The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the ?imes Correspondent.) NEW YORK, April 24. The outcry against England has partially subsided. The mails of the Peterhoff have been surrendered; and the main interest of the war has been once more transferred to Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The Confederates appear to have relaxed their usual vigilance at the first named place, or so large a force of gunboats and rams as safely ran the gauntlet of the batteries could not possibly have got through. The friends of the South in this city affect to treat the matter lightly, though what grounds they have for their comfort are not easy to discover. In other quarters there is little doing. Charleston and the Atlantic cities are relieved from the immediate prospect of danger, and the rams and Monitors are tinder repair, preparatory to active operations above Baton Rouge. " Sail, says the King ; hold, says, the wind," is a proverb that finds illustration to day upon the Rappahannock. President Lincoln has ordered General Hooker to advance ; but rain and mud, two more powerful potentates, have impera tively commanded him to stay. And when General Hooker is thus incommoded by too much water, the safety of Generai Rosecrans is endangered by too little; and generally throughout the wide regione drained by the Mississippi and its feeders there is a likelihood of such a continued fall of the waters as to cause considerable anxiety for the safety of all Federal gunboats which have ventured into any but rivers of the first magnitude. General Banks, be lieved to be in imminent peril between Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, has made his appearance unexpectedly in the rich region o f th e B ayou T eche —called the garden of Louisiana—and, if successful, will no doubt endeavour to make his way into the country of the Red River, to co operate with the fleets of Admirals Porter and Farragut—which can either ply on that stream or the Mississippi, as cir cumstances may dictate. Neither the President, General Burnside, nor General Hooker appear to much advantage in Burn side's general order No. 8, under the date of the 231 of January, which was suppressed by the Con gressional Committee on the conduct of the war, with the prudential and patriotic motive of pre venting scandal. By some means or other the document has been permitted to see the light. It discloses the ugly fact that the demoralization of the army of the Potomac, after M'Clellan was deprived of the command, was extreme, and that either Gene ral Burnside or General' Hooker is unfit to lead an army. In that order General Hooker is accused by General Burnside of insubordination, disrespect to and disobedience of his superiors, and unmilitary as well as ungentlemanly conduct which almost amounted to mutiny, and for such misconduct he is ordered, subject to the President's approval, to be dismissed the army. Three Brigadier-Generals for the same offences are subjected to the same degra dation ; and five other officers, of whom two are Mjor Generals, two Brigadiers, and one a Colonel, are relieved from duty, and ordered to report to the Adjutant- General. These chargee are either true or false. If true, the President ought to have con firmed the action of his Commanding-General, or brought General Hooker to trial. If false, General Burnside was unfit to hold his position and should himself have suffered the doom which he wished to inflict upon others. But the good-natured President adopted a very original course of proceeding which did justice to nobody. He allowed General Burn side, who made the charges, to resign his command, and immediately appointed General Hooker to the vacant place, showing, one would think, that he believed the charges to be unfounded. But that he could not have believed General Burnside to be guilty of the crime of making false charges against his subordinates would also appear from the fact that he shortly afterwards appointed him to a high command in Ohio, which he still holds. Nor is the case more intelligible when it is considered that no less than eight other officers were either rightfully or wrongfully accused on the same authority, and that a stain must rest upon the purity of their military fame as long as these charges remain uninvestigated, or, at all events, as long as General Burnside keeps silence and refuses to admit pub licly that he was in error. It was notorious at the time when he planned the ill-judged attack against Fredericksburg, in which he was so thoroughly, and it may be said so cruelly defeated,that all, or nearly all, the General officers under his command disap proved his temerity and predicted the results. Everybody said he was a gallant soldier, but no one admitted that he was a wise one. In any other country the publication of these facts, humanely suppressed by the committee, would render it im perative upon the Commander-in Chief to order a court-martial, if the accused officers did not them selves demand it. But, as the Commander-in-Chief and the President are the same person, and as the President's own judgment is impugned either by the appointment of Hooker or the re-appointment of Burnside, it is probable that as far as Mr. Lincoln is concernFd nothing further will come of it. It only remains to be seen what steps, if any, will be taken by the incr.lpated officers in vindication of their characters. Mr. Horace Greeley has offended the Abolitionist party, and efforts are to be made to withdraw its support from the Tribune, which his zeal and abili ties have converted into one of the most influential journals of the country. Mr. Greeley's position is a singular one. More than any living writer he has moulded and guided the Republican party. It was his influence more than that of any other person that defeated Mr. Seward for the Presidency, and secured the election of Mr. Lincoln. Hence Mr. Lincoln has always treated his opinions with marked respect, and Mr. Seward has as uniformly mistrusted and disliked him. It was Mr. Greeley who goaded the Administration into ordering the advance upon Manassas, which led to the first battle and route of Bull Run. It was Mr. Greeley who urged the Pr esident to issue the Proclamation of Emancipation. In all cases of difficulty Mr. Lincoln is known to have well considered what opinion would be passed upon his decision by the Tribune and the party which it led, and, even when he disagreed with Mr. Greeley, has declared that he could not afford to quarrel with him." Mr. Greeley has been far too honest a politician to be a thoroughly consistent one. He has had the man iiness on several occasions to admit that he was wrong, which is more than can be said for any other public man in America. When the first faint murmurs of discontent from the South proved to the satisfaction of all far-seeing statesmen that there would be a rupture of the Union Mr. Greeley expresse d hi mse lf strong ly in favour of let ting the South depart in peace. This was the true pc licy to adopt, and if patiently acquiesced in by the Northern people might have rendered the estrange ment temporary which has now become permanent. But when th e attack was m ade - on Fort Sumter he was carried aw a y, with the rest of his countrymen, in the whirl of passion whi c h that event excited. He could not see that so trivial a matter did not in reality affect the questi on at issue , and that it it w e r e wise to allow the South to depart before that vexatious but harml ess bombar d men t, returnedit was equally wise afterwards. H e h as not yet ttly to his original position in this r es p ect, though there are symptoms in his writings and th roughout the editorial columns of the Tribune that h e has mis givings of the policy of bloodshed, that h e i s dis heartened with the spirit no less than with the con duct of the war ; and sincerely anxious for peace if he can discover hot a mode by which, without loss o f dignity and prestige, the North may withdraw from the eut,fl er, and, leaving the South to the ma nagement of its own affairs, wait patiently for the healing influence s of time, and the paramount inte rests of commerce to bring together in a Leagut—if net in a U:iion—the kindred people who have come so violently and so unnaturally into collision. To this point he will probably veer round at last ; and if he do, he will find thousands of people to agree -with him. All the members of the Administration, together with the bulk of the Abolition or Ultra- Republican party, have endeavoured during the whole course of the war to diminish the rights of the States, and to increase the power of the Cen tralt Gov ernmen t. Th e y h ave striven to construct a call ro , s t rong consolidated absolutism, to save what they the life o f th e nat i on, " h ee dl ess if i n so doing they lost all the liberties that would k tionality desirabl e ma e their • Mr. Greeley has seemed to go along with them ; and has justified or palliated many arbitrary acts of Mr. Lincoln and his secre taries, which must have jarred upon his teelinzs and instincts as a sincere and enlightened lover of freedom—for white men as well as for bleek. Lately however he has awakened to the consciousness that this policy is wrong, and that if the States do not jealously preserve their State rights the freedom of America has nothing left to stand upon. Mr. Greeley sees the right course. Il rerient a ses premiers amours, and acknowledges —not for the first time— that Northern liberty is worth the keeping --a fact which too many of his Republican and Abolitionist coadjutors have persistently ignored. It must not be imagined that Mr. Greeley has abandoned his old idta3 on the subject of slavery. On that point he is true as steel to his early convictions. But the bitter experience of the czar, and especially the failure of the President's proclamation to arouse the anti-slavery enthusiasm of the North, or to in spire the Southern slaves themselves with the faintest hope of freedom, has taught him that other questions than those of slavery were involved in the mighty war between North and South. Wash ington, the slaveowner, fought the battle of liberty, and won it; and why should not Jefferson Davis, the slaveowner, do the same ? Mr. Greeley does not put the case in that form, but it is evident he sees far more clearly than his party that he has ranged himself on the losing side ; that the South is lost to the North for ever, except as a foreign ally and a good customer; and that if it were possible to restore the Union by the means employed by Mr. Lincoln and his generals the result would be an imperial, military, and perhaps brutal despotism. Many persons predicted that the President's Proclamation would divide the North and unite the South—a prediction early and completely verified ; but no one predicted that it would cause a division in the Republican ranks, and deprive them of the leadership of the man to whose teachings and promptings it was mainly due. Yet this result has happened. The wise philosopher of Abolitionists is dethroned, and uncharitable priests and silly women reign in his stead. There is an old Scottish rhyme which says— " When gray beards weep and hens crow The pride of the nation lieth low." These lines are but too applicable to the present condition of this country. If " gray beards" do not yet weep for the miseries and degradation of the land it is not for want of cause; and if the crowing of hens be a metaphorical expression for the unseemly interference of women with the political affairs and partisan passions of men, the crowing has begun, and betokens a wide-spread demoralisation of the people. A woman named Dickinson, a spinster of 25, from the city of Philadelphia, fresh, fair, and blooming, with an amazing volubility and power of vituperation, somewhat impaired by the nasal twang and the Yankee mispronunciation, has been engaged by the Contractors' League to enlighten the Northern public on the aspects of the war and the merits and demerits of every military and civil servant of the Government who is prominent and influential enough to attract her notice. This de magogue in petticoats held forth on Tuesday night at the Cooper Institute to an audience of nearly 4,000 persons, at least one-half of whom were wo men, who rewarded her most unfeminine utterances with the greatest amount of their unwomanly and unmanly applause. She has a voice, according to the reporters, "so powerful that masculine stump speakers might envy it," and used it to effective purpose in denouncing every general of the Demo cratic party who had ever been called to command the armies of the North. Her principal spite was directed against General M'Clellan, whom she de cleared to be no general at all —or, if a general, a traitor ; a man who knew nothing of the art of war, or who, if knowing, used his kno tvledge against his country. " Burnside and Hooker," she said, " could fight; but this man (M'Clellan) kept out of the battle, and sat down miles off, with his thirty thousand reserves, drinking mint juleps and sherry cobblers in safety. Never," she added, " did he soil his feet by the tread of a blood-stained battle-field. He preferred to come northward to tread on piled up mounds of bouquets, and to brave every element of treason, secession, and meanness, going down in the mad at his feet to do him reverence." Thez.e was at least one sensible man in the crowd of lis teners who took offence et the silly arrogance of a scold who presumed to criticise the actions of a soldier, and expressed his displeasure in unmis takeable terms. A disturbance immediately arose which lasted some minutes ; blows were inter changed ; women shrieked and fainted ; men hissed and hooted, and the police were called for ; bat the undaunted Miss Dickinson looked on defiant and expectant, and as wholly unabashed as if she had been made of marble. Comparative order having been restored, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecber stepped on the platform, and announced, amid loud applause, " that the gentleman had been squelched,' and that " the lady WAS triumphant." Miss Dick inson thereupon resumed her attacks on General M'Clelian. She said she had understood that he had joined a church, and " hoped he would obey holy orders better than be did military orders." The audience appreciated hugely this very poor joke, and the Rev. Mr. Beecher, carried away by enthu siasm, acted as fugleraan to the applause. She de clared that the only real soldiers of the Union were the Republicans and Abolitionists, citing the names of Generals Hunter, Mitchell, Roaecrans, Sigel, and, above all, Fremont, in proof of the assertion. She also expressed the highest opinion of the courage, ability, and patriotism of General Butler, whom she contrasted favourably with Gen. Banks. The latter was much too merciful and humane to merit her commendation—a mere milksop, unfit to grapple with the Southern " devils," whom she held in such abhorrence. On the question of inciting the negroes to tike up arms against their masters and mistresses she was particularly emphatic. " When people ask me," she said, "if I would have the bazbarity to get np a slave insurrection, I answer, Yes! When we are fighting the devil I an, glad to hear that an insurrection has broken out in hell." At this point of the fair virago's speech there was, according to the newspaper reports, " tremen dous applause, renewed so often that it was difficult to restore silence." Referring to the danger of en forcing the Conscription Act she said, "If the Demo cratic party attempt to resist the execution of that measure the streets will be drenched in blood." Again there was a tempest of applause, the women being more vehement than the men. Anything more pitiable and painful than this exhibition it is difficult to conceive. The speaker herself—the bigots, theorists, and contractors who paid her to unsex herself—the men who applauded her, and the women who cheered her unwomanly words, were alike detestable. A Joan of Arc who in the day of her country's peril goes out into the battle field and does a soldier's duty against a foreign foe is a re spectable, though perhaps an unnatural character; but a strong-voiced scold, how ever young, bloom_ i tge and brother eloquent,in a tim e o f c i v i l strife in against brother, siste r aga i nst sister, who panders to the lowest and most fiendish of passicons, openly advocates a servile insurrection and a war of races, and gluts over the unutterable horror s w hi ch such a war presupposes, is a worse nuisance to so ciety than a thousand hetairee. Wheu the French Jacobins dressed out a faded sisterof the demi-monde in the masquerade of the Goddess of Liberty, and led her in triumph through the streets of Paris, hey unintentionally marked the point of the lowest decadence of public morality in their miserable era. Miss Dickinson's aearance on the platform marks pp %simil ar era in the declinc of American liberty. POPULATION OF QUEENSLAND.—In the colony of Queensland, to which many of our emigrants are now proceeding, the increase of population in the year 1862 by immigration from Europe amounted to B,oBo—namely, 4,703 males and 3,377 females; and the increase by immi• gration from other colonies was 1,725 —namely, 1,285 males and 440 females. As might be expected in so young a colony, the population contains three males for every two females ; but it is remarkable that in the course of the year 1862, though the male births were 110.5 to every 100 girls born, the excess of births over deaths gave but 387 males and as many as 518 females The total increase by immi gration in the year was 9,805; and the population on the 31st of December, 1862, was estimated at 45,077, of whom 27,186 were males and 17,891 females. A large proportion of the intercolonial immigration is of men who come to take up new country, and do not bring their families in the first instance, or of single men who come to do pioneers' service until their improved fortunes or their mo re settled habits allow them to think of marriage. But in this small com munity there were 570 marriages in the year, so that one person in every 40 married in the twelvemonths, CALIFORNIA, - - A letter from San Francisco, dated March 23, says :—On the 16th inst. I wrote to you by overland mail that a vessel had been seized on the suspicion that she hsd been fitted out for piratical or other un lawful purposes. The investigation is being carried on by the military authorities in Fort Alcatraz, the public and the representatives of the press being ex cluded. The real character of the vessel and the ob jects of her owners have not yet been demonstrated. The press has come to the conclusion, without wait ing for the proof, that she is either a pirate, a pri vateer, or a Confederate cruiser. Some of the cir cumstances circulated as connected with her are suspicious, and give colour to the accusations. Many believe that she herself, her armament, and munitions were all intended for the Mexican mar ket ; but such of the evidence as has been made pub lic latters, oaths, and papers—is contradictory. It appears, however, that for some time back consi derable quantities of munitions of war have been shipped from San Francisco to the coast of Mexico against the repeated remonstrances of the Consul of France, as I mentioned lately. Whatever the intended destination of the J. M. Chapman was, the object was a bad one ; and it is on all accounts fortunate that the object has been defeated by her seizure. Such of her cargo as was legitimate—quicksilver, &c., shipped for Mexico—has been given up to the owners, who were innocent of any illegal intention. This matter of the seizure has created a strong desire for farther means of defence and offence, and a call for an increase of the land fortifications and for improvising ironclads, &c., on the part of a por tion of the city municipality, in whose coffers there is at present a large surplus of money. But another and more reasonable, and certainly a more honest, portion of this body, as well as a portion of the pub lic and of the press, oppose the " ironclada" scheme, and assert that the patriotism of its promoters is sharpened by the prospect of being able to sell yes sa s of their own, old and rotten hulks, for conver sion into men-of-war. Any way, as there is a man of-war in port; as the national gunboat Saginaw, heavily armed, is now here ready for service; as a revenue cutter is about to arrive from Washington Territory, where she is watching the smugglers of goods from Victoria; and as a merchant steamer is offered to the Government in the emergency, I don't think a hosti . e vessel can leave the port; and most persons are satisfied we run no danger from pirates, privateers, or Jeff. Davis's cruisers, unless they come round the Horn and capture the steamers en route to Panama ; and of any such movement there would be sufficient notice to warn the men-of-war in the Pacific to protect the steamers by convoy. The Pacific Mail Company's steamer Constitution left this morning for Panama. She carries three companies of volunteers, numbering 283 men and nine efficers, who enlisted in California for service in the Massachusetts Contingent as cavalry. The whole force required, and which is being recruited in this country for the State of Massachusetts, is 500. Another company will soon leave for the East, and it is expected the lull complement of 500 will be ob tained, which, with 200 men formerly sent, will make 700 soldiers contributed by California to Massa chusetts. The bounty is double that of the Govern. ment, and has, of course, had the effect of attract ing men ; but the movement is not popular, and has induced the remark that the "solid men of Boston" prefer paying to fighting. The amount of treasure shipped by to-day's steamer was—to England, 878,524 dols. 24c. ;to New York, 214,852 do's. 97c. ; and to Panama, 18,200 dols.— together, £1,111,647 dole. 21c., which makes the total export of treasure from this port since Jan. 1 12,436,339 dols. 48c., being an excess of half a mil lion over the shipments of the corresponding period of 1862. Exchange : London, 60 days' bankers' bills, 48d. ; private bills, 49d. Paris, 60 days', sf. Gold bars, 830 fine, at par, are 1 per cent. cheaper than at date of last mail's departure, in consequence of the abundance of the supply. We have news from Victoria to the 17th inst. by the steamer which arrived on Saturday night. I shall encroach on your space and patience only to give a few extracts of interest. A merchant writing from Victoria to myself remarks thut—"Business is dull but will improve soon. Real estate still rules high, notwithstanding money is scarce. The re ports brought by miners recently from Cariboo are most encouraging. They expect that from seven to ten million dols. will be taken out this year. Had they a mint, so as to keep a due proportion of this yield in Victoria, instead of letting it pass through to San Francisco to swell your exports, it would help us along wonderfully, and we could better afford to pay for improving our young city. A gold escort is about to be established, the merchants here guaranteeing the Government from loss in working it to the extent of 20,000 dols." Next to the con struction of roads and bridges and the establish ment of ferries this gold escort is the most useful measure ever adopted. I have been in communication with Governor Douglas on the subject of the silver discoveries, of which I wrote fully in a late letter to you, with the object of obtaining further information. The Go vernor informs me that the statement in that letter "is essentially correct," and adds, " The silver lodes of Cariboo, from what I have heard, are second in importance only to its auriferous deposits. Roads only are wanted for their rapid development, and I am straining every possible resource of Government to supply that want." This is encouraging; but I feel it my duty to warn English capitalists from hasty action until the lodes are more fully developed, their extent and quality better ascertained, and the roads completed. The only prudent action for the present is exploration by competent persons. On the subject of roads, to which the Governor has devoted much of his time and attention, with what success will appear from the following excerpt from his letter, he writes :—" The carriage road is now within 30 miles of Alexandria, some 300 miles from the coast, and will be finished up to that place by the middle of June next. Thomas Fraser River is navigable to the Rocky Mountain, on which por tion of the river, I may remark, a steamer will be plying this suiimer, carrying passengers and goods on the way to Cariboo, taking both to within s moderate distance of the mines." The Governor is sanguine that his roads, which have given him so much trouble, will, "in a few years, open a commerce down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in•o the valley of the Saskatchewan and Red River, and finally into the British pro vinces on the Atlantic." He corroborates all other accounts as to the good fortune that has attended the miners last winter :—" The miners who re mained at Cariboo have been at work all winter, with marked success; Barker and Co. having made out of their claim the sum of 126,000 dols. since the the beginning of last October. The gutter' or gold lead has also been traced several miles further down William's Creek than it was before known to exist. All this is encouraging, and inspires the public with confidence in the country." The amount of tonnage which entered the port of Victoria in February was 8,427 tons, of which 2,246 tons were British. Number of vessels, 44; cleared, 11,134 tons, of which 2,932 tons were British. Number of vessels, 54. As showing the growth of the town, I cut out the following paragraph from the Colonist of the 9 h of March :—" Improvements in Progress.—Every where around the city houses are starting up as if by magic, and generally they are of a substantial and tasteful appearance. On the upper part of Fort-street several new houses have been finished, and others are in progress. At the head of John- son and Yates etreets several new houses were lately put up, and lots in that quarter are scarcely to be had. If the improvements by the corporation would only keep pace with private enterprise, in a short time Victoria would be a second San Fran- eisco. The city authorities should stir up the con tractors for the streets now that fine weather has set in." The French corvette Cornelie, 24 guns, Comman der L'Eveque, has been in San Francisco Harbour since the 12th, refreshing. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing llorniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 38. 4d. and 4a. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 7. 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE,—May 6. - VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. (Before Vico-Chancellor Sir W. P. `Wood.) GURNEY V. GURNEY. The arguments in this case, which had been adjourned at the conclusion of the plaintiffs' case, were this morning re. sumed. The object of this suit, as has been already stated, is to carry out the trusts of a settlement of £2,000 made by Mr. J. H. Gurney in January, 1862 (after his divorce), for the benefit of the children of the marriage, and to obtain a declaration that the two infant plaintiffs (born before Mrs. Gurney's elcpement), as the only children of the marriage, are absolutely entitled to the property comprised is the set tlement. The case made by the bill is as follows :—The plaintiff, Mr. Gurney, of Catton-hall, Norfolk, was married in 1846 to his cousin, Miss Mary Jary Gurney, Previously to 1859 when cohabitation ceased, there were two children of the marriage, the infant co-plaintiffs. On the 13th of Decem ber, 1859, Mrs. Gurney eloped from her husband's hens', in Kensington Palace-gardens, with one Taylor, a groom in Ms. Gurney's service. On the 23d of December she left England, accompanied by Taylor, for France, where they remained until the 18th of September, 1860. Mr. Gurney immediately after the elopement commenced proceedings in the Divorce Court, and on the 13th of February, 1861, obtained a divorce nisi for the dissolution of his marriage, the final decree dissolving the marriage absolutely being dated on the 22d May, 1861. On the 4th of May, 1861, Mrs. Gurney, who had continued ever since her elopement to live with Taylor, was confined of a full-grown male child, the defendant in the present suit. Under these circumstances the bill was filed against the trustees of the settlement and the infant born in May 1861, for the purpose of carrying into execution the settlement made by Mr. Gurney in Jan., 1862, for the benefit of all and every child then living of the marriage of the said J. H. Gurney and Miry Jane Gurney; and in order to exclude the child born to Mrs. Gurney in May, 1861, a declaration was prayed that the two infant co• plain tiffs, as the only children of the marriage, were absolutely entitled to the trust funds comprised in the settlement. Evidence was given at great length for the purpose of rebutting the ordinary presumption of legitimacy, and of showing, from the absence of all access after Decem ber, 1859, that Mr. Gurney could not have been the father of the child born in May, 18,;1. From the nature of the defence raised, it is not necessary to advert to the evidence further than to state that the only time during all this period when Mr. and Mrs. Gurney were in the same county was towards the end of September, 1860. It appears that on the 18th of September in that year Mrs. Gurney came to England alone and endeavoured to see her husband, who was at that time staying with Mr. de Bunsen, at Abbey-lodge, Regent's-park. On the 22d of September, early in the morning, she went with Catharine Gh insworthy, with whom she was then lodging, in a cab to Abbey-lodge, and sent Mrs. Gainsworthy into the house while she remained in the cab. Mrs Gainsworthy contrived to see Mr. Gurney, and the interview was thus described by Mr. Bunsen— " In passing along the hall, so as to have a full view of the front door, I saw Mr. Gurney and a female standing in the lower part of the hall. That woman was not Mrs. Gurney. The woman was in what I must call an imploring attitude—her hands folded, and she was impressively look ing into Mr. Gurney's face. Her tone of voice denoted much emotion. I heard her while in this imploring atti tude utter three or four words. I heard her say, Do take her back,' or Take her back.' Mr. Gurney made no answer. I recollect his attitude, witb both hands uplifted. He moved them towards the woman. I immediately left, It was an instant. I heard and saw nothing more." The cab drove back with Mrs. Gurney, who had remained in it all the time, and Mr. Gurney left London that after noon. Mrs. Gurney was shortly afterwards joined by Tay lor, and they had continued to live together ever sit ce. The Solicitor-General, Sir Hugh Cairns, Mr. Aspland common law bar), and kr. Hutton, for the plaintiffs, con tended that the evidence conclusively negatived the ordi nary presumption of legitimacy arising in favour of children born during wedlock, - Access of any kind for the whole period after Mrs. Gurney's elopement was shown not only to have been improbable, but even impossible. The only time when there could possibly have been a meeting was in September, 1860, when she left her paramour and returned alone to England, but the evidence proved distinctly that Mr. Gurney had absolutely refused even to see her. The circumstances as to the birth of the child, its recognition by Taylor, the period of gestation, &c., were all conclusive against its being the offspring of Mr. Gurney, or entitled to the benefit of the settlement to which this suit sought to give effect. Mr. Walford appeared for the trustees of the settlement, but took ro part in the argument. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, for the infant defendant, denounced the proceedings as a mere contrivance for the purpose of ob taining a judicial declaration which would in effect bastardize the infant defendant. There was no precedent for such a suit, and the Court ought at once to discountenance any attempt to obtain its decision upon a merely fictitious proceeding. Looking at the amount of Mr. Gurney's fortune, and the trifling amount of the sum settled, there could be no doubt—in_ fact, it was not disputed—that the settlement was a mere device for the purpose of raising this question, which was of most vital interest to this poor helpless child. If this suit were to succeed a most dangerous precedent would be established, and it would go forth to the world that any stranger, however malignant his motive, however overwhelming the misery thereby occa sioned, would have nothing to do but to create a trust deed, invest some hundred pounds in the funds, and then be able to raise such a question. What an advantage would be afforded to the rich over the poor if such a contrivance were allowed to succeed 1 The question might be raised upon most honourable, virtuous, and praiseworthy motives, but it was equally true that a man with money at his command might by this means be enabled to gratify his determination to wound and lacerate the feeling of a whole family, and bastardise a, poor infant possibly destitute of the slightest protection. Such a suit, whatever might have been the conduct of the mother, ought to be at once discountenanced. The propositions that had been stated by the Solicitor- General as to the possibility of rebutting by evidence the ordinary presumption in favour of legitimacy could not be disputed, but, at the same time, if there had been any possi bility of access, the case against legitimacy must be over whelming and irresistible. There must be that which amounted to an absolute physical impossibility, that the husband could be the father of the child. No doubt the evidence against legitimacy in thiscase was strong, but not, it was admitted, conclusive. Access in September was not only possible, but easy; and looking at the facilities for travelling now existing, the old doctrine that the party must be intra quatuor maria to afford a possibility of access was considerably modified. Could the Court say that the case was free from doubt ? If not, then this child ought not to be bastardised. But he would rest his defence mainly upon the objection that he had already urged to the frame of the snit, and the dangerous precedent that would be established if the social status of this child were allowed t > be thus affected for life by the contrivance to which Mr. Gurney had resorted. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. G. N. Colt followed on the same side, and offered on behalf of the guardians of the infant defendant to bring into court a sum equal to that comprised in the settlement, and that the trustees should be at liberty to apply the whole of the settled fund for the benefit of the infant plaintiffs. _ _ The Solicitor-General, in reply, said that upon the recDrd and upon the evidence the suit was equally just and benefi cial to the infant plaintiffs. A settlement had been made, the money had been invested, and there was not a single fictitious element in the transaction to which the infant plaintiffs by their father as next friend sought to give effect. In cases as to the custody and guardianship of infants no- thing was more common than to settle some small sum for the purpose of giving the Court jurisdiction to deal with these questions. (The cases of Shelley's children, Mr. Adrian Hope's children, and that of Alicia Race were re. (erred to.) Here the object of the contrivance, if contri- vance it was, was righteous, honest, and just. It was for the benefit of these children—aye, even for the benefit of the infant defendant himself, that his status should be now determined, rather than at a later period, when associations had been formed, and the stain of illegitimacy would be more keenly felt. The plaintiffs were therefore entitled to have the question now determined once for all, and as the attempt to show that the defendant was illegitimate had been abandoned the declaration asked by the bill must follow as a matter of course. His Honour, in the course of the argu • ment, observed that although the Legislature had rec-mtly given jurisdiction for obtaining a declaration of legitimacy, no similar jurisdiction as to illegitimacy had been afforded. Mr. Rolt was also in the case, on behalf of the infant de fendant, but is still confined to his house by illness. The Vice-Chancellor said that he had been from the first struck with the novelty of the manner in which the question at issue in this cause had been raised, and the ob- jections were undoubtedly entitled to great weight and con sideration, Looking at the large and vital nature of the iutereets involved, and the great anxiety that must natu rally exist in questions like the present to obtain the di rection of the Court, it was eingular that this simple course had never before been adopted. As to comparative justice or injustice, emparative advantage or disadvantage, it was very difficult to discover any consideration upon which it could be for the interest of this child that this question as to his legitimacy or illegitimacy should be determined after he had attained riper years rather than now in his infancy, when he had acquired no status whatever, There could be . _ no doubt that it was of the greatest possible importance for this child's welfare that his social position should be deter- mined at the earliest Fossible period. The cases at common law cited by Sir F. Kelly did not appear to raise any real difficulty. The Courts had said that they would not allow their proceedings to be trifled with by having questions submitted to them in a fictitious form. This Court, he feared, had very often been mado an instrument of by means of proceedings which were in reality instituted for the mere purpose of advertising particular articles, and it might be well that some test should be adopted for the purpose of as certaining the bona fide nature of the proceedings in cases of that description. In this case, however, grave and serious interests were beyond question at stake. It was said, in deed, that those grave and serious interests were not those . . . which were properly raised by the bill. But courts of com mon law had never proceeded so far as to say that they would not determine a point legitimately brought before them because that determination might involve in its con sequences large and grave interests far exceeding the matter originally placed in issue. As to the jurisdiction of this Court, the cases cited by the Solicitor •General as to the cus tody and guardianship are entirely applicable. This Court had acted and continually acted in cases where the matter upon which it had acquired jurisdiction was for the very purpose of raising these larger and more important quest ions. Cases as to the guardianship and custody of children in volving quite as important interests as in this case were of frequent occurrence, in which some provision had been made for the purpose of giving the Court jurisdiction. In many instances this bad notoriously been done for the express purpose of taking the child from its father's custody, or of educating it in a faith different from that of its surviving parent ; and with what success he need only refer to the case of Shelley's children, before Lord Eldon, and to that of Alicia Race, before Vice-Chancellor Kin.dersley, within the last few years. On the settlement now before him, how could he escape from determining who were the objects of the trust by the circumstance that be might happen to know the oosition and fortune of the father, and that he had made the settlement for the express purpose of raising the question of who were or were not his children? It was said that the peace of families ought not to be disturbed by allowing a stranger to come forward and make such a provision in order to raise a question of this kind. Courts of common law had no doubt refused to countenance wagers, as interfer ing with the peace of families. (H is honour referred to the case of the notorious Chevalier D'Eon and the wager as to his or her sex), and there were instances in which this court had struck out provisions from settlements when inserted for an obNiously improper purpose. The answer to all these objections was, that the Court dealt with such cases as it found them. The case before the Court was that of a father who had good reason to dispute the legitimacy of this child. He had other children, and considered it for their happiness, and even for the happiness of that infant, if it were his child, that the status of the family should be at once ascertained. A more proper object could hardly be suggested. The settlement was made, and the infant plain tiffs, by their father as their next friend, sought to have its trusts carried into execution. No one could dispute that it was for their benefit that their interests in the trust fund should be ascertained and determined. The mode of meet ing the case which had been suggested at the bar, viz., by lodging in the hands of the trustees a sam of money equal in amount to that settled by Mr. Gurney, could not for a moment be listened to. Besides protracting for this infant the period at whit h his status would be ascertained, it would be altogether stultifying the proceedings of the court to alluw the suit to be thus bought off. Some argument had been founded on the circumstance that the Legislature had recently sanctioned proceedings for the purpose of ob taining a declaration of legitimacy, but had not given a cor responding power for the purpose of obtaining eideclaration of illegitimacy. The Legislature might have thought that the peace of families would be disturbed by allowing pro ceedings for that purpose to be instituted by any stranger; but it must have been aware that in various collateral pro ceedings these questions constantly had to be determined. He could not, therefore, draw any inference from that cir cumstance either one way or other. Having had full op portunity of considering the cese since it was first opened, he saw nothing to lead him to say that he ought not to entertain the bill. As to the facts, the case was in effect un defended. Every step, no doubt, had been taken that was possible, and this infant had not suffered from any lack of means for having its interests protected and asserted. It gave him the greater satisfaction in determining the case that all that was possible had been done for the purpose of proving the child's legitimacy. It was hardly necessary to dwell for a moment upon the evidence. The case was very much stronger than that of " Morris v. Davies," 5 Cl. and Finn (in the House of Lords), for it was proved, so far as negative evidence could establish the fact, that never for a single moment were Mr. and Mrs. Gurney even within sight of each other from the first moment of the elopement down to the birth of this child. The time of Mr. Gurney had been so accounted for that there was not even a pre sumption upon which to go to a jury that he ever left this country for France during all that time ; and so with Mrs. Gurney in the same way. It was quite true that in Sep tember, 136(1, she seemed to have some wish for a reconci• liation, and that she came over to England alone, and made an attempt at an interview with her husband (whose ad dress she clearly did not then know). But it was clear upon the evidence that the attempt utterly failed. Even if the husband had not been active from first in taking proceedings in the Divorce Court to separate himself from this woman, there was every possible reason for presuming, under the circumstances, that an interview between them was impossible. Every circumstance in this case was much stronger agsinst the legitimacy of this child than in " Morris v. Davies," and the only conclusion that he could come to was, that it was the offspring of the un lawful union between Mrs. Gurney and her paramour. There must accordingly be a declaration that the trusts of the settlement of January, 1862, ought to be carried out, and that the infant plaintiffs, as the only children of the marriage, were absolutely entitled as tenants in common to the whole of the trust funds comprised iu the settlement. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES,—Now that Mr. Gladstone has retired from his crusade against the charities, we hope he will reconsider his declaration of war against the clubs, which in the natural course of things should come under discussion to-night. It he insist upon it, he may perhaps succeed. There are, however, many things which a man in a certain position may do, but which most men prefer not to do. Mr. Glad stone's achievement of assimil a ti ng c lubs and public ▪ - houses is eminently one of these. He can do it, per haps, bat only because he is Chancellor of the Exchequer. There are m an y o th er minor follies which he might also safely permit himself for the same reason. People will n o t re f u se the Supplies, or damage a Government upon the vital point of their finance, for so small a matter as this. Mr. Gladstone is safe in the company of his friends, and he will get a certai n amoun t o f a pplause in a certai▪ n quarter. People who have not much chance of ever getting into a club enjoy the fun in the good humoured way in which an English crowd enjoys a good joke played off upon their betters. Its very absurdity makes the joke pungent. Its curiousin justice makes it facetious; for there is a point at which a minor act of injustice does become facetious in proportion to the palpable nature of the injustice. The people know that the clubs are stately, orderly places, where folk are very careful whom they asso ciate with, and where bishops and judges may any day be seen silently exercising their moral police influence over the respectability of the institution. There is a mysterious magnificence about these palaces which the people do not envy, for there is too much constraint about them to suit their tastes. But that a Chancellor of the Exchequer should fix upon these places a " license," which license is the badge and tribute of a monopoly supposed to be necessary to keep liquor shops from becoming dis orderly houses, is such a slap in the face, and such an unprovoked slap in the face, that the clubless cannot choose but laugh. They laugh for the same reason that they laugh at the clown in the pantomime when he turns round and rubs his hot poker against the wrong man. The public, however, does not laugh. If by any reasonable tax upon clubs Mr. Gladstone could have given relief to other taxpayers ; if he could have taken a penny a pound off tea or off sugar, or if he could have abated a fraction from the Income tax, we might have seen in the importance of the object a reason for disregarding the means. We might still have regretted that Mr. Gladstone had not the art of doing a necessarily disagreeable thing in an agreeable manner, and might, perhaps, have pointed out that a poll-tax upon gentlemen would be, at any rate, a less insulting tax than to assimi late their clubs with gin palaces, and make them take out licences. But if the Exchequer were to get a good round sum out of the transaction we should have said, " He does not mean it as an insult —he wants the money." But, as it is, he will get no money that will pay for collecting. It would not pay a half year's salary to P retired Lord Chancel lor. It would not retrieve the smallest blunder in calculating when to buy or sell Exchequer-bills. It is too small even for Mr. Gladstone to estimate it singly. It is but a speck of dust in the balance of his yearly Budget —a little bit of dust, moreover, which is but an imperti nence i n a scale already so heavy with a surplus of near a million. It cannot, therefore, be for the sake of the money that the Chancellor of the Excht (per has chosen to exhibit club palaces and gin palaces before the country as having a common character and necessitating a simi lar license. Neither can it be a matter of principle. However false the notion that wherever wine or beer is served out, there the Excise has a right to exact the price of a monopoly--which is licence money—yet we could understand such an idea if it were consistently carried out. That to " servo out" beer requires a licence is a proposition that might be almost dignified into a principle. Mr. Glad stone might, under the protection of such a prin ciple, expatiate upon the injustice of taking licence money from publichouses for " serving out" beer, and omitting to take it from clubs. But he by no means adheres to his " principle." It is only a club held in a house of £lOO a year which is in the same category as a publichouse ; a club in a house of £9O a year is in a different category, and is exempt from the necessity of a licence. By his very exception Mr. Gladstone deprives himself of all pretence for saying that this tax is defensible upon the ground on which he put it the other night. If to " serv e out " b eer and wine and spirits . so perilous a thin g th at the law has a right to preside over every such t ransact i on, and to surround it with police regulation s an d restr i ct i t b y l i cences , then public-hou ses an d Clubs are undoubtedly within the purview of the necessity, and the lower the rent the more reasonable the fear of disorder. But under this " principle," so also are boarding houses and private dinner parties, and even large families, servers out of beer, and therefore liable. In all these cases the obnoxious liquids are " served out." If to sell for profit ha the distinc tion, as every reasonable man must see it ought to be, then the gin palace stands alone, and the Club and `the private dinner party and the family go free. There is no "principle" upon which Mr. Gladstone can put this tax which will not go very much further than he is now prepared to go, or than the English public will ever permit a Chan cellor of the Exchequer to go. The principle of English taxation, so far as we understand it, is to get as much money as possible at the smallest pos sible interference with individual liberty of action. The only principle discernible in this new crotchet is to impose an indefensible restriction upon indi vidual action without any advantage to the revenue. To grant a licence is, as Lord Russell and Mr. Adams now know, to assume a power to refuse a licence. If you can insist upon a club taking out a licence to serve out wine to its members, of course you can refuse the licence, and thus at the will of a Government department shut every club which rents a house above £lOO a year. The whole thing is so utterly unarguable that we might suppose that it was produced like the tail of Alcibiade's dog, and intended to be cut off to distract attention from weightier matters. Well, cut it off, Mr_ Gladstone, and have done with it. It is not a creditable thing to do, and it is not a profitable thing to do. POST.—When the news reached Poland that the three Powers had determined to address their re spective notes to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg the more shrewd amongst the Poles found little diffi culty in guessing at their probable tenor, or at the nature of the replies which 'hey would evoke. Few were deluded with the idea of supposing that this description of diplomatic intervention would in any way advance the national cause, or practically affect the question at issue between the nation to which they belonged and the Russian Government. That question is one of life or death to Russia or to Po land—it is a duel a m 0 .4 ; and it is past the power of the moat skilful or well-disposed friends to pro yoke explanations or apologies which will he ac cepted on either side. Prince Gortschakoff, in his reply to Lord Russell, argues the point of regrant ing the constitution of the Emperor. Alexander upon its legal grounds. Ho maintains that he Poles have forfeited their right to that constitution by the Revolution of 1830. This is the old story, which does very well for foreign Powers, but it is not the real reason. The Russian Government would be thankful to pacify Poland by that constitution if the concession would ensure its loyalty ; but Poland does not look to a constitution as an ultimatum. Nothing but absolute separation and independence —the status quo ante 1772—wi1l satisfy her. Every concession granted by Russia will be eagerly seized, but only to be converted into a weapon against that Power. The constitution accorded by the Emperor Alexander led to the Revolution of 1830, and the same constitution granted again would simply be to purchase tranquillity for the moment at the price of a still more formidable revolution a few years later. It might easily be shown that from those reforms, which the present Emperor prides himself upon having introduced, the insurrection derives in a large degree its force—while during the reign of Nicholas the policy of terrorism kept it quiet. There is no alternative for Russia between a recurrence to that policy or the dismemberment of the empire. It is a painful but undeniable fact that those national institutions, for the most part elective, with which. the country has been endowed," al luded to by Prince Gortschakoff, have been of the greatest possible assistance to the Central Com mittee at Warsaw, by enabling it to thwart the civil and military action of the Government; while that " social transformation which has been undertaken and accomplished in a few years, and that system of gradual development which has been applied to all branches of the public service and to the exist ing institutions," has really ha i the effect of render ing still more impossible the task of governing a nation in whom the sentiment of independence is paramount, and who, in proportion as their moral, material, and intellectual resources are developed, become more and more able to give it expression. It is only natural that such should be the case, but it also explains the unsatisfactory nature of Prince Gortschakoff's reply. The position is one which it would have been impossible for a Russian states man to expl a i n t o E ng l an d, an d h e th ere f ore pre fers arg u i ng the point on legal grounds; but it is as well that the Powers should clearly appre hend the nat ure an d extent o f the difficulties by yvhich the Russian Government is surrounded, in order that they may be able to measure accurately the value of their interference. Any compromise short of Polish national independence may produce a temporary lull, but that European peace of which th e E mperor Napoleon speaks with such tenderness will not be ensured to Europe so long as a spark of Russian authority remains in the powder-magazine called Poland. Inasmuch as by the treaties of 1815 Poland is guaranteed by this country, as one of the contracting Powers, to Russia, we have no difficulty in perceiving why Prince Gortschakoff accepts with such readiness those treaties as a basis. He possibly foresees the day as not far distant when he in his turn may wish to appeal to the Powers to adhere to the engage ments which they entered into upon that occasion. Meantime, in his note to the French Emperor, he contents himself with a few significant allusions to what he terms " the party of disorder" in Europe. There can be no doubt of the existence of this party, or that to their efforts is due the spread of ``the cosmopolite elements of revolution" through out the Continent. That they have done their best ' to produce agitation in Poland is also extremely probable, and that, owing to the Russian system of government, they found there a soil well adapted to receive the seeds of revolution, is not to be wondered at; but, to suppose that the insurrection would have assumed its present proportions without the exist ence of a strong national sentiment to give it vitality, is simply ridiculous. The whole of the Polish aris tocracy is deeply compromised in the movement ; it extends from the most wealthy and powerful members of the oldest noble families to the humblest stable-boy, and though the train may have been lighted by some enterprising members of the party of action, the fire bas spread far beyond their con trol. It is a blaze of patriotic ardour, not of demo cratic principle; and when Prince Gortschakoff endeavours to persuade Europe that the Polish national movement derives its inspiration from the European party of disorder, in the hope of frighten ing timid autocrats abroad, his misrepresentations will certainly not have the effect of alienating the sympathies of the British public from those whose only aspiration is national independence. Fortu nately in this country the machinations of the " cosmopolite revolutionary party" do not in the slightest degree alarm us; but we can make allow ances for the tone of irritation which occasionally peeps through the Russian note. It must be acknow ledged that the treaties of 1815, though an inexor able political necessity at the time, have embarrassed a good many people during the last 50 years. They imposed upon Russia an impossible task. When they placed within her frontier a nation with great historical traditions and an invincible determination never to remain there, they perpetuated an act of injustice which had already been committed against that nation, and they at this moment bind us by obligations which are diametrically opposed to our sympathies. " Why," insinuates Prince God ' schaktlf, "if you are so exceedingly tenacious in the matter of the treaties of 1815, do you openly express sympathy with a nation whose whole aim and object in the present struggle is to destroy them ? We are not to blame ;we have tried eves y thing. The constitution which the Emperor Alexander gave led to a revolution ; the iron rule of Nicholas was eminently conducive to peace; the reforms of the present Alexander, taken advantage of by the party of disorder, have produced the present insurrection." Such is in fact t he condensed reply of the Russian statesman, who naturally found some difficulty in conveying the last idea, and therefore wrapped it i n so much obscurity that we have come to his assistance and cleared it of all ambiguity for the benefit of our readers. They will perceive that the rejoinder affords scope for that exereise of ingenuity and logic which we shall doubtless find exhibited in the next blue book on the affairs of Poland. HERALD.—Now, if ever, is the moment for a per manent and peaceable solution of the Polish ques tion. The Russian Government responds with courtesy to the appeals of the Western Powers, and declares its determination to develop in Poland an administrative autonomy, on the basis of provincial and municipal institutions like those of England. Practically, although not in terms, it renews the engagements it had long repudiated, and recognises the right of England to see to their fulfilment. That is to say, it allows everything which a regard for the inte res t s o f t h e P o l es an d the dignity of its own country will allow the English Government to ask, There is no English statesman who can believe that the immediate attainment of complete independence by Poland w ou ld b e d es i ra bl e i n th e interests of Europe or of Poland itself. There is no one who believes the attainment possible, and therefore there is no one who would commit England to the Quixo tic task of demanding it. Whist the Czar now ex presses his readiness to give Poland—an adm'nis _ _ irative autonomy—would undoubtedly, if how stly carried out, pktce the Poles in a better position than at any time during the last four hundred years of their existence. A distinct administration and na tional institutions would satisfy every real want of the people. Such an autonomy would allow the fullest liberty of religion and instruction, full personal free dom, and every opportunity for the solution of tt,ose great sccial questions which, if Poland is to remain a nation, must be taken in hand for settlement at once. Her aspirations after an independent existence would indeed remain unsatisfied; the dream of a reconstitution of old Poland would continue, dream ; but these s e ntime n tal longings, of Wh iel moreover, there is no chance of obtaining the gr° fication, might well be laid aside in the eo.r 3 ment of the solid material advantages which i guaranteed autonomy wo u ld g ive her. R uss herself is destined in all probability to underg some considerable political revolutions which Iva change the form of her government and alter . tlo relations of the different pzovinces of the emp ire f i i and the Poles, in possession of all the real b elie of liberty, could afford to wait for i op portunitie s peaceably and surely eff ec ti ng th e ir independ enc i end if those opportunities s h ou ld never come sv °u o still have little to regret. That is the qu eet , which they have now to consider; and it is °I upon the decision of which the future of the nano and perhaps the p eace o f E uro p e depends. if the will accept the offers which Russia makes to E land, acting on their behalf, the insurrection f° r be its sacrifices will n o t h ave b een i n vain. If t . refuse these offers they may plunge Europe Tb war, but they cannot effect their own purpose' ko , Poles will no doubt say—their partisans in E n g:i; e i and France have already said it f or them—tha t %i f ; can place no confidence in th e p rom ises of „ This is a statement which, although constA°;', made, has very littl e warran t. R us sia has , ho) doubt, governed Poland very cruelly, but all e , rl3 , not in that m a tt er b een guilty of much deceit. 14 promises which Alexander made were, indee d, yoked ; but the Poles gave no small ust ifi o atiee " that revocation in their attempt to use what to freely given by the Cz ar t o extort something w",,, - ng he could not giv e th em . H owever , l et t h e Res" be as bad as they a re d escr ib e d—th e grea t vordO e i j with the Radicals is Asiatic—the Poles leg yID with very great confidence accept their offers. the first place, the Russian Government will ° t o g every care not to run th e r i s k o f suc h a rebelli again. Whatever the security it may feel of lino mate success, it cannot aff or d, a t a time that it t , busied in introducing liberty i n R uss ia and ill ° la ing great social and e conom i c c h anges , either 0 0 incur the odium of Eur o p e or t o ma k e the enortoclof exertion and sacrifices which the suppress loll o an insurrection clearly justified by its , e b• duplicity would impose. P r i nce G or t s chakell " t o serves, with justice, that Russia m us t h a ve the lively desire to restore durable peace to Poland. t o Poles, put in possession of liberal institutions, v; ° use them for their own defenc e . But apart 9P-, ,„ at gether from this natural desire to avoid troohl e t , l3 o o home, it is the pressing interest of R u ssia to another insurrection. By accepting the w - g ia offered them through En g l an d th e Poles 1 ",., 0 0 pledge Russia to England, a n d E ng l a nd is e n " way to themselves. The Russian G over nment Vv. not venture to act with ill faith t owar d s Polan d ' e• cause at the same time it would v i o l a t e its erf t liti ment with England, and an e n gagem ent 0 1 „ o f kind would b e muc h more s h arp l y l oo k e d N7O , than it wa s 30 years ago, w h en t h e d rea d of ':itria sian pow er overs h a d owed E urope. Then A ll ' ho - th and Prussia were both despotic States ; n°° eat are constituainal ; and if i n P russ i a f or the 100-4er the constitution is apparently disregarded the P%pfl of the people is not th e l ess f elt. Austri e ', - of Prussia will oppose a l'outrance any atteroP h . "oo Poland to acquire independence, but they ;oft every interest in the peace and content of Eltdge Poland ; and if th e C zar s h ou ld b rea k any Plaid now made to the P o l es th e y wou ld j o i n Ens and France to enforce them. COUNTRY MARKETS. . .k., LYNN—TUESDAY. dalog A fair attend a n ce a t mar k e t t o -d ay, w ith a mid t ,, show of wheat, in excellent condition. The demo „, d tel steady, and sale s were ma d e at l ate rates. B ar ley' Oats fully maintained their value. Beans sold read" extreme quotations. to?, White ..47s to 51 s f B ar l e y. . ono ;‘• RQd , J 37.. .30s • • 44s to 47s Grinding • 20 0° ,0 Beans to —s I Oats.. New 368 to 42s I Peas HULL—TUESDAY. The wheat trade during the week has been steauPole", day there was a small su pply o f E ngl i sh wheat, rs atil was taken off at last week' s currency. Foreign WI ae neglected, but not quotably lower. Spring corn o f scriptions met with more demand Wheat - Old white, -48 s Od tOu!Z ~...per qr Js - 478 v o j Old red 7) New white .. New red '•• • ,) ~ 4 44 4 85 s : O g d ds d t t 4 to ° 3 4b i s : Barley.... English malting 32s Od to oos "..1 t° Grinding 26s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 2Bs Od to i i gl OA Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per at 2 2 r 0 : 800 Friesland and Dutch A tO ni Swedish and Danish 061211„ 463 Beans ....English, old, per qr 4ss 0 44S 1 4 1 ~„ New pigeon 42 s O d to New tick. 4 os Od to l A A! 04 Egyptian Peas .. Foreign boilers . Grinding Tares .... Spring . Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing • Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign t Rape cakes Bones 1 9 68 11 5 55 —4-53306230 0 ;5: t tt : °:00: ddddc 11:1°: 1 663 'r. - 4"; s 1 1 : °°::: Oa A og° 6 5 oto " NEWARK.—WEDNESDAY. . 2 9 3 t 02 9 00 White wheat new, 45 s to 53 s Barley, grinding' . 1s NO Red do. 4 ss t o 47 s O a t s, o ld, .. ...... os toyo Old white —s t o —s New do .......... 43s W Red do. —s to —s I 8ean5........... • ,i s to Barley, malting 37s to 42 s 1 Beans, new.....' (" Peas, ....40a to 445. COAL . Prfoes of Coal per To n at MARKET the olose of the Wi ll- et, O. ti e s. d. . 15 den M a i n .......... 0 Byt.ss' s Bebside West Davison's West S ib ley ................ Hartley ...15 0 Wylam 15 0 Carway and Duffryn 0 Malting . 19 6 Walls End. .14 g Hastings Hartley l5 0, 1 Wharneliffe ......... 11 0 Tanfield Moor Bute s 12 6 H etton . ........... .. 1u 0 Lambert's West Hart- i Braddyll'a Hetton• •'' . 1/ 0 ley 14 9 , South Hetton ........ .0 North Pelton Gas 13 0 , R usse l' s H et t o n •• • ' ..0 West Hartley 15 0 , Gosforth ........... Foreign Mail Packet List• MAILS DUE. XlO. Aurzalia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... g a l r via sai n Brazil and C a p e V er d s, by British packet. ...... . „ o f 9 . f Cape of Go o d H ope, A scension, and St. Helena.•%st ',4, China, Penang, and Si nga p ore , v i a S ou th am ptov.;7o via Marseilles o, 0. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southa m pt o n .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, vi a Southampton oip via Marseilles ..• India (Bombay), via Southampton ....... via Marseilles P ortugal ... Nlalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... go, 0 Oporto and Vi , via Marseilles .............. Newfoundland .............................. 15, go . . U. S. and British N. America, by B r it. p a cket.. • s , by U.S. packet...o by Canadian packe t ' "14 . f, W.C. of Af r i ca, M a d e i ra, and Teneriffe ............. ;9 , Bahamas, via New York ..................... :NOY ‘, Mexico All parts of "West Indies, includin g Chili, Pero t lay California, and British C01umbia............ 0 11 le4 THE WEST RIDING REGISTARSHIP. r ec.- 00 made to Parliament s h ows th a t t h e gross recciP's.e by the Registrar of the West Riding of Yorks, l eg itilt last three years have a verage d 43,443, an d the l e ' ASO fees £1,630 a year, w hi c h annua l i ncome was the recent contest. Births. 74 GILES.—On the 4th inst., at W es tl e i h Vic/ 1 Devon, the wife of Ch ar l es S . Giles, Esq., P ay 4 1:130 06 0 H.M.S. Warrior. of a son. f Os LESTER.—On the 3d i ns t., at Swanage, the wif e ° , the L. Lester, of a daughter. lin er STYLE.—On the 4th i ns t., a t Gl enmore, C 0.. .- 0 0 , Hon. Mrs. Style, of a son. ~,, fa, SAVILLE.—On the 2d inst., at Foulmire . 1 -. — . ,„ tg a gt - 0 Royston, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Savile, a a u - - „ r a. TAGORE.—On the 3d inst., the wife of Pro fess Tagore, of a son. ~folif Marriages. , g 0 o „lvida r , ALEXANDER—WOOD.—On the Ist inst., a.. i .- -° : 0- : t ee- Brighton, William Alexander, to Mary J, 1 : 11 ,,";01 1 ' s ~ daughter of William Wood, Es late of ‘-' s- ' Esq., Oil; London. dit tho„„tto,„ 0 DURRANT—BARTON.—On the 301 h ult., - f ay' f t.• Embassy, Sir Henry Josias Durant, Bart. , °liter o f Hall, Norfolk, to Alexandrine Charlotte, daag o d "'' late General Sir Robert Barton, 1i• 1 ' 33 ,.; Barton, of Mo n t agu - p l ace, M ontagu -squat • 0 0 Deaths. SO 0 ,1 Ethel a GIBB,—On the sth i ns t., a t O s id ge , Rees ' -''' • 17 3 el' s ' youngest d aug ht er o f M a j or Gibb, Royal Eog itiglit six days. H A H T o u n E . H L T o o r N d . ii — a On e t r h to e n 4 , t a h g i e n d st i2 ,. at Teddeslel. the 00 . terrace' I HonnEu.--On the 4th inst. at at 3, Beig rave- °- Wif e lico, Mr. Valentine T. Horder,. aged 60. Maria , KEMSHEAD —On the sth inst., at Poole, . 0 WARDELL.—On the sth inst Dr Kemshead, of Cambridge House, Southeile.a, ve geo vo l co park, John Lloyd Wardell,"Eerl., a ged 7 1 . , E. per,ver, WESTEY.— On the 2d inst , Elizabeth, wife Z 0, 1 , 1 0 ' s 0 Westby, Esq., of Roebuck Castle, co. Pp. da n ceo woo d° of Lord Justice Blackburne, late Lora Ireland. ithig; sA lte WRENCH,—On the sth inst., at the Vical'arijorot Eliza, widow of the Rev. Dr. Wrench, lam hurst, Sussex, aged 65. at 10, Albert.ro a Ro London : Printed and Published by WILLI/01,1116e- 10;41,101 of No. 11 2 , Strand, Printer, at Ts % Svig - in ~h-ecdotiO" Strand, in the Precinct of„ the Savoy , Mlddlesas.—Thuraday, May 7. 3863.