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' SEA.--MIDSHIPMEN required for splendid KJ ships for Australia and India. Premium, 50 to 60 guineas, may be paid in two instalments. Apprentices also Ayanted, with and without premium.—Apply to W. Suther land, ship and passage broker, 11, Fenchurch-buildings, by 107, Fenchurch-street. Established 1851. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY-ADDITIONAL TRAINS.—On and after MONDAY, Ist June, the Trains in each direction will be CONSIDERABLY IN CREASED, for the particulars of which see the Time Tables. Season Tickets are now issued, the terms for which may be had on application to the superintendent, Bishop's• road. R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Royal Exchange, London, 2Sth May, 1863. The COURT of DIRECTORS of t'- , e Corporation of the ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE Do hereby dive Notice, that theft Transfer Books will be shut from THURSDAY, the 11th of ,Tune next, to THURS ()AY, the 2d of July fol lowing; and that a General Court of the said Corporation will be holden at their Cffice at the Royal Exchange, on WEDNESDAY, the 17th of June, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, to consider of a Dividend. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. THE ONLY OFFICE WHOSE BONDS AND POLICIES OF QUA ' RANTER ARE ACCEPTED BY THE TREASURY, CUSTOMS, INLAND REVENUE, GENERAL POST• OFFICE, WAR, ADMI• BALTIC, HOME, COLONIAL, INDIA,,AND OTHER GOVERN MENT DEPARTMENTS. , MAHE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. HENRY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman, • John Cheetham, Esq., St a lybridg,,. John Field, Esq., Warnford Court, City. Charles Forster, Esq., M.P. for Walsall. Richard Francis George, Esq , Bath. Henry H. Harrison, Esq., Hamilton-place, St. John's-wood. Thomas C. Hayward, Esq., Maeda and Highbury. John Hedgine, Esq., Cavendish Club. James Edward 141`connell, Esq., Wolverton. C, W. Reynolds, Esq., Eaton-place, Belgravia. Richard Spooner, Esq., late her Majesty's Commissioner of Customs, Bombay. H. Wickham Wickham, Esq., M.P. for Bradford. Thom as Winkworth, E sq , Gresham Club, and Canonbury. J. P. Brown-Westhe a d, Esq. M.P. for York. Pek7ll7l ja , provided in approved eases for Oflicera of Part)t . ! ,11 Uoinmerisial EstabrishMeuts, Public Companies, pal Corporations, and for other places of trust. Life Assurance may be combined with Guarantee on ad vantageous terms. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, and every information may be obtained from the Chief Offices, 2, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London; and 39, George-street, Edinburgh. WESTERN MANCHESTER and LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY. Established 1842. Chief Offices-3, Parliament-street, London, and 77, Bing-street, Manchester. AcTuAny—Arthur Scratchley, Esq., M.A. SPECIMENS OF BOND'S ALLOTTED. —E. G. has paid £ lB3 i ts. 3d. in Premiums towards his Policy for £1,500 ; £lO6 12s. ld. Bonus has already (1860) been all o tt e d to hi m. R. S. has paid £7 Os. in Premiums towards his Policy for E; £6 25. 11d. Bonus has a l rea d y (1860) been allotted to ANNUITIES AND ENDOWMENTS GRANTED. Fun Prospectuses, Proposals, and every information may be obtained from the Actuary in London, the Local Secretary in Manchester, or any of the Society's Agents. AGENCY DEPARTMENT. This Society, always desirous of extending its operations and connections, offers to influential residents in the towns and villages of the United Kingdom liberal allowances on business which they may be a bl e to introduce. The services of Soil citors, Medical Men, Surveyors, Auctioneers, or Tradesmen of good local standing, are invited in the capacity of Pri vate or Public Agents. All applications to the Offices are treat,,d as confidential. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, AhrAanacks, &a, forwarded post free. THE PERTUSOLA LEAD MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, with Limited Liability. Capital £250,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each. Deposit on application, £1 per share, and on allotment a further payment of £2 per share. Calls not to exceed £2 per share, at intervals of three months. DI RECTORS. Charles Bell, Esq. (Messrs. J. Thomson, T. Bonar, and Co.) James H. Enthoven, Esq. (Messrs. H. J. Enthoven and Sons). John P. Judd, Esq. (Messrs. Nathaniel Johnston and Sons). John Orred, Esq., Ashwicke H a ll , Gl ouces t ers hi re. Edmund A. Pontifex Esq (Messrs. Pontifex and Wood). John 1 aylor, E sq. Richard Taylor, Esq. Messrs. John Taylor and Sons. BANKERS. Messrs. Barnett, Hoares, and Co., London. Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool. SOLICITORS —Messrs. John and William Galsworthy, 12, Old Jewry-chambers. BROKERS—Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Angel court, Throgmorton• street. MANAGERS—Messrs. John Taylor and Sons, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT IN ITALY—Mr. Geo. Henfrey. SECRETARY—Mr. W. G. Williams. Offices-6, Queen-street-place, London. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company has been duly registered with limited lia bility. Its object is the purchase of a large interest in the cele brated lead mines of Monteponi, in the Inland of Sardinia, together with the extensive lead smelting establishment of Pertusola and the Sarzanello Coal Mine in the Gulf of Spezz. The purchase-money for these properties (including eleven twelfths of the Monteponi Mine), plant, engines, (te , is £150,000, and It is estimated that £50,000 will be required as floating capital, so that in fixing the nominal capi al at £?50,000, a margin of £50.0011s lett to enable the Company to take advantage of such opportunities as may present them selves of extending their interest in Italian mines. This undertaking differs essentially in its nature from ordi nary mining enterprises. Its canital being invested in the purchase of mines and works, which are in full operation, and yielding very large returns. Full prospectuses with forms of application for shares may be had at the offices of the Company, No. 6, Queen-street place, London, or of the Brokers of the Company, Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son. No application will be con sidered unless a deposit of £1 for each share applied for shall have been previously made with the Bankers of the Com pany. This sum will be returned in full in the event of no allotment behLt, made. T HE PERTUSOLA LEAD MINING and SMELTING COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICATION for SRA RES in this Company will be received after SATUR DAY, the tth day of June next. W. G. WILLTAMS, Sec. "IR. T. CARRICK b eg s to announce t o hi s 4.N.1- Artist and the Public, that his Photographic it stablishrnentF 32 Re ent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now In full operation.riends ' g Cartes de Vi s it e, 10 for 10s. 6d • 21 for £l. Miniatures on Ivory m Styl es , — ar , yie, and the Photog raphic base in his former DEATH OF A LADY FROM VACCINA.; Tl ON — Reported in " The Medical Times " of this Death the 30th May. Death followed within four days, the arm swelling as 11 from the bite of a snake ! ! I Happy those whereon it does not bike "be au ti ful. " Like Frankenstein, Doctors are recoil ing from the monster they have created—they now advise not• to re -vaccinate ! ! What have Englishmen to say to the Surely notlsory Vacci nation Act? Will they allow it to stand ? llygeist Office, 262, Strand, May 30, 1863. T HE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those made by ELSTOB, of 60 , New Bond-street They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to . ga only the Wealthy as purchasers. "In media via tutissimus ibis. ' ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLLSIGS PER PAIR. DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptible, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies. --S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. y UXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and 'A Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps. —Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s wigs, £1 10s. OS TE 0 E I ON. Patent, March 1, 1862, N o. 660. GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEEM and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, springs, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and A RTICULATION, even when all others fail. Purest ma terials only, at half the usual cost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, lI.A.RLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON ; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 guineas. One visit only required from country patients, Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. Consultations free. A NEVER FAILING REMEDY .LE Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILL-13,-D. — r e pared without any mercurial ingredient , from the recip e of - t;cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable t o all *it suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, Sro. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. LoudY W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. ti n, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three g e r the quantity in one, 2s. gd. Be sure to ask for Dr. greeti:s Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square stamp. Package, w ith 4, William Lambert," engraved on the ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, Ter the immediate iof the Great Northern Rail• way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron —The QUEEN. President —The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer —Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of aovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient maLrnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable ot admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fel low - creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously ailords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued supp, b daily pre to enal e sent themselves them to admit and relieve the dist ressing cases that Contributions are received by_ the Treasurer, E dward Mas t erman, Esq., Nicholas - lane; also by M essrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and CO. ; Messrs. J. Barned and C o . , Li verpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH . Secretary, N°. 22,129. MRS. BROTHERTON'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., RESPECTABLE SI NNERS, By MRS. BROTHERTON, Author of " Arthur Brandon." Hurst and blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY. At 2s. ed. each Person. SOUPS. Macaroni Blanc. Julienne. Soles, sauce Anchovy. Fried Fillets of Whitings. ENTREES. Mutton Cutlets and Mushrooms. Tete de Veau, sauce Piquant. JOINT S. Roast Beef. Roast Mutton. SWEETS. College Puddings. Sandwich Pastry. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOST' LLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for the London Dinner. THE LONDON. 191, FLEET-sTEEET. COLOSSEUM, Regent's Park. GRAND ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS, under the direction of Mr. HOWARD. —Vocalists , Mrs. Stewart Howard, Mr. Geo. Buckland. Solo Flute, Master Churchill Arlidge (the accom plished Juvenile Flautist). The Orchestra will include the following' gentlemen : MM. Hermann, Liberton. Mao_ kenzie, Laurie, Gouyana, Collins. Praeger, Hermann, Horton, Nobbs, Lafleur, White, J. Arthur Owen. Grist, Grattan Cooke, Anderson, Scott, Coger, Waterson, Bahr, Baker, Saunders, Pheasant, &c. dm. CHARACTERISTIC CHAN SONETTES by Mdlle. JOHANNA CLAUSSEN. L. Kins bergen-Maju, Professor of Magic to the King of Holland. Admission to the whole Exhibitions and Entertainments, One Shilling. COLOSSEUM, Regent's Park.—Re-embellished. Under New Management.—RE-OPENED for the LAST SICASON. of the Colossal PICTURES LISBONN and PARIS, and Grand CYCLORAMA or Great success of the Grand Orchestral Concerts and Special Enter tainments for the Whitson Holidays, which will be continued. All the world-famed specialities of this magnificent Institn tion.—Admission to the whole, One Shilling; Children and Schools, half-price. —Daily, Twelve to Five, and Seven to Ten,--Acting Manager, Mr. A. Nimmo. T H E 0 X' F 0 R D, (;, OXFORD STREET. Every Evening will be performed Selections from the following Operas : Verdi's LA FORZA DEL DESTINO ; and Flotow's MARTHA. Supported by Miss Russell. Miss Townley, Ace.; Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Huish, Kimberley, and W. Evans, with full band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Drew Dean's Flute Solos TINSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes. Eurne, W. Randall, J. Hutchenson, and the marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND. " These two Parisian clowns have carried the art of tumbling to apparently the highest pitch of perfection, and it is impossible even for the most staid of visitors to avoid being amused by their origin'l gambols. They elicit shouts of laugiter and applause."—Times, April 7, 1863. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. NOTICE.—ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT. This Eiening the Marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND, the Two French Clowns. ARTHUR LLOYD'S burl e y r him. e Drama, arranged expressly f A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH with his new Comicalities, Sre. SAM COLLINS with his Songs. ITNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator. EUGENE, DULEY, and G. HUTCHINSON. GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and CANTATAS. Principal Artistes—Mand Siznoriss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, Tivoli. Conductor. Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, (3d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ROIAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The EISARELIS, in addition to their other performance s will give during the week a NEW ENTERTAINMENT: entitlec LA MARABELLOS A PERCHA SELLAS. OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—The treat ipanish Gymnasts, RP4ARELLS and BALAGER, in Three separate Entertainments. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—The grace till Madame ADAMS and the amusing CONRADE Clown). ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. —Varied MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, by Messrs. Parkin son, 7ernon, Rieby, Bartleman ; Misses M`Gregror, Mrs. Brian; Mftsrs. Brian and Conley, Weiland, ho. ARGYLL RO 0 M S.--JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. NOTlCE.—Darirg the Week the Selections will be—" Il Trovatere "—" La Huguenots"—" La Forza del Destino," &c., at Pleven o'clock. Julllen's Grand Descriptive Galop, THE DERBY, To be dedicated to the Owner of the Winning Horse. LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays from half-past Nine to Twelve. Admission, is. 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, (Private Entrance, 44A, Maddox-street, Regent-street), containing upwards of 1,200 Models, Natural Preparations, Monstrosities, &c., illustrating every part of the Human Frame ; also the Moving Anatomical Dying Zouave, Julia Pastrana, and other life-size figures. Admission, One Shilling (for Gentlemen only), from 11 till 10. Lecture at Four. R OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONE ss—Ei er Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, 8.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Raring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY - CIIAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.F. APPEAL. Tho Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal. National Lifeboat Institution has expended £ 32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ; tor' which services 82 Gold Modals, 718 Silver Medals, and .£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,c00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-carriages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, whi^h eau only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions : £ s, d Her Majesty the Queen .• .. annual 50 0 0 Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. annual 5 0 0 Clerk. Colonel, R.A. .. annual 1 1 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0 Currie, Wm. Esq., .. • .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwick• G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat a nd Tran sporting Carriage .. M 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. R .. don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. .. • • 3 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0 Thom. s, Lady, Weston-super-Marc, collected by her Ladyship 0 .• • • •• • • 16 16 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re reived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the 'United kingdom ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C. BANK RETURNS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending May 2. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 29th April (the nearest date furnished by their returns) will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the 'United Kingdom, when compared with the previous month : April 4, May 2 , _ 1863. of Baniland....Private Baiika ~.. 19315G:23:272650 j°l4""ck 13a nics ••• 2 ,937,562 3,043,008 1 0 5,456 Total in England, --i,-;5777-351 27,125,011. 1,371,504 —• Scotland... ......... 3, 880'154 3,050,780' 70,626 '— Ireland ............ 8,376,771 5,480,464 103,69 a United Kingdom. . ,--- ----- 1 2031:378166392,,.8103 Increase. Decrease United Kingdom. 27,125,01'0 1,371,5041 3,050,760 , 70,6261 5,480,464 103,6° - 3n r.nn OQK And, as compared with t ..-,,,,,,, heshmowonth ending the 3d May, 1862, the above returns decrease of 4527,970 in the circulation of notes in En a l £992,126 in the circulation of the ll.niantedd i and . a decrease of On comparing the above with the fixed issues seve ral banks the following is the state of the circulation o The English private banks are below their fixed a i°ll : issue .. ...... . . ....... ... .. . ...... . ........ 41,106,438 The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue ..... _ £259,349 Total below fixed issue in Eng1and....Z 2 ,77 :- -:. The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue £ 1 ' 90 ` 1 1 " `) .7 The Irish banks are below t h e ir fixed issu e h74 , 2 ( 9 1 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eno._ land in both departments d urin g the month endin g the 291 April was £15,232,179, being a decrease of £471,424 as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of £1,739,577 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 2d May : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,303,949 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks.. £4,270,183 Being a decrease of £19,336 as compared with the previous; return, and a decrease of £528,591 when compared With the Orrespoudiug Period of Est year, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1863. THE CONFEDERATE STATES. (Flom the Special Correspondent of the Times.) RICHMOND, April 18. - If, in the discharge of my office, I am continually impressed by the inability of all contemporary' writers adequately to seize the lessons and under stand the moral of this war, there is one point which stands so boldly and prominently out that he who runs may read. It is that Federal success is every where in the ° inverse ratio to Federal incubation ; that where month after month is given to elabo: ate preparation, and the soaring genius of the New York press essays its loftiest flights of vaticination, the mountains in labour never fail to produce the . proverbial mouse. If at any time success has at tended Yankee enterprise it has been where in some exceptional instance vigorous and energetic men have struck boldly in without counting the cost, or waiting to call all the world to witness the throes and convulsions of the labouring mountain. What would have been the result if, in the first instance, without waiting for turreted monsters and all the Behemoths of the New York Herald, the Federali had attacked every Southern harbour with wooden vessels and launches, and had made up by rapidity, übiquity, and pertinacity of attack for scantiness of preparation, is now beyond a peradventure. At no Southern ports for the first six months of the war was there enough gunpowder to keep up a bom bardment of sours Lt he teeth of Charleston, Mo bile, Savannah, and Wilmington might have been drawn,end the cities captured more easily than New Orleans; the vast supplies which have been sucked in through the blockade would never have greased the wheels of the rebellion; the Confederate army would long ago have been standing savagely at bay in the mountains of North Carolina or in the inte rior of Texas. Not such was the Yankee conception of the war. Colossal contracts had to be issued, full flight given to the costly researches of empirical ingenuity, a vast continent, cradled in the lap of 50 years of peace and unprecedented material pros perity had to don its armour, and transfer its alle giance from Minerva to Bellona, and the precious time lost in this change of service has never been recovered. If, as I have often previously remarked, the power of Northern offence increased one hun dredfold, the energy and resource of Southern resis tance increased pari passu a thousandfold. And now, on the threshold of the third year of the war, the disparity between the land forces of the two sections scarcely amounts to more than that infini tesimal proportions described by chemists as " a trace ;" so that it needs no prophet to foretell that in a few weeks the Federals may find themselves at bay and on the defensive, while the Confederates, leaving behind them the desolate wilderness of hap less Virginia, may be advancing into a country which lies like the garden of Eden at their feet. It will have been known to your readers, long be fore the arrival of this letter, that the attack on Charleston, which commenced on the 7th inst., and was on that day kept up with vigour for nearly three hours by nine Federal iron-plated vessels, was aban doned, finally as some think, upon the afternoon of the 12th. Of these vessels, the " new Ironsides," a soi-distant seaworthy frigate, nominally the rival of the Warrior and La Gloire, and mounting 16 heavy guns, two of them rifled 100-pounders, was reputed by far the most formidable. Built somewhat like the iron-clad gunboats of the Mississippi, though with less shelving sides, looming up the harbour large and low, like an immense house with a roof flat at the ridge, and then sloping steeply both ways —the house itself submerged in water up to the rain pipes under the eaves—the Ironsides slowly and majestically advanced in the van of the attack ing squadron, carrying the flag of Admiral Dupont, and impressing all spectators with the conviction that, if the success of this day's attack upon Charles ton were commensurate with the anticipations of some of the assailants, the advance of Admiral Dupont's frigate into action was likely to be cele brated in song and story when Coiling wood's bold onslaught at Trafalgar had been forgotten. Be hind the Ironsides advanced in two lines her lesser sisters of the deep —seven of the Ericsson Monitors, each with one revolving turret and two guns, built upon a design and in a fashion with which your readers have long been familiar, and one new aspi rant to the honours of invulnerability in the shape of the double turreted Keokuk, called also the Whitney battery. The turrets of the Keokuk do not revolve, bat in each a heavy gun is fixed, one of them throwing, I believe, an 11-inch, the other a 15-inch shot or shell. The solemnity of the scene, as these mailed pioneers of a new system of nautical warfare wore slowly in towards Fort Sumter, their ports closed, their exterior presenting no sign of life or action, their propelling power unseen, their tre• mendous guns withdrawn from view, forced the blood through the heart of the spectators in long and quickening pulsations. Suddenly " the long roll" beat to arms in Fort Sumter, the crescent and palmetto tree of the sovereign State of South Caro lina rose side by side with the stars and bare of the infant Confederacy, and as the twin flags flung themselves out upon the breeze the well-known na tional air of Dixie rang out its defiance, and the pain- ful silence was broken by a salute of 13 guns from the fort. Everywhere along the wharves of Char leston, upon the sea-wall of the battery, on the tops of every house commanding the harbour, spectators of both sexes stood eagerly observant; while the student of history, had be possessed calm ness enough at such a moment, might have recalled Thueydides' thrilling description of the Pincus when the ill-omened Sicilian expedition went forth freighted with the prayers and aspirations of the entire population of Athens, impotent though they were to avert its inexorable doom. Northwards, in the direction of Sullivan's Island, the Ironsides continues the even tenor of her way, until at a distance of not much more than 1,000 yards from the island she curves slightly inwards towards Fort Sumter and lets fall her anchor, being afraid, from her large draught of water, to advance further. Almost simultaneously the first flash from the Sullivan's Island batteries launches iron messen- gers against the tough ribs of the frigate, and is fol lowed speedily by the louder report of the barbette guns of fort Sumter. To the latter, from a distance of about 1,200 yards, the Ironsides responds with her broadside of seven guns. The iron hail crashes against the sea face of the fort, the bricks crumble and fly from the parapet into the air; one shell strikes a bricked-up port-hole and tears through a weak spot into the interior, but it is at once seen that the boasted efficacy of the enormous globes of iron has been greatly exaggerated, and that they are vastly less formidable than was imagined. I am assured that in no instance was the penetration of the shot upon the face of the fort deeper than 20 inches, or the surface of brickwork displaced larger than could be spanned by a circle with a diame ter of less than five feet. As the Ironsides pauses in her course, her lighter companies stand boldly in closer to the fort, against which, in despair of in juring the sand batteries of Sullivan's and Morris Islands, their principal onslaught is directed. Boldest of all, as drawing least water, the Keokuk advances within 900 yards of the fort. Upon her at one time the concentrated fire of Fort Sumter and of the works on the two islands played simul taneously, but it is believed that the shot from vfhieh she re ce i ve d h er coup d e grace em an a ted from the B rook e gun, ear_ and the invention of a Confederate al- T 7,m the product of a Confederate foundry—the re ue _ Works at Ri c h mon d. C a pt. Brooke has long been favourably k nown will endeavourto nautical to o me men givea your o u the inventor of the Broo k e 'sr deep sea sounding appara • tux. In a future letter readers full er particulars of the Brooke gun, suffice it for the pr esent to say th at in th e fi rst e b u lli t i on of Confederate exultation in mreagiliard to Charleston it is claimed that against i ron th g e h b o ßrooke uho o gun f has not its equal upon earth. At co nducted four days ago i n the neian experiment tinee from th e this city, one of, these guns, at a dist target of 2/56 yards, sent a wrqught.iron bolt weigh ing 1201 b., projected by 20kb. of powder, clean through 13in._ of iron strapped upon 22in. of oak. The rifling of the gun is very slow and gradual, there being but one complete turn in a length of 33ft.; so that in each gun, assuming an average length of about loft., the riding reachis but one-third of a turn. The efficacy of the wropght iron bolt, smooth and polished as a knife bladi3, is very highly com mended. Your readers will long ago have learnt that on the morning of the Bth, the Keokuk sunk not far from Morris Island, that t same day one of the Ericesson Monitors was to o ff t o Port Royal in An obviously crippled conditi n, and that the pumps of the Ironsides after the act n were at work night and day. The presumption % that Admiral Dupont sent off a vessel to Washingtin to announce the re sults of his attack on the 7tand that he lay in the harbour, out of range of F 4 Sumter and the other batteries, until orders from Vihtshington reached him. No one who is acquainted. with Admiral Dupont entertains the slightest doubt that he offered, if it pleased the attorney-stateehlea of Washington to give such orders, to renew thO attack on Fort Sumter, although it may have been the Admiral's opinion that in that case all his other ironclads would be sunk. Upon the 12th the m ess enger from Washing._ __ _ ton is believed to have returned, and the rest of the squadron was withdrawn lion Charleston harbour. itahould be stated t,114‘ the exception of the Ironsides, which lay at a ` or Ike wlioie engagement of the 7th, the remaining vessels kept circling round in a kind of war dance, and deliver ing their fire against Fort Sumter with such rapi dity as they could attain. But the disparity of force wielded by the attack and the defence cannot better be shown than by stating that in less than three hours the Confederates fired altogether more he~ whole than 2,000 shots, of which at least 600 are believed to have struck the Federal vessels, whereas it is not believed that an aggregate of 200 shots was de livered by the attacking squadron. So true was the remark long ago made by Admiral Dupont that the Federal Government, having built all these new- fangled iron vessels, had nothing else to do but to build iron men to man them. The evidence is abun dant that each shot fired from the Monitors is in finitely more damaging to the projectors than to the recipients. The stunning, deafening shock of an enormous gun discharged within so small a space as a confined turret, the concussion imparted to the vessel, are described as creating among the men on board a sickness and faintness which make it im possible to fire another gun for 20 minutes. In addition, the hammering of the exterior coat of these vessels by vertical, glancing, and pointblank bolts and projectiles of every variety is described as in effably distressing, and that no man who has once been exposed to it retains the least taste for a repe tition of his experiences. In conclusion, it is safe to assert that the rash empiricism which is so emi nently characteristic of the Anglo-American has resulted, as regards his iron-clad vessels, in such a failure as calm and sagacious and experienced men had never ceased to presage. There are naval men by dozens who openly proclaim that old-fashioned wooden ships-of-war would have done more damage to Fort Sumter, and received less injury themselves, than the iron prodigies of the Yankees. How many of these vessels are still sea-worthy and capable of another fight remains to be seen ; but it is certain that the accommodation and resources for repairing iron vessels at Port Royal must be limited in the extreme. My belief is that not more than one-half of the iron-clad vessels which attacked Charleston will be again available for aggressive purposes until they have returned to Philadelphia and New York, and that the vulnerability of all those mailed monsters, out of which has been made a rod where with to scourge and terrify all foreign nations, is incontrovertibly established. If, at 900 yards the Keokuk could be sunk, at 1,200 the Ironsides so crippled that she never threw more than a single broadside, that the Monitors damaged to an extent that will not, perhaps, be known to the public for many months to come, but which must have been considerable, what would be the fate of such vessels at point-blank range P There is evidence that if the vessels could have silenced Fort Sumter and got by the other batteries the intention of the Federals was to occupy a point at the mouth of the Cooper and Wando rivers, called Hobcaw Point, from which Charleston itself could be shelled, and to which Federal troops could be brought by the road lead ing down from Ball's Bay to the north edge of Charleston harbour. It seems to have been thought that the Confederates could not have thrown troops from the south to the north of Charleston harbour if the harbour itself was held by the Federal gun boats, and that the marshes to the north and east of the Cooper would have averted an attack on Hobeaw Point by laud. It is hardly worth speculat ing upon " ifs," but it is abundantly evident that the landing of Federal troops in Bull's Bay and their descent upon Charleston harbour from the north would be a most perilous venture. The more the approaches to and defences of Charleston are studied, the more defensible does it appear. The long delay in the Federal preparations, their reli ance upon mechanical ingenuity, rather than upon bulldog courage, have given their opponents time to turn Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Wilmington, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Richmond into a lmost impregnable fortresses, which could not b e carried by any soldiers upon earth without fearful loss, and which are little likely to be attacked by men fighting with so little heart as is everywhere exhibited by the mercenaries of Mr. Lincoln. APRIL 19. Our intelligence from the Nor th, discardin g all mention of a " reconnoissance," and admitting an undeniable failure and repulse before Charlest on , and the abandonment of any intention to renew the attack " at present," serve s but to strengthen the opinion which is beginning t o be ver y g ene rally held in the South, that the Fe derals are cont inuing this war, not with the faintest hope or expectation of triumph, but to gain some unseen and collateral advantages. Some people imagine that their object is nothing but the indulgence of vindictive revenge and baffled spite. But there is more reason for thinking that the chief aim and purpose of the war is the maintenance of the Very extensive, indirect, and surreptitious trade which has everywhere sprung up between Secessia and Yankeedom. Facts have been mentioned to me, and proofs amounting almost to demonstration forthcoming, pregnant with d "permits," and h i a e c r l codese o o s f u rmeo maybe about y s bisignals," na lsthewhereby blockade ,removed, ana t h a eb the o obstructiveness u oldt t commercial de pendence of Richmond and the South upon New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati pro longed yet for a few months. It is clearly seen that if the blockade is lifted and the war stops, English and French goods will flood Secessia, to the exclu sion of Yankee merchandise, which is at once costly and execrable. Here will be the knotty point for some new Congress of Paris to settle. It is a blockade which can notoriously be evaded by bribery admi nistered by the citizens of the Power which main tain it to be recognised by foreign nations P Is the legal maxim that no party is to be permitted to de rive benefit from his own wrong to be enforced in regard to individuals and waived in regard to 11A tionii? Fancy the indignation of the rest of the world, and notably of the Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams of the hour, if France was blockaded by England, and it was notorious that citizens of London could purchase permits from the Admiralty to run vessels through the blockade, while vessels of all other foreign nations were, as far as passible, excluded from French ports ! There is anoth great reason for prolonging the war and the worthlessness of " green cessation e.. the war. The 4 -rtible tents. It is scarcely possible backs" are conv._ North one man should be able that anywhere in the , vthing but repudiation to maintain to another that a..., gravity than, awaits the Northern debt with mo..::1 ex hibit one soothsayer coutt. according to Gibbon, while looking another in the face. In Kentucky those who wish to arrest the gravitation of that State towards the Confederacy openly employ the argument that, whereas there is no doubt that the Federal debt will be repudiated, there is a reasonable probability the Confederate debt will be grappled with and the interest paid. There is no clearer indication that the end is not yet than the price of gold. It is idle to pretend that out of the 20,000,000 in the North there are 1,000,000 believers in the subjugation of the South, nor can disingenuous sophistry any longer pretend to maintain that any other expedient than subjugation can bring the South back. What will be the price of gold when les choses touchent a la fin your readers can guess as well as I. But it is obvious that if gold can be kept down long enough to permit Yankee merchants to run more goods into Charleston, what the Federals have lost in meal by their repulse before that city they will gain in malt by the maintenance of illicit trade therewith. Meanwhile, over the vast surface of this conti nent the war goes fiercely forward. A few weeks since, when General Grant's baffled army was re moved from before Vicksburg, and the various col lateral approaches through the Yazoo Pass and Lake Providence and elsewhere had been found impracti cable, it was believed that General Grant's army would be added to General Rosecrans's, and that together they would strive to bear down General Johnston by weight of numbers. New counsels Bp ' pear to have prevailed since that time at Memphis. Time is precious; yet a few weeks and the swamps of the Mississippi will throw Walcheren into the shade. If any fresh attempt upon Vicksburg is to be made before next Christmas, it must be made in the next 60 days. Accordingly, it is believed that a considerable force of Federal troops have been marched from Milliken's-bend on the right bank of the Mississippi to New Carthage, 120 miles below. New Carthage, on the right bank, is situate between Warrenton and Grand Gulf on the left, at both which places the Confederates have heavy batteries. In order to support and assist these land forces, the Hartford and Albatross have come up, running past the batteries at Port Hudson, and five Federal vessels out of eight which undertook the enterprise have run down, passing the batteries at Vicksburg. The probability seems that this flotilla of seven vessels, assisted by land batteries from the right bank, will endeavour to silence the Confederate batteries at Warrenton, then to land troops there, and to march them upon Vicksburg. Nothing ap parently can be more desired by the Confederates than that the blow should fall at Vicksburg, pre cisely where they are best prepared for it. Again, in Louisiana, to which department General Kirby Smith, an active and intelligent officer, and his righthand man, Prince Polignac, now a Brigadier General, have recently been consigned, there is activity, anticipative of the great heats of summer, among the Federals. The scene of action is along a river called the Bayou Teche, and a heavy force of Federal troops has driven General Taylor (the son of President Zachary Taylor, and brother to the first wife of President Davis) back to New Iberia, and a junction between the Federal forces in ques tion and other under General Banks on the Missis sippi, is thought likely to be effected through the Plaquemin Pass. Possibly an attempt to march these troops above Port Hudson and then to carry them up by boat to take part on the onslaught upon Vicksburg may be made. Another theory is that it is designed to march troops from Southern Louisiana up to Alexandria en the Red River (about 100 miles by water and 60 miles by land from its month) and to destroy the gunboats which it is suspected that the Confederates are building up(,n that stream. The bead-quarters of General Kirby Smith are at Alexandria, and it has been for some time the principal Confederate depot in that region. Be this as it may, there is but one feeling here with regard to all these moves in the neigh bourhood of the Mississippi,—lt is that " le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle." No possible success of the Federals in that quarter would change the ineradi cable sentiment of the rebel heart and make com merce with the Yankees a possibility. So long as the war lasts, and the Confederates are driven by pressure of want to buy goods anywhere that they are obtainable in Secessia, smuggled Yankee com modities may command purchasers ; when the war ceases it is hardly necessary to say that with it ceases also the market in the South for Yankee manufactures. The great products of the West— its pork and bacon, its Indian corn and wheat and flour—will continue to find their way to Southern markets, but, putting sectional animosities aside, how will the cutlery, the cotton manufactures, and the woollen fabrics of New England bear the com petition of Europe ? APRIL 22. A delay in the expedition of this letter enables me to add a postscript. In many other quarters as well as in Louisiana there is activity of operations. In North Carolina the Confederate General D. H. Hill has been for many days besieging a town called Washington, situate on the Tar River, and held by a body of Federals under General Foster. The exact purpose of General Hill's operations has been, I believe, to hold the Federals within their intrenchments while foraging parties of Confede rates scoured the adjoining counties of North Caro lina and carried off large amounts of bacon and corn. This morning it is announced that General Hill has raised the siege of Washington and fallen back, so that either his purpose has been gained and his forage secured, or he has received tidings of the approach of Federal reinforcements, and has fallen back to his own selected ground to await them ; the former supposition being, I believe, the truth. Simultaneously, a considerable enterprise has been undertaken by General Longstreet, at the head of a large body of Confederate troops, of which the main object also is to secure the large stores of bacon and corn which are to be found in the coun ties of North Carolina which are adjacent to the Chowan river. Gen. Longstreet has advanced on the Federal intrenchments which stretch in front of the town of Suffolk from Nasemond river on the right to the Dismal Swamp on the left, and is be lieved to have got some troops in between the right flank of the Federals and the Nansemond. Exagge rated reports of Gen. Longstreet's purposes and of his numbers have appeared in the Northern press, and Gen. Hooker has thrown heavy reinforcements into Norfolk and Yorktown. It is understood the purpose of Gen. Longstreet is to hold the Federals within their lines while forage and railroad iron is secured throughout North Carolina, and not to fight unless the Federals come out to meet him. It is very possible, now that large• reinforcements have swelled the Federal numbers, that there may be a fight. Among Gen. Longstreet's troops are two of the best divisions in the army, Gen. Hood's and Gen. Pickett's, and also a new division, at the head of which has been placed Gen. Jenkins, of South Carolina. I have perfect faith that Gen. Longstreet, backed and supported by such subordinates, will give a good account of his opponents. Lastly, in the vicinity of IV illiamsburg Gen. Wise, formerly Go evaegrneorraCitifdVimirpguilllsiaiv,ebnentewrghyo h te as a n et o i w ve tr field, has made a descent upon the Federal forces the doves in Yorktown. Everywhere in th e proximity Confederates hive proximity of Richmond t Gene taken the initiative, except in the case that neighbourhood, and has considerably flu.ttetrede serviceaon s f transferred r ei e nn d e tr h bia i nel s t o li f at the from Washington, will fated by ceaseless messages h it is w fi i n ll e a b r e al i y n a t t h F e r Wes te Freder icks burg, r k b s e - - Great have been a L b sa e Br e g , u w tn hdin h e o ytao s r ttbtii the y l lei l ec i feasil hoping respo slwftohitrahatn encore at Fredericksburg, that General Hooker, stina u . t p woopaelna drr responded o ae n un d ae e r da growing a t R B ouslel armies ra u n an n si . ,e s unless some strange infatuation prevails, a large - portion of the immense army now obeying General t m t h w i e g eGe e h e t mightiest straggle u r g e ignifeowrciellbtoatkheaprinlaicee;, and, Beauregard's r I nn Johnstonteeal PRICE..... ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. orders at Charleston will be transferred to the com mand of General Johnston at Tullahoma. I am still apprehensive that at best the Confederates will not be able to fight more than a level battle at Tulla homa; but, after all, such a battle is all that they want. What will be the effect upon the tactics of the North when during the month of May 200,000 of their best men go out of service it is hard to say; but curious speculations are indulged on this sub ject here. If the war advances with anything like equality of success, there will, before three months have passed, be imported into the strife new ele ments, with respect to which it is not necessary to say more than that they will incline ithe balance more than ever to the Confederate side. I have never thought it necessary to enlarge upon the topic of the lifting of the blockade of Charleston, of Gal veston, and of Sabine Pass by superior force of the Confederates. It is apparent to everybody that such questions will be judged, not in accordance with broad and guiding principles of such an wnis fatuus as international law, but in accordance with the inclination of the nation sitting in judgment. Whatever may have been the case at Charleston, it would be idle for Mr. Seward to deny that the blockade at Galveston was lifted for many days, and it was renewed in a fashion not not pre scribed by Vattel and Hautefeuille. Still few persons on this continent believe that Eng land or any other European Power would undertake war with a moribund and irritated Power I because the blockade of an obscure and remote p ort was broken and then unorthodoily renewed. But, none the less, the time is not far distant when ana logous questions will exact the judgment of the British Cabinet, under circumstances more peremp tory and instant, and in reference to more important places than Galveston. It has been seen that the despised Confederates have produced a gun which is vastly superior to the product of the blatant and self-confident mechanics of the North. It has been seen that the iron-plated vessels, the growth of two years of boastful efforts, are a delusion and a snare. A few months more will show whether on their own element the Yankees are such autocrats as they imagine. Considerable uneasiness was last week felt in , well-informed quarters in regard to t he health of President Davis. The President has had a very severe bronchial affection, and his cough has been exhaustive and distressing. He is, happily, con siderably better, and those who know him best say that he is vastly stronger than he appears, and that he is immeasurably better than when he was elected to the post which he has so ably filled. It is impossible that a man of strong character and prejudices should escape unpopularity or give universal satisfaction ; but increasing knowledge of the President and of the difficulties he has had to contend with fills me daily with more admiration of his calmness, sagacity, patience, and indomitable moral courage. There is no calculable sum at which the value of his life at this moment to the :ended Confederacy could be adequately estimated. Unlike most of his countrymen, the President's habits are healthy, and his practice is to ride about 20 miles on horseback almost daily. The extreme lateness and coldness of the spring have had an unfavourable influence upon the President's bronchitis, and have arrested the early growth of spring grass, which is so much needed for the half-starvel horses of the army at Frederickburg. POLAND AND FINLAND. A letter from Helsingfors in Finland of the 14th inst. states that for some time past the Russian journals have been filled with addresses sent, it is said, from all the provinces to St. Petersburg, and all expressing an absolute devotedness to the Em peror and a resolution to maintain the integrity of the empire at any sacrifice. It is remarked that all these addresses are composed in similar terms. The writer adds that it is evidently the intention of the Russian Government to oppose these addresses to the manifestations of the population of Western Europe in favour of Poland. People wonder how these spontaneous manifestations have been got up, particularly as a similar attempt has been ineffectual in Finland. An application was made to the Muni cipal Council in Helsingfors and again to the Fin nish:Literary Society, which possesses great influence throughout the province, to present an address to the Emperor. The Russian agents promised in return all kinds of imperial favours and conces sions, but all in vain ; the Russian Government could not procure an address from either body. A third attempt was then made to induce the Acade mic Senate to present an address, and it was hoped that that body would be more docile. Count Arn felt addressed several letters to Gen. Baron Munch, Vice-Chancellor of the University, to M. Arpa, the Rector, and to other members of the Senate for that purpose. Baron Munck hastened to convoke an extraordinary meeting of the Senate, and submitted to them an address in the terms approved at St. Petersburg, so that it was supposed Count Arnfelt had prepared it. Two members only voted for its adoption—these are M. Shelman, lately appointed Senator and Director of Finance, and M. Arpel, the Director, who is described as an excellent man, but very timid. The partisans of the Govern ment, in order to obtain votes, attempted to diminish the importance of the measure. They insinuated that it was not meant as an approval of what is passing in Poland, but merely to give an act of adhesion and fidelity to the Emperor Alex ander as Grand Duke of Finland. The Senate com prehended that this manner of stating the question might conceal a snare, and that a purely negative vote might be regarded as an act of rebellion. The majority consequently demanded 48 hours for con sideration, and at their next meeting a professor moved the previous question, on the ground that the Russian law explicitly forbids any servant of the Government to make or to sign any political address, and that the Senate should abstain, not being privileged to do what was asked of it. This resolution was adopted almost unanimously. All the incidents of the meeting were known in the town and created some agitation. When the re sult was known it was hailed with great joy. Similar demand for addresses were made in various towns in Finland, but without more success. At Abo, the ancient capital of the province, a munici pal councillor who had been decorated with the orders of St. Stanislas and St. Anne, was warmly entreated by the Senator member of the Cotnmititiee a on the Affairs of Finland at St. Petersburg to ca s called, meeting of the burgesses. A meetindg when wa Sena but the object was not announced, ali tor Brenner declared that the object of the meeting was to send an address to St. Petersburg, the per sons present declared emphatically that they would not vote such an address, and they separated with further observations. Vice out listening to P res ident Ad o lphaunY s Thileman was not more fortu . tuna te in „ application he made to the membe rs o f In a word, all th e appea l s tmadehe C o urt o b u y rt t h o e f Appeal. In agents resulted in elicit ing the feelings of the population of Finland with re gard to what is passing in Poland. THE WINNER OF THE DERBY.—The public cha rities of Liverpool have good reason to thank Mac caroni for his gallant pull over Lord Clilden on Epsom Downs, as Mr. Naylor, the owner of the winner, who is a resident of Liverpool, has just handed to the Mayor of Liverpool the handsome sum of £l,OOO, to be distributed amongst the different charities of the town. EADVE lITISTMENT.I —Holloway's Pills.— Convincing Proofs.--The personal experience of multitudes extending over the last thirty years leaves no doubt that this medicine surpasses all others in its purifying and corrective qualities. When any epidemic prevails, Holloway's Pills are the most proper aperient that can be prescribed, because they painlessly remove all accumulations without depriving the sufferer of healthy constitutional power. The young and delicate may take these Pills without difficulty, disgust, or danger, and they will prove the best preservatives against small-pox and all eruptive fevers, tphoid and bilious com plaints. This remedy should be at once resorted to when pains in the limbs and loins, giddiness, nausea, and thirst give warning a the approach of some worse than ordinary ailment. The screw steam troop ship Megeera, her collision defects made good at Ply' the Sound on Saturday morning for North Ameitaea 11 and the West Indies, where she will be employed in changing the troops at the different stations. The screw steam sloop Alert, 17, Capt. Majeac, left Plymouth on Saturday for Portsmouth. She will be attached to the Channel Fleet. Our correspondent at Plymouth has received a letter from the Pacific, which states that the screw steam frigate Sutlej, 35, Capt. Matthew Connolly, flag of Rear Admiral John Kingcombe, after leav ing Valparaiso, called at two or three places on the coast, to enable the Rev. John Cawston, the chap lain, to christen some children, and arrived at Calla o about the 20th of April. The screw steam corvette Charybdis, 21, Capt. the Hon. George 1). Keane, left Valparaiso on the 14th April, called at two or three places on the coast, touched at Islay on the 22d, and arrived at Callao on the 27th. Both ships wait until Sunday May 3d to obtain letters from home, when the Sutlej will proceed to Vaecouver's Island and the Charybdis to Panama, The screw steam ftigate Bacchante, 39, Captain Donald 111‘L. Mackenzie has gone to the coast of Mexico to relieve the screw steam corvette Tartar 20, Capt. John M. Hayes. The paddle-wheel steam sloop Devastation, 6, Commander John W. Pike, goes to relieve the screw steam sloop Matine, 17, Commander W. Graham, which will call at Panama when returning to England. The screw steam frigate Topaze, 39, Commodore the Hon, John W. S. Spencer is ordered to call at Valparaiso on her way to England. The Urgent, screw iron troopship, was some three months since undocked at Portsmouth, after having had all compositions and paints carefully removed from all the external parts of her iron hull and her wooden topsides, and has since lain afloat in the steam basin, her rusted hull exposed to the action of the sea water, and her bare topsides to the sun, wind, and rain. A few months longer and the ship's bottom will drop out into the mud of the steam basin, and her wooden topsides will crumble into dust. Surely the Lords of the Ad miralty who visited Portsmouth dockyard but a fortnight since must have seen and noted the posi tion and state of this very useful vessel? Her Majesty's ships Sanspareil and Sphinx, and the hired transports Copenhagen, Cospatrick, Walmer Castle, and Her Majesty, are on their way home from India, bound to Spithead, with invalids and time -expired men from regiments serving in India. The invalids will be sent to the Royal Military Hospital at Netley, and the time -expired men will join the depots of their respective regi- ments. The Racoon, 20, steam corvette, Captain Count Gleichen, arrived at Spithead, at a late hour on Friday, from the West Indies. Sh e b roug ht home f r om the station a few naval invalids and military invalids and time-expired men, embarked on the 9th of May at Bermuda. The naval invalids were transferred on Saturday to the Victory, flagship of of the Commander -in-Chief, at Portsmouth. The military comprised three men of the Royal Artil lery and three men of the Royal Engineers, inva lids, who were sent to the Royal Military Hospital, at Netley, and 12 men (time expired) of the 39th Foot, who were forwarded on to the regimental depot at Templemore. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred will join the Racoon as her junior lieut. Her Majesty's ships of war, now at Spithead. consist of the Black Prince, 40 guns, screw iron frigate, Capt. Wainwright ; Defence, 18 guns, screw iron frigate, Capt. Phillimore ; Racoon, 20 guns, screw wooden corvette, Capt. Count Gleichen ; and Orontes, screw iron troopship, Capt. Hire. Her Majesty's ship Dee, having undergone thorough repair in ship and machinery, went down the river on Friday from Woolwich to Southend on trial, and will now be recommissioned for the trans port of naval engines, boilers, &c., as heretofore. A number of seamen and petty officers were on Saturday despatched from the flagship Fisgard at Woolwich to Sheerness, to join the Royal Oak, un der fitment for sea. The following appointments were made on Sa turday at the Admiralty : Masters--llaben )3. Hunt, to . ,the Phaeton; John Pal mer, to the Barrosa ; Percy V. James, to the Rattler. Assistant-Surgeons—F. IL Moore, to Victory; Mat thew Coates, Haslar Hospital. Engineer—John Barnet (acting first-class assistant), to the Fisgard, for Vivid. Second Masters—J. G. Liddell, S. H. Liddell, G. White, Selwyn Sugden, C. Hirtzel, C. S. C. Watkins, and J. Thomas. to the Euryalus (supernumeraries). Masters Assistant—William H. Brickdale, to the Cos sack. Midshipman—W. E. Heathcote, to the Esk. THE ARMY. The C Battery Horse Brigade Royal Artillery arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from Aldershot, consisting of Major R. J. Hay, Second-Capts. R. Gore and S. P. Leymes, Lints. G. S. Harvey and V. F. Vufnell, Assist.-Surg. J. Wood, 144 non-com missioned officers and men, 131 horses, and the ordinary equipment of Armstrong guns, waggons, &c. They halted on Thursday at Guildford, on Friday at Kingston, and marched into head-quar ters at 2 p.m. They will be inspected this morning by Sir R, Dacres, the General commanding the gar rison. The following promotion was on Saturday an nounced at Woolwich :—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have been pleased to appoint, on the 28th inst., Lieut.-Col. George Bridges Rodney, of the Chatham Division, to be Assist.-Acljt.-Gen. of Royal Marines, vice Travers resigned. Courts-martial, composed of officers selected from the various corps in garrison, have sat each day for 10 days past at Woolwich, on trial of a large num ber of Royal Marines, on charges of having made away with their kit, and being absent without leave. The defaulters' list of men not subjected to imprisonment has been unusually large for some time past, and numbered on Saturday 140 men. This is accounted:for my the fact that sums of money, amounting to about 30s. per man, have been dis tributed in lieu of clothing, and that, in consequence, there has been much drunkenness. Earl de Grey, Secretary of State for War, accom panied by Col. Jervoise, R.E., of the Boys) Defence Commission, was on Friday engaged in. the different military barracks and fortifications on inspecting the eastern and northern sides of Portsmouth har. bour. • ma de a preliminary iitnnenPt, Major-Gen. co mmanded by Colonel eo r ti a o n n ie o t i t C h . e l3. 9 2 o d n (G F o r r id d a o y n Highlanders) B Lord W B G os port: o L oc khart, C. B . . ,loenrgdtheir b w. amar was s a i c as k tt t..e p An a dd r je. a dt d . ob - g ye r n o c. o ;o n I d oann a ea t l S ome rset, C. 8 ., D e p ut y Town-Major Breton. The enrolled pensioners force of th e P or t smout h district, Ist and 2d divisions, ander Lieut.-Col. Meehan and Capt. Driver and their staffs, consist ing in all of one field officer, one captain, with their subordinate officers, and 372 rank and file, having completed their eight days' summer training, were inspected on Southsea-common on Friday by Col. English, C. 8., commanding the 53d Regiment. At the close of the inspection, Col. English expressed his entire satisfaction with their steadiness and clean and soldierly appearance. The Portsmouth pensioners are now principally composed of compa ratively young and robust men, and are undoubtedly cep able of undergoing much more arduous service than ordinary garrison duty should their services be ever required. _ - THE KILLING OF GENERAL VAN DORN.—The Chattauooga _Rebel sass :—" As yet we have received no particulars of the killing of Gen. 'Van Dorn, nor of the causes which led to it, other than from street rumours, which, if correct, would seem that the killing was justifi ablo. Dr. Peters, who killed kin', mo th s formerlygentle tor from Ilardeman County, in till' state, man of wealth, position , and influence, whose family con nections rank with the first in Tennessee. lie reported to have approached Gen. Van Dorn in the street, and, pre senting a pistol, shot him in the head." ECCLESIASTICAL CENSUS OF IRELAND.—A return issued from the Census-office shows that in 1834 there were 6,436,00 Roman Catholics in Ire:and, and in 1 861, 4,505.265; of members of the Established Church in Ro l a nd there were 853,160 in 1834, and 691,872 in 1861, So that in 1834 to every 100 Roman Catholics there were 13.25 members of the Established Church, and in MI 15.35,