The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

4.IRD EDITION or. "THE N," ,oing the Latent STORTING INTELLIGtN'TE , can be had of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. R OYAL -- ENGLISH -OPF.IIA, COVENT .. 0 A.11.D11T. 7 . t., rider the al auluOuteut ot bliss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. liarriaou. Sole Lesaees. 'THIS EVENING, Bellicas Opera, L 3 SONNAMBULA : Id aile Parepa, Bars. Aycsley Coo e, Miss Thiriwall ; Meagre, Wets, John Rouse, C. I.yall, and G. Perren . . After which. FREYA'S GIFT, an Allegories] Masque, in which Mi3S Louisa Fyne Nina appear. Allegories] A, Mellon. Doors or.en at half-past '- ( ommenee at 7. TII EA T RE-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.— Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or, Bien of the Day rs. henry Lorraine, H. Sinclair, S. Calhaern. J. Robins tte. ; Aire. D. P. Bowers, 3liss tiara Weston, and Mrs. Ed mund Falconer. After which, BONNIE DUNDEE, introducing the Picto rial and Spectacular effects of The Gathering of the Clans. To conclude with THE SPANISH DANCERS. 3lr. J. llobins ttivl Lydia Thompson. Commence at T. ti EAT it E-R.O YAI, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr..T. R. Rnckstone. TCHS EVENING. at Seven o'clock. will be performed OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Ass Trenchard, Mr. Buck pf.ute t Lord Dondreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by THE I.ITTLE TRItASrR E. Messrs. Howe, yrthern. Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss E. Terry, !cc. To conclude with THE GALICIA FE lE. Miss Fanny Wright. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECIITEIt. THIS EVENING, March 19, to commence with an Orialnal Firetch. entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. Alter ~ rhieb, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)loo-ne, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feral a nd John Brouzliam. H The principal character will be sustained by - Mr. Feehter, sun ported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H . Widdi combe, W. M'lntyre.. F. Charles, Garden. Raymond, 11. Butler, Dawson: Misses Carlotta Leclerc Kato Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elaworthy. To concluile with an rpithalamium to the Prince and Prin cess of Wa es. Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. karnett. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE I. , ,rsee and Manager. Mr Lindut. THIS EVENING,4.A-W , v..LOYE. Miss M. Oliver. After which, at a giorrer to 8, AURORA FLOYD. Miss Amy Sedgwick. Miss ft emit rson, and Mrs. Simpson • Messrs. Roxby, H. Vezin, G.2.Belntore, C. Licyton, Wallace, &id Collett. 'Jo conclude with the I retina of ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. Mepsrow!Fitz.james, iselmore, Vezin, and Seyton: Misses Constlnee Aylmer, M. Jones, and Mrs: IL Marston. N THFATRE-RO VAL, Proprietor and Msnazfr. Mr. R. Webster. THIS 'EVENING (2d time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj. wcbster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips. Mr. Millington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. To be followed by THE GAMBOLS OF ARTHUR AND BERTRAND AND GEORGE DE BARNWELL • Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford , Stephensm, C. J. Smith., homer; Miss Woolgar. Terminating' with the Traneormation Scene. Atter which, A VALENTINE •. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mies Seaman. Commence at 7. ANOTHER LARGE "ISSUE OF THE WEDDING SUN Is now Publishing. DAY. —Morning,... 111:'A2m. —Afternoon, 2t,. 12m. TO- 310 ItßOW.—Mornlng,•, 2h: tOm.—Atternoon 2h. 52m. The Weather--• Sun Office, March 19, 1863. o- THERMOMETER. Highest since Neon yesterday. ' Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Wind—N. • West ; light, with fine weather 41g . 1' --v° * g q 'Mt Zi jr" 2 LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1863. 1 . ~-- In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. BRADY, in moving the second reading of the Diseases Pre vention (Metropolis) Bill, said that the measure would impose penalties upon diseased persons hiring public vehicles and upon the drivers of those vehicles whenever they knowingly con veyed such persons. Mr. AYRTON said he believed the bill was uncalled for, and would be found praoically inoperative. Mr. HENLEY said he thought it was desirable they should take some step for the purpose orabating the evil in ques tion., but IT Apubted whether the present measure Annld be carried itip operation. Sir G. GREY said he believed it would be hardly possible to place - the biii in a satisfactory shape; and he would sug gest that they should postpone the further conside ration of the subject. Mr. BRADY acceded to this suggestion, and the second reading of the bill was postponed to the 27th of May. The Consolidated Fund (£10,000,000) Bill was read a third time and Passed. The House adjourned at 20 minutes past one (Mock. Another series of exporiments in Gunnery has again demonstrated the cotraordinary advances made by our scientific Er gincers. There has-been a new trial of strength, speed, and accu racy between the Whitworth and the Armstrong cannon. Remesntering the derision that used to be cast cf yore. npon what—not so very long ago, . - by the way I—people were wont to regard as the hallucinations of a poor crack• brained dreamer, like Captain WARNER, the extent of the advance made in the fabrication of heavy artillery, partakes, in deed, of all the attributes ot the marvellous. In evidence of this, it is only requisite to enumerate very briefly, and in the plainest terms, what it was that was actually done on Tuesday last, that is as recently as only the day before yesterday, at the old scene of their c Intentions, between those real Masters of Ordnance," Wnrrworan and ARM STRONG, viz., Shoeburyness. It should be premised, moreover, that those who witnessed on Tuesday, at Shoeburyness, these ex traordinary feats-of-arms, were precisely the very men best qualified to appreciate them. There were officials and there were men of science looking on with deeply scrutinising eyes at the all but miracles accomplished under their gaze. Among the crowd of visitors, his Grace the First Lord of the Admi• ratty, the noble and gallant Secretary of the Admi ralty, all the juuior Lords of the Admiralty : Togel her with their lordships, Earl DE GREY and ItrroN, from the War-office, attended by the gallant general the Deputy-Inspector of Ordnance. Be sides these most competent witnesses, there stood upon that familiar grouniJ, slued to Bellona though bloodless, shaken with tremendous concus sions, blackened with gunpowder, and strewn with fragments of shattered iron and timber. attesting by their splintered appearance the de structive force employed against them—there stood t here, upon those debris-littered il.tts at ShoeburynEss, sm o , g a throng of civil engineers, the Ilero4s of the bay, Sir Av./L/I,m ARMSTRONG en d Mr. WitiTwonrrn, together with the members o f t h e Ordnance Select Committee, and the mem bers of the Iron Plate Committee. A fit audience and true, it will be allowel Now for the m arvels that were actually d une be fore this gathering of spectators, as recently as the day before yesterday down at Shoeburyness. They there accomplished these feats of arms by the aid of guns, in which Were pitted against each other, the capabilities ot the old smooth-bole 68-pounder, Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG'S 110 pounder service gun, suppliei with special steel shot cut down at the base for the purpose of reducing them to 651 b. weight, Sir WILLIAm's 3ile-pounder muzzle-loaded rifled shunt gun, Mr. WarravonTn's muzzle-loading 150- pounder or "l-inoh gun, and Mr. LYNALL THOMAs's f';-inch or 300-pounder rifled muzzle-loading gun. two guns last mentioned, it should be observed en Passant, being made by Colonel ANDERSON, at Woolwich, on the built-up The TriE SUN, LONDOI4I, TZETSDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1863. 1 considerable. In one year 663 patients were taken t there in public conveyances, of whom 110 died ; thus showing the serious nature of their complaints And it ie, as Mr. BRADY observed, a remarkable fact that of this large number 530 persons were thus sent to the hospital by parish authorities. This satisfied him that these authorities, being the natural guardians of the poor, and the representa tives of the ratepayers, were the proper persons to carry into operation the provisions of the bill be hes brought forward. This bill would, probably, not entirely meet the case, but as he himself observed, it might be amended in committee, and we can only regret that the hon. member consented to Sir G. GREY'S suggestion for postponing the second reading of his treasure. Mr. AYRTON'S objections were really frivolous, and his question as to the.evidenee of the transmission of diseases by such means is suffi ciently answered, one would think, by the ex perience of many generations as to the contagious nature of several dangerous diseases. Mr. GRIFFITH spoke more truly when he said that Mr. BEADY deserved the thanks of the community for having brought forward the subject. He mentioned a case which had coma under his own knowledge, in which a servant with the small-pox was sent to the hospital in a cab. It was plain that the cab might be, and probably was, engaged within five minutes after its departure from the hospital. We fully agree with Mr. GRIFTITH when he says that it would be a most extraordinary thing if nothing could be done to mitigate the evil. There might certainly be diffi culties in the way of allowing a cabman to refuse a fare, but it is not the way to conquer difficulties to refuse to face them; and to push off the subject as hopeless. It would certainly be unjust to impose penalties on cabmen conveying fever patients in their cabs, and then to provide no other means of transit for such sufferers. The remedy is simple. Let the parish authorities be compelled to provide such vehicles, and let the ratepayers find the means for the provision. The protection of their health is surely worth as much as the insurance of their houses or property from damage or destruction. There would probably be no opposition to such a payment, which could be but trifling, and let the House consider what regulations will meet the cab difficulty. If there really is ground for legislation, as is admitted on all sides, why should not the health of cab passengers in the weeks between this and June be worth preserving from risk as well as those after that date ? The indifference of the Government on a matter so nearly concerning the public health is little to their credit, as a small amount of time and consideration would find means to mitigate a serious evil. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, MARCH IQ.. Intelligence received here from LithuaniP, s t ates that all the marshals of the corporations in that province, all the judges and judicial officers, and all independent public functionaries rave rent in their resignations en masse. These resignations are based upon the resolution not to receive any communication from the Govern ment in the Russian language. The functionaries who have resigned are raid to have declared infamous all who should consent to fill the positions they vacate. SKALMEIRZYKE, MAncn 17. An important engagement between the insur gents and the Russian troops took place yesterday at Lorzodek, three miles from Kilisch. The latter were compelled to retreat, and the town was re duced to ashes. The number of insurgents con cerned in this battle amounted to 3 000 men. Rein forcements were sent this morning from Kaiisch to the Russians. BERLIN, MARCH 18. Private letters received here from Warsaw state that the Grand Duke Constantine has, in conse quence of a council of war, given up his idea of pro ceeding to the theatre of war. CRACOW, MARCH 18. Count Staryenski, marshal of the Polish nobility, has tendered his resignation. Governor Nazimoff has ordered the arrest of 300 landed proprietors in Lithuania. The insurgents have been victorious over the Russian troops at Rudnika, in the Government of Mohilew. LEMBERG, MARCH lg. Raczynski, one of the insurgent chiefs, has, aftcr many engagements, succeeded in leading his band, which has been continually increasing in numbers. to Pinsk. He has occupied that town, and pro claimed the National Government. INDIA. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA (via Suez), MARCH 2. Grey shirtings and mule twist tending upwards, Indigo unchanged. Exchange on London, Baring's credits, 2.01 Government Securities 5 per cent., 106,1. Freight flat. ANERICAQ (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) NEW YORK, March 6 (per Jura). Tho Confederates, under Gen. Van Dorn, have advanced towards Franklin, Tennessee, but were driven back by the Federals. Fighting conticues. Tho skirmishing around Nashville is active. The report of an attempt to assassinate General Banks at Orleans is said to have been a canard. A Secession demonstration occurred at New Or leans, on the occasion of the departure of a large number of Confederate prisoners for the South. A large number of people assembled on the levee to witness their departure, and made various Seces- sion demonstrations. Gen. B_inks sent a regiment of soldiers to disperse the assembhge, and no dis- urbance occurred. All the Ge.nr , ral Appropriations Bills were passed by Congress before the close of the session, and have been signed by the President. These, together with other appropriations, amount to about - one billion dols. The Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill, origi• nally introduced by the Committee of Ways and Means, appropriated 1,200,000 dols., but before it passed through both houses the sum was enlarged to 20,000,000 dollars. The bill to admit Coloraco and Nevada as States of the Union, which passed the Senate, failed to pass in the House of Representa tives, the latter refusing to suspend the rules for its consideration. Before the adjournment of the Senate, Mr. Doo little, Republican, of Wisconsin, urged that the last moments of the Senate should be passed in some thing besides recrimination. He stated that all events went to show that America would crush out the rebellion, and stand before the world greater, more powerful, more glorious than ever, and be yond what had ever entered into the mind of man to conceive. He wished to show the traitors at home, and the men who talked of intervention, that America had just begun to fight, and would fight it through. America bought Louisiana and Florida, in order to have that opening to the ocean ; and he would say, in the name of the north-west, that be fore they would allow an independent empire at the mouth of the Mississippi, they would reduce Louisiana to what it was before America pur chased it—a territory of swamps and crocodiles. He told the nations who suggested the possibility of an inch - pendent empire at the south-west, that such talk s to talk what the people of the United States, though it should result in the upheaval of the whole of North America, would never sur render. It was his religious belief that the American Republic was that political Power foretold by the prophets, and for which good men of all ages looked and prayed, and to whose success and duration Heaven, with all its omnipotence, was pledged. Speaker Grow, in his valedictory address to the House of Representatives, declared that, no matter what changes were wrought in the social organism of America, its territoridl limits would continue the same, The war must be prosecuted until the last armed rebel is subdued. Speaker Grow received a unanimous vote of thanks from the House, a compliment which was never paid to any speaker but once before. A large meeting has taken place at Trenton, Nev, Jersey, in response to a call to celebrate the dee , of a Congress which had trampled upon the liber ties of the people. Speeches were made declaring that the people were in a worse condition than the people of Austria, and hopes were expressed that the State Government would do its duty to protec' the citizens. Resolutions were also passed denouncing the unlimited control Gf the purse and sword o. the nation, and the unrestrained power over the person'. of the citizens given to the President, and declaring that it was the duty of the States to resist firmly ail encroachments upon their rights ; that the Con scription Bill was an aggression up n the sovereignty of New Jersey, and that the State authorities art called on to take measures for the successful vinii• cation of the rights of the State. The em plo3 men' of negroes was denounced, and New Jersey was stated to be utterly opposed to the prosecution of the war upon any other than a constitutional basis. Both Houses of Congress passed the resolutions concerning mediation, as reported from the Com mittee of Foreign Relations. At a meeting of the Democratic Association, Pre sident Lincoln's name was hissed. The New Yosk Tribune, referring to General Banks's arrangements with planters for negro labour, says—" The military authorities of the Gulf who were charged to recognise and maintain the freedom of the blacks, have gone into the busi ness of slave-driving on the largest possible scale, and officers who went to suppress a slaveholders' rebellion, are made overseers of plantations which Government stocks with re-enslaved blacks." The 2ribune charges General Banks with administering his department entirely in the interest of the slave owners, and denounces his course as an oppression of the negro. An influential meeting has been held at New York to forward the laying of the Atlantic cable. A committee was appointed to act, and five gentle men have subscribed over £3,000 to assist the en- terprise. 'The New York 7itnes says that 2,000 Mexican troops had embarked at Mazatlan and Jamiarz for a southern port of Mexico in order to operate against the French. It is considered probable that a conflict may have taken place at Vicksburg, and not impossible it may have been evacuated by the Confederates. General Joseph Johnston, who commands at Vicksburg, is the General who evacuated Manassat• And Yorktown in such a wily manner, and at such moor ents as to seriously disconcert the Federal plans, based upon his resistance at each point. HI may have repeated the same move at Vicksburg, which is supplied by only one line of railway. Ai he has, Port Hudson being strong enough to hole in check the Federal advance down the Mississippi, Johnston may throw himself northward upon Memphis, or to the north-east upon Rosecrans even by a rapid southward movement, in conjunction with the small but formidable- Con federate fleet, attempt to recapture New Orleans. By adopting either of these plans he would of course abandon for the time the Red Rivet country, which lies between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and through which the Confederates re ceive immense supplies from Texas. Much anxiety is felt in regard to Charleston The expedition against that place is meat formidable, and great efforts will be made to take it, but Gene ral Beauregard has been allowed time enough to complete all his fortifications, solid and floating, and to concentrate a powerful force. There are growing symptoms at the West of popular dissatisfaction, and much is said of secret associations, organised both to support and oppose the Government. In this city a State judge has declared his inten tion of executing his writ of habeas corpus against a Federal colonel who, however, remains in his castle at Governor's Island. In the Senate 17 members took their seats yes ,terday, nine of whom were returned for the firet time; of these nine, six may be ranked as Opposi tion members, two as extreme, and one (Mr. Mor gan, of New York) as a moderate Republican. The municipal elections in New York State indi cate great gains for the Democratic party. NEW Yonx, March 6 (Afternoon), The reports concerning the condition of the steamer Indianola, when captured, are conflicting. Some say she is seriously damaged, and others that she is in an effective condition, and that her sur render was unneceesary. The Kentucky House of Representatives has passed a resolution calling a nat i ona l convent i on and a convention of the Mi s sissippi Valley States. It is supposed the Senate would concur in the re. solution. CHINA• CANTON, FEB. 14. Tea active but unchanged. Total export to date 92,125,0001b5. Exchange on London, 4.81. SHANGHAI, FEB. 8. Grey skirtings unchanged. Silk heavy. Settlements during the past fort• night 1,600 bales. Total export to date, 66,000 bales Exchange on London, 6.2/. FRANCE. PARIS, MARC" 19. The bulletin of the hrolsiteur to-day contains the following : "The whole of the news from Poland, which attracts so large a share of public interest, appears to demonstrate that the insurrection is becoming general." The Pays states that the discussion on the peti tion relative to the affairs of Poland will be con tinued to day. This journal announces its intention of giving the most explicit details relative to this important question. It also comments upon the great meeting in London on the same question, and on the deputation to Lord Palmerston. The Opinions Nationale remarks on the same topic. It states that M. Bonjean made an admirable speech on the occasion, and vividly illustrated the vicissi tudes that Poland has sustained during the last three quarters of a century. He made two reproaches to the Commission—first, that they had not taken into consideration in their their report the question of humanity, and, secondly, in having proposed the order of the day, instead of demanding the forwarding of the petitions to the Government. M. Bonjean insisted on the necessity to Europe of re-establishing Poland, and ex pressed an earnest hope that the Emperor would be able to realise this desire of all gene roas hearts, without peril for France. M. de Guerrouniere, taking up the question, was not so felicitous in his remarks. He said that they must be moderate above all things. He said that the division of Poland bad arisen from causes which were beyond the fancies of the masters of the world, and he added that the great Catherine and the great Frederick had followed an irresis tible impulse in their policy of invasion. The hon. senator appeared to regard in the light of a Utopia the idea of re-establishing Poland in her ancier.t limits. To this this journal replies iu a spirited strain. Let M. Guerronniere look back some cen turies to the time when a third of France belonged to England, and tell us what answer he would make to any politician who told him of the impossibilit) of making the frontier of our own country reach to the ocean. There is now a Polish nationality, as there was then a French one, and Poland is as ca pable of recovering herself, nowadays, as France was at the epoch we refer to. The Siecle says the beginning of the discussion promises a happy issue. It refers to the discussion on the right of petition ir, 1791, when, after Leering all kinds of orators, the Assembly gave a decree that the right of petition ing belonged to each individual. Is not this right above a;1 sacred, when it is the last resource left to martyrs? May the noble senator never know the misfortunes of exile, may those who share his opinion never have to present before a foreign Chamber the claims of the:r country. The Conatitutionnel gives a long exposition of the various treaties in connection with Poland. It will be very acceptable at the present time to many who will wish to refresh their memories on this important point. BOURSE, March 18.—Stock has been rather offered, and during the first part of the day prices receded, but they have since recovered, and Threes, for the Account, are now at 68fr, 85c., after hav ing been at 68fr. 70c. Little or nothing doing in Railway Shares. The market became firmer towards the close and left off as follows : 4q per Cents .. 90 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do, end month 6B 95 New 3 per Cents Do, end month, — Credit Mobilier 1245 Do. end nionth 1248 75 BAIL' Bank Shares 3375 - Credit Foncier 1480 Itdlian Loan 7O 26 Do. end month — Russian Austrian .. Spanish Threes — Ilome Debt PAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lll2 50 .. 1113 75 Northern - .. 1030 Now. ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1192 50 .. 1193 75 Geneva 4ll 25 .. 412 60 Southern 767 50 • . 770 Western Eastern .. 545 545 Sardinian 382 50 .. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Sitragcgsa 7Ol 25 .. 702 50 Ditto to Barcelona 345 347 50 RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. Yesterday the schooner Fanny Lewis, Captain Lewis, arrived in the Mersey from Wilmington, North Carolina, with a cargo of cotton and spirits of turpentine. After leaving Wilming ton, the Fanny Lewis was chased for 16 hours by a Federal man-of-war, EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD.—One Titterton, a rag and bone deal er a t Sh e ffi e ld, haL been fined £ 5 a p d costs, for havi ng un d er hi s sca l e s a very power ful ma g net, which, by such an effect tpon the scales as would g ive him an advarl a singular contrivance, he coul d cause to have tage of about three and a half ounces on every pound, CRYSTAL PALACE. Good Friday Falls this year on the 3d of April. It is always one of the great days at the Crystal Palace. For the past few years the attendance has averaged between 40,000 and 50,000 on each Good Friday. It has been the policy of the directors to make this middle-class holiday as attractive as possible, to those whose avocations allow them little more than Good Friday and Christmas Day as days of leisure dur ng the year. A Con cert of Sacred Music, supported by the most talented tertistes, is usually the principal special attraction of the day. To see the vast but strictly orderly audience assem bled in the Great Transept of the Crystal Palace on a Good Friday, joining heartily, with upturned faces, in the strains of the Old Hundredth or the National Anthem, is one of the grandest sights which can be witnessed. For the coming Good Friday the special attractions are unusually varied. Mr. Sims Reeves will sing three of his greatest tenor songs, Madame Rudersdorff, Mr. Weiss, Mr, Thomas Harper, Mr. Levy, and other artiste., will also take part. The celebrated orchestral band of the company, under the direction of Mr. Manna, considerably reinforced and further strengthened by the band of the Coldstream Guards, will perform some of the most celebrated instru mental works. The concert commences at three, and usually lasts until a little past five. This is the first Good Friday that has occurred since the completion of the roof of the great Handel orchestra. Those who remember what the effect of the music was last Good Friday will be sur prised to find how much the roof assists the sound, and with what clearness and ease the solos can now be heard in all parts of the transept, compared with what they for merly were. The entire floor of the Palace and the first tier of galleries will be open to the public, admitted to the Palace at the usual one shilling rate. The front rows of seats in the great orchestra will be fitted up as reserved aeats at half- a-crown, as will also the second and upper galleries of the great transept. The back rows of seats on the orchestra will be reserved at one shilling each, These may be purchased on the Monday previous to the 3d of April, at the Crystal Palace, or at No. 2, Exeter Hall. The extension of the Kensington railway across the Thames to Clapham Junction, affords facilities for visitors from many parts hitherto debarred access to the Palace by rail. Thus the South-Western trains now exchange traffic at this station, and visitors from stations on the main line, as well as on the branch line to Kew, Richmond, and Wind sor, can readily pass on to the Palace by changing at Clap- ' ham Junction. Tke entire service of the North London system, extending from Fenchurch-streot by Bow, Stratford, Islington, Highbury, Hampstead, and Kensington, Sec., is also available by the Clapham Junction. Connected thereby, trains from the Great 'Western, London.and North' estern, and Great Eastern, can also be carried round to the palace by means of the Clapham and Kensington Junction. When to this is added the direct service of two of the southern lines running into the Crystal Palace station,viz e the Brighton, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Companies, as well as the service to London-bridge of the South-Eastern Company, it will be soen what increased facilities are now opened for access to the Crystal Palace on great days. Even this long list does not exhaust all the means of reaching the palace, for besides the additional omnibuses and other road conveyances always available on a day of extraordinary attraction, the new route by the Metropolitan Railway and omnibuses to the Elephant and Castle, from thence by the Chatham and Dover trains to Herne with a pleasant rural walk of about two miles to the palace, will doubtless possess its attractions for the pedestrian. As usual on Good Friday, the Palace will be opened at nine in the morning, the concert will take place at threo. At dusk it will be lighted up to enable those who like to spend a long day amid its varied attractions, returning at leisure. ' As it happens to be full moon on the following morning, those visitors who stay late will witness the palace by moon light. The palace will remain open for admission from nine in the morning, and extra entrances and exits for excur sionists wil be provided. For the Easter week a series of holiday amusements have been provided, of which due notice will bo given. THE SOUTHERNER.—This screw steamer has been that the tine for action has not come ; if it is sug.. launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Pearse gested to raise a voice in behalf of Poland, we are and Co. of Stockton, for the Confederates, and is the largest begged to leave it to the Government; if We turn her r n steam n - s vessel l l a e u h ri , e t h h ed ev on er th e e ll Te 2 e 9 s 4 . ft T o la ih e f . ol b lo re w e i d nr h are f our attention homewards, and think it advisable to beam, 38ft 2in ; depth of hold, 21ft ; tonnage, upwards of to protect our lives and pockets from the kind 1,953. The engines of 300 horse power, constructed by a tt en tions of garotters, are warned against Messrs. Fossick and Hackworth, are fitted by super-heating we apparatus, and all other recent improvements for economis " panic legislation ; if we express a wish ing coal. She is reported to be built for a Liverpool house, to redress the abuses of our Game Laws, the Home and Messrs. Pearce have orders for 8,000 tons of iron ship ping, nearly all for Liverpool houses. Secretary, it is true, does not interfere, but the 11IETROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday a landed interest steps in and puts an effectual drag report was made on certain improvements recom on the wheel. Yesterday it was the same, except- mended by the Royal Commissioners in connection with ing that Sir G. GREY no lo n g er troubled himself to the Thames embankment. The report contains several re commendations as to the removal of the house in Abington keepM his promises. On a recent occasion when Mr. street, and the m a ki ng of a street from Blackfriars to the by BRADY and others of the metropolis. BRADY proposed to introduce the Di seases Proven- Mansion-hou se . Some of the alterations are to be defrayed that h tion (Metropolis) Bill, Sir G. GREY said he would Am STEAMERS—SCOTCH m steamers a EN e Ts a t ERrRI S E . gladly consent to the introduction of such a meas ure. It is a curious fact and the second reading, the Home Secretary took a very paddlie,s t ha d v . s been ,t built Germany the Clyde, and that the steam- N e e r w e Y ee o n rk etr a u re et o e f d th e e t different view of the question. The subject was , Same build. ' g ihe proportion w grea n ter ernaanyd w a he said, fraught with difficulty, and the result of Greenock. interference might be to prevent people using pub- ISIETROPOLITAN POLICE.—The annual accounts lie con veyanees at all ! He suggested thu employ- show that onin this year the runt of stretchers for the removal of those afflicted force t the d f 2 lst of January ,er.ndt 6,117 conPstables, making 196 in i a a l s l p i ec l t l o9rs, 1 7 ' 7 11 e with 4 serg o ee c nt nsi se s, hd contagious disorders, and said it would be expenditure upon this force, and upon the police in the much the eas i es t way to app l y to t h e nearest po li ce - dockyards and at military s tations, including also the re man to fetch one! As if any family wishing to tiring allowances, amounted in the year 1862 to £567,818. The sum of £339,895 was raised by a Gd. rate upon the remove a respectable servant suffering under small- parishes, computed on a rental of £13,59.5,818; and the pox, typhus, or scarlet fever to the nearest hospital sum of £113,298 (equal to one-third of the rate) was p aid would like to tend h er openly through the streets, tby the Treasury. A lar. - e sum was also borne by the public purse for the service of police at the dockyards, and on a stretcher, perhaps i n very inclement weather ! ' various public offices and establishments. Public cornpa- The real cure would be t o ma k e i t compu l sory on talcs and private individuals paid £ 5 , 943 , and theatres £9lO. parish authorities t o have regular covered convey- The Commissioners of the International Exhibition paid £12,600, which was half the actual expense of the police ances for this especial purpose. The expense would duty. The expense of the police courts, which is rather be trifling indeed, whil e the advan tage to p u bli c more than £49,000, was paid from the public purse. The health would be very great. At present, according fees wh a h nd penal d ties at the police courts amounted to £11,7 24 he Fever Hospital , the risk is are Char.gaesapfaoir 4, e c r oa to j,t t e h b e le E s Exchequer. Funeral exp ens es to the S atieCes of t COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. steady. NEW YORK, MARCH 6 (Evening). The excitement in the gold market continues, and the tendency is still downward. A measure will be introduced in the New York Legislature to check speculation in gold. Gold is quoted at 52i. Exchange on London bankers' bills 169. Stocks inactive.. New York Centrals 116 i. Illinois 91, Erie 76k. Cotton depressed. Middling Upland 81. Flour, Wheat, and corn depressed. Provisions quiet. Coffee rend sugar heavy. NEW YORK. MARcEt 7 (Evening). Exchange on London 170. Cotton dull. Middling Upland 83 to 84c. Flour heavy. Wheat quiet. Corn depressed. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar, prices declining. Molasses BANK OF ENGLAND. HALF-YEARLY MEETING (THIS DAY). The ordinary half-yearly general court of the governor and company was held this day in the Bank Parlour. Aifred Lathom, Esq., governor, preeided. The GovEalloP. said he had to inform the court that this was one of the general quarterly courts, appointed by the 12th bye-law, for the making of a divi dend. The net profit for the half-year ending the 28th of February was £619,916, making the amount of rest on that day £3,620,793. Attar providing for a dividend at the rate of 44 per cent., the " rest" would amount to £3,002,291. They therefore proposed that the half-year's dividend of interest and profits on the 6th of April should be 4± per cent. without deduction of income tax. He had further to acquaint the court the dividend warrants would Le declared and paid on the Oihuf Mr. DrcxsoN moved a vote of thanks to the governor and directors for the satisfactory statement just made, and their uniform attention to the concerns of the bank. Mr. LAWRENCE LEVY, in seconding the motion, said that under present circumstances, the account made by the governor was as favourable as could be anticipated. The time he thought had arrived when many of the present re gulations and restrictions might be rescinded, with a view to making the establishment beneficial to the proprietors of bank stock, in fact to place it on the same footing as surrounding establishments. It would be use less and unnecessary to contrast the dividends puid by the Bank of England with those of other institutions, but on the present occasion the fact was the mere startling from the joint-stock banks having declared high dividends at a time when money was scarce, whereas the dividend declared by the Bank of England up to the end of February embraced a period when they had the benefit of money at 3,4, and 5 per cent. It struck him also when they took into account that the present dividend was declared upon only about 14 millions, and not upon the " rest," the positive dividend paid upon tue capi• tal by the Bank of England was only about per cent. He ventured to think that this arose from a fixed and arbi trary minimum rate, for whether that sate was high or low the Bank was immediatelt, undersold by the surround- ing establishments. He thought it was well worthy of consideration whether the directors could net accept a lower rate than the present minimum. He would also take the liberty of suggesting the propriet) of the Bank of England lending on Colonial and A i Foreign Securities, taking, however, every precaution, be cause he was quite certain the Bank could not avoid making bad bills. During the last year he understood the Bank of England had sustained losses upon bills which had been refu ed by other banks, and now that they had lost £50,000 a year from the Government they ought to seek to increase their profits in other ways. It struck him as an anomaly that while it was stated last year that other stocks were closed for only a few hours, the book for the B4nk Stock should be shut for three weeks. He would also ask the directors and proprietors to consider whether the Warder which now existed to trustees voting should not be re moved, for trustees were generally selected by persons be cause they had confidence in them. Such barriers had been removed in other establishments. Ho hoped, when they net again, they should hear of a better dividend. The trOVERNOR said there was a great difference between the Bank of England and other banks, especially in the amount of capital. It took a large amount of profit to make a quarter per cent on se large a capital as fourteen mil lions, In other cases banks had not more than a million of capital, and, in some instances, not mote than £eieo,ooo or £600,000 paid up, On the subject of trustees voting, he might remark that it was not in the power of the Bank to allow them to do so. They could not be allowed to vote without Parliament altered the existing law. With re gard to advancing on foreign and colonial securities, he might say it was a subject which required a great deal of consideration, and he should think it would be much better to leave the matter to the Court of Direc tors. There was nothing to prevent the directors from doing so, but the very circumstance of this stuck having been opened to the investments of trustees, made it very desir able that in any step of the kind they should be very cautious. He did not understand what the hon. prof rietor meant by the particular loss he had alluded to. The (thee- tors were not sensible of having tuide a lees on the busi ness of the bank. Sometimes they might have a bad bill, but the amount must have been very small. Ho did not think anything had been lost during the past halt year. Mr. LEVY said he understood that £lO,OOO had been lost by the acceptances of Sir H. Mnggeridge. Mr. HODGSON, M.P. (the Deputy-Governor), said the amount lost was nothing like that. The GOVERNOR said the amount had been greatly exag gerated. The loss was under £2,00, and that probably would be recovered. The motion of thanks to the governor and directors was then unanimously adopted. The GOVERNOR, in acknowledging the compliment, said this was the last time he should have the honour of appear ing before them in the capacity of governor. The post of governor was one of very considerable anxiety, and who ever had passed that chair after four years' service (two as governor and two as deputy governor) must feel that he had had many cares in connection with it. But on the other luend he could not but feel it was an honour to represent such large interests. On retiring from the chair he should still feel that he had something to do on behalf of the proprietors in his situation as director. In that capacity he should attend to the duties as director as closely as he had atten led to those of governor. The proceedings then terminated. THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—Mr. Boxall and Mr. Weeks have been elected Royal Academiciani. Mr. Le Jeune has been elected an associate. A VISIT TO LANGIEWICZ.—A correspondent of Leinberg journal, who has visited Langiewicz in his camp, writes as follows At the entrance of the General's residence stand two powerful sithemen, with their weapons crossed. These form the body-guard of the in surgent General. On the left is a chamber of moderate di mensions,ie the centre of which .8 a table of a long and oval shape,and around this sit and stand many men,wno carry on so lively a discussion that one scarcely comprehends its purport. Some of these are strong and wiry, others are in the bloom of youth; but among those present there are weather-beaten men, with gray beards and locks. At the end of the table, somewhat sidewards, sits General Langie wicz, engaged in writing. The noise does not disturb him. In this respect, according to the report of those around him, he possesses much presence of mind. He writes, and at the same time answers many questions, and also distri butes various orders to his officers, who continually come and go. His answers were short and decided, as were his orders. At last he raised his head a little, and I could ob serve him more narrowly. Persons entirely disinterested would declare his appearance to be quite an ordinary one, but he pleased me on the instant. I will describe him as briefly as possible :—He is of small stature, something ever 30 years of age ; thin, but muscular ; the head in propor tion, but with a weather-beaten though fresh complexion; dark hair and somewhat spare beard ; the eyes dark and large, but very beautiful ; his entire expression is mild and decided, as with most thinkers. On his head he wore his sapphire-coloured four-cornered cap with dark lamb's -wool trimming and a white feather. He wore also large Polish boots, Polish hose, and a dark fur-trimmed cloak. He wore also a tricoloured sash, by which each of his officers was equally distinguished, while some were also ornamen ted with white and red sashes. Alter my interview with Langiewicz I began to look around me. It is difficult to describe all who were present. I became acquainted with Jez;oranski, Ciezeu ski, and ever so many more, who have already made for themselves a name known to fame. Among others was Mies Pustowojtow, who appeared to be a young and delicate brunette. She is attired in man's ap parel. has been present at all the battles, and on horseback flies like a bird, She ie generally beloved and respected on account of her bravery and cheerfulness. In conclusion, to complete the picture, I must mention the Capuchin who serves as field chaplain and magazine man, and who, not withstanding his multifarious duties, is ever polite, agree able, and cheeerful. On the whole, the visit to Langiewicz has made a very favourable impression on me. I did not find in him the contentedness of resignation, but that aris ing from energy." EXTENSION OF COTTON CULTIVATION.—The Manchester Cotton Supply Association have received many interesting letters showing a desire in various parts of the world to extend the cultivation of the cotton plant. The efforts making in Egypt have induced the association to send out all the seed that could be spared, and at their meeting on Tuesday they had applications from the West Indies, Brazil, La Plata, West Coast of Africa, Bagdad, Java, and Queensland. In the Turkish dominions there seems to be a great desire to revive toe cultivation, and a letter from Salonica states that in the district of Serres no indigenous seed would be sown this season, superior varie ties being in favour. The governor of Bag dad has applied for New • rleans seed, and states that a small t,uantity planted at Bussorah had succeeded well. A. letter from Guatemala shows how great a trade in c otton might be esta blished thete if suitable means were adopted. A NEW POLISH LEOlON.—During the present week a considerable number of poles have arrived and rakers up their residence at Woolwich, the party forming, it is s. aced, the first portion of a force rapidly increahing, and which will shortly leave England, fully armed, for Poland. 011111: HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 18. The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, walked and drove in the grounds this morning, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of \Vales, her Imperial Highness the Duchess of BrabanZ, and Prince Louis of Hesse, a ttended by the Countess Murton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, rode on horseback. To-day is the anniversary of the birthday of her Royal Highness Princess Louise. coil principle adopted by Sir WILLIAm ABMSTROti G. Such the men—such the guns now for what was done in the presence of the former by the agency of the latter. After some nice little artillery practice—marvels of yesterday, mere matters of course to-dry—come we to the tirst novel event of Tuesday, a shot fired from Sir WILLIAM AE3TSTRONG . 3 300 pounder, loaded with a conical steel shot of 2991 b. weight, and fired with 451 b. of powder: "This tremendous missile," we are told, "struck with a velocity of 1,298 feet per second, full upon the centre of the 7!-•inch place, where it was backed, driving in a circular piece of iron 10in. in diameter quite through the plate, bead ing in the whole plate itself to a depth of an inch and a half, and buckling its ends outwards more than an inch." Nor was this all. For it is added by the same graphic eyewitnees—" 'The massive wrought iron girder -which crosses the whole back of the target horizontally was bent out and broken in several places, as were also the inner ribs, the 2i inch skin was bulged and cracked, the rivet heads loosened, and many knocked off altogether The examination showed that the target, as a target, had received a most serious shake, though, from the wonderfully good quality of the iron, there was little of actual fracture or cracking except in the spot on which the shot itself had struck, where the whole 71--inch piece was driven in, and only held in place apparently by the wooden backing. Had the object struck been a ship's side, the damage," we are assured, ‘' would have caused a most serious leakage, and one or two more such rough visitations anywhere near about the same spot would have sufficed to sink her outright." Afterwards, however, came another still more telling shot for Sir WILLIAM : a shot fired from his three-hundred pounder, loaded with a cast iron shell weighing 2861 b., and charged with 111 b. of powder. A shot which, fired with the usual 451 b, charge, and striking full in the centre of the 5-jin. hacked plate with a velocity of 1,330 ft. per second, shattered its way completely through it, leaving a rough round hole about 10in. in diameter. Bursting in the inside, blowing the teak to minute fragments, setting it on fire, and breaking off many of the rivet-hem's, this appalling missile it appears ended by " tearing the inner skins of iron, 2,1 inches thick, into rough shredded gaps, as if they had been SO much cardboard." What is the distinct and de-- liberate verdict pronounced, moreover, by the able correspondent of our chief morning contemporary' when, water having been procured and the fire extinguished, the amount of destruction done could really be examined into ? Why, he writes, "it was seen at a glance that the question of the resistance which our newest and strongest iron frigates would be able to offer to7snch ordnance was settled in the most unpleasant manner. The strongest iron-clads ,we have yet built or are building would as regards ultimate destruction be almost as vulnerable as wood to such artillery. Even now, backed up as the target was with 21ir,. of iron inside all, it was pene trated, broken and torn in such a manner as to render the sinking of the ship that received the blow a matter of certainty, while, had such a shell struck the Warrior amidships near the waterline, it must have blown such a hole in her side as nothing could even have remained in action." And as to the destructiveness of the flying storm of frag ments cast around it in action by one such discharge from a 300-pounder Armstrong—well, let the fol lowing facts suffice very briefly but sufficiently to show what that would be ! "By the side of the target was a powerful partition of wooden beams, and an examination of this after the shell bad exploded gave terrible proofs of its destruc tive powers. There was scarcely a square inch of its whole surface that was not deeply pene trated with fragments of the shell of all shapes-and sizes, from 11b. weight or more to ragged particles as minute as small shot. Men standing near where this partition stood would not only have been killed but torn to pieces." Altogether these exploits of that pre-eminent Master of Ordnance most felicitously named AnalsnoNG, may be re garded as constituting a very curious and startling pendant to the discussion recently provoked in the House of Commons by Mr. LINDSAY. A reminder it certainly is that we shoull be wary, as well as vigilant and energetic, as to our expenditure in building war ships, whether of iron, or of heart-of oak iron-plated. Tuesday's feats of arms at Shoeburyness have clearly proved beyond a doubt that even now we have got guns, before the stupendous fire of which the mightiest of our iron-clad war-vessels must succumb within a few minutes. And, what is yet more—we are, not so much, according to a well known phrase, at the beginning of the end, as we are distinctly, but at the end of the beginning. Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG —not content with this awful 300-pounder of his— has made—it 600-pounder, weighing 24 tons, throwing a rifled ball of 6001 b., or a shell of 590111, to hold a 251. b. bursting charge of gunpowder. A month more, and in its turn, that 600- pounder Armstrong will be tried at Shoeburyness. Nay more—there is serious talk in scientific circles, that before another year shall have elapsed, a veri table 1,000 -pounder, upon the same principle, will be in existence, and will be tried. If so—Faugh -a- Ba /high ! The spell of inaction seems to have been cast over the House of Commons this session. Reforms, committees of inquiry, legislation on important social questions, are all shuffled off or hushed up in a very convenient fashion. A comfortable air of doke far niente reigns over the Treasury Bench. If it is proposed to interfere in America, we are told The Royal Family of Denmark. Her Royal Highness the Princess Coristian of Denmark, with the Princess Thyra, attended by Countess Reventlow and Colonel Francis S:. , ymour, C. 8., viewed yesterday morning the flower show in the Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, where they were met by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary (attended by Colonel Ho .oe Purves). The royal party inspected the International Exhibition Build ing, and also the South Kensington Museum. The Princess Christian, with the Princess Thyra, after wards paid a visit to the Duchess of Inverness, at her residence in Kensington Palace. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Prince Frederic of Hesse-Cassel yesterday at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham gate. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, and Prince Frederic of Denmark, at tended by General and Madame d'Oxholm, the Countess Reventiow, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury with their company at dinner last even ing, at their residence in Pall mall. Prince Frederic of Hesse-Cassel and the Duke of Holatein-Glucksburg, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Du Plat, went yesterday to Hampton-court Palace. In the evening their Royal and Serene Highnesses honoured , xith their presence the performances at the Lyceum Theatre. Foreign Courts. BERLIN, March 16. The Crown Mince and Crown Princess of Prusia arrived in Berlin yesterday evening from Osborne, The Princess Frederic of the Netherlands and the Prince of Hoheuzollern travelled to Berlin in the s ,me train. A Paisley Shawl for the Princess of Wales. The tutiowli,g address accomp‘nled a present of a handsome shawl from the operatives of Paisley to the Princess of Wales : TO HER ROYAL HIOHNNSS THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, May it please your Royal Highness, —the wises and daughters of the operat.ve weavers of the burgh of Paisley beg to be allowed humbly and respectfully to offer your royal highness a cordial welcome to this United Kingdom; and, impressed with the excellency of character which your royal highness already bears, to hail with the most lively satisfaction your union with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as a surety that, as at present, every female virtue and grace will continuo to adwn the British Throne, and that a bright example of those will ever be set before the nation. They most respectfully beg th it your It'Jyal Highness will deign to accept of their offering of a shawl, the work manship of their husbands and fathers, as a small manifes tation of their loyalty and esteem ; and tb.at the Almighty may bless your marriage, and that many bright days of prosperity and every domestic happin,Bs may be before yet is their sincere and earnest prayer, On behalf of the wives and daughters of the operative weavers of the burgh of Paisley. Faisley, March 7. AGIAI3 OSBORY. MARION KELLY. Windsor Castle, March 11. Lord Harris writes to inform Mrs. Osburn and Miss Kelly that the address signed by them on behalf or the wives and daughters of the operative weavers of the burgh of Paisley has been received, together with a shawl, and that her Royal Highness Lhe Princess of Wales has bests graciously pleased to accept them. Lord Harris is commanded to inform Mrs. Osborn and Miss Kelly that it is pecularly gratifying to her royal nighness to receive these marks of loyalty and esteem, and that the beautiful specimen of the industry of the opera tive weavers of Paisley will ever remind her of those cordial feelings manifested thus towards her on her first arrival in this country. BIRTHDAY OF THE PRINCESS LOUIS E.—The bit th• day of tier Royal Highness the Pi It:Loess Louise, born in 1848, was celebrated at Windsor Castle yesterday with the eu , 4tomary rejoicings —the ringing merry peals from the Castle bells and of the parish church of St. John, and the firing of a royal salute in the Bachelor's Acre. [lli° is the first birthday which has been kept with any kind of rejoicing since the death of his R yal Highness the Prince Consort, Tte Prince and Princess Antrieffdly and suite have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyrystreet, for Paris. Two Earl and Counteba of Albemarle and the Ladies Keppel have arrived in Cnesham-place for the season. The Earl of Bantry has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley •square, from Bantry Castle, Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Erne and the Earl and Countess of Orford have arrived at the Pavilion. Hotel, Folkestone. The Hon. Walter Scott and Lady Mary Scott have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-equre, from Mertown House, N.B. ady Susan Ramsay has left Brown'd Hotel, Dover-street. Mr. and Lady Emma Anderton have arrived at Brown's Hotel. Colonel Sowerby has left Thomas's Ho el, Bet' keley-square, for Putteridge. Bury, Beds. Mr. Chichester Fortebcue and Frances Countes 4 Weldegrave entertained the following at dinner last evening at their residence, Carlton-gardens :—The Duke of Newcastle, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl 0 14 Countess of Lork, the Eurl and Countess of Airlie, Lady Elizabeth Bertie, Lord Hubert Canning, the So icitor - General and Lady Laura Palmer, Sir Juhn and Lady Jublv stone, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Hayward. the Right Hon. t3ir Win. Jolliffe, M.P., is ev pected to return to his house in Stratton-street, on Pride,' next, from a temporary residence in the south of France. THE PRINCESS AND THE LADIES OF WALES."'" A number of the ladies of %Valet., through al ° medium of Lady Williams Wynn, of Wynstay, have es" pressed a wish that there should be a ladies' subscriptio n , among them for the purpose of presenting the Princess 0 ' Wales with a present on the occasion of her marriage arta accession to the title so intimately connected with the cipatity. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.--. 1;" supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday last, pub • livhed yeaterday,contaius the full details of the curenionY° the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales withthe Princess Alexandra, on ttte lOtti inst. SHIELDS, Mardi V.—Though the wind is from the N.N.E., and there is strong sea on the bar, frora the extensive dredging that has been kept up by the Rive r Tyne Commissioners, and from the effects of other e ster)" sive river improvements that have been carried out by thrnit the depth of water ou the bar has been so far increased that a considerable fleet of laden vessels was enabled to sail thil afternoon with safety, and with the fine wind that they ar e experiencing they are likely to make rapid passages. AV DOI the past few days a considerable amount of tonnage reached here from Norway and other northern ports, seek' ing freights. Some of the Norwegian vessels are models of beautiful shipbuilding. There , is no improvement in Coa l freights to London, which are 5s Gd per ton. Latest ad' vices frotn Conetantinoplo with regard to Black Sea freight s give the following quotations :--6s 6d to 64 7d f rom swills, 6s 3d to 6s 4d from Kustendje, 7a from Oid ow , 7, 3 d to 75 6d from Puti, 42s 64 to 44s from Odessa, all fur the United Kingdom. EMIGRATION OF IRISHMEN,—For some time past it has been observed that trent this port, and e 1 from Cork there has been a considerable, or rather, indeed , a large e migration of strong active young then, chiefly Iris h f or New York. The extent to waien thi s d ra ught has he ed and still is carried, give, s rise to euspiciou that these yt- .05 4 me n are in reality re cru i ts f ur the F ederal army. 1.17`4,- sus picion is further countenanced by the welt •Imown teat for a long time past agents of the Feder,tl G u veinule l/ :, have; been at, wo r k i n Ireland, endeavouring tiurrepti.iou6l/ to obtain recruits, for whom it is wenknown a largs bt , u lll / is obtainable immediately on their arrival in New Yar l4 ' whence they are at once draughted off to join the al The Federal Government makes so much noise flout, our alleged assistance to the Confederates that it would be 0 " well their own proceedings were watched more cloaelis We believe the Government is in possession of facts eitu 6r 'i fluttery of the rumour respecting the movements of F e der ° agents in Ireland,—Liverpool '~ 0;1 bu er/ B 0 110 co hi, EL c e i tt) ta 5t 1 11 li n ar,