced to evince themselves, which were followed from time to time by revolts and useless bloodshed. The Government of the Queen is aware that the immediate cause of the present insurrection was the conscription recently im posed upon the Polish nation ; but that measure itself was only adopted in consequence of the discontent which the Poles felt at the political condition of their country. The landed proprietors and the middle classes could not put up with it, and if the peasantry did not show themselves so hostilely disposed, at least they did not support the Russian Government. " Great Britain, as one of the Powers that signed the Treaties of 1815,and deeply interestedin the peace of Europe, feels itself consequently authorized to express its opinion upon the events of which Poland is the theatre, audit is de sirous of doing so in the most courteous manner towards Russia, with the sincere wish of contributing to the we of all parties interested. Why shoul d not his Imperial Majesty, whose benevolent sentiments are universally re cognized, put an end, once for all, to this sanguinary struggle by generously proclaiming an immediate and com plete amnesty for all his revolted subjec ts, and by announc ing at the same time his intention of restoring without de lay to the kingdom of Poland its enjoyment of the civil and political rights granted to it by the Emperor Alexander 1., conformably to the stipulations of 1815 ? If his Majesty did this, a National Diet and Parliament would most pro bably content the Poles, and give satisfaction to public , opinion in Europe. "I request you, my Lord, to read this despatch to Prilloo Gortschakoff, and to leave him a copy of it." RUSSELL." The Courrier du Dimasehe also give the follow ing as the material passage of an English diplomatic circular of March 4 , to w hich a copy of the above despatch was annexed. Earl Russell begins by in forming the diplomatic agents of Great Britain of the step which he had taken at St. -Petersburg, and begs them to communicate the despatch of March 2 to the cabinets to which they are accredited EXTRACT. " Foreign-office, March 4. " In the opinion of her Majesty's Government the trans mission of analogous views on the part of the representatives of the Powers who signed the treaties of 1815 to St. Peters burg might tend to put a atop to the effusion of blood and to re-establish the Polish people in the enjoyment of rights promised to it at Vienna, and of which they have so long been deprived. Her Majesty's Government fancies that the best means of assuring the peace of Europe would be to restore to the Poles the privilege of a Diet and of a national Government. "RUSSELL." A manifesto has been issued by the Polish chiefs, dated from their camp at Bialowicza, March 24, appealing to Europe, and ( specially to England and France, for sympathy and assistance in their struggle. They ask that a contingent of 30,000 troops ehonld be sent to Poland, bringing with them 100,000 rifles, and they promise with this aid to make short work of the Russians. The docu ment thus concludes : " We have said that we have confidence in the success of our holy cause, relying, in the first place, on our own strength, then on the support of all civilised nations, and even partially on the Russians themselves. If, abandoned by all, we succumb, it will be a woe for Europe an for Rus sia, which is fighting for the maintenance of slavery. As for us, we shall be free in the tomb ; but no, this catastrophe will not take place. We have an invincible ally in eternal justice—in Providence, which bids us march and fight to death. We repeat then, as the Crusaders of old, God wills it. " Brethren in civilisation , French, English, Italians, Hungarians, Swedes, Belgians, Tc he q ues, Sclaves, Rou manians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spaniards, and Germans, accept our warm thanks fer the sympathy which )ou have manifested up to the present for our success. Cease not to labour for the triumph of enlightened public opinion, and in return, when Poland shall be free and independent, we promise you that you will never see the forms of Musco vites, of Cossacks, of Tschou des, of Mordonans, of Carbar- of Per diens, of Tschermeeses, of Kir g inaes, of Kalmucks, miens, of Baskirs, of Pegonlitsches, of Ostaks, of all those instruments of that moral and material pest which is now actually making war upon us with the tactics of Tamer lane and of Gengis Khan to perfection brought by the Court of St. Petersburg." (From the 2 intes' Special Correspondent.) BRESLAU, APRIL 1. The Provisional Government have resolved to lay down arms. The bands are to disperse and the people to throw themselves upon the mercy of the Czar. So runs the latest Warsaw intelligence. I have sufficient reason to doubt the credibility of the statement. Not that I am going to aver the re solve has not been taken by the parties concerned; this, of course, is a question we shall not be able to answer before the lapse of a few days; ; b u t there is abundant ev idence to prove,eve now, that, if actually adopted, the measure oughtnd to be regarded as a stratagem and pert a of p arc el only of a plan, th e ulterior development which is left to no distant time. Never have ems engaged in fa nnin g the fi e a a r m i e e s been f v Never, indeed , has revolution been more powerf u l a ll over the n orth and east than at this time o f al leged s u r b e m i o s ml s u i o o t ri n e° . n titcht Never ne ldy during have g the last few days. the bands been equally numerous and well armed in Lithuania, Pod , Ischia, and Flock; never have armed succours been never, more r lavishly pointish lyGalicia, and from ofact i : o h s a e s n' one half of the c ountry been equally deserted by the troops, and left to the unimpeded operations h of the insurgent Poles. Add to this,that l a , ff h o o r r d n e ; d of the national Governmeen t papers in the confidence have never ceased to preach the'holy war, and to this very day continue their endeavours to represent the rising as a feeble beginning only of what is coming ; and you will have no • difficulty in realising the motives of those doubting the pacific intentions, and shaking their heads in wonder at the sudden discouragement of the directing boards. A telling proof in this latter respect is furnished by yesterday's article in tee Czas, rejecting the offer even of independence un less couplal with the restoration to Poland of Lithua nia and the provinces. No period, moreover, would be less likely to induce surrender than that inaugu rated by the installation of General Berg, the ter rible vindicator of Russian supremacy in 1831. I am therefore inclincd to believe that the mot d'ordre has not been given at Warsaw, but somewhere else. and that a suspension of hostilities, if resolved upon, ought to be regarded s s no gu arantee for the paci fication of the country or the disappearance of tho question. OAT-SOWING EITRAORDINARY.—Mr. I). Ander son, in the employ of Sir Gore Booth, of Lissadell, accom pli s hed, on Monday last, the extraordinary task of sow ing 24 stones of oats on one acre and ten perches in the abort space of fou rteen and a half minutes. Mr. Anderson us ed both his han ds on the occasion, and, judging frt‘m what we have been t old, the work appears to have boon done w i t h ou t much apparent effort. The time was kept by Mr, Martin, the steward, and can therefore be re li e d „ I with certainty.--. Sago Independent. :~ WS. 112, 7 o I i~~ F. 1' 1 1