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I ' 13OLAN.—A COMMITTEE bag been formed , D of the iThdersigned for the purpose of RAISING ' I .I.iDS in AID of POLAND at the present crisis:— Ti;e Marquis Townehend. The Earl of Ilci)ester, The L rd Kinnnird, K.T. The V;scount Raynham, Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, Bart. Colonel Pinney, M.P. John Abel Smith, 14:sq., M.P. Edmund Beales, Esq., M.P. William Lloyd Birkbeck, Esq. ,Subscriptions will be received at the Bankers, Messrs. - aubury and Lloyds, (0, Lombard-street, E.C. ; and at the puce of the Literacy Association of the Friends of Poland, /1 ), Duke -street, St. Jaes's, S.W. The names of other ankers will shortly be amnnounced. POLAND - FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FUND. For the Relief of the Sick and Wounded and the Destitute Families of Polish Patriots. Subscriptions for the above puroses are received by ;Tesoro. anbury and Lloyds, 60, 1 o p mbard-street, EC , and arc' ssr s. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., 1, Pall-mall East, S.W. ; and by the Vecretary, 10, 1 uke-street, St. James's, S.W. ; 4 9 it paid into the Florence Nighting,ale Fund for Poland Will, together with £lO already subscribed by Miss Night ingale, be strictly applied to the above purposes by the Com- Mateo for Raising Funds in Aid of Poland. SAWYER'S FAMOUS 'LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY, At 2s. ed. each Person. SOUPS. A la Regent. Julienne, EIS EI Gurnets, sauce Genoise. ENTREES, Mutton Cutlets a l'ltalienne. JOINTS. Roast Sirloins of Beef. Roast Saddles of Mutton. SWEETS. Plum Puddings. Apple Fritters. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOsELLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for The London Pinner. TILE LONDON, 19!, FLEET-STREET. Fried Soles. Curried Lobsters, CANTERBURY HALL. - GRAND SELECLIONS from popular OPERAS, con ducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Principal Arti-te—Miss Russell. ~ The Comic by Unsworth, the modern Demosthene ;, In his - "mowned stumn speech; Eu2ene's burlesque song's and dances ; Frank Hall, Arthur Lloyd, and Miss Laura Sanders, and a variety of other attractions. TH E 0 XFOR D, OXFORD STREET. "THE ROSE OF DENMARK," Sung every Evening by Miss Ru , sell and the entire Company, also The New Cantata, by Herr Meyer Lutz, "HERNE THE lIINTER," Gluck's ALCESTI', and other Operatic Selections, S upported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, and Miss Oesten, Mr, Green, Mr. Bernardi, Mr. J B. Ruish, and Mr. Albert, with lull band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghm , ns. Drew Dean's Flute Solos. Ballads by Master Edwin Sanders, the juvenile vocalist, aged a years. George Hodson's Irish, Miscellaneous, and Ventriloquial Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eozene's burlesque Scenes and Dances. W Randall's New Comicalities. Miss Caroline Parkes' Vocal and Terpsichorean Sketches, and other varied attractions. 6d.—Balcony and Stalls, is.—Private Boxes, 10s. 6d MJULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. • At the ARGYLL ROOMS, Greet Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Great success of J. LEVY, the celebrated Cornet-a-Piston playe - , of Crystal I'alace celebrity. Plays Nightly—Nine o cloak, "Whirlwind Polka "—Ten o'clock, Valse, " La Prima Donna "—Eleven o'clock, Variations, " The Carnival de Venise." Revival of the Scotch and Irish Quadrilles, by ii. Jullien. Solos by L. Mason, Tyler, King, Horton, M'Ele ey, &c., &c. Doors open at Eight o'clock Admission, Is. Manager, Mons. GRENET. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, , containing the Wonders of Na ture and Art. shown by innum er able Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame in Health and Dis ease ; t o g ether with a variety of Natural Preparations, Malformations, Monstrosities, &c. ; also the Moving Anatomical Dying Zouave, and other life -Bize figures. Open daily from 11 to 10, for Gentlemen only. Admission, One t-hilling. Entrances-44A, Maddox-street, Regent -street. London, W. Illustrated Catalogue, free by post for 12 stamps, sealed 20. Explanations throughout the day. Lecture at 4. Address the Secretary, as above. TEETH. —By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few hours by means of his patented soft elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing with springs or Unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by tne closest Observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention 15 , the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed tc last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESK ELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains his invention, Post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate. —g, Grosvenor street, Bond-street, London; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. OS T E O E I D ON! Patent, March 1. 1862, No. 560. GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEE PH and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, Fprinas, or wires, and without op eration. One set lasts a Inetirne, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION, even when all others fail. Purest ma terials only, at half the usual ost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established De,titists, 27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON ; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUK E-STRE ET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 guineas. One visit only required fro m country patients. Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. Consultations free. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who pifTer from bilious end iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, , iizziness of tlft eyes. &o. For purifier of as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they 4re truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to 'he stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three S mell the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert." engraved on the stamp. S T RATFORD-ON-AVON STE EPLE CHASES Ki will talcs pace over the Borden HLI Ground, on Wed nesday, April 8, 18'3 The STRATFORD-ON-AVON ()PEN STEEpLE oneCITAE 'Han dicap) of 10 says each. 5 it, and 2 only if declared or before Thursday, April ?, 186' 1 , with FO sore added, over about four !nil 8 of fair hunting Country; the winner of any handicap steeple chase, after the weights are declared, to carry lb extra ; the winner to pay 10 0 vs towards expenses, and the se 7on d horse t save his s take. To close and Ram" to Capt. Hamilton, Shottery, Stratford-on-Av. n, on or before Mon day, March 23,1-63 ; weights to appear in " Bell's Life," on the 29th day of March ; the 5 soya ft, name of horse, and Colours of rider to be enclosed together, or the nomination Will not be received ; three horses to start or the public money will not be added. , TAßEs of 5 sow; each, 3 forfeit, with 30 Th e HurrT soya added, over about four miles of fair hunting country, for horses that have been regularly hunted with any established Pack of foxhounds in the season 1862-63 ; four years 2st five` ears Vet 71b. six and aged 13st ; winners 71b extra; Profess'onal riders 71b extra ; the winner to pay 5 sore to wards expenses. To close and name to Capt. Hamilton, Shottery, Stratford -on-Avon, on or before March 23 1863; the 3 sous ft, name of horse, and colours of rider to be en closed together, or the nomination will not be received; three horses to start, or the public moneY will not be added. The WELTER CRP, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 seers ear' ; 13st 711); about three miles ; a winner of 100 soya to carry 7113 extra, and of 200 sovs 141 b extra ; gentlemen riders : nomi nation, with entrance -money , name of horse, and colours of rider, to be sent to Capt. Hamilton, on or before Wednesday, April 1,1863. The FARMERS' AND TRADESMEN'S STARES of 2 SOTS each, with 15 soya added, for horses bona fide and unconditionally the property of farmers or tradesmen residing within fifteen miles of Stratford -on-Avon, and that have not been in a train ing stable for six months from date of ent eonsl2st each ; to be rid Jen by farmers, tradesmen, or their ;winner; of any steep echase or hurdle race 101 b Hamilton,To close and name (with entrant money) to Capt. Shottery, Stratford-on -Avon. on or before Wednesday, April 1; about three miles ; three horses to start, or the public money will not be added. Si r CHARLES 111011DAITNT, 8art.,31.P., Si r ROBERT HAMI LTON, Bart., K.C.8., Capt. PEAr NORTH, Stewards Hon. W. TT. Lord CONYERS, F. W. HAMILTON, Shutter!, Strasuatford.on-Avon, Hon. Secretary and Trerer ___---------_ BERWICX.SHIRE STEEPLE CHASES, at Rimmerahame-Mains, withinree th miles of I/nnse and twelve of Berwick , on Wednesday, April 29th, 1863. I. THE SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE Of 100 sovs, added to a Free Handicap of 5 soya eple each lin case of acre , tance) ; th e winner of any handicap et= chase of the value of 50 sovs after the weights are published to carry 71b extra ; the winner to pay 20 eig ht s are expensev, and the second to save his stake five horses to start, or the added money will not be given wit ,. out them:anent of the Stewards ; about three mil s and a half over ano hunting country; 2 sovs entrance, to go to the fund, which must be remitted with the entries, otherwise they will not be received. To close and name with the Clerk of the Course, Dunse, on or before 31st of blare,. 1863. Top weight, 12st 71b. Handicapper, Mr. R. Johnson, York. II —The HUNT STEEPLE CHASE of 50 sore., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, 1 forfeit to the fund, open to all t h eses that have been regularly hunted in Scotland, and with the Earl of Wemyss's Hounds in Northumberland : second her c to save his stakes : tour yr olda llst4lb, five yr olds 12st 21b, six and a , ed 12st 71U; previous winners of any steeple chase or hurdle race value 50 sovs 71b extra ; the and winner to ooms, or any one pay h cove towards expenses ; about three miles half gentlemen riders : profes sionals, trainers, gr who has ridden for pay 71b extra. ST EEP LE CHASE of 25 sovs., lll.—The TALLYHO HUNT added to a ‘zw of 2 sovs each, 1 forfeit to the fun d, for horses that chvea ne ver won any steeple chase or hurdle race, nor paid race horse duty previous to 180; open to all horses that have been re,zularly hunted i ntoc or with the Earl ot Wemyss's Hounds in Northberland ; second horse to save his stake; about three miles and a halt; 'weights and riders same No. 2. IV.—The HUNTER" SELLING STEEPLE CITASE of 2 SOTS each, 1 forfeit to the fund, with 21 sovs added the second to save his stake ; four year olds. lit 41b ; five year olds. 12st 21b ; six and aged, 12st, 71b ; the winner to be sold for 60 soya: it entered t ) be sold for 50 soya allowed 71b, if for 40 sovs 141 b, If for 31 sovs ?1 after b and it for 20 sovs 981 b ; the winnetr o ths be sold immediately the race, and the surplus to gt. race fund; three horses to start, or the added money Will not be given : about three miles and a half. Nos. '1 and 3 being intended for bona fide hunters only, cer tificates from the respective masters ot hounds must be only before starting, if required, that they have not only been regularly hunted, but ridden to hounds, and must not have been in a public training stable in 1563. Entries for nos. 2 and 3to be made to the Clerk of the Course, Dunse, on or before the 21st him in wri April, and tiobject oins to qualiti-ation of hones to be made to ng not later th an Monday, 27th April. C o lours to be declared at time of entry for each race. Sir G. B. BOSWALL, Bart, Major B INN S AIRD, Bart, Stewards. , o, asior L A'aLMY, J . , it ILIE, Clerk of the Course. N°. 22,068. MR. JEAFFRESON'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., LIVE I T 1) 0 W N. By J: C. JEAFFRESON, Author of "Olive Blake's Good Work," be, Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. On Friday, in 2 vols., 215., HEROES, PHILOSOPHERS, and CoURTIE II S of the TIMES of LOUIS XVI. By the Author of "The Secret History of the Court of France under Louis XV." Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. LORD MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Complete in 8 vols. post 'Bvo., with Portrait and brief Me moir, price 48s. cloth ; or 81s. bound in tree-calf by Riviere ; or each Volume separately, price Gs. cloth , THE HISTORY of ENGLAND from the ACCESSION of JAMES the S ECOND. By the Right ROM Lord MACAULAY. LIBRARY EDITION of LORD MACAULAY'S HIS TORY of ENGLAND, complete in 5 vols. Bvo., price £4 cloth, or £5 Bs. bound in calf. Also Vols. I. and 11., 325. Vols. 111. and IV., 365. ; and Vol. V., price 12s. cloth. London : Longman, Green, and Co., 14, Ludgate-hill. Price One Shilling. ASTROLOGY in a NUTSHELL: described in a letter to Alderman MUMPIIREY, by CIIR. COOKE, late solicitor to the Astrometeorological Society, 1.61 See " The Sun," 19th January, 185 ), 14th February, 1856, and 21st March, 1862, for information; also the for Morning volume. " Curiosities of occult Literature," describing the author's 14 years' experiences, &c. Freeman, 102, Fleet-street, E.C. On Wednesday, March 25th, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., Bvo., with Illustrations, price 265., THE POLISH CAPTIVITY. An Account of the Present Position and Prospects of the Poles in the Kingdom of Poland, and in the Polish Provinces of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. By H. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS, Author of "Russians at Home." London : W. H. Allen and Co., 13, Waterloo-place, S.W. THE best TROUSERS fm gentlemen to wear are those made by ELSTOB, of CO, New Bond-street. They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their befog carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy as purchasers. "In media via tutissfmus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS PER PAIR. T_IVERPOOL JULY MEETING.- _LA SECOND DAY. TUESDAY, JULY 11.—The LIVER POOL CUP, in specie, value 2'JO soya, given by the Lessee, added to a H andicap Sweepstakes of 25 soya each, 15 it, and 5 only if declared on a day hereafter to be named, to Messrs. Weatherby, London; or to Mr. W. Topham, Clerk of the Course, Chester; the winner of any sweepstakes, cup, cup stakes, or plate, of the clear value of 500 soya alter the weights appear 51b, two of such races 101 b extra, but this in an,. case to be the extreme penalty; the winner of the Manchester Union or Trades Cup, Ascot Stakes, Northumberland Plate, or Cumberland Plate, 101 b extra ; or of any other handicap race of the value of 200 sovs clear 51b, of 400 71b, or of any two of such last mentioned handicaps 81b extra ; the winner to pay 30 sovs to the judge, and 20 soya towards expenses of the course; second to save his stake; two miles. Weights to be published in due time. PRESENT SUBSCRIBERS. Lord Annesley Mr. J. Bennett Lord Canterbury Mr. R. Bi g nell Lord Hartington Mr. W. G. Craven Lord Sefton Mr. Dawson LordWestmoreland Mr. Dicas Sir L. Newman Mr. Frail Col. Forester Mr. F. Hall Col. C. P. Leslie Mr. Hargreaves Capt. Christie Mr. Hart Capt. White Mr. Hodgman Mr. G. Angell I Mr. T. Hughes Mr. Barber Mr. T. Hughes If the highest weight accepting be under Sat 121 b, it will be raised to that, and the others in proportioA. The MERSEY STAKES of 5 sous each, 5 ft, with 50 soya added, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, and fillies Fat 71b ; second to save his stake winners of 100 soya clear 51b, 200 or more Sib extra, but not to be accumulative ; 8 subs or no race ; T.Y.C. TIIRD DAY.—WEDNESDAY, JULY 15.—The STANLEY STARES of 15 soya each, 5 ft, with 50 Rove added, for two and three year olds ; two year olds 7st 41b, three Oat ; fillies and geldings allowed 21b; winners of plates or sweepstakes in the present year amounting to 100 sovs clear to carry Sib, 200 or more 81b extra, handicaps excepted ; the winner to pay 10 soya to the fund; T.Y.C. PRESENT SUBSCRIBERS. Lord Annesley, I Mr. W. G. Craven, I Mr. G. Payne. In all races, at Liverpool, where fewer than three horses start, the added money will be withheld. The Stanley Stales closes on Tuesday, the 17th of March, and names the evening preceding the race; and the Cup and Mersey Stakes also close and name on Tuesday, the 17th of March, being the Tuesday following the Liverpool Spring Meeting. Nominations received by Messrs. Weatherby, London ; Mr. R. Johnson, St. Mary's, York ; and Mr. E. W. Topham, Chester. Mr. Jackson Mr. W. Lynn Mr. J. Merry Mr. W. Owen Mr. Payne Mr. W. R. 11311 Mr. R. Riddell Mr. R. Riddell Mr. Saxon Mr. J. Scott Mr. F. Swindell THE ISLE OF WIGHT STEEPLE CHASES will take place at Gatcombe, near Newport, on Tues day, 24th oflslarch. 1863, at 1 o'clock precisely. The GATCOMBE MANOR STARES, an Open Steeple Chase, of 5 sous each, 2 Boys ft, with 50 soya added ; llst each ; thorough bred horses 71b extra; winners of any steeplechase or hurdle rac. once 71b, twice or more, 10lb extra ; three horses the p operty of different owners to start or the pub lic money will not be given ; the second horse to save his stake. The ISLE OF WIGHT HUNT STEEPLE CHASE, 3 soya each, 1 soy ft, with 35 soya added. for horses fairly hunted in the island, season, '62-'6l, list 71b each; thorough bred horses 7ib extra ; winners of any steeple chase or hurdle race once 71b, twig or mere 101 h extra; three horses the property of different owners to start or the public money will not be given ; gentlemen rider s ; professionals 71b extra ; the second horse to save his stake; a certificate from the master of hounds must be produced at the time of entry. A GARRISON STEEPLE CHASE, for officers of the Army, Nav Militia, Volunteers, of 3 says each, 2 soya ft, with 20 soya y, adde I. for horses bona fide the property of Officers of the Army, Navy, Militia, or Volunteers, in the South Westernester District, and to be ridden by officers in either s weights, l2st each ; winners or any steeple chase or hurdle race 101 b extra ; three horses the property of different owners to start or the public money will not be given; the second horse to save his stake. The FARMERS' STARES, for horses bred in or having been in the Isle of Wight for six months immediately preceding , the day of starting, and for b e aten horses during the mee t_ ing. 2 sous each, with 15 adde d ; post entry 12st each ; the winner to be sold by auction immediately after the race for 60 soya, the surplus, if any, to go t o the fund ; if entered to be sold for 50 soya allowed 71b, if for 40 sovs 1 . 411, 30 soya 211 b, 20 Boys 2"lb ; three horses the property of different owners to start or the public money will not be given : the second horse to save his stake. The above races to be over about three miles of fair hunt ing country. The SCURRY STAKES, for horses that hav th e been of start in the island three months immediately preceding, e day ing, 1 soy each, with 10 soya added : post entry ; list each ; once round ; three horse the property of different owners to start or the public money will not be given. Entries to be made at the Bugle Inn, on Saturday, the 21st day of March, between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m., and the cards ( will be published immediaiely afterwards. Colours to be de clared at the time of entry, and any jockey riding in different colours to forfeit 1 soy. No nomination will be received less the forfeit is sent at the sam. time. The riders will be shown over the course at 11 o'clock on the morning , of the meeting. The horses to be saddled in front of the stand. The new steeple ch , se rules wil, be strictly ob4erved, and al disputes decided by the stewards or whom they may appoint. l Any particulars may be known on application to Mr. E. Watts, the Hon. Secretary. Sir J. SIMEON, Bart. General Sir -T. CHI , : APE, K.C.B. Captain CAMPBELL, 30th Regt. ' } Stewards G. FIE WALL, Esq. D. C A LDECOT T. Esq. H. N T WELSH , Esq. J Newport, Isle of Wight, Jan O . 24, 1865. THE SCOTT ISH CHAMPION OPEN MEETING, under the auspices of the Biggar and Cale donian Coursing Clubs, by the kind permission of the Ri.:ht Hon. the Earl of Home, dre... will be held at Douglas, on uesday, March 24, 1863, and following days, when the fol lowi,.g stAces will be Tun for:— I. Th.- CALEDONIAN CHAMPION CITP for 32 all eged greyhounds, at tie 108 entrance ; to be divided )n the fo lowing manner:— Winner £l6o Runner-tm Third and fourth, each Fifth, sixth, Feventh, and eighth, each 10 11. The DOUGLAS CUP, for 32 }II-aged g eyhounds, at £5 ss. enhance ; divide i as follows : W nner Bunn r-up 25 Thi , d an fourth, each lO Fift' , , sixth, seventh, and eighth, each 111. The CLYDEntr STAKESance. for 16 divided ss p follo up piws es Of 1861, at £4 10s. e ; : Winn er in unner- , p l4 Third and fourth, each 5 IV. The FORTH STAKES for 16 greyhounds, pupped on or after Is , June, IF6I, the age of which has been 'Pub lished in "The Sporting Gazette," " Life," or "The Fie , e," during the season 1862 3, or proved to the satisfa tion of the stewards and committees ; divided as follows : Winner £4O Runner-up T► ird and fourth each 5 V. The SE! LING STARES, for 16 all-aged greyhounds, at £2 10s. ; any eog, ent , red in this stake may be claimed for £lO, except the winner and runner-up, which may be c laimed for £l5 each ; the owner of the runner-up to have first c aim for the winner, but all claims must be lodged with the secrete,/ within fifteen minutes after the stake is won ; divided as fo lows : Winner . £2O Runner-u Third and fourth, each 62 The meeting to be gov erned b y the National Club rules. All winners of £2O and inwards to pay 5 per cent. to the dinner fund. The drawing s for Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 4, w ill t a k e place at 6 n.m., in the Douglas Arra Hotel, Douglas, Lanark shire, on Mon , av, the 23d March, 1863, previous to whieh all entries must be made, and entry moneys paid. Dinner imme diately after the drawing. All nominators •in Nos. 1 and 2 must take a dinner ticket, price 3s. 6d. The entry and draw ing for the Selling Stakes will ta , e place after the second day's running. Single nominations secured in the order of application to E. J. Lindsay, Esq Hon. Secre' ary, llalkraig House, Carluke , Lanarkshire , N.B. If the stakes do not fil l by the 14th March, double nominations will then be given in the order of application. A four-horse omnibus will be in waiting at Carstairs Junction station, on Monday, the 23d March, which will start for Douglas direct at 5 2 , p.m., for the exclusive accommodation of gentlemen attending the meeting. The express train from Carlisle at 11'0 p.m., the expresses from Glasgow at 4 p.m., and from Edinburgh at 4 15 p.m., will o tch the omnibus, the arrivsl of which at Dou glas will be waited for for dinner. Private conveyances can be had at any time at Carstairs or Lanark by ordering them beforehand of Mr. Irving, the Clydesdale Hotel, Lanark. The g will be within a few yards of the Lanark meet each mornin and Dongla. turnpike-roads at 030 a. e. Quarters for men and dogs can be secured by applying to Mr. Amos, Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire. BIGGAR CLUB. CALEDONIAN CLUB. J. Gordon, Esq., of Aikenhead PRESIDENT. A. Graham, Esq., of Capellie His Grace the Duke of Bnc- J. L. Ewing, Esq ,of Calder- clench nt% STEwanns roil 1862-3. a B, Irving, Esq., of Milbank Earl of H addington W . lyl, Gilmour, Esq., ot Glas- John Binning Esq. Lord B gow A G r i k a i s e g t o o w n J 3l o aj hn or G i rd t o h n b , Y Esq. J,Jardine , ' A. Graham, Esq. G. Blanchard , Esq., lion. 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TUE TRAGEDY AT BLACKWALL• The corps of Royal Engineers is about to be aug mented by the formation of an additional troop of the Royal Engineer train. Tho augmentation will be effected on the Ist of April, and the new troop will be designated the B troop. Directions have been received at head quarters, Chathan', for a re turn to be made of the number of men enlisted below the standard of sft. Gin., most of whom will, it is expected, volunteer for the new troop. The station of the B troop will be at Aldershot camp. A sub seluent order directs the appointment of an addi tional paymaster to the corps of Royal Engineers in consequence of the augmentation in that branch of the service. The stations of the three paymasters will be at Chatham, Aldershot, and Southampton. The appalling outbreak among the crew and soldiers of the Peruvian corvette Alice, has prodneed an extraordinary degree of interest in the port of London, and the most exaggerated statements as the extent of the castastroplie are current. We regret to have to announco that the fearcal conflict has resulted in the lobs of two more liven. It has already been stated that t otticerk, Ensign Francis Vidal and MidAirtntin Guardia Marko, perished during the outbreak ; and in the course of yesterday it was elicited that alio' her young g( n tleman, named Manuel Roderiquts, about 16 years of age, also lost his life. It appears that on the Thursday evening he went on board the hulk Venus to see his brother, who was one of the officers. While the mutiny was at its height, between 1 and 2 o'clock on Friday morning, it is suppoQed that in endeavouring to escape from the dreadful scene he attempted to pass down the ship's side into one of the boats, and fell into the water. He was a young man of great promise, and was highly connected. The sixth death took place yesterday afternoon ; one of the three soldiers who were found despers'ely wounded on the deck after the fight expired after great suffering. He had sustained a severe wont d from a bayonet thrust in the lungs, and other in juries. His name was Francisco Callejas, and he had been in the service some years. It would seem that the Thames police, with a view of obtaining this man's dying statement, had applied to the au thorities on board the bulk on Saturday afternoon as to his condition, so as to justify them in obtain ing the attendance of a magistrate to take his depo sition. Being informed that he was not then in a dangerous state the police refrained from acting. Yesterday morning they were apprised that the man was dying, and before his statement could` - be" re. ceived he breathed his last. In the course of the eyening 'the body was brought on shore and was deposited in the dead house to await an inquest. In regard to the other two, soldiers no unfavourable change has taken place, although they are in a very precarious state. The 2d battalion 18th Regiment (Royal Irish), under the command of Lieut.-Col. Chapman, was officially inspected on Saturday, at Parkhouse, Isle of Wight, by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., the general officer commanding the district, prepa ratory to the departure of the regiment from Eng land on foreign service. The ships Elizabeth Ann Bright and Norwood will embark the regiment for New Zealand about the end of the present week. The Nile, East Indiaman, of 1,250 tons (one of Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet), Commander W. F. Owen, arrivad at Spithead yesterday morning from Calcutta, with officers and military invalids from various regiments serving in India, and pri vate passengers. Four deaths occurred during the voyage and one birth. The Nile left Calcutta on Dec. 11, 1862, and St. Helena on Feb. 11. Fine weather and light winds have been experienced throughout the voyage. The military invalids will be transferred from the Nile at Spithead at 9 o'clock this morning to a Government steam tender for con veyance to the new military hospital at Netley, in Southampton Water, and she will immediately afterwards resume her voyage to London. _ A court of inquiry, preliminary to bringing the principal culprits before a court-martial, was opened on S •.turday morning on board the Venus hulk. It transpired that after the soldiers returned to the hulk on Thursday night, excited from drink obtained in the public-houses of Nackvvall and Poplar, they were after some difficulty got down to the lower deck, when the precaution was taken of battening them down. When kept thus under durance some of them, it is stated, contrived to break into the spirit store, and freely partook of the liquor. The rum naturally had the effect of madden-. ing the men, and the result speedily showed 'itself in their bursting up the forehatches. A number of them rushed up on to the maindeck, and the melee became fearful, and if the sailors had not displayed the utmost energy and good discipline in driving them below the consequences might have been most fatal to the officers. It is clear that some old grudge between the soldiers and the sailors found, vent in the collision when the sailors were directed to restore order. It would seem that they were, while in port, disposed to be unruly and mischie vous, and only at the last sessions of the Cerktral Criminal Court two of the crew were sentenced to lengthened terms of imprisonment for stabbing with knives. They are also described as having constant rows amongst themselves, both on board the Arica in the West India Dock, and in the hulk in the river. As yet the bodies of the young officers who vvrr e drowned have not been recovered, and, as it was about high water at the time they went overboard, it is probable that they have been carried down the river by the ebb tide. Bills offering tt large re— ward for the finding of the bodies have been posted. along the water side. The Ensign, Francis Vidal, is described as 23 years of age, five feet six inches, in stature, and as being attired in a blue pilot ec.at and light trousers. His hair was black, an?, he wore a In, ustache. The other young gentk-nan„ Manuel Roderiques, was five feet four inches in height, and of dark complexion. He wore dark check trousers, blue coat, and white shirt. Instructions have been given by those high in authority to expedite the fitting out of the Arica with a view of getting the crew to sea, as speedily as possible. The Thames police galleys, under the direction of Mr. Inspector Todman, are in constant attendance at the hulk. Many of the Arica's crew were heard to express their repugnance to sleep on board the hulk. The men under arrest are guarded. by sentries with fixed bayonets. - - Singular to say, so great was the reserve observed by the authorities on board the ship that the Thames, police who were alongside in their galleys were not allowed to beoome aware of the fact that lives had been sacrificed during the stuggle until late in the. afternoon on Friday. Inspector Todman, of the. Thames police, then at once instituted inquiries into the circumstances of the collision, but with out being able to fix on any individual as having actu ally inflicted the fatal wounds. It has already been stated that the Peruvian con sul has been on board, but the men being a Go vernment crew there is some difficulty in his deal ing with the case, as the offence constitutes a serious crime against the military code of the republic. It is conjectured that the crew will be got to sea as soon as possible, when the law will be enforced. The inquest before the Middlesex coroner is not expected to take place until the preliminary in quiries before the officers of the ship have been con cluded. A French naturalist has calculated that thrJ num ber of birds' eggs and 3 oung birds destroy e d in Fiance every year by predatory urchins and adults amounts to twenty millions ; on which calculation the editor of Les Mondes reads a homily which is not without its appli cation in this country. We notice the question in the hope that as the pairing season has commenced, all persons who can exercise influence will do so on behalf of the tenants of our woods, copses, and hedgerows. Agricul turists especially should bestir themselves to prevent the wanton destruction of nests and broods whichtake place every spring, considering their liability to loss by attacks of insects, It is impossible to calculate the number of grubs, of embryos scarcely visible without a microscope, or insect-devourers generally, which the birds would. destroy if lot alone. It is true that agriculture. owes much to art ; but it must not on that account reject the aid of nature. If small crops are to thrive, small birds must be encouraged. Our foreign contemporary cltest as praiseworthy the example of Cardinal Donnet, who ors all fitting occasions exerts h's eloquence in fa'our of the birds of the air. DEATH FROM WEARING CRINOLINE.—On Sat UT day afternoon Mr. Bedford held tin inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of Eliza Wright, aged ueven years. James Nealof No. 1, Ashton-build ings, Battersea, said that on Wednesday last deceased ran u p to his room with her clothes all on fire, crying out " Oh , put it out ; put it out I" Witness extinguished the fl ames as speedily as possible, and she then said that she was breaking a piece of coal at the fire, when her dress ignited. It also appeared that deceased had, during her mother's absence, put on a crinoline, which was the causo of the accident. The de ceased was taken to the hospital, where she expired on the following day. Mr. 'Wm. llope, to house surgeon, said he saw the deceased when she was admitted. She was severely burnt on the neck, face, breast, and lower part of the body, as also on the left leg and foot. Sho was suffering great pain. She never rallied, but died on the ISth inst. from collapse, produced by the burns and the shock. The jury returned the following verdict :—Accidentar death caused by wearing crinoline. [ADVEILTISEMENT.]-llolloway's Pills.—D e t erm i nation of blood to the Head, and Diseases of the Heart.—Tho public is constantly shocked by the increased number o f sudden chhtbs. These catastrophes originate from some irregula rity of circulation, which gener a t e di s t ur b ance in thehead and heart. Holloways Pills are widely used and every where esteemed for purifying the fluids, and regulating the flow of the blood. They prevent palpitation, oppression at the chest, and determination of blood to the bead, and they effectually remove congestion of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and brain, by proportionately distributing the blood to each organ. Holloway's Pills should be taken without delay when feelings of faintness, giddiness, drowsiness, or serious derangements warn us of some disturbance of the digestion, circulation, or re s piration—each of vital, im portance. - /L-' TBE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1863. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspowlent.) NEW YORK, March 6. For the last three days there has been a panic in Wall street, the like of which was never witnessed since New York became a city. It was not because the constitution had been totally overthroirn by the Congress that separated on Wednesday; not because Mr. Lincoln had been made Dic'ator and lord absolute over the life, property,and liberty of every man in the country; not because the prospects of the future had become gloomier than ever ; not because there was a fear that the people would rise up en masse to resist the Conscription Act; not because of the dark impending shadow of national bankruptcy ; not because of the fear that Gen. Lee might pounce upon Washington and capture the President and all his Cabinet,—but simply because Mr. Chase had persuaded Congress to tax speculations in gold, and otherwise to throw impediments in the way of the gamblers of Wall-street and the Stock Exchange. Gold had been forced up unnaturally last week to 72 per cent. premium, and the effect of the new measure was to bring it down in a series of leaps to 51; this was a margin of 21 per cent. in three days, a margin wide and deep enough to en gulf past redemption and recovery a whole host of small speculators, who thought themselves rich last Monday morning, and who know this Friday evening that they ore penniless paupers. Mr. Chase's measure, though well in tended, has some objectionable features,and in some impor tant respects will be wholly inoperative. The attempt to tax gambling, and to declare that the loans of gold for the purposes of speculation shall be illegal and non-recoverable in a court of law, will prove as futile as the attempt to tax betting-books and wagers, or to declare that the winnings at a card-table, at whist, euerhe or lansquenet, shall not be recoverable at law by the successful player. The code of honour is stronger in these matters than the common law, as Mr. Chase ought to know if he had half as much know ledie of human nature as a man of his age and ex perience should have acquired. The measure is ex pected by Mr. Chase's friends and by all the war party to bring down the price of gold to 20 per cent., as its natural maximum, while the war lasts. This, however, will prove a very fallacious hope, unless a series of decisive victories in Tennessee, at Vicksburg, at Port Hudson, at Charleston, at Savannah, and at Mobile shall come to the rescue. Mr. Chase has only scared the small fry ; and if he have sent a few of these back again into the wholesomer pursuits of honest industry ho will have conferred a certain amount of public benefit. But the speculation in gold will continue in spite of all his measures of repression. The only difference will be that it will flow into new channels, and be taken up by acuter and more responsible gamblers than the men of straw whom he has succeeded in scattering like chaff before the wind. The sages of the Chamber of Commerce have been again in session. These gentlemen are peculiarly unreasonable. Mr. Opdyke, the Mayor of New York, who has a contract from the Government to supply woollen clothing to the army to the extent, it is alleged, of 2,000,000 dols., thinks war has its noble side and its elevating qualities, which no doubt it has to his mind. When, however, he persists in calling every man a traitor who desires peace, is it his pecu niary interest or his patriotism that prompts his tongue to speak so emphatically ? When again a few members of the Chamber who have business relations with England, and who have subscribed three•fourths of all the relief sent to Lancashire for the benefit of the cotton operatives [it should be known in England that the subscription was by no means general, and that it was very slenderly supported by the mass of the public in this or any other city of the North], complain of the ingratitude and hostility of the British Government in allowing the Alabama to leave the shores of England to prey upon American commerce, they not only exhibit a very bad temper, but a woful want of wis dom. General Wetmore, a prominent member of the Chamber, and a liberal subscriber to the Relief Fund, declared yesterday, amid great applause,—" Yes, we are at peace with England I We are feeding her starving population, while she is pr eying on our commerce. This conduct of England is the disgrace of our age." The General, in this instance, merely allowed his passion to run away with his judgment and his good manners. He made two gross mis-statements—America is not feeding the starving population of Englani in the sense which his words would convey ; and England in no sense whatever is preying on American commerce. Mr. A. A. Low, the owner of the Jacob Bell, recently destroyed by the Confederate steamer Alabama—which he and other American mer • chants, as well as the American press, most mendaciously persist in calling an " English pirate".—and also a large contributor to the relief of the Lancashire cotton spinners related to the Chamber that all the loss of the destruction of that vessel would not fall upon him. "No, gentlemen," he said—" and you will be pleased to learn the fact-6,000 of the chests of tea that were seized belonged to parties in England and France." Why should the Chamber be pleased to learn the misfortunes of unoffending Englishmen and Frenchmen ? And are not only all Englishmen, but all Frenchmen, too, to be responsible for the building of the Alabama in Liverpool, and for her escape from the penal ties she incurred by going to sea without her papers ? Were England and France at war at this moment, would these gentlemen of New York, who boast so much of their kindly charity to the poor of Lancashire, and declaim so loudly against the British Government for not doing what it could not do, be restrained from building and equipping vessels of war, if ordered and paid for by Frenchmen, to prey upon British'commerce ? Undoubtedly not, if they could make anything by the venture. If, instead of complaining of the British Government, they would compel their own Secretary of the Navy to capture, or endeavour to capture, the Alabama, or any other Confederate vessel that preys upon their commerce, they would stand higher in the esti mation of sensible men in every part of the world, their own included. The extreme party of Abolitionists and Exterminators, who have broken up the Union and destroyed the consti tution of Washington and Jefferson, for the sake of the emancipation of the slaves in the South, are delighted with the reports of the Abolition meetings in England. They point with exultation to the Exeter-hall gathering, and to the more recent meeting at Liverpool, to prove that the heart of the English people goes with them in their war against the South, and think, when they strive to enforce fraternity at the point of the bayonet upon a people who loathe and resist it as tyranny and degradation, that they are supported by the sympathy and encouragement of the foremost thinkers of the Old World. They assert that their cause is better understood than it was before the issue of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, and that a strong reaction has com menced in England, the force of which will ultimately shape the action of the Government. " What do we care," they say, "for the British aristocracy and the British commer cial and professional classes, who are all against us? The working classes are in our favour, and it is they who ulti mately control the deliberations of Parliament. Their power is irresistible, as was seen in the repeal of the corn laws—that great measure which they compelled the un willing statesmen of the day to carry under the penalty of an otherwise inevitable revolution." The American aboli tionists are, it will be seen, as ignorant of British politics as the English Abolitionists are ignorant of the true state and bearings of the negro question. They need to be in formed that the working classes do not control elections to Parliament, and that the repeal of the corn laws had for a serious of years no greater enemies than the working men of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham. Mr. Bright or Mr. Cobden or any other member of the Anti- Corn Law League could tell the Abolitionists of America that the working classes, organised by Chartist leaders, systematically and pertinaciously broke into and interrupted the proceedings at Free-trade meetings; that for a long period it was impossible to hold an open meeting to discuss the subject; that it was found necessary, in order to keep the peace, to admit none but the known friends of the caust that the Corn-law Repealers were constantly taunted with fearing public controversy, and with admitting no hearer without a ticket; and that when the question was finally carried it was carried by the upper and middle chases, in spite of the opposition of the working people whom it was intended to benefit. If there were any hope that a man like Mr. Bright could ever admit that he could, by any possi bility, be wrong on any subject whatever, it would do him good to visit America just now. He would have a magni ficent reception ; and, after having studied the country and the people for a couple of months, or even less, he might return to England a wiser man, with more coned notions on the subject of the negro on this Continent than he and the English Abolitionists generally entertain. And, certainly, that portion of the British people who sympathise with the Federal Government and the Abolitionists in their efforts to subdue or exterminate the South require enlightenment on the true state of the slavery and the negro questions in this i c t ou is n n tr o y t . w l el t l is fo w r e t l h l efonir E ton g ro li i s e h u m nd en er t g o ta b n e d A or bo i li g t n io o n re is t t h s, a b t u o t question of race as well as a question of human bondage is involved, and that the Northern and Western Abolitionists are greater enemies of the negro as a man than the Southern planters or slaveholdera have ever been. Perhaps if Eng land had as large a negro population as the South, the ques tion of negro slavery would assume a very different shape in Exeter-hall. Perhaps, too, if one man out of every three in the streets of London, Liverpool, 14 anchester, Birmingham, or Glasgow wore a black man, the antipathies and anta gonisms of race might declare themselves as forcibly in England as they have done in America. It was easy for Glffsrlteehas the reat negro t rh a o i a n dsl t af o ov re abolish negro dsdone existed df s oo l fn a t v ht e he r slavery in population,he soil r o f t colonies, hteh eB ar British iso u l i tion of slavery would not have been so easy—even though five or ten times twenty millions of pounds sterling had been paid for the achievement. There are two distinct questions in America which the English people ought not to mix up with each other l in forming their opinion of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation and the attitude of the North against the South. The one is the question of slavery; the other is the question of the negro. It is necessary to consider them separately to prevent a total misconception of the spirit of this miserable war, which is rapidly mining the existing generation of white men for the sake of est ablishing an impossible equality for the black, and carrying out a philanthropic theory in face of stupendous moral, social, economical, and political obstacles—a theory that did not originate in America, but was imported from Europe, which had never any practical experience of or companionship with the negro race, and which merely phi losophised upon it, as it might have done any other ques • tion of abstract principle. First or all, as regards slaty. The founders of Ame rican liberty, the framers of t ' constitutions of the several States which afterwards knelled the Union itself—that great and noble document 'which, was finally destroyed and abrogated on Wednesday last, when Mr. Lincoln was made Dictator and temporary Emperor in everything but the name—reorganised, asserted, and maintained that the only legal power competent to deal with the question of slavery lay in the Legislatures of the Sovereign States. In pursuance of that right, and not by decree of Congress, the States of %he North and West, one aften..the other, abo lished slavery within their several jurisfflptions. It has been said that not one of them ever took 'that step until slavery had ceased to be profitable. However that may be, it was the individual State, and not the Union or Federa tion, that passed the Act of Emancipation. Cons9quently the people of the North and West, in washing their hands of the guilt or sin—or mistake of slavery, had nothing fur. ther to do with it. They might write or preach agaiiist it if they pleased, but they had no more right to make war against any State, or agglomeration of States, that chose-to retain the institution than they have at this moment to cie dare war against Spain for maintaining it in Cuba. If the great Yankee nation were to declare itself the enemy of slavery and of every slaveholding power all over the world, would the English Abolitionists aid with their sym pathy, if it forthwith declared war against Spain and Brazil ? If not, why do they not sympathise with it in its aggression upon the constitution and laws of the slavehold • ing States ? and why do they inflate these vain glorious exterminators with the notion that their illegal, unconsti tutional, and murderous course inspires respect among any portion of the sensible British people ? Originally the South had a vague idea that slavery might, after all, be wrong, and something might be done to prepare the way for its gradual abolition. But the necessities of England made cotton so valuable that the institution became too profitable to be lightly interfered with. And the more pre fitable it became, the more the Northern Abolitionists thun dered against it. The result was that the South, instead of palliating and excusing the institution on the ground of the difficulty of removing it, was goaded first into defending, and next into justifying it. The Northern fanatic, who de clared slavery to be morally wrong, produced the Southern fanatic, who declared it to be divinely right. The antago nism between them produced the war, and has embittered it. And when Dictator Lincoln issued his famous procla mation with the avowed ot ject of exciting a servile war and the massacre of the white people whom his own armies could not reach, he committed not only an act of perjury to his oath of office and of the grossest cruelty to the Southern people, but of treason to his nee. With that act the last faint hope of the restoration of the Union was destroyed for ever. It is possible that, in pursuance of his emancipation policy, he and his party may convert the South into a new Poland. But if they do they must hold it as Poland, and what agony and blood and sacrifice of liberty that mode of procedure will cost them they may calculate if they will. The question of race is quite as important as that of sla very. The Southern people say, " We have so manynegroes —nearly one-half of our population—that if they are per mitted to live among us we must govern them. They can not govern themselves. They will not work unless upon compulsion. Loft to themselves they degenerate to paupers, and become a burden upon us, instead of helpmates. We understand their natures, and how to manage them. As slaves they are docile, affectionate, and good-tempered. They know their position, and do not seek to rise above it. They are well-fed, well-clad, and well-housed. When sickness and old age comes upon them we maintain them in comfort to the end of their days, and make no diffe rence whatever in the care and attention we bestow upon them. Let us alone, therefore, with them, and the negroes will be contented, and the country prosperous ; but if you free them our care of them ceases. We will not be burdened with black pauperism that we cannot compel to work ; and the result will inevitably be, however much you and we may deplore it, that the black race will be exter minated as the red race has been, We could not enslave the aboriginal Indians, or make them useful in the cultiva tion of the soil. We could not amalgamate with them. The only other thing to do was to exterminate them. North, South, East, and West all pursued the same policy towards these unfortunates. And at this moment there are not to be found over all the wide territories of the Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, more than 350,000 Indians —a number which is little more than half that of the popu lation of Philadelphia." This, in substance, is the argu ment of the South on the social aspect of the negro question. The North and West take a different view of the subject. They will not have the negro as a slave ; and, if they would, his labour would be of a character far better and more cheaply performed by white men, and they therefore give him his liberty. But they refuse him the right of citizenship. They will not ride in the railway cars with him, nor let him eat at a public table, nor sit in the same theatre, nor pray with him in the same church, nor permit him to marry into their families. If a white woman com mits the atrocity of falling in love with a black man, she is not only excommunicated from society, but expelled vi et armis by the outraged populace, and runs the imminent hazard of her life as the penalty for her crime. When Englishmen, Irishmen, and Germans settle in America, they come with European ideas on the subject of the negro. These ideas seldom or never outlast a three. months' resi dence. The instinct of race is too strong. Were the largest assemblage of Abolitionists that ever congregated in Exeter hall or elsewhere to be transported to America, they would, after a short probation, take side against the social com panionship of the negro, and resist as violently as a native-born American the intrusion of any one of the race to the privilege of their society, either at work or play. Even the Tribune newspaper, the champion of the race, cannot employ a negro compositor or machinist, under the penalty of a general and indignant strike of all its white workpeople ; and were Mr. Frederick Douglas to be appointed assistant editor of that journal—a position which he is well qualified to fill—ho and Mr. Greely would be left in sole and undisputed possession of the pre• mises. So strong is the prejudice in itself, and so much stronger has it been rendered by the war, that it is in con templation in the great States of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to follow the example of Indiana, Illinois, and other States of the West, and prohibit the immigration of any further negroes within their boundaries. This feeling against the negro is entertained by millions of people who have not the slightest desire to enslave him, and as little to make him free. It expresses itself in a thou sand ways, which the inhabitants of a country like Great Britain, where a negro is as rare as a black swan, cannot readily understand, but which are obvious and palpable enough in a country where the black population is so nume rous as to be constantly before the public eye, and to com pete with the whites for employment in all the inferior kinds of labour. Right or wrong, there is a pride of race and colour in this c untry. That pride is not to be rea soned with. It exists, and will continue to exist, in spite of all the efforts of preachers, philanthropists, and theorists to argue it down. The preachers, philanthropists, and theorists themselves are practically as much afflicted with it as the rest of the world. Not one of them known to fame would marry a black wife, or suffer his daughter to marry a black man ; and few of them would go so far as to intro duce the most respectable negro in the city of New York as a guest to a miscellaneous company at his own dinner table. It is this feeling which makes officers of the army throw up their commissions rather than command negro soldiers, and that drives whole regiments of Irishmen and Germans out of the Federal service. So strong is it, and so thoroughly does it enter into the whole texture of society, that a prominent member of the House of Representatives, a leading Democratic politician, who knows the people of New York better than any man living, from the long and intimate experience he has had in organising the Democratic party, both native and foreign, for Con gressional as well as for State and civic victories ; a man, in fact, to whom the feelings, prejudices, and interests of the New Yorkers are as familiar as his garter—has recently declared that if he were to convene a public meeting of the citizens to debate the question whether Sou'hern slavery was right or wrong, it would be decided by a majority of three to ono that it was right, and ought to be maintained. He would not peck the meeting or admit to it, by ticket or otherwise, only the known partisans of the institution, but would freely admit every person, lay or clerical, male or female, who chose to be present. He believes that the decision would be the same in the State of New Jersey. Not that these people so admire or approve slavery as to be willing to re-establish it in:the North, but that they do not disapprove it so much as to have any wish to interfere with it in States where it constitutionally exists. The English abolitionists ought to study this matter more closely before they pretend by their speeches and resolutions to declare that the cause of the North is the cause of freedom, or that President Lincoln is other:than an unconstitutional Chief Magistrate, and the bitter foe of the liberties of the Southern poople, with whose slaves he has no more right to meddle than with the revenues of the Archbishop of Canterbury or the throne of the Queen of England. Nor is this the only aspect of the negro question with which they ought to make themselves familiar. In the south, where they are well cared for, the negroes increase 1 and multiply. In the North, where nobody cares for them for Abolitionists never talk of the free black man, but only of the slave—the race is perishing, The last official census in the United States gives the figures. " In the in terval from 1850 to 1860," says Mr. Kennedy, the official superintendent, in his preliminary report of Congress, " the total free coloured population of the United States increased from 434,440 to 488,005, showing an annual increase of one per cent. This result includes the number of slaves liberated and those who have escaped from their owners. . . In Boston, during the five s ears ending in 1859, the number of coloured births was one less than the number of mar riages, and the deaths exceeded the births in the proportion of two to one. . . In Philadelphia, during the last six months of the census year, the new city registration gives 148 births against 306 deaths among the free coloured people. . . . In the State registries of Rhode Island and Con necticut, where tho distinction of colour has been specified, the yearly deaths of the blacks and mulattoes have gene rally, though not uniformly, exceeded the births. . . Owing, among other causes, to the extremes of climate in the more Northern States, and in the 'Western States to expulsive enactments of the Legislatures, the free coloured race shows a decrease of numbers in Indiana, Main - ., New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont." Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The officers of the Chatham division of Royal Ma rine Light Infantry entertained Rear-Admiral Sir J. Hope, K.C.8., at a banquet on Thursday even ing, in the mess room at the Royal Marine barracks, ic here covers were laid for 90 guests. Col. T. Lemon, C. 8., commandant of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, presided. There were also present Vice- Admiral Sir W. J. H. Johnstone, K.C.8., com mander-in-chief at the Nore, Major-Gen. H. Eyre, commanding the Chatham district, Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, inspector-general of the Royal Ma rines, Capt. E. Fanshawe, superintendent of Chat ham dockyard, Capt. C. Wise, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Col. J. Mitchell, commandant of the Wool wich division of Royal Marines, Col. J. 11. Gas coigne, C. 8., Col. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., Assist.-Adjt,- Gen., and other distinguished officers. The Cadmus, 20, screw, Capt. Ross, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning from the West Indies, and, receiving her orders soon after her arrival, sailed again in the afternoon for Chatham, to pay out of commission. The Cadmus sailed from Ber muda for England on Feb. 28, having arrived at that port from Charleston on the 14th with Mr. Bunch, British Consul at Charleston, on board, en route for England. The screw corvette Pelorus, 21, was placed on Friday in No. 4 dock at Devonport to be completely repaired. . . . The paddlewheel steam vessel Alecto, 5, Comman der Blake, which sailed from Plymouth on the 22d of February for Rio Janeiro, put back to the Sound on Saturday morning, as already reported in The Sun. She lost her foremast at Ma deira when endeavouring to recover the anchor of the storeship Egmont, 4, which parted her cable on the Ist of March in heavy weather while lying in the roadstead. The Alecto's mast broke into three pieces, but no one was injured by the fall. She left on the 11th inst., under a jury -mast, and ex perienced a stormy passage home. Being leaky, and having some defects to make good, she discharged her powder and proceeded into Hamoaze. On Friday the water was admitted into No. 3 dock at Chatham dockyard, vacated on Thursday by the Royal Oak, and the sailing frigate Active, 40, floated in for the purpose of having her bottom examined. The Active was launched at Chatham dockyard about 18 years ago, and was then consi dered one of the smartest frigates of the day. She was, however, never sent to sea, and ever since her launch has been lying useless in Chatham harbour. A few weeks since she was taken in hand to be fitted as a training-ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers at Hartlepool, to which port she will be sent when completed. With the exception of some portions of her copper-plating her bottom plates appear to be quite sound, and, generally, few defects can be dis covered either in her planking or timbers. The Active will only remain in dock a short time, when she will give place to the iron troopship Tamar, 500-horse power, 2,812 tons, built at Milwall, which is to be surveyed by the dockyard officials at Chatham, previously to being sent to Sheerness dockyard to be completed for sea. Directions have been received at Chatham for a number of the mortar boats lying at Yantlett-creek to be used as tenders in connection with the works in progress at St. Mary's Island for the enlargement of the dockyard. The Fawn, 17,screw, Commander Ralph P. Cator, arrived at Spithead on Friday afternoon from the Australian station, and will be paid out of commis sion. Her pennant was hoisted on the 31st of October, 1859. The firing at the English and foreign ships' armour took place at Portsmouth on Friday, The plates consisted of a 41-inch plate, from the Thames Ironworks Ccmpany, cut in two parts,one part bent two inches transversely from a straight line, and the remaining part not bent; a 41-inch plate, from the Mersey Ironworks, and two other plates, one of 51-inch and the other of 41-inch, from Mr. Begbie, of London. All the plates wore of excellent quality. The bending of the half of the Thames plate did not appear to have injured the metal any further than if it had been rather incautiously heated. The metal in the bent portion had a greater tendency to crumble under the blows of the shot than the unbent portion. The Mersey plate was also excellent, and stood some severe pounding without penetration being made. The two plates furnished by Mr. Begbie, however, beat all the others. The 54-inch had five shots planted in a space of 17 inches by 12, but no through penetration was made, nor were there any cracks of consequence. This plate was, however, very imperfectly welded. The 4i inch plate had seven shots in a space of 3ft. by 22in., with only sur face ci acks. This plate stood magnificently, and the way in which the metal stretched under the blows of the shots without cracking was astonishing. One shot struck the plate on the edge at the upper corner, but instead of breaking or cracking the metal, as is usually the case under such circumstances, it merely bent and expanded it without a sign of crack or flaw of any kind. The indents on these two plates were rather under the ordinary:depth. The metal, where pounded by the shot,had a peculiarly white, silvery appearance. The following appointments were made on Fri day at the Admiralty :—M. O'N. Markham, assist. paymaster, to the Mreander ; J. E. Ray, assist, pay master, to the Excellent ; J. W. Morris, second master, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary ; T. Dun canson, chief engineer, to the Orpheus, for disposal ; 0. A. Davies, engineer, to the Pandora; S. Law ton, T. Murray, and J. Stirling, assist. engineers, to the Sparrow ; E. Newman, assist. engineer, to the Indus, for the Clinker ; J. Staley and J. Grant, assist.-engineers, to the Pandora; J. West, assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, as supernume rary ; Mozart Vinnings, T. Evatt, C. J. Pawley, and F. F. Trearher, assist.-clerks, to the Victory, as supernumeraries; G. D. Daunt, assist.-clerk, to the Cornwallis; C. E. Warren and G. F. M. Kent, assist--clerks, to the Revenge ; and J. H. Evans, assist.-clerk, to the Victory. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Jas. Hawkins, to the Pandora ; W. C. A. D =vine, nominated to a naval cadetship; S. Madden, chief engineer, to the Indus, for the Ocean ; J, W. Steil, chief engineer, to the Indus, for the Pelorus ; C. Dickson, chief engineer, to the Asia, for the Hector ; and J. Tur ner, assist.-engineer, to the Asia, for the Hector. THE ARMY. The detachment of non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers selected t, proceed to the Australian colonies, on important service, has received notice to hold itself in readiness to leave head quarters, Chatham, on the 27th inst. The de tachment goes out under the command of Capt. E. T. Brooke, who has been ordered to join at Bromp ton barracks for that purpose. In addition to other duties connected with the survey of the Crown lands in New Zealand, and the construction of public THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON. O❑ Saturday a general court of this corporation was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, it being the anniversary of the battle of Alexandria. The Rigbt Hon. the Earl of Airlie, K.T., filled the chair very ably, and was supported right and left by Captain Forbes, R.N., Captain Jay, R.N., Captain Mac kenzie, Captain Conway, Captain Forbes, 78th Highlanders ; Captain St. George, ditto; Sir Alex ander M'Kenzie, ditto; Ensign Thorpe, ditto, Ensign E. Maenzie, Messrs. D. M'Donald, J. Moir, H. W. Holmans, J. Daniel, George Bain, James M'Gregor, D. U. Chambers, F.S.A., presi dent of the Caledonian Society, J. M. Moir, &c. The military uniforms of the officers of the gallant 78th added much to the splendour of the scene. Mr. Kennedy, the eminent Scottish vocalist, accom panied by Mr. Land, sang " Scots wha hae," and other songs, with very great effect ; and the band of the Caledonian asylum boys played many airs during the evening. The pipers of the society and the piper of the Earl of Fife played very charm ingly. The large hall of the tavern, in which the dinner was given, was decorated with the banners of the different Scottish clans, the Royal arms 3f Scotland occupying a prominent position over the seat of the president. " The Health of her Majesty" having been drunk, The noble Chairman, in proposing the next toast, The Prince of Wales, Duke ofi Rothesay, Lord of the Isles, and the Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family, said they could not have failed to remark the great enthusiasm which marked the progress of the Prince and Princess through Lon don, but similar demonstrations of loyalty were made throughout the country, and ho was happy to say that the capital of Scotland had not been back ward. The castle and the city of Edinburgh had been illuminated in honour of the marriage of the Royal pair, and such a scene of brilliancy and re joicing bad scarcely ever been seen there before. The toast was drunk with highland honours, which adds much to the picturesque appearance of the costumes, &c. The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Army, Navy, and Volunteers," which was drunk with enthusiasm. Captain ST. GEORGE, who had distinguished himself in India, briefly returned thanks on the part of the army. Captain FORBES, one of the survivors of the battle of the Nile, in acknowledging the toast on behalf of the navy, said he believed that when the services of the navy were required again it would be found fully equal to the renown it had hitherto acquired. They were invited to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Alexandria, which occurred 62 years ago, one of the greatest victories which graced the annals of British warfare. When any one looked at the hill which the English troops surmounted, tipped as it was by bayonets, some little hesitation on their parts might have been expected; but the sight of these bayonets provoked the national spirit and greased the heels of the men, and a glorious victory was the result. (Cheers.) He believed that no operation which had occurred since the landing of Sir Ralph Abercrombie and his gallant compa nions in arms in Egypt in 1801, could surpass that event in heroism, or in the success by which it was attended. That gallant officer, Sir John Doyle, had remarked that it was in the burning sands of Egypt that the British army broke ice. (Cheers.) He was twenty-one when the event to which he re ferred occurred, and was ready to lend a hand in any work to which he was put, and even now, if necessity required, he was prepared to shoulder his crutch and do duty for the interest of his country. He firmly believed that if we were again involved in war, the navy would prove quite as brave as it had hitherto done. (Cheers.) Captain M'KENZIE, of the London Scottish, re turned thanks for the volunteers, Mr. D. CHAMBERS proposed "The Health of the President," which was drunk with great applause. The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks. The song," The Bonny House of Airlie," sung by Mr. Kennedy, followed. The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Officers of the 78th Highlanders." This was one of the most distinguished regiments in the British army; and though it had not an opportunity of serving in the Crimea, it had rendered most valuable services in the Crimea. Captain FORBES, of the 78th, in returning thanks, said there was nothing which a Highland soldier more appreciated when away from the heather and his " ain peat reek" than the expression of his countrymen that they appreciated his services. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The Memory of Abercrombie, and the Heroes who fell with him in Egypt." lie said that the British army had per formed many gallant exploits, but he knew of none more remarkable than the landing of the brave Abercrombie and his followers on the shores of Egypt. There was no more difficult feat than the landing of troops on a foleign shore, but when that was done in the face of an enemy it became vastly more so ; but Abercrombie succeeded not only in doing that, but in leading on his troops to victory. Great, however, as the spirit of the British army was at that time, he believed that it had in no re spect diminished, but might be safely relied upon again in the case of war breaking out. (Cheers.) The toast having been drunk in silence, the pipes of the society played " A Lament," which was very skilfully executed, and listened to with the utmost attention. The CHAIRMAN proposed, in appropriate terms, the " Survivors of the Battle of Alexandria," three of whom were then present. Captain SAY, R.N., expressed his deep sense o f the compliment paid to him and his brothers in arms. As is the custom on the occasion of this national ---- ilt to ielred plied itley [new tter. was wit rime- !ss to peat !r to atter fore, her and .ohn the DO. 1. of oh no