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Epc*Yr laritNCill AND FLEMISH;
As • eollection of Works of foreign artiste this ex-
hibitioo is sow looked to with an intend quite equal to
that which meets the yearly crop of produce of our own soil,
where anis cultivated less accordirug to rule and more in
accordance with nature—where the painter has to look
more to the taste of the great public than to government
patronage which exercises so important an induces. open
art abroad. The exhibition is one that hag never exactly
represented the difference, between the condition of art la
Freon, in Germany, and in England ; it has never shown
us any of the Lige academic works of the foreign ashoolle;
and therefore it must be considered as offering a
good comparison chiefly in oar direction—that o
cabinet pictures of domestic seotiment, of Isairsaps
and rustic figures with cattle, and of incident more or less
dramatic and blondest. These sere, indeed, our own strong
points, and it must tend to benefit oar artists and enlarge
the public taste to have the opportunity every year of seeing
so many excellent works of the Belgian and French schools.
This year, the eleventh, we have an exhibition decidedly
inure interesting than any of its prideriosors, as it
not only contains many works quite up to the ordinary
standard, but two pictures by Gillett, which represent
modern art at its bast in historical incident. It in scarcely
necessary to remind the reader that M. Louis Gellait is the
painter of those remarkable pictures in the International
Exhibition, "Count Egmout with hie Confessor,” and
" The last honours paid to Counts Egmont end Horn," both
of which, it should be remarked, are the pro-
perty of public bodies the first belonging to the
Moine Royal, Berlin, the other to the town of
Toupin. When these works, which were painted nearly
twenty years ago, were seen, it was felt that Belgium Paa'
gassed • painter from whom our artists might liana some of
the secrets of art. The pictures exhibited now are own
more impressive in some of the hither requisites of expres-
sion, while they escape the charge of being horrifying, which
attached with some justice to the picture of the beheaded
bodies of the two nobles shown to their followers. The
strong feeling of the painter for expression seems to have
become tempered with thoughtfulness, without losing any-
thing of artistic beauty in the expression, which is the
very life of a picture. The subjects are from the same
period, and are " Vargas taking the oath as President of
the Connell of Blood," and "Counts Egmont and Hors
hearing the sentence of death." The two subjects are
finely chosen : the one showing the murderous ooespincy
of the unrelenting and bloodymindedagainst all who refused
their so-called holy catholic faith ; the other, the *obis
victim' of this atrocious cruelty. The pictures therefore
are made to correspond somewhat in composition, and the
figures in each are not quite full length. In the " Oath of
Vargas," In stands in • robe of scarlet, one band upon the
hilt of his sword, the other on the book, which two mem-
ber, of the council, with eager and savage looks, hold open
before him ; his face betrays the fell cruelty at his heart,
and fire nein to glimmer in his small eyes under those
knitted brows as he swears to something more dreadful than
eves the oath demands. Alva, seated completely armed in
a splendid gold inlaidsuit, looks up athim, his haudnedflow-
ing grey :mord concealing his mouth, as if astonished and
pleased at his surpassing cruelty ; behind is a fanatic monk
raising the crucifix, with looks worthy of • malefactor of
Golgotha itself. In the picture of the sentence, the greffier,
dressed in • black robe, stands reading the sentence by a
torch held behind by the gaoler. Horn is seated listen-
ing, with • calm and grave smile on his face, while
Egmont, more impetuous sod indignant, has risen from the
seat and is restrained by his confessor at his side, who
grasp his hand, and lays his arm upon his shoulder : be-
hind the seat is one of their faithful followers, wringing his
hands in mute despair.
There is nothing in the least obtrusive in either of these
noble works on the aide of the technicalities ; we are im-
pressed at once with the scene before us, without thinking
of the beauty, although that, of course, exercises its
charm, just as the language and imagery of Shakespeare
do when we witness his scenes. But it is the intense
expressiveness of the whole group, the earnest, perfectly
unselfconscious look of the actors, that strikes the mind at
once, and calls up the scene with such touching reality.
The painter in these works completely smerfa the equality
of his art with all the great allied powers of expresion. A
great excellence, too, will be remarked in the appereat
simplicity of the painting, and the ease, naturalness, and
repose of the treatment, ell conspiring to give that dignity
and reserve of style which belong only to the great artist.
M. J. L. Gerogne ban contributed • small picture, very
different in subject from his " Gladiators " or the
"Aspens," bat in which we perceive the same fine feeling
for colour and originality in choice of subject. This picture
represents simply • Nile boat conveying • prisoner, with the
officer seated at the bead of the boat ; two stout Arabs, one
jet black, the other of the Coptic hue, pulling at the oars ;
the culprit stretched across the boat on his back, his hands
feat in the old wooden stocks ; while a fantastic musician
unshed on the don seems to be deriding the primmer with
his music. The landscape, with the smooth river and the
glowing sky, is by no means the least interesting part of the
picture, though the figures are as well studied and pic-
turesque as anything the artist ever painted.
M. Henry Lays has attracted no little notice and repute
from his singular fancy for repeating the antiquated pictures
of the 15th century of the Flemish school. There would be
small objection to the costumes and the subjects were it
not that M. Len chooses also to paint in the black tons
which the old pictures have sank into from age and original
want of knowledge as to the materials of the palette. His
pictures remind one of sons modern affeentioes in printing
books in old black4sttsr type. "Going to Church on New
Year's Day, Aatwarp, Sixteenth Century," is really • sur-
prisingly well-studied picture, fall of truth of a certain bard
and sharp kind, in the stonework of the buildings, in the
dresses of the figures ; the snow, not admitting of black, I.
the only natural-looking thing in the picture ; the rest is
thoroughly artificial, stiff, and unpinning, inammuch as all
the luxuries of the eye are renounced for bare matters of
fact. It is art certainly, but art without its principal
feature—beauty.
M. Plum is one of the most satisfactory followers of
Menksier, though at • respectful interval, yet as we think
nearer to that master of all the exquisite nuances of colour
than some of his pupils. 117, the scene from the Boar
peal Genii/warm (Act iv., Scene 2) is an admirable work
Madame Jourdain is represented entering the room in •
triumph of inclissatioo, startling the gay party into every
attitude of surprise and half-suppremed fun. Yet there is
no caricature of any kind : all te naturally touched from the
violocoello player, who has left off his concerto, to the grand
lady in blue velvet melanin the air of offended
majesty, M. Edouard Frne bas sent only one
Motors (48), "Saying Grace," a work delightful
in its pont:eying of peasant life, though not
perhaps quite free from a certain affectation of a moral
purpose on the part of the painter, which never accords
well with art, at least when thus pointedly expressed. The
figures, however, are beautifully toothed, and the colouring
is so true and so free from the common efforts at display
as to win the highest praise. M. Ituiperez, another pupil of
Meiesonler, has two very good examples of the miniature
groups, which in his masted' bends are so wonderful-
-125, " The Areatetirs," and 126, " The Card Players." In
both, however, we notice the want of that peculiar sense
of colour sod life-like character which stamp the work of
Misissoaier. By B. Vibert there is a capital picture, though
somewhat black in toms, of two French artists on • walking
tour taking their siesta under the shade of en alcove at a
Spanish posed% M. Adolphe Schreyer paints in the
French manner some very picturesque scenes of
sledge travelling in Ramis, and " Vallagues tra-
velling through • storm," all rather lower in tone
than our landscape painters adopt, but very meritorious
works in their bold handling and general truthfulness.
Madame Jerichan exhibits • large work (74) 'The Ship-
wrecked" • Danish or Swedish family attending to and
trattorias a mother and her child. Unfortunately it is im-
possible to overlook in this picture that the artist has
borrowed, at least, a blanket from the remarkable picture
by Madame Henrietta Brown—" The sickichild." This
was an oversight, and it detracts to no small degree from
the effect of en otherwise able work. At the mine time it
should be said that Madame Jerichau whose talenta are so
fully acknowledged, has shown abundance of originality and
accomplished art in some parts of the picture.
M. Lies, " Lambs surprised by a Wolf " (100) is •
whimsical title of • picture very cleverly painted, of •
young countryman suddenly coming upon two pretty girls
walking in the fields.
M. Achenbach is an able landscape painter of the
Belgian school, and he is seen to great advantage in a
large sea pie" "The Jetty at Ostend." It is rarely that
the tremendous turmoil of the surf rushing upon the shore
is painted with so much vigour and with such a complete
suggestion of the wild dashing of the waves seething and
foaming over the rocks sod the strong timbers of the jetty.
There are many other pictures which deserve notice, and the
present exhibition is altogether the best that has been got to-
gether, the two fine works of Gallsat's indeed alone giving it
an importaooe and interest which cannot fail to make the
French Gallery one of the most attractive exhibitions of the
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(11201 t Ova SPECIAL CORREAPONDIEET.)
NEW YORK, Ariz 6.
In gi►ing you Borne account a few weeks ago of
the organisation and working of the sanitary com-
mission, I mentioned, but only mentioned, the
efforts that were being wade to fill its treasury by
"fairs" on a great scale held in the large towns.
The credit of originating the plan belongs, I believe,
to Chicago, that wonder of the West—a great,
rich, luxurious city, with 300,000 inhabitants,
standing on a spot over which, but twenty-five
years ago, the red Indian trapped and shot deer.
The funds of the commission were running low last
autumn. California had contributed 200,000/, in
money, and the rest of the country over 1,000,00 W.
worth in stores ; but the drain of the summer
campaign had been enormous. Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Charleston, Vicksburg, and Chicks-
mauga had been bloody enough to have exhausted
a flow of benevolence tenfold greater than
this, great as this undoubtedly was. The

commission had determined that whenever their
cash in hand fell below 20,0001. they would begin
to make arrangements for " winding-up the con-
cern," as they would look on this m au indi-
cation that the interest of the country iu the enter-
prise was flagging, or its means becoming exhausted.
The lowest point was reached in October ; the
balance at the bank had nearly sunk below the
mark, when a powerful appeal was made to the
country to uphold the commission on grounds of
patriotism as well as of humanity. The West was the
first to respond. It is not rich by any means in
money, but in everything else it abounds. Bo it
was determined to call on all classes and conditions
to send in contributions, if not money, of anything
they had, farm produce, cattle, machinery, cloth,
cotton—no matter what. The result was a great
fair in Chicago, lasting a week, and realising 80,000
dollars. It was followed by a fair at Cincinnati,
which brought in 245,000 dollars; at Cleve/and,
which brought in 60,000 dollars ; at Buffalo, which
brought in 40,000 dollars ; at Albany, 32,000
dollars ; at Brooklyn, 400,000 dollars, making a
grand total of 777,000 dollars. Allowing 50 per cent.
discount for the premium on gold, this is equal
to 100,000/. sterling ; though in reality it indi-
cates as much sacrificepn the part of the contribu-
tors as if the dollar held its old value, foe prices
have kept pace with gold. This, you will admit,
is an enormous sum to have been contributed
since the Ist of November last for a charitable
purpose, by a people who had just gone through
three years of war, and had already contributed
towards the same object nearly a million sterling.
I can at present remember no parallel for it, and
if any of those who are fond of holding up the
Americana to execration as • greedy, grasping
race, who worship the dollar, and even go to war on
speculation, know of anything in the history of
any other nation at all approaching it, I should
be glad to hear of it.
When it came to the turn of Boston to hold a
fair, several new features were introduced into the
performance. Thirty or forty artists painted each
a small picture in water colour or oil ; the whole
were made up into a portfolio and rallied for, and
brought 5001. Then every family in Massachusetts ran-
sacked drawer and closet, and produced allthe relics
and curiosities to be found, and lent them for exhi-
bition—old clothes, old boots, old furniture ; chairs
that had come over the sea in the Mayflower ;
ruffles that old governors bad worn on state
occasions; pins that had been stuck into witches
when witches infested the colony in the
palmy days of Cotton Mather ; weapons
that had been stained with Indian blood lathe very
earliest struggles, or had been borne under the old
flag at Lonisbonrg or Quebec. Of modern curiosi-
ties there were a great number. Those goods
sent to the fair from abroad were admitted duty
free, and the managers of the fair accordingly
ordered large supplies from Europe of silks, laces,
and jewellery, and numbers of ladies made all their
purchases in this way, and waited some time in
order to do so.

Brooklyn, which to all the rest of the world is
a suburb of New York, separated from it by the
" East River," but to the Brooklynites is a sepa.
rate city, with its own peculiar claims to dis-
tinction—is inhabited in a large measure by New
Englandera. The spirit of the place is puritan and
anti-slavery. Henry Ward Beecher reigns supreme
in it ; churches swarm in it ; Sunday is kept in it
as it is nowhere else ; and if the people cannot be
said to vie with New York in polish or ele-
gance, it is fully its match in the
energy and enterprise of their business men.
In fact a large number of the merchants of New
York, and of the moat successful ones too, live in
Brooklyn, and cross the ferry to and from their
counting-houses morning and evening. One of the
most marked characteristics of the inhabitants is
local pride and jealousy of New York, and when
they determined upon holding a fair in aid of the
Sanitary Commission they resolved that it should
surpass anything of the kind that bad as yet been
done. The contributions were accordingly sent in
on a grand scale. Every trade, in fact every shop-
keeper and artisan in the city, was canvassed, and
contributed something. And a huge "New
England kitchen " was erected, with the big
rafters, wide fireplace, dresser, settle, and pewter
of the olden time. The ladies who officiated in it
wore the dress of the seventeenth century, and all
the dishes for which New England is famous—the
pork and beans, pumpkin pies, buckwheat cakes, the
sweet cake, " popped corn," were served up to all
comers who chose to pay for them upon the old
pewter with the old steel forks. There was a charge
for admission to the kitchen, as well as for eating
what was cooked in it, and the thing " paid," as
might be expected, wonderfully. Few of the
younger visitors ever before had so clear an idea of
how their great grandmothers looked, and what
kind of firepkoes they sat round in the long winter
evenings long ago, while trying to reconcile predes-
tination with free will, and justify " the Lord's
dealings with the sinner."
After Brooklyn came the turn of New York.
Its population is one million ; that of Brooklyn
only three hundred thousand, while the dispropor-
GI in wealth is of course much greater ; so if
Brooklyn was able to raise 400,000 dollars, it was
determined that the fair here should produce at least
1,000,000. A meeting of ladies was called in the
early part of the year to discuss the matter, as it
was to be essentially a ladies' work, and it ended
in the appointment of two committees one of
ladies, and oue of gentlemen to assist them. A
large plot of unoccupied ground was found in Four-
teenth-street, near Fifth-avenue, the centre of the
fashionable quarter, about two acres in extent.
The owner refused to let it. A wealthy shipowner
stepped forward, bought it of him at his own
price, and handed it over to the committee. An
immense wooden structure was run up on it in a
few weeks. Sub-committees were formed, and sent
round to canvass every trade and profession in the
city. Every one of them has sent in donations.

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—curers lime learned, the singers have sting,
, theatre* Wells giveh performances, and handed
/or the proceeds to the committee of the fair.
As pollee have subscribed largely in money,
the firemen both in money and goods. The
voters, saddlers, clothiers, jewellers, ironmongers,
linendrapers, and in fact every trade, has made
enormous contributions in goods ; even the confee-
timers, as the donations began to pour in, soon
found that the building would be too small, and
ten days before the opening they determined to
run up another, extending across the upper end of
Union-square, 300 feet long, and about fifty feet
broad. Carpenters were hunted up in every direc •
tion, the timber was sent in at cost price, the
master workmen gave their time for nothing, and
the thing was completed yesterday. This last one
contains all that cannot find room in the first, in-
cluding a "Dutch kitchen," which is to reproduce
old New York life in the days of the Knicker-
bockers, ladies and their black "helps" in the dress
of the last century,—a large open fireplace with a
pile of blazing logs in it, the "slave bunk" in one
corner, the high-backed chairs of the family all
round, and on plain deal tables will be served up
the " waffles," the "doughnuts," the cakes, the
other unwholesome dainties in which ancient
Dutchmen delighted, and in which their
descendants still delight. The internal arrange-
ments of this second building have not, however,
been completed as I write, and it will be open to the
public for the first time to-day. The " fair," pro-
perly so called, was commenced by a general
military parade on Monday, composed of three
thousand regulars and about five thousand of the
States militia, and I am bound to say that, taken
for all in all—in dress, drill, marching, and
physique—l never saw a finer bodyof men, although
I have seen the elite of the principal European ar-
mies. There are some regiments of the city militia
—the Seventh for one—whose marching I have
never seen equalird, except by the English Guards
in the good old times before the Crimean war. All
New York seemed to have turned out to see the
show ; the streets along the line of the procession
swarmed from the side walk to the housetops ; the
omnipresent stars and stripes fluttered from every
window, and the interest of the occasion was
heightened by the fact that every regiment present
had been in the field. The regulars had been
through the bloodiest fields in Virginia ; the militia
had all served a month, or two or three, each sum-
mer ; the Seventh, the pride of every New Yorker,
were the first Northern troops that appeared at
Washington in answer to the President's first call,
in April, 1861, and had been the first to re-open
communication with the capital after the Baltimore
rowdies had broken it, marching along the railroad,
and re-laying the rails as they went. The
ranks are now fuller than ever, but fully two-
thirds of those who filled them three years ago
have since volunteered in other regiments for
active service—most of them as officers—and I
need hardly say a large proportion of those who
did so are now under the sod all over the seat of
war.

In the evening the fair was formally opened, by
speeches and music. Dr. Adams, a presbyterian
clergyman, prayed ; Wendell Holmes's now famous
"Army Hymn" was sung by a full choir, with a
band accompaniment, and the vast crowd that
thronged the building fairly throbbed with excite-
ment as some of the verses rolled along.

o Lord of Hosts. Almighty King,
Behold the sacrifice we bring ;
To every arm Thy strength impart,
Thy Spirit shad through every heart.
Wake in our breasts the living fires,
The holy faith that warmed our sires ;
Thy power has made our nation free,
To db for her is serving Thee.
Be Thou a pillared flame to show
The midnight soars, the silent foe ;
And when the battle thunders loud,
Stall guide us in its moving cloud.
God of all nations, Sovereign Lord,
In Thy dread name we draw the sword ;
We lift the starry flag on high
That fills with light our stormy sky.
No name in flaming emblems wave
To bar from hope the trembling slave ;
No more its radiant glories shine
To blast with woe one child of Thine.

Looked at from the tory "standpoint," and
with the theory that the Northerners are covetous
knaves, who are fighting the South out of pure
love of blood and plunder, the spectacle while this
hymn was being sung was a very extraordinary one.
The Fair was opened to the public yesterday,
and I spent the forenoon in walking through it.
The reporters of the morning papers have, as usual,
gone into hysterics over it. The Herald declares
that the scene in the interior, as witnessed the
night of the inauguration, "conveyed to the
observer an idea of elegance and enchantment which
can only be equalled in the privileged precincts of
the Oriental world." " Oh for a Sadi !" he then
exclaims frantically, " to tell of the glories of the
first night of the fair—its beauty, its poetry, its
charity, its elegance, its worth, its magnifi-
cence." This is, of course, all bosh.
What " the privileged precincts of the Oriental
world" may contain, I don't know, but it need
not contain anything very splendid to eclipse the
Metropolitan Fair. It is not by any means for its
"splendour" that it is remarkable. If you can
suppose one wing of the Exhibition building roofed
over with wood, and very handsomely and tastefully
decorated, you will have a very good
idea of the appearance of the interior. The
goods are exposed on circular tables, the
young lady volunteers who sell them standing
in the inside dressed in black, and wearing blue
scarfs. The goods, as I have said, are of all kinds,
and from all parts of the country. There is nothing
remarkable about them in appearance, quality, or
workmanship ; what is remarkable is that they are
free gifts, many of them from persons who might
fairly be called poor, and that they have been offered
for the relief of the sick and wounded of the
army in the field, and that donations
for inch a purpose on such a scale were never seen
anywhere before. In the arrangement and decora-
tion of the building there is ample proof of the
rapid advances which have been made by New
York within the last few years in artistic taste.
The building has been hastily constructed, is of
wood, and has to be strong ; and yet all the un-
sightliness that must necessarily result from these
incidents has been admirably concealed. In the
centre there is a magnifioent—for this is really
magnificent—" Temple of Flora," a sort of pavi-
lion of flowers : flowers in pillars, columns,capitala,
pedestals, flowers everywhere, and nothing but
flowers, while birds sing in cages in every crevice.
Inside stand a bevy of the fairest of the fair, to
hand bouquets and baskets of flowers to all
comers. These flowers, I may mention, are
contributed by the florists in the neighbourhood of
New York. In one wing of the building there is
an Indian wigwam, constructed by Mr. Bierstadt,
a native artist, who spent last summer in the
Rocky Mountains, and besides producing a picture
of the scenery which I think surpasses Church's
best achievements, brought back with him a large
collection of Indian arms and clothing. He has
accordingly fitted up a wigwam with the most per-
fect accuracy in all the details, and a squad of

Indiana who are here IforTtheh," howe from
Washington have been engaged "positively for two
weeks only," to Irgo through ~their various per-
formances at intervals for the benefit of au ad.
miring and astonished public. I believe there
are Englishmen who suppose, that the "noble
savage" still roams in the forests in the immediate
vicinity of New York ; for the information of such I
may mention that the nearest point at which a real
murdering, scalping, wild Indian is to be found is
2,000 miles further west, or farther than from London
to Constantinople, consequently the iiihabitauts of
this city do not profess that familiarity with his
manners and customs which many persons in Europe
might think probable. Their acting is, therefore,
one of the most attractive features of the fair.
But the most attractive beyond all question is
the picture gallery, a room! 200 feet long, erected
for the purpose. The collection of pictures coin-
prises almost every picture of note in New York
and its vicinity ; and I may add that there are very
few cities in the world containing more valuable pri.
vate collections than it now does. The majority
of these were, of course, the production of American
artists, but there were • great many from
abroad. In addition to this, 60 pictures, cabinet
size, have been painted for the fair, and
the whole are to be raffled for together in d
richly carved box—tickets five dollars each, and the
whole number to be sold one thousand. They are
going off like wildfire. The!Americans abroad, as
well as foreign friends of the country, have contri-
buted very handsomely. Rome alone has sent
jewellery and bricabrac enough for one large table,
and foremost amongstlthe contributors to it is
Castellane, the well-known Roman jeweller. There
is a "curiosity shop," containing almost every relic
of antiquity of note and of moderate size now to
be found in New York or its vicinity, most of them
Dutch or revolutionary, though there are a good
many foreign ones, as you are perhaps aware there
are no more indefatigable collectors than rich
Americans. Amongst the things of this kind ex.
posed for sale is General Burgoyne's sword,
which he gave up to General Gates when
he and his force laid down their arms at Saratoga.
Its price is 1,000 dollars ; so that if any of hi:
friends or descendants in England would like to get
it back, now is their time.

Putting aside the pictures and curiosities, how-
ever, there is nothing in the contributions to the
fair which possesses much interest per ae, as you
will readily understand when I say that it cousiat:
of hardware, clothing, " lingerie," stationery,
sewing machines, toy% haberdashery, machinery,
agricultural implements, mathematical instrument.,
boots and shoes, saddlery and harness, tobacco,
wines, drugs, perfumery, soaps, candles, groceries,
flowers, and books, and all such as you may find in
any of the shops in Broadway. What is wonder-
ful; and interesting, to me about it, therefore,
is the indication it affords of the spirit of
the people. It is simply another splendid
illustration of the enormous energy and public
spirit which democracy, with all its faults, deve-
lops in all classes of the community. A large
proportion of these contributions is from workmen
and mechanics, and this has been true of nearly all
the fairs that have been bald throughout the
country. At Chicago the workmen in one factory
made a fine steam engine, by working over-hours,
and sent it in. Here in New York there is hardly
a workshop, factory, or printing office which has not
contributed largely in goods, either of the men's
own making or purchased by their money. The
farmers have sent in cattle enough to make a very
respectable cattle show, which is now open in
Fifteenth-street. It comprises some curiosities here
—an enormous white ox, an Alderney cow,
a Durham bull, and some pairs of Shetland
ponies, besides horses, sheep and cows with less
claims to distinction. They will be all sold
for the benefit of the sanitary commission.
The admission on the first day reached 17,000, pro-
ducing 40,000 dollars. Under the reduced price,
which commences to-morrow, the number will
probably increase, and it seems certain that
250,000 dollars will be raised from this source
alone, or about 30,0001. sterling at present rates of
exchange.
Turning from the fair to politics, the indications
of the growing devotion of the public to the war
are everywhere stronger and stronger. The State
elections have this year an unusual importance,
owing to the fact that the result foreshadows
pretty clearly that of the Presidential election next
November. They are consequently watched by the
public all over the North with great interest and
anxiety. That of New Hampshire has already
taken place, and been a republican victory ; but it
did not possess as much importance as that
of Connecticut, owing to the fact that the
struggle in the latter was last year unusually
close and severe. It came at the close of a winter
of great gloom and disaster, and was the first test
applied to the popular feeling after. six months of
violent and bitter agitation on the part of the
pro-slavery and peace party. It excited so much in-
terest at the time, and was in reality of eo much
moment, that, as you may remember, I went up to
Hartford to witness it, and wrote you a long letter
on Connecticut politics from that place. The State
is an important one, famed for the energy, ortho-
doxy, and conservatism of its people, and it i. 4
generally taken for granted that any new policy
which Connecticut can swallow will go down easily
with the rest of the Union. The victory was won
by the anti-slavery party last year, after a
hard struggle, and was partly due to the
presence of large numbers of volunteers
who were home on furlough, and voted with the
republicans. The soldiers' vote is of immense
importance to the anti-slavery party, owing to the
fact that it is in the main republicans who enlist,
and strong efforts have been made during the part
winter to procure the proposal of an amendment to
the constitution permitting citizens in the Federal
service to vote wherever they may happen to be.
As such a proposition has, however, to receive the
support of two-thirds of the legislature before being
submitted to the people, parties were last winter
too evenly balanced to allow of its being carried.
The election which came off on Monday, however.
was a crushing and disastrous defeat of the demo-
crats. Buckingham, the republican governor, has
been re-elected for the sixth time, an unprecedented
mark of confidence, by a majority of 10,000 over
his opponent, a rabid pro-slavery, pro-Southern,
and pro-peace man, rind five-sixths of the Senate and
two-thirds of the Legislature are now in the hand-
of the republicans. This is taken as a tolerably
decisive indication of the way things are likely to
go during the remainder of the year, and leaves
little doubt of the triumph of the republican candi-
date for the presidency next autumn.

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JOURNEY OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Anu. 2L

The King has left for the seat of war.
Advkes from Rendsburg state that Marshal
von Wrangel had arrived there. The town was

decorated.

RENDSBUEG, APRIL 21._

The King of Prussia, accompanied by the
3ltui,ter .4 War, Herr von Roon, arrived here this
iuurnit4. His Majesty was enthusiastically re-
...rived at the railway station. Herr Wiggers
addressed the King, who replied in cordial terms.
Toting dressed in the national colours
grow,' flowers before the King. The band played
the Prussian National Hymn and the Song of
SICSW i.,:-Holstein amidst the cheers of the people.
Salutes were tired from the Carlshdtte (an iron
Fundry near Rendsburg).
FLENSBURG, Aram 21.

The King of Prussia arrived here at 11 o'clock
ti,i' morning, and was received by the Crown
Prince, Prince Frederick Charles, and Field Mar-
%Li Gablenz. His Majesty drove through the
tom:, the cheers of the people. The church
bell, were rung. The King lunched at the Hotel
Ra-eb. and proceeded at 12.30 p.m. on his journey
to Poppet.

THE FALL OF DUFFEL.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 20, 12.15 r.m.

N..thing importance occurred at the seat of
sm. c-terday. Hostilities were suspended for
six Among our killed are oue general
ci dividon and two commanders of brigade. A
1{4,4 truce. was sent to the enemy to obtain in-
tclli.,licc of our officers, wounded and prisoners.
om,r killed have fallen into the hands of the
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SON DERBORG, Aran 19, 9 A.m.

N uhauge has taken place in the position of
•iu:r yesterday evening. A few shots only
during the night.

GRAVENSTEIN, APRIL 20.

our loss on Monday in killed and wounded
1i ,awted to tiO officers and upwards of 1,000 men.
The Vanish loss, inclusive of prisoners, is at least
4.900 men. 811 Prussians, many of whom are
~ rely wounded, and 21 Danish officers and 580
:Hot are now iu our hospital.

AMERICA.
(Per the America.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 9, MORNING.

A slight engagement, lasting three hours, on-
eurred on the 28th ult., 35 miles above Alexandria,
Louisiana, between 8,000 Federals and the Confe-
derates, who were estimated 12,000 strong. The
Federals are reported to have captured 500 pri-
soner., and then continued! advancing, endea-
vouring to bring on a general engagement.
The Confederate ram Tennessee is reported to
have sunk at Grant's Pass, Mobile, during a gale.
The Senate has passed a resolution amending
the Constitution, so as to abolish slavery. The
resolution has yet to pass the House of Represen-
tative.; and the State Legislatures.
In Louisiana the election for delegates to the
State Constitutional Convention has resulted in the
success of the Free State party.
Au enormous mass meeting of working men has
been held in New York, protesting against legisla-
' tire intt.rference with strikes.
NEW YORK, Aran 8, Erman.
Forrest is moving out of Kentucky. It is
rumoured he intends attacking Memphis.
News generally unimportant.
COMMERCIAL DTTELLICENCE.
NEW YORK, Aran. 8, EVIX7IIO.

Money tighter. Government has fixed the rate
gold at 165 for the next eight days. It opened
iu the market yesterday at 171 i, but bas since been
declining, and is now quoted 1691. Exchange on
London : Bankers' bills, 154 i to 1541 ; on Paris,
15 to 3.2 i. There was a strong speculative down-
ward reaction in stocks yesterday afternoon. The
market is, however, recovering to-day, and prices
are advancing. New York Centrals, 1431 ; Illinois,
1481 ; Erie, 12:.q, ; Six per Cent. U.S. Bonds, 114.
Cotton steady. Midland Upland, 76c. Flour sc.
biOier, advancing. Wheat quiet, at an advance of
lc. Corn quiet. Provisions rising. Coffee and
molasses very firm. Sugar steady. Petroleum,
crude, 34i ; refined 49c. to 51c.

NEW YOEK, APRIL 9, Mosam.
Money tight. Gold, 170.

APPEAL ON BEHALF OF POLAND BY THE

FRENCH COMMITTEE

The Franco-Polish committee hare addressed
the following appeal for Poland to " the friends of
justice and humanity ?'
A fresh appeal to public sympathy has become necessary
in presence of fresh misfortunes and of growing necessities.
hi the one band, the means to which we have recently had
recourse for alleviating heroic misfortune have failed
Li. The authorities have not granted to no the
renewal of the conferences of the Salle Barthi-
l.my they have not permitted us to continue
and develop those direct relations with the public
which had such an excellent moral effect for the came,
and which had begun to considerably increase our resources.
On the other band, fresh calamities have fallen upon Poland,
sad they are day by day multiplying in terrible proportions
the number of the victims. The bond momentarily loosened
which unites thethree accomplices lathe great crime of 1772,
is now drawn closer ; Austria has returned to her policy of
left; and 1f49. The Austrian government follows in Gali-
cia the traces of Berg and Yourawiew. Women of the people
have been condemned to the butooado ; illustrious Wks
are brought before the Austrian criminal tributhis
for organising assistanos for the wounded and
emir. leek& sal equivocal ors can anal nothing
I.:sicat official documenta published by the Austrian
government in Gailicia, or against those circulars
which order the frontier to be absolutely closed against every
l'Aish-Russian subject not furnished with a Russian pies-
arid forcibly nod back to their country all foreigners
without regular passports that is, deliver over the Polish
ref apes to death or Siberia. Odious and afflicting detail.
aeon the execution of these measures reach us every
ds:r. A multitude of unfortunate people escaped before the
Let ordonance decreeing their extradition or an still
ramping, thanks to the efforts of a courageous compassion.
They are traversing Germany to take refuge in France.
formerly among the Poles the rich assisted the poor ; now
there are no rich, all are involved in a common run, in the
e nein) of distress uin the equality of devotion. We coo.
-ire French sympathy to concert and to unite in order to
amid misfortunes, which have never been so numerous or
cruel.

Peril. April 15,1864.
(The Damao of the committee follow.)

WC:4 INI,IA AND PACIFIC STEAM-,H I P COY.
'NT 11.1wrin).—Mr. F. A. Clint, chairman of the board
f directors, presided at as extraordinary general meet*
'4 the shareholders of this company, which was held at
Liverpool yesterday, when it was ounimously resolved to
increase the capital of the company from one million to
by the issue of 5,000 new shares of 501. each.
This resolution will have to be confirmed ate special meet-
,or to be held on the 11th May. The thalamus &earthed
the prospects of the company es highly suisfacitory.
E "tcin. STCAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
We understud that the British government have jut Goe-
r ;',61 an arrangemeot with this company for en extension
their mail contract for • period of seven years from
k In additioe to the subsidy from the British
vernment for the woveY anoe of the English math thaws.=
r mama and Valparaiso twkeis each month, the company
subsidies from all the local governments for the carry-
,.4o( the local mails as far south as Chiles. and the
var." along the line of coast between Payta, Valparaiso,
usl hiloe ere now four times • inciath.