The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

GREECE

ATHIWS, Dac. 26.

It is generally asserted here that the Hon. Mr.
Elliot has officially announced to the President of
the Provisional Government the cession of the
lonian Islands by England, and the decisive refusal
of Prince Alfred to accept the throne of Greece.
It is also stated that Mr. Elliot has not yet re-
commended any other candidate.
ATHENS. Dic. 27.

Coroneos, the commander of the National
Guard, has been dismissed, and the office which he
held has been abolished.

One hundred and thirty-four members of the
National Assembly are now in Athens.
The state of public affairs has improved.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Doc. 27.

According to advice. received here the Commis-
sioners entrusted with the execution of the demands
of the Porte upon Servia have taken their depar-
ture for Belgrade.
The principal points to be definitively arranged
are, the radius of the fortress of Belgrade, the in-
demnities to be paid to the Turkish inhabitants who
have suffered damage during the late disorders, the
strength of the Turkish garrison in the fortress,
and the number of men to which the national
militia of Beryls, is to be confined.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuters office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
" AU:KANO/LA, Die. 27, L 34 P.a.
"The Rusin., with the above mails, left this
day at noon for Marseilles.
" TheCeylon,with the heavy portion of the mails,
sailed yesterday at 3 p.m. for Southampton, where
she may be expected about the Bth of January.
"The Orissa, from Bombay and Nepaul, reached
Suez on the 25th.
" The Azof left Point de Galls for the wreck of
the Colombo on the 15th."

PORTUGAL.

(nom ous owi

LISBON, Die. 20.
The patent slips on the opposite bank of the
Tagus are rapidly approaching completion. A
company has been formed in Lisbon to take charge
of the enterprise, and there is every probability
that it will be prosperous, for money will not be
wanting. A patent slip has always been a serious
deficiency in the Tagus, and although the Portu-
guese and many Englishmen who are accustomed
to the usages of this port may affect to believe that
heaving ships down does not strain them or do them
material harm, our shipowners think otherwise
and, consequently, the patent slips at Porto
Brendan will not run short of business when
they are ready to receive vessels.
The consignees of the steamers Tartar and Man-
gerton have sent home a petition, numerously
signed by the merchants of Lisbon, asking the
British government to grant a small subsidy to
these vessels for the conveyance of the mails,
otherwise they cannot afford to run much longer.
Lisbon is a poor place, and people in England need
not to be reminded of this fact. Besides the paucity
of trade, Portuguese laws and Portuguese legis-
lators tend to destroy what little exists, and are the
greatest enemies against which the commerce of
Lisbon has to contend. A line of regular steamers
to England is • great convenience to the British
residents in Lisbon, and its withdrawal would leave
passengers and goods at the mercy of casual con-
veyances.
Dom Fernando has, it appears, refused the crown
of Greece, and his friends are glad that he has
viewed the question in so sensible a light. It is
said that an autograph letter to Dom Fernando
from Queen Victoria was sent out in the Emerald
frigate, the purport of which was the offer of the
British government to use its influence to place him
on the throne of Greece • but Dom Fernando has
long enjoyed the sympathies of the Portuguese
people, and his position here is too good to be re-
linquished for so questionable a monarchy as that
of Greece.

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A subscription s on foot for erecting a monu-
ment to the great orator, Joe Bettvao.

DISPATCH OF THY MIDITIRRANIAN AID BOMBAY
NAHA—The Peninsular sad Oriental Company's steam
ship Far" Captain Kellock, ailed from Southampton on
Saturday at 2 pm. with the mails for Gibraltar, the Medi-
terranean, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, and Upper Bengal, toge-
ther with 19 AM aid 20 second-class panniers, including
Captain Banard, Ensign Heath, and Liniteuent Roberts.
Amongst the permagen proceeding vik Mamas to join
this mail are Capsule Bond, Colonel Tapp, Ensign Davidson,
Colonel Grimes, and Major Southey. The Elton 'Aka an
on freight 996 boxes specie value 359,3501., of which amount
is—for Bombay, bar silver sod See Irmo pieces, 274,4504 ;
bar gold, 31,2301. ; gold coin, 5,000 t. ; watches, jewellery,
end precious nos" 670/. ; sod for Alexandria, sovereigns,
48,0001. The Ellora also takes out on freight a full cargo
of general merchandise.
The new law on the press in Austria has received
the marks of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and is to bs
shortly prowalassod..

The tenors bad received no intimation of their having
to retreat, and had laid down to rest upon their
arms for the night. The order for them to
fall in was therefore supposed by many to be for
• night assault upon the enemy's works, and they were
not undeceived until they found themselves upon the
pontoon bridges actually returning across the stream.
A heavy pie of wind which blew all sound away from the
rebel lines greatly facilitated the movement. Bridges were
covered with earth to deaden the sound of the moving ar
finery, and a dark night hid every object from view.
General Franklin's grand division, occupying the extreme
haft, began to move as 00011 as it was dark ; sad the right
and centre of Generals Sumner and Hooker took up the
line of march almost simultaneously, moving in good order,
but silently, away from under the very guns of the enemy.
Ali three of the crossings were used, making six bridges.
No accident of consequence occurred. The troops obeyed
with alacrity every order, and waited with patience their
tarn to crow. The artillery and infantry alternated in
moving column, very naucli.in he order in which they went
into battle. Two brigades belonging to General Butter-
r•ifeld's corps were left to occupy Fredericksburg as advaiteed
p4altsts. The Federal artillery plead on the hither bank of
ths river co-operated in keeping possession of the town.
The same paper of the 17th inst. says in its
summary of war• news :
The retreat wad evacu►tion of Fredericksburg, which were
rendered necessary by the digester of Saturday, and the
eacerteined strength andeMent of the enemy's forttleattoos,
was • pgrihres adventure, but was conducted in safety. It
may be consoling, however, to know that although the
Union forms antlered a loan of some ten or twelve thousand
men in this fruitless attack we the enemy's position,
General Burnside did not fall too deeply into the trap Lid
for him by General Lee, but retired in time to save his army
from the chances of annihilation. It Is but just, perhaps,
to Goers' Burnside to my that the adverse movement upon
Prederieksbarg wag wet eadarisams is am aisasawtab his

own judgment, but was peremptorily ordered by the mili-
tary authorities at Washington, who of course are aloes re-
apoosible for the result. It is stated upon reliable authority
that the rebels sent a notification to our army oe Sunday
that they intended shelling the town, and requested that our
wounded should be removed.
The New York journals publish very lengthy and
detailed accounts of the battle of Fredericksburg
from their special correspondents.
The following is extracted from the letter of the
correspondent of the New York Times, dated
Fredericksburg, Midnight, Dec. 13:
Look at the position to be stormed.
There is a bare plateau of • third of • mile, which the
donning party will hare to mons. In doing so they will be
exposed to the fire, first, of the enemy's sharpshooters,
posted behind • stone wall running along the base of the
ridge of a double row of rifle pita on the rise of the crest—
of the heavy batteries behind strong field works that stud
the top of the hill—of a powerful infantry form now lying
concealed behind those—of • plunging fire from the batteries
on the lower range—of • doable enfilading fire from "cannon
to right of them, ammo to left of them." Sebastopol was not
half as strong.
The line of battle was formed by Coach's corps (the

"mod), composed of the divisions ofFreocb, Hancock, and
Howard ; the left of the line abutting on Sturgia's division of
Willcox'' corps (the ninth). The first advasced was French's,
composed of the brigade' of Kimball, Morris, and Weber,
supported by Hmicock's division, consisting of the brigades
of Caldwell, Zook, end Meagher.

Forming his men under cover of a small knoll is the rear
of the town, skirmishers were deployed to the left towards
Hazel Dell. Sturgis supporting, at the same time moved
up, and rested on a point on the railroad.
The moment they exposed themselves on the railroad,
forth burst the deadly hail. From the rifle-pith came the
murderously aimed missiles ; from the batteries, tier above
tier, on the Assess, shot limes of fire ; from t►e end.
,lading cannon distributed on the arm of • circle two miles
in extent came arras showers of shot and shell. Across
Use plain for • while they swept under this fatal flee.
They were literally mowed down. The bursting shells
wads great gaps in their ranks, but these are presently
filled up by the closing up of the line. For fifteen immortal
minutes at least they roman under this fiery surge. Os.
ward they prow, though their ranks grow fearfully thin.
They have pawed over • greater part of the interval, and have
almostneehedthe base of the hill, when brigade afterbrigade
of rebels ries up on the crest and pour in fresh volleys of
musketry at short range. They fell back shattered sad
broken, amid shouts and yells from the enemy.
General French's division went into the fight six thousand
strong ; late et night he told me he could count but Mims
hundred.

The fire of the rebel batteries was Dot the only thing from
which our men had to suffer. Thinking to silence the
enemy's guns, our batteries planted on the bluff on the
north side of the river, embracing the 4i siege guns, some
batteries of 20-pounder Parrots, and the artillery of the left
and left centre, opened fire. The intervening space is
between 2,700 and 3,000 yards—too great a distance to
maculate on the projectiles carrying with accuracy,
particularly contractors' ammunition. If shells should
fall short, or take an oblique direction, and ax.
plods among our troops, it would be difficult to
see bow a panic could be prevented. Promptly seeing this
danger General Hunt, chief of artillery, instantly de-
spatched orders to cease firing. It was well be did so, for
immediately afterward en aide-de-ramp came galloping
from General Coach from the other side of the river, beg-
ging that our batteries should cease, se they were actually
firing into his command.
While the broken column retires to its original position
in the outskirts of the town to reform for a new encounter,
let us see what goes on on the left.

At daylight the forces comprising the left grand division
of the army appeared drawn up in battle array on the
broad plain below Fredericksburg and skirting the Rappa-
hannock.

No sower had the beery mint cleared away thee Cap-
tain Hall's battery (2nd Nolte), planted at the right of
Gibbose' dtrialee, opined Are upon the rebels. Artillery
Are sow became general sleet the whole lie*, whieb was
reitseed by ON rebels. Horsy siege gum is ea mar ; the
ILA Warybad, Lt lbasteuretir Batteries, aid Datiorry D,

It was while the fight wu progressing at this point that
General Hamel was fatally wounded. About 2 o'clock,
General Ilirney's division of General Hooker's grand division,
which had been delayed for Mole time in crossing by the
enemy's shells. Moved forward to Hie rapport of Meade's
division. Gibbons had become ranch eat up. The znusbetry
fight was Una vary heavy, and this division suffered m-
easly. Adjoining the Lt corps, under Reynolds, was the
6th corps, under General Smith, presenting the following
formation in three line-of.battle—General Newton on the
right, General Burke at the centre, and General Howe es
the left, connecting with Reynolds' corps. At sunrise the
skirmishers commenced moving forward—General Vinton
commanding.
At three o'clock Osearal Newton's wee withdrawn from
the extreme of this corps, and took a position on the ex.
teems right of Reynolds's command, where • it was actively
employed during the remainder of the day. About four
o'clock, the 4th New Jamey were ordered to charge upon a
force of the enemy near the railroad, which they did, driving
them back for 100 yard or more. A =parlor force then ap-
pearing against them they teenfeeced te meths. Night pat
an end to further opecatioes oa either Aide, with the excep-
tion of occasional discharpo from our heavy guns.
The result of Abe day's fighting on the left, so diversified
in its character, wee to gins the left possession of about SO')
yank hi exteet. Se far as stubbornly holding its own.
and even pining pound, the left gland divhdon deserves
credit. It had, however, wholly failed to perform the
teethed .esaceevs swiped to it.
Retarning to the right I found General Samar seated on
the trout seat of an unyoked ambulance at the Laney-house,
directly opposite Fredericksburg, at the point where the first
pontoon bridge spans the stream. The *hi man looked
anxious sad lead al. Things were sok going well with
his anantsed. Fat three hours his am bad been lighting
at landed adds. They were neat asbnesteds their toes
was excessivs, and nothing bad tech sosomplielesd. la.
deed, to the teat of the ear, at the point where we we*,
located, it esanad es though they were being badly primed.
The batteries had been brought down and pleated at the
heads of the street& The troops were huger* the city
closely to serape the forte' Are. " Where is Franklin ?"
was the sager inquiry. " Everything depend' an Franklin's
coming up on the lank."
Franklin's poultice was plainly observable by the line
of smoke sad is a couple of miles to our left below. He
was wooing no asantr.

At three o'clock an aide arrives from General (bash to
my that his ((osa's) troops are advancing finely, bat that
Wilcox was not keeping up. "Tell General Wilcox," re-
plies General Sumner, "toll him he must mike the 9th
Army Corp keep paw with the Bud, if he can."
At half.past 3 o'dock, Sturgis, wbo bad been clinging to
Use valley amid showers of fire, is so hotlr pressed that he
hardly thinks he can hold hie own till Griffin COMM op. At
4 o'clock French report. that him right is held by a brigade
(liasion's) which is withoutaromunitioa.
Sumner sends a message begging Burnside that Freeklin
be directed to advance. But Franklin snood advance. He
has enough to do at this moment to hold his own, for Jack-
son has just thrown in reinforcements, and is pushing hard
to turn his left. Ifeanwhile the reserves have mot been
touched. Hooker's central grand division, 50,000 fresh
men, have not yet been engaged—indeed, are yet mainly on
this side et the river. " Tell General Burnside that be had
better by all means throw some of Hooker's in." Burnside
replies that he has directly ordered Hooker to go in, and
that every man on this aide of the river shall crone.
_ . . . . .

willow in this while ratter. They did well to let us so
easily into Frederickelees, drier but half a deem guns.
when they Gould have brought a hundred to bear upon us.
The city drag was the rattiest teep that ever wee leel, and
we have walked into It. Is it any wonder that with such
a position, on the inside of an arc of a circle of batteries,
" Mid upper, nether, ens surrounding fires,"
our troops were over and over again broken and shattered
in the attempt to take it? The wonder is that such
admirable pluck was shown.
It le a hopeless task sow to go back over the series of
blenders that have dads Nis diameter peedble ; to inquire,
for Melia" who is responsible for the delaying of the pop.
loon bridges ten days beyond the time promised General
Burnside, thus enabling the rebel. to render their position
impregnable. Enough that the inquisition will come by
and bye.
At the close of the battle to-night General Burnside de-
claed that he would renew the contest in the morning.
There is, however, little probability that this will be done,
or can be done. It is bluely that the mindl of generals,
composed of Bwwslde, Brenner, Hooker, and Franklin, Dow
meeting at this house, will shake this determbratios, as I
know they are all offered to the measure. Indeed, one has
oily to go over to Fredericksburg, where the limy is now
huddled, and see its shattered and broken condition, regi.
meets scattered, disorganised, do., to see that a renewal of
the fight in the month*, or even for some time, it wholly
impossible.
What the eguleet d the whets affair is to be it Is el wane
fruitless to cenjoeture. We au, no &obi, by the adoption
of the right pea, gorse their position. melt right le ',idly
their weak point, and that by the way they are now busily
engaged in strengthening to-night. The lined the river is,
however, entirely too long to be guarded &admit their en.
terprielog Weeks, and with the popes diepuditaus timer
politics eta be muddy Ileekal. The dialed= K emir army,
however--ea cared of a river—is a perilous arp—eas o
the most deimorahaieg known, and it may be the dish& of
prudence to withdraw the army as woo as possible to the
north of the Itappahaanook.

At 4 o'clock General Hooker, who had not yet been across
the river, proceeded over, and in half-an-hour prodapoas
volleysofpusketry announced that Hooker with the reserves
is engaged . . . . . . .

The general war news fa combined in the following
luminary from the lino York Times of the 17th :
There seems to be sow no roma to doubt that the Hanks
expedition bee gone further south than North Carolina.
A letter from Port Royal, S.C., dated the 10th inst..
states that it paired there on the Bth, booed south. It is
reported by the &sink etrassee Cadmus, will& has arrived
at Fortmes Mourne, _ that a large fleet was seen by her
entering Cape Fear River, North Carolina. The rebel paws
recently metaled a statement that a dad bad left Hilton
Head, and that Wilmington we supposed by them to be
its distillation.
Adores from the South West suite that Genital Heney's
expedition has retorted to Herod, having been perfectly
suecenslal ia the materpriee in which it was espied. and
with trifling loss. Orient Sherman had retuned with his
command to Memphis, his co-operation with Newel Grant
beng se loupe nmeasery. The latter is reported to be
still atOxfort with his forma, aid as intmediate advance r
not expected. The rebel army is maid to be between Jack-
' eon and Clanton, in the rear of Viebbmg. A parry of
guerillas burn the sterner Irk. City at CoDoordus Creek
on Monday of last week, sad in retaliation as United litotes
steamer the neat day dartreyed forty-two houses in the
OAr bad of brigands numbering 2,000 was surprised on
Saturda at Tuscumbia, on the Memphis and Charleston
east of Corinth, And completely routed by two
regiments of national infantry sod a company of cavalry.
This is a slight compensation for the disgrace at Hartsville.
The latest intelligeoce from the South West is tb the
effect that Modern. with his forms, was falling beck to
the videity of Little Rock, when a force of some HOW
men is stationed under the commend of General Holmes.
'The principal wimp is at A natio, 95 miles north of Little
Rock.

Thisbut assaulting column consisted of the divisions of
Humphrey, Monk, Howard, Getty. and Sykes. They Lad,
however, hardly got fairly engaged before the sun wtnt
down, mad night closed around the clamorous wrath of the
combatants.

TRADE WITH CIECASSLi.

aromalan Committee, 4, Stooehnilding4, Lamb's-
ism, Dec. 9, DMZ
Sir —As this committee are desirous of sow-
tasoieltiss for commercial purposes with the independent
tribe' of Ciroaaais, and seeding • vessel fur that object to
the port* in possemion of or Wearing to those 'bibleon
the coast of the Black See, 1 am requested to ask whether
the committee at Lloyd's have at any time received from
her Majesty's government any notification of there being
any legal obstruction by or on the part of any foreign
Power to communication with those ports.—l am, ato..

At this time General Burnside, who had remained all
day at Gm Phillips-bouse, ammo down to the lacy•boure,
said in the garden facing the oily followed the progress of
the kilt. Externally calm, the leading player in this
tremendous game was agitated by such inteneity of feeling
as no one can couraive, and he paced the garden gloomy as
night "That crest," he exclaimed passionately, "must
be carried to-night."
The brevity of time into which the stupendous Moe of tic
day bed to be crowded seemed to add redoubled energy to
the fray of the combatants.
Not "night or Blucher," as Wellington exclaimed at
Waterloo, but rather Ajax's prayer for "more light," was
the prompting of every heart
Creeping up as the flank by the left, Gstty's troop, sue.
aided in gaining the stow wall, which we had been unable
all day to wrench from the rebels. The other forms rushed
for the crest. Our field batteries, which owing to the re-
stricted specs bad hem of little use all day, were brought
vigorously into play. It was the fierce passionate climax
of the bottle. From both sides two miles of tatter's belched Tim LATE Gra.m.—ln describing the havoc
forth their • fiery missiles athwart the dark back caused by the recent gales on the Norfolk and Suffolk coast,
ground of the Mitt. Volleys of musketry were the following particulars in reference to the diadem at
poured forth such ae we have no parallel of io N
Is p:',7;rf—‘‘ thene
whichasiOnun
our experiences of the war, and which seemed as though do, =Loy loirscoodo Li on Imo.' ao boo .0, bore k
oft
bCialez are peen by
ell the demons of earth and air were contending together. aims this merit of Fekermiy, 1836. A violent end rte.
Bushing up the Mg our troops had got within a stone's continued gale from the north-west, occurring at the new
throw of the batteries, when the hill top swarmed forth In MOOD, caused the tide to rise to a great height sad to rush
in with terrific form. TM beak Ark* protects the Salt-
mw reidomements of rebel infantry, who, rushing upon
h marshes, and which has not been rinsed more than
oar men, drove them back. The turn of a die decides such eleven years, was the first to give wsy, and by six o'clock
situatious. The day was lost. Our men retired. barna on Sunday mailing 403 sons lam, ewe/1y mew were
diately cannon and musketry ceased their roar, and fu a covered with water to the depth of eight or tan feet. and
moment the silence of death succeeded the stormy fury of the wave. surged ewer the road from SaltAmme
to Clay on to the uplands. About an boar later the Clay bank
tea hours' battle. wee Leeks, through, and 280 acres of pasture Mal were
A. General Burnside, turning, walked off through the , beaded as to kayo nothing visible but the tops of the
Arden, and mountang hie bores, galloped beck to head. ! pies. I. the tows of My, moth damage was dose to the
quarters, what thoughts and feelings pained through Lis I harm. Beats were used to get aloeg the street and the
mind No illusions could male him believe that a victory water wee Mw esiMg test deep is the lower rooms. At
&Moms two con 'tasks were floated by the waves and
had Men achieved. Shall we say, then, that it was • de. wood sad. whew they ssiad.
whole
sad
s_
NM! Certainly, if to have started out to accomplish a , patently ; sea timm, sow
serbigain cis thomodidTo
'Wain object mid to have failed in doing sobs a defeat, you whisk mn only reached by basis. It is difficult to esti-
nemapply no other term to the upshot of to-day's battle. , nests tfieseltesete___demelle_. %Mkt-Leer Asti tide-
let piesi of all the glosses of official telegrams which you rem*: tile: ur asp aid of
ewid taker'. it
sepals ,nit oust
Ti 87.8888188 it seems here that we have suffered • defeat say, hmodio tke basks ono( widens osarly7oo
yard.
'IA* bole VW+ when fully PeePered• the 'malt etly he Wide). end to anneve Ibis& Which tra DB6B wished
imam' with new tactical combinations, the pcsition oar- ono the wraps ."

-E-D-71001D- BNALEt.

To the Secretary, Lloyd's Undarwrltiirss.--
(tumor.)
Lloyd's, LC., Dec. 11, 1882.
Sir,— I am directed, on the part of the esmodttile for
managing the affairs of Lloyd's, to ecktiowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 9th instant on the subject of comma-
oh:taloa with this iadepondeat tribes of 01701111* and in
reply to your ioquiry, I am to acqualat you that this coal-
minee are not ae■re that the govarotneot have stony time
issued such a notificatioa as that you allude to.—l kin, Lc.,
Islmond Bsalss, Ihq. ONO. A. Iratirfan,

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2 THE EXP itY4SI3 ‘ MONDAY- ~
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rwAMPAGNE, DRY and DELICATE. 1# foe a while they swept wader this fatal ftei. lartEST INT.&LLIWIOIL
IL/ Pints SM., ,
Recommended vita= =dense.-HR cad Ca, 1.., " They were literally mowed down. The bursting ...--..._. :„ „ . .
Importers. 044 Parnivals Distillery, Holborn. LC., and $O, I, shells made great gaps in their ranks, but these PRUSSIA. .'"'
Regent-street, Waterloo.plam. S.W.
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elm Swirl AND CO.li are plesuntlY Wed 11P bY the doting up of the A despatch from Berlin speaks of a note
pliers' WXDRACT of CALVES' FEET, " line. For fifteen immortal minutes at least they which the cabinet of Berlin has rcently ad-
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For Invalids mid Cannery Use. remain under tnis nary surge. Onward they press, dressed to the cabinet of Vienna. ' Austria is
item ta ad. 11..2.4. tad 42,P41Wt b 7 1E1..2181111MA POCH°. a 4. " though their ranks grow fearfully thin.
sia.suuollY, SD, LITTLE PORTLLI.D.ST., Regant,4B.. W. They there accused of fomenting the opposition which
C6B, 12A, BUSH-LANE, CannonAtreet, LC. " have passed over a great part of the interval, and Prussia meet@ with in Germany. Prussia renews
N'IL-1"'"' rand" lar sz°9l/"°' et qualll7* " have almost reached the blue of the bill, when its propositions relating to the federal refo s, the
11/20X-HIS-EARS.- PIESSE and LL' B I N'S " brigade after brigade of rebels rise up on the crest chief command of the military forces, and the gar-
Ai: new PERFUME for the teettettiee, the t.equei to Stowe I “ and pour in fresh volleys of musketry at short
Cam, also Sir Roger de Comtiey hp Savour, three bottles, in a . • ring of the northern fortresses, and threatens
pretty case. 75.. or single bottle, 2a. ed. None genuine without " range. Our regiments fell back shattered and to leave the confederation in the event of these
our name in writing.-PIFASE and LUBIN, Bondstreet, London.
" broken, amid shouts and yells from the enemy. propositions not being accepted. -
OZOOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. " General FRENCH'S division went into the fight
1.7 Multaa. num sad WOOD have a Ism seaortnuat " 6,000 strong ; late at night he told me he could POLAND.
al asetaddead Ptracerstee, by tbe sIOSi sateasead waken. at "count but 4500.11
weft neses4 gelow-031. Regeistetesset.The political trial at Warsaw is still going on.
What are we to say of such a transaction as Up to the 24th forty-one of the accused had been
thia f When the French saw the mad charge of examined, and there still remained twenty-five
lite erpreoo. Balaklava, and refused it the name of war, they
whose Cages have not been heard. Several of the
_.- were good enough to say " it is magnificent." But prisoners have frankly avowed that they knew that
TO OOREISPOMINTS, here the amateur feeling is quenched by • anti- they were entering a society of young people whose
Aimee:mew isarrem ace, The Express" London bean merit of humanity. What slaughter, what igno-
ram must be el the 10, Bouvuisetrest, by Two object was to save or to aid their country.
arwt on the day of pabliattion. rance, what rashness ! But even after this frightful Warsaw letters of the 24th speak of a fresh
carnage the Federal troops were found ready to go batch of arrests-among them that of M. Nicolas
Tins evrnsa, End
COVENT GARActs DEN.
THE BOHEMIAN forward, and a new assaulting column was formed Epstein, son of the banker. Among the others are
and fed of
111 EL -An.l the grand comic Christmas Pantomime entitled to carry the crest for which so much had been several __ , „,. of __
employee the railway,
HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.-Commence at 7. dared. The atone wall was taken from the
HAY)LUMET. enemy's sharpshooters, the assaulting column (arum's rassru.s.)
•1516 an
warm 017 R AMERICAN c0r.17‘7. Messrs.
Sothem and Bacisione ; Mn. E. Ifitawallsm - RASISEIAiI passed once more through the fire of two miles of
FRANCE.
PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton and Miss L. Keeley. batteries and into that of volleys of musketry.
-And A LIT Arra!' THE WEDDING.-Miss Hufleur. DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS.
" Rushing up the crest, our troops had got within
PRINCESS'S. " a stone's throw of the batteries, when the hill PARIS, DEc. 29.
T Its EvEitnlO, TIME TRIES ALL. Miss Constance „ , Cardinal Morlot, Archbishop of Paris, died this
Aylmer. - And els Pantomime, morrwr vrrrs THE TCI.7 , top swarmed forth in new reinforcements of
or. ilarlequus and Mother ethipton. Mann. laden, R. Power, is rebel infantry, who, rushing upon our men, morning at six o'clock.
and Raiford; Miss A. Collation. News received here from Lisbon to the 27th inst.
" drove them back. The turn of a die decides
BRITANNIA. "such announces that 27 fresh nominations of peers
Tote EVRNINOL the Pantomime, ARUN HASSAN. Mrs. Lane. situations. The day was lost. Our men
Mp.sre. Ems sus,. Louis, Newham, and HMIs). Celeste Stephen i ti retired. Cannon and musketry ceased their have been made, and that a rumour is current that
Tom Sayers and his two performing Muiea.-And SOME " the Queen is in an interesting condition.
B.T.LLS THAT RANO.-Contniessos at adYpui a. , and in a moment the silence of death suc-
" ceeded the stormy fury of ten hours' battle."
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. The people who sent their sons and brothers WEATHER REPORT.--(THIS DAY.)
Twig DAT - Meeniag, Bh. 0a..... Manioc. sit. 855, thus to fight have no consolation save in ,
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the recollection of their bravery. Never was
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it remained at the end of the fights great and The European public will look eagerly for indi- Searborough 29.17 46 2 LW. 55 r - 4
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powerful host. But it failed signally in the im- cations of the effect of this misfortune on the ticeeet„'4 :: item St C Ley. 6 g - - 4
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hours than at any previous period of the war. Our Special Correspondent writes that this is the L
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slated for the most part in leading dense masses of have a splendid army and fleet, resources without
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men into &feu crenfer, the work of a well-protected limit, unsurpassed warlike spirit, combined with MODAL WEDITECAT.
and concealed enemy, and keeping them there. It a docility which is marvellous. And all are rendered LW, gine..b.,:t.i end. N.. Sousse. N.N.W. wtfu, Li(w:lL,
was the Redan failure_ over again, magnified as useless by the unfitness of those in whom they trust. w.5.w..„. tov N.N.W., muse. N.N.W. to S. and lE.,

" SATURDAY, the 13th of December," wrote the
War Correspondent of the New York Tines, after
witnessing the great battle of Fredericksburg,
" must be accounted a black day in the history of
"the Republic." This judgment, recorded on the
battle-field, will not be reversed. The Federal army
was not overthrown, as at Gainsville under Poet; it
was not driven back disastrously on the river, as at
Pittsburg Landing ; it fought with a bravery that
has rarely been equalled and never surpassed, and
it remained at the end of the fight a great and
powerful host. But it failed signally in the im-
portant object it had set itself to accomplish, and
more lives were lost on the Federal side in a few
hours than at any previous period of the war.
The operations were simple enough. They con-
sisted for the most part in leading dense masses of
men into &feu crenfer, the work of a well-protected
and concealed enemy, and keeping them there. It
was the Redan failure over again, magnified as
everything is magnified on that continent, and
aggravated by a tenacity truly American. BMW-
ann appears to have handled his troops with the
judgment of a Sameox and the insensibility of a
Prussira.

The main body of the Federal army, which had
effected the passage of the Rappahannock on the 11th
with skill and success, found itself on the morning
of the 13th disposed along a line more than two
miles in length, and formed into two principal
corps under Srenint and FRANKLIN, 50,000 men
remaining under Hoonsa on the other side of the
river as a reserve. About half a mile behind
the town of Fredericksburg, and separated from it
by a plain, a ridge of ground rises to a height of
about forty feet, and extends eastward for a quar-
ter of a mile until it reaches a dell At the foot
of the ascent, a stone wall, built to protect
the telegraph road, protected a line of
Confederate sharpshooters ; the rise of the crest was
full of rifle-pits, and the ridge itself was crowned
with batteries. Behind this first ridge was a
second plateau with its ridge, wooded and
well studded with batteries. Such being the na-
ture and strength of the principal position, General
BI:ENSIDI resolved to "pierce the rebel centre,"
and appointed Sunnis's corps to that duty.
To the east of the Confederate position just
described, and divided from it by the dell already
mentioned, was a wooded height bristling with
batteries. These were to be attacked by the
second principal corps forming the left wing of the
Federal army, under FRANKLIN. General Buis-
ma appears to have expected that they would
be carried, and that then the successful division
would be able to press on to the flank of the
Confederate works immediately behind Fredericks-
burg, co-operating with Sumitra's corps, and Re-
maining at the end of a victorious day in posses-
sion of the Richmond Railroad, the enemy's line
of retreat.

Nobody seems to have expected that General
Br RNSIDE would hurl his army against these
powerful defences. Our Special Correspondent,
who has seen some of the greatest battles of modern
times, wrote of mush a design three weeks ago as a
thing impossible to be thought of, and we learn
that at Fredericksburg itself, on the morning of
the battle, some of the most experienced men in
the army deprecated it.
Fitswaux's advance, the sole piece of tactic*
attempted, began about 9 o'clock, before that
of S U NNE'S. The Sre of artillery with which
the battle opened was soon succeeded by an
infantry engagement, and at midday the Federals
were three-quarters of a mile in advance of the
point where they had met the enemy. But
this progress brought them under the enemy's
fixed batteries, and shot, shell, and canister
were poured into the Federal ranks. In the
face of these disadvantages a series of successful
charges were made, prisoners taken, and for a
time a lodgment was effected in the enemy's breast-
work. But as an expedient for enabling &rimers
to advance upon the Confederate centre, FRANK-
LIN'S attack bad failed hours before the fighting
ceased.

rbr Court.

OSBORNE, Dzo. 27.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Here, drove oat yesterday. _

The Prince of *ales sod Prince Louis rode on horseback.
SUNDAY.

The Queen, the Prince of Wiles, Prince and Princess
Louis and Princes Helena, received the Sacrament of the
Holy Communion this morning, at Whippingham church,
which was administered by the Rev. G. Prothero. _ _

Immediately in the rear of Frederickaburg,where
Suiceins was opposed to LONOSTREET, • skirmish of
light troops was the prelude to the grand attack.
The Confederates risked very few men on the
plateau : it was unnecessary. They had a line of
sharpshooters, posted behind the stone wall running
along the base of the ridge ; others in • double
row of rifle pits on the rise of the crest ; while the
plateau was swept not only by the fire of the batteries
of the lower range, but by a doable enfilading fire
from other batteries to the right and left of them.
At length the hour came for the great experiment.
The order was given to charge up the hill and
take the batteries at the point of the bayonet. If
determined valour could have sufficed the order
would have been executed. Let an eye-witness
tell what happened :—" The moment the Federal
" troops exposed themselves, forth burst the deadly
" hail. From the rifie•pits came the mnrderouidy-
" aimed missiles ; from the batteries, tier above
" tier, on the terraces, shot planes of fire ; from
" the enfilading cannon distributed on the arts of
" a circle two miles in extent came cross
" showers of shot and shell. Across the plain

The Princes Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold,
attended the morning service.
The Countess of Gainsborough hes arrived as Lady-in-
Waiting. _ . _

The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers arrlstd yesterday, and had
a audience of the Queen.

Mr. Kraus, architect, of Mayenne, bad the honour of sub.
mating to the Priuoe and Primes Louis of Rome pLum and
designs fora palsos goat to be ofootod at Darmstadt.

Despatches were received as Betarday at the Colonial-
office from the Govern's el New Zeeland and the Cape of
Good Hope. Despatches were seat to the Lord High Coca.
=Witmer of the Isola Islands.

The Duke of Sutherland has left Paris, on his
way to Marseilles. His graoe will embark at that port on
board his steam yacht, which lett the Thames a tannish
ego, sod go direct to Naples to meet the dueller, who has
hese residing there for some weeks past.

The Daoheee (Dowager) of Sutherland him left
Stafford House, St. Jamas% for Clicidan Park, her grate's
art in Backiaghanuthire.

The Earl of St. German's (the Lord Steward),
ameemwded by Lord Eliot sod family, has arrived at his
reddens, is Dover-street from Port Eliot, Cornwall

The Earl and. Countess of Craven and the Ladies
Craven have Ashdown. Park today, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Clareadoa, at the Grove, near Watford.

Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphin-
stone de Flahtnit will leave Bowood at the latter end of
the week, for Torquay, on a visit to Lord and Lady Wil-
loughby de Eresby. _ . _

The marriage of Viscount Royston with Lady
Georgians Wellesley will take phew early in the ensuing
month at Paris.

Lord and Lady Elibank have left Brown's
Hotel.

The Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, M.P., and
lady Theresa Lewis and Mims Later will leave town in
few days for the Grove, near Watford, on a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Clarendon.

The friends of Lord Ashburton will be happy
to learn that there is every prospect of his lordship recover-
ing from his recent dangerous illame. The amounts re-
ceived from Paris on Saturd iy and the preesdiog day were
of • mum favourable tenor. The noble lord is staying at
the Hotel Bristol, but it will be some weeks before he can
be expected to leave for the south of Franco with Lady
Ashburton.

The Attorney-General fur Ireland has appointed
Mr. Richard O'Reilly to be assistant crown counsel for the
county of Meath on the borne circuit, vacant by the promo-
tion of Mr. E. P. Loving* to an Indian judgeship. He
his also appointed Mr. Lionel E. Fleming to be 501111i011a
crown solicitor !•r the county of Longford.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, though a zealous
Roman catholic, has, during his year of office, steadily dis-
countenanced the fanaticism of the ultramoutane section of
his church. He has given to the Lancashire Relief Com-
mittee a room in the Mansion House, presiding over their
meetings, and 00-operating with them in the most cordial
manner.

7171111 DAT.
&W. to N.W. and N., BOMA= N.N.W. to XN.X.,
• gale, with rain. strong, with snow.
W.B.W. to N.N.W., 7.IILAMD. N.N.W. to E. and S.L.,
end to N.X, a gale. istroogtonboiceate.
with rain.
As above.

THE QUARTER'S RIVIZETTE RETURNE.—These
returns will not be made up till Wednesday night. Enough
is now known, however, to enable us to congratulate our
readers that the income continues to exhibit the buoyancy
that has for some time pest been its almost normal condition.
The falling off that might, under other cirnmstances, and in
other times, have been naturally apprehended from the dis-
tress of a large portion of our industrious population, and
the derangement of an important branch of trade, has not
taken place. On the contrary, the leading sources of re-
venue continue to exhibit the most gratifying progress.
The customs revenue is more than usually prosperous,
in the face of the reduction of so many items ; and the es-
de exhibits a steadiness that is most remarkable, when the
privations of so large a clan of operatives In Lancashire ere
to be taken into account. After all, the suffering, though
great, is limited in its range, and the other branches of
native industry and production appear fully to make up the
loss. Another gratifying feature of the present condition
of the industrious classes is to be found in the fact that the
withdrawal, from the savings banks, not unusual at this
time of year, have not been to any large extent amongst the
small depositors, but are spread more over the general class
of Erving., which are probably only used for a time, to be
replaced when the exigencies of the season are over.—
, Observer.

W.W. to N.E.. strong,
with rain or snow.
W.N.W. to 8.8. W..
strong, unsettled.
As next above.

• •

ityEltpt-

DECEMBER 29, 1862.

• i 663
S FROM PARIS.
(111011 °us owzr ouszerommrr.)

MR. OL

PARIS, SOIDAT EV1N136.1

H. Fould's financial report is more unpretending
than last year. So lately as last October he clung
to the hope, as he then stated in a report to the
Emperor, that the budget of 1862 would be wound
up in equilibrium. Now, however, that the ses-
sion is about to open, he is under the necessity of
confessing that there will be a deficit of 35 millions
of franca—composed of 8 millions more for Mexico,
to be asked for by the Minister at War ; 16 millions
required by the Minister of Marine ; and llmillione
which be wants himself for premiums on the ex-
portation of sugar. In order 'to gild this pill he
draws a favourable comparison between the budgets
of 1861 and 1862. In 1862 there were 345 mil-
lions of supplementary credits, of which 261
were taken by simple imperial decrees. Now,
supplementary credits by decree are abolished ;
but it appears that for 1862 there were 196 millions
of "legislative" supplementary credits, to which are
now to be added 35 millions, and when it is remem-
bared that all the estimates were confessedly higher
on account of the abolition of the facilities for
taking supplementary credits, the difference is not
so enormous as the public is expected to believe.
It appears that the total expense of the Mexican
war confessed up to the present time is 83 millions,
59 millions having been voted last session. M.
Fould hopes for a surplus of 110 millions for
.1863, but, of course, there will be "legislative"
supplemental credits to cut down this in
due time. Indeed, he admits that, because of
Mexico, he dare not calculate upon any surplus
from 1863 in his estimates for 1864. The surplus
of the latter budget be estimates at only 4 millions,
and in order to get even this he proposes very large
sales of state forests, observing on this head that
the American war has quintupled the price of
resinous wood, and that it is desirable to profit by
the rise. He winds up with the assurance that the
desirable normal state of the finances is only
" adjourned," and that he will be able to do with-
out a loan.

The France takes upon itself to say.that the
Emperor's speech at the opening of the session will
allude to the "reforms" at Rome ; and meanwhile
it boasts that French policy has obtained a swans
hitherto desiderated in vain, and which may justly
be dwelt upon in the Chambers. "M. Billault,
the eloquent organ of government, will no longer
be compelled to repeat that the great obstacle is at
Rome (not indeed that all difficulties are at an end
in that quarter) ; but to the revolution, which in-
sisted upon the immobility of the Pontifical
government, be will now be able to reply, See, it
marches under the tutelage of France." The
reforms now so complacently saluted by the France
are those which the Constitutionnei was instructed
to say, only two days ago, the French government
had no precise knowledge of. It is very certain
that the France has no later news, but it is
prepared beforehand to acclaim any step, however
illusory, which will afford an excuse for telling the
Chambers that M. Dronyn de Lhuys has done
"something." All the clerical journals laugh to
scorn the idea of any reforms in Rome whatever,
maintaining, as they have always done, that the
' Pope's government is already the beet in the
world. It is well to remember that an official

journal in Rome, the Correspondencia, took the
France to task very severely only last week for
presuming to speak ad the French government
"enlightening and guiding" the Holy Father.

The positive announcement of the death of the
Archbishop of Paris, contained in Bullser's Corre-
spondence last night, was a mistake. His emi-
' mence lived through the night, and Dr. Bayer is
said to have declared this morning that if be
pained this day there might still be some hope of
saving him. Later news, however, down to 3 this
afternoon, represents his state as more and more
alarming. The Emperor paid him a visit at 0
o'clock last night, and sat down by his bedside.
M. Goudchaux, ex-minister of finance, whose
death had not been previously announced, was
buried to-day. The funeral, in pursuance of his
own express desire, was conducted with great
privacy. .