The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and ALUMINIUM BRONZE. 2,000 SPECIMENS, illustrating the appli cation (Ornamental and Useful) of these in teresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW at MAPPIN BROTHERS' NEW ROOMS, 222, REGENT STREET. Admission by Card. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. THis EVENING (Thursday), April 16 (Subscription .Vight), will be performed, for the second time this season, Beilinl's favourite Opera, I PCRITANL With the following powerful cast Mdlle. itiens ; Enrichetta, Madame Corsi ; Walton, mgnor Bossi ; Riccardo, Signor Gassier ; Bruno, Signor Scldi ; Gloreio, Signor Vialetti ; and Arturo, Signor Giuni. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. After which will be produced a new and original Ballet, in Four Tableaux, entitled LA FARFALL ET VA. Co m posed by Signor Prospero Diani. The mu si c b y Signor P. (iorga. Farfalletta, Mdlle. Amalia Ferraris (her first M. ap pearance these two years), supported by Mdlle. Pieroni, Diani, and M. Alessandro Paul. IL TRO VATO RE, Saturday next, April IS.—ln conse quence of every place having been disposed ot tor its repre sentation on Saturday last, and owing to the impossibility ot. repeating it for some period on account of forthcoming novel repeating ties, Verdi's favourite Opera, Trovatore, will be again performed on Saturday next, April is, vvith the same unparalleled cast. Doors open at hall-past Seven. The Opera will commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Boxes, Stalls, an Tickets may be had at the Box-office of the Theatre (under d the Colonnade in the Hayman , et', which is open daily, under the superintendence of M ies and. Nugent, from Ten till Six ; and at all the principal Librar Music sellers. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, April 18, for the 358th time in London, PEEP O'DAY. Mes.ra. Henry Lorraine, Walter Lacy, C. Verner, Addison, J. Graham. G. Spencer, T. NeTilie, ; Misses Cleveland, Clara Weston, M. Hudson, &c. To conclude pith MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. TaBAT RE-ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. R. Bnckstone. Tins EVENING, SHE STOOPS TO C')NQUER. Tony, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Hardcast:e, Miss Louisa Angel ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Wilkins. After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, i n t ro d u cing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of W ales in the East. To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela Miss Maria Harris. Commence at 7. THEATREROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECUTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, MISS Ilenrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr) ogue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. G. Yining, J. Brougham, H. W idcll - Mlntyre, F . Charles, Garden, Raymond, H Bette,utler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terr y, E. Laverne, and Elaworthy. Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. R Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessees, Mess s. Lindus and Vining. Tins EVENING the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Miss Amy Sedgwick. Miss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. Roxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Scyton, Wallace, and Cathcart. After which, KILLING TIME. Mr. Geo. Vining, Mr. C Seyton, and Miss Amy Sedgwick. To conclude with a new a himsical Extravaganza, entitled BEAUTIFUL HAIDER ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee Rovers. Misses M. Oliver , Hele n Howard, Hudspeth, Hen derson, and Murray ; Messrs. C. Seyton, G. Belmore, Fitz- James, Moreland, and Cockerill. EW THFATRE-R0 Y AL , ADELPHI. 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE TRIAL OF TOMPKINS. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss A. Seaman. After which, at Eight o'clock, AURORA FLOYD. Miss Ayonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford,Phillips, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. Commence at 7. HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," rContaining the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, c an be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. ,---- The Weather—Sun Office, April 16, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the nig ht 60 This day at N00n.... • Wind—W. ; very fine. -....-----......-------- 11IGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ttne Dl...Y.—Morning, 12h. 42m.—Afternoon, Ih. sm. To-uov.Row.-3,Lorning, lh. 28m.—Afternoon, 111. 60m. _ . ...,...,.;.$ .4.5 .6„. Z b ,-",;1/4Opi;,,, I j .0 141 *2: 4 =:,'" ), A7t .! 4?"4-43 44 LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1863. One amusing fragment of intelligence is brought to us in these last advices from the American seat of war. It is to the effect that that unfortunate Ad m iral FARRAGUT has, after all, proved himself to be exactly too clever by half. Having contrived, as we know, to slip adroitly past Port Hudson, with flying colours at the mast-head of his flag-ship the Hertford —poor Admiral FARRAGUT all of a sudden wakes up to a recognition of the fact that he has fairly and quite deliberately trapped himself ! Fears are rife, we learn, among his sympathisers, that both his own vessel and its companion in suc cess (and misfortune !), the Albatross, may come to grief there most inopportunely. Reasonable fears enough, they would seem to be, moreover, when we learn that not only are the Hartford and the Albatross isolated from their hitherto co-operative gunboats, but that actually those far-seeing and much -contriving Confederates have no less than three rams, there, in between Port Hudson and Vicksburg, the beleaguered but impregnable ! Learning which, we cannot but look forward, with the liveliest interest, to the next news that may be brought to us from the Mississippi. All that the Federals appear to live upon just now, in the way of favourable prospects, may be epitomised within the compass of a single vague rumour in reference to the reported pre parations made or making at Richmond with a view to its evacuation. As yet the un likeliest move well imaginable, on the part of the Southerners. The Northerns, however, have s o little to cling to in the way of hope, that to that most dim ands ague anticipatio of a some they hold on n ,(to emelloy thing that may haPPi one of their own vernacular phrases of exaggeration) by the eyelashes. Richmond —perhaps —one of these fi ne days—may, within the limits of a bare possibility, be evacuated. At the feeble suggestion of which , there - is a cry of Jubilate from the New Yorkites and the Washingtonians. Nay, nor is this all, in their manner of revealing the extent of their credulity —in their way of believing what, in Shak sperian diction, the wish is father to! There come to us, this time, across the Atlantic, tid ings of something like a popular demon stration among the Federals in favour of —whom is it supposed ? Why, of noless infamous a personage than General BUTLER! Admiral WiLKES would have been bad enough, had he been selected as the object or hero for another ovation. But—General BUTLER ! Why, the force, we won't say of folly, of absolute audacity on the part of the Federal population could certainly no further go than this. The acclamations greeting General BUTLER the other day in the midst of his en , husi astic fellow-citizens are nothing less than an outrage to our common humanity. As such they will be regarded, too, not alone in England, but far and wide throughout Europe. And when the New y o -k journals can say, as one of them actually does, in so many words, that " General BUTLER'S denunciations of England, and his predicticns of retribution for the wrongs she has committed, were ith the utmost enthusiasm at r eceived and echoed w surely, of Dis the Academy of Music"—(the.ll4ll, cord and not of Harmony) only sentiment in 'Fired, on this side the ocean, will be those of simple, " tr azd, unmitigated contempt. Of all the pre posterous exhibitions yet made in the glare of pub licity by Yankee bounce, that of which this de monstration in favour of General BUTLER and against England was the most signal exemplar, i without any doubt at all about it, the most utterly ridiculous. Here is the Federal Government every time since the outbreak of the civil war. Here is the Federal Army, wretchedly generalled, cruelly discomfited, perpetually outman ceuvred, time and again brought by the foe into some de- I plorable fix, upon occasion so utterly routed that there is no adequate word besides the newly-coined one of stampede, by wbich to give expression to the mere pace of their scattering! Yet—before the tide in the Federal fortunes has given any indication whatever of even a tendency to turn—the Fede rals themselves are going to do, we don't know what all ! To enumerate in plain words a few of the little exploits they have now complacently chalked out for themselves—they are going then—almost immediately—(ZADKlEL was not at their elbow to supply them with the precise date)—to re-establish the American Republic one and indivisible! And simultaneously with the ac complishment of that little feat, to absorb the two Canadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfound land, the whole sweep of the Hudson Bay Com pany's Territory, British Columbia, and Vancouver! Such are absolutely the meaning of the cool pre dictions enunciated by the Federal wiseacres at this grand demonstration of theirs pro Gen. BUTLER and con Great Britain ! Mrs. GLASSE% recommen dation, in regard to the hare, never probably occur ring to the Federals, while they talked thus glibly about the goose they are evidently bent upon cook ing for that old_ man of the sea, JOHN BULL, that SINBAD among the Nations. It is precisely in the same sublime spirit of exaggerated self-complacency that one of the aspirants to the Presidential chair in succession to Mr. ABRAHAM LINCOLN had it put put forth, a brief while since, that he would never consent to be PRESIDENT of part of the States, but must have them all, without all reservation whatever, owning allegiance to his supreme magis terial authority. So now, precisely in a kindred spirit, your true Federal, not content with exulting over what is to him the dead certainty of a Re union very soon between North and South—must needs blow a fanfaronade in honour of the absorp tion into those re-United States, of all the British possessions but just now enumerated! Of such a revivified American Republic as that, there can be ene only suitable President—to wit, Gen. BUTLER himself ! The supreme commander of his maritime forces being, as a matter of course, Admiral WILKES! His aptest Secretary of State, we would suggest, moreover, might be Mr. G. F. TRAIN ! His Chaplain in Ordinary, or extra-Ordinary, no ether than the Rev. Mr. BEECHER ! The New York _Herald, let us hint, the Official Gazette of the new Government ! And then, probably, we should see—what we should see! Earl RUSSELL'S indignant remonstrance and the firm stand taken by Lord LYONS in regard to the seizure of British vessels have produced the desired effect. The instructions to Federal cruisers that have been drawn up and were published yesterday, are only a revival of the ordinary regulations adopted by belligerent Powers in regard to neutrals, and which have hitherto been so grossly violated by Admiral WILKES and others. In all probability this result has been in a great measure brought about through motives of expediency. The Government at Wash ington were more influenced by the fear of a colli sion with British cruisers than animated by the feelings of justice or desirous of obeying those laws of courtesy which ought to regulate the actions of all great Powers, whether in war or peace. Admiral WILKES, whose overbearing insolence has been the source of so much comment, has had to undergo the mortification of looking on while two steamers, known to be destined for Confederate ports, were convoyed by a British frigate from Barbadoes. Had no English cruiser been in port the vessels must inevitably have been seized, Admiral WILKES having announced his intention of capturing them directly they left port. In fact, one of them having made an attempt to go out, the Vanderbilt imme diately got up steam, whereupon the English steamer dropped anchor and demanded the protec tion of the frigate, which the Captain of the Phaeton immediately accorded, and forthwith communicated with Admiral WILKES, and the steamers left port without further molesta tion. 'This circumstance proves the necessity of our having a large fleet in the American waters; and there are plenty of idle ships in our dockyards which might be made available. Precautions of this kind would do much to prevent the arrogant assumption and insolent interference of American commanders. Had a fifty-gun frigate like the Phaeton been in the vicinity Commodore WILKES would never have dared to interfere with the Trent. He would then have found discretion the better part of valour. It is all very well for the American Government to make promises, but to be certain of their being kept it is prudent to be in a position to compel their observance. Indeed, it is more than probable that while Mr. STUART is assuring Earl RUSSELL of his desire to meet his views, his secretary may be writing private instructions to commanders of Federal cruisers in direct contravention to their public orders. Earl RUSSELL'S letter is an admirable one, so far as it goes, and mare decided and determined in its tone than his lordship often is in similar cases. He says that he is glad, on the part of our Government, that the orders have been rescinded which regarded any interference with neutral vessels. He then goes on to say, with something threatening in his manner, that had they been sanctioned by the Government of the United States, they would have called for prompt and firm remonstrance on our part. This is exactly the style in which the Cabinet at Washing ton must be treated in order to arrive at any satin_ factory conclusion of a vexed question, or to enable us to maintain an incontestable right with dignity and decorum. His Lordship then authorises Mr. STUART to intimate to Mr. SEWARD that "to order vessels, though apparently and prima facie carrying on a lawful trade, to be systematically seized on the high seas, without any preliminary search, and without the discovery during such search of any strong evidence of suspicion against such vessel, would be to subject the mercantile marine of neutrals to a system of oppression and an no y ance w hich no neutral Go vernment could be expected to tolerate." This is the most fitting language in which to express the extreme dissatisfaction that the conduct of the Federal navy has given in all quarters. Lord RUSSELL thus concludes his letter to Mr. STUART :—" The unjust seizure under urgent circumstances of a neutral vessel may be considered as one of the occasional bur dens which a state of war may impose upon a neutral, and it may be partially compensated by the condemnation of the captor in coats, or in costs and damages; but the indiscriminate and general seizure of merchant vessels without previous search converts an occasional exception into an in tolerable rule. " It is desirable that you should ascertain from Mr. Seward whether the Government of the United States admits the principle that her Majesty's mail bags shall neither be searched not detained." That phrase which characterises the converting of an "occasional exception' , into an " intolerable - - anti most aptl mises the whole policy of the Federal commanders, and the general tenour of the instructions given to them at head-quarters. Also the paragraph that relates to the mail-bags is a most important one. Reference is made to this subject in the course of the instructions, where arO tipulation is made that "no official seals or fastenings of . foreign authorities are on any pretext to be broken." After further directions it is said that all such parcels are to be delivered to the consul or legislation of the foreign government to be opened, upon the understanding that whatever is contraband will be remitted to the prize court or Secretary of State at `Washington. Mr. SEWARD has shown unusual good sense in giving these instructions to naval Federal officers, and it is to be hoped that they will be attended to both in the letter and the spirit. One thing attracts notice, and that is that all the fuss and pretensions that have been made have not gained the point of preventing traffic with the South. In spite of innumerable precautions, we learn that Char!eaton is enjoying a larger direct foreign trade than she has ever had before. This proves that the most violent measures are not always the most effective ones, and that a more con siderate policy from the outset would have been the wisest and best course for the Washington Go vernment to have followed. Among the notices of motion dropped on Tuesday . owing to the rising of the house, was one by Mr. SHERIDAN with regard to Fire Insurances. The hon. member last night expressed his hope that the Government would make some arrangement re• pecting these notices, but he also indulged in the anticipation that the financial statement, which we are all anxiously awaiting, might render his own motion superfluous. There are certainly few sources of taxation which more imperatively demand relief, Ind Mr. GLADSTONE could hardly dispose better of a portion of his surplus than by removing this obnoxious and unfair impost. It is, in fact, only another form of property tax, charging a man's property in proportion to his prudence, his caution, and all those qualities which the Legislature is bound to encourage rather than to levy duty upon. The mere principle of the tax is unjust and censur able; but the rate at which it is levied is simply preposterous. The insurance offices, as we all know, charge in proportion to risk, but the Government fol lows a plan of as own, sometimes being so moderate as to charge only 100 per cent, at other times rising in its demands to 200 or 300 per cent. Thus if the office charge at the rate of 2s. 6d. per cent. on the amount of the insurance, the Government duty on that half-crown will be 3s. 6d., raising the sum aid as security against fire to a height which is a very serious discouragement to men of property. The consequence is that the greed of the Govern ment, as is so often the case, defeats itself and large amounts are insured in Hamburg and elsewhere where there is no duty, and thus a good deal of busi ness that should, by rights, be transacted in London is carried to foreign offices. It is not to be expected that men who wish to insure for tens of thousands will be very willing to pay mere than double the amount claimed as a a fair investment by the office, knowing all the while that for these large sums disbursed yearly they will get not one penny of value. A merchant may insure in Hamburg for £lO,OOO for less than half what it will cost him in London to insure for £5,000, and it is not pro bable that under these conditions he should put the matter in the hands of his countrymen when foreigners conduct their business on more reasonable terms. The duty on fire insurances has long been complained of, but the complaints have been passed over, and less pressing claims disposed ef, while this very urgent reform was left unheeded. We are inclined to regret that Mr. SHERIDAN's motion has not been discussed before the Budget came on, as a strong expression of public feeling on the subject might have had weight with the Chan cellor ef the Exchequer. That brilliant but eccentric financier does not always think fit to give us what we most need. Perhaps he thinks we shall appreciate his gifts the more if he keeps us a few years in eager expectation. It is very possible he may think it more advisable to take the duty off some elaborate luxury used only by the upper ten thousand than to relieve us of this heavy burden, which presses most severely on those com mercial classes which Mr. GLADSTONE professes to favour. We must hope, however, that the financial statement will carry out Mr. SHERIDAN'S anticipa tions, by abolishing a duty so contrary to - every sound principle of fiscal legislation. Every branch of insurance should be free of duty, and every encouragement should be afforded to commercial prudence, instead of obstacles and impediments being thus placed in the way. The Government certainly take no part in protecting property from fire. The ela borate system of our Fire Brigades, the well appointed engines and efficient men, are not regu lated under any Government system, or with official help. It is a matter of business between the in surers and the insured. The owner of valuable pro perty is unwilling to incur the risk of damage or destruction without some compensation for the loss. The office, in its turn, accepts the risk and provides the means of protection. Why should the Government step in to take the lion's share by imposing a tax which doubles the expense of the one party without adding to the profits of the other. Were such interference of frequent occurrence in commercial transactions the trade of London would certainly not be what it is. We shall look with interest for Mr. GLADSTONE'S views on this matter, hoping they will be in accordance with ,he doctrines of common sense and justice. - - SURREY THEATRE. The success predicted for the " sensation " drama " Jessie Ashton, or London by Day and Night," is now being verified nightly, and an ample return will be the reward of the great exertions of Mr. Shepherd, the sole lessee of this favourite place of amusement. As a specimen of stage "mounting," the drama is a perfect masterpiece, as nearly every other scene is one of the most elaborate description. The "cellar in the old house" is a very striking and original picture, and the next that equals it is the exterior of the same build ing. In this scene we have one of the most telling situations of the drama, viz., the first escape of Jessie Ashton , and the bravery with which Miss par coeffotrhtedescends tohueser, to the river is perfectlyope from the uppermost , Space precludes us from entering into all the othe striking features of the drama, but we can not omit to menti on the admirable manner in a stonishing. w hich the "fire at the Golden Tankard" is arran g ed, and the extreme truthfulness and beauty with which the last scene—" New Westminster -bridge, the River, and the Houses of Parliament by moonlight" —is painted. As a scenic illusion it is one of the most remarkable ever seen, and of itself will be con sidered quite sufficient to repay a visit. It is rumoured that the late director of Her Majesty's Theatre is preparing for publication s " History of the Opera" during the period of his connection with that theatre. Such a work cannot fail to possess great interest for the musical and artistic world, since the mate rials for its composition must be of extraordinary value, in cluding personal anecdote, correspondence, and other de tails of varied character. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Yes terday the admissions on payment were 1,650; ditto by season tickets, 808; total, 2,458. pito THE SUN, LONDON, rHUMSDAY EVENING, APRIL LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REETER'S TELEGRAMS.) DENMARK. DENMARK AND THE THRONE OF GREECE. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 16. The Denmark of to -day says :—" The day before yesterday the question of Prince William's candi dature was the subject of an animated debate in the Privy Council. It is asserted that Prince Christian abandoned some of the conditions he formerly re quired for his son's acceptance of the Crown, but still most positively insists upon the abdication of the ex-King Otho." SPAIN. THE SPANISH CONGRESS. MADRID, APRIL 15 (Evening). The rumour acquires consistence that the Cortes will be dissolved after having voted the authoriza tion for the collection of the taxes. To-day in the Chamber of Deputies, Senor Gonzalez Bravo defended the Ministry of Marshal Narvaez, and endeavoured to prove that the Mode rate party is not dissolved, and is united in the manner required from a party when called upon to form a new Ministry. Sen , x Caivo Asencio enumerated the acts of Marshal Narvaez since 1848, which he said rendered his return to power impossible. FRANCE. THE POLISH QUESTION. PARIS, APRIL 16. The Constautionnel of to-day, in au article signed M. Limayrac, asks what will be the consequences of the amnesty, and says : " Blood continues to flow in Poland. Europe has not ceased to be uneasy. Will those who were the victims of the conscription be amnestied ? The amnesty testifies to the noble sentiments of the Emperor Alexander. We are willing to believe it to be the first step in the path amicably advised by the great powers, namely, the pursuance of a policy which would insure the tranquillity of the interior of Russia and the repose of Europe. The amnesty is not a solution, but the hope of a solution." We are assured, says L'Opinion Nationale, that M. Adolphe liarrot has addressed to the Spanish Government a demand for an amnesty in favour of the unfortunates condemned for making an at tempt at a Protestant Propaganda. We cannot doabt but that the Cabinet of Madrid will defer to the wishes of our ambassador, and Re are happy that the initiation of this interven tion should come from the French Gavernment. In effect, when a Protestant Cabinet advances a claim in favour of its co-religionists, one can only see in t hat advance the inspiration of the s p irit of sect; but when the chief of a gre at nation, the immense majority of which is C atholic, takes in hand the defence of the u nfortunates who expiate in durance vile the crime of evangelically propagandizing, there is in that intervention an imposing manifestation in favour of the p rinciples of justice and tolerance, and an act worthy of that France which has"given to the world the grand Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century. According to a despatch received by Le Pays from Cracow, the Imperial _Russian manifesto of the 12th has only had the effect of imparting a new impulse to the Polish insurrection. BOURSE, April 15.—The market is again heavy, but without any further decline in quotations — Threes being now at 69f. 95c. The Railway Share market also without animation. The following were the closing prices : i per Cents. 97 30 Italian L0an...... 72 Do. end month -- Do. end month.... 72 10 3 per Cents Credit crecut I: o o n bi e l i i .e e r r 1470 Do. end month 69 95 Do. end month.... 73 20 —.- Home Debt ..... 50 75 Russian ........ 95 56 Do, end month 1470 Austrian ........ --• "-- Bank Shares 3380 Spanish Threes.... 52 50 WAYS. BA IL- Cash. Account. Orleans.... ........... 1030 1028 75 Northern ............. 1048 75 1050 -- New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1192 50 .. 1195 Geneva ................ 445 .. 445 Southern .............. 800 , 805 Western .............. 525 532 50 Eastern ............ 635 540 _-- Sardinian .............. 467 50 .. 468 75 Austrian Lombard ............. 605 606 25 North of Spain ........ 580 .. 585 Saragossa .... 7 5 7 50 .. 757 50 Ditto to Barcelona .. • • 365 370 LATEST FROM NASSAU. The fine steamer Hero arrived 'in the Mersey yesterday afternoon with dates from Nassau to the 27th ultimo, having made the run from Nassau to Queenstown in 17 days. She brings 41 passengers and a cargo of mahogany and logwood. This steamer lately ran the blockade of Charleston, with 1,745 bales of cotton and 528 barrels of rosin, under the command of Capt. Peat. She reports seeing a Federal cruiser 30 miles to the westward of Cape Clear. The following steamers were at Nassau when she sailed :—The Flora St. John's, the Annie Childs, the Pet, the Minna, the Miriam, the Ruby, and the Leopard. The latter, in attempting to enter Charleston,was chased and shelled for several hours. She, however, escaped, after throwing half of her cargo overboard. The steamer Douro has been captured by the United States gunboat Quaker City. The Flora, on leaving Charleston, was shelled by the blockading squadron without effect. One shot passed near enough to an officer on deck, however , to cause him to feel sensibly the agitation of the atmosphere around. The steamer Havelock had arrived at Wilmington. The steamer Ruby, under the command of Captain Peat, was to sail in a few days for Havannah. The following is an abstract from the logbook of the Hero ft Nassau, March 27, at 4 p.m. March 30, at 350 p.m., lat. 28 3N., long. 68 28 W., passed a vessel, bottom up, appa rently of about 406 tons burden, keel broken amid ships. April 5, lat. 57 5U N., long. 48 5 W., passed the American ship Nestor, steering south-east. April 11, lat. 48 13 N., long. 24 4 W., exchanged signals with the s hip Arrived at Queenstown at 9 a.m. on tho 14 th of Euxine, ste erin g W.N.W. April. Moderate S.W. an d N.W. winds through out the passage. The Hero was brought to this port by Capt. Gregory, late of the steamer Ruby, and is consigned to Messrs. Canard, Wilson, and Co. The Federal gunboat Tioga, blockading in Bahama waters, steams 14 knots, and from the activity of her commander and her great speed she is dreaded by the blockade runners. ASSASSINATION OF A BBITISII SUBJECT IN AMZRICA.—A respectable corresp ondent in the county of Lanark trans m its the follo win g :—" The ac • quaintances of Mr Basil St euar t (son of Al ex. Steuart, Esq., Brownlie, Carluke), who left this country for America about three years ago, an d finally settle d in Texas, will learn with deep regret th a t h e was waylaid and shot in Jul y , 1862. So far as can be ascer t a ined, the circ umstances of his death were as follow s : —H e h a d been previou sl y induced to join a society said to be f or the protection of p ro p ert y; but finding afterwards th a t t h e a ssociation so call e d had a different object in vi ew, being a strong Unionist p art y , and not wishing to invol ve hi mse lf in the political distur bances of the country, he w i t hd rew, w h e n the society, at its next meeting, appointed one o f i ts members to execute the design of secretly putting him t o death. While out bloody on a hunting excursion and in going throu g h a narrow pass, ha was shot at from behind, the ball passing through the heart. A gentleman of his acquaintance —a Mr. At terell—offered £lOO reward, and the chief magistrate of the place another hundred, for the discovery of the guilty party or parties ; when, oninvestiolition, it was found that ten had been privy to, and co /leer : e l in, the deed. None, how ever, would concede to inform on the actual perpetrator; and the ten were all tried, condemned, and shot. Though a stranger in a strange land, he was respectably interred, and a tombstone was raised to his memory by Mr. Atterell, the gentleman referred to, and who belongs to England. His death, under such circumstances, is said to have been ' ranch lamented in the district in which he resided."—Olas ( PtU .11-en:la, 16, 1863 THE THRONE OF GREECE A letter from Athens of the 3d inst. gives the following details of the proceedings of the Senate in respect to the adoption of the Prince of Denmark as King of Greece : " ATHENS, April 3. " In the sitting of the 30th of March the Senate unani mously proclaimed Prince William of Denmark King of Greece. The text of the decree voted by the Assernbiy is as follows : " Art. 1. Prince Christian William Ferdinand Adolphus George, second son of Prince Christian of Denmark, is proclaimed Constitutional King of the Greeks, under the name of George 1., King of the Greeks. " Art. 2. His legitimate successors shall profess the or thodox law of the East. _ _ " Art. 3. A commission of three members, selected by the National Assembly, sha I proceed to Copenhagen to offer the Crown to the Prince in the name of the Greek nation.' " Immediately afterwards the members of the Assembly proceeded in a body to the Cathedral, where a solemn Te Deum was chanted, and 101 guns announced the cere mony, presided over by the Archbishop of Athens, sur rounded by his clergy. The members of the Provisional Government, the holy synod, the archbishops present at Athens, and all the high dignitaries and officers of the Government attended, " When the To Dowm was over, the President and the representatives, as also all the members of the Provisional GovQrnment, proceeded to the square in front of the Palace, where a review of the troops was held, to the shouts of Long live George 1., King of the Greeks ? ' " At night the city was illuminated. "Another decree rendered by the National Assembly refers to the cession of the lonian Islands. It is couched as follows : " The Second National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens— " 'Taking into consideration the declaration made in the speech of H.M. the Queen of Great Britain, pronounced on the opening of the British Parliament, concerning the ces sation of the protectorate of England over the lonian Islands, as also the communications on the same subject made to the Provisional Government by the Envoy Extra ordinary of the said Power, a benefactor of Greece ; "' Making it,elt, after the election wuich has just taken place of the King of the Greeks, the interpreter of the wishes of the nation, decrees : ," 1. The Greek nation expresses its ardent wish to see the Greek State cf the lonian Islands united as soon as possible under the constitutional sceptre of George 1., King of the Greeks, to Greece, which is now free. " '2. Thanks are offered to her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain by the Greek nation, for the benevolent in tention she has already manFested as regards the accom plishment of the ardent wish of the Greek nation. ",' 2. The Executive Power is et arged to communicate this decree to the proper quarter.' " THE MISSISSIPPI, The Mississippi ("father of waters") is by far the largest of North American rivers. Rising in the small lake of Itasca, on the verge of the middle table-land, at an elevation of 1,500 or 1,600 feet, it runs southward through the great central plain, re ceiving numerous accessions from either side, and, after a winding course of 3,160 miles, falls through a swampy delta into the Gulf of Mexico. lts main tributaries on the right or Rocky Mountain side, in which they take their rise, are the Missouri—a river even longer, larger, and having more effluents than the Mississippi itself—the Arkansas, having also many effluents, and the Red River; bile on the left its chief tributary is the Ohio, with its numerous feeders from the western slopes of the Alleghenies. Between the Rocky Mountains on the west, and the Appalachians on the east, lies, therefore, the great conjoint basin of the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio, having an area of more than a million square miles; containing every description of soil and scenery—prairie, barren, and woodland; watered by innumerable streams and several navig able rivers; and possessing every variety of climate, from the coldly temperate highlands of Nebraska to the subtropical warmth of the Gulf of Mexico. The Missitsippi, we have said, has a winding course of 3,160 miles, but if the Missouri be taken as the main stream, its length is 2,260 miles ; while that of the Arkansas is 2,000, and the Ohio more than 1,000 miles. The breadth of the Missouri and Mississippi at their confluence is about half a mile, and the main stream downwards is very little more. Though gentle, the current is by no means sluggish; and thus, during floods, from the melting of the snow in the higher latitudes, the rivers sweep downwards immense quantities of mud, driftwood, and other debris. The Missouri is said to be navigable " from the Great Falls in the Rocky Mountains to the sea, a distance of 4,000 miles ; the Mississippi, from those of St. Anthony, 2,240; while the Ohio, being connected by a system of canals with Lake Erie, and thence to Lake Ontario, carries out a water communication between the Gulfs of Mexico and St. Lawrence." The Delta of the Mississippi, which projects itself forward into the Gulf of Mexico, is a low and unhealthy region, neatly 14,000 square miles in area, and full of lagoons, creeks, and pestilential marshes. —Page's Introductory Text-Book of Physical Geography." --This day published by the Messrs. W. Blackwood and Sons. a-4 Mtn it HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 15. The Queem, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Helens, and attended by the Hon. Harriett Phipps, drove out in a carriage and four yesterday afternoon. Major General Seymour attended on horseback. Her Majesty, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, drove out this morning. Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge was in attendance. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and and Princess Beatrice went to London, and visited the Zoological Gardens, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, and Captain Sir W. Hoste. Captain Hon. F. Egerton, R.N., arrived at the Castle yesterday. Lord Cremorne and Captain Sir W. Hoste have succeeded Lord de Tabley and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingscote as Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded the Duchoss of Athole as Lady in Waiting to the Queen. THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. The following were among the company present at tl_e South Kensington Museum at the private view of the presents to their Royal Highnesses the PLince and Princess of Wales Dukes.—Roxburghe, Sutherland, Rutland, Somerset, Devonshire. Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Mar,uises.—Donegal, Drogheda, Ailsa, Westmeath,Lon donderry. Earls.—Vane, Cadogan, Cottenham, Craven, Dartmouth, Fife, Enniskillen, Galloway, Bat hurst, Effingnam, St. Ger - mans, Laneaborough, Bantry, Sefton, Eldon, Desart, Gainsborough, Caithness, Granville, Wicklow, Grey, Erne. Tankerville, Lindsay, Camperdown, Hopeioun, Mornington, Stanhope, Powis, DeGrey and Ripon, Monson, Home. Dowager Countess of Jersey; Countesses—Zetland, Gainsborough, Ranfurly, Cowper, Airlie. Viscounts.—Middleton, Gage, Enfield, M.P., Canterbury, Andover, M.P., Nevill, Torrington, Doneraile, Lifford, Strangford, Galway, M.P., Hamilton. Archbishop of Canterbury. Bishops.—London, Winchester, Exeter, 03tford. His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. Lords.—A. H. Trevor, Brougham and Vaux, Cremorne, Claud Bamilten, Belper, A. 6. Churchill, M.P., Sudeley, Delamere, John Manners, M.P., Clarence E. Paget, M.P., Taunton, Harry Vane, Robert Clinton, k itzhardinge, De Freyne, Blantyre, Gran. ley, Downes, Sondes, Tenderden, Thurlow, Redesdale, Carew, Chelmsford, Keane, Dormer, Wharncliffe, Lyndhurst, Colchester, Rivers, Truro, Lennox, M.P., Wensleydale, Muskerrey, Raglan, R, Montague, M.P., Proby, M.P., Vaux of Hari owden, Fermoy, M.P., Vivian, Bateman, Walsingham, Carrington, Clyde, Henley, M.P. Ladies.—Mackenzie, MacDougall, Charlotte Schreiber, Shelley, Rolle, Bruce, Eastlake, Bryant, Lowe, Jenkins, Lewis, Grant, Stewart, Rowe, Lamond. Baronets and Knights—Bulwer 14) tton, M.P., P. O'Brien, Henry and Lady Rich, J. P. Boileau, John Mel lor, Hugh Cairns, M.P., Massy Lopes, M P„ W. Farquhar, M.P., W. P. Gallway, M.P., J. V. Shelley, M.P., W. Scott, M.P,, W. Wallace, J. B. Byles, J. P. Wylde, G. Forster, M.P., W. J. Alexander, M.P., G. S. Mont gomery, H. J. Stracey, M.P., B. W. Bridges, M.P„ E. Laudseer, R,A., J. Trelawny, M.P., J. V. B. Johnstone, W. J. Hayter, M.P., John Ogilvy, M,P., Alex. D. tairdon, T. E. Colebrook, W. G, Joliffe, M P., James Prior, Ed ward J. Mildmay, Sir A. and Lady Weldon, J. E. D Acton, J. Matheson, M.P., Francis Scott, W. M'Arthur, Colin Blackburn, F. W. Heygate, M.P., J. Burgoyne, K.C.8., W Davison, H. H. Bruce, M.P., W. Atherton, G. ,P. Lee, H. S. Keating, W. Dunbar, M.P., Charles and Lady Rowley, William Russell, M.P., -F. Madden, M. W. R'dley, M.P., C, E. Eastlake, P.R.A,, W. Topham, E. Kerrison, M.P., W. Page Wood, F.R.S., F.L.S., Richard Levinge, M.P., J. Fakington, M.P., A. W. Buller, M.P., J. Fergusson, M.P., C. Compton, Lawrence Palk, M.P., Stafford H. Nortlicoto, Cr. Bowyer, M.P., General Sir E. MacArthur, Lieutenant-General Sir H. Bentinck, K.C.B. Right Honourables.—C. P. - Villiers, M.P., John Denison, M.P., Sir Robert Peel, M.P., spencer H. Walpole, M.P., G. C. Norton, J. R. Mowbray, M.P„ H. A. lierbert,M.P. B. Disraeli, M.P., Edward Horsman, M.P., James Mon creiff, M.P., C, Duncombe, F. G. Headlam, M.P,, E. P. Bouverie, M.P., F. Peel, MX., Adderley, M.P., W. Hunt, M.P. Honourables.—Percy S. Wyndham, Colonel Foley, R. Curzon, C. P. Berkeley, MX., W. C. a albot, F. C. Howard, F. Byng, George Browne, A. Thesiger, H. G. Liddell, M.P., P. P. Bouverie, H. Duncan, W. B. Portman, M.P., G. Denman, R. H. Dutton, W. Stuart Knox, M.P., W W. Addington, Wilbraham Egerton, M.P,, C. W. S. Howard, Spencer Littleton, Gerard Noel, M.P., Ashley G J. Ponsonby, M.P., G. Wrottesley, F. Calthorpe, M.P., C. H. R. Trefusis, W. E. Gladstone, C. S. Lennox, M.P., E C. Curzon, E. Cust, E. Curzon, Lieut.-Col. R. T. Rowley, Lieut.-Col. Coke, M.P., Miss Baring, Mrs, Law, Miss Jocelyn, Mrs. G. Campbell, G. H. Heathcote, Baronesses—Mayer de Rothschild and North. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. Aldermen.—W. Copeland, D. Solomon, M.P., R. Besley, T. Challis, T. Dakin, G. Gibbons, R. S. Phillips, Sir R. W. Carden, Thomas Gabriel, Sir F. G. Moon. Ambassadors, &c.—His Excellency Count Apponyi, Count Bernstorff, the Marquis d'Azeglio, Count Wachmeister, Baron de Gros, Mr. D. Longuinoff, Commander de C. Moreira, M. de Biile, Count V. de Eckstaedt, Chevalier F. R. d'Andrada, Prince Y esenberg, Baron Donald Mackay, Marquis de Cadore, Chevalier F. dos Santos, Don Juan B, Valdivia, Chevalier d'Oliveira Silvo, Baron Beck Frus, Captain Falbe, Monsieur le Baron Billing, Stephen Musu rus Boy, Don Madame Jose Sanz, Marquis d'Audigne, Chevalier J. A. de Souza Correa, Viscount Cavalho, La Baronne, F. de Langlade, Count Lamimi. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasur3 in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir Geoi ge Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has returned to Claridge's Rotel from Middleton, Yorkshire. The Marquis of Townahend and Mr. and Lady E. St. Aubyn have arrived in Park-lane from Br ghton. The Marchioness of Salisbury and Mr. and Lady E. Russell aro on a visit to the Earl and Count,ss Delawarr at Buekhurst. Sir Alexander and Lady Bannerman and Mrs. Lane Fox are also expected on a visit to the earl and countess, The Countess Dowager of Westmoreland and Lady Rose Fame are expected in town this day from Brighton. The Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christian Maule have returned to Claridge's Hotel from Scotland. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale and the Ladies Hay have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, Brook street, from Earl-Stoke Park. Field-Marshal Lord Seaton, Lady Seaton, and family are still residing at Valetta House, Torquay, where they have been passing the winter months for the benefit of his lordship's health. . . _ Lady Howard de Walden has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Brussels. Lord Ravensworth and family have arrived at their residence, Percy's Cross, Walham- green, from Ravens worth Castle, Durham. . The King of Hanover has just bestowed the gold medal of honour for art and science on the celebrated vio- Mist Vieuxtemps, at Paris. The races at the Bois de Boulogne on Sunday were honoured by the presence of the Emperor and the Empress. The course was crowded by an immense number of smart equipages, and thousands of pedestrians. THE INEW BARONET.—Toe Rev. Gilbert Frank land Lewis, M.A., who succeeds to the baronets) rendered vacant by the death of Sir George Cornewall Lewis, is a younger brother of the late 6ectetarY of State for War. He was born in 1808, i n th e same year with Canon Wordsworth, of Westminster; but his name does Lot appear in the list either of mathematical or cta.sical hon ours. In 1831 he was ordained deacon by Dr. Huntiugford, Bishop of Hereford, and in 1833 was admitted into priest's orders by Dr. Grey, who had meanwhile succeeded to the bishopric of Hereford. Immediately atturwards he was presented by Sir Velters Curnewall, Bart., to the rectory i,f Mornington-on-the,•Wye, near Hereford, worth £260 a year, and about the same time to the rectory et Gladestry, Radnorshire, worth £350 a year, a living in th, gift of the Prince of Wales, hut at the same time of coarse really in the gilt of Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister. In 1860 he was nominated by Lord Palmerston o a canonry residence in the Cathedral Church of Worcester. Sir Gilbert Lewis is married Bart,h,sister to te eldesof the present member t daughter of the late Si r Edmund Antrob us, for Wilton. SIR TATTON SYKES, says Bady's Magazine, once showed plink to the father of Mr. Tattersall. H was already in the 3 ellow leaf, when the two went together to the theatre at Doncaster, and were sitting on the back row of the boxes. A person afterwards came in with a cigar in his mouth, which, as some ladies were in the box, he was requested to put out. The man refused, and Mr. Tattersall, who, though lame, was strong, opened the door with one hand, and swung the fellow out Nk ith the other. The aged baronet immediately jumped up, buttoned his coat, and said in his mild way, " Leave him to me, sir; it he comes back, leave him to me, sir," The man came not, THE PETERHOFF. The English steamer Peterhoff, a prize to the Vanderbilt, has arrived at this pert. She was sent to Key West for adjudication, and thence here, as her cargo would bring more at this port when sold than at Key West. She is an iron steamer, of about 1,000 tons burden, brig rigged, and of a modern build. From the time of her loading in London Admiral Wilkes has had his eye on her, and from all we can learn was pretty well assured that he would capture in her a lawful prize. It ap pears that the would-be blockade runner was not caught in the act of attempting to run it, nor was she ever on the ground near a blockading fleet ; but it was known that she had a rebel mail on board intended for Richmond, and that at one time a rebel colonel was on board as a passenger, but just previous to her quitting her last port the bearer of despatches left, but allowed the mail and de spatch bag to remain on board, with instructions to forward it to its destination. Among her passen gers were several chymists with a full stock of medicines and drugs ; but these very much valued articles are said to be marked for Matamoros. Upon the whole the case is a very complicated one, and ma ny suppose the vessel w ill be cleared. But yet it must be that Admiral Wilkes has good grounds for sending her in as a prize, or he would not have seized her. For the present communication with the vesel is interdicted, and but little can be found in relation to the case.—New York Herald. THE RETIREMENT OF CAPTAIN ROBERTSON OF THE 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS.—Reports are current on good authority, relative to the sale of his commission by Captain Robertson, which require explanation. If these are to be relied on, Captain Robertson has been treated with unusual harshness. He had requested, we are told, and ob tained leave of absence from his duty, until the sth of the present month. He had all hut effected an exchange into an infantry regiment at the Cape, anxious to pay off the lia bilities which oppress him with the sum he we.uld thus rcceive as the difference in the value of the commissions. ilufortuna#ely, while just about to complete the exchange he was arrested for debt and placed in Kilmainham prison. Then it is stated that the authorities of his regiment waited upon him in the prison, announced that his leave of absence had been cancelled, and told him that he should " either join or sell." Under this pressure Captain Robert son had no alternative. He " sent in his papers," sold his commission, and is no longer an officer in her Majesty's service. " FUN'S " SPIRIT COMMISSION. -- Daniel Chequers, first witness.—ls a clerk in the City. Know anything of spirits ? Rather. Prefers whisky, though rum and water, with three lumps of sugar and a slice of lemon, ain't bad. Not that kind of spirit I Oh I very good ; another party. Yes ; has heard of mediums. Wishes they were circulating mediums. Wouldn't he go in for them ! Not at all ; oh, no I The go vernor promised to raise hie screw last Christmas ; didn' do it, though. Thought h im a screw. (The Com t m issioner here stopped the witness, as his evidence was be coming irrelevant.) Never heard a spirit rap; thought a spirit deuced lucky if it always had a rap. Knew he hadn't sometimes, especially just before his money was due. Had seen a table go round—a whole room, for the matter of that. (On being asked when this manifestation took place, wit ness at last confessed it was after the sixth tumbler o! whisky and water, when celebrating Alec M'Reekie's birthday. Upon which he was ordered to retire; whereupon be became abusive, and wished to know what the Commis sioner was going to stand ? Plantagenet Millefleurs—ls in the Guards. Don't seem to care about spirits. Doesn't know a medium; why should he? Mediums don't give dinners and parties; then what's the use of knowing them ? Thinks Home a humbug; rather a cad than otherwise. Howitt ? never heard of him ; not in the army—perhaps in the militia, or a volunteer. Objects to volunteers on principle : the regulars all do Supernatural agency I never heard of it. His agents are Cox and Co., the Craig's -court men. Nothing to do with them ? Well, can't help it. Objects to being bothere3 any more; has an appointment at the Rag, and can't stop any onger, (Here the witness sauntered out.) NEUTRAL D DUTIES. Yesterday was issued " Correspondence respect ing Instructions given to Naval Officers of the United States in regard to Neutral Vessels and Mails ;" also a correspondence between Mr. Adams and Earl Russell on the subject of neutral rights and duties, arising from the incident of the seizure of the British steamer Labuan at Matamoras, the case of which vessel is still under discussion. Mr. Adams, in the course of this correspondence, asked the British Government to interfere against the " unlawfnl trade" carried on by British subjects, representing that great embarrassment had arisen to the Federal Government by reason of it, and that the seizure of the Labuan was the result of that embarrassment. On the 10th of May, 1862, Earl Russell wrote : EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS. Foreign-office, May 10, 1862. Sir,—ln the letter I had the honour to receive from you yesterday, you appear to me to have con founded two things totally distinct. The Foreign Eulistment Act is intended to prevent the subjects of the Crown from going to war when the Sove reign is not at war. Thus private persons are pro hibited from fitting out a ship of war in our ports, or from enlisting in the service of a foreign state at war with another state, or in the service of insur- gents against a foreign sovereign or state. In these cases the persons so acting would carry on war, and thus engage the name of their S.ivereiga _ . . and of their nation in belligerent operations. But owners and masters of merchant ships carrying war like stores do nothing of the kind. If captured for breaking a blockade, or carrying contraband of war to the enemy of the captor, they submit to capture, are tried, and 'condemned to lose their cargo. This is th 3 penalty which the law of nations has affixed to such an offence, and in calling upon her Majesty's Government to prohibit such adventures, you in effect call upon her Majesty's Government to do that which it belongs to the cruisers and the courts of the United States to do for themselves. There can be only one plea for asking Great Britain thus to interpose. That plea is, that the blockade is in reality ineffective, and that merchant ships can enter with impunity the blockaded ports. But this is a plea which I presume you will not urge. Her Majesty's Government have considered the blockade as an t ffdctive blockade, and have submitted to all its inconveniences as such. They can only hope that if resistance should prove to be hopeless, the Con federate States will not continue the struggle ; and that if, on the other hand, the restoration of the Union should appear to be impossible, the work of devastation now going on may cease. her Majesty's Government can only desire the prosperity of the inhabitants of the Uuited States, whatever may be the event of the present civil war. --I am, &c., (signed) - RUSSELL. Mr. Adams replied, on May 12, in a letter which concludes as follows : I pray your lordship's pardon if I submit that you appear to have entirely overlooked a plea which I am confident enough to imagine of no inconsiderable weight. That plea is, that the kingdom of Great Britain endeavour, in spirit as well as in the letter, to preserve the prin ciple of neutrality, if not of friendship, towards a foreign nation in amity with it, to which it has pledged itself. The precise mode in which that shall be done it does not presume to prescribe. That the toleration of such conduct in subjects of Great Bri tain as I have had the pain heretofore to expose is . stalely a violation of that neutrality, is justly to be interred from the very language of her Majesty's proclamation. For it is therein declared that pre cisely such acts of theirs as I have been compelled here to complain of, are done " in derogation of their duty to her as a neutral sovereign, and incur her high displeasure." If such, then, be the true cha racter of the proceedings to which I have hitherto called your lordship's attention, they surely merit something more of notice from her Majesty's mini sters than an intimation that they will be suffered co pass unreproved unless the punishment shall be inflicted by the nation whom they are designed to injure. The object of the government of the United States has not been to relieve itself of the duty of vigila,ce to capture offenders against the law; it las rather been to avoid the necessity of applying additional stringent measures for their own secu ity against British subjects found to be engaged n linen illicit enterprises, made imperative by the onviction that no preventive co-operatics what ever can be expected from her Majesty's Govern tient ; it has rather been to avoid the risk of eon.- - ounding the innocent with the guilty, because all lappen to be involved in a general suspicion ; and dst►37, it has rather been to remove at as early a day .s may be consistently with its own safety the estrictions on the trade with foreign countries vhich these evil doers are labouring with so mutt udustry to force it to protract. Your lordship eaves me little hope of any co operation of her Majesty's Government to these ends. Nevertheless, I. trust I may be permitted to indulge the belie hat the time is not now far distant when the diffy Lailties thus interposed id the way of its progress will have been so tar remeved by its own unassisted fiction as to relieve both countries from the painful necessity of further continuing the discoesion.- -- Renewing, &c., (Signed) CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. Earl Russell's reply closes the correspondence EARL itIISS ELL TO MR. ADAMS. Foreign-office, May 17, 1862. Sir,-1 do not wish to prolong this correspond" ence, and shall only make one remark in answer to your last letter. If the British Gov, rnment, by virtue of the prerogative of the crown, or by •tuthority of Parliament, had prohibited, and could have prevented, the conveyance in Britiah met' chant-ships of arms and ammuuition to the Con federate States, and had allowed the transport of such contraband of war to New York and to other Federal ports, her Majesty's Government would nave departed from the neutral position they have assumed and maintained. It, on the other hand , her Majesty's Government had prohibited, Od could have prevented the transport of arms u°' ammunition to both the contending parties, Old would have deprived the United States of a greys part of the means by which they have carried on the war. The arms and ammunition received fr° l33 Great Britain, as well as from other neutral collo' tries, have enabled the United States to fit ou t the formidable armies now engaged in carryin g on the war against the. Southern States ; while by meal° of the blockade established by the Federal 0° :, vernment the Southern St a t es h ave b een depr ive' of similar advantages. Tha impartial observanc e of neutral obli gat i ons b y her Ma j esty ' s Governm el3 has thus been excee di ng l y a d vantageous to ti)6 cause of the more powerful of the two contendi°6 parties.—l am, &c., - (Signed) RUSSELL• KINGS AT ARMS.—Take the heralds, for exatnP le , Here are Garter King of Arms, and all his m)ot il brethren, kings, heralds, and pursuivants : Norroy Ski Clarencieux, Rouge Croix, Rouge Dragon, Portcullis, Blue Mantle, " with hues as lively and appellation s quaint as the attendants on a fairy court." "For gorge uusness of attire, mysteriousness of origin, and, in fact, Jij c similarity of origin," say s th e aut h or I h a v e: just qu" te h . the lute Mr. Lei g h H unt , " a k nave a t car d s is n ot u 1 51 1" a herald." A story is told of an Irish King of A l 0 ho, waiting on the B shop of Killalem to sunit u him to Parliament, and bearg dressed, as the c en t mony required, in his heraldic attire, so TOS tit ; the bishop's servant with his appearance, that not kno w Vk hat to make of it, end carrying off but a confused rd t , l t of his title, he announced him thus : "My lord, hoe " Kings of Trumps." I know that Garter King of A.l O O Lot a king at all, that his crown and his sceptre ar e , merest gewgaws, and that he is an estimable old gcntl o ; who got his birth from the Duke of Norfolk, and deli . ° comfortable income from fees paid into hi s office on I3eP et v Gill, Doctors'-commons. I know that if I choose to have v " arms found." . . • . And, fi na lly, I c a nnot shu t t i eyes to the fact that the " King of Trumps" panoply" .- 0 firework tabard, or san l , enito, all scrawled over with cgl of arms, is a.. ab'urd and egregious one, and is when te a in conjunction with the pantaloons and patent leatber ordinary life, utt er l y r idi cu l ous an d p re p osterou s. I . l°l o that the las' time the heralds were seen in the open o r al at Charing-cross, mounted on dobbins from Astley% pretending to blow trumpets they couldn't extract so t . as a whistle from, the little boys hooted them, ' 3l ' l if limes newspaper laughed them to scorn. Why 1 0 °, 00 , pressed now, by Garter and Norroy, Clarencieux and PI Dragon, Portcullis and Blue Mantle ?—.Di c kens's "A' Yearßound,''