The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-03 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, April 20. There has been a panic on the Stock Exchange since Saturday last. Mr Chase, whom it is the fashion in Wall-street to call the" Great Bear," has come and gone, and the panic has come after him. His object was to bring down the premium on gold. In this he succeeded, though not to the extent anti cipated ; while he accomplished another not set forth in his programme, and brought down the price of Government securities and railroad stocks and min■ ing shares of all kinds. The failure of his notable scheme for regulating the price of gold by the issue of what he called "gold certificates" for the payment of Customs' duties had taught the speculators that the Secretary of the Treasury was not so powerful as he imagined, and his presence had no more real effect upon the premium than to bring it within 2 or 3 per cent. of the high level of the last fortnight. But, if he did not frighten the speculators and stock brokers, he alarmed the bankers, who called in their loans, restricted their advances, and tightened the money market, and thus led to a crash. The weaker class of operators could not meet their liabilities without effecting forced sales of stocks, and rail way shares as well as Government securities came rattling down, burying under their debris some of the more important and apparently the most pros perous of the new firms that have sprung up with the rapidity of Jonah's gourd, carrying with them hundreds of weaker brethren who relied upo❑ them for support, if not for existence. The "Five-twenties," so long a favourite invest ment, declined 11 per cent. the day before yester day, and the " Seven-thirties" 31, while the decline in Railway stocks was still more decisive. The Illinois Central fell 13, the New York Central 7, the Erie 7, the Hudson River 171, the Burling. ton and Quincy 16, and others too numerous to men tion from 41 to 18 per cent. Gold, which it was the object of Mr. Chase to pull down to 150 or lower, stood firm at 170 in the morning, and rose, as the day wore on, to 1711. Yesterday the violence of the panic somewhat abated, gold fell to 166, rose rapidly to 168, and closed at 1691. Some of the railway shares recovered themselves partially— among others the Illinois Central, which advanced 6 per cent., the New York Central 61 per cent., and the Erie 31 on the previous day's prices. Govern ment stocks were in less favour, and Five-twenties suffered a farther decline of 4 per cent., or virtually stood at a discount of 1 per cent. This morning gold is at 169, and stocks are generally firm, but - without any marked improvement in the price of Government securities. Great as the panic has been, a worse must follow. It is but the first faint vibratory movement of the coming earthquake, which will level with the dust :many a stately edifice, whirl into the air like dry leaves the paper securities of a wealth that has no foundation, consign the millionaires of today to the penury and obscurity in which they existed before their countrymen went crazy, reduce thousands of .now prosperous citizens to ruin, and fill the homes of honest and industrious men with wailing and lamentation. The delusion of the multitude is as great as ever. Men in high places preach and teach that the country is rich merely because there is enough paper money afloat to set speculation ram pant ; although a million of men who four years ago were engaged in producing wealth are now -wholly employed in destroying each other. Mr. Chase, aware that he cannot for ever go on bor rowing or printing waggon loads of inconvere tibia greenbacks per diem, insists that the country must be taxed to the extent of 500,000,000 dollars Viper annum to pay its way, now and for the tuture, and in order to reduce gold to par and advance paper to the same honest level. This is a sum representing with gold at par no less than £100,000,000 sterling, and, as it would have to be drained out of the resources of a country not nearly so populous as Great Britain, which is but scantily settled for its immense area, and on which the chief burden of taxation would have to fall upon the in habitants of the large cities, all that need be said is that Mr. Chase's ideas of finance are peculiarly American. "They jest at scars who never felt a wound ;" and people who talk with such stupendous unconcern about a fiscal burden, even of half the "weight of one hundred millions sterling per an num, are in a condition of blissful ignorance. Mr. Chase does not stand alone in his faith. Yesterday Mr. Morrill, the author of the famous " Morrill Tariff," which imposed a duty of about 33 per cent. on every article of European manufacture imported into the United States, in proposing to raise that high rate to 66 per cent., and generally to double the duties imposed by the Internal Revenue Bill of last year, which so egregiously disappointed the expectations of every financier in America, Mr. Chase included, gave utterance to opinions on the subject of the taxpaying powers of this people that were enough to take away the breath of everybody bat an American in surprise at the Brobdignagian character of his estimates. "The demands upon the Treasury he admitted to be unprecedented." but the resources of the country he affirmed " to be equal to any possible emergency, good or bad." "Five hundred millions of dollars per annum were a trifle." " The people of the United States had " not only the means to pay every dollar they owed or ever would owe, but to pay the debt, however large it might become, principal and interest, in gold." " The Government was supplied with more gold than was sufficient for its purposes, and was actually begging creditors to receive payment in advance." "If the war were closed in 1865 the whole debt now and to be in the interval incurred would be paid off in ten years." "Let us," said this furiously hopeful financier, " have loans and taxes, and increase the pay of the soldiers. With the dash of a general who never fails, we must anticipate crushing results to the enemy ; and with military success we shall be victorious over all ills." Mr. Morrill, in the excitement of his imagination, never condescended to explain what might happen, pro vided " we" should not be favoured with " military success." But why should he ? Is he not as mad as the dwellers in the Paradise of Fools ? Or why s hould the reason of those who are not fools and the experience of the whole world be brought to bear against the delusions of a gentleman so credulous as to tale° his dreams for facts and his hopes for reali ties, and who is so dazzled by the brilliancy of his own patriotism as to be unable to see for excess of light that which others who do not gaze upon the sun with their naked eyes can behold quite plainly ? For Mr. Morrill there are no shadows. All is light and glory—illimitable wealth, illimitable power, and illimitabl e conquest. Were all bis countrymen equally blind, the impending financial catastrophe would be hideous indeed. He, at least, would not put the break on the wheel when the frantic horses were dragging the chariot down the hill to the in evitable precipice, but would lash and goad them to renewed speed. This gentleman's name has been mentioned as Mr. Chase 's s uccessor in the Treasury department should th e l atter resign or be dismissed. The mischief he would do m a y be im ag ined choice extracts of his sp eec h above quoted, from the quoted, in the purport of which, I had almost forgotten to mention, he was support e d by Mr. Steb bins, the chairman of the Board of Brokers in this city. But madness ru l es the hour, and if Mr. Morrill be not Secretary of the Treasury it is very generally considered that he des erves to be. The war naves is not favourable to the Federal cause. The operations of General Forrest on the Mississippi create anxiety, and the repulse of the forces of General Stone at Pleasant Hill, in Louis iana, oa their way to Shrevefort, where the Con federate Governor of the State has taken up hi s headquarters, is looked upon as still more ominous of future disaster. The loss is admitted by the Fe dorals to amount to 2,000 killed and wounded—. and stated by the Confederates to be seven times that number, —showing in either case a desperate fight, and a severe defeat of the plans of General Banks in that region. There is no movement as yet upon the Rapidan by either of the armies. The Confederates have destroyed and evacuated Fort Pillow, probably finding it impossible to hold it without gunboats. There is as yet no confirma tion of the reports of the barbarity inflicted upon the negro soldiers—reports that bore the stamp of gross exaggeration, if not of positive falsehood, such as those which declared that women and children had been massacred ; that one negro had been nailed upon a plank by his captors and thrown into the fire, and that five unarmed men had been buried alive, and had afterwards crawled out of their graves only to be knocked upon the head by their inhuman enemy. Mr. Lincoln, in a speech which he made the night before last at the opening of the Baltimore Sanitary Fair, alluded to these rumours, and said that the Government had no direct evidence to confirm them, though he himself feared that they were but too true. If they should prove to be so, he promised that retribution—probably meaning retaliation—should follow. But how that retribu- tion (or retaliation) was to be administered, was a question which he could not then settle. He did not link it would be right to take the life of prisoners in Washington, in Fort Delaware, or elsewhere, in retaliation for acts in which they had not shared, and asked his audience if it would be right to take the prisoners captured atiVicksburg and shoot them for acts of which they were Lilt guilty, and which it would probably be found were the orders of only a few individuals, or possibly of only one man. Mr. Lincoln was right to have his doubts. The Federal Government cannot and dares not retaliate. The greater the atrocity of the massacres committed— provided that any were committed at all—the more impossible it will be for him or his Government to carry the threat into execution. To denounce such acts before the great tribunal of civilisation, and to call upon the Confederate Government not only to disavow them but to bring their perpetrators to punishment, is all that is required. To retaliate would be, in cold blood, to lower the Federal Go vernment to the level of the few individuals, or possibly of the one man, who in hot blood permitted or ordered the fiendish barbarity complained of, and utterly un worthy of the President of the United States. Even to threaten retaliation as vaguely and indirectly as he did, was a descent from the dignity of his position which can only be excused by remembering that Mr. Lincoln is not a ready speaker, that he was taken unprepared, and did not reflect that it is best to say nothing if you have nothing to say, especially if you be an Emperor, a King, or a President—or any one else who pos sesses great power, and whose lightest words are severely criticized. Little is heard in New York of the doings of Federal Generals in the South. From the little that is divulged, it would appear, however, that the rule of General Banks at New Orleans is as rigid as that of General Butler. The Louisianas are a conquered people, and they are made to feel it. In this respect there is no difference between Butler and Banks. The one was a tyrant without pity, remorse, or conscience ; and the other is a tyrant who thinks it possible to be a gentleman. Perhaps New Orleans has lost rather than gained by the exchange, for Butler's doings challenged the atten- ' tion of the world, and provoked sympathy for the unhappy sufferers ; while Banks works more silently, and without creating the public scandal which Butler seemed to delight in rather than to deprecate. But that his administration of the Government of the unhappy region which has fallen unier his control is quite as despotic as Butler's, will be apparent from the story of his treatment of one of the wealthiest and most respected citizens of New Orleans, Mr. James D. Denegre, who has had the misfortune to incur his displeasure. At the recent election of a civil Governor of Louisiana, the nominee of the Federal Government and of General Banks was, of course, chosen. Though General Banks had deolared that to abstain from voting would be considered a crime, only 11,000 persons took the trouble to participate in the election ; and as there is a force of 'about 20,000 Federal soldiers in the city and neighbourhood, it may be easily understood that 11,000 votes may easily have been procured, without the participation of any of the citizens, influential or otherwise. On the inaugura• tion of the Governor so chosen, a Mr. Michael Hahn, a lawyer in good practice and a native of Bremen, who emigrated to America in early life, the military authorities, anxious to give all possible eclat to the ceremony, invited every in habitant of New Orleans whose wealth and social position were sufficient to render fashionable any celebration at which he chose to be present. With out waiting for the ;acceptance of these gentle men or their families, the official papers were instructed to announce them as supporters of Governor Hahn, and as having taken part in the inauguration. Mr. Denegre, forgetful of the fact that he lived ander a military despotism, and that he was suspected[of the crime of sympathy with the Southern Confederacy, wrote the following letter to the editor of L' -lbeille de la Nouvelle Orleans, a journal published both in French and English " New Orleans, March 6th. _ _ " Sir,—l find my name mentioned in the public prints as having assisted in the inaugural ceremonies of yesterday. Although an invited guest I did not attend or participate therein. But lam still more surprised to find that the old veterans of 1815, J. B. Planche and Alfred Heiman, were aim present—the former having been dead for more than three years, and the other, having been absent since last spring. " Yours, &c., JAMES D. DENEGRE." . , It was represented to Mr. Denegre, by some of his friends, that he should have confined himself to a personal statement, and been discreet enough to say nothing about the dead Mr. Planche and the absent Mr. Hennan ; and that in all probability the military authorities would make his letter the pretext for visiting upon him the wrath which they hac:, long been nursing against him, for refusing to associate with General Banks or his epauletted:sub ordinates. Tae sagacity of these gentlemen was not at fault; and 12 days after publication of his damaging epistle he received the following : "headquarters, Provost-Marshal-General, Department of the Gulf, 201, Carondelet-street, New Orleans, Mfch 18, "Mr James D. Denegre, " Sir,—By orders of Major-General commanding, you are hereby required to leave this department in five days from this date. " At the expiration of that time transportation will be provided to carr# you beyond the lines of the army, and within the lines controlled by the rebel Government. " Very respectfully, " JAMES BROWN, Brigadier General, " Provost Marshal General, Department of the Gulf." Mr. Denegr3 immediately sought Brigadier- General Brown, and represented that if his presence in New Orleans were considered undesirable he would exile himself to Havannah or to Europe, and pledge himself not to return until the expiration of the war. He was informed that this could not be allowed, and that he must be forthwith transported into the Confederate lines. He then begged the grace of one additional day, in order to be better able to make arrangements far the comfort of his wife and family, whom he would leave behind in the meanwhile, as they had not been commanded to accompany him. The request was refused, and at the end of the fifth day he was escortEd by the military beyond the lines of the Federal army, and there left to shift for himself as best he might. Should Mr. Denegre decide to take the oath of alle giance to the Confederate Government, he will doubtless be received with all the cordiality due to his personal character and the sympathy due to his sufferings in the cause of the South; but in that case his house—one of the finest and most luxu riously furnished and decorated in New Orleans— and all the other property he may have left behind, will be confiscated to the use of the Federals. Mrs. Denegre will be turned out of possession, and some military underling will be installed in her place to admire the pictures and statuary, and drink the wines of the exile. Should Mr. Denegre desire to save his property, and refuse to take the oath, the Confederate authorities will not allow him to remain on their soil, and he will have to do, as Mr. Yallandigham did before him, make his way to one of the Atlantic ports, and run the blockade to Nassau. From that point he may reach Europe at his leisure, happy if, having foreseen the coming storm, he took the precaution months ago, as it is believed he did, of e xc h ang i ng half a million of Federal gre en b ac k s for Parisian gold, and the gloomy despotis m o f his native city for the life and gaiety of the F renc h capital. Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and liabilities without publicity, by application to Messrs. Marshall, sollattors of the Court of Bankruptcy. Charges under .£5 payable by easy instalments, offices— (established 1830), 12, Hatton-garden. City branch —CI, 3loor gate-street, Bank,—ADyr. Railway and Public Companies in Par- liament, Yesterday, in the committee on the new Metro politan railways, the opposition of the London and Brighton Company to the proposed new Battersea lines of the London and South Western was pro ceeded with, and evidence adduced. The com mittee will take the clauses of the Metropolitan Railway Company's additional powers bill and those of the Midland Railway Company's St. Pan• cras branch bill this day into consideration. The committee on the East Norfolk Railway passed that company's bill, and that of the Great Eastern Railway for an extension of seven miles for a line in junction with the company's Loughton line to point in Epping forest, near Fairmead House, south of Highbeech•green, and for raising £120,000 as new ordinary or preference capital and £40,000 by mortgage. The next case heard was that of the Royston and Hitchin Railway, to empower the Great Northern, who are owners of it, to make divers branch lines in the district, to raise £160,000 as new ordinary or 4, 1 ,- per cent. preference capital, and £53,000 by mortgage. Traffic and engineer ing evidence occupied the committee on the Bristol Central Railway and stations, Great Northern (Lincoln to Bourn), Lancashire and Yorkshire (Blackburn lines), Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay. The case for the Dublin Grand Junction Railway, by which it is proposed to complete the railway system of the Irish capital, to raise £350,000 and £116,G00 by loan, was opened and evidence taken. The line will cross the Liffey above King's bridge, by a viaduct of one span of 170 feet and 40 feet high. The bill for the Dumfriesshire and Cumberland Solway Junction Railway also went into committee, the object, as stated by counsel, being to construct a line of 20 miles from a junc tion with the Caledonian Railway to Seafield, thence across the Solway Firth by the west of Bowness to Kirkbridge, and to a junction with the lilary port and Carlisle, at an estimated cost of £320,000 and £lO,OOO loan. The bill for the Albert-bridge and approaches over the 'T hames, between Chelsea and Fulham, the South Yorkshire Railway, Newry and Armagh Railway, Wandsworth and Fulham Bridge, Salisbury Gas, and Liverpool Exchange were passed in Lord Redesdale's committee. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1864. The Shakspere Tercentenary Festival. STRANFORD-ON-AVON, Monday Evening. Although the festival proper expired gloriously at half past 5 on Saturday morning with " God save the Queen," vigorously played, and " Three cheers for the Mayor," lustily shouted in the pavilion, Mr Cdote's band having compensated by its spirited performance of the dance music for the very indifferent manner in which it had filled up the theatrical interval on Friday, I felt myself bound to wait for the pageant which, according to innumerable placards, was to pass through the streets of Stratford this morning. On former occasions the pageant was looked upon as the essential part of the festival, and it had in the eyes of the populace this distinctive advantage over all other entertainments, that it could be seen for nothing. Garrick's pageant, as I have already recorded, was obliged by stress of weather to a void Stratford, and cross the boards of Drury Lane Theatre instead ; but at all events it was intended, and a good intention is one grade above absolute nonentity. The procession of 1827, which seems to have been very good, I have already described, and that of 1830, if inferior in quality, was similar in principle—that is to say, St. George held a foremost place, and Melpomene and Thalia rode in cars, each followed by a train of the most noted Shaksperian characters. As far as I can ascertain, and my conversations on the subject have not been unfrequent, the pageant of 1830 did not leave a very favourable impression on the minds of the local aristocracy. It seems to have been figuratively, if not literally, a Brummagem affair. Still, it is affection ately remembered by the populace, who have been forward in expressing their disappointment that something of the kind was not projected by the present committee. Slighted by the "swells," and nobly asserting their independence, they resolved to have a " pageant" of their own, with the assistance of Mr. Ginnett, the proprietor of an itinerant circus, who was ready to supply any number of bipeds and quadrupeds that might be required for that great occa sion. The committee, equally resolute, were determined that the pageant should not take place on any of the days of the festival proper, shrewdly surmising that it would not greatly increase the grandeur of their ceremony. Passing through the streets this morning it conciliated the contend ing parties. I give the printed programme of this supplementary solemnity : Two Heralds, with trumpets, on horsoback. Boy with Union The Royal Standard of Boy with tiinon Jack. England (borne by Jack. two men). Bellman. Flag. Boy with Banner. THE ARMY. The Adjutant-General Sir James Yorke Scarlett has pro mulgated the following order :—His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief is pleased to express his approbation of the intrepid and gallant conduct exhi bited on the occasion of the explosion of the magazine at Birmingham by Lieut Philp, Cornet Sanderson, Sergeant Masturson, Privates Regan, Jones, Neilson, and Pentland, of the 2d Dragoons, to whom, as well as to all others who rendered their assistance, the highest praise is due for the cool and daring courage they displayed. The Adjutant-General Sir James Yorke Scarlett has ad dressed a circular memorandum to officers commanding depot battalions, containing a copy of a letter from the War-office, and addressed to the Military Secretary at the Horse Guards, stating the conditions under which officers belonging to regiments in India will be allowed to volun teer for service in the Commissariat Department. The letter states that their application can only be enter tained in case their stay at the depots in England will be likely to afford time, without delay or inconvenience to the ordinary regimental relief, for the examination and six months' probation to take place, if there should be vacancies in the Commissariat Department, The Secretary of State for War requests that, in forwarding each application, it may be stated for what period the officer may expect to re main at home. The spring inspections of the infantry regiments sta tioned in Portsmouth garrison commenced yesterday with the inspection by Major• Gen Lord W. Paulet, C,8., of the 2d battalion of the Ist Royals. The disembarkation of the invalided soldiers, with the women and children, who arrived at Spithead on Saturday in the ships Alumbagh and Queen of the South, was effected yesterday morning at Spithead by the aid of two Govern ment steam tugs, as early as 5 20 a.m., under the personal superintendence of Col Shadwell, Assistant• Quaitermaster- General of the south-west district. At 6 a.m. the tugs, with the invalided men, were well on their way to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley; and the Alumbagh and Queen of the South were on their way to the Thames. Such a quick despatch as is here shown is conveying sick soldiers from the 'tween decks of a troopship to the more roomy and comfortable quarters of a military hospital speaks well for the good understanding which must exist between the naval and military authorities at Portsmouth, and also for the energy displayed by the Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen• The headquarters of the Bth Hussars (the King's Royal Irish) were disembarked at 1 p.m. yesterday from the In diaman Renown, and sent on by special train, the train being brought inside the dockyard to receive the troops and their luggage at 2 p.m. to Brighton. During the time the troops were being disembarked Major- Gen Lord W. Paulet, accompanied by his staff, rode into the dockyard and re mained some time witnessing the process of disembarkation which was being effected under the superintendence of Col. Shadwell. THE WAR IN DENMARK, (From the Times Special Correspondent at the Danish head-quarters.) COPEN H A G EN, April 29. The faith of the Danes in the possible result of a Confe rence was at no time very great, and that explains the re luctance with which the proposal of such a meeting was at first entertained at Copenhagen. Diplomatic mediation, they think, rosy answer its purpose when war is going on between two States of nearly balanced power, and when peace is urged upon them by equally strong or even stronger nations, interested in the preservation of public order and security, and sure, by the slightest effort, to turn the scales against that one of the belligerents who may show himself less amenable to reason. But when the quarrel arises be tween an unarmed traveller lying prostrate on the ground and two burly highwaymen pouring the contents of their ruffianly blunderbuss - es intolhis writhing body, the case is not one for the meek, Quaker-like remonstrance of the peacemaker, but fer the active interference of the police man's bludgeon. Prussia and Austria had from the begin ning the little monarchy of Denmark at their mercy. Their aggression on a defenceless neighbour might or might not involve them in difficulties with the Western Powers. But they took their chance of that; they knew they could al ways rely on the apathy and irresolution of England ; they flattered themselves they had it always in their power to propitiate the ambition of Prance—at all events, they reckoned upon the traditional antipathies, on the mutual jealousies and suspicions of those two countries. They were aware, at any rate, of the proneness of all Europe to acqui esce in faits accomplis. They were not far out in their calculations; they brought against Denmark a force sufficient to crush her in three days ; in three months they had her at their mercy. Then began that diplomatic negotiation which secured the consent of all parties concerned to a Conference before April 1, which put off the meeting of that Conference till the 25th, and which, so far as we know here, has not been able to bring about an armistice on the 29th, And, in the meanwhile, we have the byplay of the Emperor Napoleon congratulating Prussia on her victory at Dybbol, and throwing out his hints as to an appeal to universal suffrage. 'With thew; bitter reflections and gloomy forebodings do the Danes look forward to the results of the London Confe rence. None of us can forget the time when an o th er s mall State —Piedmont—worsted in her Lomb ar d campa i g n against Austria, at Custozza, placed herself in th e h an ds of those same Western Powers, and expected f rom F renc h and Eng lish mediation a solution of the It a li an que stion, which might enable her at least to fall on her feet and find some remedy for the evils of an oppressed nationality- Well, the endeavours of the well meaning mediators seemed all tend ing to afford Austria what she wanted—time. Time gave Austria the means of reorganising her shattered strength; it wore out the resources, the patience, the faith of dis tracted Sardinia, Ten months' Anglo-French diplomacy only ripened the disaster o f Novara. So far as the Western Powers were concerned, not only were Piedmont and Italy sacrificed, but, thanks to them, the death, which was at all events inevitable, was aggravated by 10 mouths' agony. We have here a parencl case, give or six months ago Germady picked a quarrel with Denmark. Had the latter been really conscious of her isolated position she would have at once ascertained the extent of her aggressors' de. mends, and compounded with them as she best could, taking her counsel for necessity. Bat Sweden and Norway gave positive promise of aid; and, in the case of a neigh bear whose ho use i s on l y sepa rated from a burning , building by a Firtition wall, co-operation was to be reasonably expec t e d . E ng land was loud in he r I expression of sy mpa th y. D en mark fought and suc cumbed, and she is as alone in the council as she has been all along in the field. That being the case, why should Denmark prolong negotiation any more than persevere in the contest? The traveller is on the ground ; the muzzles of the highwaymen's blunderbusses press on either side on his temples. Would it not be a thousand times the wisest course to hold out his purse and let the spoilers help them selves ? That is the conclusion most people about me have come to. " What do these Germans wish ?" they say, " W?rat is the extent of their demands ? Do they want Holstein and half Schleswig? Or will nothing but the whole of Ow Duchies, and Jutland into the bargain, satisfy them ? Let them keep what they have ; lit them take what we have no power to withhold from them !" Ail the unarmed intercession of the Western Powers, the Danes are convinced, will not a t this moment be of any avail towards preserving the integrity of their monarchy. Were it even possible to retain the Duchies on any arrangement of personal union, the very existence of Denmark as a State and a nation would, they think, be more irreparably com promised than by any amount of territorial loss. So long as one German subject remains, placed on exceptional con ditions, Germanism, they f anc y, will eat into the very vitals of Danish nationality. Holstein and German Schleswig must be held at discretion, or are better parted with. If the line of the Schlei and the Dannewerke can satisfy Ger man cupidity, the Danes will be rather gainers than losers by the riddance. Unfortunately, the line of demarcation between the two nationalities cannot be fixed at the Danne werke and the Schlei ; it is not to be drawn on any natural or artificial boundary. Should the test of race, language, and choice be referred to, it would be necessary to consult the vote of every town, village, and hamlet ; it would have to be done upon the removal of all armed force, Danish or German; it should take place under the supervision of a fair-dealing French and English authority, and the result would be sun a jagged frontier, such a dovetailing of one people into the other, as would render the limitation of the two States fur all practical purposes a mere impossibility. But even when Denmark is brought to this pass—when necessity wrings from her so ruinous a concession—will she have peace granted to her ? Will Germany be satisfied with her prey—with the fine harbours of Kiel and Eckern torde—with the extension of her trade and maritime power in the Baltic ? The landmarks of old Europe are removed, and the victorious Prussians are sweeping on far and wide over Jutland. Three hours can give them possession of Alsen—three days of Fredericia. Their irresistible artil lery can force a way over the Little Belt into Funen. A trifling reverse can do away with such superiority as Ben mark may still boast at sea. Why should not the Teuton push on his conquests upon Zealand ? Why should he not have the Sound in his keeping ? The Danish branch of his old Scandinavian enemy lies at his discretion, and Europe is in no mood to set any limit to successful aggression. Robbed of the southern districts of the Cimbrian Peninsula, it little matters whether Denmark preserves the name of an independent State—virtually she becomes a mere vassal of Germany ; in her reduced fortunes she must be fain to obey the behests of the very Powers with which she engaged in the too unequal contest. Let Germany have Kiel and Eekernforde, possibly also Flensburg and Apenrade and Horup Hay, and you will see what bearing that will have, not only on the destinies of Denmark and Sweden, but also on the maritime and mili tary relations of all Europe. Remove all restraint from the ambition of the stronger States ; let it be understood that the weaker can be despoiled with impunity; allow Prussia to take the lead in Germany ; force Austria to seek her in. demnity on the Po or the Danube, reveal to the world your fears of a little war; you will see what prospects of a universal war open before you!" Such is the cry of wail and warning that rises at the present day in the streets of Copenhagen. Denmark looks upon herself as lost. It is for Europe to consider how much of the general peace and security may be involved in her ruin. Arrival of the Confederate Cruiser Georgia in the Mersey, LIVERPOOL, Monday. Much excitement was caused in the shipping quarters of the town this day, when it became known that the Confe derate war steamer Georgia had quietly steamed up the river and taken up her anchorage-ground between the Woodside and Seacombe ships. As this is the first time that any Confederate ship of war has ever entered the Mersey, crowds of people gathered on the landing-stages and pier-heads to have a look at the cruiser. So far as out ward appearances are concerned, the Georgia is nothing when compared with any of the screw steamers which lie close to her—indeed, she is rather an ugly lump of a vessel. The hull is short, and painted black, as is her fun nel. She has two masts brig-rigged, and on the whole looks as if she was cut out for anything but the work she is in tended for. The Confederate flag floated very prominently, and its close resemblance to our own Union Jack with the exception of the white ground, led many people to con found the Georgia with the new African mail steamer Ca labar, which lay astern of the Confederate, and which actually does look more of the clipper than her belligerent companion. Tho Georgia's last port of departure was Bor deaux, but her date of sailing has not been given, though from current reports we learn that the run round from Bor deaux has been rather tedious. The vessel is in charge of Capt. Evans, the sailing master, and her real object is of course for the present kept a secret, some saying that her screw is deranged, others that she is going to take on board a quantity of patent fuel, while souse gobentouches go so far as to assert that she is to await the decision of the Lairds' ram case, and then sail with them " off to Charleston." That the arrival of the Georgia was not unexpected is shown by the fact that on Saturday it was ;currently re ported that she was in the river, and crowds of the curious were " sold" in consequence of the formidable Confederate man of war turning out to be a poor worn. out blockade runner, named Eugenie, which had arrived from Bermuda, and the captain of which, with more zeal than discretion, on entering the river hoisted the Confederate ensign at the gaff, and foolishly flew a pennant from his main. The Georgia mounts six guns, and is manned by a crew of 60 men. The real commander of the cruiser is Lieut. Maury, a son of the well-known Lieut. Maury, late of the United States navy, and now a prominent officer in the Confede- I rate service, Since writing the above we learn that the Georgia will go into the Birkenhead Docks this ,evening. It is new cur rently reported that the Georgia will be offered for sale in Liverpool. Gentlemen interested in the ship have been very much pressed relative to the object of the vessel visit ing Liverpool, and they state positively that the only reason is to effect a sale of the ship as she is not altogether suited fur the service in which she has lately been engaged. It is hinted that the crew of the Georgia may be kept in readi ness for the Alexandra. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—There are many who when they are told that the Conference meets again to-morrow will only think that a solemn and well-intended, but ueeless ceremony is to be repeated, and that England is to persist for a time longer in the unappreciated and almost ridiculous task of peacemaker. The German Powers have certainly given but too much reason for this depreciation of the assembly which now resumes its sittings. They have shown that neither respect for treaties, nor regard for the tra ditional alliance between England and themselves, nor generosity towards a weak State, nor a sense of shame in attacking it, nor a fear of endangering the peace of Europe has been sufficient to restrain them from gratifying their pique against the Danish nation, and endeavouring to earn a cheap renown by crushing its armies. At last we may truly say the cup of their wrongdoing is full. They have not only occupied Holstein as a part of the German Confederation, but they have overrun Schleswig, with which they have legally no more to do than with Kent. But, as if this were not enough, they have now advanced beyond the limits of the Duchies. Fredericia ie abandoned before their legions, which have pushed into Jutland, and are now reported to have imposed a war contribution on the inhabitants, to be paid in 48 hours. They calculate on pursuing the broken remains of the Danish army into Alsen, and possibly into Funen. The desperate courage of the Danes favours the plans of their pitiless enemies. Prussia and Ausa tria could wish nothing better than that the generals opposed to them should be forced to hold their positions through fear of the wrath of Copen hagen, and that a King and Cabinet should think an overthrow better than a retreat. The German Powers, to whom success is a rare gratification, have been too successful to turn back at the bidding of justice or prudence, or anything but a manifesta tion of superior force ; and if they persevere there is nothing to prevent still further victories, involving even the destruction of the Danish nationality. Denmark proper may be said to be in their hands. They are spreading over Jutland, and from the Jutland coast they can cross into Funen, and thus occupy one of the two chief Danish islands. Nor is there any reason that they should stop there. An Austrian squadron has passed up Channel ; it may well be that the campaign, if continued, will extend into Zealand itself, and the alleged wrongs of Ger many be avenged under the walls of Copenhagen. When high-handed Sovereigns, not accustomed to much loyalty at home or any great triumpns abroad, see the opportunity of winning popularity and military credit at the same time, it is not wonder ful that they should yield to the temptation. Only the fear of sharp intervention by some great Power, capable of inflicting humiliation, is likely to restrain them. This deterring force has been wholly absent on the present occasion. Lord Russell did, indeed, speak loudly, according to his wont, but the only effect of this was to bring about the calamities he sought to avoid. The Danes thought they would have a protector; Germany knew they would not. The natural tendency of a weak State is to rely on its neighbours, and to thinin that good will and amity mean an alliance offensive and defensive, was exemplified in the confidence with which the Copen hagen Government appealed to arms. The Germans knew better. They were aware that thor.gh Eng land might, as was the case ten years ago, enter into a war when some great and paramount interest, involving the fate of Europe, was at stake, public opinion would not consider the transfer ot a province to so inert a body as the German Confederation a sufficient reason for drawing the sword. That Eng land would not fight was from the beginning plain enough. The press was against :gar; it was certain that the House of Commons would be against it ; the Cabinet itself could hardly have seriously enter tained it. Thus encouraged the German Powers persevered, and the result shows that they judged with sufficient discernineat. It would require something more than the mere occupation of the Duchies and the expulsion of the Danish army from the mainland to bring England into the strife. fiente the diplomacy of our Minister has been in vain, for his expostala tions:have been disregarded as those of a Danish partisaz and his threats as the utterance of one unable to move a ship or a regiment. It may be, however, that the two Powers count too far on the forbearance of England. A nation like ours is generally guided in its policy by a calculation of what it can effect and what it must fail in. The invasion of Holstein and Bchleswig by Germany was a movement which could only be opposed by England putting forth all her strength. The way was open, and must be defended by large armies prepared for a regular campaign. No doubt Eng land, tng6Zher with ,weden ? might have success fully held the Dannewerke ; bat public opinfon in England would never have sanctioned the waste of so much blood and treasure in such a cause. Now, however, the case is different. The Germans have occupied the mainland of Denmark, and are sus pected et a desire to make themselves masters of one or more of the islands. The last design could emily be prevented by the presence of an English fleet, and though we would still counsel a peaceful mediation, the knowledge that the Channel Fleet is in the Downs and ready to sail at 24 hours' notice should warn the German Powers that we have the power at very slight cost of protecting the inde pendence of part, at least, of the Danish posses sions. But, in an enumeration of the reasons which have led to the obstinacy of the German Powers, it would be wrong to refrain from noticing th e position of France. For some reason best known to himself, the French Emperor has thonght fit to encourage, or at least to avoid discouraging, the pretensions of Germany. His Majesty is not so much the friend of Prussia and Austria as the patron of the minor States, the friend of German nationality, the Liberal statesman who would settle the future of the Duchies by a plebiscite, Yet for the two great Powers also ho has kind words, and is even said to have congratulated the Prussian army on the fall of Dybbol. The influence which the Emperor possesses in Europe, the belief that on the Continent no war is possible without him, and the fact that our own pacific policy was in a great measure the consequence of Napoleon's disinclina tion to stir,have filled the Germans with the notion that France is on their side, and that consequently they need fear no check. Yet it tis not difficult to see a sufficient reason for the French Emperor's con duct. The irritation against England caused by the rejection of his Congress may have had some effect, but there are doubtless other and more weighty causes. It would be an affectation not to allude to the darling wish of every Imperialist—the extension of France to its former boundaries by the possession of the left bank of the Rhine. That this is espe cially the desire of Napoleon 111. he would pro bably himself not think of denying. This standing danger ought to warn the Germans bow they weaken the bonds which join them to England ; it ought to teach them:that France can never wish them to pur sue any policy but one which will so weaken them as to compel them to part with the most historic and famous portion of their soil. Can they not imagine that the half-encouragement they receive in this affair is intended to widen the breach between them and the people of these islands ? The events of the last few years have produced an estrangement be tween the people of the two countries which, if not remedied, will turn to a settled antipathy. The conduct of Prussia in the Crimean War, the Hun garian and Italian policy of Austria, the Russo- Prussian alliance of last year for the repression of Poland, not to mention other trivial but not the less irritating occurrences, have caused such a feeling in this country that we verily believe, if it were not from regard to the independence of Belgium and Holland, nine Englishmen out of ten would see the French in Cologne with the most complete indiffe rence. We sincerely regret this state of things, and hope that wisdom will at last visit these self-willed Sovereigns and their subjects. They are now break ing up that mutual confidence and respect which have, much more than armies, preserved the peace of Europe. A time may assuredly soon come when they will repent the example they set of annexing provinces by force. If the Danes succumb in this unequal struggle, they may be sure that the day of retribution awaits their enemies. HERALD.—The gravity of the position into which England has been forced by her present Ministers can no longer be denied or concealed. Last even ing Lord Clarence Paget admitted that the Chan nel fleet had been concentrated in the Downs, with a view to political contingencies. It would be worse than idle to discredit the rumours which on every side are gaining ground. We hear nothing of the Conference, or of its tendencies, except that an agreement between the Western Powers, Ger many and Denmark, seems impossible. What we do learn is, that Austria and Prussia remain in their obstinate mood ; that the other states of con tinental Europe—France excepted—submit to fol low them, and that the negotiations now on foot have not the remotest chance of success. The British fleet, then, is ordered to the Downs, with what object of menace or bluster it might be hazardous to surmise. An Austrian squadron, at any rate, precedes it to the Baltic, with a Prussian vanguard, in quest of a Scandinavian Sinope. What is to come out of all this ? Are we, at the eleventh hour, beginning to remember our national dignity ? Has Lord Russell been forewarned that demands will be made on the part of the German Crowns, to which not even Whig diplomacy can condescend? These questions are just now unan swerable An Admiralty official can raise a cheer in the House of Commons by declaring that our iron-sides are prepared, whether for a voyage to the Gulf of Mexico or for an expedition to the Baltic ; but we desire to know what policy under lies these manceuvree. At whose command is our Channel fleet in readiness ? Whose are the sailing orders which the admiral in commission will obey ? Are they to be French or English—lmperial or constitutional? We have, as a nation, passed through many vicissitudes ; but it has seldom happened that our navy has coquetted to the discretion of a foreign Power. Who doubts, however, that England is now at the disposal of France—that peace and war depend, for us, upon an alien arbitration that a single word pronounced in the Gallic language would set cur broadsides ablaze, and turn, for us at all events, the current of European affairs ? This may be strategic, but it is honourable ? Are we no longer to hold a policy of our own ? The House of Com mons, when an Admiralty official stated that the Channel fleet of Great Britain had been bold enough to anchor in the Downs, heard the announcement with bated breath,-as though so signal a mark of independence were incredible in the career of a pro fessionally patriotic statesman. The resolution, however, is not so startling as upon the first blush it might appear. Lord Palmerston and Lord Rus sell have descanted upon the necessity of peace, and have not preserved it. Whether or not a general war breaks forth they have not preserved the peace I of Europe. They have trifled with it, gambled with it, made it alternately a bugbear and a pre tence ; and now, when the second assembling of the Conference is ticketted to take place, on the third day of May, they inform the House of Commons that the British fleet has anchored in the Downs. This may, or may not, be on a par with all the other hollow brag to which the English public have listened. We are not asked, we suppose, to believe that either the Premier or the Foreign Secretary is a simpleton. We are not to believe that either of them is more foolishly or helplessly blind than ordi nary observers of public affairs. Then why a threat to Germany upon the eve of a solemn deliberation with the principal states of Europe ? Is it a hypo critical vaunt, or is it a confession of the real danger which exists ? For ourselves we fear that the direc tion taken by the chiefs of the Conference is not in favour of European peace. Would to Heaven that the ironclads in the Downs were the only shadows cast athwart the dial-plate of public affairs. The country is deceived by the Government. Steps are taken, invidiously, and not honestly, to expose by degrees the peril in which we stand ; but the storm is darkening over England, and may even now find her unprepared. On what side has she an ally ? In what quarter can she look for a friend ? France is loyal. That is the Ministerial creed. France is loyal. That is the vulgar hope. But who is in command of the British fleet in the Channel? Is it a British admiral or a Parisian Minister? The time has arrived for plain speaking. We have watched the gathering of German squadrons in the Baltic ; we have followed their pirate flags across those waters which the German representatives at the Conference would set free for Federal adven turing alone; but have we ever yet seen our navy in a subaltern, dependent, tolerated position, anchoring in British waters, with foreign colours virtually flying at the flag-ship's peak ? This is a matter for Englishmen to think upon. England is not mistress of the seas. No country, it may be, should arrogate that position. But England is not mistress of herself. In the name of glory, what is the national pride which permits us to play the part of grand chamberlain in a ceremony which introduces to Europe the Emperor of the French as her arbitrator? Not that the English people undervalue the French alliance. They prize it; they regard it as a guarantee of whatever of right and law may be re-established in Europe after the existing complications have been dissipated ; but France is not our citadel; the Imperial Cabi net and the British fleet have still their separate existence. We are all in these islands for peace ; yet we had rather not be told that our fleet, how ever pacific its demonstrations, awaited orders from the Tuileries. There need be no mystification as to the crisis at which the affairs of Europe have arrived. We are hovering between peace and general war. The Conference, instead of pouring oil upon the waters, may prove a f,relaa d e r d d . ly S o e far as diplomatic diselosneea go, it can t' anything else. But behind all thik; chance- me dl ey of fatuous negotiation wh ere can we perceive the distinct outline of English policy abroad At present we can trace nothing except vague hints of contingent meddling and vulgar paradings of a phantom fleet. In the meantime however, the Flying Dutchmen of Austeie. and Prussia com placently lea - se their anchorage in the Downs, politely giving place to Admiral Dacres, and steer on their course unmolested to the Baltic. We may not interfere with them. Perhaps that in itself is a circumstance not to be regretted. Bat we may not interfere in anything, We are tabooed. Europe ae clese4 egainet us. 14ogland has been " cut " by her neighbours, and must go begging to France for a fresh introduction. This may be what is called a pacific policy. It may postpone the evil hour, It may substitute degradationijoliey foarcedeapubelre. But in the l ong run w ill i t h e a to Englishmen Time was when a signal, " The fleet is in the Downs!" would have sent a thrill through millions of Znglish heArte. Now the tidings are received with incredulit y. The fleet in the Downs ! What then ? To wh at base use may our navy be put ? Is an Englishman or a foreigner at the helm ? At best, we scarcely Eke our fleet to figure at the fag-end of an abort lye Conference. The Conference meets once more this day, and the fleet, as the Admiralty tells us, sheles its canvass over the Downs. We wait for bot h ; we wait for the Conference to prove itself better than a sham, and for the fleet to deserve a higher eulogium then can be bestowed by his Grace of Somerset, or echoed by that most jaunty of Whig s—Lord Paget, his deputy—in a House of Commons, which per. mits the Admiralty to believe that, of two public institutions, the British Admiralty is a necessity and the British navy an accident. Boy with Banner. Boy with Flaz. The Band of the Boy with Flag Stratford-upon-Avon Rifl© Corps. Banner of the Arms of Stratford-upon• Avon. Tha Device of Banner of the Arms of The Device o Shakspere. Shakspere, Shakspere. carried by two men. Mr, Ginnett's Band and Carriage, drawn by four cream coloured 12Ores. St. George, on horseback, in full armour. St. George's Banner, borne by his Esquire, on horseback. Page with Prince Banner of the arms Page with Prince of Wales' of the Prince of of Wales' Feather. Wales. Feather. Melpomene, the Tragic Muse, In a black draped car, drawn by four black and white horses with four Furies in pasition on the car. Banner. KING LEAR. Edgar, as Mad Toni. King Lear. Banner. RICHARD THE THIRD. King Richard the Third, on horseback. Banner. MACBETH. Three Witches, with Cauldron, and many-coloured fires, Macbeth, General of the King of Scotland. Banner. OTHELLO, Othello. logo. Banner. KING JGIIN. King John, on horseback. Falconbrike, on horseback, Banner. HAMLET. Hamlet. The Ghost. Banner. ROMEO AND JULIET. Page with Romeo and Juliet in a chariot, Page with flag. drawn by two white ponies, flag. Friar Lawrence. Banner. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. In a car drawn by two Ponies abreast, Banner. HENRY THE EIGHTH. Banner of the Ancient Arms of England. Page with Henry the Eighth on Page with Flag. Horseback. Flag. Banner of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Stratford-on-Avon Brass Band. Boy with Flag. Boy with Flag. Thalia ' the Comic Muse, On a Car draped with Fantastic Devices, surrounded by four Harpies, and drawn by four spotted horses. Banner. THE TEMPEST. Prospero. Caliban. Ariel. Miranda. Banner. !WINTER'S TALE. Shepherd. Autolycus. Banner. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Page with Flag. Oberon and Titania, Page with Flag. in a Fairy Car, drawn by Two Ponies abreast. Bottom ye Weaver. Banner. MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock. Portia. Banner. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page, Banner. HENRY THE FIFTH. King Henry the Fifth on horseback. Banner of the Ancient Arms of England. Heralds. Pistol and Bardolph on two Ponies. A Grand Triumphal Car, Decorated with Armorial Bearings and Devises. Shakapero On an Eminence, surrounded by Desdemona, Ophelia, Beatrice and Queen Anne, Cardinal Wolsey, Prince of Wales, Richmond, and Benedic. " He was a man, take him for all in all, "I shall not look upon his like again," " Hamlet," Act 1, scene 2. Banner—The Royal Standard of England. Grand Military Band. Whether the above was deemed satisfactory by the multi- tudes who flocked into Stratford at an early hour I cannot say, but certainly if it was relatively it was not absolutely magnificent. Tom King, I understand, sat for St. George, and the rest of the personages belonged to Mr. Ginnett's company. To me, as a Cockney, the procession was to a certain extent gratifying. Having witnessed the grand municipal pageants of Belgium, I had conceived that the London Lord Mayor's Show was the least brilliant spec tacle of the kind that could possibly be achieved. Hence forth I shall be able proudly and conscientiously to assert the contrary. I must, however, do justice to the bold and original conception of the artist who designed the " Furies" attendant on Melpomene. He had evidently learnt that the Greeks were in the habit of calling them " Eu menides," or " good-tempered," and this idea ho worked out to perfection. Their masks resembled the face of Punch, red breeches and stockings covered their nether limbs, and on their feet were good thick-soled, clod-hopping boots. This evening there is to be a dress ball in tlae pavilion ; to-morrow and next day will be signalled by theatrical per formances, and at reduced prices, and the ascent of a bal loon or two is anticipated with curiosity, for—bear it, 0 ye habitues of Cremorne—there are persons in this island to whom the ascent of a globe inflated with gas is a wonder. But I think you have had enough a this supplemental festival, Naval and Military Intelligence, THE NAVY. On Sunday morning the following vessels of the Channel Fleet arrived, and anchored in the Downs :—The Edgar, 71 guns, Admiral Sydney C. Decree and Capt Geoffrey T. P. Hornby—the Warrior, 40 guns, Capt the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane—the Black Prince, 41 guns, Capt James F. B. Wainwright —the Hector, 34 guns, Capt G. W. Preedy, C.B.—the Defence, 16 guns, Capt Augustus Phillinore the Trinculo, gunboat and tender to the Edgar—and the Aurora, 35 guns, Capt Sir F. Leopold M'Clinl ock, which arrived in the Downs on Friday to relieve the Bulldog. The Austrian gunboat Seehund left the Downs on Thurs day for Ramsgate harbour, where she rail against the pier head and sustained damage, and was obliged to proceed to Sheerness for repairs—and the two frigates Schwartzenburg and Radetski left the Downs and proceeded to the North on Saturday evening. . _ We are authorized to state that there is no foundation whatever for the report that Sir F. Grey is about to relieve Admiral Smart in the Mediterranean command. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—J. D. Wiltshire, second master, to the Hector —J. Stanton, assistant-paymaster in charge, to the Sala mis—Marshall Little, master's assistant, to the Salamis — and Henry B, Lang, midshipman, to the Bombay. Messrs J. E. C. Goodrich, G. A. G. Grant, J. A. Bed ford, and L. H. Morris have been nominated to naval cadetships. BANK RETURNS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the r(!turns of the cir culation of the Private and Joint-Stock B auks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending April 2. Theso 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 30th March (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 : March 5, April 2, ' 1864. 1 18 63. IncreaF,e. Decrease ----- ---- Bank of England... 20,057,054, , 1 20,035,846 £21,208 Private Banks . 3,105,613 3,135,256 £29.643 Joint-stock Banks.. 2,862,762 2,962,159 89,397 Total in England. 26,025,429, 26,123,261 97,832 Scotland... 3,996,743, 3,922,138 74,605 Ireland i 29,163 United Kingdom. 35,584,731 35,578,650 , 5,831 -------- And, as compared with the month ending the 4th April, 1863, the above returns show an increase of £369,721 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £568,388 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve ral banks the following is the state of the circulation : The English private banks are below their fixed issue The English joint-stock banks are below their used issue £322,199 Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,452,085 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,172,857 The Irish banks are below their fixed issue £821,043 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 30th March was £14,111,013, being an increase of £383,628 as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of £649,742 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 April : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks .. £2,359,490 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 1,899,707 £4,259,197 Being 'a decrease of £33,972 as compared with the previous return, and a decrease of £30,322 when compared with the corresponding period of last year. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—AI.raL 30. We had a fair show of wheat on offer at this market to-day, and late rates were is higher, with a more acti ve business. Beans and peas a ready sale at late values. Wheat, white. 42s 46s Beans,Mazagan..2Bs 32s red 38s 42s middle & small.32s 36s 32s 38s Peas, white 35s 38s .20s 25s grey 34s 3Q Barley Oats NORTHAMPTON —APRIL 30. White wheat, new, 38s to 425; new red, 36s to 40§; old. 38s to 42s per qr. Barley, new malting, 33s to 35s— , grinding, 25s to 30s per qr. Oats, 18s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, 30s to 41s. Peas, 30s to 37s per qr. GLOUCESTER —APRIL 30. There was a fair supply of English wheat to-day from the farmers ; for which trade was active, at about Gd over former prices. Foreign wheat in better demand, and no teration in price. Spring corn inactive. CHELMSFORD—AniL 29. At this corn exchange to-day there was a good show of wheat, which met a steady soh, and last week's rates wer© in some instances is higher. Spring corn unaltered, with a fair trade. Wheat, old white new ,30s 45s 43s 47s 34s 37s reas,Partridge 36s 38s White 30s 34s Boiling.. 38s 425 Dun 31s 355 Ditto new —9 Beans, Tick, old 34s 36s new —s —s Harrow Ticks 34s 36s nOW 11azagan 23s 33$ old red new 36s 40s Barley 25s 33s Chevalier ..26s 36s Grinding 20s 28s Malt. .... 6ls 67s Chevalier 64s 68s Oats 20s 26s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—ArRn 30. We had a moderato quantity of wheat and oats to-day, but small of barley. Wheat is and oats Gd to is per qr up, Barley the same as last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....34s 6d 27, Od 17s Gd Second ..36s 6d 28s Od 18s 6d Third.,..3Bs Od 30s Od I 20s Od COAL rrloea of Coal per Ton at LitKET. the close of the market. s. d. North P e lt on Gas 12 9 Cowpen Hartley 17 3 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ......... 17 3 Walker Primrose l2 6 Wylam is 0 B. d Walls End. Hetton Harton 18 6 16 3 Byron. 17 0 Ships at market Walls End. Heugh Hall 17 6 South Kelloe .17 6 l iaswell .. ... 18 6 Hartlepool ..18 0 Braddyll's Hetton 17 3 Tunstall .... Framwellgate ... 16 3 East Hartlepool 18 0 KeiperGrange 17 0 Gosforth l6 3 ,t, 73 ; sold, 49. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE., Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton....... May 19. via Marseilles ......... May 13, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. May 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. May 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampt on . May 2 . Falkland Islands ...... via Marseill es ...M ay 2. Gibraltar, vi a S outhampton .. ....May 2. •••• .. India (Calcutta), • and Ceylon, via Southampt on .. Ma 2. via Marseillos....May 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton May 12. via Marseilles May 6, Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, an d Ad en, v i a Southampton May May 2. — via Marseilles May 2 Newfoundland .... •...., Mayll. Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... May 5. by U.S. packet.... b C N W.C. of Af r i ca, M adeira, and Tey anadian packet. M a y. May — neriffe , Bahamas, v i a N ew York May 5 . Mexico .. .. May 30. All parts of West Indies, includin Chil, Peru, I „ California. and British Columbia...... ' Ja y —• ADV ERTISEMENT.]• -Avoid medicines; they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious 'leant). Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty time!) its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the Dlarchioness do Brehan, Paris, of a liver complaint, wasting away for seven years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad diestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerable nervous agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Deeles, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.--No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vorniting.--11aria Jolly." —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of, thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange.? ment, and partial deafness. --Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth. Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Jas.). T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, " of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatent"' In tins, 1 lb., 2s. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., lls. ; 225. ; 241b -40FL—harry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regentstree London; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Ch London;. every town of the United Kingdom. La Births. Fox.—On the 28th ult., at the 'Vicarage, l 'ioniford, the wife of the ttev. E. Fox, of a daughter. Goocir.—On Esq., of a son. the 2d inst., tie wife of Thoalas Gooch, jun. ? GARDNER.—On tbr, 28th ult., at Stamford -hill, Mrg. W. Gardner, of a asughter. GRANT.—On the 2d inst., at Belvedere, Kent, the wife of C. T. C. Grant, Esq , yr. of Kilgraston, Perthshire, of 4 daughter, Marriages. ELLIS-- LABOucnEnE.—On the 2d inst., at Saint Peter's, Eaton-square, Captain Arthur Ellis, Grenadier Guards, eon of the late Hon. Augustus Ellis, to the Hon. Mint* Labouchere, second daughter of Lord Taunton. FORDYCE—IIAY.—On. the 29th ult,, at Christchurch, Harrow• on-the• Hill, Colonel Charles Francis Fordyce, C. 8., to Mary Heron Maxwell, fourth. daughter of the late Sir James Dalrymple Hay, Bart„ of Park -place, Wigtonshire. Deaths. ATKINSON.—On the 26th ult., at Doncaster, 'William Atkinson, Esq,, of 18a, Northampton -park CanonburY, aged 52. CUTBILL.—On the Ist inst., Miss Marth a Clapton-pl ace, Hackney, aged 52. Ann Cutbill, of Fii/cx.En the Ist inst., at Grosvenor-place, Chelien.' ham, Edward Pricker, Esq., aged 69 . KEY. —On the 29th ult., Joseph Key, Esq., of Uppe Philliraore-place, Kensington, STANBROUGH.—On tho 2Sth ult., at Isleworth, Walter Stanbrough, Esq., of H.Di, War Office, aged 39. WiNriEtp-..--On the Ist inst , at 56, Tavistock-square, C IL Winfield, Esq., aged 75, London : Printed and Pushed bp yruzrAnAlir WS of No. 112, Straw, Printer, at Ties SuN OfEe ZRE NO. 11 : 2. Strand, Precinct of the Savoy, In th . f , c o w l of AntmenA-luegioAy. May 3).1861* I