The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 12h. 16m.—Afternoon, 12h. sOrn To-moßßow.-Morning, lh. 18m.—Afternoon, lh. 43m. S. LINDSAY, M.P.—The Rising Genera • ton—Our Prize Essays—Mrs. Grundy's Gossiping - , Atc., in FUN this week. One Penny. Of all NewEmen. P OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. 'Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING c ard time), Balfe's New Opera of HE AR3IOURER OF NA:>:iTES - Miss Louisa Fyne, Mrs. A. Cooke, and Miss Anne. Hiles ; •Ylessrs. W. H.Weiss, Santley, IL Corti, C. Lyall, Aynsley Cooke, and W. Harrison. Conductor —Mr. A. Mellon. itt led Afte Hr whARLEQU ich INGr BEAUTY AN D7THE BEAST. and Comic CoriNtmas Pantomime, en- Doors open at halt-past ••-- Commence at 7. 9 - IHE A TRE-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, DON CESAR DE BAZIN. Mes'rs. Henry Lorraine; Sinclair, Chas. Selby; Mrs. Bowers, Mrs. Edmund Falconer, Miss IT. Howard, After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES. Commence at 7. TREAT R E-R 0Y A J,, HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. 2. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Alter which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley. Concluding with MRS. WHITE. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. THIS EVENING, Feb. 1,1, to commence with an Orighril sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Prologue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brouctbam• The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining . , J. Brought H. iddi combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are engaged, and will shortly appear. 'tors open at half-past Six, performanca to commence at cvcn. Private Boxes, £2 Vs. dd., and £2 25. Places regicztered. Stalls, 6 s. 6 d. ; Dress Circle, is. 6d.; Upper Circle, 45. 6d. Prices at doors—Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Circle, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price. Box 4ifilce open daily from 11 till 5. The public are entreated to : - .ake notice that no charge is made to the occupants of boxes, nox places, or stalls, either for play bills or for the sate keep ing of hats and cloaks ; and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever Stave-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. • OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lesree and Manager, Mr Linden. I kJ THIS EVENING, an entirely new and original romant'o drama, in four acts, by Lewis Filmore, Esq., entitled THE WINNING SUIT. Messrs. Marston, Vezin, Stephens, Fitz:- James, &c ; Miss Amy Sedgwick, Miss Murray, and Mrs. H. Marston. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, " FtIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and Mothe- Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Gray and Hudspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Colllnson, and Mr. Halford. NEWTHEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL— Solo Prorrietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING (sth time), a new comedietta, entitled A GREY MARE. Mr. J. L. Toole and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A VALENTINE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman. To be followed by "GEORGE DE BARNWELL : or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolg - ar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, S'4ephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ; 'a ntaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and Lertrand. Commence at 7. The Weather.—Sun Office, Feb. 15, 1863. THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday 39 Lowest during the night This day at Noon . Barometer-30.60. Wind—Easterly ; light and fine. FEB, 16. THERMOMETER, Highest since Noon yesterday .. 40 Lowest during the night... .. 27 This day at Noon .. 4l Barometer-30.62. Wind—S.-E.; light, with fine but cold weather. e -* Zjt (04c i a *01;1'*" Utt ' rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1863. LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 16, 18E3. The news brought by the Arabia is full of im portance and interest, and must rejoice the hearts of all who desire to see peace restored and trade flourishing once more ; for it indicates, we may hope, the approaching termination of the struggle that has so long desolated the vast States of Northern America, and carried want aad sorrow to many an English home. The Federals, often in spite of their boasting, repulsed by land, have hitherto regarded their naval superiority as unquestionable ; yet an engage ment has just taken place off Charleston in which the advantage was so decidedly on the part of the Confederates that the blockading fleet was fairly driven out of sight. We learn from the Richmond papers that at one o'clock on the morning of the 31st ult. two Confederate iron-clad gunboats, ac companied by three steamers, went out from Charleston and attacked the blockading squadron. When we remember that this small force was to attack 13 vessels with two first-class frigates, we shall see in the exploit another instance of that Southern spirit and daring which has so often been crowned with success, in spite of superior numbers and other advantages on the Northern side. Two of the Federal gunboats were sunk, one of them carrying 11 guns, and the steamer Quaker City disabled ; four of the remaining vessels being fired by the Confederates. It is not surprising that in face of such daring and formidable antagonists the much-vaunted Federal fleet thought discretion the better part of valour, and took its departure with more haste than dignity. We can readily imagine the enthusiasm with which the conquering gun boats were received as they re-entered Charleston, and the Confederates hastened to make the most of their victory. A proclamation was immediately issued, declaring the blockade to be raised, and notifications to the same effect sent to the foreign Consuls. It is said that the British Consul availed himself of the offer of the General to see for himself, and after going five miles beyond the usualanehorage of the blockaders could see nothing of them with glasses. The Richmond papers add that the Con suls have held a meeting at Charleston, and were unanimously of opinion that the blockade had been legally raised. Of the dispersion of the blockading squadron there can be no doubt, although the un welcome visitors re appeared in greater numbers the next day. taking the precaution to bring with them some iron-clad vesssls, which now lie inside the wooden ships. The object of the hurried noti filiktion to the Consuls was, of course, to secure the 60 days notification which the laws of maritime warfare require to be given to neutral Powers. The Richmon d Dispatch says, with truth, that most probably Lord RUSSELL will not insist on any such notification. We trust, however, that the Government will not act hastily in the matter, but g i ve the case fair consideration. If, with due re gard to the laws and eusioras of naval warfare such a truce could be legally recognised, its benefits would be incalcul able. As we have sa id , we an ticipate that the decision of our Cabinet will be in accordance with Northern wishes; i t remains to be seen, however, what view the Imperial Government will take of the question. It is not surprising that the Northern papers consider the Charleston affair to have been greatly exagge rated, but they manifest considerable uneasiness nevertheless. The New York World thinks that the fact of vessels not being visible on a foggy day is no proof that the blockade was raised for a single instant. Another New York paper "has no apprehension that the Confederates can esta blish legal grounds for what they claim." The New York Tribune goes further, however, and says, 44 that if it be true that the blockading feet was driven off, or its operations disturbed for a single day - the Federal Government should at once notify to the world the resumption o the block ade." It is most - probable that the Governments of Europe will not regard the temporary triumph of the Confederates as an official raising of the blockade, but the gain to the Southern cause is, nevertheless, very great. Prominent among the terrible disadvantages with which they be gan hostilities ;was the want of a naval force, and that they should have found themselves capable of constructing gunboats and war steamers capable of contending triumphantly with the boasted navy of New York, is a proof of the resource and determination which command success. The spirit which animated the clews of the Sumter and the Alabama is not wanting in their seamen, and, whatever the immediate conse quence of their recent triumph, on the principle of " what man has done man may do," it is certain that the Federal fleet are no longer invincible in Southern waters. Within a few days we shall most likely learn the result of the Federal attack upon Charleston, which was momentarily expected on the 3d inst., and which will probably materially in fluence the duration of the war. Animated by their recent success, the inhabitants of Charleston are likely to prove formidable opponents, and judg ing from the exploit of the 31st, the inequality of the naval forces by no means ensures success to the Federals. The Fates seem unpropitious to their vessels, for the gunboat P. SMITS has fallen into the hands of the Confederates at Stone River, ac cording to the captors by an unconditional surrender, according to the Federals from getting ashore. The iron-clad steamer Montauk is said by the Southerns to have been badly injured by the guns of Fort M'Allister,but the Federal Navy Department asserts that she sustained the fire of the enemy for four hours without receiving any injury. It is difficult, of course, to arrive at the exact truth among these conlicting reports, neither side being over parti cular as to the fidelity of their assertions. But it is clear that the difficulties of the North, financial, political, and military, are increasing, while the South is every day gaining fresh confidence. We shall await with impatience the tidings to be brought by the next mail, firmly believing that if they tell us the blockade is raised in good earnest, the news will be no less advantageous to the best interests of America than to the trade of Lancashire. The other evening, in the House of Lords, Lord RAVENSWORTH, in an able speech, called attention to the subject of Harbours of Refuge. He stated that his reasons for bringing the matter under their lordships' notice were threefold. Firstly, that he had heard something about a surplus of revenue in her MAJESTY'S Exchequer, and if such were the case he wished to point out a satisfactory way of applying it. Secondly, that the construction of harbours was the most profitable mode of employing convict ' labour ; and Thirdly, that many of the unemployed in Lancashire might be benefited by it. His lord ship entered into considerable details of the disasters which have occurred during the late gales, and endeavoured to show that it was not always owing to the unseaworthiness of ships that they were lost on our coasts, and cited as an example the loss of the Lifeguard, a fine iron steamship plying between Newcastle and Lon don, which went down with all hands during the late gales ; and he further remarked, that a harbour of refuge on the eastern coast might have proved a haven of refuge to her. That the coast between the Downs and Newcastle is destitute of the protec tion requisite to the vast trade carried on, is not to be denied. With the exception of Ramsgate and Lowestoft, there are no available harbours, but there are extensive roadsteads, sheltered by long sand banks both at Yarmouth and Lowestoft, which give ' shelter to thousands of vessels, and where, if their ground tackle be sound, there is little danger to them from a gale, however fierce. If report speaks truly, the Lifeguard was overladen, ill-trimmed, and down by the head when she left Newcastle. Here are three all-important reasons why she should come to grief in heavy sea. So long as she held her own and was watertight, the master would most likely persevere, and probably felt little fear. But a ship down by the head in a heavy sea has a ten dency to go under and not over the waves she meets. This practice, however commendable in ducks, is death to a ship, and probably the unfortunate Lifeguard, on meeting a heavy sea, took too deep a "header," and never rose again, or, if she did, it was but to take a parting glance at the upper world. We have only called attention to the Lifeguard because Lord RAYENSWORTH mentioned her as being a fine iron steamer, and charged her loss to the want of Harbours of Refuge. Now, we maintain that the best ship that was eve built, if overloaded, may go down, and without particu larising this unfortunate vessel whose shortcomings were not noticed until after her loss, we maintain that our coasters are dangerously overladen. It the 'weather hold fine all goes well, but if a gale of more than ordinary severity overtake them, the chances are that unless they are able to reach some place of safety they go down. This may be held as an argument in favour of harbours all along the coast. To a certain extent we grant this, but our object at present is not to consider harbours of refuge so much as to show the principal causes of the loss of some eight hundred lives annually, together with up wards of a million and a half of property. This is owing, firstly, to the want of proper ground tackle and sails; secondly, to the vessels them selves being rotten; and, thirdly, being over loaded and undermanned. Of what avail could a harbour of refuge be to a ship with her sails blown out of the bolt ropes, and her anchors dragging, or, more probably lost, without the intervention of a steam-tug to bring her into port. At an early period we will take into consi deration the most elegible situations for future harbours; but it must be some time be fore any great benefit can be derived from from their construction, while we see that, with the exception of Portland, in spite of the recommenda tion of the Commissioners, the Government have determined on commencing operations at the least required points of the coast, and as in the case of the works in Jersey and Alderney, where they are not re quired. But in waiting for this should not something be done to compel owners to send their ships to sea in a serviceable condition, and should not an enact ment be passed to fine heavily any captain or owner who ships a greater load than his vessel can carry with safety. If this ba a subject that the Board of Trade cannot take up, surely the insurance com panies have the power to correct the evil. " 0 that mine enemy had written a Book," is said to have been the exclamation of Jos, and then what " Jobe.tion" the enemy would get. Poor Mr. LINCOLN, instead of writing a Book, has done a greater thing —he has issued a Proclamation, written by own right hand, of which the left knew nothing, and cared less. But not so his exultant admirers, the Abolitionists at home, and his willing dupes in lands beyond the seas. As England was the foster mother of slavery in the olden time, when no other account was taken of human labour but the profit, all went well. But there was a touch of consc i en ce working here and there until the na ti on al mind became disturbed th at there was something w roug in ali the wealth coming in without much cost going out, and so an inquiry was set on foot which ended in the conviction that gold might be bought too dear by the sacrifice of so much kindred blood, for the outward colour did not affect the stream that quickened the pulse of humanity. Hence the natural revolt of conscience that slavery was a curse, and must be ab )lished by Christian people. And so it was, after a fashion as much at variance with political economy as any act of Parliament in favour of slavery and monopoly. The present Earl of DERBY, then Mr. STANLEY, had the honour of compounding felony for the na tional conscience by offering to lend the sleek slave holders some fifteen millions of money if they would abolish the infernal curse, and so relieve the national conscience from shuddering over so foul a crime. But the masters of slavery were not to be taken in in that way. Not they, indeed. They too, were Christians, and had a very tender con seience likewise—but it was in their pockets! So poverty was pleaded as a reason for their inability to comply with such an offer; because, though poor, they hoped they were honest, and most anxious as they all were to meet the generous wishes of the abolitionists, they were naturally very anxious to pay their debts, and the poor slaves were the only property their poorer masters possessed. The seem ing honesty of the wily hypocrites rather stag gered the worthy emancipators in their goodly purpose, and a week was spent in de liberation. Meantime every device was put in motion by those most deeply interested in the slave traffic, from merchant princes in Liverpool, Bristol, and even in "holy circles" in London and elsewhere—men of high standing for morals and devout observance of all that was exemplary in Church and State— men who had only been con cerned in the abomination by lending money by way of mortgage to the dealers in slaves, men who passed in the world, and especially in the n oney market, as " good men." Thus matters stood. I► was considered as too bad that the honest men who were so anxious to pay their just debts, and worse still, the innocent lenders, who would be ruined by not getting their loans, should bath be in a man ner sacrificed on the shrine of abolition. So, pro fessional cant carried the day—and, instead of lend ing the slaveholders fifteen millions—Mr. STANLEY' with a generosity without a parallel in history. freely gave the dealers in human flesh twenty millions sterling as the price of emancipation I The sudden change almost staggered belief, and well it might. The slaveholders and their friends were in ecstacies. But the sum, however large, was a noble homage to humanity by a Christian people. There was no limit to the principle—the act was spontaneous—and bequeathed as an heirloom of freedom to posterity. And what has Mr. LINCOLN done P He has pro claimed freedom to those beyond his power to eman cipate. He cannot conquer their masters, yet be professes to set the slaves free. Nor is this all— the slaves actually in his power he retains in bond age for the benefit of his friends, while he hopes to punish his enemies by declaring their slaves free— and for what P—not as a boon to the slave, but as a military measure to ruin his master. And yet he calls this emancipation—and stranger still he finds people in this country simple enough to believe him. Can the force of folly go further ? Yes, they not only believe in their honest ignorance, but write to thank him for his "glorious" deed. Mr. LINCOLN may well chuckle over his " dodge" taking so wonderfully in a land which has paid so dearly, yet so cheerfully, for the ransom of humanity from bondage. What England has done from a conscientious feeling he affects to perpetrate from hypocrisy. But he will have his reward before long. The day of retribution is coming with a vengeance. The slave will yet be free; not by his means, but in spite of his "strategic" manceuvres to keep him in bondage. The Southern Republic will find it wiser and better to confer emancipation unconditionally, but gradually, and so emancipate not only their own slaves, but those of the North also—for it will be impossible for freedom and slavery to co-exist among the same people with ad vantage to either. The North is now becoming so heartily sick of the struggle, that if the expeditions on the Mississippi, and the attempts on Wilmington. Charleston, Newbern, and other places along the Atlan tic border, fail in achieving their purpose— as probably they will—the war may ter minate in a month or two at furthest. The fourth of March may yet seal the doom of Mr. LINCOLN'S dream of empire—and let the contend ing Republics shake hands on the altar of peace and mutual independence. Since writing the above, the arrival of the Arabia puts us in possession of intelligence which foreshadows the result of the attempt upon Charleston. The complete success of the Confede rate attack upon the blockading squadron, shows but too certainly the days of Northern supremacy on the ocean are numbered. A few more such dash ing exploits and the Confederates will be masters of the Mississippi and the other great rivers. In which case, deprived of their all necessary auxi liaries the gunboats, it will be all up with the Northern armies, and our prediction for the 4th of March may yet be fulfilled. This evening Mr. Cowper will bring before the House of Commons his scheme for constructing the new street in the City in connexion with the Thames Embank ment. The proposed street will run from Blackfriars to the Mansion House. PAUPER NURSES.—It has been said that after a grievance has been talked of and written about for ten years, there is some hope of redress and amendment. Let us trust that this time has nearly expired for the matter of " Workhouse nurses," for surely this is a grievance and an evil that ought to be attended to without delay. On the day after Christmas day I went to visit a poor woman in the sick ward of a London workhouse. She had been in bed there for two years, and her one grievance and complaint was of the misery occasioned by the nurses, directly, from their own conduct and language, and indirectly, from their sanctioning and suffering the same from their patients, The scenes she was compelled to witness from bodily suffering and misery were bad enough, but ten times worse were the sounds of wickedness that prevailed, unchecked, if not encouraged, by those who, as if in mockery, were placed in authority in the ward. She told me that on this day the nurse was gone out for her holiday, and it was easy to imagine what state she would return at night; meanwhile they were left in charge of a " helper." Whilst I was talking to her, in walked suchahelper, staggering up to the bed-side, laughing and talking in drunkenness ; a patient took her off to the other end of the ward, and helped her to lie down. This poor woman herself said, " What a blessing it would be to have even o no Ch r i s ti an woman as n u rse over th ese wards.' Such a scene requires no comment, bu , I think 1 can venture to say that a si m il ar one wou ld not b e w it nes sed in any institution in any ot h er country t h an t hi s. P r i vate institutions are feared and discouraged because of their privacy, their want of inspection, thir escape from public opinion I Here areinst tutions, supported by public funds ' go verned by a body of men pop u l ar l y chosen and elected, yet where shall we find so sad a s t a t e of things, so grievous tin i abuse of what s supposed to be kindness toour sick poor? 1 ' went by chance on this day to this workhouse. Have we not reason to suppose that the same scenes were being repeated at this holy season in most of the workhouse s i n t h e land ? The majority of those who are inmates may have brou g ht themselves to the workhouse by their own sins and follies, we cannot choose but admit them, and we may not be a bl e to reform them, but we can avoid the disgrace of setting such persons in positions of trust, giving them an authoritywhich they so grievously abuse, and the reb y entailing an increase of sin and misery upon all those who are not only under their care but under ours.—Journal of the Work house Visiting Society. IN A RELIGIOUS NOVEL, says one of the Satur• day reviewers, it thunders whenever a Jew eats pork. T he heaviest retribution visits the slightest infringement of the moral code. Don't Care is devoured by lions for putting out his tongue at his little sister, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] INDIA. CALCUTTA, SAN. 30. Grey shirtings and mule twist active. Copper unchanged. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Go vernment Securities, 5 per Cents., 1051. Freights to London, 102 s. 6d. CHINA. CANTON, JAN. 15. Grey shirtinga dull and unchanged. Total ex port of tea to date, 85,125,0001 b. Exchange on London, 44.7 9 d. SHANGHAI, lAN. 10. Silk 10 taels higher; settlements during the past fortnight, 2,000 bales; export to date, 60,000 bales. Exchange on London, 6s. 11d. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer with the above mails arrived at Suez on the 14th February. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 16. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 41 passengers, £15,295 in specie, and 1,600 packages of cargo. The Confederate steamer Sumter escaped from Gibraltar during the south-east gale on the night of the 6th inst. The steamer Pactolus, which arrived at Gibraltar, reports having passed her off Cape Spartel, under a press of sail and steam. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 11.—Exchange on London. 90 days, was quoted 50 7 16 to 50-1; oa Paris, 528 ; Genoa, 5.30; Madrid, 8 days' sight, Q premium. Freights unaltered. THE INSITRRECTION IN POLAND. LEMBERG, FEB. 14. The Pope has sent instructions to the Bishops of Galicia to exert their influence over the people of that province, with a view to causing the authority of Austria, as a Catholic Power, to he respected. The pickets of the insurgents and of the Russian troops were last night in close proximity near , Oicova (? Michow). . . A battle is expected to take place hourly. FEB. 15. The Russian forces have withdrawn from Przes anek. The battle near Oycow, which had been expected, has therefore not taken place. The insurgents have captured Jarnogrod. Thirty-nine out out of 200 Cossacks garrisoning this place were killed. The remainder withdrew to Zimosc. The insurgents have also captured Hrubeszow, which had been evacuated by the Russians. THORN, FEB. 14. General Annenkoff, governor of the provinces of Podolia and Vothymnia, has been empowered by the Emperor to order a state of siege in those provinces if circumstances require. FRANCE. PARIS, Feb. 16. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the text of the reply given by the Emperor to the deputation which presented the address of the Corps Legislatif. His Majesty said:—" I coLgratulate myself on this agreement of the Corps Legislatif, which is moor indispensable than ever at a time when the truth is obscured by hostile passions in all parts of the globe. France must be calm and strong in the in terior, that she may always exercise a legitimate influence in favour of justiee and progress, whose triumph is so often compromised by the exaggera tion of extreme parties. Oa Saturday, at two o'clock, the Emperor, assisted by his Ministers and the officers of State. received the deputation of the Corps Legislatit, who presented the address voted by the Senate . The Due de Morcy headed the deputation and read the address. The Emperor replied in courteous terms, and the deputation retired with shouts of " Vive l'Empereur." L'Opinzon .Nationale asserts that the Polish in surrection is gaining strength, and is becoming a greater nightmare than ever to the Czar Alexander and King William I. It is indignant with the Ga zette dulVord for threatening Western Europe with a Holy Alliance, in the event of the Cabinets of Paris and London making any opposition to the intervention of Prussia in Russian Poland. This declaration, says the Opinione Nationale, has re echoed throughout the French nation, for a menace is always an injury. Is Pays thinks it is imperative that a strong government should be immediately established in Greece, if it is not to be allowed to sintt into anarchy and disorganisation. The same journal, in commenting on the liberty of the English press, expre-sea a wish that the Parisian journals would take example by the fidelity of its parliamentary reports, which are given with the complotest impartiality. In the French reports criticisms are mixed up with the report, and it is the separation of the compte rendu and the criticism that is especially insisted on by the Government. It is rumoured at Bordeaux that the 88th Regi ment of the line is shortly to leave for Mexico. A lamentable accident has just occurred at Lyons, in the Quartier de la Cite Napoleon, from the fall of a house which was in process of construction. It resulted in the death of one man and the serious in jury of several others. Le Siecle, in an interesting article on the recent debates, remarks that the silence of the people is the lesson of Kings and of Assemblies, and that it must not be thought from this sileuce, that the public emotion is not great. It considers that the CEambers, by voting the address unconditionally, lost the ground gained in the previous discussion. Have the Chambers shown themselves equal to the occasion ? asks the Siecle. and it answers in the negative, in spite of the speeches on Poland, Mexico, and Italy. One orator alone, M. Jules Fevre, has in its view sustained the old reputation of French eloquence. With regard to the debate on Liberty, Le Siecle considers that the Ultramontane orators, if they could get it, would keep it to themselves. The recollection of their guidance of the State under M. de Fellows is sufficient to neutralise the enthusiasm excited by their language. In the words of the amendment of M. Favre, the right of election implies the right of discussion, of jedgmeat, and, in consequence, of liberty. What do you want ? What would you nave? Have you not this and that? Such are the arguments of the Ministry, by which it render , . homage to that liberty it restricts by its laws fee the press, its presentations of candidates, end its other measures. It weighs and barters little by little, and cries continually " have you not enough." Nt;M. le President, we have not enough. We may have more, ape yet shall not have enough." Liberty is as neces sary as the air and sun, and the only acceptable libel-1y is free liberty. At present se much is gained. eve: yone is praising liberty. Even with the rejection of M. Favre'e amendment she was on the winning side in the two first sittings of the Corps Legislatit, And she forced her adversaries to incline before her. The further consideration of the debate is deferred to another impression. BOURSE. Feb. 14.—The tone of the market has been rather better, and the decline of yesterday `las, in spite of the strongest efforts on the part of the Bears, been recovered. Threes, for the Account are now firm at 70f. 70c. The Railway Sha re Market has been also firm, and with an UPPI"e" men? in the mejo Ily or been in demand, and are lot closed as follows :- 11 per Cents. 99 25 Do, end 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 75 New 3 per Cants Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1255 Do. end month 1258 75 the lines. Alk,biticr have quoted higher. The mar- Bank Shares Credit Fancier 1520 Piedmontese Fives - Italian Loan 7O 75 Russian Austrian §_pani.h Threes 52 50 Home Debt • • •••• 491 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lll5 .. 1116 25 Northern New ditto • • • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1187 50 .. 1156 25 Genoa Southern Bl2 60 .. 815 Western .. 665 .. 566 25 Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian i.on , hard North of Spain Saragossa .. Ditto to Barcelona .5 ‘ l\ I fr= iAR - 0 CD DENMARK. On the 4th inst. an important debate took place in the Swedish Parliament on the relations of Sweden to foreign Powers. As might be expected, it chiefly turned on the unhappy position at this moment of the third Scandinavian folk-power, Denmark. All the speakers in the Swedish House of Burghers—the scene of this discussion—deeply sympathised with us, and hoped that all obstacles and dangers would be insufficient to prevent union of the three Scandinavian peoples into one body politic, or, to use the words of Mr. Fitzgerald the day following in the British House of Commons—a strong and independent Scandinavian Power in Europe. The prevailing tone in the Swedish Chamber was, that the Government and people of Sweden could only give Denmark active assistance, could only sacrifice men and money for the third Scandinavian state in the common interest of them all, in one word that the nation could only demand of its Ministry an alliance with Denmark offen sive and defensive—on condition that Denmark showed proofs of earnest resolution by the poli tical and administrative separation of Holstein from the Rinie,h R,ELico, The Danish people is quite agreed with its Swedish brothers on this head. No Dane will think of asking for a dollar or a drop of blood from Sweden, in defence of a whole state, which not only is a broken reed for oar Northern na tionality, but which at any moment might be led into new channels, embrace other interests, and be the grave of Scandinavian unity. The Swedish chamber also pronounced its deep sympathy for Poland, a feeling shared by all Scan dinavia. And by sympathy we do not mean the cowardly part of a mere spectator, who looks on while a gallant nation is massacred by barbarian hordes; but we mean the active interest which be comes free nations. Sweden, as a sigi,er of the reaty of Vienna, whose arrangements for Po land have been so wantonly trampled upon by the Czar, has abundant right to remonstrate in favour of the Polish people, and in so doing it will repre sent Norway and Denmark. A discussion, whose detai's have not yet reached us, took place in the 11 , ,use of Nobles. This led to a declaration by Baron Minderstrom, the Swedish-Norse foreign minister, that he would shortly lay before the country a blue book on toreign affairs. The noble Lord Derby, who will live in our grateful remembrance for his magnanimous words on our behalf in the House of Lords, will thus soon have an opportunity of convincing him self as to the authenticity of the note attributed to Baron Manderstorm. A powerful impression has also been made in our political circles by the vigorous defence of Den mark's rights in Slesvig, as a Danish crown-land from the earliest ages, by Mr. Disraeli and Lords Malmesbury and Wodehouse. The Princess Alexandra will leave Copenhagen on the 28th inst. At Kiel she will go un board his Majesty's steamer Slesvig, commanded by his Ad jutant, Capt. P. Smidth. On Tuesday her Royal Highness was chosen member of the Royal Copen hagen Shooting Guild. Mr. Friedlander, the bird king, had the honour of handing over to her the insignia of the guild. Her Royal Highness's dresses are prepared in England, France, and Belgium. The rest of her toilet will be provided by Mr. Levysohn, of this city, and will not be surpassed in elegance by the best articles from the Parisian establishments. PORTUGAL SOUTHAMPTON, Sunday Night. The screw steamer Cossack, Capt. F. H. Ford, from Li,bon on the 10th inst., arrived at 9 p.m., bringing £1,357 in specie, and a cargo of fruit, &c. " The Ministry carried the Address in reply to the speech from the Throne by 77 contra 51 votes, in the House of Deputies, which has silenced the reputed reorganization of the Louse Cabinet, and given greater stability to Portuguese Stock, which the dealers now buy freely at 47i to 471, and are backward in selliag at 471. 4 ‘ The Financial Department was not attacked during the debate, as had been indicated by the accusations promulgated in the Opposition journals, and therefore the Minister of Finance did not use in reply the documents with which he was prepared, but in resume stated that the country, after spend• ing £1,800,000 in roads and /2,000,000 in railroads of which 500 kilometres are figished, had raised the revenue, as his budget would prove, to 15,000 con tos, abuut £3,330,000, being an increase of 5,000 contos, or £1,100,000. "The absurd differential duties maintained in favour of Portuguese ships, in return fot England opening her trade to their flag, and reducing all duties upon their produce, wine, fruit, &c,, is now doing a palpable injury to their trade with London. " Since the cessation of the Peninsular and Ori ental packets there are no regular steamers to carry oranges to London, the best English market, which enables Mediterranean ports to supersede Lisbon, and it is impossible to get up any regular line of steamers to London while the differential duties gives the Portuguese flag the preference for tea and other valuable cargo which pay the best freights from London to Lisbon. These articles are imported with great delay and great extra expense in Portu guese sailing vessels, which find it difficult to com plete their cargoes—they derive little or no benefit from the trade, while the price of tea is unrea sonably increased for the common in Portugal, and a great prejudice is done to its export of fruit. " The exchange this packet, at three months, was—L9ndon, 54 to 54i ; Paris, 528 ; Hamburg, 48x; Amsterdam, 421; Genoa, 524. Three per Cent. Stock, 47-k, to 47k. Bank of Portugal Shares, 553 to 555; Oporto Bank Shares, 254 to 256. " The foreign vessels of war in the Tagus when the Cossack left were H.M.S. Revenge, Resistance , Defence, Warrior, Black Prince, Trinculo,' and Virago, and the French steam transport Bretagne• "Admiral Smart's squadron is expected to Jetty, the Tagus for England about the 17th inst." ECCENTRIC MISQUOTATIONS FROM DICKENS. — On Saturday last, strange to say, we catch both the London Review and the ~ a turday Review tripping when referring incidentally to the pages of the most popular writer of the age. The latter (i.e., the Saturday Review), talking of" Mrs. Jai vis's waxwork show," when every reader of the "Old Curiosity Shop" surely remem. hers it well enough to be " Mrs. Jarley's." More flagrant still is it to find a London Reviewer referring to Mrs. Bardell with her friends—Mrs. Mudberry " which kept a mangle," and Mrs. Buukin " which clear-starched." These hitherto unheard of females representing, we ',resume, the historical forms of Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Cluppins—a forgetfulness of whom is nothing less than an outrage t o every true Pickwickian. A PAPER COFFEE CUP !—Any one who happens to desire a cup of tea or coffee finds that even when he at last seems likely to obtain the object of his wishes, he has still, befo re he can quench his tothrist,is tea solve an almos e, h i nso l u bl e problem. How can he drinkhot within the space of three minutes ? As a matter of fact, only a courageous fraction succeed in accomplishing the feat, and ro ws of scarcely tasted cups testify the general failure. Some ingenious German, who ought particularly to be com mended to the notice o f Mr. Gladstone, has invented a paper cup, which will compl e t e l y h o ld a draught of the hottest liquid, and can be bought for a farthing. By means of this invention, the good people of Berlin take up and drink rb , heir ease, as they go a l ong t h e ra il roa d , th e cu ps of co if,. which comfort-loving Englishmen find it impossible to swallow Without 'Scalding their throats,—Landon Review. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 14. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. SUNDAY. The Queen, the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. Dr. Stanley, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, officiated. The Lord Chancellor and the Rev. Dr. Stanley arrived at the Castle yesterday. The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir Chas. L. Eastlake, and Mr. Cnbitt, M.P., the com mittee appointed by her Majesty to assist in the selection of a design for the National Memorial to the Prince Consort, attended yesterday at Windsor Castle, where the designs have been placed, and had the honour of an interview with her Majesty. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.—We understand that the Danish Royal family and other illustrious fo reign visitors who will be present at the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will not remain visi tors at 'Windsor Castle for any length of time, but will take the earliest opportunity of commencing an inspection of the wonders of the great metropolis. Arrangements will be made for their accommodation at the Palace Hotel, close to Buckingham Palace, and the Queen's carriages, horses, and servants will be placed at their disposal. A similar arrange ment was made on the occasion of the marriage of the Princesa Royal; but the Court authorities did not then possess the accommodation of having a first-class hotel close to the palace.—Court Journal. Re erring to the fact that at the evening meeting of the Royal Society on Thursday last, the Prince of Wales was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Society, the Atheneeton observes—We believe that his Royal High. ness, following the example of his illustrious father, will at tend at some coming meeting of the society to sign his name in the Charter Book, and be formally admitted. We should hope that whenever the admission take., place, there will be a goodly muster of the Fellows to render due hon -)ur to the occasion, A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence .ot the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newestle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Chas. Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. VilHue. THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right Hon. the Speiker gave his Fiist Parliamentary full-dress dinner on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 14, to the follow ing :—The Right Hon. Viscount Phlmerston, K.G., Vis count Bury, Viscount Castlerosse, Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G.C.8., Right Hon Sir Charles Wood, G.C.8., Right Hon. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Right Hon. William Cowper, Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Right Hon. F. Peel, Right Hon. T. E. Headlam, Right Hon. William Hutt, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Hon- Henry Brand, birWilliam Dunbar, Mr. T. G. Baring, Mr. Massey, Col. White, Mr. Knatch bull-Hugessen, Mr. Charles Gilpin, Hon. F. Calthorpe (mover of the Address), Mr. Bazley (seconder), the Rev, Charles Merivale (chaplain), and Mr. Alfred Denison (secretary). PARLIAMENTARY BAN QUET.—The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday, at bi residence, Grosvenor late. There were present the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Coventry, Lord William Grantham, Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Col. North, Mr. Wm. Legh, Mr. Seymour Fitz - gerald, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Hopwood, Col. Dunne Major Parker, Mr. Papillon, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Collins, Mr. Malcolm, and Mr. Whitmore. By the latest accounts from Grantham we learn that the Duke of Rutland is progressing most favourably, and hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery. The nirquis d'Almasey, Count Nickoline, end Colonel and Madame de Lapriere have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. The Eli.' and Cour, teas of Lanesborough have arrived at their residence in Great Stanhope-street from Swithland Hall, Loughborough. Tne E trl and Countess of Devon have arrived in town from Powderham Castle, Exeter, for the season. The Countess of Caledo❑ has arrived at her re sidence, Carlton-house-terrace, from Caledon-hill, County Tyrone. The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait entertained a select party at dinner on Saturday evening at London House, St. James's-square, Lori and Ltdy Proby are expected in town in a few days from Elton Hall, Oundle, fur the season. Baron de K Ltte, the newly-appointed Secretary to the Prussia, Emba-sy, arrived at Prussia House a few days since from Berlin. We have to record the death of Lady Olivia Ber nard Sparrow, who had attained her 88th year. The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of Arthur, second viscount, afterwards created Earl, of Gosford, and ma ried, in 1797, Brigadier-General Robert Bernard Spar row, who died early in the present century, leaving a son and a daughter. The farewell concert of Mr. H. Pnillipa, which Is fixed for the 215'h, in addition to the interest at taching itself to his leave-taking, will also introduce two daughters of the redoubtable basso, a soprano and % con tralto, who have studied for their profession out of Eng land. OXFORD MUSIC HALL.—Mr. Morton ventures more tuna any other mortal English musical mana ger. It should make some of the fraternity who pro- Less so much and perform so little, el foolish to read in the " Oxford" bills of the week an announcement of the music to Gluck's " Alceste." MR. BICKLEY'S GALLERY OF PICTURES.—Tae important collection of ancient and modern pictures formed by the late J. L. Bickley, Esq., of Westbourne-terrace, was disposed of on Saturday last at the rooms of Christie, Manson, and Woods, in King-street, St. James's, and realised £2,300. A PROFANE TOWN IN CALIFORNIA.—In the northern part of California is a stream called Yuba River. Across it some enterprising individual built a bridge, and on the banks somebody else built three or tour houses. The inhabitants called the place Yuba Dam. Three bars were instantly erected, and the to xn increased rapidly. About noon one cold day, a traveller and a sojour ner in the land passed this flourishing locality, and seeing a long-legged specimen of humanity in a red shirt smoking before one of the bars, thus addressed him :—" Hello I" " Hello 1" replied the shirt, with vigour, removing his pipe from his mouth. " What place is this ?" de manded the traveller, whose name was Thompson. The answer of the shirt was unexpected. " Yuba Dam." There was about fifty yards between them, and the wind was blowing. Mr. Thompson thought he had been mis taken. " What did you say f" he asked. " Yuba Dam " replied the stranger, cheerfully. " What place is this ?" roared Mr. Thompson. " Ya-ba Dam," said the shirt, in a slightly elevated tone of voice. " Lookeo here," yelled the irete Thompson, " I asked you politely what this place was; why in thunder don't you answer P" The stranger became excited. He rose and replied with the voice of an 80-pounder " Yu-ba• dam 1 Do you later that ?" In a minute Thompson, burning with the wrath of the righteous, jumped off his horse and advanced on the stranger wi h an expression not to be mistaken. The shirt arose and assumed a posture of violence and de fence. Arrived within a yara of him, Thompson said, "I ask you, for the last time, what place is this ?" Putting his hands to his mouth, his opponent roared—" Yu-ba dam 1" The next minute they were at it. First, Thomp son was down; then the shirt; and then it was a dog-fall— that is, both were down. They rolled about, kicking up a tremendous dust. They squirmed around so energetically, that you'd have thought they bad a cozen legs instead 0 1 tour. It looked ligs a prize fight between two pugilistic centipedes. Finally, they both rolled off the bank and ' into the river. The Hater cooled them. They went down together, but came up separate, and put out for the shore. Both reached it about the same time, and Thomp son scrambled up the bank, mounted his warlike steed, and made tracts, leaving his foe gouging the mud out of one of his eyes. Having left the business portion of the town—that is to say, the corner where the three bars were kept—ho struck a house in the suburbs, before which a little girl of about four years of age w, 8 playing. " What place is this, sissy P" he asked. The little girl, frightened at the drowned -rat figure which the stranger cut, streaked it tor the house. Having reached the door she stopped, tuned, and squealed—" 00-bee-dam I" " Good heaven- 1" said Thompson, dig:;ing his heels between his horse's ribs, " Good heavens, let me get out of this horrid place, where not only the men but the very babes and sucklings swear at inoffensive travellers."—New York Iribune. THE PLANET MARS,—The position of the planet was such last autumn that the entire circle of snow around the South Pole could be distinctly seen, and with such a well-defined edge as to have led to the conclusion that it terminates in a cliff. The equatorial region is occu pied by a broad greenish belt binged with deep bays and iolvts, which may perhaps be water. In one place it is re lieved by au island, which exhibits the same ruddy colour as the hemispheres ou eacb, side of the central belt, (7 0 - . Raising the Blockade of Charleston. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 15. The royal mail steamship Arabia, from Boston on the 4th and Halifax on the 6th inst., arrived here at 5 p.m. to-day. She brings 58 passengers, 310,783 dols, in specie, landed all mails and two passengers, and proceeded at 6.30 p.m. fo r Liverpool ; all wall. NEW Yonx, Feb. 3, Evening. The engagement between Generals Corcoran and Pryor near Suffolk was without any important result. The Con federates retreated towards Franklin. Jefferson Davis has had an interview with the Governor of North Carolina. It is reported that the Governor in sisted upon the reserve or recall of a sufficient number of troops for the protection of the State. The Southern journals publish a despatch from Charles ton, stating that the Federal gunboat P. Smith, carrying 11 guns, surrendered unconditionally to the Confederates at Stone River. The Federal Navy Department has received a despatch to the effect that the P. Smith was captured through getting ashore. Southern reports state that the Federal iron-clad steamer Montauk was badly injured in her turret by the guns of Fort M'Allister, on the Ogechee River, and compelled to haul off. The Federal Navy Department has a despatch that the Montauk remained tour hours under the enemy's guns without receiving any injury. The Richmond Whig asserts that the British steamer Princess Royal, with a valuable cargo of guns and powder, was captured, whilst endeavouring to enter Charleston; It was reported in Havana that heavy firing had been heard at Matanzas and Cardenas, supposed to be : caused by an engagement between Federal gunboats and the steamer Oreto. The rumour was strengthened by the report of the gunboat Cayuga, that she had observed a steamer on fire, supposed to be the Oreto, with three other vessels firing into her. It is rumoured that the Harriet Lane has escaped front Galveston. The bombardment of Galveston by the Federals has cow. menced, but the result is not at present known. General Magruder has declared Galveston open to the trade of all friendly nations. Another British steamer successfully ran the blockade into a Southern port. At New Orleans Confederate notes were rising and in sorsa demand. The New York Tribune asserts that President Lincoln had offered General Butler the command at New Orleans, with additional powers to raise African regiments on the Mississippi. General Butler, however, hesitated to accept, fearing that the means offered were inadequate to the ends to be accomplished. The editor of the Philadelphia Journal has been released. It is rumoured that the Legislature or Congress will take measures to check speculation in gold. It is reported that the Senate Finance Committee is op posed to a further issue of legal tender Rotes. Secretary Chase's bank scheme is being pressed in Con General Banks's whole expedition has left New Orleans• Its supposed destination is Port Hudson. General Foster's expedition from Beaufort has been seen off Cape Fear, en route for Port Royal. The Federals at Vicksburg number 80,000. Southern journals assert that it was the British steamer Spitfire which sunk the Federal steamer Hatteras off Galveston. The House of Representatives has passed the bill to arm negroes by a vote of 83 to 54. The bill provides that the President may arm Bush numbers as he may deem neces sary. No slaves of loyal owners are to be thus employed. No recruiting offices are to be opened in Delaware, Mary land, Virginia, Kentuck3, Missouri, or Tennessee, without the permission of the Governors of those States. The Republican candidate, ex-Governor Morgan, hall been elected United States Senator for New York. Money tighter. Gold 55 per cent. premium. Exchange on London, Bankers' bills 171. Stocks dull, New York Centrals, 118 k; Illinois Shares, 9014 ; Erie, 724. Cotton very firm, middling upland 89c. Highly Important from Charleston. NEW YORK, FEB. 4, MORNING. The Richmond papers contain Charleston despatches, stating that two Confederate ironclad gunboats, accom panied by three steamers, went out from Charleston at one o'clock on the morning of the 31st ult., and attacked the blockading squadron. The engagement commenced at four o'clock. The Confederate gunboats sunk the Federal gunboat Mercedita, carrying 11 guns, and another Federal gunboat whose name is unknown. They disabled the Federal steamer Quaker City, but she escaped with the loss of one wheel. The Confederates also set four Federal vessels on fire. The blockading fleet consisted of 13 vessels, with two first-class frigates. The Coal ederate gunboats returned to Charleston, where they were received with immense enthusiasm. Confederate Commander Ingraham officially reported that the blockading fleet had gone out of sight. General Beauregard then issued a proclamation that the Confederate fleet had attacked the blockading squadron off Charleston, and sunk, dispersed, or driven off, and out of sight for the time, the entire hostile fleet. He, therefore, formally declared that the blockade of Charleston by the 'United States was raised by the superior force of the Con" federates from and after Jan. 31. General Beauregard further placed steamers at the dis posal of the foreign Consuls to see for themselves that no blockade existed ; and, according to the Richmond papers, the British Consul went on board the steamer Petrel five miles beyond the usual achorage of the blockaders, but could see nothing of them with glasses. The Richmo• d papers state that the Foreign Conssle have held a meeting at Charleston, and were unanimously of opinion that the blockade had been legally raised. Late on the evening of the 31st ult. four vessels of the blockading squadron re-appeared, and on Feb. 1, twenty blockading vessels were off Charleston bar. NEW YORK, FEB. 5, EVENING. The Richmond paper asserts that the Confederate Secre tary of Sate has notified to the British and French Con• suls that he has received official information of the opening of the Charleston blockade. The I, ichrnond Despatch says :--" It is understood that official notification having been given of the opening of the blockade, it cannot be rentwed by the Federals until 60 days' previous notice has teen given to the neutral Govern' ments." The same journal, does not think that Earl Itus' sell will insist on any notification if the Federals restore the blockade without notice, as Earl Russell has yielded to all claims of the Federal Government on international questions. The Northern papers consider the southern accounts or the Charleston affair exaggerated. prepared specially for Enrope.n circulation. The n ew York World thinks there is no proof, becaus e no vessels were in sight for several hours on a very foga day, that the blockade was raised for a single instant. The New Yoik Herald has no apprehension that the Confederates can establish legal grounds for what they claim. The New York Tribune says :—" If it be true that the blockading fleet was driven off, or its operations disturbe d for a single day, the Federal Government should at once notify to the world the resumption of the blockade." The New York Times, discussing t he same subject, con siders the validity of the present blockade in no waY affected. ------- The Federal steamer New Ironsides was off Charleston on the 3d inst. General Forster's expedition from Beaufort is supposed to number 70,000 men, and to be destined for an atuck on Charleston. The Confederates have attacked Fort Donnelson, an d have captured one battery, which was afterwards retake n by the Federals. The Confederates are reported to have been repulsed with considerable loss. k General Grant has arrived at Vi c k s b urg. The vi"-- es the canal progresses. TLe Confederates h ave p l anted a battery coninla r.dia the lower end of the canal. In the Senate the resolutions denouncing French inter vention in Mexico were laid on the table by a vote of 34 against 9. gsMoney tighter. G o ld 574 per eclat. premium. (j •.n Lond on 173. Stocks steady. New Yotk ra: 118 1. Illinois 90. E r i e 731. C o t ton dui' : niaiditug Up age 1412(1 E1 860. to 88 01 Breacletuffs quiet Bud nU -;,...- . gress. ........... Provisi firm. Was] CharleE dare th and tha vernme A tel receptic Februal the Fel vessels. attack i The expecte, awaited dated advanc The Acult2 artille Six guns 1 The IVIVanl 1111 Dis raunit of a (11 SPeCt bow el their a few their at pr talistE fore their have 1 to 41 Mon; the B few d tnent the ft proha annoi tricts chars have dowr Irad opera Nem The pious Leice Vity, ham[ and 1 noun Th of C arnot Tr £6u, speci day Hatt, of sr wen Gr( anC 106