The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-24 00:00:00

TILE CIVIL WAR .IN AMERICA, (F Yom the Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, Oct. 9. The pc is ition of Gen. Rosencranz at Chattanooga begins to excite) alarm. Though a thousand times deceived by Ilia reassuring announcements of an Adwinist rati on which will never admit a failure to the natio aal arms until the dead officers are brought home for burial and the facts are as patent as the sun at n oonday, the public was contented to believe that R.O sen cranz had not been seriously beaten, and that, att things considered, the Confederates had got the worst of the Battle of Chicamauga. But all this is now admitted to be false, even by the shoddy contrac tors and the Republican journals; and it is feared that, if Rosen cranz cannot imitate Bragg so far as to make a skilful and successful retreat, the capture of his whole army is not only possible but extzemely probable. No reinforcements have reached him from tiny quarter, and Gen. Bragg has coo imenced to sh ell his camp in Chattanooga from the, heights of Lookout Mountain, which commands the position. The total defeat of the Army of the Potomac wou?,d scarcely cause a greater flutter in W " hi ngton than the retreat or capture of Rosen cranz, for in either event the campaign in Tennessee will be at an end for this year, and the chances of Southern recognition by the Powers of Europe very gree,tly increased. It also begins to be admitted, though very reluc tantly, that the siege of Charleston must end in failure. The army under Gen. Gilmore has done its best and accomplished nothing. The ironclads and monitors, under Admiral Dahlgren, have tried no thing and consequently done nothing, and both officers are understood to have fallen under the dis pleasure of the Government for being in the condi tion of the friend of Sempronius—deserving of suc cess, but without being able to command it. Thai pro-Russian furors continues to range una bated. The m unicipality, in unison with the " ahoddy " aristocracy, are determined that all pos sible honours in their power to bestow shall be showered upon the heads of the Russian officers. Processions, dinners, balls, serenades—everything that can administer to the curiosity of the crowd or the joviality of the male and the frivolity of the female sex—are to be or have been arranged, to show how delightful it would be to the Americans to have a friend in Europe, especially if that friend were Russia. The study of the Abolitionist, Re publican, and Ministerial party, in which all the worshippers of shoddy are delighted to enrol them. ee',ve s, is how to make the glorification of Russia as off evasive and insulting as may be to the British and F reach admirals and officers in the harbour. Bat in t his design tbey are likely to be frustrated. The British and French officers will stand upon their dignity, and will not consent to play " second Addle" in any celebrations that appear to be fes tive, but are in reality political. The Russian tailors swarm up Broadway, their broad Calmuck feature/iradiant with satisfaction at the pleasure to be obt/iined by a stroll on shore ; but not a British or Fre neh sailor is to be seen, although there are about 5,000 of them cooped up in the narrow limits of their respective war ships. The journals in ac counting for the fact explain to the credulous Yan kee,B—who are delighted to believe that Europe is one immense hotbed of antagonistic Kings and Em perors—that the remembrances of the war in the Crimea are so bitter that Russians could not meet British and French sailors in the street without an immediate outbreak of angry passion and violent hostility. The true state of the case is simply this —the Federal Government is en desperately in want of seamen whom America itself e ,-nnot supply, and Neao if found in the persons of Irishmen and Ger- mans are not worth having, that a British or a French sailor cannot show himseL in public with out being inveigled to the nearest rum-shop by some 'amiable Federal " shark." who after having made him drunk will offer him the handsome bounty of '7OO d.ols, if he will desert his ship and take service in tr.a: Federal navy. The temptation of so large a sum of ready money is too strong for British or French virtue, and The men of both fleets are con -8,-cio.ently kept to their ships with such extra in dulgences in their captivity as may help to reconcile them to their isolation. Ai it is the object of the Fethral Government to stand well with Russia and give t,hnt Power no cause of offence, the "sharks" are itts,traced to leave the Russian sailors alone. So jealocs is the Administration on this point that a Finlander who was persuaded by a relative in this city to desert and join the Federal navy was handed back by the Federal authorities to his captain, to be dealt with according to Russian justice. Had he been Englishman or a Frenchman nothing would have been said, and all the efforts of the British and French authorities would have been employed in vain to discover his whereabouts. In their intense hatred of England, and their equally intense jealousy of France, the Americans forget that the Russian Government is as anxious for peace between'North and South and as much opposed to the epirit and policy of the war as any other Power of Europe. They forget that Baron s toeckl, the Russian Minister in this country, was instructed a year ago by Prince Gortschakoff to read to the President and to Mr. Seward a despatch in which occurs the following significant passage : " The struggle which, unhappily, has arisen can neither be indefinitely prolonged, nor lead to the 'Mal destruction of one of the parties. Sooner or later it will be necessary to come to some settlement, whatever it may be, which interests now Ameit. actually in conflict to coexist. The political aviation would, then, give a proof of high tlement, before m in seeking in common such a set of Strength a t useless effusion of blood, a barren squandering acts of violence and a ngth and of political riches, and i reciprocal reprisals shall have come to deepe n an a 3 of the an a byss between the two parties to . en d def i n i te l y i n t h e i r mutual exhaustio n , and the ruin, p er haps irre parable, of their commercial Oar august master cannot resign end political power. himself to admit such deplorable anticip a ti ons; ' There is no ground to believe that the Russian Government has changed its opinions on the American since this paragraph was penned; but it conflictit purpose of find a bond of the Administration for the moment to rep resen t the Russia as its only friend, and even to sympa thy in the fact that bothe the re e eident are en gags a tier din combating e and the atioa, o r a r2ople, in rebellion against their • authority That suc h a reason fora Russian alliance should and is not favour with any porti on of the A mericans - of this miser. the least singular of the many anomalies able and unn atural conflict. The war in the Cabinet, so long known to e x i st and so freely spoken of, begins to assume s h ape. It has long been known that two antagonistic forces were at work in the Councils of the President, the one Conservative, the other Destructive; the one led by Mr. Seward, which desired union above all things; the other led by Mr. Chase, which desired nothing but the abolition of negro slavery, and was determined to accomplish it though " the heavens should crack." The President has swayed to one or the other, not as circumstances might dic tate, but as the superior pressure brought to bear upon him might compel. Unable to control either Section, he was equally unable to dispense eatvices of either leader. with the ..e s The cunning and the ca n"' try of Mr. Seward—so like his own in substance, but se mach . , superior in form—were indispensable to him in --th e management of the solid b u • foreign affairs, while tercels management capacity of Mr. Chase and his dex terous necessary of the national finances were collapse whi c h Zi to prevent the great commercial would certainly Lincoln knows to be inevitable, but which skilful hand than be expedited if any less n that of Mr. Chase were just now to asinine the m anagement. ooo As Mr. Lincoln's turn of mind is naturally tusi\elrvative, he has clung more to Mr. Seward than d Chase, and would have done so even if he had found no such additional rea son for his liking as the labour for Mr. Seward has no hopes of and does not notoriously Presidency, while Mr. Chase openly an d strives to that end. While Mr. Lincoln and Aire Sew ar d be glad to restore the Union 'without be ating arwould South too completely—without e xterminati ng the peop l e , w ithout effacing State lines or ating the .reducing the States to mere provinces and counties, an d eve n With out the abolition o f ne g ro slavery, Mr. Chase an d his party do not value such a ueieo es that would be, were it possible to restore it. Upwards of 40 years ago Chief Justice Marshall, of the Supreme Court, one of the most able and eminent lawyers that America ever produced, declared no political dreamer ever had been wild enough to think of breaking down State lines and compounding the American people into one mass. But that was in an antediluvian age. The Sumners, the Wendell Phillipses, the Garrisons, the Beechers, the Greeleys, and the Chases were some of them in the nursery and some at school, and knew nothing of that Constitution of the Union which they have since learnt to despise or to trample upon. Mr. Chase is of the new school, one of the men who would make men temperate and religious by Act of Parliament, and who think it as wicked in the men of the North as in the men of the South to hold slaves. To compound the American people into one mass is the dearest object of the ambition of these dreamy philosophers ) , To accomplish that end they would first abolish slavery, and next they would abolish the negro. After that they would abolish the Constitution, State lines, local Parliaments, and all the liberties of the people, and construct a great homogeneous despotism, with 'an elective Sovereign or President for life, who should be in everything but named an Emperor. Into that groove they are sliding. Welded, cemented, and held together by the strong hand, they imagine that America would become the first Power in Christendom, the virtual ruler of the world, able to reduce Great Britain to the rank of a third-rate kingdom and to dictate to the whole of Europe. That is their wild dream, and they are diligently labouring to realize it. When President Lincoln said that for him to de cree the abolition of slavery was about as absurd as for the Pope to issue a bull against the comet, Mr. Seward had possession of him. When he after wards proclaitued that all the slaves in the United States were to be "henceforward and for ever free," Mr. Chase had him in keeping. When he maintained General M'Clellan in command, the mind of Mr. Seward contolled him. When he dismissed M'Clel lan with undeserved ignominy and gross ingrati tude, Mr. Chase's principles assumed the mastery. When he spoke and wrote of the oath he had taken to uphold the Constitution, the thought of Seward guided his tongue and his pen; but when he assumed the power, which Congress had no right to delegate to him, to suspend the operation of the writ of habeas corpus throughout States which were neither in insurrection nor in rebellion, the spirit of Chase was in the ascendant. Of late the influence of Mr. Seward has so much diminished, and that of Mr. Chase so much increased in the Cabinet, that the Conservative members of the Administration have taken alarm, and one of them, Mr. Blair, the Poet master-General, has publicly denounced the Radi cal, or destructive policy which Mr. Chase repre sents, and declared that it must end in the ruin of the nation if it be longer persisted in. His brother, General Blair, a member of Congress, not being trammelled by office, or by the personal decorum which prohibits one member of the Government from publicly speaking ill of another, has expressed himself upon the subject, with a shadow of reserve, and at a public meeting in the city of St. Louis has declared that under no circumstances whatever can the Radical party be allowed to override the rights of the individual States. "If," he says, " the GJ verument of a State can be displaced at the will of a set of poiiticane, or otherwise than by the forms of law, we shall sacrifice our Republican institu• tions and run down int') a sort of Mexican Republic, where Presidents, Judges, &c., are made by pro nunciamentos. The people of this State (Missouri) are not prepared to degrade themselves to this stan dard of Government. We are a people who desire that there shall be stability and dignity in our Go vernment. We are a race of people who fight it out rather than submit. All the men who are en deavouring to make our great contest for our national existence degenerate into a Revolution like that which afflicted France in the last century,—these men, who are following in the footsteps of the Jaco bins of the French Revolution, who are demanding the guillotine, who constitute themselves witnesses, judges, and executioners alike, I tell them to beware. They will not find a submissive people. They will find Girondists of a different stamp. Robespierre will never be allowed to live. Neither Robespierre nor Denton shall exercise the authority they covet, to immolate a people who differ from them in opinions." Some one having hissed the General when he declared that Mr. Chase was in his heart as great an enemy of the Union as Mr. Jefferson D ivis, he said that the hiss was " a good deal like Nlr. Chase himself, a piece of rowdyism and black guardism." It is evident from the whole tenour of the speech that in General Blair's estimation Mr. Chase is the would-be Robespierre of the hour, and that the Girondists who now rule will die harder than their French predecessors. A. few days will show whether at the present moment Mr. Lincoln oscillates to the Girondists or to the Terrorists. The question which will test the fact, and possibly by its solution inaugurate a new civil war in the remote States of Missouri and Kansas has been broadly placed before the President for his immediate decision by a delegation of lawless patriots and border ruffians from both of those States, who, finding the usual process of law too slow for dealing with disturbers of the public peace, propose to carry on a private war of their own under the President's sanction. Discontented with the action of Mr. Gamble, the legally elected Governor of the State, who aspires to keep the peace between both sets of ruffians in Missouri by the agency of the Missouri militia, and with General Schofield, the Federal officer, appointed by Mr. Lincoln to that department of the Union, who is impartial enough to be hated by both factions, they have invaded Washington, nearly 100 strong, every one ready with a speech to fire off at the Presidential head. They have demanded that General Butler should be appointed to succeed General Schofield, and that a declaration of martial law in Missouri should consign Governor Gamble to the retirement of private life. The President, under the influence of Mr. Seward, has given the deputation " the cold shoulder," but promised to write to them as soon as he shall have made up his mind on the subject. In the meantime the deputation has waited upon Mr. Chase, with the certainty of a favourable re ception. If Mr. Chase is ever to be President, it will be by the Western vote, and for that reason Mr. Chase is particularly solicitous to keep all his Western friends in good humour. The anticipa tions of the deputation were consequently realised. He was as cordial as Mr. Lincoln was cool ; and if Mr. Lincoln do not send General Butler to end the anarchy of Missouri and Kansas by the establishment of a despotism, it will be be cause he just now oscillates more closely towards the attraction of Seward than to that of Chase, and that h e i s . . . sein e act a political not disinclined to thwart by one and the of laissez-faire the dangerous ambition of The wor ldQaalsutrell a good rival, whom he can neither retain in I o ffi ce with Personal comfort, nor dismiss without 1 public dang er , deeds of has heard deal of the recent behalf of the Confede rate Missouri, wh o commits, the pro-Slavery scoundrel of unauthorised massacres on as bloodthirsty and as but has not heard Kansas,guit e so of th -slavery scoundrels in fiendisha e s zr ai or Senator he, who a ct with equal atr oc i ty 0 u behalf of the Federals. One of them, the notorio us ci ackwoodstna n — w h o Lan e—an illiterate and savage as a hyoußautindaurdinragwwhi s lew a neighbour for presumi ng to draw w ater of his well, and nevertheless escap e r r h one of the deputation that has recently hanging— is waited on the President and Mr. Chase. tem porary absence in the comparatively civiliseduirego place e was left to a kindred ••' of the Federal capital, where such a person must be asspirit I known in the savage dialect of the ! the much w wo rk rk ou t of o murderf beene n e r a commis sioned in the "bushwhacker'' and a "jayhawker: , named border but having the re H nk av c in f g a , B es ri h g e ad s i a e y r- s G , Federal army. e n to t doubto of Kansas the ouvul rcavalry—though t t h h o e u President i t so much raise u oh a reason e truth of the assertion—this freebooter Kansas border hasjust made a speech to the people of Paoli on for the purpose of enlisting brigands inhis company (the 15th), in which he used the , following lan- gua g e:-- 16;tTt:u1=e=17,1TVoncr 8370r1i—a—!! THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1863 sight! If they have protection papers I willlhang' them, for real Union men need no written proof of their loyalty. In ray next proclamation I will say to every physically ablebodied man in the State of Missouri,— , You must fight for your homes or.be put to death.' And the head of your column will make the road so clear that no Copperhead shall see the tail end of the command. I put the negro on the top and the traitor underneath. Everything disloyal, from a Shanghai chicken up to a Durham cow, must be cleaned out. Adopt this policy and there will be no more Copperheads in Kansas. The 15th will be filled three weeks from to-day. Its whole duty will be to kill rebels. [A Voice— ' Have you got the horses ?'] Jennison•—l never had any trouble in getting all the horses I wanted. All the trouble I ever had was in preventing the boys from leading off six or seven. But my men musn't take anything that will not farther the in terests of their own regiment. Every men must, of course, be his own judge. This regiment will march with the revolver in one hand and the torch ' in the other. It will be urganised on a military and patriotic, and not political basis. We carry the flag, kill with the sabre, and hang with the gallows." It is clearly the duty of the Federals, if the local Governments of Kansas and Missouri be powerless, to keep the peace between their contending factions, to assert its superior authority, even though so rough and so formidable an instrument as General Butler be necessary for the purpose. The war be tween Kansas and Missouri, which are both in the Union, is a disgraceful, but it may not be the last or the only proof of the disintegrating forces that are at work in the bosom of the republic. For if Kansas has its General Jennison and Senator Lane, has not Massachusetts its Senator Wilson, who openly advocates the increase of the Federal army, not only to subdue the Secessionists of the South, but to put bullets through the brains of the " Cop perheads" of the North—Copperheads whose offence is that they love peace better than war, and think with the illustrious Patrick Henry, that liberty is the first thing to be desired, and Union only the second ? THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. (From the Gazette of last evening.) WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 22. The Secretary of State for War has received three despatches with their enclosures, addressed to him by Lieut.-General Cameron, C. 8., commanding the troops in New Zealand, of which the following are copies : " Headquarters, Queen's Redoubt, Auckland, New Zealand, July 20, 1863. "My Lord,—On the 17th inst., at 10 a.m., a large num ber of natives were observed entrenching themselves on the heights of Koheroa, in front of the camp of the 2d Batta lion 14th Regiment, apparent:y with the intention of ob• strutting our further advance up the Waikato. "Lieut.-Colonel Austen, who was commanding on the spot, immediately called in all his working parties, got his battalion under arms, and moved in skirmishing order against the enemy, followed by the detachments of the 12th and 70th, which were at the time arriving at the camp as reinforcement. The strength and composition of the force are shown in the margin.* " Lieut.-Colonel Gamble,Deputy Quartermaster - G eneral, who happened to be on the Koheroa superintending the en campment of the 12th and 70th, having sent me a report of what was going on, I once hastened across the Mungata whirl, and overtook the troops during them advance. "When we came within musket shot of the enemy he opened a sharp fire upon us, to which our skirmishers re replied with such effect that he was soon compelled to retire. This he did slowly and without any precipitation. " The ground over which he retired waa most favourable for defence, as the only road by which we could advance against him led for about five miles over very narrow and tortuous fern ridges, the sides of which were too precipitous to admit of us turning his position by a flank movement, and at several well selected points completely commanding the narrow necks over which we were compelled to move to tho attack he had constructed lines of rifle pits. " These he defended with great obstinacy, and as we had no artillery in the field. we could only dislodge him from them with the bayonet, which was done with great gallantry by the young soldiers of the 14th, led by their commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Austen, who, I regret to say, re ceived a wound in the arm during the action. A fter we had driven them from the secon d li ne o f rifle-pits, w here they made their most determi ne d s t an d, a large numbe r of there left, the ridge, and, tur n i ng t o r i g ht, retreated down a nar row and steep gully, where they were exposed for a long time to a close and destructive fire from our men an tne heights above, by which many of them were killed. The rest were driven before us until they reached th e Maramana (a small tributa r y o f the Waikato), which they c rossed pre cipitately, some in canoes, and others by swi mming. "Having no means of effecting the passag e of the river , we were obliged to discontinue the pursuit , and I accord. ingly ordered the troops back to camp. " I inclose a list of our casualties, which were few consi dering the time the engagement lasted (from 11 a.m. to 1 p m.) and the strength of some of the enemy's positions. " I cannot speak too highly of the conduct of all the offi cers and men engaged, or of the able manner in which the troops were led by their commanding officers, viz., Lieuten ant Colonel Austen, 14th; Major Ryan, 70th; and Major Miller, 12th. "Among the officers who had the good fortune to have the opportunity of distinguishing themselves by conspicuous forwardness in the attack were Captain Strange, 14th, who did good service with the advanced skirmishers; Captain Phelps, who led his company to the charge ; Lieutenants Armstrong and Glancy, and Ensign Green, 14th. "Surgeon-Major Carte, M. 8., 2d battalion 14th, the senior medical officer in the field, rendered prompt assistance to the wounded, many of whom he attend ed under fire. "Colonel Mould, C. 8., commanding Royal Engineers, was also present, and ready to afford his valuable assistance if required. " Lieutenant-Colonel Gamble, the deputy. quartermaster, General, Major M 'Neill, Aide-de -Camp , and m y extra Aide de-Camp, Lieutenant St. Hill, the only o fficers of the sta ff W w e h r o e ha m d o r t o a p c p ti o v r e tu d n u it r y in o o f tiatskinpgropgarretssi: and gave Me ther the engageme n t, greatest assistance throughout. " The enemy had from 300 to 400 men in the field, the whole belonging to the tribes of the Waikato. His loss must have been considerable. " Immediately after the action we counted 21 killed, 9 more on the following day, and others have since been found. Several chiefs fell, among them one of the uncles of the Maori King. The enemy himself acknowledged to have had a great many wounded. "I enclose a sketch of the ground, m ade b y Lieute nant. Colonel Gamble after the action.—l have, &e., " D. A. CAMERON", Lieutenant-General. " The Right Hon the Secretary of State for War, War-office, London." " 2D BATTALION 14TH REGIMENT. —NOMINAL RETURN OF KILLED AND WOUNDED AT KOHIROA ON THE 17TH JULY, 1863, "Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Austen, gunshot wound of left forearm. " Private Moses Burton, gunshot wound through muscles of left side of back, ball extracted ; slight. John Ingram, gunshot wound fracturing lower jaw, also graze of right shoulder; severe. James Gilligan, perforating wound of abdomen, lacerating intestines, caused by a musket ball; proved fatal 22 hours after receipt of injury. Patrick McKay, gunshot wound of left thigh, fracturing femur ; very severe. James Tancred, gunshot wounds of forehead, depressing outer tables, also left leg, passing through head of tibia, ball lodged ; very severe. William Murphy, gunshot wound of left leg, ball buried in head of tibia. extracted ., on the 20th of July ; very severe. William Kavanagh, gunshot wound through right shoulder, a little below articulation, also slight wound of chin and throat ; severe. Henry Clark, gunshot wound of right arm and forearm ; severe. Robert Williamson, gunshot wound of right thumb; slight. Alfred Picton, gunshot wound of back of left hand ; slight. William Smith, gun shot wound of left thigh, femoral artery wounded ; did not recover from shock of wound, and died on the field. "J. MOUAT, Deputy-Inspector-General, P.M.O. "The Assistant-Military Seeretary, Head-qaarters, Queen's Redoubt." "Head-quarters, Queen's Redoubt, July 31. "My Lord,—l have the honour to forward copy of a report (17th of July), from Captain Ring, 2d battalion 18th Regiment, of an attack upon a convoy under his charge by an ambuscade of natives on the 17th instant, on the road between the Queen's Redoubt and Drury. " 1 have since ascertained that the ambuscade consisted of not less than 140 natives, and, considering the very superior numbers by which Captain Ring's small detach ment was attacked, I feel sure that your lordship will con cur with me that no troops could have acquitted themselves better under such trying circumstances.—l have, &c., " D. A. CAMERON, Lieutenant-General. " The Righellon. the Secretary of State for War, War-ctlice, London." tc Camp Drury, July 17. "Sir e—l have the honour to report, for your informa tion, that on my march from the Queen's Redoubt to Drury * Detachment let battalion 12th Foot, 2 captains, 2 sub. alterns, 8 seargeants, 3 d rummers, 135 rank and file ; 2d battalion 14th Regiruent--1 field officer, 3 captains, 8 sub alterns, 2 staff, 11 sergeants, 7 drummers, 266 rank and file; detachment 70th Foot -1 field officer, 1 captain, ' 6 sergeants, 3 (hummers, 93 rank and file. Totat--2 field officers, 5 cap tanains,and 11 su le balterns, 2 staff, 25 sergPauta, 13 drummers, 494 rk fi. his day, my escort, &0., as per margin,* were fired upon by the natives at Stone Depot, near Baird's Farm. The fire was opened on my advance guard on both flanks ; and my right flank and rear were immediately fired upon. The fire took effect upon the centre of the convoys, one driver and two horses of his cart fell, vaich, dividing the convoy, &c., was taken advantage of by tle natives, who, rushing in force across the road, opened fire in the left flank, thus exposing my rear-guard, consisting of prisoner and escort, to a severe fire from the bush on each flank and right rear. I immediately retired with as many men as I could con centrate, and, firing, kept the enemy from surrounding my very small party, though in stirmishing order. During the contest the fire of the etemy was well returned, and I personally saw five or six natives fall. They came out in the open, but a charge quizkly drove them into the bush. Finally, their attemptingto surround my party ob liged me to retire to Mr. Martin's house, which I occupied until reinforced. I beg to enact the following list of killed mad mounded : "Killed—Privates A. Jamieson, F.lVl‘Grath,and T.Scott. ~ Wounded—Sergeant Lawson, Corporals Glinn and Kee, Lance Corporal Kavanagh, Privates Keene, Gibbons, H. Hurst, H. Ryan, A. M. Cague, T. Conners. ac mi ss ing—F. Byrnes, supppsed to have returned to Queen's Redoubt. This man was a prisoner and unarmed at the time.—l have, &c., " JAMES RING, Capt, 2d battalion 18th Regt. p.s.—l beg to state that tha conduct of my subaltern, Ensign Bicknell, and the men Ras admirable, and particu larly that of Ensigu Bicknell. " J. RING, Captain, R. I." " Head-quarters, Queen's Redoubt, July 31. gc My Lord,—l have the honour to forward copies of re ports (July 23d) from Capt. Ring, 2d battalion 18th, and Col. Wyatt, 65th Regiment, of a skirmish which took place between detachments under their command, and a body of rebels in the bush near Drury. 66 Both Col. Wyatt and Capt. Ring appear to have acted with great judgment on this occasion, and the officers and men under their command deserve great credit for their con duct; those under Capt. Ring for tho firmness with which they held their ground a long time against superior numbers, and those of Col. Wyatt's detachment (including a small detachment of volunteers, who were for the first time under fire), for their prompt support of the former, and the gal lantry with which they attacked and beat off the enemy.— I have, &c., " D. A. CAMERON, Lieut.-Gen. 66 The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for War, War-office, London." " Camp, near Keri Keri, Wairoa-road, July 23. " Sir,—l have the honour to state for your information that at noon, the 22d inst., I received information that two two settlers had been fired upon by a body of natives, and that one of the settlers was killed, and, hearing firing in the vicinity of Pukekewereke, about two miles from my camp, I immediately proceeded with 100 men of the detachment under my command, and close to the above named place I fell in with natives, who were engaged with 16 Volunteers. I opened fire and the natives retreated to my former en trenchment above the whare, at Keri Keri; the firing of the skirmishers drove them down the side of the hill into the brushwood ; the leading skirmishers on the right under Lieutenant Wray, took possession of the hill and kept up fire on them; I, with another body of skirmishers, pro ceeded to take that on the right flank, but found that the natives, who mastered a strong force, nearly surround me. Here I lost one man killed, whose rifle and bayonet were taken possession of by the natives, though not without serious less to them. I then concentrated my men on the entrenchment, and having heard from an Artillery officer who rode up to my position that the 65th Regiment was in toy immediate vicinity, I requested that he would inform the officer commanding the 65th Regiment that there was a track in the enemy's rear, and if an attack were made in that direction it would be of great service. As it was quite im possible for me t o f o ll ow so strong a f orce o f th e enemy into the bush w ith my so sma ll a f orce , I remained in th e entrenched position, until close on sunset, keeping a steady fire on the enemy,who were endeavouring to obtain the body and ammunition of the private who was killed, and who I would not leave. I repeatedly tried to obtain possession of the body by sending out volunteers of the man's company, but desisted, finding that it would entail greater loss. I was about retiring, leaving a rear guard in the entrenchment, when the Mounted Artillery arrived. Immediately after I saw the 65th appear. The natives then drew off their right flanking movement, and retreating into the bush enabled me to obtain the body of the man of my detachmen;. This accomplished; the whole force withdrew. I beg to annex the following list of casualties :—No. 1 Company, No. 925, Private John Ewins, killed ; No. 1 Company, No. 805, Private John Hamilton, wounded severely; No. 7 Company, No. 324, Private Thomas Dunbar, wounded slightly; No, 7 Company, Conway, wounded slightly. "The officers engaged on this occasion were Lieutenant Wray, Ensign J. B. Jackson, and Ensign Butts, whose assistance, coupled with the steadiness of my men, merits unqualified approbation.—l have, &c., " JAMES RING, Captain Royal Irish, Commanding Detachment. " The officer commanding troops, Drury." " SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT. " I beg to enclose the enclosed list just received from Captain Clear of the Auckland Militia, who at first was en gaged with the enemy, and these joined my force, and ren dered every possible assistance, and behaved in a most creditable manner.— I have, &c., " J. RING, Captain." " Camp Drury, July 23, 18G3. have the honour to request you will inform the Lieutenant-General that yesterday forenoon, having been informed by a mounted volunteer that a man had been shot by the natives on Mr. Hayes's grounds, and that his house was threatened, I immediately got my available force under arras (as per margint) and proceeded in that direction, di recting as I went along the detachment of Militia to crown a small knoll, and thus protect the approaches to Drury, and also ordering Lieutenant Raitt, It A., and his troopers, to proceed in the direction of the Wairoa Valley, for the purpose of calling off any marauding parties. On arriving at Mr. Hayes's, his son, Ensig n J ame s B. Hayes, of the Militia, volunteered to act as guide to my party , and I Loured all the bush in that vicinity with 30 mon, having previously directed Lieutenant and Adjutant Lewis, with 40 men, to remain outside, and thus cut off any natives at tempting to escape. On reaching the native settlement of Keri Keri, I heard some desultory firing on my left, and was led to understand by some militiamen that they had fired at some natives towards the Wairoa escaping into the bush. "tieing satisfied with this explanation, I returned to wards Drury, having previously picked up the body of the murdered man, and sent it there. "When within 1 mile of that settlement, I was over taken by Veterinary Surgeon Anderson, R.A., who informed me that a detachment of the 2d battalion 18 th Re g iment was in a very precarious position near Wairoa, and required a reinforcement, as they could not do more than hold their position. " Oa this I retraced my steps towards Keri Keri, and just before sunset entered the wain bush under the guidance of Ensign Hayes. "As my party advanced firing and shouting were more distinctly heard, and after proceeding about half a mile, a turn of the road brought me suddenly upon the combatants, the 2d battalion 18th Regiment, upon an entrenched knoll, and the natives on the lower ground, but pressing them hard on three sides, when the detachment, 65th Regiment, cut off in their turn the immediate rear of two of them. Lieutenant Pennefather, who commanded the rear-guard, finding himself exposed to a cross• fire from both the 2d bat talion 18th Regiment and natives, directed the bugler to sound the regimental call' and the 'fire,' and with a loud cheer, which was answered by the 2d battalion 18th Regi ment, a rapid and continuous fusillade was opened on the natives ensconced in the gullies, and sheltered by trees from the fire of the 2d battalion 18th Regiment, "Being completely taken by surprise, they, after a smart action of about 10 minutes, fled towards the denser bush, but the darkness which had now begun to set in rendered all attempts at searching for their dead and wounded per. fectly futile. " The enemy's fire being now completely silenced, I di rected both parties to move off to their respective camps, and while so doing a few desultory shots were fired high over their heads. "I must bring to the Lieut.-Generals notice the cool and intrepid gallantry evinced On this occasion by Lieut. Raitt, Royal Artillery—Captain Gresson, Lieut. and Adjutant Lewis (who commanded No. 1 company, the officers being both sick), and Lieut. Pennefather, who commanded the advanced guard—and I trust you will recommend Ensign James B. Hayes, of the Militia, to the favourable considera- tion of his Excellency the Governor, for his coolness and cleverness in guiding the party under my command so rapidly into the scene of this brief but smart action. "With a proud heart I must bring to the Lieut.-General's notice the cool and quiet order and gallantry displayed by all ranks of the force under my command,and the unflinch ing patience with which the men bore the harassin g and ivat toilsome march to and from the scene of action. " I to onehappy private to saye killed. at t he casualties of my party were limited Li e utenant -Colonel Commandi ng 65 e ig I have, &c., " ALFRED F. W. WYATT, Colon Regiment and troops at Drury. 44 The Military Secretary , Headquarters, Drur y ." Colonel and L jc:LLED AND WOUNDED AT N 0 M I K N E A R L T R K E E T R U 2D OF JULY, 1863, RETURN OF Tlto the head : fatal. J. Hamil ton, ----- Th"oPmraisvaistrasde,Js.hEavrros,ugshhot through the chest; f a t a l . ton, severe gunshat wound through upper part of right thigh. W. Conroy, slight g raze of right temple. J. Fitz. patrick, slight graze of lef t shoulder. T. Dunbar, Blight contusion. ‘‘ J. M OUAT , Deputy Inspector-General, p. M.G. "The Assistant Military Secretary, Headquarters, Queen's Redoubt." * 1 subaltern,:2 sergeants, 47 rank and file. t R o yal A rtillery —1 subaltern, 1 staff, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, 26 rank and fi le ; 65th Regimont-1 field officer, 1 captain, 3 subalterns, 1 staff, 6 sergeants,3 drumm ers , 72 rank and file; Volunteer Militia -1 captain, 1 subaltern, 1 sergeant, 33 rank and file. Total, 1 field officer, 2 captains 5 subalterns, 2 staff, sergeants, 4 drummers, 131 rank and file. The Rev, W. IL Beecher. Yesterday morning a numerous company, con sisting principally of ministers of different Dissent ing bodies, assembled at breakfast at Radley's Hotel, upon the invitation of the " Committee of Correspondence on American Affairs,' to meet the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher previous to his deptirture for America. The Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel oc cupied the chair. The Rev. H. Ward Beecher, who was received with much cheering, after some pre liminary remarks, said he felt ho could speak with perfect freedom in that assembly as to what he be lieved to be the interposition of Providence on his behalf since he had been in this country. When he came from the continent he had been for more than 20 weeks without speaking, and was quite out of training; and after speaking in Manchester, Edin burgh, Glasgow, and Liverpool, his voice completely failed him. He was afraid he would not be able to speaK in Exeter Hall. When, however, on Tuesday morning he spoke to himself, he found his voice as clear as a whistle. Some might say that his re covery was owing to the remedies he adopted, but he was disposed to think that in their use he had the the direct interposition of the Almighty. Only last night he received by the mail some very important documents from America which threw considerable light on the state of public feeling in New York in regard to the negro. The late riots were really the work of the Irish population. Mr. Beecher then read numerous extracts froth the report of the com mittee appointed to relieve the coloured people, showing the sufferings which the negroes had en dured at the hands of the mob, and the energy with which the merchants and religious congregations were setting themselves to work to compensate them, as far as possible, for their sufferings. The reply to this report, a document admirable for ex cellent composition and noble sentiments, was signed by 12 or 15 coloured men, who were gentle men, scholars, and Christians, It was said that the coloured man was worse off in New York than in South Carolina; bat, having been in the latter State, he could bear testimony to the con trary being the fact. Hundreds and thousands of emancipated negroes were being educated by white people, who asked for no other return but board and lodging. The Christian Church of the North was fully conscious of his duty in regard to the black man. He read other extracts from reports and other documents to show that in 1861 and subse quently nearly all the Christian churches in Ante. rica had declared against slavery. In the North and West all the meat intelligent laymen and ministers of religion had, as a body, settled down in the im movable conviction that the war must go on until the rebellion was crushed and slavery destroyed. Let Eng and give them credit for having sufficient reason for that,determination, and for differing from those who urged peace. So far as the influence of England was felt on the other side of the Atlantic, it had been all against liberty and for slavery, though he did not mean to say that was what she meant. He hoped, therefore, they would not con sider it an unreasonable request if he asked them to revise their opinions on the subject, and in doing so not to allJw themselves to be influenced by com mercial interests nor by unprincipled newspapers. Mr. George Thompson moved a resolution testify ing the respect and admiration of the meeting for Mr. Beecher, thanking him for his able service in the cause, and wishing him God speed on his return to America. It wss seconded by the Rev. John Graham, and carried unanimously. Mr. Beecher expressed a hope that the resolution might be trans mitted to his congregation in New York, who had generously maintained him while abroad. This re quest was acceded to, and after a vote of thanks to tne chairman the proceedings terminated. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—The friends of Sir James Hudson, with a natural anxiety that the services of so eminent a public man, though lost to us in the position in which he could render the greatest advantage to us and the greatest honour to himself, should not be wholly withdrawn from the public, have, we are told, entertained the idea of bringing him forward as a candidate for a seat in the House of Commons. We are not sanguine as to the fraiccess of Sir James Hudson in such a career. A life spent in the toils of the Chancellery is but a bad preparation for the conflicts of a popular Assembly, and few men have attained success in the House of Commons who have entered it in the decline of life. The very idea, however, of such a thing reminds us that it is time our countrymen should know what manner of man Sir James Hudson is, and what are the circumstances which have occasioned his loss to England and to Italy. We are not in the habit of looking to our diplomatic service as one of those institutions of which Englishmen have any parti cular reason to be proud. It often happens that when an unseen emergency arises at a foreign Court our diplomatic representative proves him self unfit to meet it, and we have not un frequently invited comparisons between our own State papers and those of foreign countries by no means to the advantage of England. It is only the barest justice to Sir James Hudson to say that during a service extending now over a period of nearly 30 years he has acted in different diplomatic capacities with great energy, ability, and success, and in a manner exceedingly conducive to the interests of this country. We will confine our attention to the last two missions which he has filled. In Brazil he succeeded in putting an end to the slave trade, and thus not only greatty promoted the cause of humanity, for which England has made so many sacrifices, but, by shutting up one of the principal marts for human flesh, reduced the blockade of the African coast and the labours of our squadron within much more manageable dimen sions. If another diplomatist were to arise who would do us the same good office at the Court of Spain, he would occasion a considerable relief to our finances and a very grateful diminu tion of the most unhealthy and dietastefal duty which the English navy is called upon to perform. In 18M Sir James Hudson was sent to the Court of Turin, and the object or his mission was communi cated to him by Lord Palmerston in these memorable words :—" You have been so successful in liberating black bodies that I send you now to liberate white minds." The task which devolved on Sir James Hudson was in all respects a most important one. Shortly before his arrival at Turin the liberties of France were overwhelmed by a sudden blow, from which they have never since recovered. The reaction against the excesses of 1848 was general and de cisive all over Europe. The Emperor Nicholas was at the very summit of his grandeur and in. fluence, and freedom of speech, printing, and action was tolerated nowhere in Europe be yond the limits of the British Isles, the Repub• lie of Switzerland, and the little monarchy of Belgium. The duty which Sir James Hudson undertook was to watch over the movement which was destined to rescue Italy from the crimes and miseries of nearly 400 years, and to restore her to her legitimate place in the first ranks of European civilisation. Sir James Hudson had the sagacity to see the real importance of the small kingdom of Piedmont. He established a personal friendship with the King which, free from servility on the one side or undue assumption on the other, has been highly honourable to both, and of the greatest ad vantage to Piedmont, to Italy, and to England. He recognised in Count Cavour the man whose talents and energies —nay, perhaps, whose very faults— eminently fitted him to work out the regeneration of Italy ; and, having found his man, Sir James Hudson gave him all the assistance which his posi tion as the representative, and his experience as the citizen, of a free country enabled him to give, and which his hearty goodwill to the cause of Italian independence prompted him to give to the utmost. It is the nature of services rendered by persons act ing in a diplomatic capacity to the nation at the Court of which they reside never to be fully known or completely understood. But the instinct of Italy has truly divined that Sir James Hueson has been one of the most ef f icient causes of that " good estate," as Rienzi would have called it, which she has at present attaiued. Since the premature death of Count Cavour the presence at the Court of Turin of a person notoriously the partner of his plans and the depositary of his secrets has been of inestimable value. We know not why we should confine our selves to the past tense. Unhappily the state of Italy is not yet so sure or so tranquil that she can dispense with any of that guidance under which she has succeeded so far beyond her hopes. The lancet of the learned surgeons of Turin has cut short the inestimable life of Count Cavour, but France is still in Rome, Austria in Venice, and murder is still ri e under the pretence of political parti_sandsabnni P in still Southern Italy. Cavour is gone , but H remained, all the more valuable fro m the Hudson of the statesman with whom he so heartily cooperate d. Supposing him to exercise hi man office with no more . s than average ability—which oby no means the case Sir James Hudson —the presence of such a i ne stimable value to would be at this moment of at, Italy. Whoever his succe ss or might be, he must labour for many year s before he could attain the same position of influence and authority as Sir James Hudson enjoyed. He may counsel as wisely, he may mean as honestly, but he cannot all at once invest himself with that influence and authority in the Councils of a foreign State which long time and signal success can alone bestow. The withdrawal of Sir James Hudson from Turin is the taking away of that which we cannot replace—the sacrifice of a vast amount of personal influence highly beneficial to Italy, and exceedingly valuable to England. Why, then, in the fulness of his usefulness, at the very height of that public consideration which his eminent services and his unshaken fidelity have earned for him, is Sir James Hudson withdrawn from the Mission of Turin ? As far as form goes, the act appears to be his own; but we are assured that he resigns his mission unwillingly, and this assertion is confirmed by the fact that he does not intend to return to England, but to end his days amid the scenes which have been the witnesses of his anxieties and success. We are told that the thing is all a mistake, and that if we lose prema turely the services of the man who is above all others able to promote our interests and policy in Italy, it is entirely due to the inevitable consequences of an unhappy misunderstanding. We hope we shall not be thought to express ourselves too bluntly if we say that we do not find any reason for supposing that there was any misunderstanding at all. The facts are these—Nearly three years ago there existed an intention at the Foreign-office of translating Sir James Hudson from Turin to a higher post. The announcement gave great dissatisfaction in this country, some communications passed between the Italian and English Governments, and the: idea was for the time dropped. In March, 1862, Sir James Hudson was informed that he would be ap pointed to an Embassy, and would have to vacate his Mission in Turin in July. He answered that his health was too much shattered to undertake a new Mission, and that he was too much bound up with Italy to wish for any other. He proposed, however, to meet Lord Russell's views by re tiring from Turin in August of this year, at which time he would have served long enough to entitle him to a diplomatic pension. Pur suant to this proposal Sir James sent in his resignation in April of this year, and it was accepted by the Foreign-office, as it is said, under a mistake, the mistake being that the resignation was offered voluntarily, and not merely in pursuance of an en gagement almost forced upon the Minister by the pressure of the Foreign-office in the preceding year. Of course, the notion of a mistake is quite out of the question. The Foreign-office authorities could not have forgotten in April, 1863, their own pro posal to Sir James Hudson in August, 1862. They must have known that twice in two years they had attempted to remove him from his position, and could not be ignorant that the pressure they had put upon their Minister left him little option but to offer his resignation, if he did not wish to be removed by a formal act of his superiors. HERALD.—Theletter of " Historicus," which was published in the Times of yesterday, in justification of the seizure of the steam rams in Messrs. Laird's yard at Birkenhead, is deserving of comment, not from the intrinsic weight of its arguments, but from the factitious authority which it receives by means of the prominence assigned to it in the colums of our contemporary. It is a subject of regret that the sound and unpretentious letters of " Phocion" should have been allowed to cede their place to the flimsy and arrogant productions of " Historicus," whose supreme dogmatism and authoritative air may induce the public to attach greater importance to his conclusions than they justly merit. It was stated as a profound truth in a letter of Mr. Vernon Lushington's, upon which we hove before com mented, that international law is not fixed but pro gressive. We should, perhaps, be mote inclined to designate this statement as a truism, which it was unnecessary to parade with all the circumstances of a great discovery. We should certainly be the last to deny that there must be such a growth in all human laws which cannot be made for all time, but which must be adapted to the advanc ing civilisation of mankind. Nor should we for a moment dispute the proposition, that inter national law, controlled by certain fixed and established principles, must grow with our growth in mechanical appliances and in the science of mutual destruction. But we have yet to learn that that growth is so rapid, so fitful, and so sudden, as the growth manifested in the letters of" Historicus." Is the growth of international law to be taken to be coincident with the growth of the opinions of "His toricus?" For if so, the international law of to-day must be taken to be directly contradictory to the international law of six months back. The oracular utterances of " Historicus" of the spring are strangely discordant with those of the autumn. His inconsistencies of argument and conclusion have been brought into vivid contrast by our able corre sponent " Vigilana." The varying course of his opinions may be regulated by some law of deviation of which we are ignorant. It is only remarkable that it has been in accordance with the action of the Government. " Historicus," in pity for the ignorance of mankind, has set himself to illuminate it with a modicum of that light of which, up to the present time, he is conscious that he has had a mo nopoly. Not insensible to his own condescension in so doing he has come down from the airy heights of legal science in which he must be taken usually to dwell in order to justify the seizure of the steam rams by order of the Government. In the first place, he lays down the indisputable proposition that the Foreign Enlistment Act, as being the law of England, must be enforced. But he goes rather too far when he says (after stating it to be the better opinion that that act is merely a municipal law and not an embodiment of international law) that it must be enforced against all persons who seek to violate or evade it, whether they be within or without the realm. However, that may pass as a mere trifling inaccuracy. He then calls attention to an intercepted correspondence which was com municated by Mr. Adams to the English Govern ment, and which undoubtedly points to the fact that a special mission had been organised, and that a special fund had been provided by the Confederate Government for the purpose ofpbtain ing iron-clad steam vessels from this country. But he omits to give us any evidence ss tucn will connect the rams building in Messrs. Laird's yard with the iron-clad steamers which have apparently been contracted for by the Confede rates. He seems to think that such evidence may be dispensed with. He asks, with an air of triumph, if these ships are not intended for the Confederate Government, for whom were they intended ?" He says that if it is no longer a matter of inference but a matter of certainty, that certain iron-clad vessels have been ordered by the Confederate Government, we must conclude that the two rams at Birkenhead are being built in execution of that order; for if these particular ships were intended for some other and pacific Government, " their destination should be avowed, and their purchasers vouched." Pre sumptions of criminality are new to the jurispru dence of this country. Are we to assume guilt until innocence is proved, or are we to fabricate evidence where the necessary link in the chain is wanting ? Bat even supposing it can be proved that these vessels are being built for the Confederate Government by such evidence as will satisfy the just requirements of English law, it is exceedingly questionable whether such a result would be an infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act. " Historicus tells us that it is so; but we prefer to take the opinion of the Chief Baron, in the case of the Alexandra. It has been without reason assumed that because a vessel is clad in iron and has an iron beak, it is necessarily within the terms of this act, which was expressly framed for the purpose of pre venting filibustering expeditions being made from this country against countries with which it was at peace. It is a much more rea so nabl e construction of this act, keeping only meant to its origin in view, that it was prevent vessels being sent forth from this country as completely prepared as one of our own men of war for hostile operations, in point of men, guns, and equipment. " Historicus" quotes the case of the irresistible as in point, and as analogous to the case of these rams. The Irre sistible was purchased by a belligerent power, and sailed out of the port of Baltimore, armed and manned as a vessel of war, for the purpose of being emplayed as a cruiser against a nation with whom the United States was at peace. The shallow device which was adopted for the purpose of eluding the Foreign Enlistment Act was this— the arms and ammunition were cleared out as cargo, and the men were enlisted in form, as for a common mercantile voyage. The Chief Justice of the ' Supreme Court of the United States decided that to permit such a contriva nce as this to prevent the operation of the act would make their neutrality " a fraudulent one, and one which was disgraceful to their Government, and of which no nation would be the dupe." This decision is incontrovertible, but it has no bearing upon the present case, except in so far as it may be taken to show that this act is in tended to prevent vessels of war which are com pletely fitted for military operations leaving the ports of a neutral pow er for the p ur p ose of carrying on war against a fri endl y belli g eren t under the fli ms y pretext of commercial enterprise. T o class the case of th e Irresistible with that , of these rams argues an amount of obtusity to broad marked distinctions existing between these eases which we should hardly have expected from a international thatla wy t e h r e . entirelyWe aw m a yh be enforcedconcur w, great. are confident that this country will not Perm be strained in craven compliance withthe demands of a foreign power. ibtitutihtwittn in : Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s 4d. and 4s. "High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (form er l y 4 s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. The Agapemone, or " Abode of Love." The following particulars respecting this estab lishment have been received from an authentic Bonne :—Three more of the servants, two brothers and a young woman, have escaped out of Prince's hands. The family of the former were at one time all inmates of the Agapemone, but only the father now remains. The mother left some years since, and afterwards succeeded in rescuing her children from the power of the arch-enemy of families and human nature, with the •exception of the two sons now restored to her. It appears a great change has come over the establishment. Prince's parse, cellar, and larder are woefully reduced ; his own fine stud of horses has disappeared; his former sumptuous and extravagant mode of living has produced its usual consequences; and no small difficulty is ex perienced in meeting current expenses—a terrible calamity to any one fond of luxury, pomp, and. grand parade. It appears that many events and circumstances have occurred which have created. considerable uneasiness amongst Prince's adherents, but the latest appears to be connected with the death of Miss Sarah Croad, a member of the con nection. She seems to have been ill about a twelve month, and it is alleged that her illness was brought on by mental depression, owing to the breaking off of an attachment which had sprung up between her and a young man of the same persuasion. This brought on epileptic fits, which at length terminated ' her life. The event has produced considerable sen sation amongst Prince's followers. Some have left as already stated. We also hear that a Miss Maber, an. inmate of the Agapemone, died a short time since, but the event, as usual, was kept a great secret, lest it should affect Prince's late pretensions to deliver the body from disease and death. Mrs. —, a married woman, who as well as her hus band is an inmate of the Agapemone, has been de graded and excommunicated from the society of her husband and other members, and condemned to live with the servants, because she refuses to discard her husband and to enter into another alliance after his own example. It is intended by this treatment to reduce her to obedience. This is the work now going on at the Agapeuaone—a work which the chief doubtless would be glad to conceal, as mystery is a fundamental principle, which he carries to such an extent that the majority of the inmates of his own establishment have no knowledge of much that is done within its walls ; and the cause of Mrs. —'s humiliation has only oozed out through a private though authentic source. Another very serious effect of the religious system is the insanity of Mrs. -. She seems never to have shown any symptoms of mental derangement until of late. It is now found necessary to watch her, lest she should do herself any injury. Her husband was some time since similarly afflicted from the same cause, and it became necessary to place him is a lunatic asylum, but he appears to be now recovered. It will be re,- collected that these are not the only victims. 4 gentleman and lady, both inmates of the Agapemone, committed suicide, the former by hanging, the latter by drowning. It seems several other instances of insanity have occurred. Two women made attempts on their lives, and a lady died from the effects of mental derangement. Prince has been of late con stantly ill, suffering, it is said, from disappointment and mortification, produced by the failure of his religious scheme of ambition and self-aggrandise. meat; and from the late serious legal defeats, which condemned him to restore large sums of money belonging to parties once connected with him.--• Sherburne Journal. COUNTRY MARKET S. w LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. • At this day's market there was a fair attendance both of millers and dealers, but the demand for wheat only mo derate at the full prices current on Tuesday. Oats rather more saleable. Barley, beans, and peas firm. Flour at Tuesday's rates. Indian corn firm. WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. Wheat trade quiet. Fine white and yellow descriptions met a fair demand at last Friday's rates. Barley unaltered. Spring corn slow. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,594 qrs., at 43s 94 Rye 9 .. 3ls Od Oats — Beans Peas .... 65: 8ar1ey......... 758 l33s 911 STAMFORD-FRIDAY. White wheat, 41s to 43s ; red, 37s to 408 per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 35s to 38s; :grinding, 32s to 34s per qr. Oats, 20s :to 25stper 24 stone. Beane, old, 428 to —8 per qr. ; new, 38 to —s. CORK-FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :--Red wheat, 8s 4d to 8s 8.1; white, 8s 2d to Os Cd , barley, 53 4d to 8s Od ; oats, 5s 4d to Os 4d ; black do., 4s 10d to 5s 5d ; bere, 6s. -F RI DAY . heat, but large of barley and :sday. Nothing doing in In- s. d. s. d. Beans.. — 0 to C Bere . Rapeseed Oatmeal ll 6 to 13 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn DUBLIN. A small supply again of wl oats ; prices same as last Tue dian corn. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 23 0 to 25 6 Do., red 2O 0 to 23 ; ,0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 BRISTOL SUGAR-FRIDAY. The market this week has been doing an active busi ness, and the latest sales show an advance of 2s 6d to 3s on the week. Refined goods met with a better demand, and 2s 6d higher in price. Rum in good request at the prices of last week. COAL h Prices of Coal per 'von a a. d. ARK ET. toe Moue of the market. Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....16 3 Cowpen Hartley 16 3 Davison's West Hart- .. 8. ley ..16 6 Lambert's West Hart- ley 16 0 Tanfield Moor Bates l4 0 North Pelton Gas, 14 0 West Hartley ..16 3 Walker Primrose 13 0 Wylam 17 3 West Wylam.. l6 0 Eden Main lB 0 Holywell 17 6 Walls End. Haswell ...20 0 Trimd on Hartlepool...l9 6 South Hetton ......... 21 0 Ships at market Walls End. Byron .. lB 0 Hetton 20 0 Tunstall ...... n 9 Eleugh Hall 19 0 Thorpe 17 9 South Kelloe.. l9 6 Riddell..... l7 6 Whitworth l5 6 East Hartlepool 20 0 Framwellgate.. l7 0 Eden 18 0 Stewart's 19 6 Cassop ....18 6 Hartlepool 19 6 K elloe Belmont ...17 6 Russel's Hetton 19 0 Caradoc l9 6 Acorn Close ..18 0 ;, 212:; sold. 147. [4DvEuTisEmENT.j—Holloway's Pills.—Timely Pre caution.—Who can with certainty predict the ultimate issue of a disordered stomach if it be neglected ? Fever, diarrhoea, and even cholera, are too often the penalties of such neglect. It should be everywhere known that Hollo way's pills effectually prevent these disastrous consequences. This purifying medicine should be taken at once to stern the formidable symptoms, or the opportunity of doing so may be lost for ever, and a few days' delay even may be fatal. Each succeeding dose gradually regulates the stomach, liver, and bowels. When the weather is sultry the system is weakened , and malaria abundant, the diges tion of its organs should be kept in order by treatment so simple, yet so productive of comfort, security, and strength. Births. ASKEW. -0a the 21st inst., at Yeiteh's Hotel, Edinburgh, the wife of Watson Askew, Esq., of PaLlinsbnm, of a son and heir. CocKnunN.—On the 22d inst., at 33, Talbot-terrace, the wife of Wm. A. CockLurn, Esq., of a son. GREY.—On the 20th inst., at Bath, Alfred Grey, o f a son. WARD.—On. the 22d inst.. at M a id en h ea d, th e w ife of A. Ward, E sq ., of a daughter. the wife of Captain Marriages. GREATHED ..-CLIVFI.—On the 22d inst., at Wormbridge Church, Lieut. , Colonel Wilberforce Greathed, C. 8., to Alice, only daughter of th e R ev. A rc h er Cli ve, o f Whit field, Herefordshire. BELL—HOCKLEY.—On the 22d inst., at Milton-nest - Gravesend, Edward S, Bell, Esq., of 102, Leadenhall street, London, and Bedford Villas, South Norwood, to Amelia, youngest daughter of Edward Hoekley, Esq., of Rectors'-commons. Deaths. DARBY.—On the 20th inst., at Rowley Regis, Thome o Darby, Esq., aged 66. JEFFRIES.—On the 21st in.t., at Malvern, Lieut.-Colonel Euward Jeffreys, late H.E.LC.'s Bengal A:my, aged i l ' KINGSTON.—Ou the 191 h inst., at his residence, Baton , near Bath, William Wykeham Kingston, Esq., aged 62. MotasEy.--On the 21st inst., at the Vicarage, Etwallf Derbyshire, the Rev. William Eaton Moulsey, ALA' aged - 46. ' Small —On the 22d inst , at Hull, John Lee Smith, Esci'9 J.P., aged 66. STIRLING.—On the 22d insc., at 11, Gell-street, Sheffield , Thomas Stirling, Esq., aged 71. WALLEY.—On the 22d inst., at Morden College, Black heath, Joseph Walloy, aged 36. London: PrinZed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRE - N'!' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office No• 11- 4 ! Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy 'n the County o' Satttr.tay, October 24, 1863. i