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

THE THIRD EDITION "THE SUN," CoritainiuT ihe Late3t SPORTING ran be had of (3. R. GLENIE, NEwS AcrsT, No. 4, 4:,,nnateght-terraee. Hyde-park. R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -0 A It OEN. inder the Manro-ement of Miss Louise Pyne and Mr. W. H a rrison, Sole e. THIS EV EN I NG, Belliui's Opera. Lx SONNAMBULA : II! dile. Parepa. airs. Ayi,sley Coo e, ; Messrs. Weis,. John ftouAe, C. Lyra!, and G. Perron. After wideh. n EVA'S GIFT, an Allegorical Masque, In Which? Liss Louisa Pyn e Wit' appear. Conduetor—Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at ball-past - c •orninenee at 7. THE AT R E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.- Legsee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. Tit is FVENING, EXTREMES or. Ten of the Day Hies ra. Henry Lorraine, 11. Sinclair, S. Calliaem..l. Robins .tc. ; Mrs. D. I'. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Vim Ed mond Falconer. ft, , r which, BONNIE DUNDEE, Introdtteinz the Picto yiel and Spectacular ell'ects of The Gatherlarg of the Clans. To conclude whit THE SPANTAII DANCEIVi. Mr. J. Pcbins and Mi.s Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lpasee. Mr. J. B. Buckatone. fIIS EVENING. at Seven o'clock, will be performed CUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Ass Trenchant, Mr. Buck gone Lord Dundrnary. Mr. Sothern. Folowcd by TILE LIT r I,E FASL I.E. Messrs. Howe, Fothern, Mt Fitzwilliatn. MiAM E. Tem - , tte. To conelud., with THE GALICIAN FE IE. Miss Fanny Wright. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE It. T 11 IS EVEN INC, March 19, to Commence with an Origins" sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK". Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miea Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Prama, in Three Acts, and Pr3loome, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, IL Widdi combe, W. M•intyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Jr. Butler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry', E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. To conclude with an Epithalamium to the Prince and Prin. CCSS of Wa ea. Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Leasee and Manager. Mr Lindus. THIS EVENING, LAW v. LOVE. Miss M. Olives• After which, at a quarter to 8, AURORA FLOYD. Miss Amy Sedp„wiclz. Miss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. H. Roxby, It. Vezin, C. Beimore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and Collett. To conclude with the Drama of ALT. THAT GLITTERS Is NOT GOLD. Messrs. Fitzjames, Belmore, Vezin, and Seyton;t'. Misses Constance Aylmer, M. Jones, and Mrs. IT. Marston. NEW TH FATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Pronri&tor and Mansaer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS - EVENING WI time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, M iss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Killington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. To be followed by THE GAMBOLS OF A RTHUR AND BERTRAND AND GEORGE DE BARNWELL: Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stephena3n, C. J. Smith, Romer; Miss Wcolgar. Terminaiing with the Trans:brmation Scene. After which, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. ANOTHER LARGE ISSUE OF THE WEDDING SUN Is now Publishing. TIIIS . 111. 52m. —Afternoon, 2h. 12m. TO-MORROW.—Morning, 2h. 30m.—Afternoon 2h. 52m, The Weather---Sun Office, March 19, 1863. - -~ T}ItItUOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday~ Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Wind—N..West ; light, with fine weather _ LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1863. t la the House of Commons yesterday Mr. BRADY, in moving the second reading of the Diseases Pre vention (Metropolis) Bill, said that the measure would impose penalties upon diseased persons hiring public vehicles and upon the drivers of those vehicles whenever they knowingly con veyed such persons. Mr. AYRTON said ho believed the bill was uncalled for, and would be found practically inoperative. Mr. HENLEY said he thought it was desirable they should take some step for the purpose of abating the evil in ques tion, bpt he doubted whether the present measure c)uld be carried into operation. Sir G. GREY said he believed it would be hardly possible to place the bill in a satisfaJtory shape ; and he would sug gest that they should postpone the further conside— ration of the subject. Mr. BRADY acceded to this suggestion, and the second reading of the bill was postponed to the 27th of May. The Consolidated Fund (.00,000,000) Bill was read a third time and passed. The House adjourned at 20 minutes past one o'clock. Another series of experiments in Gunnety has again demonstrated the extraordinary advances made by our scientific Engineers. There has been a new trial of strength, speed, and accu racy between the Whitworth and the Armstrong cannon. ltemembering the derision that used to be cast cf yore upon what—not so very long ago, by the way l--people were wont - to regard as the hallucinations of a poor crack- brained dreamer, like Captain WAnNEn, the extent of the advance made in the fabrication of heavy artillery, partakes, in deed, of all the attributes of the marvellous. In evidence of this, it is only requisite to enumerate very briefly, and in the plainest terms, what it was that was actually done on Tuesday last, that is as recently as only the day before yesterday, ai the old scene of their cAatentions, between those real "Masters of Ordnance," WHITWORTH and ARM STRONG, viz., Shoeburyness. It should be premised, moreover, that those who witnessed on Tuesday, at Shoeburyness, these ex traordinary feats-of-arms, were precisely the very men best qualified to appreciate them. There were officials and there were men of science looking on with deeply scrutinising eyes at the all but miracles accomplished under their gaze. Among the crowd of visitors, his Grace the First Lord of the Admi• raity, the noble and gallant Secretary of the Admi ralty, all the junior Lords of the Admiralty ! Together with their lordships, Earl DE GREY and RIPON, from the War-office, attended by the gallant general the Deputy-Inspector of Ordnance. Be sides these most competent witnesses, there stood upon that familiar ground, sacred to Bellona though bloodless, shaken with tremendous concus sions, blackened with gunpowder, and strewn with fragments of shattered iron and timber, atterting by their splintered appearance the de structive force employed against them—there stood there, upo, those debris-littered fiats at ShoeburyneEe, among a throng of civil engineers, the Heroes of -Day, Sir WILLIAM AR3fSTROZIO and Mr. Wnirwouni, together with the members of the Ordnan ce Select Committee, and the mem bers of the Iron Plate Committee. A fit audience and true, it will be allowed. Now for the marvels that were actually done be fore this gathering of spectators, as rteently as th e day before yesterday down at Shoeburynesi. They there accomplished these feats of arms by the aid of guns, in which were pitted against each other, t h e capabilities o f the old smcoth-bore 08-pounder, Sir WILLIAIi ARK - sTRoNG's 110 pounder rei v lee sun, ''app"" with special steel shot cut down at the brae for the purpose of reducing them to 651 b. weight, Sir WILLIANt's 300-pounder muzzle•loaded rifled shunt gun, Mr. WurrwoßTH's muzzle-loading 150- pounder or 7-inch gun, and Mr. LYNAM. TilomAs's 9-inch or 3 00. pounder rifled muzzle-loading gun. The two guns last mentioned, it should be obs Erred cat Paclont, being made by Colonel A2;P.E.R.22 at Wool - wicb, on the built-up 1 coil principle adopted by Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG. Such the men—such the guns now for what was done in the presence of the former by the agency of the latter. After some nice little artillery practice—marvels of yesterday, mere matters of course to-day—come we to the first novel event of Tuesday, a shot fired from Sir . WILLIAM ARMSTRONG'S 300 pounder, loaded with a conical steel shot of 2991 b. weight, and fired with 451 b. of powder. "This tremendous missile," we are told, "struck with a velocity of 1,298 feet per second, full upon the centre of the 7-inch place, where it was backed, driving in a circular piece of iron 10in. in diameter quite through the plate, bend ing in the whole plate itself to a depth of an inch and a half, and buckling its ends outwards more than an inch." Nor was this all. For it is added by the same graphic eyewitness—" The massive wrought iron girder which crosses the whole back of the target horizontally was bent out and broken in several places, as were also the inner ribs, the 21 inch skin was bulged and cracked, the rivet heads loosened, and many knocked off altogether. The examination showed that the target, as a target, had received a most serious shake, though, from the wonderfully good quality of the iron, there was little of actual fracture or cracking except in the spot on which the shot itself had struck, where the whole 7k-inch piece was driven in, and only held in place apparently by the wooden backing. Had the object struck been a ship's side, the damage," we are assured, " would have caused a most serious leakage, and one or two more such rough visitations anywhere near about the same spot would have sufficed to sink her outright." Afterwards, however, came another still more telling shot for Sir WILLIAM : a shot fired from his three-hundred pounder, loaded with a cast iron shell weighing 2861 b., and charged with 111 b. of powder. A shot which, fired with the usual 451 b. charge, and striking full in the centre of the olin. backed plate with a velocity of 1,330 ft. per second, shattered its way completely through it, leaving a rough round hole about 10in. in diameter. Bursting in the inside, blowing the teak to minute fragments, setting it on fire, and breaking off many of the rivet-heads, this appalling missile it appears ended by " tearing the inner skins of iron, 2' inches thick, into rough shredded gaps, as if they had been so much cardboard." What is the distinct and de liberate verdict pronounced, moreover, by the able correspondent of our chief morning contemporary' when, water having been procured and the fire extinguished, the amount of destruction done could really be examined into ? Why, he writes, "it was seen at a glance that the question of the resistance which our newest and strongest iron frigates would be able to offer to:such ordnance was settled in the most unpleasant manner. The .strongest iron-clads we have yet built or are building would as regards ultimate destruction be almost as vulnerable as wood to such artillery. Even now, backed up as the target was with 2tin. of iron inside all, it was pene trated, broken and torn in such a manner as to render the sinking of the ship that received the blow a matter of certainty, while, had such a shell struck the Warrior amidships near the waterline, it must have blown such a hole in her side as nothing could even have remained in action." And as to the destructiveness of the flying storm of frag ments cast around it in action by one such discharge from a 300-pounder Armstrong—well, let the fol lowing facts suffice very briefly but sufficiently to show what that would be ! "By the side of the target was a powerful partition of wooden beams, and an examination of this after the shell had exploded gave terrible proofs of its destruc tive powers. There was scarcely a square inch of its whole sukface that was not deeply pene trated with fragments of the shell of all shapes and sizes, from lib. weight or more to ragged particles as minute as small shot. Men standing near where this partition stood would not only have been killed but torn to pieces." Altogether these exploits of that pre-eminent Master of Ordnance most felicitously named ARMSTRONG, may be re garded as constituting a very curious and startling pendant to the discussion recently provoked in the House of Commons by Mr. LINDSAY. A reminder it certainly is that we should be wary, as well as vigilant and energetic, as to our expenditure in building war ships, whether of iron, or of heart-of oak iron-plated. Tuesday's feats of arms at Shoeburyness have clearly proved beyond a doubt that even now we have got guns, before the stupendous fire of which the mightiest of our iron-clad war-vessels must uccumb within a few minutes. And, what is yet more—we are, not so much, according to a well known phrase, at the beginning of the end, as we are distinctly, but at the end of the beginning. Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG —not content with this awful 300-pounder of his— has made—a 600-pounder, weighing 24 tons, throwing a rifled ball of 6001 b., or a shell of 5901 b., to hold a 251 b. bursting charge of gunpowder. A month mere, and in its turn, that 600- pounder Armstrong will be tried at Shoeburyness. Nay more—there is serious talk in scientific circles, that before another year shall have elapsed, a veri table 1,000 -pounder, upon the same principle, will be in existence, and will be tried. If so— Faugh •a- Ballagh ! The spell of inaction seems to have been cast over the House of Commons this seseion. Reforms, committees of inquiry, legislation on important social questions, are all shuffled off or hushed up in a very convenient fashion. A comfortable air of do?ce far ?dente reigns over the Treasury Bench. If it is proposed to interfere in America, we are told that the time for action has not come ; if it is sug gested to raise a voice in behalf of Poland, we are begged to leave it to the Government; if we turn our attention homewards, and think it advisable to to protect our lives and pockets from the kind , a ttentions of garotters, we are warned a ga i ns t " panic legislation ;" if we express a wish to redress the abuses of our Game Laws, the Home Secretary, it is true, does not interfere, but th e landed interest steps in and puts an effect ua l d rag on the wheel. Yesterday it was the same, except ing that Sir G. aREY no longer troubled himself to keep his promises. On a recent occasion when Mr. BRADY proposed to introduce the Diseases Preven tion (Metropolis) Bill, Sir G. GREY said_he would gladly consent to the introduction of such a measure. Yesterday, however,when the hon. gentleman moved the second reading, the Home Secretary took a very different view of the question. The subject was, be said, fraught with difficulty, and the result of interference might be to prevent people using pub iic conveyances at all ! He suggested the employ ment of stretchers for the removal of those afflicted with contagious disorders, and said it would be much the easiest way to apply to the nearest police -1 elan to fetch one ! As if any family wishing to remove a respectable servant suffering under small pox, typhus, or sc ar l e t f ever to the nearest hospital would like t o send her openly through the streets, on a stretcher, p er h aps in very inclement w e ath er ! rhe real cure would be to make it compulsory on parish authorities to have regular covered convey lances for this especial purpose. The expense would be trifling indeed, while the ad vantage to public health would be very great. At present, according to the statiBtlca of the FeTet Hospital, the riot, i. TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1863, considerable. In one year 663 patients were taken there in public conveyances, of whom 110 died ; thus showing the serious nature of their complaints. And it is, as Mr. BRADY observed, a remarkable fact that of this large number 530 persons were thus sent to the hospital by parish authorities. This satisfied him that these authorities, being the natural guardians of the poor, and the representa tives of the ratepayers, were the proper persons to carry into operation the provisions of the bill he has brought forward. This bill would, probably, not entirely meet the case, but as he himself observed, it might be amended in committee, and we can only regret that the hon. member consented to Sir G. GREY'S suggestion for postponing the second reading of his measure. Mr. AYRTON'S objections were really frivolous, and his question as to the evidence of the transmission of diseases by such means is suffi ciently answered, one would think, by the ex perience of many generations as to the contagious nature of several dangerous diseases. Mr. GRIFFITH spoke more truly when he said that Mr. BRADY deserved the thanks of the community for having brought forward the subject. He mentioned a case which had come under his own knowledge, in which a servant with the small-pox was sent to the hospital in a cab. It was plain that the cab might be, and probably was, engaged within five minutes after its departure from the hospital. We fully agree with Mr. GRIFFITH when he says that it would be a most extraordinary thing if nothing could be done to mitigate the evil. There might certainly be diffi culties in the way of allowing a cabman to refuse a fare, but it is not the way to conquer difficulties to refuse to face them; and to push off the subject as hopeless. It would certainly be unjust to impose penalties on cabmen conveying fever patients in their cabs, and then to provide no other means of transit for such sufferers. The remedy is simple. Let the parish authorities be compelled to provide such vehicles, and let the ratepayers find the means for the provision. The protection of their health is surely worth as much as the insurance of their houses or property from damage or destruction. There would probably be no opposition to such a payment, which could be but trifling, and let the House consider what regulations will meet the cab difficulty. If there really is ground for legislation, as is admitted on all sides, why should not the health of cab passengers in the weeks between this and June be worth preserving from risk as well as those after that date ? The indifference of the Government on a matter so nearly concerning the public health is little to their credit, as a small amount of time and consideration would find means to mitigate a serious evil. CRYSTAL PALACE. Good Friday Falls this year on the 3d of April. It is always one of the great days at the Crystal Palace. For the past few years the attendance has averaged between 40,000 and 50,000 on each Good Friday. It has been the policy of the directors to make this middle-class holiday as at tractive as possible, to those whose avocations allow them little more than Good Friday and Christmas Day as days of leisure during the year. A Con cert of Sacred Music, supported by the most talented artistes, is usually the principal special attraction of the day. To see the vast but strictly orderly audience assem bled in the Great Transept of the Crystal Palace on a Good Friday, joining heartily, with upturned faces, in the strains of the Old Hundredth or the National Anthem, is one of the grandest sights which can be witnessed. For the coming Good Friday the special attractions are unusually varied. Mr. Sims Reeves will sing three of his greatest tenor songs, Madame Rudersdorff, Mr. Weiss, Mr. Thomas Harper, Mr. Levy, and other artiste; will also take part. The celebrated orchestral band of the company, under the direction of Mr. Matins, considerably reinforced and further strengthened by the band of the Coldstream Guards, will perform some of the most celebrated instru mental works. The concert commences at three, and usually lasts until a little past five. This is the first Good Friday that has occurred since the completion of the roof of the great Handel orchestra. Those who remember what the effect of the music was last Good Friday will be sur prised to find how much the roof assists the sound, and with what clearness and ease the solos can now be heard in all parts of the transept, compared with what they for merly were. The entire floor of the Palace and the first tier of galleries will be open to the public, admitted to the Palace at the usual one shilling rate. The front rows of seats in the great orchestra will be fitted up as reserved seats at half-a-crown, as will also the second and upper galleries of the great transept. The back rows of seats on the orchestra will be reserved at one shilling each. These may be purchased on the Monday previous to the 3d of April, at the Crystal Palace, or at No. 2, Exeter Hall. The extension of the Kensington railway across the Thames to Clapham Junction, affords facilities for visitors from many parts hitherto debarred access to the Palace by rail. Thus the South-Western trains now exchange traffic at this station, and visitors from stations on the main line, as well as on the branch line to Kew, Richmond, and Wind sor, can readily pass on to the Palace by changing at Clap ham Junction. The entire service of the North London system, extending from Fenchurch-street by Bow, Stratford, Islington, Highbury, Hampstead, and Kensington, &e., is also available by the Clapham Junction. Connected thereby, trains from the Great Western, London and North Western, and Great Eastern, can also be carried round to the palace by means of the Clapham and Kensington Junction. When to this is added the direct service of two of the southern lines running into the Crystal Palace station,viz., the Brighton, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Companies, as well as the service to London-bridge of the South .Eastern Company, it will be seen what increased facilities aro now opened for access to the Crystal Palace on great days. Even this long list does not exhaust all the means of reaching the palace, for besides the additional omnibuses and other road conveyances always available on a day of extraordinary attraction, the new route by the Metropolitan Railway and omnibuses to the Elephant and Castle, from thence by the Chatham and Dover trains to Herne-hill, with a pleasant rural walk of about two miles to the palace, will doubtless possess its attractions for the pedestrian. As usual on Gocd Friday, the Palace will be opened at nine in the morning, the concert will take place at three. At dusk it will be lighted up to enable those who like to spend a long day amid its varied attractions, returning at leisure. As it happens to be full moon on the following morning, t hose visitors who stay late will witness the palace by moon light. The palace will remain open for admission from nine in the morning, and extra entrances and exits for excur sionists wil be provided. For the Easter week a series of holiday amusements have been provided, of which due notice will be given. THE SOUTHERNER.—This screw steamer has been launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Pearse and Co. of Stockton, for the Confederates, and is the largest iron steam-vessel launched on the Tees. The following are her dimensions: length over all, 294 ft 9in ; breadth of beam, 38ft tin; depth of hold, 21ft ; tonnage, upwards of 1,953. The engines of 300 horse power, constructed by Messrs. Fossick and llackworth, are fitted by super-heating apparatus, and all other recent improvements for economis ing coal. She is reported to be built for a Liverpool house, and Messrs. Fearse have orders for 8,000 tons of iron ship ping, nearly all for Liverpool houses. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday a report was made on certain improvements recom mended by the Royal Commissioners in connection with the Thames embankment. The report contains several re commendations as to the removal of the house in Abington street, and the making of a street from Blackfriars to the Mansion -house. Some of the alterations are to be defrayed by Parliament and others of the metropolis. AMERICAN STEAMERS—SCOTCH ENTERPRISE.— It is a curious fact that all the steamers at present plying between this country and America, both screw and paddle, have been built on the Clyde, and that the steam vessels trading between Germany and New York are of the same build. The greater proportion were constructed at Greenock. METROPOLITAN POLICE.—The annual accounts show that on the Ist of January in this year the force consisted of 25 superintendents, 196 inspectors, 774 sergeants, and 6,117 constables, making in all 7,112. The expenditure upon this force, and upon the police in the dockyards and at military stations, including also the re tiring allowances, amounted in the year 1862 to £567,818. The sum of £339,895 was raised by a Gd. rate upon the parishes, computed on a rental of £13,595,813; and the sum of £113,298 (equal to one-third of the rate) was paid by the Treasury. A lar r ce sum was also borne by the public puree for the service of police at the dockyards, and various public offices and establishments. Public compa nies and private indisiduals paid £5,943, and theatres £9lO. The Commissioners of the International Exhibition paid £12,600, which was half the actual expense of the police duty. The expense of the police courts, which is rather more than £49,000, was paid from the public purse. The fees an twZtalties at the police courts amounted to X. 11, 721 xßich wa:s paid over to the lil..eacquer. Funcral exPcZses see c h arge d f or 49 constables. LATES' T INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, MARCH 19. Intelligence received here from Lithuania statcs that ail the marshals of the corporations in that province, all the judges and judicial officers, and all independent public functionaries have cent in their resignations en masse. These resignations are based upan the resolution not to receive any communication from the Govern ment in the Russian language. The functionaries who have resigned are raid to have declared infemous all who should consent to fill the positions they vacate. SKALMEIRZYKE, MARCH 17. An important engagement between the insur gents and the Russian troops took place yesterday at Lornodek, three miles from liilisch. The latter were compelled to retreat, and the town was re duced to ashes. The number of insurgents con cerned in this battle amounted to 3 000 u-.en. Rein forcements were sent this morning from Kaiiech to the Russians. BERLIN, MARCH 18. Private letters received here from Warsaw state that the Grand Duke Constantine has, in conse quence of a council of war, given up his idea of pro ceeding to the theatre of war. CRACOW, MARCH 18. Count Staryenski, marshal of the Polish nobility, has tendered his resignation. Governor Nbzimoff has ordered the arrest of 300 landed proprietors in Lithuania. The insurgents have been victorious over the Russian troops at Rudnika, in the Government of Mohilew. LEM BERG, MARCH 18. Raczynski, one of the insurgent chiefs, has, after many engagements, succecdei in leading his band, which has been continually increasing in numbers. to Pinsk. He has occupied that town, and pro claimed the National Government. INDIA. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA (via Suez), MAIICH 2. Grey shirtings and mule twist tending upwards. Indigo unchanged. Exchange on London, Baring's credits, 2.0 i. Government Securities 6 per cent., 1061. Freight flat. CHINA• CANTON, FEE. 14. Tea active but unchanged. Total export to date 92,125,0001b5. Exchange on London, 4.81, SHANGHAI, FEB. 8. Grey shirtings unchanged. Silk heavy. Settlements during the past fort night 1,500 bales. Total export to date, 66,000 bake. Exchange on London, 6.22. FRANCE. PARIS, MARCII 19. The bulletin of the Moniteur to-day contains the following :-- "The whole of the news from Poland, which attracts so large a share of public interest, appears to demonstrate that the insurrection is becoming general." The Pays states that the discussion on the peti tion relative to the affairs of Poland will be con tinued to day. This journal announces its intention of giving the most explicit details relative to this important question. It also comments upon the great meeting in London on the same question, and on the deputation to Lord Palmerston. The Opinions Nationale remarks on the same topic. It states that M. Bonjean made an admirable speech on the occasion, and vividly illustrated the vicissi tuies that Poland has sustained during the last three quarters of a century. He made two reproaches to the Commission—first, that they had not taken into consideration in their their report the quest ion of humanity, and, secondly, in having proposed the order of the day, instead of demanding the forwarding of the petitions to the Government. M. Bonjean insisted on the necessity to Europe of re-establishing Poland, and ex pressed an earnest hope that the Emperor would be able to realise this desire of all gene rous hearts, without peril for France. M. de Guerronniere, taking up the question, was not so felicitous in his remarks. He said that they must be moderate above all things. He said that the division of Poland bad arisen from causes which were beyond the fancies of the masters of the world, and he added that the great Catherine and the great Frederick had followed an irresis tible impulse in their policy of invasion. The hon. senator appeared to regard in the light of a Utopia the idea of re-establishing Poland in her aneier.t limits. To this this journal replies in a spirited strain. Let M. Guerronniere look back some cen turies to the time when a third of France belonged to England, end tell us what answer he would make to any politician who told him of the impossibility of making the frontier of our own c o unt r y reac h t o the ocean. There is now a Polish nationality, as there was then a French one, and Poland is as ca pable of recovering herself, nowadays, as France was at the epoch we refer to. The Steele says the beginning of the discussion promises a happy issue. It refers to the discussion on the right of petition it. 1;91, when, after hearing all kinds of orators, the Assembly gave a decree that the right of petition. ing belonged to each individual. Is not this right above all sacred, when it is the last resource left to martyrs ? May the noble senator never know the misfortunes of exile, may these who share his opinion never have to present before a foreign Chamber the claims of tbe7r country. The Constitutionnel gives a long exposition of the various treaties in connection with Poland. It will be very acceptable at the present time to many who will wish to refresh their memories on this important point. BOURSE, March 18.—Stock has been rather offered, and during the first part of the day prices receded, but they have since recovered, and Threes,- for the Account, are now at 68fr. 85e., after hav ing been at 68fr. 70c. Little or nothing doing in Railway Shares. The market became firmer towards the close and left off as follows : 4i per Cents. 96 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95 New 3 per Cents - Do. end month — Credit Mobilie- 1245 Do. end month 1218 75 BA IL' Bank Shares 3375 - - Credit lioncier l4BO Italian Loan 70 25 Do. end month Russian Austrian .. Spanieh Threes — florae Debt - A.YB. Cash. Account. Orleans lll2 50 .. 1113 75 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1192 50 .. 1193 75 Geneva 4ll 25 .. 412 60 Southern Western Eastern .... ,.. 545 515 Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 7Ol 2;5 .. 702 60 Ditto to Barcelona RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. -- Yesterday the schooner Fanny Lewis, Captain Lewis, arrived in the Mersey from Wilmington, North Carolina, with a cargo of cotton and spirits of turpentine. After leaving Wilming ton, the Fanny Lewis was chased for 16 hours by a Federal man-of-war. EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD.—One Titterton, a rag and bone dealer at Sheffield, hat been fined £5 and costs, for having under his scales a very powerful magnet, which, by a siuguar contrivance, he could cause to have such an crTect tju the scats, as would give him an advan tage of at three and a half ounces On YVOry 110140., AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) NEW YORK, March 6 (per Jura). The Confederates, under Gen. V n Dorn, have advanced towards Franklin, Tennessee, but were driver, back by the Federals. Fighting continues. The skirmishing around Nashville is active. The report of an attempt to assassinate General Banks at Orleans is said to have been a canard. A Secession demonstration occurred at New Or lelns, on the occasion of the departure of a large number of Confederate prisoners for the South. A large number of people assembled on the levee to witness their departure, and made various Seces sion demonstrations. Gen. Banks sent a regiment of soldiers to disperse the assemblage, and no dis turbance occurred. All the General Appropriations Bills were passed by Congress before the close of the seesien, and have been signed by the President. Tbese, together with other appropriations, amount to about one billion dots. The Miscellantous Appropriation Bill, origi nally introduced by the Committee of Ways and Means, appropriated 1,200,000 dots., but before it passed through both houses the sum was enlarged to 20,000,000 dollars. The bill to admit Coloraco and Nevada as States of the Union, which passed the Senate, failed to pass in the House of Representa tives, the latter refusing to suspend the rules for its consideration. Before the adjournment of the Senate, Mr. Doo little, Republican, of Wisconsin, urged that the last moments of the Senate should be passed in some thing besides recrimination. Ho stated that all events went to show that America would crush out the rebellion, and stand before the world greater, more powertul, more glorious than ever, and be yond what had ever entered into thz, mind of man to conceive. He wished to show the traitors at home, and the men who talked of intervention, that America had just begun to fight, and would fight it through. America bought Louisiana and Florida, in order to have that opening to the ocean ; and he would say, in the name of the north-west, that be fore they would allow an independent empire at the mouth of the Mississippi, they would reduce Louisiana to what it was before America pur chased it—a territory of swamps and crocodiles. He told the nations who suggested the possibility of an independent empire at the south-west, that such talk et to talk what the people of the United States, though it should result in the upheaval of the whole of North America, would never sur render. It was his religious belief that the American Republic was that political Power foretold by the prophets, and for which good men of all ages looked and prayed, and to whose success and duration Heaven, with all its omnipotence, was pledged. Speaker Grow, in his valedictory address to the House of Representatives, declared that, no matter what changes were wrought in the social organism of America, its territorial limits would continue the same, The war must be prosecuted until the last armed rebel is subdued. Speaker Grow received a unanimous vote of thanks from the House, a compliment which was never paid to any speaker but once before. A large meeting has taken place at Trenton, New Jersey, in response to a call to celebrate the death of a Congress which had trampled upon the liber ties of the people. Speeches were made declaring that the people were in a worse condition than the people of Austria, and hopes were expressed that the State Government would do its duty to protect the citizens. Resolutions were also passed denouncing the unlimited control of the purse and sword o, the nation, and the urrestroined power over the persons of the citizens given to the President, and declaring that it was the duty of the States to resist firmly an encroachments upon their rights; that the Con scription Bill was an aggression up n the sovereignty of New Jersey, and that the State authori►ies art called on to take measures for the successful vine! , cation of the rights of the State. The employ men , of negroes was denounced, and New Jersey was stated to be utterly opposed to the prosecution of the war upon any other than a constitutional basis. Both Houses of Congress passed the resolutions concerning mediation, as reported from the Com mittee of Foreign Relations. At a meeting of the Democratic Association, Pre sident Lincoln's name was hissed. The New Yolk, Tribune, referring to General Banks's arrangements with planters for negro labour, says—" The military authorities of the Gulf who were charged to recognise and maintain the freedom of the blacks, have gone into the busi ness of slave-driving on the largest possible scale, and officers who went to suppress a slaveholders' rebellion, are made overseers of plantations whit!. Government stocks with re-enslaved blacks." The 2ribune charges General Bunks with administering his department entirely in the interest of the slave. owners, and denounces his course as an oppression of the negro. _ _ An influential meeting has been held at New York to forward the laying of the Atlantic cable. A committee was appointed to aet, and five gentle men have subscribed over £3,000 to assist the en terprise. The New York 2imes says that 2,000 Mexican troops had embarked at Mazatlan and Jamiarz tcr a southern port of Mexico in order to operate against the French. It is considered probable that a conflict may have taken place at Vicksburg, and not impossible it may have been evacuated by the Confederates. General Joseph Johnston, who commands at Vicksburg, is the General who evacuated Manassas and Yorktown in such a wily manner, and at such mon - ents as to seriously disconcert the Federal plans, based upon his resistance at each point. H. may have repeated the same move ut VicksbirT. which is supplic d by only one line of railway. ii he has, Port Hudson being strong enough to hole in check the Federal advance down the Mississippi, Johnston may throw himself northward upoi: Memphis, or to the north-east upon Rmecrans or even by a rapid southward movement, in conjunction with the small but formidabl• Confederate fleet, attempt to recapture Nem Orleans. By adopting either of these plans ht would of course abandon for the time the Rtd Rive, country, which lies between Vicksburg and Por Hudson, and through wt.ich the Confederates I . E. ceive immense supplies from Texas. Much anxiety is felt in regard to Charleston The expedition against that place is most formidable, and groat efforts will be made to take it, but Gene ral Beauregard has been allowed time enough to complete all his fottifications, solid and floating, and to concentrate a powerful force. There are growing symptoms at the Weep of popular dissatisfaction, and much is said of secret associations, organised both to support and oppose the Government. In this city a State judge has declared his inten tion of executing his writ of habeas corpus against a Federal colonel who, however, remains in his castle at Governor's Isla)d. In the Senate 17 members took their seats yes terday, nine of whom were returned for the first time; of these nine, six may be ranked as Opposi tion members, two as extreme, and one (Mr. Mor gan, of New York) as a moderate Republican. The municipal elections in New Yurk State indi cate great gains for the Democratic party. NEW YORK, March 6 (Afternoon), The reports concerning the condition of the steamer Indianola, when captured, and are othersconflicting.icttihnagt. Some say she is seriously damaged, she is in an effective condition, and that her sur render was unneeeesary, The Kentucky House of Rep resen t at i ves h as passed a resolution calling a national convention and a convention of the Mississippi Valley States. It is supposed the Senate would concur in the re solution. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MARCH 6 (Evening). The excitement in the gold market continues, and the tendency is still downward. A measure will be introduced in the New York Legislature check Epccuhtion in gold. Gold is quoted at 521. Exchange on London blnkers' bills 169, Stockb inactive. New York Centrals 1161. Illinois 90. Erie 76k. Cotton depressed. Middling Upland 81. Flour, wheat, and corn depressed. Provisions quiet. Coffee and sugar heavy. NEW YORK, MARCH 7 (Evening). Exchange on London 170. Cotton dull. Middling Upland 83 to 84e. Flour heavy. Wheat quiet. Corn depressed. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar, prices declining. Molasses steady. BANK OF ENGLAND. HALF-YEARLY MEETING (THIS DAY). The ordinary half-yearly general court of the governor and company was held this day in the Back Parlour. Alfred Lathom, Esq., governor, presided. The GOVERNOR, said he had to intorm the court that this was ore of the general quarterly courts, appointed by the 12th bye-law, for the making of a divi dend. The net profit for the half year ending the 28th of February was £619,916, making the amount of rest on that day £3,620,793. Att_r providing for a dividend at the rate of 44. per cent., the " rest" would amount to £3,002,291. They therefore proposed that the half-year's dividend of interest and profits on the 6th of April should be 4 per cent without deduction of income tax. He had further to acquaint the court, the dividend warrants would re declated and paid on the fih of April. Mr. DICKSON moved a vote of thanks to the governor and directors for the satisfactory statement just made, and their uniform attention to the concerns of the bank. Mr. LAWRENCE LEVY, in seconding the motion, said that under present circumstances, the account made by the governor was as favourable as could be anticipated. The time ho thought had arrived when many of the present re gulations and restrictions might be rescinded, with a view to making the establishment beneficial to the proprietors of bank stock, in fact to place it on the same footing as surrounding establishments. It would be use less and unnecessary to contrast the dividends paid by the Bank of England with those of other institutions, but on the present occasion the fact was the mere startling from the joint-stock banks having declared high dividends at a time when money was scarce, whereas the dividend declared by the Bank of England up to the end of February embraced a period when they had the benefit of money at 3,4, and 5 per cent. It struck him also when they took into account that the present dividend was declared upon only about 14 millions, and not upon the " rest," the positive dividend paid upon the capi• tal by the Bank of England was only about 3t per cent. He ventured to think that this arose from a fixed and arbi trary minimum rate, for whether that rate was high or low the Bank was immediately nude, sold by the surround ing establishments, lie thought it was well worthy of consideration whether the directors could not accept a lower rate than the present minimum. He would also take the liberty of suggesting the propriety of the Bank of England lending on Colonial and A 1 Foreign Securities, taking, however, every precaution, be cause he was quite certain the Bank could not avoid making bad bills. During the last year he understood the Bank of England had sustained losses upon bills which had been ref u'ed by other banks, and now that they had lost £50,000 a year from the Government they ought to seek to increase their profits in other ways. It struck him as an anomaly that while it was stated last year that other stocks were closed for only a few hours, the book for the Bank Stock should be shut for three weeks, He would also ask the directors and proprietors to consider whether the barrier which now existed to trustees voting should not be re moved, for trustees were generally selected by persons ba cause they had confidence in them. Such barriers had been removed in other establishments. He hoped, when they met again, they should hear of a better dividend. The uOVERNOR said there was a great difference between the Bank of England and other banks, especially in the amount of capital. It took a large amount o, profit to make a quarter per cent on so large a capital as fourteen mil lions. In other cases banks had not more than a million of capital, and, in some instances, not more than X 40,000 or LGOO,COO paid up. On the subj , et of trustees voting, he might remark that it was not in the power of the Bank to allow , hem to do so. They could not be allowed to vote without Parliament altered the existing law. With re gard to advancing on foreipn. and colonial securities, he might say it was a subject which required a treat deal of consideration, and he sh , uld think it would be much better to leave the matter to the Court of Direc tors. There was nothing to prevent the directors ft om doing but the very circumstance of this stock having been opened to the investments of trustees, made it very desir able that in any step of the kind they should be very cautious. He did not understand a hat the hon. prof rietor meant by the particular loss he had alluded to. The direc tors were not sensible of having maJe a loss on the busi ness of the bank. Sometimes they might have a bad bill, but the amount must have been very small. He did not think anything had been lost during the past half year. Mr. LEVY said he understood that £lO,OOO had been lost by the acceptances of Sir H. Maggeridge. Mr. HODGeoN, M.P. (the Deputy-Governor), said the anmunt lost was nothing like that. The GOVERNOR said the amount had been greatly exag gerated. Tha loss was under £2,1 00, and that probably would be recovered. The motion of thanks to the governor and directors was then unanimously adopted. The GOVERNOR, in acknowledging the compliment, said this was the last time he should have the honour of appear ing before them in the capacity of governor. The post of governor was one of very considerable anxiety, and who ever had passed that chair after four years' service (two as governor and two as deputy governor) must feel that be had had many cares in connection with it. But on the other bond he could not but feel it was an honour to represent such large interests. On retiring from the chair he should still feel that he had something to do on behalf of the proprietors in his situation as director. In that capacity he should attend to the duties as director as closely as he had attenjed to those of governor. The proceedings then terminated. THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—Mr. Boxall and Mr. Weeks have been elected Royal Academicians. Mr, Le Jenne has been elected an associate, A VISIT TO LANGIEWICZ.—A correspondent of a Lein berg journal, who bus visited Langiewicz in his camp, mites as follows :—" At the entrance of the General's residence stand two powerful sitbemen, with their weapons crossed. Those form the body-guard of the in surgent General. On the left is a chamber of moderate di inensions,i, the centre of which 's a table of a long and oval shape,and around this sit and stand many men,wno carry on so lively a discussion that one scarcely comprehends its purport. Some of these are strong and wiry, others are in the bloom of youth, but among those present there are weather-beaten men, with gray beards and locks. At the end of the table, somewhat sidewards, alts General Langie wicz, engaged in writing. The noise does not disturb him. In this respect, according to the report of those around Om, he possesses much presence of mind. He writes, Imo et the same time answers many questions, and also distri butes various orders to his c , fficers, who continually come and go. His answers were short and decided, as were his orders. At lust he raised his head a little, and I could ob ,erve him more narrowly. Persons entirely disinterested would declare his appearance to be quite an ordinary one, but he pleased me on the instant. I will describe him as brit fly as possible :--He is of small stature, something ovet 30 years of age ; thin, but muscular ; the head in proper- Hon, but with a weather-beaten though fresh complexion ; dark hair and somewhat spare beard , the eyes dark and urge, but very beautiful ; his entire expression is mild and decided, as with most thinkers. On his head ho wore his sapphire-coloured four-cornered eau with dark lamb's -wool trimming and a white feather. He wore also large Polish boots, Polish hose, and a dark fur-trimmed cloak. He wore also a tricoloured sash, by which each of his officers was equally distinguished, while some were also ornamen ted with white and red sashes. Alter my interview with Langiewicz I began to look around me. It is difficult to describe all who were present. I became acquainted with Jez 4 oranski, Ciezee ski, and ever so many more, who have already made for themselves a name known to fame. Among others was Miss Pustowojtow, who appeared to be a young and delicate brunette She is attired in man's ap parel, has been present at all the battles, and on horseback flies like a bird, She is generally beloved and respected on account of her brevery and cheerfulness. In conclusion, to complete the picture, I must. mention the Capuchin who serves as field chaplain and magazine man, and who, not withstanding his multifarious duties, is ever polite, agree able, and cheeerful. On the whole, the visit to Langiewicz has made a very favourable impression on me. I did not find in him the contentedness of resignation, but that aris ing from energy." EXTENSION OF COTTON CULTIVATION.."--The Manchester Cotton Supply Association have received many interesting letters showing a desire in various parte of the world to extend the cultivation of the cotton plant. Tne efforts making in Egypt have induced the association to send out all the seed that could be spared, and at their meeting on Tuesday they had applications from the West Indies, Brazil, La Plata, West Coast of Africa, Bagdad. Java, and Queensland. In the Turkish dominions there seems to be a great desire to revive the cultivation, and e letter from Salonica states that in the district of Serres no indigenous seed would be sown this season, superior varie ties being in favour. The governor of Bagdad has applied New rleans seed, and states that a sm all t,uatt.tity planted at Bussorah had succeeded well. A . letter from Guatemala shows how ereat a trade in cotton rue; ht be esta blished these if suitable means were adopted. A NEW POLISH I.,,,,GlON.—During the presen week a considerable number of Poles have arrived and iaken up their residence at Wo,lwich, th.t party forming, ng, it . sated, tie first portion of a for ce rapidly increasing, an, whieh will shortly leave England, fully ernnd, for Poland. 21 - ei rur t tinnlat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 18. The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, viralltud and drove in the grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, her Imperial Highness the Duchess of Br.-iban, and Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by the Countess INl, , rton und Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, rode on horseback. To-day is the anniversary of the birthday of her Royal Highnes Princes Louise. The Royal Family of Denmark. Her Royal Highness the Princess Christian of Denmark, with the Princess Thvra, attended by Countess Reventlow and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., viewed yesterday morning the flower show in the Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, where they were met by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary (attended by Colonel Ho ne Turves). The royal party inspected the International Exhibition Build ing., and also tne South Kensington Museum. The Princess Christian, with the Princess Thyra, after wards paid a visit to the Duchess of Inverness, at her residence in Kensington Palace. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Prince Frederic of Hesse-Cassel yesterday at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham gate. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, and Prince Frederic of Denmark, at tended by General and Madame d'Oxholm, the Countess Reventlow, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury with their company at dinner last even ing, at their residence in Pall mall,. Prince Frederic of Hesse-Cassel and the Duke of Holstein-Glucksburg, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Du Plat, went yesterday to Hampton-court Palace. In the evening their Royal and Serene Highnesses honoured with their presence the performances at the Lyceum Theatre. Foreign Courts. BERLIN, March 16. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia arrived in Berlin yesterday evening from Osborne. The Princess Frederio of the Netherlands and the Prince of Hohenzollern travelled to Berlin in the same train. A Paisley Shawl for the Princess of Wales• The toilown,g address accompanied a present of a handsome shawl from the operatives of Paisley to the Princess of Wales : TO HER ROYAL HIGHNNSS THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA! May it please your Royal liiilQsS,l 7 the — ;;;and daughters of the operat;ve weavers of the burgh of Paisley beg to be allowed humbly and respectfully to offer your royal highness a cordial welcome to this United Kingdom; and, impressed with the excellency of character which 3 7,,ur roy,il highness already bears, to hail with the most lively satisfaction your union with his Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales, as a surety that, as at present, every female virtue and grace will continue to adotu the British throne, and that a bright example of those will ever be Bet before the nation. They most respectfully beg thet your Royal Higbnesfi will deign to accept of their offering of a shawl, the work.- manship of their husbands and fathers, as a small manifes tation of their loyalty and esteem ; and that the Almigh►Y may bless your marriage, and that many bright days of prosperity and every domestic happin as may be before yeti is their sincere and earnest prayer. O❑ behalf of , he wives and daughters of the operative weavers of the burgh of Paisley. AGNES OSBORN. MARION KELLY• Paisley, March 7. - Windsor Castle, March 11. Lord Harris writes to inform Mrs. Osborn and Miss Kelly that the address signed by them on behalf of the wives and daughters of the operative weavers of the burgh of Paisley has been received, together with a shawl, sad that her Royal Highness 'he Princess of Wales has been graciously pleased to accept them. Lord Harris is commanded to inform Mrs. Osborn and Miss Kelly that it is pecularly gratifying to her royal oighness to receive these marks of loyalty and esteem, an d that the beautiful specimen of the industry of the opera' live u eavers of Paisley will ever remind her of those cordia l ieelings manifested thus towards her on her first arrival in this country. BIRTHDAY OF THE PRIN CESS LOUISE. —Thebirtir :l a y of tier Royal Highness the Princess Louise , born in 1848, was celebrated at Windsor Castle yesuodfil with the customary rejoicings—the ringing merry peal ° from the Castle bells slid of the parish church of St. Johth and the firing of a royal salute in the Bachelor's Acre. I'o is the first birthday which has been kept with any kind of rejoicing since the death of his Royal Highness the Princ e Consort. Tne Prince and Princess Antvieffsky and suite have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle and the Ladies Keppel have arrived in C..esham-place for the season. The Earl of Bantry has arrived at Thonatio Hotel, Berkeley -square, from Bantry Castle, Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Erne and the Earl end Countess of Orford have arrived at the Pavilion Hotel , Folkestone. The Hon. Walter Scott and Lady Mary Scott have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from 111 ertown House, N. B. ady Susan Ramsay has left Brown's Hotel, Dover-street. Mr. aud Lady Emma Aaderton havo arrived at Brown'e Hotel. Colonel Scwerhy has kft Thomas's Ho . el, B ol ' eiey-square, for Putteridge, Bury, Buds. Mr. Cr - HO:tester Forte,,cut; Una Frances Coanteeg Waldegrave entertained the following la dinner uvening at their residence, Carlton-gardens : 7 -11e Dello °' Newct:stle, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl ol d Countess of Cork, the Earl and Countess Of Airlie, Lacy Elizabeth Berrie, Lord Hubert Canning, the So icitor General and Lady Laura Palmer, Sir Juhn and Lady Juba' stone, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Hayward. rho Right HOD. Sir Wit. M.P , is e 3 C , pected to return to his house in Stratton-street, on Fads,' uext, trom a temporary residence in the south of Franco. THE PRINCESS AND THE LADIES OF WALES A number of the ladies of Wale , -, through 111(3 medium of Lady Williams Wynn, of Wyn-tay, have pressed a wish that *there should be a ladies subscriptio li f aini,ng them for tir3 purpose of presen.ing the Princess Wales with a present on the occAsion of her marriage an d accession to the title so intimately connected with the Fria. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.--' -upplement to the _London Gazette of Tuesday last, pu lr f r,Lted yesterday, contains the lull details of the ceremottY ° the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with the Pi incess Alexandra, on the loth inst. SHIELDS, March 17.—Though the wind is fro° he N.N.E and there is strong sea on the bar, froll i the extensive dredging that has been kept up by the Riv er Fyne Commissioners, and from the effects of other exteu' sive river improvements that have been carried out by thtOF the depth of water ou the bar has been so far increased tha,S a considerable fleet of laden vessels was enabled to bail til ts atternoon with safety, and with the fine wind that they ar e experiencing they are likely to make rapid pa ssa g es. Within the past few days a consioerable amount of tonnage 11 0 reached here from Norway and other northern ports, seelg', ing freights. Some of the Norwegian vessels are models ol beautiful shipbuilding. Thera is n o im p rove ment in e°6 freights to London, which are 53 6d per ton. Latest ad'' vices from Constantinople with regard to Black Sea freigh ts give the following quotations :--68 6d to 6s 7d f rom son Gs 3d to 6s 4d from Kuste ndje, 7s from Ord ow , 7 s 3d to 0 1 , 6tl from Poti, 42s 6d to 44s from Odessa, all for the .I.Tniteci Kingdom. EMIGRATION OF IRISHMEN.—Far some ti m e /00 it has been observed that frinl this port, and alt-0 from Cork there has been a considerable, or rather, indeed' a largo e migration of strong active young men, chiefly Irish for New York. The extent to NVeich this draught has bee' still is carried, gives rise to sus pi c i on t h a t t h ese yout i .g me n are in reality recruits for th e F e d era l army. 11 ' 1 : su spicion is further coun tenance d b y t h e we ll e k tiow n o °l hat for a long time past agents of the, Federal Govern W el l,,, hay, bebeer.at work in I re l an d, en d eavo u r ing surreptitious' , to obtain recruits, for whom it is weitknown a large board la obtainable inunediatelv on their arrival in New i'ci rlf ; whence they are at once draughted off to join the a 09 ;,. Ile Federal G overnmen t ma k e s so much noise about et l. Alleged assistance to the Confederates Vial it would be i° .tell their own proceeding e were watched more elcoelt, ;Ve believe thu Gt7,vt:rnritent is in possession of facts confirt eatery the rue. our le specting ihe movemeale oi Ft & I° ~ &ents in Ireland.—./..iverpcolA6ion. bac vvi 1, 1 ced J3a / or