The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-02 00:00:00

MR. CARDWELL AT OXFORD. countries and even from America contributions have flowed in, bearing a noble testimony to that spirit among all classes which I believe is the greatest characteristic of the age in which we have the happiness to live. (Cheers.) And when I allude to the contributions of America I cannot help expressing the hope that these contributions are an evidence that there is in that country a dis position to appreciate us, and that there are those who see the spirit by which England has been guided, and who will be as desirous as we have been here to maintain a growing and constant affection and goodwill between b o th coun t r i es . (Cheers.) Gentlemen, soon after th e grea t revo l u tion in France in 1848, the distinguished Frenchman who had been the First Minister of the French king wrote a treatise, with the subje c t of which we are not now concerned ; but he had occasion in the course of it to speak of the feelings which in this country pre vailed between the rich ana the poor. He said that the poor are not env i ous of the rich, and the rich are above all things solicitous to contribute to the wants and distresses of the poor. (Cheers.) He o f that fact in terms of just eulogy, as con stituting u ting the cement of society in this happy and favoured country, and he ended with a noble apos trophe—" These are the virtues of Christianity— Faith, Hope, and Charity." (Loud cheers;) And, gentlemen, I think we may look back with satis faction and pleasure to the conduct which has been exhibited by all classes during the year that is past, believing that it has done much to cement society in England and to promote the stability and per manence of our happy institutions. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, I remember that about the time of the first great Exhibition I was present at a dinner, when a distinguished American, adverting to the great calamities which had occurred to many of the most settled Governments of Europe, pleasantly observed that his own country, the United States of Ame rica, though not one of the oldest, was, he verily believed, one of the most firmly established in the world. We have seen not only the mon archies of Europe shaken, but have seen that terri bleconvulsion which has taken place in the Republic on the other side of the Atlantic—(hear, hear) — and we must, indeed, therefore, be doubly thank ful our lot has been cast under institutions which are at the same time more free than a re public, and more firmly established than the most ancient despotism. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I believe t hat those institutions are so free and so strong be cause in this country through popular assemblies and through a free press there is that constant inter communication of sentiment and feeling, that continual taking counsel with itself of a whole intel ligent community, that it is impossible that any acts of the governing bodies can for any length of time be at variance with the real well-considered feelings and determination of the people. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you all have seen in the papers to-day a short summary of the trade and revenue of the year that is past. (Cheers.) I think it will have sur prised you that when the right arm of our industry was paralysed—when that which constitutes by far the greater part of our export trade was at a standstill—the general trade of the country not only maintained itself in so remarkable a manner, but that, when so large an amount was withdrawn from the weekly wages of the population and the productive powers of the country, the revenue has maintained itself in so astonishing a degree. What a proof, gentlemen, both to ourselves and to foreign countries of the great powers and strength which our commerce really possesses, and how great a cause for thankfulness and congratulation on ou part! (Cheers.) I am very glad that a con siderable part of the prosperity of our trade has been due to the operation of the French Treaty— (cheers)—for not only on commercial grounds, but on other and, if possible still more important grounds, I say that nothing is so desirable as that that barrier should be broken down which has for , a long period of time separated us from our near neighbours in France. (Cheers.) There is scarcely anything which France produces which we do not want, and there is scarcely anything we produce which France does not want ; but for many years, owing to the sys tem of legislation of which, I am afraid, we our selves set the example, the sea was not a greater barrier between the coasts of the.two kingdoms than our self-imposed restrictions upon the interchange of our respective industries and commerce. (Cheers.) It is impossible to say what may be the result when that barrier is broken down, and when the greatest freedom of interchange is encouraged between the two countries ; for that interchange not only means the reciprocal increase of wealth, but it means the silent growth of cordial goodwill and affection be t ween the peoples of both countries—it is the greatest security for that permanent good understanding be tween France and England, as has been well ob served, is the true guarantee for peace in Europe. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we opened the last year under a deep sense of that great sorrow with which the Sovereign and people of these realms had then re cently been visited. That sorrow will never be effaced by time, b( cause everything which comes to the knowledge of the English people tends only to make them feel the more keenly and the more truly the severity of the loss they have experienced; but by the blessing of Providence, we open the present year in the prospect of an event which, as your chairman has justly told you, is to give to the Heir Apparent of these realms a marriage of affection and a home of happiness. (Cheers.) And, gentle men, we know how much these words imply, not only of lustre to the Royal Family, but of substan tial benefit and advantage to the people. (Cheers.) We know that they mean the strengthening of the monarchy, the consolidation of its foundations on the only true bases, the hearts and affections of a devoted and united people. (Loud cheers.) Gen tlemen, the vessel of the State has been exposed to storms—to a storm which it appeared to those who predicted danger from a distance was the most likely severely to try her strength; but by the blessing of Providence, and by the union of her crew, she has stood up gallantly against the danger. (Loud cheers.) Let us hope and be lieve that, with a loyal and uncomplaining people—with a buoyant revenue—with trade, if checked, yet not altogether depressed,—we are destined to open the present year under happier and better auspices than the last; and, thankful for the great blessings we have hitherto enjoyed, let us trust that in future we may be able to increase those benefits for the advantage of the community at home ; that our revenue may enable us to do all that is necessary for the safety and honour of the coun try, with due regard to a wise and judicious eco nomy; and that, receiving at the hands of Provi dence these great blessings ourselves, we may be permitted to be an exa m pl e t o other nations ofe union and good government, of industry and peace. The right hon. gentleman sat down amid loud cheering. I Yesterday evening the anniversary dinner of the Druids' Lodge,Oxford, took place in the Town Hall. As usual the members for the city had received in vitations to be present. Covers were laid for about 260. The dinner, which was partly cooked at New College, was highly creditable both to the caterers and cuisnie. Mr. William Bacon, the Noble Arch of the Lodge, took the chair. On his right sat the Mayor of Oxford, Mr. Alderman Sadler, Mr. Ser geant Gaselee, Capt. Fane; and on his left the Right Honourable Edward Cardwell, M.P., the Hon. A. Herbert, Mr. Alderman Spiers, Mr. Neate, Mr. Pike, Capt. Mallam, ex-Sheriff Carr, and many of the principal citizens of Oxford. After the accustomed introductory toasts of " The Queen, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family ;" " The Army, Navy, and Vo lunteers," and " Prosperity to Lodge 59," which were duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Health of the Members of the City," regretting that one of their hon. representatives (Mr. Langston) was absent from ill health, and highly complimenting Mr. Cardwell for his eminent qualities, both as a mem ber and a Minister. The toast was drank with all the honours. Mr. CARDWELL, who was loudly cheered, said, — Noble Arch, Past Arches, Brother Druids, and Gentlemen, I rise with the most sincere feeling of thankfulness to express to yon my acknowledg ments for the manner in which you have been kind enough to propose and to receive this toast. lam very sorry that it falls to my task to return thanks for'it alone. But I have the pleasure of knowing that our friend, Alderman Sadler, received only this from m y hon. friend and colleague an ex g mornin cellent re port of our Brother Druid's recovery; and not long ago I had the pleasure of seeing myself b o w much he had already recovered since we sepa rated for the holidays. He, like me, gentlemen, is always most anxious to be present on'these occasions. I know that he would not have been absent from any but the gravest reasons, and I am sure you will agree with me that if by judicious care now he can prepare himself for discharging with efficiency in a few weeks those duties in Parliament which you have entrusted to him, it is wise that he should give that care, and we most willingly forgo the pleasure of his presence on this occasion. Gentlemen, in rising to address you to-night I cannot but remember that when we met together in this room on the Ist of January last a question was trembling in the balance which was to decide no less an issue than that of peace and war between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. We were in hourly expectation of the tele graphic answer to the demand which England had made for the surrender of those two gentlemen who in defiance of law had been taken by a cap tain of the American navy from the shelter of the British flag. That issue has been happily decided in conformity with law, and in the sense of peace, and I think we may reflect with satisfaction that that happy issue was due in no small degree to that mingled moderation and firmness which was exhi bited by the British people—(loud cheers)—that determination to do no wrong and to submit to no wrong—(cheers)—which in the intercourse of nations, not less than in the intercourse of private life, is the best guarantee both for honour and for peace. (Loud cheers.) And, gentlemen, when we look back upon the year that has passed, we may feel an honest satisfaction that with the same spirit the British people have contemplated the great events that have been taking place. We have wit nessed, gentlemen, a conflict which appears to be to the New World in our day what the French Revolution and the wars that issued from it were to the Old World in the time of our fathers. It has been terrible in its commencement, and no man can foresee its conclusion. We have taken the deepest interest in that conflict. Our own prosperity has been largely involved in it ; the welfare of our own people has been deeply involved in it ; we have been interested in it as members of that great Anglo-Saxon family which we all hoped might ever remain in union and friendliness within itself ; but, above all, we were interested in it by those deeper and stronger feelings of our common huma nity, which could not but be greatly pained and moved when we witnessed those terrible sufferings and read of that multitudinous carnage. (Cheers.) And, gentlemen, in a free country like ours, where the feelings of the community are moved to the bottom through popular assemblies, bat especially through a free press—(cheers)—the feelings and opinions of the community will always be expressed. (Cheers.) But I think we may say that with us no ungenerous motives and no unworthy feelings have had the predominance—(cheers)—that we have had a sincere concern for the sufferings which we have witnessed on the continent of America, an earnest hope for the termination of this fratricidal conflict, and for the resto ration to our American brethren of all the blessings and advantages of peace. Of this lam sure, that the British people, in regard to their own conduct, have been guided by the purest motives and by the most righteous resolutions. (Cheers.) They have desired nothing but implicit obedience to interna tional law, even when it told most severely against their own interests, and they have desired stead fastly to adhere to the principles of inflexible neu trality. And, gentlemen, the trial to our own interests has not only been great, but I will acknow ledge that in former times when casting an eye to see if in any quarter of the horizon there might be danger to the greatness and prosperity of England, it always appeared that the one spot from which greatest danger might be apprehended was of that single supply of the great raw material of our do mestic industry ; an d looking to that as a single supply, not dependent upon free labour it was im possible not to foresee th a t that peril some day might become a reality. In none of ou r anticipa tions did we foresee the precise form and manner in which that danger would arise ; and wh en it did come, what did we witness ? There is, as youk now, in the North a vast population, of energy unexam pled, of skill unrivalled, who work long hours and obtain the great reward of labour. Suddenly, as if the earth had denied to agriculture its increase, the very material of their industry was suddenly with drawn ; and what was the consequence ? In former times, although accustomed to prosperity, th e y had been subject to occasional reverses the t were an independent, they were a sensitive pe o . Tae, not willing to be dependent a on the libera lity of others. They were heroic people, bearing thei r t r ouble when it came upon them, always ready to assist one another, never willing to apply for assistance to those who by Provi dence were more blessed than themselves. No ! At once came the blow which deprived them of the whole material of their labour • and what has their conduct been? Their conduct has been beyond all praise. (Cheers.) I will not disparage it by attempting to give expression to it in any feeble words of mine. I will only say that it has realised to the utmost the language of the poet wh en he says,— _ " How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be stron g l i' (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, they are a highly ed R c ated people, and, believe me, for their good con duct there have been two great grounds—first, that they knew that the time of privation through which they have had to pass was not caused b y an y legislation of this country, and could not be attri buted to their rulers—(cheers) —and another cause was that they have seen the conduct of em ployers of labour generally. (Cheers.) They have known the sacrifices made by many of those em ployers, sacrifices made in silence, and without the knowledge of the general public; but such exer tions, such a discharge of duty, have tended to draw closer the bonds of respect and affection which unite the employer and employed. (Cheers.) And , gentlemen, if such has been the conduct of the working classes, let me ask you what a spectacle has been afforded by the d conduct of the country ge nerally ? From the Queen upon the throne down to the humblest peasant mite into the treasury, who has th r own his or her was there s imultaneous or a more generous ez pa thy with the wants and distresses essever a more rion of sy m se4 of others. (Loud cheers.) From every part of th e Uxiononuraable nited Kingdom—and you in Oxford bore an honourable share in it—from every part of the United from India andfrom the colonies--nay, , f rom a °l3; foreign Several other toasts were drunk, and the C 01117171- a li ty w as kept up till a late hour. DREADFUL TREATMENT OF A SAILOR ON BOARD A SPANISH SHIP. --A case tuts just been brought to the knowledge of the Liverpool police, exhibiting gross and continued cruelty inflicted by Captain Antonio Mollidal, of the ship St. Lucia, upon Thomas Neale (a Dane by birth, but of English parents), who was a seaman on board the St. Lucia. When the St. Lucia arrived in Liverpool the police received information that a man was confined on board naked and in chains, and on they found Neal e i n th e forecastle, Con dition, quite n a k e d, an d his hands and a feet in chains, whicreost wretched h were fastened to th e s id e o f the ship, the police office, and there m a d e a statement He WAS b ro ught to s an.l in months that he s hipped on board the St. Luci a a b ou t three on ago Algoa Bay."; Before he came on board h e b oug h t 500 10s., which the captain afterwa r d s accuse d him of of stealing. Neale Neale was charged with the alleged th e ft b y the captain * before the British Consul at St. Helen a , b u t th e case was dismissed. Subsequent disputes appear to have arisen be tween Neale and the captain, who, after one of these dis putes, ordered Neale to go forward and to be put in irons. Neale also states that the boatswain (who was the chief executant of the captain's orders) on one occasion endea voured to cut his (Neale's) throat. Neale was kept in irons, and fastened to the side of the vessel for a period of six weeks altogether, during the whole of which time he was naked and very scantily fed. When the irons were fastened upon him, the captain stood by with a drawn sword. The depositions in the case will be forwarded to the Spanish authorities, who will also, it is understood, take charge of the captain. nig SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1863 returned with instructions to the Tuscarora to re pair on board his own vessel, and as no orders to the contrary had been given the Thistle resumed her journey. No countenance ever displayed disap pointed rage more strongly than did those of the ill-looking and motley crew (apparently of every nation) of the Tuscarora's boat as they pulled back to their own ship, amidst cheers for Old England,' hurrahs for the Leopard, and so on. "The Leopard had now approached to within a short distance from the Tuscarora, which latter vessel steamed slowly back towards Funchal ; the Leopard as slowly followed in her wake. As the Tu scarora neared the town, she lay to and fired a gun, the Thistle continuing her course for St. Thomas. Towards afternoon, and when land could no longer be seen, the look out at the Thistle masthead re ported the Tuscarora again in chase. Glasses were at once levelled astern, and sure enough there she came, her lofty spars crowded with canvas and rapidly gaining on the Thistle, which could not carry a tithe of the sail spread by her pursuer. Captain Masted, seeing she would be overtaken, turned the Thistle's head to wind, and went ahead fullspeed,the success of the manoeuvre soon becoming apparent, as the American, on changing his course, had to take i❑ all sail, and trust to his engines alone. He fired gun after gun, but with no effect; and at sunset his topmast was barely discernible on the horizon. At nightfall the Thistle's course was again changed, and she headed away for the north east trades, having now thoroughly baffled her pur suer, of whom she saw no more during the period that intervened ere she completed the second stage of her journey, by anchoring in St. Thomas to pro cure coal to carry her on to Nassau. "I do not dilate on the feeling of those on board the Thistle during the search, nor the joy with which the Leopard's arrival was hailed by them. I merely state the facts as they occurred." THE THISTLE AND THE TUSCARORA The following has been addressed to the Scots man, signed "S. M. Underhill," and dated St. Thomas, West Indies, December, 1862 : "As an account of the stoppage and search of a British merchant steamer in the Atlantic by an American man•of-war may not be without interest to your readers, I subjoin the particulars of such an event which happened to the vessel in which I am a passenger, on Saturday, the 29th November last. "The Thistle is a screw steamer of 206 tons re gister. She was built on the Clyde three years ago, for the Glasgow and Londonderry Steampacket Company, in whose service she has acquired the reputation of being the fastest screw steamer hailing from the Clyde. She was bought by her present owners in October last, and after undergoing a thorough overhaul, left the Bramley Moor Dock, Liverpool, on Thursday, the 20th ult. (November), for Nassau, New Providence. She left England with a very valuable cargo, 190 tons in weight, and she also carried upwards of 200 tons of coals. She was commanded by an able and experienced captain (G. M. Maxted), and was manned by a numerous and efficient crew (in all about 30). Notwithstand ing she experienced some very bad weather, she speedily accomplished the first stage of her journey and came to an anchor in Funchal Roads (Madeira), about noon on Wednesday, Nov. 26. As the Thistle stood in towel. d the island, she sighted a largo screw steamer, apparently a man-of-war, whose rig cor • responded to the description of the United States steamer Tuscarora. This vessel was distant from the land about six miles, and on seeing the Thistle anchor, she went about and again put to sea. On shore conjectures were rife as to whether the stranger might not be the Confederate steamer Alabama, expected at Madeira. " Immediately after her arrival the Thistle com menced taking in the coal for which she had stopped at the island, and the day passed with out further intelligence of the suspicious looking stranger. About nine p.m., her Britannic Majesty's paddle-steamer Leopard, seven days from Ply mouth, and bound to China, came into the roads also for coal, and anchored outside of the Thistle. The coaling of both vessels proceeded steadily all the succeeding day (Thursday) ; and about dusk the strange steamer was again off the bay, but, as be fore, she again bore away to sea. By noon next day (Friday) the Thistle, having taken on board 260 tons of coal, was ready to resume her voyage, and her departure was fixed for the folio wing morn ing. About four in the afternoon, the Portuguese signal station on the Loo Fort (an isolated fortified rock in the bay) signalled that an American man of-war was standing in, and soon after the wonder of the two preceding days steamed majestically into the roads, the stars and stripes floating from her mizen peak. She was a large three-masted wooden screw steamer, with a square-rigged foremast, and her main and mizen masts schooner-rigged. She apparently carried a broadside of six or seven heavy guns, with several large pivot guns on desk. She was supposed by every one to be the Tuscarora, but it was only conjecture, as no name was to be seen on her stern or elsewhere. She did not pay the customary salute to either Portuguese or British flags, but steamed silently to an anchorage, a little ahead of the Thistle, and astern of the Leopard. Immediately after her arrival she was boarded by the Consul, and soon after commenced to coal, her captain giving orders that the coaling should be finished by midnight. Considering the Thistle's destination, it was not unnatural that she should keep a sharp look-out on her formidable neighbour; and several times during the night one of the Federal vessel's boats, commanded by an officer, after having quietly pulled alongside, was detected attempting to engage the Thistle's look-out in con versation. "With sunrise on Saturday morning, the Thistle got up her steam and her anchor, and, passing between the two war ships, dipped her ensign in salute as she passed each. The American took no notice of the compliment ; the Englishman did, and dipped his ensign in return. The Thistle had not steamed more than a mile from her anchor age, every one on board intently watching the American (who had kept steam up all night), when suddenly his chain cable was seen to rush through his hawser holes, and he headed in chase of the Thistle. He had slipped his cable, attaching thereto a buoy, that he might save the time neces sary to weigh anchor. The Thistle held on her course, and going at full speed, gained rapidly on her pursuer, getting almost beyond range. The Thistle would now be distant about five miles from Funchal, the American about three miles, though in the fine clear atmosphere the distance did not seem so great. The American, now seeing that he was much inferior to the English steamer in speed, fired a bow gun as a signal for the latter to stop, and Captain Maxted (of the Thistle), wishing to be overhauled while he could still claim the protection of the Leopard, obeyed the summons, and hove to. The Yankee bore down at full speed, his ports open, and guns run out, while his ports and hammock nettings, were one mass of faces, as his crew crowded to look at their chase, and possibly to gloat over their prospective prize. When a very short dis tance from the Thistle the American stopped, and a boat containing an armed boarding party of two officers and eleven men shoved off. As they neared the Thistle the word' Tuscarora' was discernible on their cap bands, and doubt became a certainty when the first lieutenant of the American boarded the Thistle, and announced that Captain Craven, com manding the U.S. steam sloop-of-war Tuscarora had desired him to board and search the Thistle, having learned that she carried ammunition and other articles contraband of war for the use of the rebels in the Southern States. The English red ensign now flew, as it had all morning flown, from the Thistle's flagstaff; and Captain Maxted having told the lieutenant that his information was erroneous, pointed to the ensign, and said that, as she was a British vessel and had a British clearance from one British port to another, he would if necessary claim the protection of H.B.M.S. Leopard. The lieutenant (who was apparently a German), with more emphasis than courtesy, expressed his contempt for the flag and protection so invoked, and demanded a sight of the ship's papers, pointing to his crew, and threatening to employ force if necessary; and he declared if be found there was anything contraband of war on board, he would seize the vessel as a United States prize. A set of bills of lading being handed him, he stepped into the cabin to inspect them, though he seemed to understand nothing about such documents, and he very speedily got quite confused amongst the invoices of coffee, tea, brandy, &c., with which he was so accommodat ingly plied. Giving up the perusal in despair, he said he would have a look at the cargo, when he was reminded that upwards of 260 tons of coal would first have to be removed. He professed not to care for this labour, and was proceeding to order the search, when he was advised to be quick, as the Leopard was approaching. Signals were now rapidly e a x o c d h t a b n e g o e d f a o b e e r t a w e o e o n t th e e T l a i e a o u a t e x. o n r a a n , a t o p n o t p l: e a l o ' d h i s t t h l e e lieutenant , Dbytirti the 'sge boatno t t h e e b o o of lieutenant's the w laast t esentr v e sse l . b a inspection to the Tusca rora Thistle's paper s , th e A merican boat 's crew h com menced to chaff the crew of the Thi stle,w bo nothi n gaodf the loth, kept up the wordy war. One of the Thistle's mates, the late boatswain of the Confederate steamer 290, asked if the Tuscarora's crew had made much prize money this fall. A Yankee in the boat reckoned they hadn't turned a cent." Oh,' re sponded the mate, you're not half chaps. The Ala bama's men have each made a little fortu ne o ff t h e b New oatw Yorke should blo lik e t o fall in with that ckade.' 'oh,said officertheat ir in the 'Semmes. Do you think he is near this?' No e hi , s i e t i h n e g , tudes,' replied the chancera dwo a iws t h e n s t. o o f fr Somethe e T f u Tusc ar ora o B r a r t i d s a h r e e r n s ' t ex h p av re e aa v e e d nt t u h r e e i d r landn o t f he c s o e tt l o a n t , i and their inten tion of livin g and dyin g ' D ixi e;' w hile an Irish man in the bo a t suggested that they I m a y be m hadn't to get there first,' and so on. All this time the Federal steamer had been moving slowly round and round the Thistle, which had remained stationary. In a few minutes after the boat had been sent back to the Tuscarora, it The Tyranny of General Butler. The following is a copy of a letter to President Davis, from one of the victims of the brutal rule of General Butler at New Orleans. "TO HIS EXCELLENCY JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. " Ship Island, State of Mississippi, Sept. 13, 1862. " Sir,--A close prisoner on this desolate island, with some 50 or more of my fellow-citizens, I have thought it my duty, at every risk, to communicate to you some at least of the incidents of the adminis tration of the brutal tyrant who has been sent by the United States Government to oppress, rob, insult, and trample upon our people in every manner which the most fiendish ingenuity andmost wanton cruelty could devise, and in gross violation of all the laws and usages of the most remorseless wars between civilised and even savage nations and tribes. " I was consigned to Ship Island as a close pri soner, with seven other respec t a ble citizens, to a small hut, 15 feet by 20, expose d to rain and sun, without permission to le ave , exce pt for a bathe in the sea once or twice a week. " A description of the causes and circumstances of the imprisonment of our citizens, who are now held on this island, will afford some of the mildest illustrations of Butler's brutality. "There are about 60 prisoners here, all of whom are closely confined in portable houses, and furnished with most wretched and unwholesome condemned soldiers' rations. Some are kept at hard labour on the fort; several, in addition to labour, are com pelled to wear a ball and chain, which are never re moved. Among these i s Mr. Shepherd, a respect able, elderly, and weakly citizen, who is charged with secreting certain papers belonging to the naval officer of the Confederate States, which the latter left in his charge when he departed from New Orleans. Mr. Shepherd had the proof that the officer who had deposited these documents after wards returned and took them, and that they had been carried into the Confederate States. This testimony Butler would not receive, and de clared that if it existed it would make no difference in his case. Dr. Moore, a dealer in drugs, is also at hard labour with ball and chain, on the charge of having sent a few ounces of quinine into the Con federato States. There are five prisoners condemned, and employed at hard labour, on the charge of in tending to break their parole as prisoners of war, captured at Fort Jackson. There is also a delicate youth from the country who is subjected to the same treatment, on the charge of being a guerilla,' the terms which Butler applies to the Partisan Rangers, organised under the Act of Congress of the Confederate States. " Alderman Beggs, on the charge of denouncing those who have taken the oath to the Confe derate States afterwards swore allegiance to the United States, and Mr. Keller, a vendor of books, stationery, and scientific apparatus, on the charge of permitting a clerk to placard the word Chickahominy' on a skeleton which was sus pended in his show-window for sale for the use of students of anatomy, are condemned also to close imprisonment and hard labour for two years. The others mentioned above are condemned for a longer period. A like condemnation and punishment were imposed upon Judge John W. Andrews, a most re spectable citizen, recently a member of the judiciary of state, of the legislature, and of the city council, and a prominent merchant. This gentleman is ad vanced in years and in very delicate health. There is little hope that his health can long sustain his present burdens and hardships. " The circumstances of Mrs. Phillips's imprison ment are probably known to you. As, however I desire this to be an authentic and studiously ac curate statement of facts, I will here relate them. In the raid of the United States troops near War renton, Mississippi, a young officer na me d D e k ay was mortally wounded. He died in New Orleans, and an attempt was made by the Federal authori ties to get up a pompous funeral ceremony and pro cession in honour of so ' gallant and heroic a young officer,' who had fallen in an expedition which had no other purpose or object but the pillage of de fenceless farms and villages. The effort to excite the sympathies of our people on this occasion proved a ridiculous failure, and the funeral ceremony had no aspect of solemnity or even propriety—a long line of carriages composing the cortege, designed for the Union citizens, being all empty. As this pro cession passed the residence of Mr. P. Phillips,Mrs. Phillips, standing on the balcony with several lady friends was observed by some Federal officers to smile ; so it was charged. She was then arrested and taken before Butler, who in the most brutal and violent manner sought to terrify the heroic lady. In this he did not succeed. Whilst denying that her gaiety had any reference whatever to the funeral ceremony, Mrs. Phillips refused to make any apologies on concessions to the vulgar tyrant. Thereupon she was condemned to close imprison ment in a filthy guard-room, thence to be trans ported to Ship Island, where she was to be held in close confinement for two years, with no other fare but soldiers' rations, no intercourse or correspon dence with any person, except through Gen. Butler. This sentence was published is the newspapers, accompanied by words of :the grossest insult and most vulgar ribaldry, in which Mrs. Phillips was denounced not a common, but an uncommon bad woman,' referring to his proclamation denounced by Lord Palmerston and the whole civilised world, as so infamous,' in which his soldiers are autho rised to treat as common women plying their pro fession' all who may manifest any contempt or dis courtesy towards them. To add further insult, in the order condemning Mr. Keller, it was made a part of his sentence to permit him to hold con verse and intercourse with Mrs. Phillips, to which condition that honest man was induced to protest, from the belief that his fellow-prisoner was a no torious courtesan of the city, who bore the name of Phillips. This protest was published in the papers, with Butler's order granting the re quest of Keller, so to convey to the world the idea that a poor vendor of periodicals declined association with a lady of the highest respectability, the wife of a distinguished lawyer and ex-member of Congress. I can bear personal testimony to the rigorous execution of the sentence against Mrs. Phillips, having been imprisoned for weeks in a building adjoining to that which she was never allowed to leave. Such was the treatment of a delicate lady of the highest refinement, the mother of nine children. " In his first interview with the authorities of the city Butler had declared he would take no cognis ance of any acts committed before he occupied the city, and established martial law therein. This solemn and oft-repeated pledge he has violated in a thousand instances. " Of the other prisoners there are three captains in the Confederate service, who have copies of their parole as prisoners of war, and who are sent here upon no specific charge, but as suspicious persons, who might break the lines and go into the Confe derate service. They are Capt. M'Lean, late of the M'Culloch Rangers; Capt. Losberg, who com manded the De Feriet Guards of the Chalmette Regiment, captured and paroled by Commodore Farragut in the attack upon the forts below the city ; and Captain Batchilders, of the 3d Regiment of Lousiana Regulars. There is also a young creole, the sole protector of his family, his father having recently died, who is sentenced to an indefinite punishment, on the charge, supported by the testi mony of his own slave, a negro boy, of having thrown a revolver into the river after Butler's order requiring the citizens to give up their arms had been published. This is the case of Mr. Le Beau, belonging to one of the oldest and most respectable creole families in the State. The other prisoners here are imprisoned upon like frivolous charges; some eight or ten of them for the publication of cards denying that they had taken the oath of alle giance to the United States, their names having been published in Butler's journal among those who had taken that oath. " In the case of Mr. Davidson, a gallant young lawyer, who has not yet recovered from a severe wound received at Shiloh, the offence consisted in his publishing a card stating that he was not the person of the same name who was published as having taken the oath. " So much for the prisoners at Ship Island, with the facts of whose cases I am personally acquainted. I refrain from any reference to my own case, hard as my doom is, closely confined on this island, with all my property appropriated by the enemy, and my family placed under strict espionage, and subjected to many annoyances, insults, and discomforts. With all its trials and hardships, the condition of the prisoners here is quite easy and endurable com pared with that of those who are confined in the damp and unwholesome casemates of Forts Jack son and St Phillip, on the Mississippi, and in Fort Pickens, on Santa Rosa Island. "Among the latter is the mayor of the city, who has been imprisoned for foar months for the offence of writing a letter to Butler, protesting against his order relative to the treatment of the ladies of the city, and declaring his inability to maintain the peace of the city if the Federal soldiers were not authorised to insult and outrage our women at their own pleasure and will. " The secretary of the mayor, who wrote the let ter signed by the mayor, was included in the same committal and imprisonment. Several members of the council, for like or smaller offences, suffer the same punishment. " Dr. Porter, a wealthy dentist and citizen, is im prisoned for requiring the Citizens' Bank, the pet bank and place of deposit of Butler and his agents, in his vast scheme of corruption and extor tion, to pay cheques in the currency which Butler alone allowed the banks to pay. " George Laurason, formerly collector of the port of New Orleans, suffers a like penalty for applying for a passport to go to Europe, where his family now is. " Thomas Murray, as president of that benevolent institution knawn as the Free Market, which sup plied the families of the soldiers with the means of subsistence; Charles Heidseich, a French citizen, the owner of the celebrated wine manufactory in France; Mr. Dacres, and other British citizens; Mr. Mir, a wealthy and highly respectable Spanish citizen, the owner of extensive saw-mills in Florida, and the contractor to supply the French navy with timber, are all imprisoned at Fort Pickens, for en deavouring to pass the lines without taking the oath prescribed by Butler for foreigners, which oath ' requires them to reveal to the United States all in formation they may have respecting the acts and designs of the Confederate States on pain of being regarded and treated as enemies and spies. There are, too, many prisoners who are confined on the information of political and personal enemies as dangerous characters, for offences alleged to have been committed by them months and years before Butler's arrival in the city. Dr. MiPherson, an elderly and most respectable citizen, was condemned to the casemates of Fort Jackson for speaking in a circle of his friends of Butler's proclamation No. 28, that relative to the ladies of New Orleans, as infamous'--the very epithet which Lord Palmer ston in the House of Commons declared to be the only appropriate one. " Dr. Warren Stone, the distinguished surgeon and philanthropist, was consigned to a like punish ment for refusing to recognise an individual who had been announced as president of a Union Asso ciation, and yet who a few months before had made in public a most violent speech against the Yankees, and had advised our people to cut the throats of all invaders. " Several ladies of the highest social position have been imprisoned for the expression of sympathy with the Confederates, and the wearing ribbons of cer• tain colours. "Mrs. Dubois, an elderly lady, long engaged in the business of teaching our children, was impri soned on the charge of not being able to account for certain keys and books belonging to the schools, which were never in her possession. " All the members of the finance committee of the city councils are imprisoned for authorising the sub scription of the city to the fund for its defence, and several hundreds of our citizens who subscribed to this filed have been compelled to pay 25 per cent. of their subscription to Butler, under a threat of imprisonment at hard labour. To swell this exac tion to the sum of 300,000 dols., all the cotton factors of the city who had united in a circular ad dress to the planters advising them not to send their cotton to New Orleans, were assessed fines of 500 dols. and 250 dols., which they had to pay or go to prison. "The treatment of a venerable citizen named Roberts, a farmer, living a short distance from Baton Rouge, is one of peculiar atrocity. A son of Mr. Roberts, a soldier of the Confederate army, having come on sick leave to see his parents, a de tachment of the 21st Indiana Regiment was sent to arrest him. The young man hearing the approach of armed men, went out to meet them, when several shots were fired by the Indians, one of which killed young Roberts. The father, seeing the clinger of his son, seized a gun and fired through the door, slightly wounding Col. M'Millan, the commandant of the detachment. He was then arrested, and charged with having killed his own son, and was taken with the rest of his family from his home ; the body of his son bein 4. brought out and laid on the ground, the building, all the outhouses, barns, and stables, were burnt to the ground, and his mules, horses, and cattle were driven off to the Federal camp. Old Mr. Roberts was condemned to clos6, imprisonment for 20 years, and this imprisonment he is now undergoing at Fort Pickens. " There are many other cases of equal atrocity and hardship of citizens of the highest respecta bility, who, upon the most frivolous charges, have been dragged from their homes by a brutal soldiery and immured in cells or the casemates of forts, and condemned to hard labour. ~ I have not the time nor the exact information to state these cases fully. The prisons of Now Orleans are crowded with citizens, whose highest offence consists in the expression of opinions and of hopes for the success of the Confederate cause. Not a few are confined for repeating reports of Confederate victories, or for having in their possession news papers containing such reports. "A Mr. Levy, a respectable merchant, was im prisoned for one month for stating to a Federal that he heard that Baton Rouge had been evacuated when it really had been evacuated. "Another citizen was arrested in the cars, and imprisoned for saying that the distress for cotton in England would soon increase; and another for repeating what had been published in the Delta, that 'Richmond had fallen,' such a remarl being regarded as ironical, after the Confederate victories in the first days of July. "A great many have been imprisoned on the in formation of their slaves that they had concealed or destroyed arms, and the informers emancipated. " Mr. Lathrop, a respectable lawyer, is now un dergoing in the parish prison a sentence of two years' imprisonment for kidnapping his own slave, who had been appropriated by a Federal officer. This sentence Butler declared was intended as a warning to the people not to interfere with the ser vants of his officers, meaning the slaves of our citi zens appropriated by them. "A number of our citizens, enrolled as Partisan Rangers, or in the State Militia, have been closely imprisoned, and threatened with death as guerillas or pirates. W. E. Seymour, late a captain in one of the regiments in the defence of the State, and honour ably paroled, is a close prisoner at Fort St. Philip, and his property all confiscated on account of an obituary notice which appeared in his own paper, the Bulletin, of his father, the late gallant Colonel J. G. Seymour, of the 6th Louisiana, who fell in the battle of Gaines Mill. The writer of the article, Mr. Dennis, an old and infirm citizen, was sub jected to a like punishment, and is now a prisoner at Fort Pickens. "Besides these instances, there are a great many citizens who have only escaped imprisonment by the payment of large prices, and in many cases by bribing Federal officers of influence. To enumerate the cases of confiscation by order of Butler, and in many eases even by the order of hid subordinates, would exceed the bounds I have affixed to this re port. I have, however, kept a record of these cases, and will communicate them at some other time. Suffice it to say that nearly all the large and com modious houses of our citizens, especially those of absentees and officers in our army and Government, have been thus appropriated. Officers of no higher grade than lieutenants occupy houses which have cost our citizens 30,000 dollars. Where furniture has been removed, or when deficient in any articles which the appropriators may deem necessary to their comfort, they are purchased at the expense of the owners of the property. The wives and families of our citizens are frequently ejected from these houses to make way for coarse I Federal officers and the negro women whom they appropriate as their wives and concubines. Ships have been loaded with costly articles of furniture stolen—they say confiscated--from our citizens, and transmitted north to the families of Federal officers. Many a house in New England is even now re sounding with tones of pianos thus stolen from the parlours of our citizens. A vast amount of silver has been appropriated in like manner. The example set by Butler in appropriating the house of General Twigg's minor heir, and furnishing it in a most lavish and luxurious style at the expense of the estate, and in transmitting the plate and swords of the deceased veteran to Lowell—the seizure and re moval to the North of the statue of Washington by Powers, and of the State library from the capital of Baton Rouge—have been extensively followed by Butler's subordinates. " Nor have I here space to expose the extortions of Butler through the agency of his brother, an abandoned gambler and speculator, who has com pelled our citizens, by all kinds of threats, to sell their property to him at rates fixed by him; who has monopolised all the shipping employed by the United States to transport the produce thus forced from our people, and has acted as broker to obtain remissions of penalties, and the restoratior. of fugi tive slaves, in many cases on condition of the pay ment of half their value, and on pledges of half the growing crops. In this manner have the planta tions within 50 miles of New Orleans been taxed. Many of them, unable to secure even these terms, have been depopulated. " You have, doubtless, been made acquainted with the proceedings of Butler to compel our citi zens to take the oath of allegiance to the Union States, the prohibition Of all trade to those who have not taken the oath, and the seizure of their funds in the bank. The last device will be to compel all those who do not take that oath to register them- selves as enemies of the United States, when they will be either imprisoned or driven from the city, and their tat operty confiscated. These orders, espe cially the oath requirement, are applicable as well to women as to men. Indeed, the malice of Butler against females is more bitter and insatiable than that against males. A placard in his office in large letters—' The venom of the she-adder is as dange rous as that of the he-adder.' " And this is but a feeble and deficient present ment of the enormities and brutalities of this cowardly and brutal monster. It is in vain that some of his subordinates remonstrate and protest against many of his acts. He will permit no one to thwart his two great objects —to bid highest for the favour of the Northern mob, and to accumulate a vast fortune by extortion and plunder. The ex tent to which this latter purpose is carried will sur pass all similar efforts of great robbers, from Verres down. "I content myself with this mere epitome of Butler's crimes. At some other more favourable oc casion I will present them in greater detail and with the authentic proof which I cannot now com mand. It would not be becoming in me to solicit or to suggest that some steps be taken by the Pre sident and Government of the Confederate States to arrest and to avenge these wrongs done our people. I have full confidence that alt will be done in that behalf which can be done. " I beg to subscribe myself faithfully and respect fully yours, 6 6 -.---." The Cameroons Mountain. Captain Burton, the African traveller, recommends that the Government should try the Cameroons Mountain and Amboise Bay, in West Africa, as a penal settlement. In a letter to the limes, he says:—" The Cameroons Mountain, rising in the depths of the Bight of Biafra, and within 4.25 deg., or about 300 miles, of the Equator, is not, as has been supposed, an isolated mass breaking the continuity of the level of the mangrove-growing coast. I believe it to be the abutment of a great sierra, which, connected by the Rumbi' and ` Qua' hills—they are visible to the naked eye from the sea—extends in a north-easterly direction to Mount Alantika. known to Europe by Dr. Barth's travels. The Cameroons buttress may contain 500 sq. miles of suc cessive bush and jungle, wood and forest, grass and barren ground. If connected, however, with Alantika, the number might be multiplied by 50. The first work to be expected from convicts located at Amboise Bay, at the foot of the Cameroons, would be a sanitarium, This poisonous coast calls aloud for some such establishment. During the last year her Majesty's ship Prometheus, stationed at Lagos, lost by death and invaliding 84 out of 100 whites. In the Bonny River it is calculated that, of 280, some 134 died in 78 days. One ship, the Osprey, lost all her crew of 17 men except the master. The disease was yellow fever, which still continues in the New Calabar river, while in the Bonny it has been succeeded by ano less deadly typhus. At Fernando Po, 76 men died in two months, out of a total of 231 whites. Returning by the African steamship Athenian, I remarked that, despite the care of our excellent doctor, every passen ger from the coast fell ill ; one officer, who never had had fever in Africa, suffered from it on board. The first estab lishment at Amboise Bay would be on Mondori Island, an oval rock some 200 feet high at the entrance to the bay, and catching the pure Atlantic breezes, which at Clarence Town, Fernando Po, must pass over a long tract of jungly swamp backing the settlement. The second station—it is unwise to transport fever patients suddenly from low ground to high altitudes—would be on Mount Henry, an eminence about 150 miles from the mission station on the beach, and upwards of 1,500 feet above sea level. The third would be a ledge of ground, grass-grown, but not wholly out of the wooded region, 7,000 ft. high, and sheltered from the N.E. wind by a formation which my companions and I called the Black Crater. A stream of degraded lava leads to this, the highe-t point where European invalids mhzh t be settled, and cutting and zigzagging would easily render it practicable for four-footed animals. Above the Black Crater all is grass and clover, lava and clinker. In places the land is level enough for pleasant riding ; snow could be stored for the whole year, and those who enjoy cold can pass a night or two at Saker's Camp,' where at dawn the mercury stands below zero, the blankets are stiff, and the noble peak is hoar with frost. Being unprepared to assert in England that felony would justify divorce, and not unacquainted with the horrors of Norfolk Island, I agree with Mr. Laird in thinking it no small advantage that the convicts who prove orderly and industrious should be able to intermarry with the women of the country. With respect to the chances of escape, a bottle of rum given to the natives would bring in any fugitive ; and, as the lowlands are deadly, as the high lands are healthy, as all the craft upon this coast is so frail that even the half amphibious negroes often lose their lives --and, finally, as the mounta'n, though thinly populated and wholly desert above an altitude of 3,0001 t. is almost surrounded by populous regions, full of well armed men, commanded by General Tazo, alias swamp fever—it is not to be expected that a convict station in Western Africa will ever breed a race of bushrangers." Loss of Seven Boats, containing Forty-two Persons. (Front the Banffshire Journal.) A correspondent in the Hebrides writes regard ing the late gale, which was severely felt on the coast of the Hebrides, and which was accompanied by a great destruction of property and melancholy loss of life. The morning of the 18th inst., he says, was tolerably good, considering the season of the year, and meeting with fair success of late a num ber of boats went to the fishing. About mid-day the wind commenced to blow from the west, and before night it had increased to a perfect hurricane. On the following day the wind veered round more to the north, and continued to blow with increasing violence, accompanied with showers of hail. At this time the sea presented the appearance of a huge boiling cauldron, vomiting up great masses of foam and spray, so dense and thick that the sea itself be came completely obscured. So severe was the gale that a schooner lying at anchor in the shelter of Stornoway Loch was drifted on the island that lies in the middle thereof, and had her keel broken, and was otherwise damaged. A number of the boats managed to get in safely before the gale had assumed its worst, but seven belonging to Ness (Butt of Lewis) did not return, and no word has since been heard of any of them, and it is very much feared they have all foundered at sea, and that all on board have met with a watery grave. One body came ashore at a different part of the island in a complete state of nudity. One of the boats was seen on the fol lowing day (Friday) in Broadbay, but has not been seen since. There were forty-two men in the boats, six in each, thirty-six of whom are said to have been married, and in several of the boats there were two and three members belonging to one family. It is to be hoped that some of the boats have reached the opposite mainland; but the violence of the gale leaves little hope that any of them would be able to keep them above water in crossing the Minch. The sad and melancholy state of feel ing at present pervading the small fishing village may be imagined, when nearly one-third of its grown-up male population have thus to all appear ance been cut off at one fell swoop. Much sym pathy is at present expressed throughout the island for the semi-bereaved relatives, and when the worst is known something more than sympathy will re quire to be shown. Intelligence has since been re ceived from the opposite mainland that one of the boats had been driven there, and that one of the crew had died from fatigue, want, and cold. It is to be hoped that others of the boats may turn up, and that the worst fears of the distressed may not be realised. COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHESTER-JAN. I. This morning at our market there was a fair sale for best English wheat, at is advance on the currencies of last week, while damp sorts were unchanged . American ad vanced Id per 1001b s . Fl our 6d to Ps up, but moved off slowly. Indian corn the turn dearer. Oats and oatmeal n moderate demand. Other articles unchanged. BIRMINGHAM—JAN. 1. English wheat was sold at 48s to 56s for white, and Om to 54s per 36 stone for red, Barley, new malting, 35s to 42s per qr; grinding, 24s to 28s Oats, old, 25s to 300 per 30 stone; Irish, 23s to 255. Beans, 40s to 44s per qr. Peas, 40s to 48s per 36 stone. PLYMOUTH—DEc. 30. The demand for wheat for present consumption continues steady, and prices firm. Barley, oats, and flour as before. —White, 56s to 60s ; red, 54s to 56s per qr ; Dantzic, 57e to 58s ; American, 51s to 550; Spanish, —s to —a ; Rus sian, —s to —s. Barley at previous rates-34s to 38s per qr for malting; grinding, 27s to 28s; oats, 235 to27s ; and beans, —s to —8; flour, 38s to 41s Od. EDINBURGH GRAIN-DEC. 30. A good supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which brought fully the prices of this day week. Wheat on the top is Od down ..... average 2s Od up. Barley on the top Os 6d up... .average Os 10d up. Oats on the top Os 9d up average Os 6d up. Beans on the top 6d down average f's 4d down. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ... 812 qrs Sold 637 qrs Barley.. •••....1572 qrs Sold 1309 qrs Oats ........ 2285 qrs Sold 1757 qrs Beans B5 qrs Sold 36 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 45s Od ; extras, 438 Od ; superfine, 41s Od ; fine, 39s Od. CORK—Dxc. 31. The following were tuotations this morning :—Red wheat, 16s Od to 24s 6d ; white 20s Od to 27s 6d, barley, 10s Od to 14s Od ; oats, 7s Od to 14s Od. ; new bore, —a Od to —s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD— Du. 30. A large supply of fat beasts to-day. The demand for best kinds was lair, and high prices asked. Sheep scarce, and sold well. Pigs in average supply. Fat calves were scarce. Beet 6d to bid I Veal 7d t o lid Mutton .... 7d to 8d Pork . . ...... Lamb .. —d to —d Rough ..... 4s Od per stone. Hides, 3d to 4id; calf skins, 5d to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Jan. 18. via Marseilles . .. Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 18. via Marseilles Jan. 12. Falkland Islands.. Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 18. via Marseilles Jan. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Jan. 10. via Marseilles Jan. 4. Portugal Jan. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 10. via Marseilles Jan. 4. Newfoundland .. Jan. 4. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. Amaric a, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 7. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Jan. 2. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffo .......... Jan. 10. Bahamas, via N ew Y or k Jan. 15. Mexico. ....Jan. 28. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, } Jan. 2 8 . California, and British Columbia.. THE OPENING OF , THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.--• "The opening of the Chambers is awaited with feverish impatience by all our politicians," says a Paris correspondent of the Independence Belge. "It is supposed, but without cause in my opinion, that some light will be thrown by the debates upon the general state of affairs, which seem to be involved in greater obscurity every day. It is thought that the discussion' upon the address will afford M, Billault the opportunity of expressing a little mere clearly than formerly the intentions of the Govern mant with regard to the Roman question," I [ADYERTIBEMENT.J—HoIIowai's Ointment and Pills.--• PA certain remedy for diseases of the skin, ringworm, scurvy, jaundice, scrofula, or king's evil, sore heads, and the most inveterate skin diseases to which the human race is subject. 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