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THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1863, N°. 22,048. xle a rin d it, but that in revailed, aknovvn. that the irchased, e capital Navy the lesion he 3 pay in ie Army. 3er must therefore ivate in e him on 3 capital ion. But ) private alculated s promo 'hat way atts, and 30Sition ? 10 line mild find [nigh we er. But ung men key enter 'tenants, unsatis stions lie ondition it serious t of the 3rudence lot afford nder any 38s to 39s 32s to 330 20s to 240 —s to —0 298 to 31s 27s to 300 21s to 24s 42s to 44s 38s to 400 A. (1. ...15 6 ...16 6 ...14 3 ...1b 6 ...16 3 ..14 6 ..16 3 ...14 6 ...17 3 ...17 6 ...14 6 Mar. 21. Mar. 15. Mar. 0. Mar. 3. Var. 4. Feb. 27. Mar. 6. 4'eb. 25. Mar. 4. Feb. 27. Feb. 25. Feb. 20. Mar. 6. Feb. 25. Feb. 20. Feb. 26. Feb. 20. Oar. 10. lan 12. eb. 28. 7 eb. 28. ng re nee in the LA Jura. ed with a sharp id damp rember, D bring Drtherly the soil farmers • winter her too n, Mal i, Eq., , High -1., of a wife of n, near Hugh ,ughter Boro'- trleight 3 ough b. ter of ullock, second 1 21. gdgell f )1111 S. 3 Wm. 3 well. DWOods e-hally [ o p e ra' al Ar" tEWS e, No. 30upti 1810. Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose • • SBrig chooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Pallas, of Shields •• • • • • • • " nip Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • • • • Smack &din Inal, of Yarmouth • • • • Barque ; 1 3 3 ch °Me't tlatherine, of Newry • • Ni Haar ,of Shields .. • • • . 11 ". "'a'•••" - e of Teignmouth Rr ', eorge and James, of London • • Zn- yr, of Wty ••• •• • • ~.oble Ho th nour, of Cu hi lle b rcoats S chooner Eliza, of North Shields .• • • Marque Oberon, of Liverpool • • • • :Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .. • • Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth . • • • g Scotia, of Sunderland .. • • • • Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. • • 81 9 0 P Charlotte, of Woodbridge . Brig Ann, of Blyth . • •• oloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. • . Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby .. • • Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. • • Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. Schooner Rose, of Lynn •• •• •• Brig Prodronr, of Stockton .. Brig Eliza, PA Middlesborough •• .• Brigantine, Freia, of Konigsberg .. triganti•de Diana, of Fredrikshamn • • Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. Total _,,; METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.- ALTERATION OF TRAINS. On and after the Ist of Marc the EXPRESS TRAINS, .t Edg ware - roa d an d B a k er-street only, will be as tollo ws 13P TRAINS, leaving Bishop's-road for Farringdon -11.,,10 Street, at 8.40 a . m., 9.10 aim 9.40 a.m., 10.10 a.m., 10.40 a.m., a.m., and 11.0 a. "_,OVirli TRAINS, leaving Farrino - don-street for Bishop's !ciao, at 4.10 p.m., 4.40 p.m., 5.10 5.12., 6.40 p.m., 6.10 p.m., Bishop's 6.¢(} PM., and 7.10 p.m. These trains will be First, FJecond, and Third ;;lass. will Additional ORDINARY TRAINS, calling at all stations, also be run as follows : UP TRAINS, leavinc, Bishop's-1'0:d for Farringdon street, 4.4 0 p ,m , '5.10 p.m. 5.40 p.m., 6.10 p m., and 6.40 p.m. road DO , .WN TRAINS, leaving Farrir4don-street for Bishop's -9.10 am., 0.40 Lill' 10.10 a.M., 10.40 a.m., and 11.10 a.m. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY The GREAT EAS (COMPANY. F°l " -and- r i .alf per Cent. Preference Stock. 0 receive a ir Pared t ,TERN RAILWAY COMPANY is pre ofa the above Stock - li litl,aterest e_, bearing afixed re e P f rential Interest of m- in - e - ncp uni s . from the date of payment. pplicatior - the unt i e . Ato be made either personally or by letter to rsr- Ailed. bishop s J. B. OWEN, Secretary. gate Terminus, February, 1863. Itu`lAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT _ INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Ch arter). PATRONESS —Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. :TUE SIDENT — Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., P.R.S. ClTAirtmart—Thos. Paring, FN., V.P. .vErt.,-tit-CnAirtmAti— Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The th„ Committee of Management have to state that, since ueginning of the year 1880, the Royal National Lifeboat ~.!ititution has expended 432,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland. Linri bavoThen g the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution inßtrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow g w reck ed Vessels : .. 1 :: 6 .. 3 .. 9 .. 5 .. 3 .. 11 - 7 .. 6 .. 7 .. 7 210 K timber of lives saved by shore-boats and other 'Deans, for which. the Institution has granted relcards in 1860 O. 41. 011 , 041 ..245 ..455 1861. Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham • • • • •• . 6 Br igantine Nugget, of Bideford .. ..• • ° Sc hooner Prospect, of Berwick • • • • •• 6 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives •• •• 3 F ishing -boat of Whitburn •• •. 4 Brig Arethusa, of Blyth • • •• •• •• 8 S chooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo •• • •• • 8 Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. .. .. .. 2 Schooner Willi am, of Morecambe .. .. ... 4 . 6 Smack Gipsy, of New r y • • • • Sc hooner Margaret Anne, of Preston • •• • • 4 Big New Drap er , of Whitehaven .•• • • • • 8 Sch ooner William, of Liverpool • • •• 5 -Lu gger Nimrod, of Castl e town • • • . 3 Il rig Providence, of Shields .. .. .. :: 8 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle •. • • Schooner 'Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. •• 4 Isar 19 arque Guyana, of Glasgow . • • • • • • • Bug, Roman Empress, of Shields .. .. .. 1 2 0 , - "ig San Spied one, of G alaxtde .. • • "ochooner V • oador du Vouga, of Viana .. .. 8 French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese .. .. 6 Bar que Perseverance, of Scarborough .. .. 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Sch ooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. • • •. 17 • 4 . S hip Danube of Belfast .• •• •• Sc hooner Oregon, of Stonehaven • • • • 4 B rig St. Michel, of Marans .. -- • • • • 8 SPanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves -1 sel and one of th e crew) • • • • • • • • Sc hooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and 4 BaNue Frederick, of London .. .. • • • • 1 rig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhea,d (saved vessel arid crew) .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 6 Barge Peace, of London .. •• •• •• Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. .. .. 11 Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. .. .. 10 Pilot cutter 'Whim, of Lowestoft .. • • • •• 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen .. .. .. 11 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone . .. .. 6 'Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast .. Ilrig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. 5 Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .. 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland .. 5 Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew) 4 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. 5 288 Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1861 .. • • .. —136 Total .. • • ..421 1-62. Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. • • .. 1 1 •• g Pioneer, of Carnarvon • 1 Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich .. .. 5 , 116 ;',* Minerva, of Workinclon 4 schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburc. , ,h .. fi Brig Sisters, of % hitby .. • • • • • • • • 9 Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. Ilrig Jane, of North Shields .. Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. • • • • • Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) Trial, Brig of . Poofe • ••. Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. Sloop William, of Liverpool .. Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth Barque Crnz, of Oporto Barque Druid, of Sunderland •• •• Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved yes and crew) . • •• • • .• _Fishing Boats of Wb itburn . • • .. Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. •• Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore, .. 18 Schooner Rook, of Liverpool Schooner Ceres, of Arbroath (saved ves. and crew) 5 Sloop Loftus, of Padstow .. • • • • •• 4 Schooner Ellen, of Liverpool (saved ves. and crew) 3 Smack Mary Elizabeth, of Padstow Smack John, of Teignmoulh .. 2 Schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh 6 Schooner James Davell, of Newcastle (saved ves sel and crew) .. .. 2 Schooner Champion, of Liverpool . 10 Gallot Aremana, of Jaffa (assisted to save vessel and crew) • • • • • • • • 6 .• " Ship James Browne, of Philadelphia (as sisted to saw , vessel and crew) •• •• •• •. 18 Smack Countess of Lisburne, of Aberystwyth .. 3 Screw steamer Alice, of Leith .. • . .. 12 Barque Brazil, of Liverpool • • • • .. 13 Schooner Little A ggie, of Berwick e• •• 4 Schooner Sisters, of Wick •• •• •• .. 3 ..134 Total .. 368 Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted reward s in 1862 .. —213 .. ..871 Total .. . • SUMMARY OF LIVES SAVED. 1q0..455 I 1861..424 11862..671 Total .. 1,450 el ler these j o i n t numerous serv ices in saving 1,460 lives from eck, the Institution ha.. granted rewards amounting - „,- , 2,502 12s. 7d., in , ddition to 68 Silver Medals. he number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the to . , nd other mean s, since its formation, is 12,8 00 ; r w ich services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and +106,480 y , n cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu- Ti. - .as also expended Z 67,( 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat The Committee and Boat-houses. tga g e e e n n e inm row ittee desire to express their grateful sense of support which they have received from the lhas iritish editpubic during the past few years, a support which enab hem to establish their present magnificent fleet -1'; 123 Lifeboats on th e s hore s a the United Kingdom eply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that ss 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 grateful* , acknowledge the following con tributions:— _ _ Majesty the Queen £ s. d Rer annual 50 0 0 „, C ampbell, the Hon. M r s. G. .. .. .. • annual 5 0 0 Clerk, Colo ne l , R.A.annual 1 1 0 .• .• •• Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. •. annual 10 0 0 Currie Wm., Esq. .I: a rle, Lord Cief fustice .. • 4th don 10 0 0 . .. don. 10 10 0 -t.:',enshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.8.. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 •I'' nwick, G. J. Esq , cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting* Carriage . Harvey. Rev. G. G. and Mrs. " ...250 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry ' 7th don. 10 0 0 Bart. Moore, Rev. G. B. .... don. 30 0 • .. Smith, Mrs. George, GreGreenwich•• .. don. 15 15 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. ::3 0 0 annual er 2 0 0 Thom . s Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collec • ied Lady , hip .. • . • • .. Y k • • • • 16 16 0 'Willoughby d'Ere,by, Lord .. • • .. annual 60 0 Donations and Annual Sufscriptionswillbe thankfully - eei ve d b y the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,e Percival, and Co. ' 76, Lombard- , treet ; Messrs. Coutts and CO., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16. 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LEWIS POCOCK, 5 Secs. 444, West Strand, Feb, L EGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 10, Fleet-street, London. 26th February, 1863. The members of this Society are requested to take notice that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will re held at the Office of the Society, at One o'clock precisely, ou 1 UES DAY, the 17th day of March next, when the vacancies then to be created, by four of the Directors and two of the Auditors retiring in rotation, will be filled up. The Directors and Auditors thus going out are eligible for immediate re-election. By order of the Board, JOHN NETTLE lON, Secretary. CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. London, 27th February, 1863. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the ANNUAL GENERAL COURT, and also that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT, will be held at the Society's House, No. 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on SATURDAY, the 21st day of March, at Two o'clock precisely, for the following purposes ORDINARY GENERAL COURT. To receive the Auditors' Report of the Receipts and Dis bursements of the Society during the year 1862, and to elect Auditors for the present year. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT. To consider a proposed amendment of the Article 82* of the Deed of Se Alement, by which the Directors will be em powered to grant Assurances to the extent of £lO,OOO, and, if approved of, to pass a Resolution to that effect. As the Resolutions of the Extraordinary General Court will require confirmation, so Saturday, the 28th March, is ap pointed for that purpose, at Two o'clock precisely. By order of the Board of Directors, ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. * Article 82.—That no Assuranee shall be granted by the Society, on the same Life or Lives, for more than the sum of Fire Thousand Pounds. GUARDIANFIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street,'London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. ['ORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. Noel Whiting, Esq. Thos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Sami. Brown, Esq., Actuary Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Goodson, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. John Labouchere, Esq. AUD) LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS or AN ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In g.irers EIGHTY PER CENT. Of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the A mount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in ?ash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Lite Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, ndependent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at moderate rates. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Premium is required for service therein. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re. ceived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge or Policy Stamps. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. A.D. 1720. 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The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., Iss. 6d., 10s. fid., and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s wigs, L 1 10s. HOSPITALS, ON PRIVY COUNCIL* ACT SIGN, v. CHAPEL-WARDEN BOY EDW. VI. NOTICE.—In the stoppage. on Friday, of the Protestant church service, by the life Montague trustee (sworn in as of Geo. ll.'s Indian Carib College II of Bermuda), being read over, the assumed Lord-mayor, I, -aldermen. governors—as titular Roman Catholic O.S. Friers of the late Palace `Pry- Zone of King's — . 41 Holy trinity : • Fish'ry data. Whence the following reasons, to clergy of St. Paul's, churchwarden oath-deputy of Irish Catholic Union Act, 1791, the Rev. E. HUDSON, and submitted to by Black-friars agent-presi dent Cope-land (under Julius 3's aannebrog Holstein Red hat'd bishop's boy Edw. 6 on 4-Exchange t 7 ' Graham), for Elbe and Sound dues to Kt,—' which God forpid'est, Sles wig of May 's2—red-glove and turban of H. 4, cancelled, on 5 Eliz. 1, in 1832 Dutch Loan act, abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the same. I. That the re-seizin of Den •mark nesse life-copyhold of Rokesley, Mint-master's Bridewell Palace scite, as that of the House of Parliament to 1553-5, otherwise the aleet Court of the King's Custom-house fisc—built by the stone of ancient London wall and Baynard's N.river castle—so " Sir Montfichet's lay-tower (monks of Blackfriars 1 In BY idewell's fleet chapel,) Parleyment briar's. ' Thus, on the London atone Rib River-trust, requiring for Wotton validity, a re-set with Carib,t,of the 13 Privv Council'ra sign—so prevent Chapel-warden .t-privi-lege, of Blackftiar justices within the Verge-rod, attempted (H. 8, v. Catherine also, on Sir T. Moore ' Speaker') by Mr. Civil. Jus. Cardinal Wolsey, and Deputy-justice Campeggio, last Court Assumption, 21st June, 1529, on Sir Francis Bryan's grant, 1547, in Brandon Estate, till 1825, x set over the Brazil'd Calvin-Swiss 1557 Coasar-bishops of Peru. 2. That the Eau ospital of Christchurch and Bridewell's pry-zone of the C•L'are-en-well f leet-court (late under the Swan-hopping fishmonger's 1536-grant) in ' super alt'm mare' now under poor-law audit data 25th March and 29th September broad R + declination of the Polar Star—could not be admitted since the Lord Mayor Conservancy of the river Thames had ceased, on Ed. 3's Mortimer-heir settle ment of the Crown-rota king as of England's meter. 3. That on withhold'ng the parish gown there can be no church rate imposition—So prevent like violation of the Lviii. canon induction truce, by the Rev. E. Walker at Cheltenham —thro' his assumed i.e., churchwarden-take of keys, robe and rope, on 19th Feb., by seizing Cirencester's 1 s o h f p C h r e u s r b c a h r y r c: o r d ; a e c s r h a a — m a s Bz the t P k r y i n o r s was absolved from duty (see B T L t o t h ahn S: i r a t a t hn e o T s dn . y 7 BsE ° olv i l i Chamber ze t r. o n o f r t a e e . y ot p n nr a e u r , ps t 0 : x' was Gregory's New-style Bun of yesterday) —saving enry earth moving Calendar' repugnantCar teret(sB) t. t o o far th t_,a holy o t lhye scripture Canon's of o f ß t o h n e i f s a k e e y l p 2 r l y 9 . - z s o B n , are y n o a o r t for Cowmen law -replenish of River-bailiff food, by 1824 Jurats Ova Fishery-park in O.style plant. A uß c o t t , h. in 5-6 W. 4, c. 63. the State meter Act, for Leet Crt. Note,—J. Stuart Wortley, M.P., is not a Montague, but a Sidney Wortley-Newcomen, of illegitimate line, hang-on to the R C. v. priors, 20th Feb. at Itadley's hotel. So Bute's sayt,iii-SmksiriionsnCteet.ars.SguiEtulaizratiHkoibiaanrt4/1/EindgcAu.rapbe Foster) st:r ) yield up to undersigned 4. 18 9 5 Brazils Caesar, Imp. Pedro Ist, as - gneeEd)dgcuCmllll:eßrtksy‘f 8 iolland's Sty -voice, Edw. nt.'s C.GG- ..' - Crown-heir trust gofrathnedepheiolpdleAnonneilNtlicohrtairmde2r,ss.toffdsporaitthig, in f Born, (Er fish trust 14 J. I. Ric. ir's i brother J. as England's Denmark. Page ' peeral Prior—all H. B'E Na. 54 in Eyesham'Plant &-genestella o.S.—pollen-food exemplified 1 774-1837—as of its late Ist - v : A i ec C eh K , a E mi ftnbLeElr-Yi2a,yJw.n.e,P. 40 . f, P r ileouncillors being nullified 4e gmarriage, save this through trustees' daughters life one, as Geo. 3's Copenhagen 22 yrs, no pay on II PETER BASQUET, England's Carib Ind . Chief May 0 1 f 8 1 14 8 , 42 17 3 f , o a r e s Hobart Vere Foster, Denmark. Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, el the State 1584 Don Quixote and Sanect Pawls cruelty, London-notice, February 21,1863. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent) NEW YORK, Feb. 13. A personal difficulty has suddenly arisen between M. Mercier, the able and accomplished representa tive of the Ernpet or of the French, and Mr. Seward, which will probably lead to the withdrawal of the former from a post which he has filled with distin guished ability. In a despatch to M. Thouvenel, dated the 13th of April,lB62, recently published in the Livre Taune of the French Government, and which arrived in this country by the last steamer, M. Mercier states distinctly that he visited Rich mond with the thorough acquiescence of Mr. Se - ward, and " almost, as it seemed, in compliance with his desire." He details the conversation he held with Mr. Seward preliminary to his departure. One of them was to the effect " that if any overtures were made to him (M. Mercier) relative to the re cognition of the Southern Confederacy, he should answer that it ought to be understood that in his position he could only speak of the restoration of the Union; that in the disposition in which the popula tiGn of the North seemed to be, recognition would not decide the Federal Government to raise the blockade; that for us (the French) peace was the only prayer we could form ; and that we should be consequently disposed to do all which depended on us in order that it might be made as soon as possible in the convenience of both parties." In the last paragraph but one of theYlespatch M. Mercier records :—" It was understood besides that I should report to Mr. Seward only what I was authorized to repeat to him. Mr. Seward said to me that I might add, if I found an opportune occasion, that in his opinion the North was animated by no sentiment of vengeance, and that for himself he should, with pleasure, find himself again in the Senate in the presence of all those whom the South thought fit to send thither." No sooner was this document pub lished in Washington than a violent outcry against Mr. Seward was raised by the Republican and Abo litionist party. A secret meeting was held to demand his removal from office, and on Monday last, the 9th inst,, a resolution was passed by the Senate calling upon the President, if not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate the character of the suggestions made by Mr. Seward to M. Mercier, and what representations, if any, M. Mercier was authorised to make at Richmond on the part of the Federal Government, or of the Secretary of State. Taking for granted that M. Mercier's despatch was substantially and verbally correct, there was nothing in it which Mr. Seward should have been ashamed to avow. Mr. Seward was not not represented as en couraging the idea of disunion. He held out no pro spects of success to the Confederates. He only said what was quite consistent with true patriotism, as well as discretion—that the North entertained no vengeance, and that he, for one, would be glad if the South would once again send its senators to Washington. There was no treason in this—nothing, in fact, but the kindest and best feeling. But the Re publican senators seemed to think there was; and Mr. Seward, unfortunately for his reputation, seemed to be of the same opinion. In a communication to the Senate the day before yesterday, he endeavoured to put himself right, when he had not been wrong, and did it in a manner that must render it difficult, if not impossible, for M. Mercier ever again to hold official or personal intercourse with him. He stated point blank that " no suggestions were made to M. Mercier by the Secretary of State that induced or were designed or calculated to induce him to un dertake a mission to Richmond in April last, or any other time, He (M. Mercier) was not then, nor has other person, ever been a u tho r ised by t be, this nor e n t y Government, or by the Secretary of State, to k re presentations of any kind to the insur rectionary agents or so-called authorities at Rich mond, or to hold any communication with them on behalf of this Government." Mr. Seward over stated protested too much in this not contented with a denial which a high-minded gentleman of passage,svtiraiunagl l but,s "that y a c n c ae es accused an ed which was not," he went on to say that since the 4th of March, 1861, " no communi cation, direct or indirect, formal or informal, had been held by the Government, or by the Secre tary of State, with the insurgents, their eiders, or abettors." It is difficult to see how M. Mercier can remain longer in Washington ee the representative of France, if' Mr. Seward is allowed to continue in office with apology or explanation. Some of Mr. Seward's friends, desirous of finding a loophole of escape, suggests that, as he speaks no French, he may have misunderstood M. Mercier's English, or that M. Mercier (who speaks very good English) may not have correctly interpreted Mr. Seward's meaning. If this be a true explanation it is a pity that Mr. Seward did not himself think of it before rushing into print with so astounding and offensive a denial. But Mr, Seward is too clever by half, and alto gether too zealous for a diplomatist. On the 6th inst., as soon as intelligence arrived of the new pro posal made on the part of the Emperor of the French, ho sat down to his desk and penned a long and elaborate letter to Mr. Dayton, the United States' Ambassador at Paris, which is published in extenso in all the New York and Washington papers of this morning. He refuses in the most peremp tory manner the proposals of any conference or me diation whatever, in a tone of defiance which gives the utmost delight to the war party. The Now York Times, which has not hitherto been found in the ranks of Mr. Seward's admirers, says, " It is the old pristine Americanism which we hear; the same proud tone that used so signally to nation conscious of its strength and 'rk this as a jealous of its honour." It is a question, however, whether the de fiance accords with the public feeling, and whether the Secretary is not a little too American_ for the oc he supports oc casion. Someof the arguments by which his conclusions are sound,while puerilities; and the whole documentothers ° are mere is of a kind e that might be more reasonably ex advocate than from a statesman and from an diplomatist. ork He scarcely comes u p to the idea of the N ew y Tames in the matter of conscious power when he refuses mediation on the ground that if the possi bility of disunion were admitted the quick result would be ever increasing anarchy; nor does he alto gether do justice to history when he speaks of the constitution of the United States as a "sacred in strument." It has certainly not been sacred to him or to Mr. Lincoln, for both of them have trodden it under foot. Though in this very letter he constantly uses the words North and South to designate the belligerents, he lectures M. Drouyn de Lhuys, through Mr. Dayto n , for the em ployment of those " I identical terms, must be allowed," he says, " to state that M. Drouyn de Lhuys errs in his descrip tion of the parties to the present conflict, We have here, in a political sense, no North, no South ; no Northern, no Southern States. We have an insur rectionary party which is located upon and is chiefly adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico." Surely this is the merest trifling —unworthy even of an ultra-casuist. When, in aiaother'passage of the letter, Mr. Dayton shall learn, on Mr. Seward's authority, " that not one voice has been raised anywhere out of the im mediate field of the insurrection in favour of foreign intervention, or mediation or abitration, or compro mise with the relinquishment of one acre of the national domain or the surrender of even one con stitutional franchise"—Mr. Dayton may well ask himself—supposing always that he receives the newspapers of his own country—whether Mr. Se ward knows anything of what has recently passed or is now passing in the Legislatures of New Jer sey, Illinois, and Indiana, where peace and compro mise are not only openly debated but vigorously recommended. When Mr. Seward makes an asser tion of this kind ho adds another reason to those which may already have existed in the minds of im partial readers of his reply to M. Mercier for be lieving that in the statement of the particular facts in dispute M. Mercier was wholly right, and the forgetful, careless, or inaccurate Secretary as wholly wrong. While the war of words is raging with a vehe mence which threatens to grow wilder as the diffi culties of the Republic increase, the war of deeds languishes at sea, on the rivers, and in the field. Charleston is more formidably protected than was imagined. The force sent against it has been in adequate. General Hunter and Foster have quar relled on a question of precedency and authority, and the latter, having disembarked his troops on St. Helena Island, has left General Hunter in poesee sion, and returned to Washington to detail his grievances and demand fresh instructions. On the Mississippi General Banks makes no progress against Port Hudson. He has net men enough to risk a battle, and while his army is day by day de creasing, that of the enemy is augmenting, until it has become a question with the Confederates whether they shall not assume the offensive, and walk right over General ,Banks into New Orleans. At Vicksburg the whole fortune of the war hangs upon the success of the " cut" that is to divert the Channel of the Mississippi. The work makes slow progress, and has not been attended with anything like the results anticipated. Awaiting its comple tion, military operations are postponed, and "the f a ther of waters' remains impenetrably closed. In Tennessee General Rosecrans reposes on the laurels of m u rfreeoborough,while.nn the Rappahannock the once mighty army of the Potomac peaks and pines like a ricketty child. It has ceased to inspire hope in its friends or terror in its foes; and will, accord ing to all present appearances, be sent for change of air and scene to North Carolina, and lose the dis tinctive appellation by which it acquired renown under the guidance of M'Clellan. This is a gloomy picture, and by no means overcharged with dark colours. A few days, however, may throw a little sunshine into the foreground. If Charleston be impregnable, Savannah may be vulnerable. The Mississippi may be coaxed into the canal which en gineering science is digging out for it, and float the gunboats of the North to the other side of Vicks burg ; and, if the army of the Potomac should abandon " the sacred soil" of Virginia, General Rosecrans and Joseph Johnson may again come to blows in Tennessee, and fight a battle less indeci sive than that of Murfreesborough. In the meanwhile, although Mr. Seward may know or care to know nothing of the circumstance, offers of mediation and rnmours of peace are on all men's tongues, and stir up the combativeness of parties and politicians in all the Federal States ; there are unpleasant symptoms in the West and North-West which betoken that the enthusiasm of the people of those regions for the war and the Union has cooled down; that no more volunteers can be had for love or money ; that no forced men can be draughted under the penalty of a new secession; and that, in fact, the great West is seriously debat ing whetherait will not east in its fortunes with the South. There is no stability anywhere. The poli tical pattern shifts from day to day, end is unsteady as the reduplications of a kaleidescope. The West is all alive with perilous discontent, and New York, which was once proud to call itself the Empire State, and to govern all the rest by the influence of its opinion, makes no sign. Its leading men are timid. Its Legislature is so evenly balanced between the rival factious that it can no longer speak with the ancient authority. Its great merchants and bankers hold aloof, uncertain what to do or what to think. Its triumphant democracy content themselves with disparaging the judgment and the honesty of the President, and of everybody about him, with complaining of the war, the taxes, the currency, the prospects of the country, and of all that the Government has done or left undone. Professing a great love for the Union, a great de testation of emancipation without the consent of the Slave States, and a bloody-minded determina tion to fight out the fight to what they call the " bitter end," they act as if their professions were all insincere, and as if they had set their hearts upon peace and a compromise, without daring to take the measures to hasten or secure the end which they desire. Perhaps, however, the day is not re mote when New York will be forced to declare itself with more distinctness, and when the dumb patriot ism of the people will find a voice sufficiently power ful to be heard above the roar of faction. A serious crisis is too palpably approaching to permit any one to doubt that the most stirring events of the war must occur during the next three months. The great question of an army or no army will have to be decided during that interval. On the Ist of June at least one-half of the existing military force of the Republic will have ceased to exist by the expiration of the term of enlistment of the volunteers who en gaged themselves for two years and of those who engaged for nine months. If these men will not re enlist, what is to be done ? Will the President, by a coup d'etat, seek to compel them to remain in the service? And, if so, what will be their fighting value ? Will he again try the potency of bounty money to induce Irishmen and Germans to lend their aid to the cause of free institutions in the North and of subjugation in the South ? He may ; but are the men to be found ? And does not the very flower of the Irish and German immigration lie baried in the bloody battle fields of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Murfreesborough, and other Gol gothas of this merciless contest ? Or will he imitate the example of the Southern President, and resort to a conscription ? He may, no doubt ; but, if he do, he may drive out of the Union not only the Border Slave States, but the great Prairie States of Indiana, Illinois, and lowa per haps even New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Or will he rely upon " God and the Negroes," as Mr. Ward Beecher and Mr. Wendell Phillips recommend The Negroes, if Mr. Fisdeick Douglass speaks their sentiments, will not lend the aid of their strong arms except upon terms which the white race would reject with scorn and indigna tion. They are besides so few in number as to be incapable of rendering any real assistance. Look where he will, the President can find small comfort. The task set him is superhuman. There seems but one chance left—to call a general convention of the American people, and leave in their hand s the issues which are beyond his control. The Constitu tion not only warraets, but commands such a course of action, and it will hereafter be consider e d a crime in Mr_ Lincoln by the world's judgment and that of history that he did not at an earlier period of the struggle remove the responsibility of blood shed from his own weak shoulders to those of the whole people that were better able to bear it. It was Mr. Lincoln's clear duty to have inaugu rated this movement. But it has been taken out of his hands. Tr ose who from their position ought to be the leaders have, like him, suffered. inferior agencies to perform their work. Even the great State of New York, as already observed, has allowed the lead in the efforts to procure an armistice and a convention to be taken by States of less importance than herself. New Jersey, which is thoroughly De. mocratic, and has both a Democratic Governor and a Legislature, was the first to move, and has been rapidly followed by Illinois and Indiana, the people of which have done much of the fighting and suffered most of the real hardships of the war, and have not profited by war contracts like the Eastern and Atlantic States. New York, New England, and Pennsylvania have fought by deputy. Their trade and commerce have not been ruined, and many branches of both have actu ally been increased in consequence of the war ex penditure; but the Western States hav e no t on l y given the life blood of their eons, but seen their fertile fields rendered useless, except for bare sub sistence, by the stoppage of the Mi ss i ss ippi an d th e utter destruction of their once profitable trade with the South. When these States speak Peace they mean Peace. New York and the Middl e States are more quiescent because more prosperous. They love the Union so much that they would, if possible, restore it by unqualified submission to the South in the matter of slavery. They look upon the Pre sident's Emancipation policy as both a blunder and a crime. But, although some of their leading Demo crats talk of fighting to the last extremity, many of them would much rather dissolve the Union with out another battle, in the hope and expectation that the South might, under proper Democratic mani pulation, become the nucleus of a new Repub lic, which might include New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, as well as the Border Slave States, and they talk of war without caring to carry it on in the mode of President Lincoln, or by the agen cies of the party that elected him. In the North- Western States the Democratic party takes a more practical and intelligible as well as more honest course. They do rot say with Mr. J. Van Buron and other New York Democrats that the war must go on, but insist that it must stop. New Jersey has appointed Commissioners to proceed to Richmond, if the Government will grant permission, to invite the Southern States to send delegates to meet those of the Northern States in a Grand National Conven tion to discuss the state of the country. The Le gislature of Illinois has also appointed Commis sioners to confer with the delegates appointed by other States to meet at Louisville, in Kentucky, in March, and has adjourned without the transaction of its ordinary business until June, when it proposes to reassemble to hear the report. In the Indiana Legislature the peace resolutions propose Nashville, in Tennessee, as the place of meeting ; but if there solutions be adopted, as appears probable, Louisville will be substituted for Nashville to secure the neces sary unity and harmony of action. The Assembly of Kentucky has appointed nine Commissioners, six from the House of Representatives, and three from the Senate, to meet the Commissioners of the other States at Louisville, and has invited New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri, as well as Indiana and Illinois, to co-operate. The New England States are not included in the invit a tion ; but it is possible, as the project widens, that all the States will be t r . e o p n r a eT Rented, and that, instead of a partial Convention es, Louisville, there will be, what the urgency no lea: than a than the justice and mercy of Iherkcas Philadelphia, general Convention at New s Lo o uis , . If Mr,Lincoln Baltimore, Washington, advice " than that of the party were open to any other which trusts to emancipation of . the negro a e t s io a n s , th h e e sole cure for the frightful . evils of the n would seize the opportunity which these movements present to act upon the advice tendered in the reso lutions that are now lying for consideration in the I n d ia na House of Representatives. They state that it is the imperative duty of the chief Executi ve o f th e nation to proclaim an armistice in order that a Convention of all the States may be held. There has been more than enough of useless bl oo d s h e d. Th e bravery of both sides has been sufficiently shown. The unalterable determination of the South to be independent has been clearly enough proved to satisfy the North that the extermination of the Southern people is as impossible as it would be dis graceful, unnatural, and fiendish. The time for com promise has arrived. And it will hereafter be a humiliating thought for unborn generations of Ame ricans if living Americans wait for foreign agencies to do what, as Christians, no less than as men of the world, men of business, statesmen, and true patriots they should do for themselves. The voice of truculent and crazy fanatics has been heard too long. It is time for the vice of common sense to sound above the din ; and, if any portion of that priceless commodity remains in the country, it will exert itself immediately, or the Northern States of America will incur the double danger of ruin and humiliation. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT'.—READING, Feb. 26. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton.) Robert Wrixton was indicted for forging at Ox ford a check for £7O, drawn upon the London and County Bank at Abingdon. The indictment also contained a count for uttering the same knowing it to have been forged. Mr. Sawyer appeared for the prosecution •_b,,e. prisoner was -uodefexided by counsel. It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Undershell, banker, of Oxford, that on the 11th December last the'pris'ner called at his bank, produced a cheque for £7O drawn upon the London and County Bank at Abingdon, signed "Arthur Gledstane," and bear ing the endorsements of "Gledstanes and Co., 26, Austinfriars," and " Gerald F. De Livers," and re presenting himself as a member of Exeter College, requested the witness to cash it, observing that he was in want of money to pay a bill at the Star Hotel, and defray the expenses of "going down," a phrase in use among members of the University, and signifying leaving at the end of term. Witness, knowing nothing of the prisoner, or of the persons whose names were on the cheque, declined to cash it, but offered, if the prisoner could do nothing bet ter with it, there being a branch of the London and County Bank at Oxford, to present it for him in the usual way. The prisoner then left, but shortly re turned, saying he had missed the train to Abingdon and consequently could not present it himself as he had intended, and left the cheque with witness for presentment. Witness undertook the presentment and gave the prisoner two blank cheques of his own bank, to be used as soon as the cheque on the Lon don and County Bank should be honoured. The latter cheque was forwarded in due course to Abing don, and returned marked—" No account at the Abingdon Bink." The prisoner called next day to know if the money had arrived, which could not, however, have been the case until the next day. One of the blank cheques given to the prisoner by the witness was presented filled up for £lO by the head waiter of the Star. A cashier, from the London and County Bank at Abingdon, proved the presentment of the cheque, the subject of the indictment, and that there was no customer of the bank bearing the name of "Arthur Gledstane : and, further, that the cheque thus signed was one contained in a blank cheque-book issued to a customer of theirs named Bullock. Mr. Bullock, a farmer, near Abingdon, proved that to accommodate a Mr. Williams, a friend of his, and a farmer in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, he had given him four blank checks from the book issued to him by the London and County Bank. This was some time between the 21st of July and the 9th of October in last year. Mr. Williams proved the receipts of the blank checks from Mr. Bullock, three of which were filled up and used by himself. Mrs. Williams, wife of the last witness, proved that the fourth check remained for some time in her workbox. The prisoner was a visitor at her hus band's house for some months up to the end of December, and she missed the check from her work box shortly after his departure. It was also proved by a clerk of Gledstanes and Co. that there was no person named Arthur Gledstanes connected with their firm, and Mr. Be Livers, an undergraduate of Exeter College, deposed to the fact that theindorse ment of his name on the check was not wpitten by him or with his authority. The jury found the prisoner guilty of uttering the check knowing it to have been forged, and the learned Judge sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. VICKSBURG. The Mississippi flows near Vicksburg through flats of its own deposit. Those flats vary from 20 to upwards of 100 miles in width, They are subject to an overflow of from four to 20 feet deep. At the city a breadth of hills runs out through these low flats to the very bank of the Mississippi. A narrow apron of overflowed land lies at a few points be tween those hills and the river; but in most instances the channel lies with its whirring current at their very base. A belt of land subject to overflow lies for a width of about 200 yards between the Mississippi and the base of the " bluff" on which Vicksburg stands. That hill presents to the river a contour similar to that of a truncated cone. It rises up in a rapid slope to a summit 300 or 400 feet high. The streets of the city are cut into the sides of the hill, and constitute a succession of terraces one above another. The system of defences adopted for the position is outside my knowledge, but must be as formidable as any such system can be in the case of a profile admitting of a dozen lines of earthwork around the whole sweep of the hill, each commanding the other, and all commanding the water approach so com pletely as to make a direct advance from the "landing" utterly impracticable. This bristling hill is but one of a chain that, equally formidable throughout, embraces the channel of the Mississippi as far south as Warrenton. This semicircular sweep of "bluffs" has doubtless been made— as it may have been very easily—unapproachable at any point by a hostile force from the river. The flank ap proaches to this breadth of hill country are very difficult. The Yazoo River constitutes the line of access to it on the north. The naked red clays of the whole region back of Vicksburg are torn by heavy rain• storms into a tangled network of ravines deep and steep. This favours the de fence in general, and makes it from the line of the Yazoo perhaps irresistible. The weak point of the communications of Vicksburg lies, however, at the place where the railway from that city to Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, crosses on trestlework the swamp of Big Black River. That part of the railway is but a few miles back of Vicksburg, and is accessible fro wa m a point on the Mississippi below Warrenton, by way of the valley of the Big Black River. In high stages of water, as at the present, it is approachable by gunboats. In either case this appears to be the assailable point of the defences of Vicksburg. Vicksburg is situated on one of those bends in the chan nel of the Mississippi known locally from their shape as " horse shoes." The city occupies the toe, the range of hills extending south of it to Warrenton, rising up like a wall around one-half the circle of that "horse shoe." The tongue of land within the bend is subject to overflow. Across this the Federals have cut a canal with the expec tation that the Mississippi rushing through will widen and deepen it to the dimensions of a new bed. " Cut offs," such as the Federals expect to make in this instance, have been made similarly at other points on the river. In this case, however, the soil is stiff clay, and there is therefore grave reason to conclude that the river will fail in opening by its own action the shallow cuts into which they have intro duced it to the dimensions required. This canal is in fact set down as a failure. A new cut is being opened at another part 'of the horse shoe ; but this probably will be found, unless carried down with the quicksand, equally unavailable. At all events, it will fail to result in any change useful for the purposes of navigationbefore h sever l months. In order to place you in possessionis of only the necessaryPysica conditions of the attack on Vicksburg to repeat that with the exception of the breadth of hill co u ntry on which that city is 'Janata all the o w c h o o u l n e t r r e y g a i r o s n u f n o d r is a more or less rec l aimed swamp. 100 miles on every side of the Confederate defences, except in the rear, is subject to an overflow of from four to 20 feet deep, and even the rendezvous of the Federal army, pro tected temporarily by an embankment that may be cut an -hour, must in the present s t a t e o f th e t h roug h in half- Mi s sissippi floods be saturated with wet. A further rise in the water would drive the Federal army to their transports, and yet immense reinforcements are being forwarded from Memphis to participate in its desperate and bloody enter prise.—Standard. Is Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing oil inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Ilorniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always good tedlce. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents MARRIAGE AT THE TURKISH COURT.—The Levant Herald of the 11th says :—" An incident worthy of mention, in the dearth of graver news, occurred at Dolmabaktche during the past week. Raif Bey, ex - Chamberlain was sent for, and, by Imperial Trade, was ordered forthwith to marry one of the palace ladies, whom he had never seen or heard of before. Within ten minutes after the order was communicated to him the sp?use--not elect, but imposed— ma d e h e r appearance, and , inside an hour, the conjugal knot was tied," .hemaelves each day from _ were enabled to bring f close yesterday evening. Mr. sons Mr. Baker, and Mr. Bissel were the only mem bers who felt sumcieLL confidence or hope of success to remain, Mr. Turner having resigned after firing the fifth round. As the firing did not terminate until a late hour, the only diagram commuted was as follows :—Whitworth, 1.74 ; Parsons, 2.13 ; Baker, 2.75; Bissel, 2.97; and Turner, 2.71. In refutation of the plea given by the competitors against the use of the Government rest, Lord Elcho yesterday stated that on the first year of their meet ing at Wimbledon any kind of rest was allowed, when Mr. Whitworth alone supplied his own, and beat. On the second year the conditions were the same, and the result also. On the third year, being the first at Woolwich, all fired. from Govern ment rests, and the same result followed; and this year Mr. Whitworth is again victorious - , he alone bringing hts or.n rest. It may bo appropriately remrtked t int Major Halford made a figure of 10 inches in ii; - ;:ng from the shoulder at 500 yards, and the same i ifle was shot immediately after wards from Westley Richar;ls's mechanical rest, and gave six inches. Whether the opinion of the members or that of the Council is the more plausible is likely to be the subject of further discussion. The mean computation of the first three Otis :—Whitworth, 1-16 ; Parsons, rifles at both rang es, as C n given by aptai Mildmay t -.T.ll4Aemainder of the dia g rams will y .qaupauneed at 1 4 ; yesterday, Bak is , Baker 1.70 ; Turner , 1.72 ; ,and Bissel, 1-98. a-latar-Rftlitiratiorti.elositii the rtyers~ terday, die Council stated it to be their desire to tender the thanks of the Association to their ener getic and praiseworthy armourer, Mr. Smith. who had so zealously and gratuitously attended the meeting each day at much inconvenience. Mr. Smith, gunmaker, London, produced some speci mens of granulated powder in round grains, very much in appearance resembling No. 8 shot, and of which the members of Council on the ground ex pressed their approbation. A number of Steward's improved rifle telescopes were arranged on the ground, and were especially patronised by the mem bers and the Council. With these telescopes the bullet marks on the target were easily distinguished over the long range without the necessity of moving from the firing sheds. Mr. Steward has presented three of these telescopes, of the value of 25 guineas, to be fired for at Wimbledon by the Volunteers, and has also promised to lend 40 others of hisbest glasses, so that each squad of riflemen firing for the Queen's prize shall be provided with one for their own epe- cial use. One of Krupp's newly-invented breech -loading guns, on an improved principle, has been under a severe trial for some days past at Woolwich, having been fired to what is termed " destruction." The gun was teeted yesterday up to the 100th round, and each time loaded with 141 b. of powder, and latterly with a cylinder weighing 1,0001 b., and extending 27in. beyond the muzzle. To the surprise and ad miration of the Select Committee and many scien tific visitors, the gun, on examination, exhibited no indications of weakness or blemish. Capt. B unce, instructor of musketry to the Royal Marine division at Woolwich, has commenced his annual course of firing, with a captain, two subal terns, and 120 rank and file. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, held a levee yesterday at the Admiralty, Whitehall. The following officers attended :—Ad miral Bethune, Admiral Sir J. Scott, Capt. R. B. Old&ld, Capt. A. J. Curtis, Capt. E. W. Turnour, Capt. M. H. Haswell, Capt. J. Walford, Capt. A. M. L. Lyons, Capt. T. R. Sulivan, Capt. J. M. Bruce, Capt. T. Fisher, Capt. Sir T. M , Clintock, Capt. I. E. Edgell, Capt. W. J. Lake, Capt. E. A. Sotheby, Capt. H. Broadhead, Capt. W. B. Holland, Commander F. Rich, Commander J. W. T. Saulez, Commander E. Madden, Commander W. Arthur, Commander R. Scott, Commander W. M. W. Dou glas, Commander D. Walker, Commander J. R. Alexander, Commander W. A. B. Home, Comman der J. C. Soady, and Lieut. T. D. Curtis. The Emerild, 34, screw, shipped her four-bladed screw in readitleirs - for her third experimental trial, which will take place at Portsmouth in the early part of next week, if she should not, in the meantime, be ordered to accom pany the Channel fleet to Flushing. The Powerful target ship has been broutzht;down Portsmouth harbour, and placed alongp" yard to receive a fresh supply of testing by the gun of the Stork gu..— plates have arrived from the Etawick Ordna►.. Company, and two others are expected to arrive to day from France. The trial of these latter is naturally looked forward to with much interest. Orders were received at Portsmouth yesterday for the Channel fleet, now lying at Spithead under the command of Rear Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., to sail at 1 p.m. to-day far Flushing to escort her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Den mark in the passage across from the Continent to England. In addition to the line-of-battle ships and other vessels which, in accordance with orders to that effect, are being prepared to join the flotilla to be stationed at tne Nore on the arrival of the squadron conveying her Royal Highness the Princess Alex andra, on the 7th proximo, orders have also been received at Chatham for four of the screw gunboats attached to the steam reserve in the Medway to take part in the display_ The vessels composing the squadron will be the Formidable, 84, 2,289 tons, Capt. W. G. Lnard, flagship of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, Commander in-Chief at the Nore ; the Cumberland, 70, 2,214 tons, Capt. T. P. Thompson, flagship of the steam reserve ; the Leander, 51, 2,760 tons, 400 horse power, attached to the first division of the Chatham steam reserve ; the Revenge, 73, 3,322 tons, 800 power, Capt. C. Fellowes, flagship of Rear- Admiral of the Red R. Smart, commanding the Channel fleet; the Warrior, 40, 6,109 tons, 1,250-horse power, Capt the Hon. A. A. Cochrane; the Black Prince' 40, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse-p ower , Capt. J. F. B. Wainwright; the Resistance, 16, 3,710 tons, 600 horse power, Capt. C. Chamberlain ; the Defence, 16, 3,720 tons, 600 horse power, Capt. A. Phillimore, and four gunboats. No orders have yet been received for the Wellesley, 72, Commander R. Studdert, training-ship at Chatham, to join the squadron, and as time and expense would have to be incurred in preparing her for the service it is not probable that she will take any part in the naval display. The Vigilant, 4, 250 horse power Commander Hobson, fitting for the East Indies, will be ready to leave the Medway on Tuesday next, when she is ordered to proceed round to the Thames, to join the Racoon, 22, 400 horse power, Capt. the Count Victor Gleichen. The whole of the State barges, gigs, shallops, and other boats belonging to the Admiralty are to be placed in store at Deptford dockyard, and not at Sheerness, as previously ordered. s pecial service,. ordered to be fitted at Chatham f u or m a a p re e The 50-gun sailing frigates, and other vessels ar mament placed are, it appears, not to have anyy ed on board, and will only ed about 18 for the service on which they will bit e that they will be used in. months. It is prohcae. The vessels selected to be be em re i l ic - !; the transpor e t !_c a r e v k i n, i 50 • the Worcester, 50 • the fitted are th o P i. the Isis, 2 ' 7 ; and the Diamond, ' 27. Chichester, . 'lof the White Sir Michael Seymour, Vice-Admiral .. G. c.8., will on Monday next succeed Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Henry William Bruce, R.C.B. as Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. We regret to hear that Vice-Admiral Sir H. W. Bruce is still suffering from severe indisposition. An Admiralty order has been received at Chatham directing that every person in the Gov,rnment em ploy is to have a holiday on March 10, and that the whole of the public establishments are to be closed. The entrance-gates of the dockyards, Royal Marine barracks, and naval hospitals are to be illuminated in the evening. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness ;hel)aie of Cambridge , Field-Nlarshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yesterday at the Horse Guards, It was attended by nearly 200 officers. A considerable number of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers, having completed their course of s urveying, topographi cal, an l school instruction, an order h as b een received at the head-quarters of the Royal Engi neer establishment, ~C h at ham, directing a nu m b er of the most inte lli g ent to be selected to be (ecmapplto.yse Sun's) d es o r e 0 the mp a n O y r o d f natl Ordnance Royal Survey. Engineers will pro ceed The 7th from headquarters onthefortifications to v on er, duri ng nes t wee k, to ee b d e ' at that part of the coast. As the work on which the company will c be employed will be prin c ipally mining, the non commissioned officers and transferred to the 7th company, on its arrival from Nova Scotia, are again to join their former com panies. 4 BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOKOFB E A U T Y. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d.