The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITRNALS. TIMES,—It would seem that in the interval which has elapsed between the battle of Fredericks 'burg and the commencement of the new year the advocates of more conciliatory and more violent counsels have fairly fought their battle out, and that -victory has declared in favour of the latter. Mr. Lincoln has finally adhered to the policy from which he showed at one moment some inclination to draw back. He has kept his promise to the very letter; he has declared the negroes in the States now at open war with the North free, except within cer tain districts occupied by the Federal forces, and has pledged the Government of the United States to recognise and support the freedom so granted by their naval and military force. From this Procla- oration Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mary. land are exempt; so that it would seem to be the policy of the President to interpose an isthmus of slavery between the two masses of free States which are to estend to the North and South of it. Pronounced under other circumstances, by another person, and at another time, such a Proclamation might well excite once more the enthusiasm which penetrated the whole mind of England in the days of Wilberforce and Clarkson. We should most unfeignedly rejoice were the words to which the President has given utterance capable of carrying with them their own fulfilment. To slavery we have ever entertained the most rooted aversion. Not all the valour, not all the success of the South, has ever blinded us to this black spot on their fair escocheon. But even tainted as they are with this foul stain they h ave c ommanded o ur admiration and our sympathy from the gallantry with which they maintained their c ause, and from the obvious truth that the struggle was for separation on the one part and co mpulsory retention on the other, t h e eman cipation or continued slavery of the negro being only used as means to forward the ends of the North. While it was supposed that the South could be brought back by giving every security for the continuance of slavery, the North never dreamt of emancipation. When it was found 'that no such conciliation was possible, the North, as a weapon of war, and not as a concession to prin- ciple, has finally decided on emancipation. That this measure is no homage to principle,or conviction, but merely a means of raising up a domestic enemy against the Southerners in the midstof the Southern States, is abundantly proved from the fact that slavery, so odious in Alabama, is tolerated in Ken tucky. Its abolition is a punishment to rebels : its retention is a reward to patriots; it is not the ac cursed thing to be rooted out at all hazards. Its abolition is the punishment of rebellion ; its reten tion is the reward of adherence to the Union. Still, though there is little homage to principle in the President's Proclamation, any attempt on the part of the American Government, however, tardily, reluctantly, and partially made, to emanci pate any portion of the negro race, must have an effect on the opinion of mankind, and tend to what we have never doubted would in some way or other be the final result of this war, the abolition of slavery. But our exultation is by no means with out misgivings. The President has proclaimed free dom, but he is without power to enforce his Pro clamation. Except in the neighbourhood of New Orleans, where General Butler has already done all that is possible to create a servile war, the President of the United States has no power whatever to en force his Proclamation. If the blacks are to obtain the freedom he promises them, it must be by their own hands. They must rise upon a more numerous, more intelligent, better armed, and braver com munity of whites, and exterminate them, their wives and children, by fire, and sword. The President of the United States may summon them to. this act, but he is powerless to assist them in its execution. Nay, this is the very reason why they are summoned. The armies of the South have gained a clear supe riority over the armies of the North, and it is to re dress this balance that the negro, burning, ravish ing, massacring, and destroying, is summoned to the conflict. If these things are not done at all, there will be for the present at least, no emancipation ; if they are done, they will provoke retaliatory action, which is but too likely to end in the ex termination of their perpetrators. In neither case has the friend of humanity any cause to rejoice. It must also be remembered that this act of the President, if it is proposed to strike off the fetters of one race, is a flagrant attack on the liberties of another. The attempt to free the blacks is a flagrant attack on the liberties of the whites. Nothing can be more unconstitutional, more illegal, more entirely subversive of the com pact on which the American Confederacy rests, than the claim set up by the President to interfere with the laws of individual States by his Proclama tion, unless, indeed, it be the attempt of Congress to dismember the ancient State of Virginia, and create a new State upon its ruins. It is prepos terous to say that war gives these powers ; they are the purest usurpation, and, though now used against the enemies of the Union, are full of evil presage for the liberties of the States that still adhere to it. It is true that the President advises the negroes to abstain from all violence except in self-defence, and to labour for reasonable wages. But the President well knows that not a slaveholder in the South will obey his Proclamation, that it can only be enforced by violence, and that if the negroes obtain freedom it will be by the utter destruction of their masters, In such a state of society to speak of wages—that is, of a contract between master and servant—is a cruel mockery. In the South the negro can only exist apart from his master by a return to the sa vage state—a state in which, amid blood and anarchy and desolation, he may frequently regret the fet ters he has broken, and even the master he has de stroyed. He cannot hope for a better situation than that of his race in the North—a situation of degra dation, humiliation, and destitution which leaves the slave very little to envy. Mr. °n Line l bases his act on military necessity, and invokes the conside rate judgment of mankind and the judgment of Almighty God. He has ch aracter i sed his ow n mankind will be slow to belie ve th at an act av a o c av t . edly the result of military consideration s h as b een dictated by a sincere desire for the benefit of those who, under the semblance of emancipation, are thus marked out for destruction, and He who made man in His own image can scarcely, we may presume to think, look with approbation on a measure which, under the pretence of emancipation, intends to re duce the South to the frightful condition of St. Domingo. HERALD—What with Elliots and Russells, Euro pean dipl om acy has had a busy time of_ it during the last m on th o r two. It was always known that Iltri Russell —the head of the family we suppos_ . e we may call him—had an adventurous turn of mind. In fact Sydney of course Smith has immortalised his Courage; previously to the Vienna escapade; but the most ardent admirers of his lordship's bold im promptu spirit of action could hardly have realised the man as he now stands contest before us. Cavour conspirait toujours ; Louis Napoleon has a great reputation for the talent of secret intrigue. But what have their panegyrists to show that will corn- I pare with the energetic recklessnes s of our "Whig Foreign Secretary. " There are only three men in Europe," Napoleon is reported to have said, in an interesting conversation with Cavour, "You and I, an d Palmerston, said the Post—Mazzini, the Daily News. Now the secret is out, it was not the firebrand Palmerston, nor the terrible Mazzini. It must have been the great Earl Russell, the hero of Reform battles, the author of the Durham letter and of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. We thought the counts of the indictment against this eminent diplomatist were all made out. There is the Danish question, the Eastern question, the American ques tion. On each of these I d Russell is to be tried befo re t h e hi g h es t tribunals r of the land. But this is not enough for hi s ambitious mind. Foiled in Schleswig and betook(' by the Greeks, he has had the courage to challenge the Pope and beard Napo leon. His last effort is to supplant the French Emperor at the Vatican, and substitute for the pro tection of his Catholic Majesty Napoleon 111. the aid of Protestant England. Th e story seems too monstrous to be believed. But it is sober fnct. Lord Russell seriously conceived this idea, and Mr. Ode Russell as seriously set about currying it into execution. On the 20th December M. Drouyn de Lhuys states that the proposal hau been already made, and that Mgr. Chigi had been apprised of the hope that in the event of the Pope being com pelled to leave Italy his Holiness would retire to France in preference to England—a not unnatural hope under the circumstances. But Mr. Odo Rus sell was not to be daunted by one failure. During the Christmas fetes, auspicious time, he repeated the proposal, expressed his regret that the offer of England had not been accepted, and added that he had reason to believe that his Holiness would very very shortly find himself necessitated to profit by it. Surely this is the most astounding blunder or the gravest impertinence. A French garrison oc cupies Rome and protects the Pope. The French Emperor, it is well known, is solemnly bound to defend the rights of the Papacy. The honour of French arms is pledged to the inviolability of Pius IX. ; and in contempt of those facts Mr. Odo Russell is empowered to declare virtuallyd that that the s Pope can place no reliance on .Francr, despatch o a t t h nh e only s ncfh Earl ance of n u s s a s f e e l t l y . arm is sThte Efililisnwgerhtiomastehnlef of Prince La Tour d'AuverFne is this t But, knowine , We await it with some curiosi yr. strange and .insulting suggestion is not published. and England is no longer alluded to in the Emperor speech. What is all this miser able intrigue to end in ? How many more friends is walliliaatn7eeodf do now, Lord Russell to alienate, how many more wounds to reopen, how many fresh difficulties to create, be fore he has run his diplomatic career ? Parliament does not meet one day toa early for the honour and safety of the country. It is almost impos sible to eatimate the injury Lord Russell's meddling vanity is doing us, or to point to a possible solution of the numerous complications in which he has involved us. But of all his blunders the last is the greatest. It is not only an error in judgment, but it shows a want of good taste and gentlemanly feeling that we are ashamed of in an English nobleman. It is a climax to that politrque ignoble which Montalembert, with too much truth, has charged against this country. The present Go vernment has taken much credit for its boasted efforts to cement the alliance with France ; but what can it expect but contempt and distrust from the French Emperor and the French nation, when it stands convicted before Europe of playing this double part, of avowedly inciting the Emperor to abandon the Pope, and secretly encouraging the latter to break with the one Sovereign who is able to protect him ? And what wilt be said of Eng land, but that her policy is now, as ever, calculat ing and selfish, ignoring every other interest and sacrificing every other end to the advancement of her own aims, and the predominant assertion of her own influence. . THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, lAN. 2. The President has kept his word. He issued his Proclamation of Emancipation yesterday, but it was not published until to-day in any of the journals, though publicly read last night at Boston, at an Abolitionist meeting, to the promoters of which an early copy was forwarded. Mr. Lincoln abolishes slavery as far as his words and signature can abo lish it in ten of the States of the Southern Confede racy, leaving it intact in such portions of those ten States ae are occupied by the Federal forces, and in the Border States of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. He admits, by these ex ceptions, that he has no power under the Constitu tion to touch the question of slavery in any place where the owners of slaves are loyal to the Govern ment of which he is the head, but declares at the same time that he sincerely believes the emancipa tion of such negroes as have the good fortune to be the slaves of rebels "tobe an act of justice." He does not say whether it is justice to the slaves, or justice to their masters, that inspires his policy. If it be justice to the slaves, why does he not emanci pate those who belong to loyal owners? And if it be justice upon the owners—justice inflicted in the shape of fine or deprivation of property, does he not admit the negro to be a chattel, which he has as much right to confiscate as lands and houses, and so place himself in antagonism with his Abolitionist friends, who maintain that the negro is not, and never can be, a chattel P And when he invokes " the considerate judgment of mankind and the gra cious favour of Almighty God" on his act, does he think the one will approve or the other bless a course of proceeding which ought to make the slaves of loyal men curse the loyalty of their masters as the greatest affliction that could befall them, and which, in the case of the rebel owner, uses the slave as an instrument of vengeance just as Mr. Lincoln would use a swot d, a rifle, a cannon, or any other offensive weapon ? The proclamation is as cruel and illogical as the war of which it is the climax. It only declares slaves to be free in States where the President has no more power either to make them i free or white than the Imaum of Muscat has,while it 1 retains them in b on d age i n every p l ace i n w hi c h ' 1 his armies could give effect to his words, and convert his theories into facts. The whole document rests upon a false foundation, and has ao other justifica tion, even in the mind of its weak and irresolute author, than the old, stale, and wicked plea of neces sity, that plea which evil doers, oppressors, tyrants, and weak rulers have always employed since the creation of the world, and will continue to employ Lntil its end in support of the foregone conclusions of their own passion, prejudice, and madness. It is, moreover, a direct and palpable incentive to a servile war—of which no imagination, however tru culent and prurient, can exaggerate the horrors. Though it enjoins upon the negroes the policy and duty of abstaining from violence, it expressly per mits and advocates violence if it seem to them to be necessary for self-defence or the prccurement of their liberty. In other words, Mr. Lincoln delibe rately counsels the negroes to defend by force the liberty which his proclamation but not his arms has bestowed upon them in case their masters should resist, as they assuredly will, their escape from bondage. It is impossible to put any other construc tion upon the words, and should a war of races and a repetition of the atrocities of St. Domingo be the women, result every , orb drop of blood that may be shed in the struggle--whether andw tchetiblde:enit be the the bloo d lood of of the unhappy negroes white men negroes tbemselves—will lie upon \ Mr. Lincoln's who counselled him head and on th e h ea d s o f t h ose to do evil th a t goo d m i g h t follow. Hap py will it innocuous be for him if hi s p roc l amat i on falls the Southern plantations, and if it prove, indeed, to be as vain and idl e as that "Bull against the Comet," to which in a saner day, when he more clearly understood his own duties and responsibili ties than he appears to do at present, he pared it. While opinions are scarcely at all divided in this ' city as to the mingled cruelty and impolicy of letting loose in the South this awful element of destruction, they are greatly divided as to its imme diate effect upon the war. Many hold that its only possible resu lt will he to embitter a n d prolong the strugg le, white some fear and oth ers ho p e that its' t wiil be to put an end to cer tain and speedy eff e ct tervention be t an E ' of e urp it by the mediation or in old gan to ri o se ean as Powers. The premium on g 1 seon as th e d ocu ment was pubashed I and before the close of b us i ness in W a ll- s treet to-day the pri ce advanced 2 per cent. upon the previous quotations, with a tendency to a further inflation. It is im possible not to see that Mr. Lincoln is not sup ported by the public sentiment, and difficult to avoid anticipating plode at home in the North, and lead to a political convulsion such as the country has never yet wit nessed, and it is to be hoped •o wiii, never witness again. As not iced in my last, the words " intermediation and intervention" appear to have lost their former terrors. Men are not only weary of, but disgusted with the war. They may love the Union, and de- plore that it was ever broken ; but they are not prepared to sanction an insurrection of the slaves to punish the Southern planters, or to have the guilt of a negro Jacquezie laid at the doors of the Northern people. A prominent member of the Republican party—who has done as much as or more than any other public man in America, to elevate Mr. Lincoln to the Presidential chair, to support him in its occupancy, and to provoke the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY l5, 1863 war—has gone so far to-day as to write a letter, not yet published, in which he declares that he would hail with gratitude the mediation and kind offices of any European Power that has not hitherto taken a side or expressed an opinion on the strug gle, and that he is prepared to recommend to his party to welcome such mediation, and abide by the decision. Air. Lincoln himself, if not greatly be lied, believes that the Union is at an end—that nothing which either he or the Northern people can do will be able to restore it, and only fights out the fight to its bitter end, because pride or shame, to the fear of a public opinion that he does not rightly understand, prevents him from accepting a result humiliating to himself, his party, and his people. It is the old story over again. It is a Brummagem George 111, in the shape of an elected President, re-enacting the old obstinacy, without the Royal jurisdiction that made George 111. respectable. _ _ Mr. Lincoln has more power than George 111., and less authority. He assumes a responsibility which his legal predecessor did not incur, and will have to bear it in the page of history, if he escapes it now. General Butler has arrived in New York on his way to Wash'ngton. Most of the journals that ap- prove of the " vigorous prosecution of the war" in he sense which General Butler attributes to these words insist that the President shall immediately nominate him to high office, or high command, if it were only that by so doing he might show his contempt for the proclamation of Mr. Jefferson Davis, and gratify the malignant phil anthropists of New England. They do not per haps consider that by so distinguished a mark of favour Mr. Lincoln would also show his con- tempt for a power much more formidable than that of the Southern President—namely, the World's Opinion, not only in Europe, but throughout America, where General Butler is held to have dis graced the national good name as sorely as Gene ral Haynau disgraced that of Austria. General Butler only remained one night in New York, where he had the bad taste to dine in public, in the crowded saloon of the St. Nicholas Hotel, where he was greatly stared at by the ladies. It is to be supposed that he excited as much curiosity in their gentle bosoms as a live gorilla might have done, and that he was considered almost ab handsome. He had the honour of a hearty accolade from the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ; but it does not appear that _ _ any lady shook hands with him or allowed herself to come into:very close proximity with a person who was unanimously and unmannerly enough to make no distinction between femiJii.e spite and the most shameful crime that a woman can commit. If the President, so deficient in vigour himself, admires Gen. Butler's vigour, it is evident that Gen, Banks is of a different opinion. In the enigmatic& speech which the latter addressed to Mr. Opdyke, the mayor, and other hospitable entertainers, on leaving the harbour of New York, he promised that something should be done in his new sphere of ope rations to satisfy the country and to " ennoble hu manity." People wondered what General Banks meant by the last phrase, for he is so modest a man that nobody imagined he intended to boast that any achievements of his, however great and glorious they might be, would deserve so splendid an epithet. The supposition now is that the speech was misre ported, and that he desired, without disclosing a secret which was not wholly his own, to convey an impression to the minds of his hearers that he was going to restore the reign of "humanity" in some district where humanity had been banished. Consi dered in the light which after events have thrown upon it, it would seem as if the phrase pointed at General Butler. And certainly General Banks has lost not a single day in proving to the people of Louisiana that he is a man of another stamp. He has liberated the political prisoners in Ship Island, Fort Pickens, Fort Jackson, and other bastiles with in his jurisdiction. He has stopped the sale of con fiscated estates, extended the term allowed for the departure of those whose consciences will not allow them to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, placed the officers of his staffin modest lodgings to be duly paid for, instead of installing them in the mansions of the wealthiest merchants and planters, to levy tribute on the wine-cellar and the larder without stint and without cost ; and ma nifested in a variety of other ways that he thinks the people of New Orleans his fellow-citizens, and not the conquered aborigines of a savage or uncivi lised country. General Banks has also taken an early occasion to explain to the people of Louisiana his views on the great question of emancipation. He does not appear, in all respects, to be in accord with the President on the subject. He says the war is not waged by the Government for the overthrow of slavery ; though he asserts that the abolition of slavery is the inevitable result of the contest. He advises the slaves of loyal proprietors in Louisiana —who, if they love freedom very dearly, must wish with all their hearts that their masters were rebels —to remain quietly upon the plantations: to rest assured that whatever benefit the Government in tends them will be secured ; but that they cannot be allowed to take the law into their own hands. As the slaves of rebels may take the law into their own hands, this might se. 'n a hardship upon the slaves of loyal men, were they not consoled by the promise that before the year 1900, when more than three-fourths of them will be in the grave, their pe culiar case will be taken into kindly consideration. This kindness, however, is one that will hardly re commend itself to the negro imagination—especially if the slaves of rebels in the immediate vicinity of the loyal plantations should rise against their mas ters, and implore the slaves of loyal men to aid them in the enterprise. General Banks has not perhaps considered how he would act on such an occasion ; but would he not be bound to give all the military and naval aid at his command to the liberation of one set of negroes, and to the re-enslavement of an other ? And would such a spectacle be edifying, or worthy of a Christian general or people ? General Banks should beware of the proclama tion mania. If he and other Federal functionaries would write and speak less it would be the better for their fame. General Butler's letters were models of argumentation. Their taste may have been ques tionable, but their logic was irrefutable. General Banks is not likely, however, if his first proclama tion be a sample of what is to follow from his pen, to establish as great a reputation as his unpopular predecessor. It would appear as if too intimate contact with the pleasant Mayor of New York had made him also an optimist of the school of the great Candide. Mr. Opdyke was eloquent in praise of war, as the great purifier and ennobler of nations. General Banks is enthusiastic enough to believe that the tremendous struggle in which the coun try is dashing itself to pieces is the very best thing that could have happened to it. " Contest," he says, "in public and in social life, strengthens and consolidates brotherly affection. England, France, Austria, Italy —every land fertile enough to make a history, has had its desolating civil wars. It is a baseless nationality that has not tested its strength against domestic enemies. The success of local in terests narrows the destiny of a people and is fol lowed by secession, poverty, and degradation. A divided country and perpetual war make possession a delusion and life a calamity. The triumph of na i tional interests widens the scope of human history, and is attended with peace, prosperity, and power. It is out of such contests that great nations are born." General Banks may, perhaps, prove a truer prophet in this magniloquent paragraph than he imagined. He does not say that out of such contests a great nation is to be born—but great nations. 31r. Jefferson Davis is perhaps of he same opinion, and which are of opinio n th a t t is jo a u ll r E na u l r s ope. there is noth in g so likely to restore tho Union as a so, T n h o e doubt, violen stir ill-blood. They persist in calling Alabama to up . sharp war with England, are making the most of the that vessel by Briti sh mechanics, of built in a British port, " a British pin. e,' b 3ause " she was k" and hint that 3 the i nfl i c ti on although w ill have to bear British ma terials, bought w ith British money, sub scribed by B r itish cotton brokers;" . the North for the present, " the time will come for sending in to the British Government a little bill for every dollar's tte i y s should moment i n re people, c hinese are but i a t i a i d s t a o s be well a t worth of prop er t y th e Alabama has de stroyed." Of course it is no use to argue w ith such the need of fast vessels such as th e Al a b ama—that two, if great thatt not more, are building in the Clyde, and one at Toulon, for that mysterious Government; and that it is confidently alleged in New York that the commercial agents of the Emperor have been at work in this cosmopolitan city, and ordered one, if not two steamers, of light draught, great swiftness, and formidable armament, to be built and launched without delay, and that the money, or the money's worth, is ready to pay for them. There is, it is true, a report, which may or may not be baseless, that the Emperor of China knows nothing of the matter, and that his name is a convenient cloak to disguise that of a much nearer potentate; but the shipbuilder, whether in the Clyde or at Toulon, or in the East or North rivers that wash the parallel shores of the prosperous island of Manhattan, does not care to look too closely into the matter. Suffi cient for him to get a good order and to execute it for prompt payment. Why should he disbelieve the respectable agents of the Emperor of China ? Why should he take it upon himself to be incre dulous ? Is not the payment safe ? Does the money smell ? Is the transaction not a fair commercial business ? And may he not, being a shipbuilder, build the hulls of ships for all the world ? Should it turn out to be true, as confidently asserted, that such a vessel is building in this port, ostensibly for the Emperor of China, shall the Federal Go vernment do more than watch its progress and act upon real, not supposed, evidence, with regard to its character and destination ? If such vessel, after being built here, shall be duly launched, and make her way to mid-ocean, and there meet ano ther vessel—say from Greenock or Toulon—with arms, ammunition, supplies, and a hardy and deter mined crew—and should she immediately after wards hoist the Confederate flag—will she, though under Confederate colours and acting for a Confederate purpose, be justly liable to be denounced as " a Federal pirate ?" Perhaps, when that question is answered in the affirmative, it will be time enough for the Anglophobists of this country to treat the Alabama as a British vessel. In the meantime the Federal Government, if it have any leisure for the purpose, may inquire whether New York specula tors are not represented with those of Liverpool in the ownership of the Alabama; and whether it be possible for the sharpest and cutest Government in the world—whether that be the happily permanent Government of Queen Victoria, or the happily short- lived Government of Abraham Lincoln—to be a match for a sharp man of business who is content to take a large risk for the sake of a large profit. Mr. Seymour's inaugural address, as Governor of New York, was an emphatic avowal of bis deter mination to upholo, not only the Federal Constitu tion,:but the constitution and laws of the states. He carefully avoided all mention of national affairs, reserving them, it is supposed, for his message to the Legislature, which will be sent in on the• 6th inst. He has signalized his assumption of office by summoning the Police Commissioners of this city to Albany to sho w cause w h y th e y should not be dismissed for br eac h o f d uty in upholding the notorious Kennedy s n d ma i nta i n i ng him in his posi tion after his behaviour in the case of Mrs. Brins made and others equally flagrant. Mr. Seymour is the sole judge in thi s matter , f r om his decision there is no appeal ; an d t h ere i s no doubt in the public mind that an ent i re l y ne w set of Commis sioners will immedi a t e l y b e appointed. The Battle of Murfreesboro. Special Correspondent (From the Sp of the New York Tribune NASIIVILLE, or rn Ia u n R . e 3 2AY, JAN. 1, 1863. I have just arrived from a terrific battle on Stones River, in front of Murfreesboro, west side. It has raged with unremitting fury two days, and at last report was not yet decided. It is one of the most ferocious battles of modern times, sustained by both aides with splendid determination. General Rosecrans marched from Nashville last Friday with about 45,000 effective men and 100 pieces of artil lery, and skirmished all the way to the battle-field, the enemy resisting bitterly. The whole of Tues day was spent by our forces reconnoitering. The enemy was found strongly posted with artillery on the bank of Stones River, west side, his flanks rest ing on Murfreesboro, west side. The centre also had the advantage, on high ground, with a dense growth of cedar masking them completely. Their position gave them the advantage of a cross fire. General M'Cook's corps closed in on their left on Wilkerson's Pike; Negley, of Thomas's corps, worked with great difficulty to the front of the rebel centre, Rossesu's division being in reserve; Crittenden's corps was posted in comparatively clear ground on their left; Palmer's and Van Cleve's divisions in front; Wood's in reserve. A battle was expected all day on Tuesday, but the enemy merely skirmished and threw a few shells, one of which killed Orderly M'Donald, 4th United States Cavalry, not 10ft. from General Rosencrans. That afternoon the Anderson Pennsylvania Cavalry, on M'Cook's flanks, were drawn into an ambuscade, and its two majors, Rosegarten and Ward, were killed. Crittenden's corps lost four killed and 21 wounded that day, including Adjutant Abbott, of the 57th Indiana, severely. M'Cook's loss was about 50. On the same day the rebel cavalry made a dash in the rear on Lavergne, burnt a few wag gons, and captured 35 prisoners. That night dis positions were made to attack the enemy in the morning. After dark the enemy was reported massing near M'Cook, obviously to turn our right wing. This corresponded with the wishes of General Rosecrans, who instructed General M'Cook to hold him in check stubbornly, while the left wing should be thro wn into Murfreesboro behind the enemy. At daybreak on the last day of De cember everything appeared working well. The battle had opened on the right, and our left wing was in hand. At 7 o'clock ominous sounds indicated that a fire was approaching our left. Aides were Meantime soldiers, who despatched for inf ormation, and found the forests reportedfull whole yi n g n regimentsrs e ne and fallingstraggling back.one of M'Cook's A ides had anno unced to General Rosecrans that Ge n. Johnson h ad permitted the three batteries of h is division to be captured by a sudden attack of th e enem y , and that it had some what demoralized our troops was obvious. The brave Gen. Sill, one of our beat officers, was killed ; Gen. Kirk wounded, and Gen. Willich killed or mis sing, beside other valuable officers wounded. Gen M'Cook sent word to hold the front and he would help him, that it would all work right. He now galloped to the front of Crittenden's. left with his staff to order the line of battle, when the enemy opened a fail battery, and emptied two saddles of the escort. Van Cleve's division was sent to the right, and Col. Beatty's brigade in front. The fire continued to approach on the right with alarming rapidity, extending to the centre, and it was clear that the right was doubling upon the left. The enemy bad compelled us to make a complete change ' of front on that wing, and were pressing the centre. Gen. Rosecrans, with splendid daring, dashed into the furious fire, and sending his staff along the lines, started Beatty's brigadeforward. Some sixbatteries opened and sustaining a magnificent fire directly a tremendous shout was raised along the whole line, and the enemy began to fall back rapidly. The General himself urged the troops forward. The rebels, terribly punished, were driven back fully a mile. The same l • sp endid bravery was displayed in the lines, and they advanced, though the ene my made formidable demonstrations on our left, while they prepared for another onslaught on our right. Mean time orders had been issued to move our left upon the enemy, but before we had time to execute them they burst upon our centre with awful fury, and it began to break. Rosecrans'a division • was carried into the breach magnificently by their glorious leader. The enemy into again retreated hastily• the dense cedar thickets. Again they essayed our right, and again we were driven back. By this ' • time the number of our strag glers was formidable, and the prospect was discou raging, but there was no ' panic. The general, con fident of success, continued to visit other parts of the field, and with the aid of Generals Thomas, M'Cook, Crittenden, Rousseau, Negley, and Wood, the tide of battle Was turned early in the day. We were seriously embarrassed by the enterprise of the rebel cavalry, wh o made some serious dashes upon some of M'Cook's ammunition and subsistence trains, capturing a number of waggons, '1• and arti lery ammunition grew alarmingly scarce. At one time it was announced that not a single waggon load of it could be found. Some of our batteries were quiet on that account. This misfortune was caused by the capture of M'Cook's trains. About 2 o'clock the battle had shifted again from right to left. The enemy discovering the impossibility of succeeding in their main design had suddenly massed their forces on the left, crossing the river, or moving under cover of bluffs Gn the right, and for about two hours the fight raged with unremit ting fury to the advantage of the enemy fora con- sieerable length of time, when they were checked by our murderous fire of both musketry and artil lery. The scene at this point was magnificently terrible. The whole battle was in full view, the enemy deploying right and left, bringing up their batteries in fine style, our own vomiting smoke and iron missiles upon them with awful fury, and our gallant fellows moving to the front with unflinch- ing courage, and lying flat upon their face to escape the rebel fire until the moment for action. Shell and shot fell around like hail. General Rosecrans was himself incessantly exposed. It is wonder ful that he escaped. His chief of staff, the noble Lieut.-Col. Garesche, had his head taken off by a round shot, and the blood bespattered the General and some of the staff. Lieut. Lylan Kirk, just be hind him, was lifted clear out of his saddle by a bullet, which shattered his left arm. Three orderlies and the gallant Sergeant Richmond, of the 4th United States' Cavalry, were killed, not 10ft. from him, and five or six horses in the staff escort were struck. Between 5 and 6 o'clock the enemy, ap- parently exhausted by his rapid and incessant as. saults, took up a position not assailable without abundant artillery, and the fire on both sides slackened, and finally silenced at dark, the battle having raged 11 hours, the loss of life on our side being considerable, and the terrific nature of the field comparatively limited. Our casualty list that day, excluding captures, did not exceed, perhaps, 1,500, of whom not more than one. fourth were killed. This is attributable to the care taken to make our men lie down. The enany's loss must have been more severe. But among our losses we mourn such noble souls as Gen. Sill, Gen. August Willich, Col. Garesche, Coi. Miner Milliken, Ist Ohio Cavalry ; Col. Hawkins, 13th Ohio ; Col. M'Kee, 3d Kentucky ; Col. Forman, 15th Kentucky ; Col. Hill and Second Lieut.-Col. Shep herd, 18th Regulars; Major Carpenter, 10th Regu lars; Capt. Edgerton, Ist Ohio Battery, and his two lieutenants, and many more. No other generals were killed. Among our wounded are Gen. Kirk, Gen. Van Cleve (so reported) ; Col. Moody, 74th Ohio, who established a splendid reputation ; Col. Ler raby, 99th Ohio, and King, 15th Regulars; Majors Foot, Rieker, and Slemmer, 11th Regulars; Capts. Bell, Wise, M'Donnell, Power, and York, and Lieut. M'Allister, 15th regulars; Major Townsen, 18th regulars ; Capt. Long, 4th regulars; Cavalry Lieuts. M'Clellan, Miller, and Foster, 27th Ohio. When the battle closed the enemy occupied the ground which was- ours in the morning, and the advantage was theirs. Their object in attacking us was to cut us off from Nashville. They played their old game. If M'Cook's force had held more firmly against Hardee's corps and Cheatham's division, when he fought Rosecrans, the plan of battle would have succeeded, At dark they had a heavy force on our right, leading to the belief that they intended to pursue. Their cavalry meantime was excessively troublesome, cutting deeply into our trains behind us, and we had not cavalry enough to protect our selves. The 4th Regulars made one splendid dash at them, capturing 67 and releasing 300 prisoners they had taken from us, recapturing 500 prisoners of the enemy. General Rosecrans determined to begin the attack this morning, and opened fu riously with our left at dawn. The enemy, how ever, would not retire from our right, and the battle worked that way. At 11 o'clock matters were not flattering on either side. At 12 our batteries re ceived new supplies of ammunition, were massed, and a terrible fire was opened. The enemy began to give way. General Thomas pressing on their centre, and Crittenden advancing on their left. The battle was more severe at that hour than it had been, and the result was yet doubtful, Both sides were uneasy, but determined. General Rose crane feels its importance fully. If he is de feated he will be defeated badly, because he will fight as long as he has a bri gade. If he is victorious the enemy will be de stroyed. At this hour we are apprehensive. Some of our troops behaved badly, bat most of them were heroes. I believe all but Walker's brigade, consisting of the 17th and 31st Ohio and two other regiments, were not in Wednesday's battles, being on guard, but they were engaged to-day. The enemy seemed fully as numerous as we. They did not use as much artillery. Generals Joe Johnston and Bragg were in command. Prisoners say they lost largely. General M'Cook was brave to a fault, and self-possessed. He narrowly escaped death many times. His horse was killed under him, and he was severely hurt by his horse falling under him. 11 15 A.M. No later tidings of to-day's battle. The Rebels are destroying our waggon train on Murfrees borough-pike. To night additional casualties have been received, as follows : Killed.—Colonel Stem, 101st Ohio ; Lieutenant- Colonel M'Kee, 15th 'Wisconsin ; Colonel Almonde, 21st Illinois ; Colonel Roberts, 42d Illinois; Colonel Walker, 31st Ohio, Cavalry Brigade; Colonel Har rington, 27th Illinois, Captain John Johnson, 15th Wisconsin. Wounded.—General Rousseau, slightly ; General Wood, severely ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 101st Ohio, badly; Cartin, •38th Illinois, commanding brigade; Captain Oscar F. Mark, acting inspector-General of Thomas's staff, severely ; and Captain Douglas, 18th Regulars. To THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Washington, lan. 2. The Secretary of War to-day r€ceived the follo w. ing advices : " Cleveland, Friday, Jan. 2, " The following has just been received by tele gram from Cincinnatti, dated Murfreesborough, January 1: " A terrible battle was fought yesterday. The latest from the field is up to noon. The Rebel centre had been broken, and things looked favour able. The losses are reported to be enormous. Stanley, Rousseau, and Palmer are wounded, and the Rebels Cheatham and Rains are killed." Near Murfreesborough, Dec. 31, 1862, Our whole line suffered terribly this morning. Four regiments of regulars lost half their men and all their commanding officers. General Anderson's troops suffered severely. Majors Resengarten and Ward are killed. Generals Stanley, Rousseau, and Palmer are wounded. 2 o'clock, p.m. General Thomas has just broken the rebel centre, and driven the enemy a mile. We are advancing our whole line. General R9secrans is personally superintending the movements. One shot killed two of his staff officers. The 15th Wisconsin Regiment has lost several captains. General Negley's Artil lery is still mowing the rebels in the centre. Gen. Crittenden's left wing has taken the entrenchments at Murfreesborough. The Rebel Generals Cheatham and Rains are killed. Nashville, Friday, Jan. 3. The Unionisto encountered the Rebels on the 30th ult. near Stewart's Creek. After heavy skirmish ing the rebels were driven back. We captured 100 prisoners and killed and wounded a large number of rebels. Our loss was 70 killed and wounded. At daybreak on the 31st the fight was renewed with great fury. M'Coak's corps was opposed to Hardee. After desperate fighting, with heavy loss on both sides, M'Cook retreated two miles back. At night he was four miles this side of the ground oc cupied in the morning. The fight continued until 10 o'clock p.m., at which time we had maintained our position. The Union losses were heavy. The following is a partial list of our casualties : Killed—Brigadier-General Sill; Lient.-Colonel Garesehe, chief of General Rosecrans's staff;Brid gadier-General Willick, of Indi ana Ohio; Col. Shaffer. Acting Brigadier; Col. K ill , .G; 2 Col. Farmer, 15th Kentucky; C o l. jones, 2 4th Ohio; Brigadier-General; Lieut.-Colonel Cotton , ene 6th Kentucky ; Lieut. Jones, 39th Indiana; Major Carpenter, 19th Regulars ; Major Rosengarten, of. Philadelphia; Capt. Gar- rett, 19th Illinois; Colonel Carpenter, 18th Wis consin ; and Lieut.-Colonel M'Kee, 15th Wisconsin. Wounded.--Brigadier-General. E. M. Kirk, of Illinois ; Brigadier-General Wood, of Indiana ; Brigadier-General Van Cleve, of Minnesota ; Col. Cassole, of Ohio; Major-General Rousseau, of Ken tucky ; Lieutenant-Colonel Berry, sth Kentucky ; Major Slemmer, 16th Regulars; Major King, 15th Regulars; and many others. The 21st, 25th, and 35th Illinois had lost two thirds, and the 15th and 38th Ohio one-third their number. The 101st Ohio lost 125 men, the 38th Indiana about the same number. The total killed and wounded is estimated at 2,500. The rebel loss exceeds ours. Gen. J. E. Rains was killed. Gen. Cheatham was wounded and taken prisoner. We have captured 500 prisoners. The fight was re newed at 3 a.m. on the Ist of January, and the cannonading was heard at Nashville. At 10 a.m. Wood's and Van Cleve's divisions were in Murfrees borough driving the enemy, who were in full re treat. Three hundred prisoners reached Nashville at 6 p.m. on the Ist of January, including the fol lowing commissioned officers :—Major J. J. Frank lin, 30th Arkansas; Captain W. E. Johnson, 2d Arkansas; Captain J. P. Eagle, 2d Arkansas; Captain S. C. Stone, Ist Tennessee Cavalry. Many buildings have been taken for hospital purposes. Great numbers of wounded have been brought in now. The river has fallen eighteen inches on the shoals. The startling reports which reached here about midnight, and caused considerable commo tion throughout the city, of the approach of For rest, from the direction of Salt River, with a large body of cavalry, are entirely false. A NEGRO FESTIVAL. Extract from a private letter from Rev. W. H. Channing, dated Washington, Nov. 27:.—" My thanksgiving has been passed amid the freedmen chiefly, and I shall send you a printed report of the contraband? thanksgiving dinner. It was certainly a novel festivity, and I know not when I have en joyed anything more, some sad drawbacks on my cheerful feelings excepted. For, alas ! there were sick and dying, yes, and dead around us, in near houses, while the feast was going on. By agree ment I met Mrs. H. B. Stowe at the quarters, out side the city, and escorted her into the crowded square, already filled with a merry company. The superintendent (who has often read aloud to groups of the freedmen passages from ' Uncle Tom's Cabin') had prepared them for the coming of their favourite writer. So the moment she appeared they greeted her with ' three times three and a tiger,' and then pressed forward to shake her by the hand and to bless her. We found the large room (built for the church originally, but since used as a hospital), newly cleaned and whitewashed, festooned with evergreens, banners, mottoes, and hung with pic tures; while a long table, sufficiently large to give room for 150 to 200 persons, spread with white cloths, was actually groaning beneath the load of turkeys, ducks, geese, fowls, hams, beef, mutton, pies, puddings, cake, &c., from end to end. On the dais or platform, Mrs. Stowe, Senatra. Pomeroy, Rev. John Pierpoint, and other distinguished guests, with the most influential of the coloured people of the district (prominent among whom was Bishop Payne, of the Methodist church), were gathered, and a large company of well-dressed people, black and white freely intermingle, lined the walls and filled up the corners. At the tables stood a com mittee of coloured men and women from the various churches who had contributed to give this feast to their poorer brethren and sisters, and as soon as all was arranged, word was given for the procession of the freedmen to enter. In they came, men, women, and children, in motley attire, yet all looking neat and in perfect order, without jostling or confusion, until the large room was densely packed. Then, at a sign from the superintendent, a venerable grey haired, blind negro, whom the freedmen call John the Baptist,' said, Let us pray,' and falling on his knees at the table, the crowd kneeled with him, while his plaintive, touching, heartbroken, earnest prayer of mingled thanks and petitions was poured forth with the simple fervour of a little child. All then stood erect, and the choir of freedmen began the famous hymn of ' Go down, Moses,' with all its stirring refrain of ' Let my people go.' Words would give but faint impression of the strange excitement that spread through the dense mass as, swaying their heads and bodies to and fro, from side to side, while with a dancing movement they stamped on the floor to the time cf the mournful y et spirited tune, they joined in the chorus of ' Let my people go, oh ! let my people go,' scores of voices swelling the strain, till the very roof and rafters trembled. Then Bishop Payne spoke a brief and impressive benediction, and the feast began. The whole affair was admirably managed by the coloured waiters, long accustomed to cater for large numbers. First one company surrounded the table, helping them selves freely to all the luxuries spread out before them, and as soon as they were satisfied they passed out at a side door and gave way to a second company, and so on and so on for an hour or more, plates being constantly removed and clean ones given, and new supplies of provisions supplied with unstinted liberality until all were fed. There could not have been less than a thousand to twelve hundred thus feasted. And meanwhile a choir of coloured men, with deep mellow voices, sang appro priate airs. From first to last all went off charm ingly, and on this occasion I was deeply impressed, as often before, by the native courtesy, gentleness, patience, tact, genial sympathies, and hearty cheer fulness of temper so characteristic of the coloured race. I doubt much whether such a festival could have been given to an equally large nnmber of whites of similar class and condition in this or any other land where quietness, good manners, and mutual deference would have so universally pre vailed. The feast over, the multitude gathered in the court-yard, around a platform prepared for the speakers, to listen to the address of Senator Pome roy, and to various speakers. The venerable John Pierpoint, of Massachusetts (together with our great-hearted bard John U. Whittier poet pioneers of the anti-slavery movement) was by my intro duction seated as chairman, his fine benevolent face and head with flowing silver hair and beard glis tening in the afternoon sunshine with a radiance of good will. Then after a most excellent intro ductory speech from Bishop Payne, in which he sought to raise the souls of his hearers in devout gratitude to the Divine Providence that is so wonderfully working out the redemption of the oppressed in this country, Senator Pomeroy began his address. The senator from Kansas is a bluff, vigorous, full-faced, bald-headed, well-bearded man of about 50, with ample chest, broad shoulders, and portly person, and having a clear ringing voice and energetic manner, he commended in quite a powerful way his pet project of emigration and colonisation. I could not but observe, however, that his exhortations fell very dead and cold on the ears of his susceptible audience ; and it would have been very easy to have turned the cur rent and swept away all the sympathies of the mul titude in afl od, by saying, Brethren and sisters, you are welcome to find your true place as freed men in this ample home, which the one Father, who made of one blood all nations, has given to all of us to enjoy and to cultivate together.' But knowing the solemn responsibilities and the grave difficulties which President Lincoln and the administration feel burdened with in this tremendous crisis, when three or four millions of slaves are so soon to be set free, I felt that it was the part of wisdom and loyal patriotism to refrain from saying a word to excite . discussion. S ena t or P omeroy, who ear l y se ttled in Kansas, and who did kis fair share to secu re the freedom of th a t S ta t e , where the first grand victory over the slave oligarchy was won, is as good a m an as any other to serve as Odin or Inca for this new Exodus to Southern or Central America. But to my mind it is ver y clear that this colonisation scheme of President Lincoln can serve no other end than that of escape-valve for present excitement. The black race are to find their future home in the Southern United States ; and the sooner all our statesmen devote their energies practically to solve this tremendous problem of transforming slaves into freemen, here and now, the better for all parties. This is the work set before this nation by Providence. There can be no delay, and we must do the grand duty of humanity promptly, wisely, or God will not grant us peace. This Thanksgiving Festival may serve as a harbinger of a better day to come—God grant it !" STATE OF TRADE. - - --..- MANCHESTER, Jan. 13. lhe market was quiet at the opening, but towards the close a Itat's f er feeling sprang up, and we have had more doing in yarns, a►z the extreme prices of last week. The feeling towards the close w as much more confident than at the commencement of businl/4..`5,, and the market closes strong. There was a good deal of f. u q uir Y after yarns for shipping, and the bias of prices has e t : een upwards for all descriptions of yarns except those suitable for the home trade, which may be quoted down from last week, id to ld per lb. The telegram from Calcutta has hack. a good effect so far as yarns are concerned. The telegram from Bombay is not so encouraging as regards cloth: This telegram, which is to Dec. 27, reports the market dull, with little or no change since previous accounts. At Calcutta shirtings were 4 to 6 annas (6d to 9d) per piece higher, and jaceonets were advanced in about the same proportion, with some speculative demand for the former. These advices have had a good effect here to-day, but the American ad vices yesterday caused almost a panic, and the prices of all kinds of cloth declined considerably. To-day prices are firmer again, partly owing to the advices above referred to from Calcutta, but they have not recovered entirely, and shirtings may still Le quoted at a decline of 6d per piece. In printers and some other cloths the decline is more consi derable. There has been a good deal of inquiry, and in some cases it has led to business. Buyers have been testing the prices of Indian, among other cloths ; but the sales made in these goods are not supposed to be for present shipment. The business is reported to have been very limited for all kinds of cloth during the day, but the market appeared to be acquiring confidence towards the close. The report of Mr. Farnal that there was a further decrease of pauperism to the extent of 7,000 persons last week, making a total decrease in three weeks of 18,000, has naturally had a cheering effect here, as well as throughout the country, but it must be recollected that there are still 253,000 persons re ceiving parish relief, and that the high prices of cotton and the fluctuations in the market give but little hope of any extensive further resumptfon of work by the mills for some time. As a demand springs up for one market and starts new mills, there is a probability that business for some others will fall off, and thus it is feared there will be a fluctuation—hands that have been in employ being thrown out, while others that have been unemployed will be taken on. People speak confidently of there being cot ton enough to keep all the mills going three days per week, but, unfortunately, there is no law by which the cotton can be so distributed as to supply each mill owner with an equal share, and the probability is that some mills will run full time, as now, while others will continue idle. We regret to hear that a large concern at Padiham, having 800 looms, that of Messrs. Knowles and Co., has suspended payment, thus throwing out of work a considerable number of people. Their liabilities are re ported at £12,000 to £20,000. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :—" From Tuesday last to the close of the week the market continued firm ; but with the exception of some kinds of longcloths and printers the demand continued to be on a very small scale. Yesterday and to-day, notwith standing the improved accounts from the India markets, buyers have, owing to the advices by the Scotia, held aloof, and there has been some irregularity in prices, but very little business done." LEEDS, Jan. I.3.—The weather has been very foggy to day, and therefore prejudicial to the transaction of business in the cloth-halls, for without a proper amount of light buyers are unable to judge satisfactorily either of the colour or the quality of woollen fabrics offered for sale. All things considered, a fair amount of business was done both in light spring goods and ordinary cloths. The trade keeps firm in tone, and while the bulk of the machinery and the hands are fairly employed, stocks do not very materially increase. w ools are firmly held at late prices, and ther is no change as to the quotations for cloth. ROCHDALE, Jan. 12.—T0-day there was a good attend ance of buyers in the flannel market, which is considered the opening market of the year. Manufacturers were firm in their demand at the highest quotations which have lately prevailed, which somewhat checked operations, yet withal there was a satisfactory amount of business done. Many of the manufacturers have good orders on hand, so that the condition and prospects of the trade look healthy. Yorkshire goods, especially linseys and fabrics of a similar character, sell well, and prices are firm. Not much was done in wool to-day, but prices keep up. SHEFFIELD, Jan. 10.—Considerably improved orders for cutlery and tiles have been received from America during the last few weeks, but it is feared they afford no indica tion of permanent improvement. The American demand for war steel is unabated, and steel for agricultural imple ments is also being ordered. The Canadian orders are as yet small. The continental markets show little change. The slackening of the demand for steel for France con tinues. Orders are arriving thus early from Russia, giv ing promise of a moderately "good season. The Indian orders are smaller, and the orders from Australia and the Cape are only moderate. The home markets are as yet supplying only small orders, as is usual in the first weeks of January. Of the different branches of trade, the manu facture of steel is most active, though some departments of that trade are duller than they were a few weeks ago. More is doing in the commoner classes of cutlery, but that trade is still dull. Some firms have good orders for silver plated and Britannia metal goods, saws, files, and edge tools, but other houses are very dull. The stove-grate trade is moderately good for the season. COUNTRY MARKETS. , b... LYNN—T UESDAY. To-day wheat came moderately to hand, and good dry samples were fully as dear ; damp parcels warte(a slow sale. Malting barley scarce, and advanced in price; grinding BS last week. Beans and oats firm. White ..48s to 51s I Barley.... 35s to 36s Red.. 478 to 49s I Grinding ..31s to 32s Beans .36s to 408 I Oats .2os to 24s New —s to —a I Peas —s to —0 HULL-TUESDAY. A good supply of English wheat to-day at market, which sold steadily at fully late rates. Foreign held firmly, but a limited business. Barley rather dearer. Oats neglected. Beans and peas unaltered. Wheat.... Old white per qr. sos Od to 53s Od Old red New white .. ~ New red Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 52s Od to 57s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg-, red . St. Petersburg and Riga, Old sos Od to 52s Od Barley.... English malting 3ls Od to 38s Od Grinding 3os Od to 33s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 33s Od to 34s Od Grinding Oats English, new Archangel and Riga, per at osl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch oBl3cl to Osnid Swedish and Danish oBl2id to Osl d Beans ....English, old, per qr 4ss Od to 46s Od New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick. 4os Od to 42s Od Egyptian 34s 6d to 35s Od Peas Foreign boilers ... Grinding Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 56s Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) llO 0 0 to 10 0 0 Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 6 5 oto 0 0 0 Bones 5 5 oto 51 0 0 NEWARK.—WEDNESDAY. At our market to. day there was a small supply of wheat, with a firm business, and is higher in pried than last week. Barley in tolerable supply, with a firm inquiry. White wheat new, 52s to 578 ' Barley, grinding.. 298 to 32 1 Red do. 44s to 525 Oats, old, .. 2Bs to 305 Old white 58s to 62s New do 22s to 240 Red do s4s to 59a i Beans. 38s to 4 4 s Barley, malting 38a to 42s 1 Beans, new —s to -- -41 Peas, ....448 to 48s. COAL AI (Prfoes of Coal per Ton al 8. d. .ARKET. the close of the market. Walls End. Hartlepool West Hart ley .... ..15 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting 22 6 8. d• Tunstall Soath Hart1ep001......17 9 Braddyll's Hetton 18 H aswe ll l9 0 Cassop Hetton .. l9 0 t, 20 ; sold, 20. Do. - Anthracite..2o 6 Wylato ..16 3 Holywell ..15 9 Ships at market Births. LILFORD.—On the 12th inst., at Lilford Hall, Northator ton, the Lady Lilford, of a son. PERCEVAL.—On the 12th inst., at Down Lodge, Fairlig* Hastings, the wife of Colonel Perceval, C. 8., H.P. 12 144 Regt., of a son. PILCHEIL—On the 13th inst., at 10, Earl's-terrace, gen. sington, the wifo of Thomas W. Filcher, Esq., of daughter, _ Marriages. BIGGS—GROUNDWATER..—On the 13th inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Westminster, James Strange Biggs, M.D., of Springfield,looting, to Catherine Churchward , eldest daughter of Lieut.-Col. Ground wa t er , f orm erly of th e Bombay Horse Artillery. LOFTV S—LOFTUS.—On the Bth inst., at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, Captain Loftus, late of the Bth Hussars' to the Lady Catherine Loftus. Deaths. BANNISTER.—On the 13th inst., at 9, Trelick-terrace, lico, Joseph Bannister, Esq., aged 63. BARCLAY.—On the 13th inst., at Brighton, Ursula Har" riett Barclay, aged 30. BRUCE.—On the 13th inst., Anthony Bruce, of Clargeo" street, aged 81. CRAOHILL.—On the 13th inst., at his residence, No. 8, Cloudesley-terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington, Craghill, Esq., aged 78. GUNNING.—On the 11th inst., at Paris, John Gunning , Esq., C. 8., and Insp e ctor -General of Army Hospitalof aged 90. SEILBECIE.—On the 14th inst., John Joseph Skilbeckt Esq,, of Highbury-pl ace, aged 89. WOODS.—On the 13th inst., at his residence, 6, )Montague' place, Poplar, Robert Carr Woods, Eeq., late 1-1,E.1.C. Civil Service, aged 84. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW S ' of No. 112, St ran d , Printer, at THE Surf Of f ice, I t' 11 2, Strand, in the precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.—Thursday, January 15 , 1863. ! I I I d,. ~ RE 1 'V Th der tha Bat N tni Loi Ori Ag Me: co; am to ] Doc in 1 allc Vo any eta. Ala