The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-25 00:00:00

THE THIRD EDITION OF "TIIE SU N," Containing the Latest SPORTLNG INTELLIGENCE , can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — Mr. MAPLESON has the honour to announce that the OPERA SEASON of 1863 will commence on SATUR DAY, April 11. The prospectus , with full pa rticulars, may be obtained on alication at the Box-office, wh:ch is open daily, under the suppperintend en ce of Mr. Nugent, from Ten to Six ; and at all the principal Libraries and 241usicsellers. Tll EA T RE-R YA L , DRURY-LANE. - Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or Men of the Day Mes , rs. Henry Lorraine, H. Sinclair, S . Calhaem, J. Robins t te. ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Mrs. Ed mund Falconer. To conclude with THE SPANISH DANCERS. Mr. J. Robins and Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. T HEATRE-ROVAI,, HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Ruckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed CUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenohard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lard Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. Messrs. Howe, Sothern, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss E. Terry, &c. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. Miss Fanny gt Wright - THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. THIS EVENING, March 25, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pnlogne, entitle d THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. W iddi comb% W. MlLlqre , F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leciercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager. Er Lindus. THIS EVENING, TILE LOTTERY TICKET. Messrs. G. Belmore, Fitzjames, and Cathcart; Miss Hudspeth and Mrs. 11. Marston. To be followed by the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Miss Amy Sedgwick, h 1 iss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. R. Roxby, H. Vezin, G. Beimore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and Collett. To conclude with THE HONEY 5100 N. Messrs. Roxby, Veen, Belmore, Stephens, and Cathcart ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss M. Jones. NEW THRATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Menem Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING (7th time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. After which, A VALENTINEJ. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mi ss Seaman. Commence at 7. ANOTHER LARGE ISSUE OF THE WEDDING SUN Is now Publishing• THIS DAY.—Mornlng,.. . bh. 31m. —Afternoon, sh. 50m. TO-311ORROVir.—Morning, 6h. 10m.—Afternoon 6h. 30m. The Weather—Sun Office, March 25, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Wind—S. -Westerly ; light, with fine weather. :-,:.,";;; •; ,, t _ }IF 14 pP-1 `-11 \ _ a aPyv, 4l- 7,41. , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1863. In the House of Lords yesterday Earl RUSSELL, in answer to a question from the Earl of SHAFTES BURY, said that the only information he had re ceived concerning the arrest of Poles in Prussia, and the demand of the Russians for their surrender, was contained in a despatch from Sir A. Buchanan, who said that two Polish students had been arrested and demanded by Russia, but that the French Ambassador had claimed them as natura lised subjects of France, and that it was, therefore, hoped the Russian demand would be refused. '[he Births and Deaths Registration (Ireland) Bill passed through committee, after some dis cussion on the clauses. Several other bills were forwarded a stage. Lord LYVEDEN asked whether the Government intended to reconsider that part of the act consti tuting the new administration of India as related to the nomination, election, numbers, salaries, and re tiring allowances of the members of the Council of I n di a . He thought the present opportunity a favourable one for revising the act and remodelling it where it had proved faulty. The Duke of ARGYLL said that the Government did not propose to make any change. The act had been fully considered by Parliament, and he thought it worked well: The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH expressed his satis faction at the statement of the noble duke. Earl GREY presented petiticns from inhabitants of Australia praying for alterations of the boun daries of the Australian colonies. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that the applica tions made for the formation of distinct colonies in Australia were so numerous that it would be im possible to comply with them all until the different districts should become more settled and more populous. The progress of explorations, however, had of late been so rapid, that he believed it would in a short time be desirable to create the territory to the south of the Gulf of Carpenteria into two new colonies, one on the Albert River and the other on the Victoria River. But, in the meantime, the for mer district would be a nnexed to Queensland , and the latter to South Australia. Their lordships then adjourned. In the House of Commons, Sir C. WOOD, in reply to a question from Mr. Vansittart, stated that he had not issued instruc tions for the removal of the seat of Government in the North-Western Provinces of India from Agra to Allahabad. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER the Tobacco Duties Bill was read a third timed and passed. Mr. CAVE, in moving for papers respecting the condition of natives of British India held to labour in the Island of Reunion, said that he had learned that they were reduced to a state of practical sla• very. Mr. LAYARD said that it appeared from the re ports of the British Consul that the condition of these labourers was lately much improved ; and the Consul neglected no opportunity of securing better treatment for them. It was not desirable to pro duce the whole of the papers, but he was willing to submit them to his hon. friend, and try to arrange with him what portions should be made public. After some remarks from Sir M. Farquhar, Sir J. Elphinstone, and Mr. Seymour, Mr. CAVE expressed his willingness to accept Layard's offer. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr. lIUI3BARD moved the following resolution " That the incidence of an income-tax touching the products of invested property should fall upon net income, and that the net amounts of industrial earnings should, previousto assessment, be subject as mt o such an abatement yequitali,y adjust the intelligence burden th rown u p on and skill as c ompared wit h property:, The h on . gen tleman, after having adverted to the great unpo p ularity of the income - ta x in its present form, argued at con siderable lengt h in favour of the justice and the expediency of the change set forth in his present proposal. He disclaimed any desire to embarrass the financial arrangements of the Government, a n d contended that the House could accept his proposi. tion without in any way compromising the projects of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. LEATHAM seconded the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was not possible to devise an income tax that should not be full of injustice and irregularities. Any alte ration such as that proposed by Mr. Hubbard would nut only be contrary to the authority of the most experienced financers that had ever sat in that House, but would merely substitute inequalities that were novel for those that were well known, and on that account borne with less discontent. He reminded the House that select committees, after the fullest inquiry, had been adverse to the pro- posed reform of the income tax, and had become convinced that it was unwise to encourage schemes that were impracticable. He objected to relieve one class of the community at the expense of another, and to putting his hand into the pocket of one man for the purpose of placing its contents at the disposal of another. It might be urged that a surplus revenue might enable the matter to be adjusted, but he held that when a surplus ap peared it should not be employed in exempting in dustrial incomes from taxation, but in doing jus t:ca to all classes who contributed' to the public revenue. The proposition of Mr. Hubbard would entail a mass of inequalities and injustice from which the present system, defective as it was, was free, and he recommended the house not to sanction so dangerous a principle. Ater a few words from Mr. HUBBARD in reply, who complained that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had wholly omitted to answer any of his arguments, The house divided, and the resolution was rejected by 118 to 70. Lord R. MONTAGU moved two resolutions re specting the Appropriation Bill, which, after some discussion, were carried. The Limited Liability Amendment Bill was read a second time. _ Other business was then disposed of, and the house adjourned at one o'clock. As we anticipated, the debate on Mr. HUBBARD'S motion terminated in its decisive defeat. The Citancellor of the Exchequer has always supporters enough in the Commons to enable him to resist without mach difficulty the attacks of adventurous reformers upon his favourite hobby of direct taxa tion. The scheme of Mr. HUBBARD may not be without imperfections. It may present inequali ties of its own, and be open to considerable im provement; but why does the Chancellor of the Exchequer refuse to admit the justice of the prin ciple involved in it? As a triumphal overthrow of his adversary's arguments in favour of recog nising a distinction between the incomes derived from trades and professions, and drawn from permanent sources. Mr. GLADSTONE cited an ima ginary instance of a widow, with half-a dozen chil dren to educate, deriving an income of £2OO a-year from the funds, and a City merchant with a clear annual rental of £20,000, and gravely asserted that it was proposed to increase the tax on the means of the one for the sake of diminishing it on the other. That this is an extreme case the warmest advocates of Mr. GLADSTONE cau hardly venture to deny, but, even taking it at his own reckoning, the principle remains the same. Ten years hence the income of the widow will be unchanged : ten years hence a commercial crisis, a sudden panic, a rash speculation may have left the merchant prince a beggar. It is useless for the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to take refuge in convenient generalities, in assertions of the injustice as well as impolicy of " taking from one man to give another." The common sense of mankind is against him, and the difference between a secured rental, which no fluctuations of health or commerce can affect, and an income wholly depen dent on the changes of trade, the vagaries of fashion, the vicissitudes of health and strength, is too self•evidant to be disproved ; and the in justice complained of by Mr. HUBBARD and Mr. LEATHAM has been too widely felt to be disposed of by the eloquent platitudes of Mr. GLADSTONE. We agree with Mr. HUBBARD in anticipating a final triumph for his cause, for the argu ments of his opponents cannot redeem the present system of assessment from the charge of cruel inequality. "I will never," said Mr. HUBBARD, " acknowledge a defeat in numbers to be a defeat in principle," and whatever the incomplete ness of mr.HunßAßD's proposed reform, we consider the principle on which he based his motion to be incontrovertible. Its justice has already been ad mitted by one financier, and we may surely hope that is possible to combine due regard for the interests of the national exchequer with some consideration for the hardships of the struggling professional classes. It is the obstinacy of Governments in refusing to admit the manifest inequalities of the existing system, that renders the income tax the most odious of all financial burdens. Its imposition is felt, as an eminent statesman of the present day once said, to be " iniquitous, impolitic, and unjust," and until our Chancellors of the Ex chequer show a little more readiness to redress the grievances of the people, we can scarcely anticipate that the Income-tax will be looked upon with more favourable eyes. It is satisfactory to find that notwithstanding the capture of LANGIEWICZ, the Poles are continuing the contest with unabated ardour, and with at least partial success. We learn from Posen that two engagements have taken place in the Palatinate of Kalisch and Apatuova, in both of which the Poles were completely victorious. This proves an indo mitable spirit, that hopes against hope, as it were, and perseveres, with the courage that is born of despair, in advocating its just claims though sur rounded by unpropitious adjuncts. Europe looks coldly on while the bravo people are pouring out their life blood to gain their independence, or at least to offer up with their lives a protest against its vio lation. It appears that another engagement has also taken place at Makorowo, but the result is not yet known. It has, however, been ascertained , that a great number on both sides have been killed and wounded. It is to be deeply regretted that it appears evident, from the news received from vari ous quarters, that the unhappy dissensions that of old militated against the cause of the Poles still exert their fatal influence. This is most lamentable, and every means should be used to obviate the least dissension prevailing, when, if ever needed, unanimity isiadeed wanted. No cause can thriveif its supporters cannot agree, especially one so environed by dangers and beset with difficulties as that of the Polish insurrection. A house divided against itself cannot stand, we are told on the highest authority, and these men should take this lesson to heart before they attempt so arduous an undertaking. It is a thousand pities to mar by their own fancies or prejudices so noble a task, and so glorious an endeavour. One thing, at all events, seems to pro mise well, and that is that the fall of LANGIEWICz has not damped the expectations of the troops. It is stated in the Presse of Vienna that "all the chiefs of the insurrection aro convinced that it will hold out for a long time yet. It was foreseen that LANGIEWICZ would be beaten, but this does not take from the insurrection anything of its intensity." This is very satisfactory, since nothing could be more disheartennig to the gallant chief himself than to learn in his captivity that the star of the good cause had waned on his defeat, and was threatening to set altogether. The Czas of Cracow also refers to the event in the same tone :—" We know not who will replace the Dictator, but the incident of the 19th is only an episode, and by no means the termi nation of the strife." Whatever may be the final re sult, for the present at all events, we see no reason to fear the ignominious termination of the strife on the part of the Poles, At all events if they are forced to retire from their unequal strife, and cease their arduous struggle, they will have won the applause and approval of all true hearts; and no civilised nation, and no free people in the world, but will accord them the ir s y m p a thy , and pray the . may succeed better when on another occasion they MEM they take up arms in the sacred cause of pro axis et LATEST INTELLIG .ENCE. foci& Since writing the above we have received a tele gram that conveys the intelligence of a victory for the Poles, Prince WITTGENSTEIN was taken prisoner by the insurgents, having been wounded. The loss by the Russians appears to have been very great. This intelligence must renew the hopes of all doubting and wavering spirits, and let us trust that it may be a happy augury for the future as regards this heroic and persecuted people. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per City of New York.) _ NEW YORK, MARCH 14. The steamships City of New York and Kangaroo arrived at New York early on the morning of March 12. The Anglo-Saxon arrived at Portland on the afternoon of March 12. Since CAVOUR'S death, matters has fared ill with the Italian Government. The greatness of the dead statesman has ben increasingly demon strated since then by the failure one after another of his surviving successors. RICASOLI, the last amongst them, gave way, after he had been but a comparatively brief while in power, before the in trigues of RATTAZZI. The latter himself succumbed, as we know, to the force of events—dragging down GARIBALDI from the fatal height of Aspro monte,' but being himself dragged down in the very act, as it were, of effecting the great Condot tieri's overthrow by means of the Bersaglieri, under PALLAVICINO. It was then, when Fortune failed to sustain RATTAZZI in power at Turin, that the re sponsibility of the Presidency over the affairs of the embarrassed Government of Italy devolved, for another interval, upon FARINI. That passing in terval has now abruptly closed in its turn. MIN - GHETTT, in obedience to the will of VICTOR EM MANUEL, has assumed his place as President of the Ministerial Council, still retaining, however, as a trust of especial importance, the Portfolio of Finance. Rumours were flying about Turin, only yesterday, to the effect that it was not FARINI who had ten dered his resignation, and what is more, had had that resignation of his accepted. PASOLINI alto was not only reported to have intimated his desire to be allowed to withdraw from the administration ; his resignation was formally announced in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday by the new premier, Signor MTNGHETTI. The ministry of Marine, moreover, was said to have been placed within reach of the acceptance of Signor SELLA. The Secretary-General, namely the VISCONTI VENOM, was likewise an nounced by the Premier MINGHETTI from his place in the Chamber of Deputies, as the newly appointed minister for Foreign Affairs. It is consequently a more or less radical change in the arrangement of the principal offices of the Administration that has recently taken place. It is not the incident, simply, of one Minister, but of several Ministers resigning, and being replaced by outsiders, if not members of the Opposition. At the same time, it is next to impossible to believe, for an instant, that there is being effected, or that there is about to be effected, any appreciable change whatever in the policy of the Italian Government. We take the occurrences we are alluding to, on the contrary, to mean—if they mean anything whatever in the way of real significance—that it is precisely because there is to be no change at all in that policy, that FARINI and PASOLINI had tendered their resigna tions, giving way in turn—the latter to VENOSA, the former to MINGHETTI. The following general summary is from the New York Herald of March 14 : THE SITUATION. There are symptoms of a coming movement in Ge neral Hooker's army. The transportation resources are being cut down, and officers have been notified that all superfluous baggage must be sent home. The officers of the line are to be allowed nothing in shape of camp equipage, except shelter tents, which they can carry on their backs. This means an ac tive, and probably arduous, campaign. The roads have dried up in that vicinity considerably within the past few days, and everything now looks favour able for a forward movement. On the rebel side equally active preparations ap pear to be going on. Charleston is awaiting calmly for an attack, and General Beauregard has revoked p al o l st f s. urloughs, and recalled all absentees to their _ A despatch from Memphis reports a fight on the Irtgoo River, in which seven thousand prisoners and eight transports are said to have been cap tured. It was known at Washington that such a movement by our gunboats was in contemplation, with the intention of cutting off the supplies of the rebels, and therefore it is quite probable that a battle has taken place, although the particulars have not yet reached us. There is nothing later from Vicksburg. Rumours were rife in Cairo yesterday, and reached this city by telegraph, that Fort Donelson and Fort Henry had been captured by the rebels, but the re ports are not credited. A gentleman, who arrived in Cincinnati on Thursday from Savannah, says that immense armies are massed in Tennessee—one to hold General Rosencranz in check, while the other finks him, enters _Kentucky, and moves,direct on Louisville and Cincinnati. They are only wait ing for the rivers to fall and the roads to dry to commence operations. General Granger's force, who went in pursuit of Van Dorn, returned to Franklin on Wednesday. The rebels fled beyond Duck River, as we before re ported. There were several cavalry skirmishes, and some 300 ragged fellows were picked up in the pursuit. Colonel Richardson and some 400 of his rebe' guerillas were surrounded and captured at Coving• ton, Tenn,,by a body of Union troops on Monday last Great excitement arose on the 12th at Cairo, on account of the capture of Forts Henry and Donelsou. A special despatch from Cincinnati, 13th March, gives the following:— " The Commercial has a rumour, via Cairo, that the rebels have repossessed Forts Donelson and Henry, though it is not credited. Troops were ordered there for an emergency. A do-nothing policy, there, lends no charm, in fact, to the retention of office by an ener getic, much more, be it said, by an ardently patriotic statesman. Months flit by with the whole powers of the State in comparative inaction— 1862 merges into 1863—winter gives place to spring— and still the southern provinces of the new Italian Kingdom are held in allegiance solely under the pressure of a military occupation! S'All the nominally coalesced principalities straggling down the length of the Peninsula, skirting round the Papal States, linking together the once Kingdom of the Two Sicilies with the some time Austrian province of Lombardy, and with the now expanded and dominant Sovereignty of Piedmont—still all these heterogeneous portions of the newly defined Kingdom of Italy fail to combine and blend together harmoniously ! Still, above all, the fortresses of the Quadrilateral are occupied by their German garrisons. Venetia is still held by Austria as an integral part of her dominions. For two years consecutively not an inch of ground in advance has been gained by the Italian Government. Ever since CATOUR'S death, to reiterate for a moment the remark with which we commenced—ever since the death of Count CAVOUR, the Liberator of Lombardy, the Obtainer of Savoy and Nice, has had " his will" as completely as the "Ancient Mariner" in the ballad of COLERIDGE. CANUTE has placed his curule chair adroitly upon the verge of the line of high water mark, and there with a very grandoiss affectation of supreme power has said to the waves of the Italian Revolution, " Advance no further !" Those waves have ever since then been boiling and surging in vain against the rocky barrier of the formidable and all but im pregnable fortifications of the Quadrilateral. They have chafed and foamed as vainly around the central Ararat, And all the while the impression produced upon the mind of the superficial spectator has been, nay, still is— that the CANUTE of France, who sits there upon his throne of State to the west—high and dry, as we have said, above high water mark—is " monarch of all he surveys," is lord even and master of that stormy sea of the Italian Nationality ! " Thus far shalt thou go, and no further ! " Aud the tide—as if in obedience to the Imperial mandate—goes no further. It lashes vainly at the bare of the Quadri lateral. It rages innocuously around the Ararat. A change, if change there is to come in all this, must come perforce from an authority superior in puis sance even to his Imperial Majesty of France, NAPOLEON 111. It must be the result of the rising of some new hurricane of events. It must be pro nounced—that new and more potent mandate than any affected to be uttered by the French Sovereign —it must, on the contrary, b 3 articulated by the Vox Populi, said awfully by the proverb to be the Vox Da. If uttered at all—this final mandate for which Italy, for which Europe, has so long been waiting and listening in eager expectation—it must so be uttered ! Yes—thus and thus only will it be uttered—if at all ! "A gentleman who left Savannah on the 20th ult., arrived at Cincinnati yesterday. He is a planter and a member of the South Carolina legis lature. He reports that immense armies are massed in Tennessee—one to hold Rosencranz in check, while the other flanks him, enters Kentucky, and moves direct on Louisville and Cincinnati. They are only waiting for the rivers to fall and the roads to dry. He says it is the general talk in Dixie, that a fleet of ten iron-clads will be ready in foreign ports this month, with which the rebels propose to clear the Mississippi, and co-operate with the move ment in Kentucky." According to the same despatch the Union party in Ohio has called a State Convention, to be held in Columbus on the 17th June. Granger's force, sent in pursuit of Van Dorn, returned to Franklin on Wednesday. The rebels fled beyond Duck river. There were several cavalry skirmishes, and some 300 ragged fellows were picked up in the pursuit. Rebel advices show that the Northern Alabama loyalists are giving the rebels a deal of trouble. Surprises, skirmishes, and all the horrors incidental to a neighbourhood of war are witnessed there. The Memphis papers contain the statement that Colonel Richardson, the noted guerilla chief, and 400 of his men were captured at Covington, Ten nessee, on the 9th March. The Unionists surrounded them. A despatch from Salt Lake City, dated MaToll 10, announces the arrest of Brigham Young, under the Polygamy Act of Congress. United States Marshal Gibbs served the writ issued on the 10th by Judge Kimsey upon President Young. The writ was im • mediately responded to, and the defendant, who appeared personally in court, was admitted to bail in the sum of 2,000 dols., which was promptly given. The civil authority can be maintained in Utah without the aid of troops. The following despatch of Col. Connei is pub lished by the New York papers:— " Salt Lake City, March 11. " The despatch in the New York Herald of the 10th, published in the California papers this morn ing, so far as regards my acts and intentions, is false. (Signed) "P. EDWARD CONNOR, Colonel, Third Infantry, C.N." The following is the despatch of which the Colonel complains :-- " Salt Lake City, March 9. " A collision between the military and the citizens is imminent. Governor Harding and Associate Justices Waite and Drake, it is understood, have called upon Col. Connor to arrest Brigham Young, and Councillors Kimball and Wells. "The judge of the district can serve any civil process; but the citizsns are in arms, and deter. mined to prevent the arrest of their leaders by military force. "Other Federal officers, and now Mormon citi zens, have telegraphed to Gen. Wright to restrain Connor till an investigation can be hud. "A colonel of tht. United States army, who left for 'Washington this morning, has been arrested by Connor, and brought back. It is presumed his in tentions were unfavourable to CJrinor's military interfererlee." The Europe of Frankfort gives an analysis of the despatch upon the Polish question addressed by Earl Russell, on the sth March, to the Russian Govern ment and the other Powers who signed the Treaty of Vienna. The suggestions contained in this document are stated to be as follows :-Ist. An immediate amnesty in favour of the insurgent Poles ; 2d. The realisation of the promises made by the Emperor Alexander I. to the Poles in his celebrated proclamation of the month of November, 1815 ; 3d. The immediate convocation of the Polish Diet. The departure from St. Petersburg of Count Thun, the Austrian Minister at the Court of Russia, is an event which had Leen anticipated for some time, and has no peculiar significance at the present moment. Count Thun will no doubt be speedily replaced by another diplo matist. Although the relations between Austria and Russn are not just now of the most cordial character, the present arrangement cannot in any way be considered as indicating increased coolness. EMIGRATION MEMORIAL TO THE LORD MAYOR AND THE MANSION HOUSE COMMITTEE..—Last even ing a meeting of the Lancashire Relief Committee of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, was held in the vestry, the Rev. S. M. Mayhew presiding. A long memorial was prepared and agreed to, urging upon the Mansion-house Committee that a portion of the funds now in hand should should w be applied for th e p urpose o f ass i s ti ng som e of the distressed emigrateto British poisuhcn the Lord deputationo th p a er t a a tives to ord itw ia a y s or re t s o o pre-1 d sent the memorial, The Richmond Dispatch, in a leader, speaks dis• couragingly of the prosp , 2ets of food, and says im pressment of flour and grain by the Government discourages production. The Richmond Examiner contains the announce ment that General Beauregard has revoked all fur loughs, and recalled the absentees to their post. The following is from thel?ichmond Examiner:— BOMBARDMENT OF FORT M'ALLISTER. " Up to last night nothing later had been received at the War Department from Fort M . Allister. The latest accounts we have say that a Yankee fleet, after a terrific bombardment, had retired, and it is thought that the enemy has been again repulsed; at least he has shown no further disposition to renew the attack. " The bombardment is represented to have been terrific. The fire of three iron-clads and three mortar boats was concentrated on the fort at the same time, and s hell and solid shot literally rained on the garrison. The fire commenced about 9 a.m., and continued up to a late hour in the evening and through the night; but when morning came the Yankee fleet had disappeared. " This is the enemy's fourth attßok on Fort THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1863. PER H IBERNIAN.) PRUSSIA. FRANCE. M'Allister, and he has failed. Strange to say, and unequal as the contest was, the fort is said to have sustained but little damage, and our loss to hAve been but two wounded and none killed. " It shows that Yankee gunboats and mortars are a humbug. In fact, we are told, that so accustomed have become the people of Vicksburg to them, and so little is the fear manifested at their shelling, that when the fire commences the people go out to wit ness it as a kind of amusement." THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. On the 27th of February Admiral Porter des patched what was called a paddy boat or dummy Monitor, to view the Vicksburg batteries, in order to ascertain their exact location. This con trivance was an old flat boat, with flour barrels for smoke stacks, and a couple of large hogs heads to represent the Monitor turrets. It ran the fortifications in a gallant style, and drew the fire of the rebel guns, but as far as could be ascertained received no damage. The paddy-boat, it seems, frightened the rebels, who were at work trying to raise the Indianola below Vicksburg, and caused them to skedaddle on the double quick. When they got safe away from what they supposed to be a turreted, or " a cheese box on a raft," they reportei the fact to their friends, and stated that they had blown up the Indianola to prevent her from again falling Into the hands of Yankees. This was the source from which the story come that the captured gunboat had been destroyed. In reference to this, the Jackson Mississippian had the following : " The destruction of the Indianola was a most unnecessary and unfortunate affair. The turreted monster proved to be a flatboat, with Anndry fix tures to create deception. She passed Vicksburg on Tuesday night, and the officers, believing she was really a turreted monster,blew up the Indianola, but the guns fell into the hands of the enemy." The statement of those who ran away from the sunken prize at the approach of the paddy-boat was subsequently ascertained to be false, and the Indianola by this time has, no doubt, been raised. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. FRIDAY, March 13, 6 p.m. Money continues to be very abundant, and the banks are embarrassed to find employment for their means. On call the brokers pay 5 and 6 per cent.; but the demand for money on the Stock Exchange is quite light. There is no change in debt certifi cates or mercantile paper. Gold was rather active to-day, partly on the news from the West, and partly on reports of legislation in Albany. It opened at 161, roso to 1611, declined steadily to 1581, rallied 160, sold at 169 and 160 in the afternoon, and closed at 1593 bid. At Albany, this morning, the bill to check speculation in gold (of which a synopsis was given a day or two since in our Albany correspondence) was reported, and unanimously referred to the Committee of the whole. We cannot see that this bill will achiave the end desired, or will put down the price of gold. NEW YORK, MARCH 14, Evening. It is currently reported in Wall-street that the Secretary of the Treasury has received an offer from Europe for 100,000,000 dole. Six per Cent. Bonds at a higher figure than par. Mr. Chase is endeavouring to negotiate a loan of 100,000,000 dole. ; 50,000,000 dols. in 20 year bonds, and the other 50,C00,000 dole. in short bonds. It is reported from Memphis that the Federal expedition up the Yozoo has captured Yazoo city, and all the Confederate transports above it. An attack by the Federals upon Haines Bluff e few miles above the mouth of the Yazoo river was hourly expected. No official accounts of the affair have yet been received. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy, gold 571,- premium. Exct ange— Bankers' bills, 175 ; Stocks, quiet ; New York Central, 116,1 ; Illinois, 91 ; Erie, 771. THE POLISH INSURRECTION, DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS, AND CAP TURE OF A RUSSIAN PRINCE. SKALMIESZYCE, MARCH 23. News received here from Kalish announces that a severe engagement took place the day before yester day, near Konin. The Russians sustained serious losses, four of their officers and 60 privates being killed. Prince Wittgenstein was also wounded and taken prisoner by the insurgents. Reinforcements, under the command of General Brunner, iwere sent to ,the Russians to-day from Kalisch. BRESZOW, MARCH 24. The insurgents, under the command of Czechow ski, were beaten and dispersed the day before yes terday in the vicinity of Lazansk. Bodies of insurgents ar© making their way to Galicia. Engagements have taken place during the last two days at Krzeazkow and at Potok. The insurgents have been beaten near the forest of Panslow. Three hundred insurgents are encamped on Rus sian territory. POSEN, MARCH 24. Two engagements have taken place in the palati nate of Kaliseb, at Apatuova, in both of which the Poles were completely victuiouP. Eighty waggons filled with the Russian wounded have been tken to Konin. A further \•ngagement has occurred at Makorowo, the result of Which has not yet transpired. It is only known that the number of killed and wounded on both sides is large. Two French lieute nants, MM. Deodat and Collier, are among the wounded. BERLIN, MARCH 25. Letters received here from Kiew state that on account of information having been received that a Polish Legion, consisting of two regiments, wee on its way through Bessarabia to Poland, General Annenkopff has sent a considerable military force to the frontier. PORTUGAL. LISBON, MARCH 24. To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Mar quis de Loule saii , in reply to a question, that Portugal had acceded to the proposal of England to make joint representations to Russia in favour of Poland. The Chamber then unanimously passed a vote of confidence in the Ministry. PARIS, MARCH 25. The Moniteur of this morning says :—"lht Prussian and Russian Ambassadors have communi cated to the Government precise information from which it results that the news, lately published b . , all the journals, of the passage of a ILssian columc on Prussian territory, is devoid of foundation. MARCH 24 (Evening). In to-day's sitting of the Senate a debate took place upon the Bill granting extraordinary credith to the Government. The Marquis d'Audiffret demanded that the stricT regulations with respect to public accounts fixed b. ) t h e Senatus-eonsultum should be maintained. M. Fould stated that the Senatus-consultum suf ficed for all exigencies, and offered sufficient guaran tees to the country. lie called to mind the circum stances under which the present financial system had been arranged. At that plied the public mine was discrtieted by all kinds of apprehensions. People spoke of the necessity of a new loan. Novel financial regulations bad been applied, and, notwitbatandius the requirements of a distant war, the first year of the new system demonstrated its advantages. The expenses not foreseen by the regular Budget had been diminished, and the Budget for 1862 had been regulated under comparatively favourable circum stances. According to the experience of the first two months the Budget for 1863 would afford a surplus of 70 millions. N. Fould continued— " The reserve of our finances is in process of for mation. In presence of this position of affairs, it is sufficient to be prudent. The sound condition of our exchequer will provide us with the means of attaining a reduction of the public expenses by pure force of economy. " This will add a fresh glory to those R ith which he Emperor has already endowed France." The Bill then passed by the Senate. BOURSE, March 24.—Stock has been again offered by persons desirous of realising previous profits; Threes, for the Account, have not, how ever, declined materially, but are with difficulty maintained at 69f. 25c. The Railway Share Market quiet, and some few of the lines have slightly re ceded. Stock again became in demand towards the close, and prices improved. The market left off as follows : 11 per Cents. 96 25 Bank Shares 3365 Do. end month.... Credit koncier 1497 50 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 45 Do. end month 7O 95 New 3 per Cents .. Russian Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier..., 1290 Spanial Threes 52 50 Do. end month... ,1290 Home Debt RA IL 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lll6 25 .. 1117 60 Northern New, ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1215 .. 1220 Geneva .. Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Losrhard North of Spain Saragossa 727 60 732 50 Ditto to Barcelona NAPOLEON'S LETTER TO M. BILLAULT. (From the Paris Correspondent of the Times.) The Emperor's letter to M. Billault in the .41 on& I teur, assuring the Minister that his speech in the Senate on Poland was " in every point conformable with his thoughts," and repudiating any other in terpretation of his sentiments, is meant to remove the painful feeling that may have been caused by the Prince's taint that M. Billault voted for General Cavaignac, and not for Prince Louis Napoleon, as President of the Republic. It is also meant to re move the general impression that the Prince's speech, and not M. Billault's, was the truest inter pretation of his Majesty's secret policy. The pub lic did not come to that conclusion without some show of reason, for it is remembered that after the Italian campaign his Majesty declared, in a speech from the throne, and to the great applause of the auditory, that the support of France would not be wanting in every quarter where the weak were oppressed by the powerful, where injus tice was to be put down, and where wrongs were to be redressed. That Poland is, and has long been, in that condition, not even M. de Laroche.. jaquelein would deny ; and that the great majority of Frenchmen sympathise, not now for the first time, with the Poles, naturally led the unteflecting to believe that the former astsurances in the Imperial harangues would now be carried out. If error ex isted on that score, the public are not to blame. M. Walewski, even after the speech from the Throne immed;ately preceding the opening of the campaign in Lombardy, did not believe in war,—at least he took some pains to prove that he did not ; and every one knows that if he expressed his real opinion, he, though Minister of Foreign Affairs, could not have been in the secrets of his Sovereign, and could not have known what passed in the private conferences with M. Cavour. The present letter may also put a stop to such "manifestations" as those which have taken place in favour of Poland under the windows of the Senate while Prince Napoleon was speaking and M. Billault replying. The Prince has i certainly gained in popularity among the students and working classes by his speech. On Saturday afternoon large groups collected round the gates of ; Palais Royal, vnere an open carriage, with posti-- lions in the Imperial livery, was standing waiting for the Prince. They remained there for more than an hour. No impediment was offered to their gather ing, and no atttempt made to disperse them, though the sergens de villa attached to the palace were on the spot. On any other occasion groups of people would not be allowed to block up the sideways Still it is probable that the letter to M. Billauli very faithfully expresses his Majesty's opinion. In previous expeditions the Emperor was not alone. Not to speak of Russia and the Crimean war, he had in Italy the Piedmontese ; in China the English ; in Cochin-China the Spaniards; in Mexico, at first, English and Spaniards; but it is not certain that if war were now declared against Russia to redress the wrongs of Poland, he could count on Austria or England. The moral intervention described by M. liillault is therefore all that will be exercised so far as France is concerned, and that course has already met with the full approbation of the Chambers, though not of Prince Napoleon. The affairs of Poland have taken away fora while the thoughts of the public from the distress in the manufacturing districts; yet there is reason to be lieve it has not only not diminished, but rather extended. From places whole the workmen con tinned to be employed up to the last appeals now come for relief. A circular from the relief committee of Mullhouse shows that the evil is spreading throughout Alsace, and 15,000 working men swell the list of those who have no wages to depend upon. A lottery for their benefit has been started in Paris by a number of benevolent ladies. Review of Volunteers at Brighton on Easter Monday. We are authorised to announce that the Secre tary of State for War has approved of a review of volunteers taking place at Brighton o❑ Easter Monday. Applications from corps desirous of attending must be transmitted on the form prescribed in Volunteer Circular No. 27 of the 27th August, 1862, for the sanction of the Secretary of State, and &- livered at the War-office on or before the Ist proximo, after which no further applications will be received. Officers commanding metropolitan corps should state in their applications -Ist. the number of volunteers who will proceed by rail to Brighton on Easter Monday. 2d. The number who will join their corps at their rendezvous at Brighton. 3d. The number who will return by rail on the evening of Easter Monday. Under regulations which will be published by he railway authorities, tickets will be issued by them up to noon on Thursday, the 2d proximo, and up to 8 p.m. the same day tickets unappropriated by the corps may be returned to the secretary of the railway. THE ALABAMA.—Captain S. Cooper, master of the ship John A. Park, of Halliwell, who arrived yesterday by the ship Miss Nightingale, thus reports the destruction of his vessel by the Confederate steamer Ala bama. He sailed from New York for Montevideo on the 13th of February with a cargo of lumber. On the 2d inst., being in lat. 29 15 N., long. 38 20 W., at daylight the second officer reported a steamer a-head, bark rigged, which proved to be the Alabama. A boat csme alongside with an armed crew and boarded and took charge of the ship, Captain Cooper was taken before Captain Semmes, who asked him if he knew to whom the cargo belonged ; and he Answered he could not say, but referred for information to the bills of lading. which specified, by certificates of the British Consul at New York, that the cargo was British property. After examination of the papers,Captain Semmes expressed his opinion that the cargo was not British pto • perty. Captain Cooper was then ordered on board his own and told to bring his clothes and those of his crew on board the Alabama. When the work of transferring the stores had been completed the crew of the Alabama set fire to the ship. The English barqua the Miss Nightingale, bound for London, was in sight, and Captain 00chraue kindly consented to take home to England Captain Cooper, tiis wife, and two young men The remainder of the ship's company , consisting of three mates, a carpenter and 16 seamen, were lett on board the Alabama. The captain and the two young men were compelled to sign a parole of nonour not to serve against the Confederate States during the war, At A rt l %l- =Cantu HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 24. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove in the grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess arrived from London soon after two o'clock this afternoon, attended by the Countess of Morton, the Hon, Mrs. Bruce, and Lieut.-Coi. Keppel. The Dowager Countess of Mount-E 3 gcumbe has succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. The Lady Fanny Howard arrived at the Castle on Saturday and left to-day. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, the Hon. Mrs, Bruce, and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, left Buckingham Palace at a quarter before one o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle, Their royal highnesses proceeded to the Paddington ter minus, and travelled by the Great Western Railway to 'Windsor. Departure of the Danish Royal Family. The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark left London yesterday morning for the Continent. The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, Prince Frederick, Prince William, Prince Walde mar, Princess Dagmar, and Princess Thyra, who accompanied her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales on her recent arrival in England, lett Dover yesterday afternoon. Their royal highnesses ire yelled in state carriages, and by express train of the South-Eastern Railway, arriving in Dover precisely at 12.10. Mr. Eborall, the general manager of the South Eastern Railway, and Mr. J. P. Knight, the traffic superintendent, were in attendance at the railway station, and the last-named gentleman ac companied the train to Dover. On its arrival there the train was driven direct to the Admiralty pier, alongside which the Admiralty yacht Vivid, Com mander Allen, was lying, with her steam up, in readiness to convey the illustrious visitors across the Channel. Just as the Vivid was casting off, the Danish national flag was run up to the main, and a hearty cheer, led with right good will by the mayor, burst from the whole of the spectators, the band of the_ 83d again playing the National Anthem as the Vivid rapidly steamed away from the pier. The weather was as beautiful as midsummer, and the sea without a ripple. BRUSSELS, March 25. The Danish Royal family arrived last evening at Brussels on their return from London. Their Royal Highnesses were received at the terminus by the Count of Flanders, who conducted them to the Royal Palace. They will visit the King to-day at Lacken, and depart for Germany to-morrow. Departure of Prince Alfred from Malta for England. MALTA, Wednesday, 12.5 p.m., March 25. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, accompanied by Captain Egerton, Dr. Armstrong, and Major Cowell, will leave this afternoon for Marseilles, in H.M.S. Magicienne. The Corporation of the City--The Prince _ • and Princess of Wales. We have reason to believe that the Prince of Wales, on behalf of himself and the Princess of Wales, has declined the invitation of the Corpora tion of the City of London to the proposed banquet in the Guildhall. We presume that the letter de clining the invitation would be couched in such courtly phraseology as an expression of regret that they could not accept the invitation at present: Morning Advertiser. TILE PRINCESS OF WALES AND THE PIPER OP THE SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS.—Pipe-major E. Henderson, of the Ist Battalion Scots Fusilitre, was ordered to wait on the members of the Danish Royal family resid ing at the Buckingham Palace Hotel, and perform on the pipes. After the performance the gallant piper, at the express command of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, perfoi med several pieces in the garden of Bucking ham Palace, much to the gratification of the princess, who heard the bagpipes fur the first time. The princess dis missed the piper with many thanks, and a substantial token of her satisfaction. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam• bridge, the Princess Mary, and suite, honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their presence last evening, The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have left town for Badminton, Gloucestershire, The Duke of Montrose arrived in town yesterday from visiting the Earl and Countess of Powis and Ladies Herbert at Walcot Hall, Salop. The Duchess and Lady Violet Graham are cm their way homa from a tour in Egypt. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and the youthful Marquis of Stafford, who have been staying at Naples since their return from Alexandria and Malta, in tend to leave that city this week. The noble Duke and Duchess will be conveyed to Marseilles in their steam yacht Undine, as they intend to make a short stay in Paris on their way to this country. Lord Brougham intends to leave his chateau at Cannes towards the close of the ensuing week for Paris, in, which capital the noble lord proposes to sojourn a few days before coming home for the meeting of Parliament alter the recess. The noble and learned lord is in excellent health. DEATH OF THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.—Miii nobleman, the tenth Earl of Lauderdale, died on Sunday night at his seat, Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Berwickshire. MARSHAL UANROBERT AT NlCE.—Marshal Canrobert, on arriving three days back at Nice, was received with all honours. The mayor, at the head of the municipal body, read an address to his excellency, of which the following is an extract :—" During the stay that you are about to make among us, Monsieur le Merechal, you will be able to convince yourself that, in consequence of the kindly solicitude of the Emperor, and the initiative and impulse given by the skilful administrator whom he has placed at the head of the department, the prosperity of this part of the country is rapidly developing itselt—you , will see that great advancement has been accomplished since the annexation in moral as well as in material order .--• Galignani. The United Kingdom Telegraph Company opened an office at Northampton to-day, This is the first station on their new line from London through Leicester and Nottingham, &c ,to 1.4%.d5, Bradford, and Hull. 12 110 uniform shilling charge is to be applied throughout the company's system, whatever the distance. - - AT THE DOOR OF ST. GEORGE'II CHAPEL.—It was a sort of combined sensation of getting mar tied, of going to the play, of standing godfather, and simply going to church, all mixed up together, with a suspicion of morning concert, and a faint dash of flower-show. Here were ladies in opera-cloaks—it must be a play we were goi.ig to see ; but they had smart oonnets on—it wan a morning concert. No, we were standing in a Gothic porch, and there were pinnacles, and trefoils, and other ecclesiastical ornaments, in all directions—we were g ing to church; but then none of us had prayer-books, and several, on the other hand, carried opera-glasses. At any rate, we were all jammed clove together wait• ing at a door, which was not yet opened, and we were complaining that our feet were very cold, and that the car riages which continued to set down fresh arrivals every moment were pressing much too closely on us. Y e t, w i t h all this close packing and dim suggestion of a pit entrance on the occasion of some popular performance, it a 9 evident that we were in good company ; for a little I , idY alongside me was murmuring in a soft tone the words, "It's Lady Jane;" and an old gentleman accom panying the little lady responded eagerly, "is she looking this way ?" and the little lady replied despoadentlY "Not just now," and a moment afterwards began to nod and smile maniacally, whersupon the old gentleman asked teverishly, " Did 8113 see You '' and the little lady replied, " Yes," and they both remained breathless with joy from that time until the moment when i us was opened, an d w mov ed on at re h l ourselves o rselves atter ail in a church hcarpetirot on the floor though, and betwee ll tcheuch withse duos o t l a utnt and found a columns of n n the nave rows of seats, rising 036 above another, and covered with red cloth. Soon we were all distributed over these seats, and eagerly watching the proceedings of certain gentleman j u blue coats, with stand-up collars all over gold ; and of t er' tain other gentlemen, who ingeniously combined two ferent periods in their costume—their upper halves being clad in dress-coats and white chokers of our own periods and their lower halves resembling the extremities of th e Reverend Mr. Sterne, deceased.—.Dickens' "All Ms PO Round,". cam., 11( The. Boaie o Inunitl money quires tak en lowest of thri Bank Beale, date. Abc Yester In 1 there The £262, At 1 Gas L tent. elazed A.t 1 Alteri the si Verse ex hibi tity B , tied t, profit dole. f orme . 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