The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-05 00:00:00

AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Tuesday Evening. The Royal Mail steamer E•aropa has arrived. She brings New York papers to the 17th, and Boston files to the 18th of February, but her intel ligence has been anticipMed by our telegraphic ad vices published yesterday. We extract from the papers the following document in reply to the state ments on which General Beauregard's proclamation of the raising of the blockade of Charleston was founded To REAR-ADMIRAL S. F. DUPONT, COMMANDING. d' United States Steam Frigate New Ironsides, off Charleston, Feb. 10, 1863. " Admiral,—l have the honour to forward to you a certi ficate signed by all the commanding officers of the vessels which were lying off Charleston bar on the morning of the attack of the rams upon this squadron, excepting only three, one of whom is on duty at a distance, and the other two the commanders of the two vessels which were sent to Port Royal to repair damages, and which were the only two that wero injured, notwithstanding the report of the enemy in the Charleston papers, as the result of the engagement, that two vessels were sunk, four set on fire, and the remainder driven away. Your personal knowledge of these gentlemen, and your entire confidence in their truth and uprightness of character, will give to their statement the force that is ne cessary to refute satisfactorily and effectually that which has been given to the world by the authorities in Charles ton and their sympathisers. " It is with unaffected pain I am called upon to forward a document reflecting so severely, but justly, upon function aries holding the high position of Consuls, and one of them, if this statement has been made by his authority, the com mander of a vessel of war of her Britannic Majesty. Nor can I account for it in any other way than its being a preme ditated act on their part, with foregone conclusions to draw up a report that would prejudice our cause iu the eyes of the world, or that these events were seen by them with the distorted optics of prejudice and partisan witnesses. " The facts are so clear, both as to the disposition of the blockading squadron during the day succeeding the engage ment, and as to the amount of damage done our vessels in it, that it does not admit of doubt that these gentlemen have given the seal of their high offices to the ver ion of the affair which could not have been by any possibility, either by inference or personal observation, forced upon their con victions as truth. " 1 have the honour to be, very respectfully, your obe dient servant, "T. TURNER, Captain." " U. S. steamer, New Ironsides, off Charleston, Feb. 10. We, the undersigned, officers commanding the various vessels of the blockading squadron off Charleston, have seen the proclamation of General Beauregard and Commander Ingraham, herewith appended, as also the results of the so-called engagements, viz. Two vessels sunk, four set on fire, and the remainder driven away ;' and also the state ment that the British Consul and the Commander of the British war steamer Petrel had previously gone five miles beyond the usual anchorage of the blockade, and could see nothing of them with their glasses. " We deem it our duty to state that the so-called results are false in every particular. No vessels were sunk ; none were set on fire seriously. Two vessels alone are injured seriously. The Mercedita had her boiler exploded by a shell from the only gun fired at her, when surprised by an at tack at night, A thick haze was prevailing. The steamer Keystone State also had her steam-chest injured at the mo ment of attempting to run down one of the rams. The Key stone State was at once assisted by the Memphis, which vessel exchanged shots with the iron ram as she was with drawing toward the bar, after having fired at the Keystone State, as did also the Quaker City. So hasty was the retreat of the rams that, although they may have perceived that the Keystone State had received serious damage, no at tempt was made even to approach her. " The Stettin and Ottawa, at the extreme end of the line, irlid not get under way from their position till after the firing had ceased, and the Stettin merely saw the black smoke as the rams disappeared over the bar. The Flag was alongside the Mercedita, after, it seems, she had yielded to the ram, supposing herself sinking. The rains withdrew hastily toward the harbour, and on their way were fired at by the Housatenic and Augusta, until both had got beyond reach of their guns. They anchored under the protection of their forts and remained there. " No vessel, iron-clad or other, passed out over the bar after the return of the rams. In short, the Unadilla was not aware of the attack until the Housatenic commenced firing, when she moved out towards the vessel for her anchorage. " The Housatonic was never beyond the usual line of the blockade. The Quaker City in the forenoon picked up the anchor which she had slipped to repair the point of the firing. The Flag communicated with the senior officer on board the Housateuic that forenoon, soon after the firing ended, and the blockade continued as before. No vessel ran in or out of the port that day, nor was any attempt made to run the blockade. The Keystone State necessarily was ordered to Port Royal for repairs. The Unadilla returned to her usual anchorage, after communicating with the senior officer, where she remained during the day. " Throughout the day two small tug boats remained ap parently in attendance on the ram, under cover of Forts Moultrie and Beauregard. The prize steamer Princess Royal, which had been alongside the Housatonic, was des patched to Port Royal one hour and a half after the ram had retired to the cover of the batteries at about half-past 9 a.m. These are the facts, and we do not hesitate to state that no vessel did collie out beyond the bar, after the re turn of the rams, at between 7 and a.m., to the cover of the forts. "Vie believe the statement that any vessel came any where near the usual anchorage of any of the blockaders or up to the bar after the withdrawal of the rams to be deli berately and knowingly false. If the statement from the papers as now before us has the sanction of the rebel and foreign Consuls, we can only deplore that foreign officers can lend their official positions to the spreading before the world, for an unworthy object, untruths patent to every officer of the squadron. "W. ROGERS TAYLOR, Captain, commanding United States' steamer Housatenic. "J. H. STRONG, Coro., commanding United States' steamer Flag. "JAMES MADISON FRAILET, COM., command ing United States' steamer Quaker City. "E. G. PARROTT, Cora., commanding United States' steamer Augusta. "P. G. MATENOTTOR, commanding United States' steamer Memphis. "C. J. VAN ALSTINE, commanding United States' steamer Stettin." Lieut. Blake, commander of the Federal steamer Hatteras, sends the following report of the destruc tion of that vessel by the Alabama : " United States' Consulate, Kingston, Jamaica, January 21. " Sir,—lt is my painful duty to inform the Department of the destruction of the United States' steamer Hatteras, recently under my command, by the rebel steamer Alabama, on the night of the 11th inst., off the coast of Texas. The circumstances of the disaster are as follow : " Upon the afternoon of the 11th inst., at half-past 3 o'clock, while at anchor in company with the fleet under Commodore Bell, off Galveston, Texas, I was ordered, by signal from the United States' flagship Brooklyn, to chase a sail to the southward and eastward. I got under way immediately, and steamed with all speed in the direction indicated. " After some timo the strange sail could be seen from the Hatteras, and was ascertained to be a steamer, which fact was communicated to the flagship by signal. I continued the chase, and rapidly gained upon the suspicious vessel. Knowing the slow rate of speed of the Hatteras, I at once - .... v.••,‘j suspected that deception was being practised, , and hence ordered the ship to be cleared for action, with everything in readiness for a determined attack and vigorous defence. When within about four miles of the vessel, I observed that she had ceased to steam, and was lying broadside and await ing us. `‘ It was nearly 7 o'clock, but quite dark ; but, notwith standing the obscurity of the night, I felt assured from the general character of the vessel and her manoeuvres, that I should soon encounter the rebel steamer Alabama. Being able to work but four guns on the side of the Hatteras, two short 32-pounders, one 30-pound rifled Parrott gun, and brie 20-pound rifled gun, I concluded to close with her, that my guns might be effective, if necessary. " I came within easy speaking range, about 75 yards, and upon asking, What steamer is that ?' received the answer, `tier Britannic Majesty's ship Vixen.' I replied that I would send a boat aboard, and immediately gave the order. In the meantime both vessels were changing their positions — f the stranger endeavouring to get a desirable position or a raki,,. fire- Almost simultaneously with piping away the boat the strange craft again replied, We are the Con federate steam er Alabama,' which was accompanied by a broadside. lat the same moment returned the fire. Being well aware of the many vulnerable points of the Hatteras, I hoped by closing with the Alabama to be able to board her, and thus rid the seas of this Piratical craft. "I s teamed directly for the Alabama, but she was enabled by her gr eat speed and the fouln ess of the bottom of the Hatteras, and consequently her diminished speed, to thwart my attempts, when I had gained a distance of bat 30 yards from her. At this range musket and pistol shots were ex changed. The firing continued wmiitdhsgrpegatinvit3enr hold, both sides. At length a shell entered a mids hi ps set ting fire to it, and at the same instant, as can hardly di vid e the time, a shell passed through the s i ck . bay, exploding i n an adjoining compartment, al o producing fire. Another entered the cylinder, filling th e engine-room and deck with stea m , a nd depriving me of any p ower to manoeuvre the vessel or to work the pumps, on w h i c h the reduction of the fire depended. With the vessel on fire in two places, and beyond human power a hopeless wreck upon the water, with her walking-beam shot away and her engine rendered useless, I still maintained an active fire, with a double hope of destroying the Alabama and attracting the attention of the fleet off Galveston, which was only 28 miles distant. "it WAS soon reported to me that the shells had entered the Hatteras at the water line, tearing off entire sheets of iron, and the water was rushing in, utterly defying every attempt to remedy the evil, and that she was rapidly sink ing. Learning thie melancholy truth, and observing that the Alabama was on my port bow, entirely beyond range of my guns, doubtless preparing for a raking fire of the deck, I felt I had no right to sacrifice uselessly and without any desirable result the libel of all under my command. " To prevent th e bl owing up of the Hatteras from the fire 1 which was making such progress, I orthited the magazine to be flooded, and afterwards a !to gun to be fired. The Alabama then asked if atsistance was desired, to which an affirmative answer Was given. "The Hatteras was now going down, and in order to save the lives of my officers and men I caused the armament l on the port sid e t o b e t h rown over b oard. Had I not done so I am confident the vessel would have gone down with many brave hearts and valuable lives. " After considerable delay, caused by the report that a steamer was seen coming from Galveston, the Alabama sent us assistance, and I have the pleasure of informing the De partment that every living being was conveyed safely from the Hatteras to the Alabama. " Ten minutes after leaving the Hatteras she went down, bow first, with her pennant at her mast head, with all her muskets and stores of every character, the enemy not being able, owing to her rapid sinking, to obtain a single weapon. The battery upon the Alabama brought into action against the Hatteras mounted seven guns, consisting of four long 32-pounders, one 100-pounder,one 68-pounder, and one 24- pounder rifled gun. " The great superiority of the Alabama, with h er power. ful battery, and her machinery under the water-line, must be at once recognised by the department who are familiar with the construction of the Hatteras, and her total unfit ness for a contest with a regularly built vessel of war. " The distance between the Hatteras and the Alabama during the action varied from 25 to 100 yards. Nearly 50 shots were fired from the Hatteras, and I presume a greater number from the Alabama. I desire to refer to the efficient and active manner in which Acting-Master Henry Porter, Executive Officer, performed his duty. " The conduct of Assistant-Surgeon Edward Matthews, both during the action and afterwards, in attending to the wounded, demands my unqualified commendation. I would also bring to the favourable notice of the department acting master's mate T. J. M'Grath, temporarily performing duty as gunner. " Owing to the darkness of the night and the peculiar construction of the Hatteras I am able only to refer to the conduct of those officers who came under my especial atten tion; but from the character of the contest and the amount of damage done to the Alabama I have personally no reason to believe that any officer failed in his duty. To the men of the Hatteras I cannot give too much praise. Their enthu• siasm and bravery were of the highest order. " I inclose the report of Assistant-Surgeon Edward S. Matthews, by which you will observe that five men were wounded and two killed. The missing, it is hoped, have reached the fleet at Galveston. I shall communicate to the department in a separate report the movement of myself and command from the time of our transfer to the Alabama until the departure of the earliest mail from this place to the United States. " I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, " H. C. BLARE, Lieutenant-Commanding. " Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C." By way of New Orleans it has been ascertained that the Alabama landed 125 of the officers and crew of the Hatteras at Kingston, Jamaica. The entire crew did not exceed 140, and of these six escaped. The New Orleans Picayune of the 4th has the following mention of the Florida:— " The Confederate gunboat Florida was coaling at Ha vannah on the 20th ult. She departed next day, the Bio Bio, hence for New York, via Havannah, leaving at the same time, but did not molest the latter, owing, it is said, to a pledge given the Captain-General to that effect. The San Jacinto pursued the Florida immediately upon her leaving port, but she eluded her pursuer. A number of other United States war vessels subsequently went in search of the Florida, and succeeded in compelling her to take refuge in Kingston, Jamaica, where she was lying at last accounts. Among the vessels destroyed by the Florida was a barque from New Orleans (name unknown) with a cargo of sugar and molasses for a Northern port. The purser of the Creole favours us with the following " ' The Florida (rebel gunboat) is reported to have cap tured I() vessels of the United States commercial marine between their ports and San Juan de los Remedios. All the United States war vessels in the vicinity of the coastof Cuba are in pursuit of the audacious depredator, and they will not catch her.' " COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the New York Journal of Commerce of the 17th of The Ministerial Crisis in Prussia IltuLtri, March 2. With respect to the Ministerial crisis, the Cologne Gazette of this day's date has the following, under the head of Ber lin : " It is positively asserted that M. von Bismark tendered his resignation on Monday last. The English Minister, Sir Andrew Buchanan, who, in his quality of ambassador, has direct access to the King, is said to have made, in a conver sation with his Majesty, representations against the Conven tion, which did not fail of their impression. In consequence of them, it is further stated, discussions with respect to the Convention took place in a Cabinet Council—discus sions which were all the more animated because two of the members did not conceal their scruples respecting it. Under these circumstances, M. von Bismark proffered his resigna tion, whose acceptance, however, under the existing circum stances, was the less likely to ensue, since the formation of a new Ministry must necessarily involve comprehensive con cessions in the military question." The fact is, that M. von Bismark knew very well his re signation would not be accepted, or probably he would not have offered it. He professes, we hear, to be weary of office and its disagree4bles, and to be anxious to relinquish it so soon as he can do so consistently with the interests of his country and the wishes of his King. If this country were asked, it would beg him to follow his inclinations and re tire, but of course he has no means of knowing this, since he is persuaded that the seats in the Chamber and the bulk of the press are in the hands of a disloyal clique of democrats. Doubtless the King is willing to retain him for the present, for otherwise he must already have fallen from total absence of support. That he him self, however, really wishes to retire—and that at a mo ment when it would be scarcely possible to give him a first-class or even a second-class diplomatic appointment abroad—is what nobody believes, any more than that his most ambitious desires are limited to a bucolic existence in his native pastures of Pomerania. The debate on the Po lish question ended with spirit and animation by reason of two good speeches made on its last day by Messrs. Simson and Sybel. In reply to the first-named, M. Bismark made use of an expression which has caused much speculation. " It is not my intention," he said, " to answer the strong ex pressions made use of by the last speaker, who compared the Ministry to Don Quixote and afterwards to a ropedancer. I will not bring those clever sayings here under discus sion—perhaps a less personal' way may be found of so doing—but keep myself purely to the matter in hand." Nobody can imagine what M. von Bismark meant by his less personal way. Had it been "more personal," one might have concluded that the Minister-President proposed challenging the ex •President of the Cham ber to a combat a i'outrance, a contest in which poor Sim son, who has but lately recovered from a severe illness, could not but have succumbed before the grand sabre of the doughty Knight ofjSchonhausen. Somehow or other the report has got about that M. von Bismark and his col • leagues propose testifying their disesteem of the Chamberand their wariness of its discussions by no more appearing in it. This would be a fresh and manifest violation of the constitution, of which Art. 60 gives to each Chamber the right to demand the presence of Ministers. A paragraph in the Not d Deutsche Allgemeine of yesterday's date countenances the rumour, and perhaps has contri buted to its propagation, but the Official Gazette of Satur day night warned the public against the statements of that pretended semi-official paper. Under the beading of "Warning" the Cologne Gazette has just published an article declaring its belief in the possibility of a French army being soon marched into the Rhine Province. It claims credit for its prediction on the ground of its having always discountenanced alarmist re ports, when those have been current respecting a war with France. While doing so it has invariably declared that, when real danger should be at hand, it would be the first to uplift its voice. To-day, the writer adds, we redeem our pledge and give warning. " Our well-weighed opinion is that, since 1815, the prospect of a war with France has never been so near as now." This is serious, if true, and one can only hope that the usually well informed Cologne Gazette is to-day less correct in its anticipations than is often the case. The peril is all along of this unlncky Con vention, it declares, and the only salvation cf Prussia lies in cancelling it. If the Government adheres to it through a false point of honour—" beware I" says our friend at Cologne, " and bear in mind the false step taken by the Emperor Nicholas when he entered the Danubian Princi palities. Because he could not decide to retrace it in time, ruin came to himself and his Empire." We will hope better things than such disasters should befall Prussia, or that King William should have the opportunity of [proving the excellence of his reorganised army in a campaign against the French, with Marshal Wrangel and Gen. Manteuffel for his chief military advisers. I prefer believing that mea sures are new taking to extract the sting from the Conven tion which in Cologne it is thought might lead to:such cala mities. With respect to alleged notes preseuted here from the French Government, I think myself justified in assuring you that up to this time the communications between Paris and Berlin have (at least in the capital) been limited to con versation. To-night's Berlin papers give long reports of the debates in the English Parliament, and especially of that on Mr. Heimessy's motion. The telegrams from Poland are of various complexion. One dated from Breslau this morning reports the destruction of a Russian corps, stationed at Zombkowitz, by a column of 6,000 men, under command of Langiewicz. There is a traveller's report of another Polish triumph on the railway near Myszkow. On the other hand, from Warsaw (date of yesterday) we are told that Langie wicz has been beaten and wounded. A disturbance in War saw, with no serious results, completes our telegraphic in telligence from that quarter. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It has sometimes happened that when the architect and the landscape gardener have ex hausted all the resources of nature and of genius in a house and park, and provided the most magnifi cent avenues and approaches, it is discovered too late that visitors will not use the average, but ap proach, if they are permitted, by ways of their own. A well graded, well curved, and well gravelled road, striding over ornamental water, skirting the wood, and crowning the hill, may be very pic turesque, but if it takes you half a mile out of your way, or leads to a desolate moor, it is apt to be little used. When the Thames Embankment and road were decided on, it became necessary to provide it with continuations and feeders, to make it as great a benefit as possible. In certain quarters there lin gered a fond hope that it would be like the quays of Paris or Pisa—quiet promenades, seldom disturbed by the sound of wheels. The promoters of the Em bankment were almost afraid to sayhow much traffic they thought would find its way into the new chan nel. That traffic has to be collected and discharged. So commissioners were appointed to inquire as to the further improvements eastward from Blackfriars, and southward from Westminster, best calculated to serve the public and carry out the design of the Embankment. Their report we published yester day, and their plans are before us. As to the City end of the embankment, they had three projects to choose from,—a further embankment and road to Queenhithe ; a street to St. Paul's-churchyard, coupled with large alterations there and at Wel brook and Charlotte-row ; and a street going as straight as could be from Chatham-place to the Mansion-house. The last was proposed by the Commission of 1831, and it has stood the further ordeal of the present inquiry. It is found the straightest, the best, and by far the cheapest. It comes unpleasantly near our own quiet nook, but we feel it impossible to gainsay its merits as com pared with the rival schemes. If you want to get to the Bank from Blackfriars, there is no reason why you should be taken half a mile along the river side, or compelled to admire the south transept of St. Paul's. Still less is there any reason why you should be compelled to make two or three sharp angles. The most direct way, under such circum stances, is the best. At the Westminster end the inquiry is neither so trite nor so readily answered. The Commissioners, after traversing the length of the embankment and finding themselves at the foot of the Clock Tower, look round on all sides, north, west, and south, as if free to choose their route, and glad to use their brief authority. They would like, if it were possible, to hug the river side, but to do this they would have to encroach still further into the stream, to pass under one of the arches of New Westminster-bridge, and to carry a public: road before the river front of the Houses of Parliament to the annoyance of all the Committees that sit there. So this they give up. They must wind round that massive obstruction, and return to the river side as soon and as grace fully as they can. As they do this the first spot which calls for improvement, as a link in the new chain, is Old Palace-yard and Abingdon-street. Here, between two of the noblest piles in the em pire, are some of the dullest houses in London, a narrow pass, and a winding thoroughfare. The dignity of the site, the convenience of our legisla tors, and even the safety of the Palace of Westmin ster, demand a more spacious and airy precinct. At times there is wanted standing room for hundreds of carriages ; yet the thoroughfare must he pre served ; there must be space for crowds on foot, for a Royal pageant, for a mounted escort, and for the police. Adjoining Westminster Abbey are some of the most interesting remains in the country buri e d manufactoriesbehi n d privateof the houses, m 0 s wh ilet ordinary tim k in d ( y i r d e s d a a n n d . gerous o l r the Palace. ynearth A eVictocrofiag ianTowraetrwann, withthed a south briak front south wind, would at least blacken the south front so thoroughly that it would take a large Parliamen - tary grant to show the stone again. So the Com missioners propose to enlarge Old Palace-yard to at least the size of New Palace-yard ; to show thus the south side of Henry Vll.'s Chapel and the Chap ter-house ; to clear a space as large, south of Vic toria Tower, quite to the river ; to screen the river side premises further south with a row of handsome A February.) Money Market. Monday Evening, Feb. 16. There is freer offering of money, and rates of interest are in favour of the borrower. Gold opened at 155, and went up to 157 f in the street. Silver is selling at 148 to 150 for large amounts, but small sums, and especially worn coin, is selling all the way down to 140. Old demand notes are wanted, and bring almost as much as gold. Foreign ex change has advanced, but the market is unsettled; bankers' sterling is quoted at 172 to 174. The stock market opened at stronger rates, not only for fancies, but also for Govern ments, which were much stronger, and continued to im prove throughout the day. POLAND. The following are the intercepted despatches alluded to in the letter of our Berlin correspondent of the 28th of February : 3 M. TENGOBORSKT TO M. DE BUDBERG, RUSSIAN AM. BASSADOR AT PARIS. " Warsaw, Feb. 4, 1863. "My dear Baron,--I take advantage of Mr. Rose's re- tarn to send you the latest official news. The Grand Duke Las just been informed by a very short telegram that a com bat has taken place at Pilwiszki (on the railway between Kowno and Eydt Kuhnen), that a large body has been routed, and the field of battle covered with slain. As yet there are no details. "By my telegram of to-day I pointed out to you the two chief hotbeds of the insurrection. I fancy that we shall have news to-morrow from Wengrow, where serious opera tions have been ordered, and where a decisive blow was to have been made to-day. I hope it has succeeded, and that the strong body of men assembled there has been destroyed. As regards Wychock, we expect news of what has been doze there in a few days. There, however, the task is more difficult, as the country is mountainous as far as the Aus trian frontier, and is therefore well adapted to a guerilla warfare. Moreover, the whole south of the Radom district is deprived of troops in consequence of the concentration, and the insurrection will have it all its own way for a few days. In my opinion it is the most important point, taking especially into account the facilities which the insurgents meet with on the part of the Austrian authorities, who allow armed persons to leave Cracow and Galicia to join the insurgents. I have already notified this at St. Petersburg and Vienna. I beg of you, however, to keep these details to yourself. Only yesterday we received a report from the frontier informing us that an armed band, coming from Cracow, has pillaged our customhouse at Michalowice, and then recrossed the frontier with booty to the amount of 4,000 florins. This communication (?), coming from Aus tria, is not the least remarkable fact in the history of this insurrection. " Three days since an attempt was made to poison the whole family and servants of Marquis Wielopolski, happily without fatal results, though many were made ill. Another attempt was made to .day, but only the servants have suf fered. One of the maid servants is very ill. These are horrors worthy of the middle ages. " I beg you a thousand pardons for not having replied by telegraph to your last four messages, but you must excuse me. lam hard at work day and night, and for the last three weeks have never gone to bed till 5 or 6 in the morn ing, and then only for a few hours. I am regularly done up, and so are my employes. In the course of the week, however, I hope to fulfil my duties towards you; at the same time, I will answer Tschitekine's letters, who, I trust, will also excuse me. " The day before yesterday two insurgents were ordered to be shot at Plock, and four others shared the same fate at Radom. Of course it is o n l y the leaders that are thus dealt with, and we have many of them c a pti ves . " The insurrection has had time to strengthen and con solidate itself in some districts, but the suppression will only be the more complete, kr it will be much easier to de stroy en masse two or three bands than to deal with them in detail dispersed through the country. " I enclose a letter from the Grand Duchess for the Coun tess d'Aquila, which I place under your charge. " I shall endeavour to keep you au courant of events as far as possible, and shall write more fully by the neat courier.—Believe me, M. le Baron, yours, ex., "T" "LETTER FROM AL TENGOBORSKI TO M. D'OUBRIL, RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE AT BERLIN. " Warsaw, Feb. 4, 1863. "Mon cher Ami,—l simply add a few lines to my despatch of this day to inform you that measures have been taken to provide lodgings for all the gentlemen who come here from Berlin, whom we expect to-morrow. While admitting the courteousness of the mission of these gentlemen we cannot exactly make out the cause of it. There is not any perzcolo in mora, and we do not stand in need of Foreign troops. For the present all that is necessary is that Prussia should keep a strict eye on her frontier, so as not to allow insur gents to find a re f uge th ere. I t t h erefore appears to me that the m i ss i on of three officers gives too much i m p or t ance to the affair, Which might have very well been settled with one. If I ant ri ghtly informed, it is M. de Tetteau w h o had the nnh a PPy idea to go to Berlin, and alarmed the Prussian Government, making the Devil blacker than ho is painted. I shall, th erefore, all the am of to information you feel obliged to you to send me gr can, as indi cate d i n my pr i va t e tele -day." [Here follows the same statement as in the letter to M. Budberg respecting the attempt to poizon the Wielopolski family, and the affair at Pilwisz ki.] " Believe, me, &0 . 4 ‘ T." " I must conclud e, as I am really won:lmA: FIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1853 houses in character with the site ; and to widen Millbank-street the whole way to Vauxhall-bridge. The Palace of Westminster would thus have on all sides a space that would compensate for the depression of the level and the quality of the surrounding atmosphere; the Abbey would share the boon. On the west of Old Palace-yard, as thus enlarged and extended southward, Mr. Gil bert Scott proposes to build round two sides of the " Garden" a double row of immense cloisters, having a communication with the Abbey, and evidently intended to take in those monu ments of distinguished persons which the Abbey can now no longer find room for. Returning to New Palace-yard, the Commissioners propose to cut off the projecting portion of the Sanctuary north of the Abbey, in order to straighten and widen the route to Victoria-street. Turning then northward, they shrink from recommending so large a clearance as that of the block between Parliament-street and King-street ; and propose, as a compromise to widen King-street on the west side, throwing back the new Government offices for that purpose. This, of course, is only a halt measure, and will only give half satisfaction. The difference in cost between the larger clearance and the less can hardly be worth leaving so manifest an eyesore as the block between Parliament-street and King-street. The city and its approaches belong to the metropolis; the Houses of Parliament and their approaches to the empire at large. So the Commissioners suggest that, while the new street from Blackfriars to the Mansion house shall be paid out of the metropolitan funds, the clearances at Westminster may reasonably fall on the Imperial Treasury. This is very fair, Ac cording to the estimates on which the Commis sioners rely, the improvements they recommend at Westminster will cost altogether about the same as the proposed street from Blackfriars to the Mansion house. The nation is thus to do as much as the metropolis ; that is, when the Embankment itself has onto been completed out of the metropolitan funds. Certainly, there are no buildings more worthy of a good use than our Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, and there is no' site more un worthy than Old Palace-yard, Abingdon-street, and the river-side premises under the Victoria Tower. In Paris it is often the site that makes the building rather than the building the site. Even the majestic pile of St. Peter's at Rome, so far as regards the outside, would make but little figure were it not for the Piazza and Colonnade. Our own St. Paul's cannot be seen till you are almost under it. Few indeed of our public edifices have the commonest justice done to them in the way of site and surrounding adjuncts. There is now an opportunity of retrieving our credit, and making up for long neglects, round that great common cen tre of all our institutions, our religion, and our liberties, on the old Isle of Westminster. Something must be done, and, as it must be, let it be done in a manner worthy of our country. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT EASTERN. Yesterday a meeting of shareholders in this company opposed to laying ont the large sum con templated by the directors on new lines and exten sions, to be raised by preference shares, was held at the London Tavern. Mr. C. Smith was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that the meeting would no doubt remember that there was a great discussion at the last meet ing of the company upon an amendment proposed by himself, and another proposed by Mr. Sergeant Gaselee. That discussion turned chiefly upon the question whether the dividend should be postponed by the rejection of the adoption of the report, and the result was that after some conversation it was agreed that the amendment of Mr. Sergeant Gase lee should be put as a substantive motion if the re solution for the adoption of the report were allowed to be put. The report was almost unanimously adopted, and after some further discussion the amendment was put as a substantive motion, and carried by a large majority. Mr. Love, the chair man, had stated that if it were carried both he and his brother directors would religiously carry out the resolutions; but, to the surprise of the meeting, after the resolution was carried, Mr. Bidder, one of the directors, demanded a poll. The rest of the proceedings were of so very unsatisfactory a nature that the present meeting was determined upon. The object of the meeting was to give the share holders an opportunity of consulting together, so that they should become better anquainted with each other's opinions, and in the event of their coin ciding, then to adopt some resolution to give those opinions effect. The only object he had in view was the good of the company, and he must say that while the stock was depreciated 50 per cent., the directors should not raise money on preference shares at 5 per cent. in order to construct new ex tensions. The state of the affairs of the company did not justify them in recklessly and heedlessly plunging further into debt. It was under these circumstances that he hoped the proprietors would not sanction the expensive extension to Finsbury. With regard to the poll which took place on Mr. Gaselee's motion, the dissenting shareholders, as a body, refused to poll, as they were determined to stand to the agreement with the chairman that the Board would carry out the amendment if the adop tion of the report were allowed. (Hear.) Mr. WADDINGTON then, at great length, depre cated the conduct of the Board with regard to the numerous extensions of the company, but he Bug guested that no strong resolutions should be passed at the present meeting, but that they should be pro posed at the adjourned meeting, with a view to assist in promoting the welfare of the company. In the course of a conversation which ensued, it transpired that the following were the amounts pro posed for the extensions in the directors' report : Finsbury Extension—share capital, .£1,200,000; debentures, £400,00 0 ; for the line from March to Spalding—share capital, £165,000; debentures, £55,000; and fromßamsay to Chatteris—share capi tal £40,000; debentures £13,300; total £1,873,300. Mr. LEVY then proposed the following resolu tion :—" That this meeting is of opinion that in the present position of the Great Eastern Company, and under the circumstances in which it is now placed, no furth©r extension is requisite, and therefore ought not to be allowed to take place, and that the only means open to the share holders to prevent the directors from carrying out such extensions is for all those shareholders opposed to further extension to join in presenting a petition to the House of Lords against the Finsbury exten sion, and, if it should be necessary, against any other extension bill introduced into Parliament by the Great Eastern directors in the present session." Mr. MICHELL thought the resolution was of a really business character, and therefore he had great pleasure in seconding it, and hoped that it would be carried unanimously. Mr. C. LEGGE hoped that the ordinary proprie tors would prevent the directors from making ex tensions, for their dividends were already too small. The March and Spalding extension was intended to get traffic from the north, and in doing that they would have to fight the Great Northern, who, pay ing good dividends, could carry at a lesser figure than the Great Eastern could. After some further conversation, the motion was carried unanimously, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting adjourned. ANDOVER AND REDBRIDGE. The half -yearly meeting was held at Southamp ton on Monday, Mr. W. Cubitt, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that an agreement with the London and South-Western Company for the trans fer to them of the undertaking had been completed, and a bill was now before Parliament to give legal effect to the same. The chief provisions of the agree ment were as follows :—The London and South- Western Company were to take the Andover Red bridge debenture debt, amounting to £43,000 ; to find £30,000 to liquidate the floating debt .of the Andover and Redbridge Company; to pay 3 per cent. per annum on Andover share capital, not ex ceeding £50,000, such capital to be redeemable at the option of the London and South-Western Com pany at 25 years' purchase ; the line to be finished, and the annuities to commence on the completion of the undertaking, not later than Jan. 1, 1865. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. G. HUNT, the report was adopted, and the pro posed arrangements were affirmed by the share holders. It was stated by the CHAIRMAN that there would be a Wharncliffe meeting held to sanction the agreement, which would be the last meeting to be called by him, the terms of the arrangement pro viding that the chairman or some other director of the South-Western should be the future chairman of this company. Messrs. W. Cubitt and S. R. Stebbing were re elected directors, and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the directors. WAVE NEY VALLEY. On Monday the extension of this line from Bun gay to Beccles was opened for traffic, and the whole project from Tivetshall to Beccles is now completed. The line is worked by the Great Eastern Railway Company. RAILWAY BILLS. The number of railway bills deposited for the United Kingdom in the present session amounts to 258, of which 190 are for new works. The number of bills promoted by new companies for railways in England is 82, and the aggregate length of railway 1,010 miles; for railways in Scotland 3, and the length of line 13 miles ; and for railways in Ireland 8 bills,and the length of line 94 miles, making toge ther 93 bills promoted by new companies for autho rity to construct 1,117 miles of railway. The num ber of bills for new works promoted by existing companies is 97, and the aggregate length of the proposed new lines for England 1,710 miles, for Scotland 162, and for Ireland 111; total, 1,993 miles. In addition to the proposed new lines, it is intended to make 105 miles of deviations from lines sanc tioned in former sessions. Yesterflay two new Committees assembled—the first, consisting of Mr. Woodd (chairman), Mr. Gur don, Mr. Western, Mr. Legh, and Mr. Getty, to con sider projects proposed for railway extension in the south-west of England—viz., Andover and Red bridge, London and South-Western, London and South- Western and Andover and Redbridge, Isle of Purbeck, Seaton and Beer, Farnborough and Alder- Elliott, Southampton and Netley, West Drayton, Staines, and Wokin g Junction. The first twobills were taken, that of the Andover and Redbridge for trans ferring it to the London and South-Western being opened by Mr. Phinn, Q.C., a nd o pp ose d on b e h a lf of the London and South-Western by Sir F. Slade, Q.C., and Mr. Wilkinson, who also appeared to promote the second bill for the London and South- Western and Andover and Redbridge Railways, the object being the construction of new lines, to gether with the lease of the Andover and Redbridge line. The committee, after hearing the case, passed the bill of the London and South-Western, and sub sequently settled the clauses. The other committee, consisting of Mr. Schole field (chairman), Mr. Blencowe, Mr. Trefusis, Mr. Lygon, and Mr. Grenfell, met on the following measures connected with the Lake District : Cleveland, Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith ; Cockermouth and Workington ; Furness and Mid land ; Kendal and Ulverston ; North Eastern and Stockton and Darlington ; North Eastern (New castle and Starbeck); West Hartlerool ; White haven, Cleator, and Egremont; Furness and Bar row Harbour Commissioners. The case for the Cleveland Railway—who seek for an extension of three years to complete their line and to raise an additional capital of £7s,ooo—was opened by Mr. Calvert, Q.C.; Mr. Trevor and other witnesses being examined by Mr. Price, Q.C., and Mr. Millburn. Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., sought to establish a locus stanch in opposition for the Stockton and Darling ton Railway, but the committee refused it, and went on with the practical merits of the measure, and with the examination of Mr. Bell, the Mayor of Newcastle. In Mr. Hassard's committee on the intended extension of the Midland Railway into London, Mr. Allport, the traffic manager, and Mr. W. H. Barlow, the engineer of the company, were under examination all day relative to the commer cial necessity and constructive features of the line. !DR KENEALY'S "NEW PANTOMIME." Yesterday Mr. Ju 1 1 Pickles Whitely, proprietor, ... and Mr. Peter Payne, par, Propri etor e and editor d before Alder of the Weekly _Review, were suranath— man Phillips , sitting in the Guildhall pt._ , k ice-court ed' for unlawfully' publishing a certain false, wit,- and defamatory libel concerning Edward Kenealy, LL.D., barrister, the oithor of a work called A New Pantomime. Mr. Robinson conducted the defence. Mr. Metcalfe said he was instructed on behalf of Dr. Kenealf to place before the Court one of the grossest libels that had ever come under his notice. Dr. Kenealy had written many years ago a I book, entitled " A New Pantomime," which had been read and approved by the great majority of the public. There were of course a variety of tastes, and to some parts of the book might appear objec tionable; but, as a whole, it had been favourably received. While admitting the right of fair criti cism, he submitted that it did not extend so far as to allow the critic to hold up the writer of the book in his personal and private capacity to public con tempt. The question was that of libel. Were the remarks contained in the article published by the defendants those of ordinary criticism, or had the writer travelled out of his province to make a gross, personal, and vulgar attack on the writer of the work he criticised ? He would call attention to the head ing of the article—"Kenealy's Outrage on Public Decency." Surely this of itself was calculated to bring an author into public contempt. After expa tiating upon the desire for fame and notoriety, the writer of the article went on to say that "there are creatures in the animal world which make them selves felt by the noisomeness of their presence, and in these we find the precise type of those men who, conscious of their impotence to wing their way into the heaven of true fame, attract notice by drawing 'upon themselves the anger and execration of man kind." It was very libellous to say of any man that he had drawn upon himself the anger and execra tion of mankind. Again, " Never in the course of our experience have we seen these remarks so pointedly and painfully illustrated as they have just been by Edward Vaughan-Kenealy, LL.D., in the obscene, infamous, and revolting poem which he has flung before his countrymen with the title of " A New Pantomime." That was very strong language—in- deed, almost exposing the pu - blisherio an indictment for libel; but he did not see that even that could be complained of in this shape—" It is the most auda cious experiment which has been made since the appearance of ' Don Juan' on the moral endurance of the British public." He supposed the writer ob jected to "Don Juan," yet many, even ladies, read the work in private, although, perhaps, they might not admit the fact. The critic then proceeded to say that "with the author of Don Juan' Mr. Kenealy has indeed nocommunity of genius." That was only fair criticism ; but not so what followed—" Kenealy does not intend to add witchery to vice, but from innate and unmitigated_ coarseness o f m i n d h o f a il s to distinguish between the pure and the foul, be tween the becoming and the gross. He wallows in the mire as in his native element. It was Steele, we think, who said that a man's style corresponds to his character. If the style of Kenealy corre sponds to his character, we should not like to be condemned to an hour of his conversation. The book reflects not only an ill-regulated, but a pol luted mind." The next passage of the article he intended to quote he would call particular attention to :—" We should say that he is a man to lash little boys till they stagier and fall down, or to eclipse the fame of that murderous pedagogue, Mr. Hopley, by putting them to death with slow torture." The magistrate would perhaps remember that Hopley was a person who had a school at Eastbourne about two years ago, and flogged a boy so severely that his victim died. Hopley himself was tried and convicted. The assertion, therefore, was that Mr. Kenealy was a man to eclipse Hopley by putting boys to death by slow torture. With regard to the dedication of the poem to the Right Hon. B. Dis raeli the article remarked, "We sincerely trust that he (Mr. Disraeli) will be able to clear himself of all participation in so gross an outrage on public decency as is involved in the issue of such a poem." He might say that the work on its earlier produc tion some years ago attracted so much the atten tion of literary men that Longfellow had since pro duced a parody of the same poem. Mr. Robinson said the comparison of Longfellow's poem with the book in question was raising Dr. Kenealy's work to a higher position than it merited. Mr. Metcalfe said the parody was so close that it was evident that Longfellow had read the " New Pantomime." In the recent action against the Saturday Review it was laid down that fair criti cism upon a work before the public was privileged, but the concluding passages of the article complained of not only did not come within the meaning of fair criticism, but was calculated to lead to a breach of the peace :—" For our own part, we have considered it to be our bounden duty, in speaking of the 'New Pantomime,' to abandon the tone of literary criticism, and to assume that which befits the denunciation of a gross social outrage. Kenealy wants notoriety, and he will have it ; but let it be that of the whipping-block and of the pillory." The question he would ask was, was not that article a gross libel, and did it not expose Dr. Kenealy to public contempt? Mr. Robinson here suggested that Mr. Whitely, who was wholly innocent of the matter, should not be made a party to these proceedings, and intimated a desire on the part of both defendants to apologise for any remarks in the article which were considered personal to Dr. Kenealy. Mr. Metcalfe said Mr. Whitely had written a letter adopting the libellous article, in conjunction with his co-proprietor, and he could not therefore see how he could withdraw the complaint against him. At the same time, if the defendants would apologise and retract the offensive portions of the critique, Dr. Kenealy would be satisfied. Mr. Robinson said his clients were not prepared to retract a single word of the criticism on the book itself, and the case must therefore proceed. Mr. Metcalfe said the writer of the article con fessed that he had travelled out of the realms of ordinary criticism, and any one who read the follow ing paragraph would admit such was the fact:— "That is quite in Dr. Kenealy's manner. In an equally playful vein he describes the torments to which, according to him, Charles I. is condemned. We are not admirers of Charles, but it would be difficult to persuade us that the man who wrote those horrible lines about him has not in his heart some of the darkest elements of the villain." These were the material portions upon which the alle gations of libel were founded, and he therefore asked the magistrate to send the case for trial be fore another tribunal. Mr. Joseph Lawrence, the printer of the Weekly , Review, was then called to prove the publication of the paper which contained the alleged libel. Mr. Robinson said he agreed to a very great extent with all Mr. Metcalfe had stated. No man had a right to travel out of his course toipake attacks on individuals simply because the might have written books obnoxious to himself or to the public ; but he held, on the authority of Lord Ellenborough that all criticisms upon the works of authors were privileged, and that that privilege could only be destroyed on malice being proved. But was there any proof of malice in this case ? Dr. Kenealy sent his book to be reviewed. He sought for a fair criticism, and if by a man's book one felt himself bound to call the author a villain, there could be very little doubt one would be justified in doing so. A man who recommended assassination might be stigmatised by a journalist as a murderer in 1118 heart, or any one advocating indiscriminate intercourse tetween the sexes might be described in equally plain terms, without travelling out of the province of a critic. The poem—" The New Pan tomime"—was without doubt a mass of the grossest obscenity, impurity, and folly. He had known Dr. Kenealy for some years and respected him very much, but he must say, after wallowing through all the filth of that book, that Dr. Kenealy ought to be sent front the court with all the obloquy which his work merited. The French, it had been said, dressed up such works so that the objection able parts were not forced upon the eye, bur. in the present instance it was not so. He (Mr. Robinson) was about to ask the magistrate to dismiss the com plaint, and he therefore proposed reading portions of the book to show that every line of the critique was perfectly justified. There were 140 pages of the book describing the " Abyss of Hell," wherein Dr. Kenealy, without any ground for personal pique. but with petty spite, speaks of many person ages, reflecting on individuals even now alive. He contended that proof of malice was necessary where the libel alleged was the criticism of a work before the public. He said if he had accused a stranger of a robbery he did not commit, there would be no malice, but it would be libellous, and he would have to answer it ; but if a man were a public nui sance, he should be justified in stigmatising him as such. With regard to the allegation of blasphemy, he would read extracts in justification. Kings were fair game, but they were entitled to be fairly spoken of. Kings and Queens, however, were spoken of in that book in the most filthy terms. The learned counsel then referred to various passages descrip tive of Joshua and David, and other Scriptural personages, as denizens of the great Abyss ' • Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, an d L a d y M ar y W o rtley Montague were spoke n o f i n s i m il ar t er ms, the at tack on the last b e i ng a scan d a l ous an d abominable lie. Mr. Met ca lf e sa id t h e same i ns i nu ation was to be found in'' Walpole's Letter 2." Mr. Robinson said if it was in " Walpole's Let ters" every one would know it must be a lie, and a man who could write such a passage as that reflect ing on Lady Montague must have a polluted mind. James I. and Earl Nelson were referred to in the same brutal manner; but that which was as Ow racterktie as anything in the book was the passage reflecting on an author still living, Mr. Peter Cun ningham. There was also a passage reflecting On the present Dr. IVlillman. The learned counsel counsel quoted various passages which he stigma" tised as blasphemous, and, on being reminded by Mr. Metcalfe that it was Mephistopheles who Ives he said if Dr. Kenealy chose to introduce per it would not justify him in allot sapberaoktihnegi.ikee; e th e . whole arcana of her den is t i o an tl g 43 ll Fsc a l. g l e .:2 . Ze would ask any one in court i h n e g r own L e t' if the defendants watild hi2ve done their duty to the public had they not denounced the book ? Would they r.ot have been guilty of a violation of ever,' principle of duty, of morality, end religion, if they had failed to do so ? _ Alderman Phillips said he thought the c harge was against the publishers of the paper for the pub lication of a scandalous and defamatory lib, l l. The charge was very clearly stated, and the artici,e itself charged Dr. Kenealy with having an innate and unmitigated coarse mind, that dirt was his natiTo element, and that the book itself reflected not only' an iil , regulated but a polluted mind. It also charged him with being a villain, and in another part it said he was a man to lash little boys until they staggered and fell down, and that he was a man to eclipse Mr. Hopley by putting them to death by slow torture. But the climax of the article was exceeding/; clear. Because the reviewer stated that, for hig own part, be considered it to be his bounden duty to abandon the tone a literary criticism and to assume that which befitted a gross social outrage. He wished to be clearly understood. With regard to the merits or demerits of the work in question, that was a matter which was clearly out of his province. There could be no doubt We all loved the licence and the liberty of the press, but it must be confined within its proper limits. It did appear to him that the language used in that article was beyond that of ordinary criticism, and he must therefore decline to take upon himself the responsibility of deciding this case, but must send it elsewhere. The defendants were then committed for trial, a nd entered into their own recognissnces to appear. MARKETS. RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Cornhill, the Hon. A. Kin naird, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the total income of the company for the year ending the 31st of December amounted to £26,633, as against £23,311 for the corresponding half of 1861. The total premium income of the company for the year 1862 was £55,187, against £48,945 in 1861, showing an in crease of 12.75 per cent. The working expenses had been reduced from 31.25 per cent. on the pre miums of 1861, to 29.86 per cent. in 1862. The total number of new general accident policies issued during the year had been 6,325, insuring the sum or £3,596,560, and realising £13,047 in premiums. The cash received for premiums during the half year was £24,143, and for interest on investments £317, which, added to £15,397 brought from the previous half-year, completed the sum of £39,857 to the credit of revenue. The working expenses amounted to £8,128, and the compensation to £15,325, to which was added £2,489 due from the Clearing-house, forming a total balance of £17,814. The directors proposed, in addition to the half year's interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, to declare a bonus of ls. per share, of which one half would be paid in cash, and the other half placed to the capital account. The total compen sation paid during the year was for 16 fatal cases £11,850, and for 1,632 cases of personal injury, £20,405 ; total, £32,255 ; being at the rate of 5844 per cent. on the premiums, against the rate of 59.93 in the previous year. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, adverted to one case of fatal accident in which a commercial traveller had insured for £l,OOO, having left a wife and six children, to whose ac count the money had been paid. During the Inter national Exhibition upwards of 300,000 passengers had taken returntickets, and from the extension of railways into the metropolis it was believed that a much larger number of persons than heretofore would avail themselves of the advantages offered by the company, The fact of having paid £32,000 out of £55,000 received from insurers was con sidered a great advantage to the public, and when it was considered that compensation at the rate of £lOO per day was now paid to insurers, it was hoped that the great advantages offered by the association would be fully appreciated. The retiring directors and auditor were re-elected, and the allowance to the directors was unanimously increased from 1600 to £l,OOO a year. Foreign Mail. Packet List. MAILS DUE. Aur.ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Mar. 21. via Marseilles Mar. 15. Llrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Mar. 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 3, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Mar. 4. via Marseilles Mat 15. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 4. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 4. via Marseilles M ar. 15. India (Bombay) via Southampton Mar. 13. _ .. — via Marseilles Mar. 7. Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 4. via Marseilles .. Mar. 7. Newfoundland .. Mar. 4. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Mar. 4. , - by U.S. , packet by Canadian packet Mar. 6. W.C. of Africa, Madeira ' and Teneriffe Mar. 10. Bahamas, via New York Mar. 12. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Per u, 1 Feb. 28. California, and British Columbia.. DISTURBANCE OF THE SEA.—The Graham's Town Journal makes the following statement :—" A farmer named Elliott, residing near Gusha River, while crossing the mouth of the Keiskama, a few days since, noticed an eruption in the sea, which was violently ag it ate d and forced upwards as from the spouting of a whale. On approaching the spot as closely as possible he perceived that a dense body of smoke rose as from a crat er , an d when the tide threw the surf over t h e spot i t was immediately thrown some 40 or 50 yards into the air, the water for a circum ference of half a mile assuming the colour of the blackest i n k. This continued for some 15 minutes, and gradually died away with a rumbling sound." [ADVERTISEMENT.] --Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Experience before Authority. —For nearly the third of a century have these remedies stood in the foremost rank for overcoming ulcers, sores, swellings, rashes, and all descrip tion of skin diseases. At first the Faculty denounced these medicaments, but the experience of sufferers soon overthrew all interested opposition. Those whom Holloway's medi cines had cured told other invalids the benefit they had derived from their use • these in their turn tried them, found equally satisfactory results, and thus are these ad mirable curatives used and prized throughout the habitable globe. The Ointment has always been applied with the most marked success in erysipilas, varicose veins, swelled ancles, and numberless other infirmities, by which thou sands around us are sorely oppressed. 'UESDA.Y. Barley. 3'is to 380 Grinding ..30s to 320 , Oats.. j Peas —s to HULL-TUESDAY. The supply of wheat from the farmers was very small, and needy millers had to pay last week's prices. In foreign nothing done. Wheat.... Old white....per qr sos Od to 53s Oti Old red New white .. , 7 New red .... ~ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 52s Od to 57s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 49s Od to sls Oa St. Petersburg and Riga, old sos Od to 52s Od Barley.... English malting 3ls Od to 38s Od Grinding 27s 6d to 29s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 2Bs Od to 29s Od Grinding Oats English;old 26s Od to 28s Od Archangel and Riga, per st osl2lcl to 133 Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 0813&d Swedish and Danish oBl2ld to 05133 Beans ....English, old, per qr New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Oct New tick. 4OB Od to 42s Od Egyptian Peas Foreign boilers Grinding Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) 110 5 0 to £lO 10 ~ ,L; Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 v,, Rape cakes 6 5 o to 610 Bones .. 5 5 oto 610 v NEWARK — White wheat new, 52s to 54s Red do 44s to 498 Old white sBs to 63s Red do. 528 to 56s 13arley, malting 38s to 42s Peas,.... .WEDNESDAY. ; Barley, grinding 29s to 326 Oats, old, .. 3 os t o 326 1 1 New do 21s to 26 6 1 Beans. 44s to 480 Beans, new 37s to 400 38s to 48s. COAL 1 Prices of Coal per Ton II a. d. ARKET. the close of the market. Byass's Bebside West Hartley . ... 14 6 Davison's West Hart- 0. d. ley 14 6 Hastings Hartley l4 6 North Felton Gas 13 0 alker Primrose 11 6 Carway and Duffryn_ Anthracite - 20 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting . . 22 0 Cowpen Hartley 14 9 Wylam 15 6 Ships at ruarki Walls End. Kelloe South Hetton ..16 6 Tunstall Hartlepool.. l6 3 Gosforth l2 9 Haswell .. l7 0 Hetton l7 0 Riddell..." . South Kelloe.. 15 0 Heugh Hall 14 6 South Hartlepool 14 0 3 Harton 12 a, 73; sold, 36. THE FLIGHT OF A SIBERIAN EXILE.—The incident which I have just related carried with it one sad I conviction, a hich was that I could not reckon on a shelter for any future nights without clearly exposing myself to very serious dangers ; and that, until things should take a new turn, the Ostiak couch must be my only bed ; and so with the Ostiak couch I contented myself during the whole of my journey across the Oural Mountains, An d until my arrival at Veliki-Oustiong—that is to say, frora, the middle o f February to the first day s o f th e mo nth a April : 1846. Three or four times only did I venture to crave hospitality for the night in some lonely hut, and that was only because I was exhausted by some 15 or 20 days passed in the forest, and my strength was so far gene that I was hardly conscious of what I was, what I said, or what I did. All the other nights I contented myself with digging an earth for sleeping in, only I had become more cunning, and I had also acquired a greater dexterity in preparing my nocturnal refuge. I had noticed that in the depths of the forests the snow hardly reaches to the foot of the great trees; and that, as it accumulate s, it still leaves an empty space round the trunk, which soon becomes a pretty deep cavity. I let myself slip down the stem of the tree into the hollow thus formed, whioll was not unlike a well. Having arrived at the bottom, I tried with my stick to throw some of the snow out of the aperture at the top, and thus made a vault, which covered and sheltered me perfectly. But very often I c .uld not manage these nightly buildings; the snow would be too light and dry, or, at another time, the roof thus labori ously contrived would fall in with a crash. I had then to seat myself close to the tree, and leaning my back against its trunk, thus slept, or rather dosed, for the night' When the cold became so great that I felt my limbs grow ing numbed, I had to get up and run hither and thither. It was too dark either to follow or to find the road; but exercise, at all risks, I must have, to revive my animal heat. On more than one occasion I have lain down, tired, and simply let myself be covered by the falling snow—this was, perhaps, the warmest cover of any, but I always found it difficult, in the morning, to shake myself loose of this white winding-sheet. By degrees, I got ac customed to this way of sleeping ; and sometimes, when night fell, I would find myself turning into the thickest part of the woods as to some familiar resting place ; though at other times, I must confess, this savage life seemed to me all but unbearable. The absence of any human dwell ings, the want of warm victuals—sometimes even, of frozen bread (my only food for days together)—would make me feel that, not very far from my side there lay in wait for me those two hideous spectres—Cold and Famine—whose names we are so apt to take in vain at every little trifle which makes us uncomfortable. In such moments what I most dreaded were the sudder attacks of sleep, which would ceme on me unawares. These, I kne" full well, to be the forerunners of death, and against thew I struggled with all the little strength that remained tone. The craving for something warm to eat or drink was very great ; and it was often with the utmost difficulty that . refrained from going into some hut to beg a little of the turnip broth which they make so much in Siberia.-✓' rietrowskes .Recollections of Siberia. Births. CLARKE.—On the Ist inst., at Exeter the wife of Major - General J. Clarke, of a son, who died 27 hours after its birth. - -- --- CARR.—On the 3d inst., at Loddington Rectory, the wife of the Rev. T. W. Carr, of a son. EYRE.—On the sth ult., at King's House, .Spanish-town, Jamaica, the lady of his Excellency Lieut.-Governor Eyre, of a son. Marriages. JACQUES—BALDWTN.—On the 3d inst., at St. Cuthbert's, Lytham, the Rev. Kinton Jacques, M.A., of Brazenose , Oxford, to Caroline Augusta, youngest daughter of the late Rev. G. Baldwin, M.A. LAVINGTON—HASSELL.—Ort the 3d inst., at Holyreod Church. Southampton, George Rider Lavington, Owe lebury, Hants, to Georgians Hassan, of Wostcroft Lodge, Chobham, Surrey. Deaths. ANSTED.—On the 2d inst., at Fulham, Mary, daughter of the late Thomas Ansted, Esq., aged 101. B ENN LTT.—On the Ist inst., at Mount-street,Whitechapel - Mr. Robert Bennett, aged 68. CRAFT.—On the 4th inst., Arthur Ernest, youngest son of Charles Craft, Philpot-lane, city. 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