The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. A Wharnclitle meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the London- bridge Terminus Hotel, to consider certain bills now before Parliament ; Mr. L. Schuster in the chair. The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN explained on a map the chief ob jects the company intended to accomplish, by mak ing several new lines and improvements for the better accommodation of the various districts through which the company's lines passed, and for shorten ing the distance between London and various places on the main line and branches. The line from Peck ham on the South London line, now in course of construction, would form an inner semicircle on the south side of London, for which powers had been obtained last session, and would also form junctions with lines running in a north-west direction. The company's new line towards the south coast would shorten the distance to Portsmouth by 11 or 12 miles as compared with the company's present route. The West London Extension line, in which the com pany had an interest, was opened a few days ago, and brought their lines into connection with the North London Railway. He was glad to say that the traffic over the West London Extension line wss already considerable, and he had no doubt it would continue to increase. After some further observa tions, formal resolutions approving the following bills were carried unanimously : " A bill to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make extensions and alterations of their railways, authorised by ' The London, Bri g ht on, an d South Coast Railway (New Lines) Act, 1862,' and other works,' and for other purposes. "A bill to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make new lines o f ra il way to Mi tcham, Sutton, and Tooting, in Surrey, and to connect the same with other railways, and for other purposes." A bill to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make a railway from Dorking to Leatherhead, and for other purposes." " An Act for making a tramway in the parish of Portsea, in the county of Southampton, and for other purposes." "A Bill for authorizing the amalgamation of the under takings of divers railway companies with the undertaking of the London and South-Western Railway Company; and divers arrangements between that company and other com panies and bodies, and for other purposes." "A Bill to enable the Trustees of Newhaven Harbour and Ouse Lower Navigation,' to form a new cat for divert ing the channel of the river Ouse, and to construct a r oa d, tramway, and other works for the improvement of the said harbour and navigation, and for other purposes." "An Act for increasing the capital of and conferring further powers on the West London Extension Railway Company, amending their Acts, and for other purposes." The meeting was then adjourned to the 12th of May for the consideration of other Bills, SOUTH-EASTERN OF PORTUGAL. The ordinary general meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the offices, Gracecharch street ; Mr. R. R Notman in the chair. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said that at the last meeting the directors had laid before the shareholders the state of the works, at which they had to cross over three valleys on the first section. Those works had been successfully completed, and the line was now extended across the valleys. By the end of June the company's engineer expected to have open for traffic 60 miles of railway to the the import city of Evora, leaving about 20 miles to complete and open for traffic in a few months afterwards. The works had been approved by the fiscal engineer of the Portuguese Government. The authorities were highly satisfied with the workmanship and materials of the railway, and also with the rolling stock provided by the com pany for working the traffic. (He the Chairman) had never seen better work on a railway than that executed for the company. In regard to the com pany's capital,Xsoo,726 had been raised,of which the Portuguese Government had provided £159,260 on account of their subvention ; and it was only right to say on this account they had paid without delay from time to time the sums indicated by the engi neer's certificate as due from them. He had no doubt the Government would go on as heretofore punctually paying up the instalments as they be came due until the whole sum of £450,000 was paid. The next matter he had to bring under their notice related to the purchase of the railway from Barriero, opposite Lisbon, to Vendas Neves, and for the oon cession of certain extensions of the company's ori ginal line toward the Spanish frontier in the direc tion of Seville. At the extraordinary meeting of the company, held March 14, 1862, the shareholders were informed that arrangements with the Portu guese Government had been concluded, subject to ratification by the Cortes, for the purchase of the railway from Barreiro to Vendas Novas, and for the concession of extensions from the company's line near Elvora towards the south. After the arrange ment had been come to the Government said it would interfere with the concession to the northern line, because 25 miles on each side of that railway was granted to the company as being free from in terference by other companies. He thought such an interpretation of the concession was fanciful, and if persisted in no railway from this line could go into Sp a in in that direction. The effect of the stipula tion would be similar to that of a person wishing to go from Southampton to Hull in the ordinary way being compelled by the Government arrangement to go round by Liverpool. They were therefore kept back 25 miles from the other line. The bill for the proposed extension was passed by the Chamber of Deputies, but in January last, to their surprise, the Chamber of Peers rejected the bill, so that the ar rangements for those extensions remained in abey ance. There would be great difficulty in carrying on an interchange of traffic at Vendas Novas, owing to the other line being on the narrow gauge, and their line on the 51 feet gauge. It was of great importance that all the railways in Portugal should be constructed on the same gauge. He would ask them to sanction the payment of the expenses :recur red in making the surveys for those extensions. Mr. J. CHAPMAN seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report, which was carried unanimously. Resolutions were also passed approving the ex penditure incurred by the directors in respect to the purchase of the railway from Barreiro to Vendas Novas, an d for the surveys of the proposed exten sions, authorising the directors to pay those expenses and take such furthe r s te p s as they might deem ex pedient for obtaining necessary powers for the above objects. Mr. R. Birley, the retiring director, and Mr. lTewmarch, the retiring auditor, were re-elected, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks V o the chairman and directors. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. An extraordinary meeting of this company WI " held on Tuesday at the London Tavern, Sir J. Car michael in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the object of the meeting was to ascertain the opinions of the shareholders with regard to the payment of a dividend for the second half of 1862 and for raising more capital. The divi dend was entirely a shareholders' question. The directors had recommended a dividend because it had been earned, and it was for them to decide whether they would take it or strengthen the hands of the directors by leaving that money to be in vested as a reserve. Mr. TiORTON said it had been stated at the last meeting that the cables would have to be renewed every ton years, which would require a very large reserve- Sir C. BRIGHT said he did not mean to state that the company's lines would have to be replaced every ten years, although a great deal of depreciation was going on. Provision should be made for that de preciation. Mr. FRANCIS, the engineer of the company, said it was quite true about the depreciation. There was a line round the coast extending some eight or nine miles out, which was of hard chalk. In the Straits of Dover the cables got the most wear, but further out there was a sand bottom, and the cables being embedded in sand were more protected. The Calais line had only been broken once in 12 years, and the Ostend cable had never been broken beyond the nine miles out. The gutta percha depreciated ,tt certain extent, the depreciation bein g less under the sand than under the water. The Cu mar . timed eata,_ s amAN said, after the issue of the addi— " and getting rid of the present loan, they would be able to pay the same dividend on the old and the new stock as they were now paying, and the company would be out of debt. He moved a resolution authorising the issue of the new capital and it was carried. A resolution was then agreed to authorising the payment of the dividend recom mended at the last meeting, and the proceedings terminated. Adventures of a British Officer in the Confe, derate Service. The following is an extract from a letter recently received by the relatives of the writer, who was for merly an officer in the British army, and who had settled with his family in America. When the war broke out he joined the Confederate service, having declined a high rank in the Federal army : Camp near Guinea Station, Rappahannock, Feb., 16, 1863. My dear Brother,—At last, I believe, I have a chance of sending you a few lines, for I fear you have not received any of the letters I have tried to forward. By heavens, --, this is a war, and no mistake ; and, in spite of all psalm-singing nigger 'quality notions, &c., that may be entertained by some few extraordinary characters, all, I think, must allow that we " Rebels" can fight. When I look back at some of our exploits, marching from 20 to 30 miles a day under a tropical sun, or wading knee-deep through mud and snow, fording rivers, lying out at night without any covering whatever, or at the utmost a miserable blanket, no rations sometimes, or, when we got any, a mere pit tance, barely sufficient to keep body and soul toge ther, and then flushing in among the well-clad and well-found troops of the enemy, and thrashing them to their hearts' content, I think you cannot, dear --, but allow us some credit for all this. I am not, however, now going to give yon an ac count of the war, but leave that gossip for some other time, that is supposing the Yankees let me off safe, for three times they have tried to send me to my fathers. At Port Republic a ball in my throat, now comfortably or uncomfortably, as you please, resting under my right collar-bone. At Sharpsbnrg, (it was hot work there) a crack in the ribs from a minie ball, and, while I was debating in my own mind the propriety of going to the rear upon the strength of it, a shell bursting close to me, as I was in the act of cheering on oar boys and leading a charge, decided the matter for me—a fragment struck me on the side of the head, and splitting my skull just over the right ear, laid me low, " There goes the sergeant-major; all up with the poor fellow at last," —was, as I have been told, uttered by many a kind hearted comrade, as I lay stretched senseless on the ground, when, to the astonishment of all, I scrambled up, picked up my cap, and, taking a man's arm, started (bleeding like a pig) for the rear, first giving the boys a parting hurrah. Now, that will do for a little self-praise. I pass on to a subject of a more painful nature, to which all bodily wounds or suf ferings are mere moonshine. I allude to poor (the writer's wife) and the dear children. Just as this war was on the eve of breaking out,l was daily expecting them at —, and had made every ar rangement for their reception, when my wife, as you know, met with an accident that nearly caused her death, and before she could be moved the frontier was closed. Since then I have never been able to bear from her or of her, except on one occasion, and that was at the time the Yankee army was retiring after its second failure before Richmond. We were pushing the enemy pretty hard, and, as usual, our brigade was in advance. We had halted near Cul pepper for a short rest, when a small boy came among us, and inquiring for me, he handed me a slip of paper from —, (the writer's brother-in law), in which he said that he was in the 6th —, (a Federal regiment), that he often heard from his sister, and that both she and the dear children were doing well. The very next day our and his brigade met, and we nearly destroyed them. On the fol lowing day all that remained of them, as we after wards heard from some of the prisoners, were amal gamated with the remains of one or more regi ments. And, again, it was our lot to meet in the woods of Shantilly. Here the death knell of the Yankee army sounded, and to use the expres sion of an officer of the 6th —, whom I took prisoner, " The brigade has ceased to exist." The night was fine moonlight, and I hunted all over among the dead and the wounded (and the 6th-- were literally piled up in heaps), but I did not find him. I also made every inquiry among the pri soners, but without hearing any tidings of him, so I am still in hopes, poor fellow, that he may have escaped. Queer scenes are those of a civil war ! If you have any news of my wife and the children try and forward it to me. You cannot imagine how miserable I feel. Many and many a night have I spent gazing at the embers of our bivouac fire until I saw all their darling faces before me; and, al though worn out with hunger and fatigue I would hold on until the fire went out, or the grey dawn started me to my feet, with the old words, " rouse up, boys; rouse up and fall in." But I don't like touching upon this subject, even with you, great as I know is your love and affection for me. None but those who feel as I feel and who are situated as I am situated can realise my position. When you write give me all the news about home ; bow all are going on ; how all are : how is dear mother. I quite dread the answer to that question, lest anything may have happened her. As for myself, I never was in better health in my life. In spite of every kind of exposure I have never had a day's sickness, or have I ever been to the rear except on the two occasions on which I was so severely wounded, and each time I rejoined my regiment before the wounds were healed. Since June, 1861, I have never slept in a bed, with the exception of the two occasions above referred to ; nor have I since the same date ever taken off my clothes, except to wash, or to put on fresh ones ; these last being generally supplied from the kits of our vanquished enemies—aye ! and not unfrequently from the bodies of the dead! Since March, 1862, we have never even had a tent to shelter us; and you will agree with me, I think, that fighting must improve my constitution, when I tell you that last month we had a heavy snow storm which lasted for three days, during which I was on the outpost duty with my company, and all I had was one blanket to cover me, and a great coat which I took off a dead Yankee sergeant at Frede ricksburg ; a few small cedar trees forming our only shelter. I have been a tremendous advocate of the open air system, and as for damp clothes or wet shoes being detrimental to health, I am of opinion that it is not only a mistake, but quite the reverse. I even purpose, if the Yankees don't nail me, to start a series of lectures on the subject, and although some of those who become converts to my theory may die, of course it will be their fault and not mine. In consequence of the heavy state of the roads at pre sent, and little chance of the enemy moving, we have gone into winter quarters since the beginning of the month. That is to say the men have con structed a species of mud huts, and the officers have got a tent—one for each com u pany—m fixed ineisa a m small a fireplace l a ac n e d at by on a e l e i n tt d l , e andingenuity, amn o I have w luxuriating along side of it with my paper on my knees (for we have I not yet come to the luxury of a table or of a seat other than the bare g r ound) listening to the rain pattering away outside and to the wind howling through the pines among which we are camped. I had got thus far when I was interrupted by the adjutant. By Jupiter, -- it is enough to make a man swear ! After all my trouble to make myself so comfortable, I have to go cn outlying picket to morrow, and to remain there for a week, as the dis tance is pretty considerable. It is on the banks of the Rappahannock, and the Yankees are on the other side. It is too bad; my splendid fireplace, the envy and admiration of all, my comfortable bed of dead leaves, all gone, and to be exchanged for a bleak pine forest and half frozen roads. Well, there is no use in growling. Before bringing this to a close I will give you a brief summary of my career in the C.S.A.:—In Febraary,lB6l, I volunteered as a private, and joined a company of riflemen then organising at —. In June we were ordered to Camp Moore, and incorporated into the C.S.A., and with nine other companies formed into the There were several other regi ments forming at the same place, and I used to be highly amused at some of the extraordinary notions of most of these holiday soldiers, indeed, I may say of all, for none anticipated what was to follow. I, too, was out also, for although I looked forward to a little work, I candidly acknowledge that I never expected anything like what has taken place. Shortly after our formation we were moved by cars to Virginia, and, after a little marching and coun ter marching, pitched into the enemy at Bull Run and at Stoney Bridge (commonly called the battle of Manassas). The -, as our company was called, was not present there, being on duty over the stores, &c. Little or no fighting took place after that, both parties being busy preparing for a grand pull. The authorities then began to drill the gentlemen volun teers, to knock some notions of discipline into their heads, and a great number of ridiculous ones, about equality and such stuff, out of them. At this time companies elected their own N.C.O. and officers. I knew well enough that under these circumstances I stood no chance of promotion among them. They were all brothers, cousins, or somehow related to each other; and besides, my ideas of military disci pline rather scared these gentlemen. I may here mention that the right of election, except in the case of the junior lieutenant, has very properly been long since abolished. In October of that year, the colonel, without consulting anyone, promoted me to be ser geant. In March, 1862, we retired from Manass_s, and then the boys began really to feel what the hardships of a soldier's life on service are. The wea ther was awful, and the roads all but impassable. Next came the Valley campaign, as it is called, where onr brigade showed what it was made; and though you may think me a little too much my own trumpeter, I will mention an incident relating to myself which occurred there. At -- our company, along with other companies of the brigade, were ordered out as skir mishers to cover the advance. It was the first time that our boys had been under regular hard fire. As we moved on the enemy opened upon us from the skirts of a wood in front. The fire was very hot and heavy, and some of our boys began to tum ble over, and although not scared, yet the others were certainly anything but comfortable. Just in front of us was a fence; so, giving a rat tling shout, I yelled out, " To the fence, boys; take the fence !" and, suiting the action to the word, I rushed at it, cleared it, and, without firing, dashed at the enemy with my bayonet. The skirmishers all followed. The enemy's skirmishers were driven back, and in a short time the day was ours. . . Thus things went on until after the battles at Richmond, when I was again promoted by the colonel to be sergeant-major. A few more fights, a lick or two more for me, and then came the three days of Fredericksburg, and another Yankee army had disappeared. Two days after the battle, being at the colonel's tent on some duty, he handed me a letter he was about to despatch to General Lee, onr commander•in-chief, recommending me for a com mission for repeated acts of gallantry, &c. Pending the reply, one of the companies having a vacancy, offered me the lieutenancy, which, of course, I ac cepted. A most flattering approval of the colonel's application was sent by the commander-in-chief; and so determined was he to grant me the step as a reward, that, as the company electing me happened to have no officers remaining, I was at once gazetted as captain, and ordered up the same day, without previous warning, before the Board of Examiners, stood a three hours' examination, and came off with flying colours, compliments, &c. And thus, my dear ends the yarn. And the late -, of the -, is now a Captain of Rebels. How say you to that, old fellow [The friends of the writer of the above, not having heard from him since the beginning of the war, suc ceeded in communicating with an officer of high rank in the Confederate army. His kindness in replying to their inquiries does so much credit to his heart, and affords so interesting a finale to the preceding narrative, that we cannot refrain from giving his letter. Both communications came by the same mail. " Headquarters, -- Brigade, Jan. 26, 1863. " D ar Sir,—Yours of the 12th, making inquiries of Mr. --, of my brigade, has just been received. I am happy to inform T.O that he is still attached to my brigade, and is in perfect health. He has been wounded in some two or three different battles, but his wounds though severe have left no ill effects. Mr. -- joined as a private in one of the compa nies of my old regiment, and it may be gratifying to his relations to learn that he is now a captain in command of one of my finest companies, having been promoted to this position for gallant and meri torious conduct. He is in all respects one of the finest soldiers I have met with in our army, and is unexceptionable as an officer. Captain —is at present on picket duty. When he returns, he will, I presume, avail himself of the opportunity of writ ing to his friends in England, and sending his let ters through you. " —, Brigadier General Commanding." THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1863. THE POLISH QUESTION, Le Pays publishes a full summary of the despatch addressed by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Duke of Montebello, the Ambassador of France at St. Petersburg, to be communicated by him to Prince Gortschakoff. It says:—" The Mi nister commences by stating that the insurrection of which the Kingdom of Poland is at present the theatre, has given rise to serious anxiety in Europe, which was enjoying a state of tranquillity that no proximate event seemed likely to disturb. The lamentable effusion of blood and the pain ful incidents which mark this struggle have caused a deep emotion everywhere. The Government of the Emperor has, therefore, only performed a duty in expressing to the Court of Russia the reflections which this state of affairs suggests to it, and in call ing its solicitude to the dangers that are connected with it. " A character and exceptional gravity are given to the disturbances in Poland by the fact that these disturbances are not the result of a temporary crisis. Every one understands that effects which are repro duced every generation cannot be attributed solely to accidental causes. The periodical convulsions of Poland are the symptoms of an inveterate evil. They leave no doubt upon the powerless attempts hitherto made to reconcile that country with the situation granted it by the treaties. " The despatch goes on to state that those con tinued perturbations, whenever they occur, become a subject of alarm to Europe. Poland occupies a central position on the continent ; it cannot be agi tated without the States which touch upon its fron tier suffering a commotion which is soon felt throughout the whole of Enrope. We have had proofs of this whenever the Poles have taken up arms. " These conflicts, as is proved by the one we now witness, have catised great anxiety in the public mind. But, moreover, if they are prolonged, they might trouble the relations between Governments and lead to the most lamentable complication?. It is therefore in the interests of all the powers to obviate these continually recurting dangers. " The Minister expresses the hope that the Court of Russia will listen to these observations, which are well worth its attention, in the same spirit as that which inspired them to the Government of the Em. peror. He entertains the confidence that the Court of Russia will still show itself animated, under these circumstances, by those libe r al v i e ws of which the reign of his Majesty the Emperor A lexandtr has already given s o many striking proofs, and that, in its wisdom, it will ad m i t t h e necessity' of measures ' which will give Poland conditions that will assure a durable peace. The Minister concludes by requesting the Am bassador to leave a , copy of the despatch with Prince Gortsclaakoff.' Le Pays adds the following,— " We can only confirm what we have already stated respecting the despalches of England and Austria, which, except a difference in the wording, are written in the same sense and draw the same conclusions." c i casesa . E t A ed p e T b f y E R a T l all sE indigestion,m persons ENT.w3ava them e nk j o justly da s rnf t ra l te y uriyli pas a :ltp.opaa:rnnbleddne pthriezebdloaosd, ietnmdearlietes.exHpeolllforwemay general ooL:ph:adlvl °eliver, ovaneYcr les medicine giveniPn ial st h c i putrid elements which are ever tending to produce position or actual disease. The Pills are corilpose , of the finest balsams • they are perfectly innocent in action, and may, therefore, be fearlessly administered to young chil 'tsheFlslylsstetmoarollucgohly p ih u d ri is fy . dren and delicate females. Holloway's Pills are the best correctives of these imperfect secretions which oppress many whose nerves from age or infirmity are no longer able to fulfil the duties essential to good health. THE WEATHER, The following is the report of Admiral Fitzroy to the Board of Trade : " April, 1863. " Sir,—ln my reports last year to yourself—with those of 1857 and 1858—information was given respecting all de tails of this department. . " 2. Since April, 1862, continued progress has been made in the principal subjects, for which this office was origi nally instituted in 1854, and a considerable advance has been effected in the practical application of meteorology to every-day use. " 3. The results of such utilisation of facts observed can scarcely be more clearly and briefly shown than by the two papers appended to this report, which give statements of wind and weather following every instance of making our cautionary signals ; and the opinions of practical men re specting fishery barometers lent to them by the Board of Trade. The statement of weather was drawn up by my assistant from our office records, and has not been the least altered. The barometer paper is also printed verbatim from the original returns. " 4. Applications of a pressing nature have been made for the cautionary signals sent from this office, from no less than 54 of the places on our coasts, which are specified in the third paper of the appendix; and as some of these have been preferred but recently they are evidences of deliberate considera'ion and of the value attached to the fact that by means of our regular reporting stations (offices of the tele graph companies) and the Coastguard, aided by the liberal organisation effected locally in some districts, all the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland to which the telegraph ex tends, including the Isles of Man, Jersey, and Heligoland, can now bo warned in less than one hour. " 5. More than this, however, has already been effected, and more is in prospect. From France we receive telegrams twice a day, in the early morning from Rochefort, L' Orient, and Brest, which reach London as soon as our own from Ireland or Scotland ; and in the afternoon, through Paris, from Lisbon, Bayonne, Brest, Helder, and Copenhagen. In exchange for which we send daily reports to Paris Observa tory from seven places ; and to Calais—for the Frenchcoast specially—at 11 ; besides such occasional warnings as may be useful to the French north-west coasts, including our Channel Islands. "6. How the British notices are appreciated in France may be shown by the following extracts of letters received by mysl-lf from two officerslin.the French navy, who have baen charged with the organisation of a central office at Paris (similar to this) with corresponding or reporting sta tions on the mirth, the west, and the south coasts of France. "Captain Moulac wrote on the 20th January last : Bien que les previsions du tamps faites par l'Amiral Fitzroy ne soient qua des probabilites, et nullement des pro pheties, ii serait facile d'opposer a l'exemple cite, qua l'on pretend avoir ete prix entre mille, un tres-grand nombre de circonstances dans lesquelles l'evenement a justifie les pre. visions. " ' Depuis le peu de temps, moins de deux mois, que ces avertissements parviennent en France, les trois coups de vent qui se sont fait sentir sur nos cotes ont gal annonces la veille.' And Captain Mouchez, now officiating at Paris, said on tho 19th ult. : " Je n'ai pas besoin, sans donte, de vous dire que pen dant tout le mois ecoule vos telegrammes se sont verifies d'une maniere tres-remarqable. Les journanx de divers ports de nos cotes du Nord signalent tres frequemment l'accord parfait de previsions et des tems observes. Aussi nous aeons grande impatience de voir notre service bien etabli. J'espere que cela ne tardera pas.' " And on the 26th the same officer wrote— " Je regoeis continuellement de nouvelles demander des ports qui reclament la communication de vos teleg,rammes.' " He also requested additional information from a few other British ports. "7. Last autumn several cautionary notices of impend ing bad weather were sent through Heligoland to Hamburg, and even to Rostock, at the special request of Professor Dove ; and lately inquiries about ice and probable cold weather telegraphed from Hamburg were answered so satis - factorily that a cargo of 800 tons was countermanded. " 8. During 1862 many foreigners examined the arrange ments at this office, and four of those gentlemen (who were accredited to high positions at the Exhibition) expressed in tentions of establishing similar arrangements (on a smaller scale) in their respective countries —namely, France, Italy, Hanover, and Russia. " 9. In the last autumn France commenced arrangements for a system of coast telegraphy for ordinary weather as well as for storms, and within the last few weeks I have heard from the officer at Paris appointed to conduct this service that he has organised 18 stations on the French coasts, and will soon ask for the further reports from hence which are desired by them. His immediate superior is the Minister of Marine, who takes much personal interest in the subject. " 10. Commissioners from the Hanoverian Government have just obtained authority from the Foreign-office and Board of Trade to inspect our meteorologic arrangements, having in view an organisation of a similar kind. " 11. It is unnecessary to say how willingly any desired information has been invariably given, not only to foreigners, but to :all persons entitled to time and attention in a public office; but it may be right to repeat here that the meteoro logic publications of the Board of Trade have been exten sively though carefully circulated, and that a large scientific as well as ordinary correspondence has grown out of their disseminations. " 12. These facts seem to show so conclusively, not only the opinions of foreigners and those by whom they have been gradually informed, chiefly concerned in maritime in terests, but of a large number of other persons, that many words here in allusion to different views may seem hardly necessary ; and yet for enabling a fair conclusion to be drawn by high authorities some degree of further explaßation may seem to be desirable besides wh a t h as b ee n already published. 13. Many may ask—' Is this system of weather tele graphy sound and advantageous ? If so, why is it opposed ? " There are no less than four distinct classes of interested opponents, and they should be known, First :—Certain persons who were opposed to the system theoretically at its origin, and having openly expressed, if not published, their converted. objections are naturally reluctant to adopt other ideas until time and opportunity A numerousk fully t ody who cannot have had into the rationale, but do not realise any want of special informatio n , un dervalue the subject, assert it to be a b urlesque,' and misquote really great authorities. " Thirdly.—A small but active party which failed in p y o — rtty to 100 establishing a daily weather newspaper indirectly opposed to the Board of Trade reports, and have since endeavoured, by conversation, by letters, and by elaborate criticisms in newspaper s or periodicals, to exa ggerate deficiencies, while ignoring merit in the works of this office, however beneficial their intended objects. "And fourthly, these pecuniarily interested individuals or bodies who would leave the coasters and the fishermen to pursue their precarious occupation heedlessly—without regard to risk—lest occasionally a day's demurrage should be caused unnecessarily, or a catch of fish missed for the London market. ` have 14 the. Especially rnin referring now to perso ns who would ha ,b g ut not the forecasts' (results wagsir signals, of considerations on which the signals may depend), may I quote from my ' Weather Book' the following words P-- ' Frequently remarks in favour of the cautionary signals, but in depreciation of the forecasts, have been made. Their author now begs to say that it is only by closely forecasting the coming weather, and by keeping atmospheric condition continuously present to mind, that judicious storm warnings can be given. Forecasts grow out of statical facts, and signals are their fruit.' Weather Book, page 193. Second edition. " 15. To show some of the concordant opinions of such forecasts entertained in France and Scotland, in Ireland and England, I might quote numerous printed or written passages. In this report, however, I will only observe that the views and expressions of seafaring men, of the maritime population in general, of the Coast Guard, and of her Majesty's officers in command are remarkably favourable. " 16. Perhaps it may be asked on what met orologic conditions or changes are the forecasts based ?' They de pend (may be briefly replied) on considering the atmosphere as a lighter ocean, having currents, elastic expansibility, equilibrium, m , mentum or inertia, chemical alterations, and extreme sensibility to heat or cold, its chief motors ; and on knowing the statical conditions of air in this oceanic envelope at many places simultaneously, like wise again similarly after certain intervals of time by which means intercomparisons are made, showing the relative conditions and causations whence dynamic effects originate. These dynamic motions are proportional to disturbances of level, like those caused by a head of water, to inequalities Of temperature and consequent chymical changes, with more or less electric action. They are our winds and may be softly gentle, —or as heavily boisterous as in a tempest, of which differences, through all degrees, instrumental means and telegraphy now give available information. To utilise their indications adequately a central office should know the natural and general atmospheric movements, with their dis turbing causes, even as a pilot knows the varieties of r•ti earns and eddies in a wide estuary. " The whole map of a regi ma (say the British Islands) should be outlined in the mind, as the estuary with its shoals is mentally v'sible to the pilot. The normal tendency of the whole atmosphere (in our latitudes) to move east ward while crossed or variously interfered with by polar or tropical currents, that in course of seasons cause every variety of wind and weather, should be always considered, and then, with due allowances made for gradual advances from westware, for effects of land and differences of tempera ture, good forecasts may be generally drawn. " 17. Reverting to fishery barometers, I would ask for perusal of the replies sent in from places on our coasts to which instruments have been lent by the Board of Trade, gradually increasing in number since :857. By these instru ments, and by the directions (Manuals) that have been so liberally circulated by Government, an extensive amount of good has been done in a manner little known to the public, but not eventually to be the less appreciated. The example thus set has been largely followed, not only on our own seacoasts, but on those of the French, where their Govern ment has placed similar barometers at all coast stations, and his supplied them with translations of the Board of Trade _Manual. " 18. While thus endeavouring to realise a few practical results from some of the voluminous accumulations of facts hitherto usually remaining bound up on the shelves of many a library, or stored in observatories, it may be that some insight has been obtained of the manner in which atmospheric changes are occasioned, and air-currents or winds set in motion, around our world, chiefly by the sun and moon. The luni-solar theory to which I refer appears to be so much in accordance with observed facts that each month adds to my own impression of its truth; but it would be wrong not to say here, distinctly, that it is not yet ad mitted by the highest scientific judges. " 19. In order to estimate fairly the nature and practical value of these latter results arising out of the Meteorologic office, it may be stated summarily that, as the objects are to save life and property, to enable small vessels and boats to avoid or prepare for dangerous winds, and to take full advantage of favourable weather, to inform ships about to leave port, or approaching land, and generally to inform, if not to caution, the maritime community—their importance is self-evident. " 20. Tho daily forecasts so extensively, yet without public cost, sent :everywhere by the newspapers (whether the full tables are published by them or not), together with the regular tabulation of facts observed in numerous and widely-separated places, afford general information now highly appreciated by a very large and increasing majority, although they are at present only tentative, and liable to errors of judgment, in drawing conclusions, however reliable the facts. " 21. Lastly, sir, I would request that you will notice a few other papers appended to this report, with a view of showing that while a new and extensive utilisation of me teorology has been pressed forward, for the advantage of all classes, a continuous advance has been made in carrying on the original purposes for which this office was established. —I have, &c., " R. FITZROY, Rear-Admiral. " To the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., President of the Board of Trade." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TutEsa—For some months the incidents of the American War have not been important enough to obtain a record that could be clearly understood. The confusion of the reports appeared to cover some operations which brought no decided advantage to the Federal aims, or all the success that could have ' been claimed would certainly have been made known. But by the last accounts the conflict has reached another stage or starting point, whence its course must be followed with increased interest. As if obeying some law similar to that which go verns the elements in a tornado, the operations of the war, after a lapse of two years, have returned to the exact point where the hostilities began. In April, 1861, Fort Sumter, at the entrance of the harbour of Charleston, was attacked by the Confe derates and compelled to surrender. The bombard ment of this island fortress was the first act of the drama, which has since produced many incidents more tragic, but none more important in result. It was the echo of the cannon fired on the Federal flag at Charleston that called the first Northern armies into the field. Round Fort Sumter the interest of the struggle centres again. From the Southern journals of the Bth of April it appears that the Fe deral gunboats end transports had crossed the bar which protects the entrance of Charleston Harbour for the purpose of attacking the fort and capturing the city itself. On the 9th inst. it was reported in New York that the bombardment of the works had actually commenced, and that the same rumour was believed in Richmond may be accepted as a proof that the attack was there considered probable. The Federal fleet is supported by a land force, but the troops were not to take any part in the operation till the result of the bombardment was known. The attacking squadron had anchored inside the bar, but still outside the harbour, the entrance of which is commanded by the guns of Fort Sumter, and those of the smaller works of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island. The deep-water channel lies between them, and across this passage the Confederate lronclads are anchored, " waiting the attack" for which the Federal fleet is prepared. In this attitude of grim repose both forces were left by the latest telegrams. How the die of war has fallen in this throw a few days will inform us. But there is no city of the South against which the North feels such a keen animosity as Charleston. From this feeling an im portance is attached to its capture beyond its value as a military position. Before the war began Charleston was the centre of the deeply rooted dis content which at last expressed itself by the act of secession. It was at Charleston the second Declara tion of Independence was published. The explosive forces had been long accumulating throughout the South, but there the match was applied to the train and the mine of stored-up hatred was fired. Sour .h Carolina led the political revolt, and at Charleston the first blow of the war was struck. To Charles ton all the military reverses and disasters of the North are traced back, as to their source ; and throughout the conflict this Southern city has been to the Northern States a kind of Carthage,against the name of which they have written delenda est, if the fortune of war should ever place such a vengeance in their power. Richmond became important only by having been selected as the seat of the political Government of the Confederacy. To obtain pos session of Charleston now would, in Northern opi nion, more than compensate for all the losses in the campaigns of Virginia. The actual agents who do the work of war are not often so savagely tem pered as the passionate politicians who shape its ends before they are won. But the last published hope of the extreme Republicans as to the disposal of Charleston was that it might be levelled with the earth, the plough passed over its site, and the ground sown with salt. The recent destruction of a whole Southern town, after its occupation by the Federal troops, will probably give additional energy to the defence of Charleston, for in the spirit the war has engendered no deed of a similar kind can be considered impossible. Of the feeling of the ;North the Confederate Government is per fectly aware, and this attack, it is stated, finds Charleston well prepared for resistance. During the last year it has been surrounded by defensive works, and every point of the harbour is com manded by forts and batteries. The Federal fleet has to engage these works, and the Confederate iron-clad gunboats besides. The recent operations on the Mississippi have not continued to the Fede ral river vessels the success they obtained in the early stage of the war. When the first iron-cased gunboats aided the movements of the troops on shore they gained several decided successes for the North, but since the South built vessels of the same kind the scale has turned in its favour. Against the Southern river forts or earthworks the iron-cased steamers have done little, and they have sustained some serious checks. At Vicksburg every attack has been repulsed. Admiral Farragut nar rowly escaped destruction. The failure of Admiral Porter in his attempt to reach the Yazoo River by the Creeks supposed to lead into it proves nothing but a singular want of caution in running his ves sels up 70 miles of inland water without pre viously ascertaining that it had no outlet. It almost proved a trap for the entire expedition. But, on the whole, the river navy of the North has not maintained the reputation it had acquired. In several cases the iron-sheathed vessels have found it difficult or quite impossible to pass a fort on a river bank. By the last accounts Gen. Foster, with his troops, was surrounded at Washington, a town on the coast of N irth Carolina, and could not be reinforced, because the Confederates had erected a battery on the Pamlico, five miles below the town, which the Federal gunboats had attempted to pass without success. As the expedition against Charles ton has been some time in preparation, however, the vessels of the Federal fleet are probably the best of their class, and they may be less vulnerable than the river stean - ers, which appear to have acquired caution in approaching land forts. In Charleston harbour the Federals have to engage Fort Sumter, a stone work of the old construction, not built against 300 pound shot, Fort Moultrie, and batteries of which modern science has calculated the power of resistance, and proportioned it to the force by which it may be assailed. Added to all these are the Confederate iron cased steamers or batteries afloat. It is impossible, however cold-blooded it may seem, to contemplate a naval action of which the issue is unknown, without considering it as an experiment which must test the modern instruments of war by actual battle. Between iron and wood there is, of course, no question. But between one iron-cased fleet and another equally shot proof, the latter backed by stone forts and earthworks, an engagement must produce some results which will compel us to look through all the horrors they in volve for the sake of the inevitable experience. We did not wish or compel either side in the conflict at Charleston to incur the cost of such a terrible lesson. DAILY NEWS.—We are brought this morning within a single year of the tercentenary of Shaks peare's birth. On the 23d of April, in the year 1564, was born, in the pleasant town of Stratford-on- Avon, the greatest poet the world has ever seen, and as we are accustomed in the narrower circles of social and domestic life to celebrate the per sonal anniversaries of those we love and honour, so it is perfectly natural and fitting that the birth day of our greatest national benefactor, the poet philosopher whom all Englishmen love and honour, should receive at least a passing remem b rance. If, indeed, our recognition of the day were at all proportionate to the benefits we have received through the event it celeb ra t es, scarcely any anni versary in our national calendar would stand higher or be welcomed with a more sincere, grateful, and reverent gladness. It is difficult, indeed, at this distance of time, to imagine what our national literature and life would have been apart from the pervading, the elevating and refining influence of Shakspeare's writings. They have done far more than anything beside to mould the language, refine the taste, fill the imagination, stimulate the intel lect, and stir the heart of the nation. The infiu epee of that one master mind, that serene and uni versal intellect, permeates the entire range of our national thought and expression, and is clearly per ceptible in its humblest as well as highest manifes tations. While the homely but pregnant maxims of the Poet's wit and wisdom have enriched our col loquial speech, and are heard every day in the familiar talk of ordinary life, his delineationsof the primal human passions, of the grander forms of cha racter and action, remain as perfect types and ex amples for the admiration and study of the most gifted and accomplished minds. All the passions and affections, as well as the moods and maladies of the mind, all the humorous and tragic experiences of life, all the typical forms of humble and heroic character, are traced with the subtlety of Nature by that unfaltering hand; and these multitudinous creations of Shakspeare's genius people that world of dramatic life which has supplied not only a boundless field of instruction and delight, but in exhaustible materials for study and reflection to his countrymen and critics in every succeeding age. While, however, those more profound qualities of Shakspeare's writings which fascinate the critical student of poetry can be fully appreciated only by the few, they are in the truest and largest sense written for the many, end are both designed and adapted to influence the nation at large. This public, patriotic, and national aspect of the Poet's labours deserves to be specially celebrb ted. He created our national drama—a drama thoroughly popular, and at the same time intensely poetical. At the time Shakspeare appeared as a writer poetry, indeed, existed, and the drama existed, but they were almost hopelessly divorced. The stage had emerged from the buffoonery of the "Mysteries" and " Moralities" only to be plunged in the depths of colloquial rant, fustian, and extravagance. On the one hand, the poetry of the time kept itself steadily aloof from the stage, addressed only a very limited circle of readers, and was restricted to an elevated sphere of ideal experience, classic fancies, and highly-wrought expression. Shakspeare did for poetry what Socrates is said to have done for philo sophy—brought it down from heaven to earth, from the airy heights of a metaphysical and romantic fancy to the joys and sorrows of our common humanity, the humorous and tragical realities of actual lite. Desiring a larger audience than the let tered and instructed few, he boldly spoke to the people at large on the subjects most likely to interest them, and having thoroughly secured their ear, the extent of his influence in rousing the public spirit and elevating the national character of his country men cannot be overrated. While the form of his writings was thus popular, their pervading spirit was in the highest sense noble and salutary. Con sidering not only the age in which he wrote, but the general character of contemporary literature hardly anything in the writings of Shakespeare is more re markable than the lofty moral spirit that pervades them. In none of his plays is there any contusion of the clear judgment pronounced on actions of the re flective reason and conscience of mankind. He has " no innocent adulteries, no interesting incests, no virtuous vice. He never renders that amiable which religion and reason alike teach us to detest, nor clothes impurity in the garb of virtue, like Beau mont and Fletcher. Shakespeare's fathers are roused by ingratitude, his husbands are stung by unfaith fulness—in him, in short, the affections are wounded in those points in which all may, nay, must feel." A poet gratified with such rare and transcendent powers, if thus exciting the passions in the interest of virtue, is in the highest sense a national bene factor. There can be no question that Shakspeare directly helped not only to purify the taste, but to raise the tone and reform the manners of his age. But on even broader grounds than the just delinea tion and judgment of individual character and action his works have a public bearing, and his name well deserves popular commemoration. They breathe throughout the genuine spirit of freedom, that min gled love of liberty and reverence for law which is in principle and tendency fatal to tyranny and op pression in every form. Everywhere he shows the invincible respect of a great, a well-ordered and in dependent nature for justice and right, for indi vidual rights, social rights, public rights, and everywhere he visits with scathing rebuke those who attempt to trample them under foot, In the widest sense, therefore, and apart from his wonder ful truth of individual portraiture, he is the true poet of humanity, the poet who in spirit and pur pose directly and poweafully ministers to the true freedom, moral elevation, and social progress of the race. 'What, however, is of peculiar interest to us, and ought to be specially remembered on his birth day, is the great Poet's rare simplicity of life and manners. Amidst the toils and excitement of his City life, brilliant associations, and literary labours, he maintained unimpaired the freshness of his early feeling, his quiet love of nature, his attachment to the scenes, the pastimes, and the companions of his youth. During the whole time of his residence in London, we are told on good authority, " he was wont to go to his native country once a year ; " and having realised a competence by his writings, he retired to Stratford to live amongst his relations and friends, and enjoy again the rural walks amongst the meadows and woods of War wickshire that had delighted him in his youth. After enjoying for a few years the retirement he loved and had so long looked forward to, he died amidst his old friends, beloved as he had lived. The example of such fresh and natural feeling, such per fect simplicity of life, maintained to the end by one who holds the first place in the literature of the world, is instructive, and may be remembered with advantage even in our own more advanced and more enlightened days. POST.—When, a few days since, we directed at tention to the application made to the Foreign S.,nre tary for the appointment of mail agents to accom pany the vessels trading to Matamoras, we expressed a hope that such application would not be granted. The official reply of Earl Russell has since then been published, refusing to comply with what, though apparently a reasonable, was certainly an unprecedented request. The owners of the screw steamer Sea Queen are simply relieved from their liability of carrying the mails, since they consider it probable that evil disposed persons might despatch therewith letters which, in the event of seizure, would implicate the vessel, There can be no doubt that the Government have exercised a sound discre tion in refusing to guarantee, in an indirect manner, the security‘of a vessel which they are bound to protect with the entire weight of their authority. Mr. Adams has laid himself open to well-merited censure by assuming to give a permit to an English vessel trading between neutral ports; and we do not see how Earl Russell could have avoided equal blame if he had sent a mail agent with the Sea Queen, with the ostensible object of guaranteeing her from illegal capture. We are, however, far from satisfied that the Government have acted wisely in relieving the owners of the Sea Queen from their liability to carry the mails. Assuming that the proposed voyage is legitimate, one is com pelled to ask why the public should be debarred the right of transmitting letters to the port of destina tion ? The Sea Queen is bound for Matamoras, a neutral port, with which commerce is, or at least ought to be, perfectly unrestricted. Why is the right of despatching mails, which is incidental to that of transmitting merchandise, to be abandoned ? The mere circumstance that comparatively few per sons will be inconvenienced by the course taken by the Government does not affect the question. It appears to us that a great principle is at stake, which must at all hazards be upheld. Suppose a Federal cruiser were to seize on a English ves sel carrying the mails to Rio Janeiro, or to Hali fax, what would be thought if the Government, pending the adjudication of a prize court on the captured ship, w ere to relieve the contractors for the carriage of the mails to either of these places from their liability because a second vessel might share the fate of the first ? The cap ture would in either case, ex concessis, be illegal; and if the American prize court did not decree adequate compensation to the owners, the Govern ment of this country would be bound in vindication of its own dignity, and for the protection of its own subjects, to make reprisals. The Peterhoff, it is alleged, has been illegally seized ; but if so, we can not presume that an American prize court will not do substantial justice, and order compensation to be made for her wrongful capture. Still less can we presume that the Sea Queen, which is bound on a lawful voyage, will be captured. We are therefore at a loss to understand why the owners of that ves sel should be relieved from their liability to carry the mails simply because they are apprehensive of a wrongful act being committed, which if unatoned for would nec ess i tate a war with the United States. Wearenot desiro us o f go i ng to war, t u t it seems scarcely expedient to act as if we were afraid of being called upon to vindicate our independence by force of arms. Another seizure is reported, in many respects similar to that of the Peterhoff. The Dolphin, stated to be bound from Liverpool to Nassau with a cargo of general merchandise, was captured by a Federal cruiser shortly after quitting St. Thomas's, in the West Indies, at which port she had touched in the course of her voyage. Assuming the statement made by the master and crew of the vessel to be true, and the copies of the ship's mani fest and bills of lading to be correct, there can be no doubt that the capture was illegal. In this instance, however, as in that of the Peterhoff, we suppose we must await the adjudication of a prize court. If a cause of capture is alleged by those who have seized the vessel, it is difficult to see how the jurisdiction of a prize court can possibly be ousted. In the case of the Peterhoff the Govern ment instructed our Minister at Washington to demand the liberation of the vessel if no prima facie case were made out on the part of her captors. Such a case, however, it would seem, was estab liOled, or at least alleged, and the Court of Admi ralty had commenced an investigation into the cir cumstances of the capture when the last mail left New York. It is not improbable that a similar course will be followed in respect to the Dolphin, and that in her case, as in that of the Peterhoff, a prize court will determine whether or not the car ture has been illegal. FEDERAL VANDALISM. Jacksonville is in ruins. That beautiful city, which hag been for so many years the favourite resort for invalids from the North, has to day (March 28) been burnt to the ground, and, what is sad to record, by the soldiers of the national army. Scarcely a mansion, a cottage, a negro hut, or a warehouse remains. The long lines of magnificent oaks, green and beautiful, with the thickest foliage, the orange groves perfuming the air with their blossoms, the syca mores, the old century plants adorning every garden, the palmetto and bayonet trees, ever tropical in verdure, the rose and the jessamine —all that at this season, indeed, I might say through all seasons, has made Jacksonville a little Eden, has been burned, and scorc h e d, an d crisped, If not entirely consumed to ashes, by the devouring flames. I am now writing on the deck of the fine transport ship the Boston. Three gunboats—the Paul Jones, the Norwich, and the John Adams—are lying out in the river, with guns shotted, ready to fire the moment a rebel appears in s ight. The transport vessels—the Boston, the Delavan, the Gen. Meigs, the Tillie, and the Cossack—are at the wharfs filled with troops. All are on board, except about 200 of the 6th Connecticut, who are on picket duty. Three blank shots from the Paul Jones have just been fired, as a signal for them to come in. From this upper deck the scene pre• sented to the spectator is one of the most fearful magnifi cence. On every side, from every quarter of the city, dense clouds of black smoke and flame are bursting through the mansions and warehouses. A fine south wind is bloW• ing immense blazing cinders right into the heart of the city. The beautiful Spanish moss, drooping so gracefully from the long avenues of splendid old oaks, has caught fire, and as far as the eye can reach through these once pleasant streets nothing but sheets of flame can be seen, running up with the rapidity of lightning to the tops of the trees and then darting off to the smallest branches. The whole city, mansions, warehouses, trees, shrubbery and orange groves —all that refined taste and art through many years have made beautiful and attractive—are being lapped up and de.- voured by this howling fiery blast. One solitary woman, a horse tied to a fence between two fires, and a lean, half starved dog, are the only living inhabitants to be seen in the streets. Fifty families, most of them professing Union sentiments, have been taken on board the transports, and provided with such accommodation as the tuba will afford. I send a list herewith. Some of them have been able to save a bed and a few chairs, but most of them have nothing in the world but the clothes upon their backs. Is not this war, vindictive, unrelenting war ? Have we not gotten up to the European standard ? Yesterday, the beautiful little cot tage used as the Catholic parsonage, together with the church, was fired by the soldiers, and in a short time burnt to the ground. Before the flames had fairly reached the church the soldiers burst open the doors, and commenced sacking it of everything of value. The organ was in a ref). meat torn to strips, and almost every soldier who came out seemed to be celebrating the occasion by blowing through an organ pipe. To-day the same spectacle has been re peated, only upon a much grander scale. There must have been some understanding among the incendiaries with re' gard to the conflagration. At 8 o'clock the flames burst from several buildings in different parts of the city, and at a later hour still more were fired. The wind then rose to a stiff gale, and the torch of the incendiary became unnecessary to increase the fire. The only mansions of any value left standing as we move down the river are the elegant maw sions of Colonel Sanderson and Judge Burritt, both rebels and scoundrels of the deepest dye. Why so much property known to belong to Union men should have been destroyed and the mansions of those notorious rebels left standing it is hard to understand. It gives me pleasure to report that the negro troops took no part whatever in the perpetration of this vandalism. They had nothing whatever to do with it, and were simply silent spectators of the splendid but sad spectacle. The 6th Connecticut charge it upon the Bth Maine, and the Bth Maine hurl it back upon the 6th Con' necticut.—.Yew York Tribune. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK—WEDNESDAY. Wheat in moderate demand to -day, at about previol lo prices. Barley scarce. Beans and oats as before. White wheat new, 45s to 54s Barley, grinding..2Bs to 3 19 Red do. 44s to 48s Oats, old, .. 3os to -"II Old white —s to —s New do Red do. --s to —s 1 Beans.. Barley, malting.... 37s to 43 s 1 Beans, new Peas, .... 33s to 38s, 3 4 2 5 3 3 sss too 0 0 0 3 4 2 8 6 6 0: HULL—TUESDAY. A small supply of English wheat to-day, which wa l) taken off by local millers at prices generally the sa me 9 0 last week. Foreign w as qu it e neg l ected. Barley of choiq quality supports last week's currency, but seconds decline(' Is per qr. Beans and peas a slow sale. Oats steady. „, Wheat.... Old white per qr. ... 48s Od to 60$ u`,l Old red » New white .. „ New red .... „ Barley.... English malti ng 32s Od to 38s . Grinding Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 2223 7 88 1 00 6 0 cd d l t t tt 0000 318232 98 9 a s 000 1 Grinding Oats English, old 13a Archangel and Riga, per st Friesland and Dutch osl3d to osl3 lb Swedish and Danish OBl2O to Os ~,i Beans ....English, old, per qr. 2 o6 : l o 2 d dt ot o2Bs_ O d a. 45s Od to 46$ ' 1 ; New pigeon New tick. Egyptian 4 34 0 3 2 s s s Od to ttt to 34 s 1 4 1 4 s s s fe d ! 36s Od tv 3i 6 „ ° ,l Peas Foreign boilers .. Grinding —B Od tc 3bs u. Od Tares ....Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 56s ° „,i crushing • 4os Od to 52s 0 6 Linseed cake Hr' _es (Mill) £9 15 0 to - ilO 0 0 Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 o Rape cakes 6 5 oto 61" 0 Bones LYNN- . An average show of wheat all fresh samples, at fully late dearer. Barley and oats unal White ..50s to 52s R,d Beans .3 Bs to 42 s New 368 to 38s L'ITESDAy. to-day, with a ready sale fo r rates. Beans is per quarte r Itered. I Barley. 37s to 4 21 `Grinding ...... 34s to Oats Peas .22s Peas ttoo Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mau r iti us, v i a Southampton. - -ivr aY 19 ,4 via Marseilles May ' Brasil and Cape Verds, by British packet. May ' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 3 1 China, Penang, and Sin g ap ore , via Southampton May ' ff , via Marseilles Apr. T . Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampt on ..... , Apr. 1 ) India (Calcutta), and C ey l on, via Southampton. May India (Bomb via Marseilles Apr' 26, Bombs via Southampton .. Apr. via Marseill es May 0. Portugal.... May ''6, Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Apr. , Newfoundland via Marseilles Apr. 29' Apr. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... API' 29, by U.S. packet.... 24. by Canadian packet.APr. i o, W.C. of Af r i ca, M - a d e i ra, and Teneritle .. MO . / Bahamas, via New York May Y S ' Mexico.. All parts of W es t I n di es , i nc l u di ng Chil i , Peru, i Apr. 7 • , 47. California, and Briti s h Columbia. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf POl vents the Chinese pas s i ng off inferior leaves as in the u s e s kinds. Hornima n ' s T ea i s uncoloured, therefore, allll4 good alike. Sold in packets by 2.280 agents. Births. igle BURN. —On the 20th i ns t ., at 20 , Queen's-gardens, h- Trdi park, the wife of M a j or- G enera l H . P. Burn, ° daughter. - F:s01 JACKSON —On the 21st inst., at Dedham •gro ve, 0 the wife of Commander W. T. Forbes Jackson, R. l " a son. PRINSEP.—On the 21st inst., at 36, St. George's'l o 4.l Eccleston-square, the wife of C. Campbell PrinsePt of a son. Marriages. se" ANDREws—Bucx..—On th e 22d i nst , at St. Bart h o larae iros eh Sydenham, by the Re v . C. E nglish, Mr. Joseph An d of BE.II-green, Sydenham, to Mary Ann, daughter ° John Buck, of Homerton. v GRYLLS—BTLLEL—On the 21st i ns t.. a t St. ivla,.-114; bot's, Kensington, Shmlwell Morley Grylls, MaJ° r s i P' Artillery, to I sa b e ll a E llen, eldest daughter o fr Buller, M P Deaths. 1s Sit BATESON.—On the 21 s t inst., at Belvoir-park, Be - Robert Bateson, B ar t , agd 83. t S C4 . CRAFT.—On th e 21 s t inst ,at Hasting s , John, e' -ia es Craft, Philpot-lane, city, aged 36. gr „ee,l CRIPPS. -On th e 19th inst at his residence, Fortis- g affed Finchley, William Cripps, Esq., late of Bristol, 84. Ciea CROOK.—On the 21st inst., at 83, Mornington-re t4 Crook, Esq., age d 76 . Canada %est' II DERBISTRE.—On th e 27th u l t., in Quebec, Cana 63' Stewart Derbishi re , E sq., l ate of the Temple/ eg" FAGAN.—On the 16th inst., at St. Servan's, near St ' sr - France, Colo ne l James Fagan, late Bengal Aral, 75. MARTIN.—At E vers h ot, Dorset, John Mart i n , Es 4, 84. _ ov London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A Ni) zlo. / I d of No. 112 , St rand, Printer, at THE SUN Oi ne ,,, ,`' m uiti . Strand, in the Pre c i nc t o f , the Savoy, in the " Mi ddlesex.—Thursday, April 23, 1863.