The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, May 8. General Joseph Hooker, the " fighting Joe," of the soldiers, the vain braggart whom ill fortune and imbecility placed at the head of the army of the Po tomac, has played his desperate game—and lost it. With no single quality of the good soldier except that of courage, he has done more to damage the cause of the Union, demoralise the army, and dis hearten the people by his failure to accomplish the impossible task which he set himself, than any score of fools or knaves who have ever been allowed to mismanage the affairs of the unfortunate North. Pope, Bureside, and Hooker form a regular chain and sequence of evil. Pope was bad, Burnside worse and Hooker worst of all. These men were all brave, and each of them would have made a good subordi nate, in spite of the inherent conceit and reckless ness of their several natures. Unluckily for the country, it was their defects and not their merits which commended them originally to the notice of the impatient and presumptuous self-deceivers who rule in Washington. The results in each case sur prised Mr. Lincoln and his Ministers, but few else. Even in this last crowning humiliation of the Go vernment—for it is the Government which is princi pally if not wholly to blame—for entrusting men like Hooker with the safety of a gallant army, the shame and sorrow of all classes are not mingled with much surprise. The most sanguine who heard of Hooker's advance admitted the adventure to be ha zardous, and hoped, rather than calculated, that it would succeed. It was a desperate throw of the dice. If Hooker won, he was to be the greatest man in America ; if he lost, he was to be the smallest. And he is the smallest at this hour, and to be pitied that he did not lose his life in the thick of the battle, by a heroic death making some atonement for his rash ness. Had this been the enviable termination of his career, millions of hearts would have felt sympathy for the fate of the soldier, who would have withheld their approbation from the strategy of the general. Eight days ago—on Thursday, the 30th of April —he announced to his martyred army " his heart felt satisfaction that the operations of the three previous days had determined that the enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out of their en trenchments, and accept battle on ground of his choosing;" in which latter case, he said "certain destruction awaits them." On the following day he announced, in words still more offensively vain glorious—that " the army of the enemy was his property." His first conflict with the enemy on Saturday, the 2d of May, must have taught him how grievously he had miscalculated his own strength and theirs ; while his second and final battle of Sunday, the 3d, must have carried the con viction to his mind, that unless he retreated across the Rappahannock, his own destruction, and not that of the enemy, was inevitable. Upon that con viction he acted, after taking a day to consider of it; and on Tuesday, the sth, he succeeded in moving the shattered remnants of his noble legions across the river to their old camping ground in the suburb of Falmouth, pursued by the enemy to the bank of the stream, greatly harrassed in the crossing. The whole truth of this deplorable matter has not been allowed to be made public, and possibly there is much exaggeration in the reports that are afloat that Hooker has lost 10,000 men in killed and wounded, 8,000 or 10,000 prisoners, and as many more by desertion. The battle of Sunday is described as a scene of more awful carnage than the assault of Burnside on the heights of Fredericks burg, and the fact of which there is no doubt. That Hooker was compelled to leave his dead unburied on the fatal field of Chancelloraville, and to abandon the wounded to their fate, while he made good his retreat, shows how sorely he was pressed and how terrible was the disaster which he courted. Mr. Lincoln and the War Depart ment however must know the truth ; for he and General Halleck visited General Hooker at Falmouth on Wednesday morning, and must have learnt some, if not all, of the sickening details. Yet on their return to Washington they instructed their semi-official organ in that capital to announce to the astonished people " that the demonstration of Gen. Hooker had proved no disaster, but simply a failure, owing to the impracticability of the position which the army had gained with so much skill and energy." Though they admit a loss not exceeding 10,000 men, and think the enemy's loss must have been double that number, they add " that the relinquishment of the position was made simply because it offered no field for the manoeuvring of the army, and not from any reverse or injury sustained by it." And lest there should have been any doubt of the authenticity of the semi-official announcement, Mr. Stanton has to-day sent an official despatch to Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, apprising him of the visit of the President and General Halleck to General Hooker, and notifying him of the fact that although the principal operation of the army has failed, there has been no serious disaster to its organisation and effi ciency, and that its " offensive operations will be speedily resumed." Can the force of folly go further than this ? An army of lions is not only led by asses into useless slaughter, but asses in high place ap prove of the deed, and bray out the asinine assertion that the loss of 10,000 lions is neither a reverse nor an injury, and that the lions who survived the little difficulty are again to be driven towards destruction by the same agencies as before. Well indeed may the American people blush that such men as Mr. Stanton and his coadjutors should at such a time trifle with the outraged feelings of the people, and insult the survivors of one of the bloodiest conflicts of modern times, by representing it as an insignificant repulse, which may have retarded, but will not prevent, the operations that were originally intended. It is not in nature that General M'Ciellan and General Burnside should not feel a little, perhaps a very little—satisfaction at the discomfiture of Gen. Hooker. A man who boldly and without the slightest hesitation declared, in answer to the first question pat to him by the Congressional Commit tee on the conduct of the war, that the failure of the Peninsular Campaign was to be attributed entirely to the want of generalship on the part of the commander, cannot but be looked upon by that commander as a very shallow and presumptuous person—whose shallowness and presumption are proved by his own signal want of success when attempting what he thought M'Clellan incompe tently failed to perform. And General Burnside, who reported to the President that Hooker was unfit to hold a command in the army, and recom mended his dismissal, cannot but be confirmed in the accuracy of his opinion, and the justice of his re commendation, by the events of the last week. The question is, what will the Government now do It cannot retain Hooker in command. If it did, it is doubtful wheth r er the army would follow ; and four there are onl y t s h t er known generals whose post appointment t o the would be considered other than an act of temerity Bul ter, and M'Clell an Halleck, Fremont, hasalleck o been but his name inspires confidence. mentioned, . Next to Mr. Stanton, he is the most unpopular country, and has never fought the a battleor an in distin guished himself in the army, unless it were a dis tinction to have been splendidly befooled and foiled by General Beauregard at Corinth. General Fremont is the favourite of the Abolitionists, and the god of the idolatry of Mr. Ward Beecher, Mr. Greeley, and Miss Dickinson , and those who re in their opinions. His appointment would be hailed with shouts of acclaim from all the pulpits of the North, but would create something very like dismay everyA here else. He has not only been tried in Missouri and found wofully wanting, but he is not respected by the army; and, if not a jobber himself, has proved himself more accessible to jobbers than any other officer in the service. There is but slight chance that he will receive the com mand, though there is a possibility of it if the President be still in the hands of the Abolitionists and theorists. The notification of the fact would infallibly send up the price of gold to 80 or 100 per cent, prem., and produce consternation, if not panic, in every commercial circle. Gen. Butler's appoint ment would be more popular. He is known to have will, energy, and brains, and to be a good adminis trator, but he is not known to be a soldier. He go verned New Orleans, but did not capture it, and even his warmest admirers do not claim for him the possession of any great amount of military genius. And as his appointment would inspire Europe with the idea that the war was really about to be come a war of extermination, and one that ought to be stopped in the interest of outraged decency, huma nity, and civilisation, it is probable that he will be kept in reserve for the invasion of Ireland, or for some other project, that will not aid him overmuch in his candidature for the Presidency. There re mains only Gen. M'Clellan. His appointment to his old command would be alike pleasing to the army and to the great majority of the people, but the President having done him the injury to dismiss him unjustly, and being supported in the injustice by every member of his Cabinet except Mr. Seward, it is scarcely possible even in this hour of deadly peril that be will have the sense (to say nothing of the magnanimity), to recall the man whom he has endeavoured to disgrace, and whom his party would gladly ruin. Considering all the difficulties of the case, General Halleck will pro bably be offered the post of danger, and, if he accept it will perform a patriotic and self-sacrificing act, which will secure for him the sympathy and support of the people. While the dreadful battles of Chancellorsville were in progress tens of thousands of men and women in this and other cities were in an agony of suspense for the fate of sons, husbands, brothers, and lovers engaged in the strife ; not a single word of information was allowed to be communicated by te l .egraph ; not even a list of the killed and wounded of the first great battle of Saturday, which an en terprising newspaper reporter had been at the pains to gather at great personal risk and cost. New York was in a state of the most feverish anxiety, and the smallest scrap of news was eagerly sought for, and believed or disbelieved, as the political sympathy of the hearer might incline; but nothing authentic was allowed to be communicated. On Wednesday, however, when the agony of suspense was at its height, the telegraph wires brought the news of a prize-fight for the championship of Ame rica between two rival pugilists, named Coburn and M'Coole, that had taken place that morning some where in Pennsylvania ; and immediately extra editions of the papers were out, and delivered to the juvenile crowds of Irish newsvendors who ply their noisy business in the streets. They speedily made the air hideous with discordant shouts of "Great battle on the Susquehannah!" " Great "fight in Pennsylvania !" &c. Intense was the dis gust of those who purchased, unless they happened to belong to the low and debased class who in this country represent the Anglo-Saxon love of sport. The Herald of the following day declared in a lead- ing article that the people had ceased to feel any interest in the war, "and that there was a great deal mora excitement in New York about the Coburn and M'Coole fight than about the fight around Frede ricksburg." The Tribune denounced the statement as a base and cruel libel upon the people of New York, but the denunciation was only partially justi fied by the fact. Respectable people no doubt felt no interest whatever in the brutal details of the prize fight, or in the fight itself ; but respectable people are not in the majority in this city. The war has not taken off all the " rowdy " population, even among the young ; and old " rowdies," too ancient for the battlefield, abound at every corner, who take delight in and make a profit out of the combats of the ring and of the cockpit, and do their best or worst to make the very name of sport odious to all right-minded men. The little episode of the war is worth recording as a trait of national character, to be read by optimist or pessimist, with such feelings as the cast of mind may determine. The Republican, Abolitionist, and Ministerial journals have not a word to say in denunciation of the arbitrary and foolish arrest of Mr.Vallandigham. The Democratic journals alone speak out, and they speak out to such purpose that, were it not for the absorbing interest created by the defeat of Hooker, they would raise such a storm about the ears of the Government as would convince Mr. Lincoln that General Burnside was as unfit for civil as for mili tary eommand, and that true policy even now would be to send him to the field in the thick of battle, under subordination to some clearer-headed leader. It was a grave mistake to make a martyr of such a man as Mr. Vallandigham—the idol of his own State, beloved in his immediate district, with an amount of affection rarely bestowed in America upon men in public life ; and from his political position, as an ex-member of Congress and Democratic Candidate for the Governorship of Ohio, entitled to be considered the representative man of the West, as well as the most Eloquent and fearless of the many chiefs of the Democratic party. In the closing debates of the last session of Congress Mr. Vallandigham and a few other men of the same stamp, such as Mr. Henry May, Mr. Cox, Mr. Peleton, Mr. Vortes, and Mr. Benjamin Wood, who tacitly admitted him to be their Parliamentary leader, bl , :w the trumpet of liberty with no u':certain sound; and never omitted any fair opportunity to denounce in scath ing language the blunders of the Government, and its constant attempts to destroy the freedom and override the Constitution of the North in its blind endeavour to subdue or exterminate the South. There was to " Buncombe" in his speeches —none of the exaggeration common among Western or Northern stump orators—but sturdy common sense and irrefutable logic, expressed in the choicest Eng lish, a copious flow of strong, but never coarse or vulgar words, an ardent love of liberty, a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution, a felicitous and polished invective, and a power of sarcasm that made his opponents wince with pain, all the more acute because there was nothing in the language at which Parliamentary or gentlemanly etiquette could take offence, and to which none but an orator as ac complished as himself could venture to reply. Had Mr. Vallandigham been an Englishman he would have made his mark, even in so critical an assembly as the British House of Commons, which is more than can be said for any member of the Government or of the Republican party, except Mr. Chas. Sum ner. In figure and countenance, no less than in cha racter of mind, he bears a striking resemblance to the Earl of Derby, but being 15 or 20 years younger he suggests the time when the " Rupert of Debate" adorned the House of Commons, and fought the war of words with Daniel O'Connell. The charge upon which this gentleman has been arrested was for certain expressions supposed to be treasonable, spoken before an audience of 20,000 persons at Mount Vernon, in Ohio. General Burnside appears to have been lying in wait for the opportunity, for he sent certain subordinate officers of his staff, dressed in civilian attire, to make notes of the s p eec h which Mr. Vallandigham was expected to deliver, and it was upon their information that he proceeded to action. The indignation of the people of Dayton, where Mr. Vallandigham resides, was so great at the news of his arrest that they broke out into open violence; the alarm bells were rung, th e crowd flocked into the streets, and set fire to and demolished a newspaper office, the editor of which had rendered himself conspicuous by opposition to Mr. Vallandigham and in support of the Govern ment, and committed other outrages of so serious a nature as to render it necessary for General Burn side to despatch a large body of troops from Cin cinnati, 60 miles distant, to preserve the peace. Mr. Vallandigham himself was taken to Cincinnati and ordered for immediate trial by court-martial. He refused to plead before such a tribunal, denied its legality, and demanded if he had committed any offence, of which he was not conscious, to be brought to of b t he ugbieolntnihst,hieeaerandi• before a recognised civil court and a jury of his countrymen. The case is now pending with closed doors, none of the If fvidenee gentleman's head, there Gene r altaßken being permitted Men's rine u .w rn il s l id b e e hseurriotsusa mis chief inds are volcanic in West, blundering e th h a ie t f re in g his wits at the battle of Fredericksburg,fi o l w ill a b lel thehel held trouble jointly and never dragoon, who lost thatm respon sible since withrecovered i. r . the Lincolnm ensue. In fact, Mr. Lincoln is more to blame than General Burnside ; for, on his own sh awing, by his famous order, No. 8, Burnside either brought false charges against every officer under his command,or those officers, General Hooker included, were unfit to be retained in the military service of the United States. At any time such an arrest would have been impolitic; but at present, when the great States of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio—the granaries of the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1863 continent—that have suffered as much by the war as New York and New England have prospered, are one vast and seething "hot-bed of discontent and disaffection, and of all but avowed sympathy with the South, it is in the highest degree criminal and dangerous. If the object were to strike terror, the object has failed. Not terror, but disgust and in dignation have been excited ; and unless care be taken there will be deeds done in the West that will mark a new stage in the revolutionary history of the Republic. The discontent of the army with the conduct of the war finds a certain intelligible mode of expres • sion in the absolute refusal of so many regiments whose terms have expired to renew their service, even in this, the day of the greatest danger of the Government. It has remained for Colonel Haw kins, of the New York Zouaves, to put this discon tent into language that all the world can under stand. General Dix has, by direction of the Secre tary of War, requested this regiment to re-enlist, with a promise of bounty money if it would do so. The Colonel, by whose personal exertions it was raised amid the excitement consequent upon the attack on Fort Sumter two years ago, respectfully but peremptorily declined on behalf of himself and his men. In an exceedingly well written letter, which is published in the Democratic journals, but which the Republican and Ministerial journals re fuse to place on record, Col. Hawkins narrates with spirit as well as modesty the achievements and suf ferings of his 'gallant band, who did not wait for the bribe as bounty money to offer their lives to the Government, but " when the first gun was fired at Sumter, rushed to arms with the eagerness and en• thusiasm of youth. We asked," he says, " for no bounty. No hope of reward was held out to us. We felt that our country was in danger, and needed:our support. We loved it then, and we l ove i t now, but we feel that others who have kept in the back ground should step to the front and supply our places. As a regiment we feel we have performed all our country has any right to expect or demand. Our contract has been fulfilled to the letter. From the first moment of our taking the field we have been in the face of the enemy, never having been in a fort, garrison, or camp of instruction, where we could have the opportunity of drilling. Our home has been in the field, where all the exposure and hardships incident to a soldier's life have been endured without a murmur. No matter how hard or difficult the service we have been called upon to perform, it has always been done cheerfully and with alacrity. The post of honour is not new to us. We have had it before, and paid for it dearly, with the lives of many of the noblest youth our nation possessed. Many scores of our friends and compa nions have fallen around us; and to what purpose ? Is the war any nearer its end now than it was two years ago ? Individual bravery and courage has gone all for naught. The imbecility of many high commanding officers in the field has cast a damning blight and disgrace over the graves of our brave countrymen. Taking into consideration the fact that ample time has elapsed to have supplied our place, we do not think it is incumbent upon us to remain longer than the 3d of May, the day on which our term expires. I, therefore, on behalf of the regiment, call for transportation to be fur nished to us at that time. If, on account of this refusal to comply with your request, we go home in disgrace, and meet thorns where we had expected to find flowers, we must . bear up under it with the same courage which has characterised all our actions since we became defenders of our country's honour." That such a man should be justified in speaking in such a manner to the Government, betrays a state of feeling in the army which may tend to ex plain the uniform unsuccess of the Federals in the field. They are brave, but they lack confidence in the political adventurers who are placed in com mand over them. This regiment, immediately before its term expired, farmed part of the division of Gen. Corcoran, who slew its lieutenant-colonel for demanding the countersign. How was it pos sible for such men to fight under such a general ? Col. Hawkins is a soldier who served with distinc tion in the Mexican war, and knows the duty both of the soldier and the officer. It was not likely that he could continue to follow where a Corcoran was to lead, or suffer himself and his little band to be transferred to the protecting care and calm judg ment of a Hooker. =t ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held yesterday at Burlington House, Piccadilly, Sir R. I. Murchison, K.C,8., the President, in the chair. Among those present were— Lord Colchester, Count Strzelecki, Lord Campbell, Lord Sheffield, Comte de Paris, Rear-Admiral Sir G, Back, Rear- Admiral Hall, Lady Franklin, Admiral Collinson, Admiral Bowles, Major-Gen, Sir H, Rawlinson, Major-Gen. Sir A. Waugh, Gen. Jochmus, Sir G. Everest, Sir J. Shiel, Sir C. Nicholson, Admiral Sir E. Belcher, M. E. Grant Duff, Esq., M.P., the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, M.P., Profes sor Owen, Dr. Rae, Mr. J. Crawford, Mr. A. Findlay, Mr. C. Graham, Mr. F. Galton, Mr. W. Fairbairn, Mr. G. Ben tham, Mr. Landsborough (explorer), Mr. E. 0. Smith, &c. Dr, N. SHAW (Secretary) read the minutes of the last meeting, which were signed in the usual way by the chair man. It was announced that in future the anniversary meetings were to be held in the month of May, and that on the 4th of the month notice would be given to every fellow; the object of which meeting being to receive the annual report of the council and hear the President's address on the pro gress of geography. Rev. Dr. Worthington, and Capt. Bul lock, R.N., were appointed scrutineers, to examine the vot ing papers and announce the result of the ballet taken to supply the places in the council vacated according to rota tion. The PRESIDENT next called upon Mr. Spottiswoode to r ad the report, in which the council state that they have the pleasure to lay before the society the accounts of the past year, and their annual report of progress. They have also to submit to the general meeting certain changes pro posed in the existing rules of the society, consequent upon the retirement of the acting secretary, Dr. Norton Shaw. Since the last anniversary 190 fellows have been elected, and the list of members now extends to 1,800 ordinary and 52 honorary and corresponding members. Our obi tuary for the same period reaches to 10 members, and includes many honoured names. The balance sheet shows a steady increase of annual subscriptions, and a general accordance with the estimate submitted to the last general meeting. The permanent fund now amounts to £9,500 New Three per Cents, affording satisfactory proof of the prosperous financial position of the society. The acces sions to the publication department since the last anniver sary consist of 830 maps and charts, and two atlasses, all of which have been mounted en the establishment, and arranged in geographical order. Telegraphic messages have been received from Alexandria, announcing thearrival of Captains Speke and Grant at Khartum, and the settle ment of the great question—the sources of the Nile. The Founder's Gold Medal for the encouragement of geographi cal science and discovery has been awarded to Mr. Frank T. Gregory for his successful explorations in Western Australia, during which he fixed astronomically 58 positions for latitude and 19 for longitude; and the Patron's or Vic toria Gold Medal has been awarded to Mr. John Arrow smith, for the very important services he has rendered to geographical science in general, and especially to the Royal Geographical Society, from its foundation to the present time. Gold watches, bearing honorary inscriptions, have also been awarded to Mr. William Landsborough, to Mr. John M'Kinlay, and to Mr. Frederick Walker, for their successful explorations in Australia. The retirement of Dr. Norton Shaw, who has for many years filled the oner ous offices of acting secretary and editor of the journals, during which period the society has so largely increased in numbers and in financial prosperity, calls for the best wishes of all its members for the improven-ent of his health, and likewise for a substantial acknowledgment of his valu able services. In recognition of these tervices, extending over more than 14 years, it has been unanimously agreed by the council to recommend that a sum of £5OO be pre sented to him by the society. The honorary secretaries have also resigned their offices, and are entitled to the thanks of the meeting for their valuable and gratuitous labours. The council in reconstructing the administrative arrange ments of the society, have, after mature deliberation, decided to recommend the following changes, viz. : That in place of three honorary secretaries there shall be, besides the foreign secretary, two secretaries, who, by virtue of their office, shall be members of the council and of all committees appointed by the council, and who shall have authority over all the salaried officers of the society That a foreign secretary be appointed, who shall also be an ex officio member of the council, and whose duties shall be similar to those of the honorary foreign secretary under officer, resident at the society's apartments, be appointed, e ot a hn i e s ot t ha i n n ue g tbohl ie edm g in u i la gate tion. That an assistant -secretary, a salaried who shall be editor of the society's publications ; have c harge, under the secretaries, of the property of the society LYNCH, ttine repOrt was received and adopted. ruotio n;(3 officers edr Admirals and exercise s er vii a aen g ‘tv e s nLaEefreat:l secondedsup society.ery supervision i o h n y o m ve r r . of T th h e e A numberthenenrolled of gentlemen wereSPocßieEtySll:TUasualaidyte been read over 'uy the their uchers for chairman. thing was to present the neat b a th s tvmhemavibenrgs Victoria Goid Medal to Mr. John Arrowsmith. He looked round in vain for that gentleman ; but probably he was too modest a man, notwithstanding his great merits, as every geographer was aware—(cheers) —to receive the medal in person. Mr. Arrowsmith had told him that he did not think lie was as worthy as several other persons; but he (the chairman) did not agree in that opinion. But he would now state what he would have said if Mr. Arrowsmith had been present, namely, that it was with the sincerest pleasure that he placed the Victoria Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in hands which for so many years had been success fully employed in the construction of maps which had done honour to this country, and had been of great assistance to geographers in all parts of the world. The President next announced the Founder's Gold Medal, which had been awarded to Mr. Frank Gregory, and said, but that it happened to be the Whitsuntide holidays, when states men were out of town, he was sure they would have been honoured by the presence of the Duke of Newcastle, who would have presented this medal. The Under-Secretary, who had been in some degree instrumental in the Austra lian expedition, would also be present but for engagements which took him out of town. He would, however, hand over the medal to the carp of Mr. Spottiswoode for safe transmission to Mr. Frank Gregory, for his successful ex plorations in Western Australia, a region which until then had been a terra incognita. (Cheers.) Mr. SPOTTISWOODE took charge of the medal, and pro mised to forward it with all due care and despatch to Mr. Gregory. The PRESIDENT next referred to the distinguished names the society had lost, both foreign and home members. Among those of home he pronounced panegyrics on the late Lord Lansdowne, the late Viceroy of Egypt, Sir G. Lewis, and Lord Giffard. He stated, in the course of his remarks, that it was mainly owing to the assistance he had received from the late Marquis that he had been enabled to make his examination of the rocks of the Ural mountains ; and that, as a Scotchman, he felt proud of Dugald Stewart having been the instructor of three such statesmen as Lansdowne, Palmerston,and Russell. (Cheers.) Of the late SirG. Lewis he related the anecdote that it was to his suggestion, when young Mr. Lewis, he was principally indebted for having arranged and published in a separate volume his examina tion of the Silurian Rocks. The PRESIDENT then read his address to the society, in which he reviewed the progress made by geography during the past year, referring especially to the discovery of the White Nile by Captains Speke and Grant, who had accom plished what had baffled Julius Caesar and the ancient Romans. The address entered with great minuteness into what had been done from the days of Herodotus to the pre sent time, when the problem of ages had been solved, to the great honour of this country. A few weeks only, said Sir Roderick, have elapsed since our hearts were op pressed with the apprehensions respecting the Eastern Af rican expedition under Speke and Grant, and by the ru moured death of Consul Petherick, who was en route to meet and aid those travellers. I could then scarcely ven ture to think of touching upon African exploration in my approaching anniversary address, so great were my fears respecting the enterprise to which, as geographers, we at. tached so much, importance. Our last accounts from Speke and Grant made known to us their position at Kazeh, far to the south of the Lake Victoria Nyanza, on Sept. 30, 1861. They had then, after great delays, just emerged from tribes at variance with each other, and had been deserted by many of their porters; while, to complete our depression, a tele gram from Alexandria announced that Petherick, after the loss of his stores, had perished in passing to the west of the White Nile. What then was our joy when, after a long and painful interval of suspense, a first telegram from Alex andria gave us the glorious news that Speke and party had reached Khartum ; whilst a second, speedily following, conveyed from Speke to myself the pithy words, "The Nile is settled 1" Then came the cheering intelligence that Petherick was not only alive, but had actually joined Speke and Grant at Gondokoro, on Feb. 30 last ; and, lastly, we have since been furnished with the journal of the travellers and a map of the region they explored, illustrated by the determination of many paints of latitude and longitude in regions hitherto quite unknown. Whatever might be our recent forebodings respecting the success of the explorers from the east and south, who had met with obstacles un known to Barton and Speke in their former traverse of that central region, I never gave up the hope that, like many a previous African traveller supposed to be dead, Consul Petherick would be restored to life. Owing, however, to his disasters on the White Nile, and the loss of his stores, our envoy, Mr. Petherick, who had been liberally supplied with money from us with a view to succour Speke and Grant when they were endeavouring to get through a tract where we apprehended that their greatest difficulties would occur, could afford them no important assistance when he joined them at Gondokoro, This is the place, as you will recollect, to beyond which tho Dubel ladies reached in their steamer, and had our travellers arrived there some weeks earlier they would, doubtless, have not only been well cared for by these adventurous ladies, but would have been so rapidly carried down by stream to Khartum, that long before now we should have had them among us. Real and substantial succour had, how ever, before Petherick's arrival from his ivory station, been brought to the expedition by that gallant, devoted, and en terprising explorer Mr. Samuel Baker, who, having heard of Petherick's disasters, had fitted out at his own cost a separate expedition, in which be was determined, if he could not relieve our explorers, at all events to try to follow the White Nile to its real sources, Mr. Baker, distinguished formerly by his exploits in Ceylon, and in the preceaing season by his researches in the districts north of Abyssinia, and by defining the position and peculiar hydrographical conditions of several effluents of the River Atbara, previ ously quite misapprehended by geographers, had made up his mind to pass the equator in his southward search after the missing travellers. Pursuing his route to Gondokoro, he was the first to meet the long absent parties, and supply them with money, provisions, and boats. The cordial thanks of our council have naturally been voted to Mr. Samuel Baker for his noble conduct ; and, as he has now gone off to the south-west in the hope of tracing the extent of the lake on the west, l a id down by Speke in his map as the Lut a Nzigi, intending to devote a year to this enterprise, we may confidently hope for a satisfactory solution of this collateral question as to a great feeder of the White Nile in a higher latitude. Let it also be recollected that Mr. Baker is not merely a daring explorer, a good naturalist, and a first-rate sportsman, but is also a good geographer, having already made, as I learn from a letter addressed to his friend Admi ral Murray, numerous astronomical observations to fix the positions of rivers and places. But whatever may be in store as to future discoveries, let us, in the meantime, dwell with delight on the grand achievement of Speke and Grant, who by traversing a region never previously approached by any civilised person, have solved the problem of ages, and have determined that the great freshwater Lake Victoria Nyanza whose southern watershed extends to nearly 4 deg. south of the Equator, is the reservoir from which the sacred Bahr al-Abiad, or White Nile, mainly descends to Gondokoro, and thence by Khartum into Egypt. The Presi dent also pointed to what had been done in Africa by Dr. Livingstone and others, and congratulated the Society on the fact, that it was now proved that the interior of Africa was not the mountainous barren desert which had been supposed. He next turned to Australia, and described the labours of the men who had explored that country, and concluded an elaborate and eloquent ad dress by presenting the watches which had been awarded by the society. Mr. LANDSBOROUGH returned thanks on his own behalf. Mr. Middleton, who had been engaged in the exploration, took charge of one of the watches for his superior officer, The PRESIDENT then read a paper, exhibiting extensive research on the glacial drift deposits, in the course of which he entered into theoretical speculations about the glacial condition of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in a former geological period. On the motion of Sir G. BACK, it was agreed that the President's address be printed and circulated ; and that the thanks of the meeting be given to him. The scrutineers then declared the result of the ballot for supplying the vacant places in the council, after which the proceedings terminated. The proceedings of the morning were followed up in the vening by a banquet given at Willis's Rooms, to a com pany numbering over 160—Sir R. Murchison again presid ing—and among the most distinguished of those present were the Comte de Paris, Count Reventlow, the Danish Ambassador, the Persian Ambassador, the Earl of Sheffield, Sir H Rawlinson, the Right Hon. S. Walpole, M,P.. Sir John Rennie, C.E., Count Strzelecki, Col. Sykes, M.P., and Mr. Fairbairn, late president of the society. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing "The Health of the Queen, the patron of the society," pointed to the strong sympathy which her Majesty had evinced towards the society in edu cating her children to admire the science of geography. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next gave "The Health of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Dineen of Wales, and the other members of the Royal family," and in doing so said—When he had the honour of presiding over the geographical sec tion of the British Association, in 1858, he referred to those travels which his Royal Highness was then about to com mence. His Royal Highness was then about to start upon his travels over the vast regions of North America—a coun try the physical geography of which was so remarkable. But he had since visited other countries—he had visited Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Greece ; and therefore it must be unanimously admitted that his Royal Highness had won his spurs as a vice-patron of the Geographical Society. (Loud cheers.) But they would the more heartily respond to the toast when ho reminded them that his Royal High ness had attracted to our shores that charming Danish Princess who had so won the hearts of all Englishmen. (Enthusiastic cheers.) And that burst of applause testified far more c h aracter i stically— far more significantly—than any words o f hi s, how f erve ntly, how unitedly, Englishmen would uphold th e small b ut ga ll a nt and independent king dom of Den mar k . (Cheers.) Th en , nee d he allude to Prince Alfred's el a i ms upon the G eogra phical Society ? Prince Alfred was an a d m i ra bl e sa il or , but he was also an admir able traveller ; and how admirable a climber he was he proved when he planted the Union Jack upon the peak of Ten eriffe. (Cheers.) The next toast on the list was " The Army and Navy," , which was responded to by General M'Arthur and Admiral Collinson. The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of the distin guished foreigners Who had that day honoured the society r with their presence; and he would especially refer to the three distinguished individuals who sat near him. In the first place, he must allude to his Royal Highness the Comte de Paris. (Loud cheers.) It was within his know ledge that that illusdrious prince had profited as much as it was possible for him to do by the attentive cultiva tion of scientific pursuits since his coming to this country. He might well say that he spoke with personal knowledge of the fact, for, is the department of science over which he (the chairman) unworthily presided, his Royal Highness was one of his pupils. (Cheers.) His Royal Highness had also studied under Professor Hoffman as a chemist—not theoretically but practically ; for he had worked in the labo ratory, and at the professor's table in a manner that earned for him a well-merited distinction. (Cheers.) But his Royal Highness was also a great traveller. He had tra velled over vast regions of America—a country in which he had displayed the most distinguished valour. He had tra velled through Syria and various parts of Europe ; and, lastly, in order to entitle him to the sympathies of the corn pans, he might mention that his Royal Highness had that evening intimated his desire to become a member of the society. (Loud cheers.) Then turning farther to his right, he might observe, with respect to his Excellency the Per sian Ambassador, that he felt sure his excellency would re cognise how powerful would be the influence of the Geo graphical society to define the boundaries between Persia and Turkey without the intervention of war. (Cheers.) On his left hand was seated his Excellency the Danish Mini ster, who might gather from the proceedings of that evening how strong a feeling was cherished by the. people of Eng land towards that country which had sent them so charm ing a princess. (Loud cheers.) In conclusion the chairman stated that his Royal Highness the Comte de Paris had requested him to call upon his Excellency the Danish Minister to respond to the toast. However, there being loud calls for his Royal High ness, The COMTE DE PARIS said—Sir Roderick Murchison, I am really quite unprepared to respond to the toast which you have so enthusiastically received on behalf of the seve ral very distinguished gentlemen whom I see around me. Still, I cannot avoid expressing how much pleasure I feel at being permitted to take part in the proceedings of so distin guished an assembly. (Loud cheers.) His Exceilency the DANISH MINISTER begged to return thanks for the kind manner in which allusion had made to the kingdom of Denmark. He could assure the company that there were no people in the world who more thoroughly reciprocated the good will of England than the people of Denmark. (Cheers.) They admire the greatness of the English nation, and the greatness of the political system under which the people lived. But if much of the greatness of England was due to the individual characteristics of the people, much also was due to the favourable development which those characteristics received from her geographical position. As for his own country, his only regret was that Denmark was peninsular and not insular. (Laughter and cheers.) There being next loud calls for the Persian Ambassador, His EXCELLENCY returned thanks in a short speech, which was interpreted to the company by Sir H. Rawlin • son. His Excellency expressed his great regret that he was unable to speak to the toast in English ; but as he had already made some progress in mastering the French lan guage, he hoped before his term of office had expired, not only to become acquainted with the English language, but to be able to qualify himself to take part in the discussions of the Geographical Society. The CHAIRMAN then gave "The House of Lords and Commons." The Right Hon. S. WALPOLE, M.P., responded on be half of the House of Commons, and gave in reply the chairman's health, which was received with loud ap plause. Several other toasts followed, the company separating al a late hour. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—The Confederate laurels won on the field of Chancellorsville must be twined with the cypress, Probably no disaster of the war will have carried such grief to the Southern hearts as the death of General Jackson, who has succumbed to the wounds received in the great battle of the 3d of May. Even on this side of the ocean the gallant soldier's fate will everywhere be heard of with pity and sympathy, Not only as a brave man fighting for his country's independence, but as one of the most consummate Generals that this century has produced, " Stonewall" Jackson will carry with him to his early grave the regrets of all who can admire greatness and genius. From the earliest days of the war he has been conspicuous for the most remarkable milita r y qualities. That mixture of daring an d j u d gment w hi c h is the mark of heaven-born Generals distinguished him beyond any man of his time. Although the young Con federacy has bean illustrated by a number of emi nent soldiers, yet the applause and devotion of his countrymen, confirmed by the judgment of Euro pean nations, have given the first place to General Jackson. The military feats he accomplished moved the minds of people with an astonishment which it is on'y given to the highest genius to produce. The blows he struck at the enemy were as terrible and decisive as those of Bonaparte himself. The march by which he surprised the army of Pope last year would be enough in itself to give him a high place in military history. But perhaps the crown ing glory of his life was the great battle in which he fell. When the Federal Commander, by cross ing the river twelve miles above his camp, and pressing on, as he thought, to the rear of the Con federates, had placed them between two bodies of his army, he was so confident of success as to boast that the enemy was the property of the Army of the Potomac. It was reserved to Jackson by a swift and secret march to fall upon his right wing, crush it, and, by an attack unsurpassed in fierceness and pertinacity, to drive his very superior forces back into a p os iti on f rom w hi c h h e cou ld not extri cate himself except by flight across the river. In the bat 4 le of the Sunday Jackson received two wounds, one in the l e ft arm, the other in the right hand. Amputation of the arm was necessary, and the Southern hero sank under the effects of it. He was only 38 years old, and was known before the war as a a man of simple and noble character,and of strong religious faith. Of the battles little more is told by the telegraph. It appears, however, that they were as fatal to the Federals as the most gloomy thinkers foreboded. Not even the great battles of last autumn so much diminished the Army of the Potomac as the three days' fighting on the Rappahannock. Hooker had considerably more than 100,000 men in all, and these were defeated with the loss of 8,000 prisoners and 30 pieces of artillery. The number of killed and wounded we can only know approximately. Bat if Sedgwick's corps lost 5,000 men, we may conclude that the main body, which had been previously so beaten as to be obliged to leave its wounded on the field of battle, must have been diminished by very many thousands. The Southerners, in fact, admit that their own loss was from 8,000 to 10,000 men, and we may therefore conclude that the enemy can hardly have lost leas than twice that number. - As a general rule it is useless, as well as painful, to speculate on the extent of a bygone slaughter ; but the attitude of the Federal Government and the braggart nature of Gen. Ho o k er ma k e i t necessary to recur to the subject, and point out not only the completeness but also the calamitous nature of the defeat. If anything were wanted to set off the mo dest courage and self-contained purpose of the Con federate Generals, it would be the boasting of the beaten Commander. When a General fails there is in men's minds no wish to exult over him, however hostile they may be to his cause. Even Gen. Hooker, who, more than any of his Federal predecessors, has laid himself open to sneers by the style of his procla mations previous to the battle, as well as by his for mer unsoldierlike calumniation of his superiors,might be spared if he did not actually persist in inviting our contempt. But what can be said of a man who, having escaped in the night from an enemy who less than a week before he had described as his army's property, publishes, as soon as he gets back, such an address as that which may be read in our columns to-day P If this document were re ceived without authentication it might pass for a hoax of soma one who desired to ridicule the Fede ral commander and his style. Certainly carica ture could go no further than this—" In with drawing from the south bank of the Rappahannock before delivering a general battle to our adversaries the army has given ren ewe d ev id ence of its confi dence initself and its fidelity to the principles it represents. By fighting at a disadvantage we i would have been recreant to our trust, to ourselves, to our cause, and to our co un t ry . P ro f oundly 'loyal, and conscious of its strength, the army of the Potomac will give or decline battle whenever its interest or honour may command lit. " The soul of Bob a dil must certainly have migretted into the unborn Federal Commander. The idea of an army dec am pi ng in the night, leaving all its wounded in the hands of the enemy, out of " confi dence in itself" and " fidelity to the principles it represents," is something that has hardly yet been conceived by the European mind. The ill-disposed might, however, take a fancy to say that the General has a just appreciation of his army's "principles," and that retiring in haste before the enemy " from prudential motives," and executing masterly retro grade movements for strategical reasons, are among the most undeviating traditions of the service. But still facts must be to some extent regarded even at Federal headquarters, and we should therefore like to know what General Hooker means by saying that he withdrew " before delivering a general battle to oar adversaries." Does be hope to persuade that part of the army which he brought back that they have been executing a simple re connaissance, and have been engaged only in one or two unimportant skirmishes P Is a gap of 20,000 men or more to escape observation in that highly confident and well-principled host ? It is wonder ful that a man in any country should have attained the position of General Hooker, and commanded 100,000 men in the field, without being sufficiently gifted with common sense to know that such ridiculous manifestoes are just what most disgusts and alienates the soldier. These men, who were led on a desperate enterprise by their commander, — who were divided into two bodies and p issed across a river with 12 miles of country between them, — these men, who were kept fighting two days against a powerful enemy, and driven back in a conflict which cost the victors some 10,000 men,—this army, which feels itself so broken as to be un able to renew the campaign, is told that the encounters it has had with the enemy are not a general battle. It can only abase the commander in the eyes of his troops when they find that he so little appreciates the disaster into which be has led them. Nor can they fail to reflect that the events of the preceding week are a singular commentary on " the Army of the Potomac will give or decline battle whenever its interest or honour may demand it." They will ask whether the interest or the honour of the army was consulted at Chancellors ville when General Hooker, perhaps unwillingly, " gave" battle, whether he chooses to call it a gene ral battle or not? Who also is responsible for the fact that to have fought again insteal of retreating would have been to fight at a disadvantage ? As to the "celerity and secresy of our movements," so far as it refers to the advance, it is untrue; so far as it refers to the retreat, it is a ludicrous piece of boasting. That a General who has just been totally defeated within a week of crossing should presume to say that "our advance and the passage of the river were undisturbed," is absurd enough ; but it is equalled by the assertion that " on our withdrawal not a rebel dared to follow us," made by a General who hurried back his troops in the darkness of night over bridges strewed with pine boughs. We cannot but think that the army will show that it has had enough of " Fighting" Joe Hooker. A. General cannot with impunity make his soldiers blush for themselves arid him. Such a proclamation as this must have made their defeat doubly bitter. POST.—The recent victory of the Confederates at Chancellorsvillis has been purchased at a very heavy price. " Stonewall" Jackson is now reckoned amongst the slain. He was shot in both arms, one • of which was afterwards amputated below the shoulder, and under the effects of that operation he subsequently sank. If ever the loss of a general on L the field of battle could be considered as irreparable, it might be regarded in the present instance. On oee occasion during th e summer campa i gn i n Vir ginia of last year, President Lincoln, when speak ' ing of the Confederate army, estimated its numeri cal strength at 30,000 men more than it was known to possess. When his attention was directed to the apparent discrepancy, ha said, " I consider ' Stone wall' Jackson alone to be equal to a force of 30,000 men." This is the testimony of an opponent, and, although overstrained, Mr. Lincoln only paid a just tribute to one of the boldest, moat skilful, and most successful of the Southern generals. Jackson, un • like many others, more especially in the Northern armies, holding the same rank, was a soldier from his youth, and, if we mistake not, received his edu cation at the military college at West Point. Im mediately after the secession of the Southern States, and when their newly-elected President was busily engaged in organising their first army, Jackson placed his sword at his service, and was shortly afterwards entrusted with an important comm an d. It was not, however, until the commencement of the summer campaign of 1862 that opportunities presented themselves for the exercise of his strategic powers. From that time to the present his history is that of the war in Virginia. His first and most important successes were achieved in the Shenan doah Valley, when by a series of rapid marches he managed to surprise General Banks at Winchester and compelled to cross the Potomac in Mary land. Frequent were the raids which he conducted within the Federal lines, and so rapid were his movements that to his perplexed opponents he might well seem übiquitous. When the lines at Yorktown were abandoned and M'Ciellan's army had taken up its position within a few miles of Richmond, General Jackson returned from his expedition into Northern Virginia and joined his forces to those which, under the command of Lee, covered the approaches to the Confederate capital. Soon after was fought the celebrated battle of the Chickahominy, when Jackson led the Confederate columns against the right wing of the Federal army, doubled it completely back upon its centre, cut off the line of communication between the Fede rals and their depots and transports on the York River, forced M'Clellan to change the base of his operations, and ultimately to re-embark with his entire army and return to Washington. A few weeks later was fought the campaign in Northern Virginia, in which the Federal army, under the leadership of Pope, sustained so many and ao disas trous defeats. The series of movements by which the Confederates drove their opponents back from their lines on the Rappahannock, and subsequently all but completely annihilated them at Bull Run, will always command the admiration of military commentators on the history of the American war. To the success which attended those operations, General Jackson's skill and intrepidity contributed in no small degree. Though subordinate to Lee, he at this time, as on many others, held an indepen dent command, and by forced marches succeeded in placing the Federal army between his division and the main body of the Confederate forces. When Pope, with the remnant of his army, sought shelter under the fortifications of Washington, the Confe derate Generals, flushed with success, crossed the Potomac and invaded Maryland. Lee, with the main body of the army, pushed forward as far as the bor bers of Pennsylvania, whilst Jackson proceed e d t o invest the Federal position at Harper's Ferry. Here he gained one of the most brilliant, if not most sub stantial, of the many successes which have shed such lustre on his name. Harper's Ferry was held by a Federal garrison, and was strongly fortified. Having taken by assault the heights on the north side of the Potomac, which commanded the Federal position, he bombarded it until the garrison were fain to sur render, and, having occupied the place and parolled no less than eleven thousand prisoners of war, he re joined General Lee in time to take part in the great battle of Antietam Creek, which closed the brief Maryland campaign. Since then he took part in the only two engagements which have been fought in Virginia. At the first battle of Fredericksburg his division, in common with others, defended the en trenchments which had been constructed in the rear of that city, and in the recent battle of Chancellors ville to him was entrusted (as it was a year since at the Chickahominy) the duty of conducting the at tack against the Federal lines. Hew successful he was the present position of the Northern army abundantly testifies. His last battle has, however, been fought. He has &Len in the arms of victory, but not of decisive victory, for to his brothers in arms he has left much still to do. If anything can embitter the feelings of regret occasioned by his loss in the minds of his fellow-soldiers, it will be the impression that has gained ground that his death was accidental. It is said that whilst leading his men he was unintentionally struck by two bullets fired from his own division. In the confusion of battle such accidents will occur. The Confederates have been fortunate in their generals, and we are justified in hoping that hie place will be fittingly filled. But though his place may be occupied by as good a general (although that is doubtful) his successor can never expect to secure the same popu larity or to emulate his deeds. Of " Stonewall" Jackson it may with truth be said that he died too soon for his country, but net too soon for his fame. HERALD.—In a merely military point of view the defeat of General Hooker is not, perhaps, to be ranked amongst the heaviest disasters which the North has sustained. The loss of men is very great, no doubt; the disgrace and discomfiture are very complete ; and considerable apprehension appears to be felt lest the enemy should push his advantage so far as to endanger the safety of Washington. But if, as seems probable, this last alarm should prove to be groundless, and matters should remain much as they are until the beaten army is quietly withdrawn into safer quarters, then we think that, so far as its actual effects on the fortunes of the campaign are concerned, the blow may be less severe than others which the North has heretofore had to endure. The victors have probably suffered considerable loss, and their losses signify far more than those sustained by the vanquished. The South gives her best blood to the cause for which she is fighting ; a large part at least of the Northern army—and, if report speak true, the part which is made to bear the brunt of battle—consists of the lower class of foreign immigrants and city rowdies, ten thousand of whom can be better spared than one regiment of the splendid troops of the Confede racy. The death of Stonewall Jackson is in itself a blow that will be felt throughout the Confederacy as second only to a great and irretrievable disaster. It is true that the defeat of Hooker must be consi dered to have finally settled, for all sane men, the question of an advance on Richmond from the north. That question ought to have been held as settled after the first battle of Fredericksburg, and the re cent frightful sacrifice of life must be attributed to the perverse credulity of the Northern people, the weakness of the Government, and the disgraceful mendacity and reckless ambition of the unprinci pled officer whom it pleased the President to entrust with the command of which M'Clellan and Burn side were deemed unworthy. It may be thought, however, that a disaster which shall cure the Fede ral Government of campaigning in North-Eastern . Virginia may be ultimately better for theirage cause them than a success which might ha ve encourd to persevere in their original policy. That country is about the worst seat of war that the North could have chosen. It is well suited to the operations of the Confederates, who are fighting with inferior numbers of excellent troops, merely with a view to render impossible the advance of an enemy who has every advantage which numbers, artillery, and ma terial resources can give, for it abounds in defensive positions of great strength, and in lines of comsau nication which enable the defenders rapidly to con centrate their strength where it may be most needed. It is peculiarly unfavourable to the Federals ; for its climate renders the trans port of heaxy artillery at some seasons simply impossible, while the absence of great navigable rivers deprives them of the assistance of those gunboats in whose absence they have never won a victory. They are thus brought into the field under circumstances which render the two best arms of their service powerless. Nor do we think the object of the war in EisternVirginia was of sufficient importance to justify a contest at such disadvantage. The fall of Richmond would have humiliated and discourages the Confederates; it would have postponed indefinitely the recognition of the Government by foreign powers ; but it would not have seriously affected their means of military resistance, even in Virginia itself, and therefore it would not have exercised any great effect on the issue of a war which, from its very nature, can never be ended except by the withdrawal of the invaders or the total prostration of the assailed. Jefferson Davis is reported to have said that the war could be maintained for 20 years in Virginia itself after the loss of the capital. And whether this phrase were used by the President or not, it represents the feeling of the South, and probably the actual condition of affairs, Charleston, the great Atlantic seaport of the South, and the cradle of secession—Vicksburg, the key of the Mississippi, endeared to the Confederacy by its long and obsti nate defence—are of as much value in point of mili tary importance, and of almost as much value in point of honour, as the city which has been made the seat of the Confederate Government mainly be cause it happened to be the capital of the Old Dominion. If, therefore, the defeat of General Hooker should lead the Federal Government to turn their thoughts elsewhere, and abandon the vain idea of crushing the rebellion by the capture of Rich mond, in order to concentrate their forces for more practicable and more useful efforts, it may have the effect of saving them from an overwhelming disas ter in Virginia—which might terminate the war at a blow—and of enabling them to press the Confede rates bard in quarters where their power of inflict ing injury may be greater and more formidable. We can hardly conceive it possible—although the conduct of the war on the part of the North has savoured of an utter incapacity to profit by warning or to learn by experience—that any further attempt will be made to prosecute their favourite designs on Richmond. COUNTRY MARKETS. GLOUCESTER-MAY 23. To-day there was a fair supply of English wheat from the farmers, which sold freely at the prices of last week. Foreign wheat in good demand, at former rates. Spring corn much the same as last week. COLCHESTER-MAT 23. At this corn exchange to-day there was a small show of grain, with a firm trade. Beans and peas unchanged in value. Wheat, white. 46s 56s Beans,Mazagan..3os 33s red 42s 52s middle & small.3E, 42s Barley —s —s Peas, white 40s 42s Oats CHELMSFORD-MAY 22. We have to report a dull demand for English grain to day, at prices by no means firm, especially inferior kinds, which had a downward tendency. Spring corn firm, at late rates, but sales slow. Wheat, old white 30s 53s new 34s 50s old red 36s 48s new 348 458 Barley ass 36s Chevalier 2Bs 40s Grinding 22s 31s Malt. 6ls 67s Chevalier . 64s 69s Oats 20s 28s Peas, Partridge 37s 405 White 39s 405 Boiling 4os 430 Dun 353 38 0 Ditto new —3 --a Beans, Tick, old 343 31 Harrow w :fr: e Mazagan 3os 3D' KIRKCALDY GRAIN--MAY 23. We had small supplies of all descriptions of grain, with a ready sale, and prices were fully as dear as last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....3Bs Od 25s Od I 24s Odi Second ..41s Od 26s Od 26s Od Third....—s Od —s Od —s Od COAL X Prices of Coal per Ton a a. d. ARKET. the close of the market. E. Lambert's West Hart- Walls End. ley North Pelton Ga 5..... 11 l6 6 0 6 Haswell 00l .. .. l6 9 6 Wylam 16 0 i Trimdon Hartlepool...l6 , Carway and Duffryn lEast Hartlepool ...... 16 u Malting . 19 6 ; South Hartlepool.... •• 15 3 Eden Main '. 15 0 Hetton ........... l6 9 15 0 i T u nstall Davison's West Hart- ! Heugh Hall .......... 15 6 ley 15 0' Ii elloe •• •• 1,15 9 i . .. Buddle'sWest Hartley Hastings Hartley ....15 0 South Kelloe . Holywell l6 01 ißussel's Hetton ...... 15 3 Byass's Helmick) West ISouth Hetton 16 9 6 Hartley ...15 0 Braddyll's Hetton 15 p Tar.field Moor 13 6 Riddell. ... ..... I' , 9 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Wharncliffe l4 3 West Wylam.. ..... ..15 6 J ames l4 6 Cowpen Hartley 15 0, Belmont Walker Primrose 13 0 Caradoc l6 Ships at market, 140 ; sold, 78. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. A.unralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. June 1 8 ' via Marseilles June 12. Jrazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. June 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. llelena., May 29 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southanipton.J tine 2. via Marseilles May 28 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 2. -- via Marseilles May 28. India (Bombay), via Southampton June 10. via Marseilles June 5. Portuga1.... Dlalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 2. via Marseilles ..May '2B. Newfoundland ..May 27- Oporto aLd Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... May 27. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. May —. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerille June PI Bahamas, via New York June 4. Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 may .. 9 9• California. and British Columbia.. MYNN'S TOMB.—The tomb of Alfred Mynn is now erected in the churchyard of Thurnham near Maidstone. It bears the followinginscription, which tells ito own tale so well as to require no comment of ours:-- ,, Be neath this stone are deposited the remains of Alfred Mynn, son of William and Ann Mynn, of Twisden Lodge, Goud hurst, in the county of Kent, where he was born on the 19th day of January, 1807. He died at 22, Merrick-square, London, on the Ist day of November, 1861. His kindnes o of heart and generosity of disposition during many years of , public life as the champion of English cricketers endeared him to a large elide of admiring friends. His wide-spread popularity is attested by the circumstance that 400 persons have united to erect this tombstone, and to found, in honour of a name so celebrated, " The Mynn Memorial Benevo• lent Institution for Kentish Cricketers.' A sum of £121165 , has accordingly been invested in India 5 per Cent. stock for the benefit in perpetuity of the objects of the above-named charity."—Surrey Standard. 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HENNmEn.—On the 23d inst„ at Leinster•square, tof wife of Aldborough Henniker, Esq., barrister-at-10, a son. WHITING.—On the 25th in s t., a t Cli n t on Vill a , Midi '00 la' road, Mrs. George Whiting, of a son. Marriages. Vat , BETTY—MEDLYC OTT .—O n th e 23d i ns t , a t Milborrle: rt il. Somerset, Joshua Frederick Betty. Captain Royal ism lery, to Sarah Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir vy " Coles Medlycott, Bart., of Ven, Somerset. T ling' BnEx—WATSON.—O n th e 23d inst., at St. Mary's , - 9 ,0 v. ton, J. G. Brea, E sq ., o f L ee d s, to Harriett, oillY twig' ter of William W a t son , E sq., o f C o lb roo k e -row, ton. Deaths. , er, BEAUCLERK.— On th e 23d i ns t., a t B ou logne -oi ' late Charles Willi am B eauc l er k , E sq , e ld es t s on of the v. Right Hon. and R ev . L or d F re d er i c k Beauclerk, Vr . DIBIOND.—On the 23d i ns t., a t S ou thampton, Ed ward Dimond, Esq., aged 71. Thoros GURNEY..—On the 23d inst ,at Brixton -hi '' , Gurne3, Esq., aged 52. . " 'la arlOrt HASELFOOT.—On the 23d inst., at Boreh am Chelmsford, Charles Haslefoot, Esq., aged 82 ' fi r° ' JORNSTONE.—On the 24th inst. Georgiana Emily, youngest daughter of Sir .1' LECONTIELD. Johnstone, Barr., M. r. .. P. place, the On the 23d inst., at 4 , Gro sveno Lady Lecoufield , in Grosvcnoo,r-roti. v. ----------- London : Printed and Published by WILLIAOANDI:Tn3 of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at Tuz Surf °ace, t", -of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in t he Co a Middlesex.—TuesdaY , May 26, 1863.