The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-18 00:00:00

THE HIGH BAILIFF OF SOUTHWARK,

A report was brought up 0 - Mr. IL N. Philipps, from the
Officers snd Clerks Committee,' "Oa the reierence to in-
quire into any circurostancesaffectiug the fitness of William
Gresham, Esq., to fill the office of Bailiff of the Borough of
Southwark."

The report was discussed with closed doors, but the result
was that Mr. William Greslam was re-elected to fill the
office of High Bailiff of Southwark.

PETITIONS.

Mr. FRED. R. CARMEL presented a petition from the in•
habitants of the parish of St. Michael, Bassishaw, praying
the court to take into consideration the various railway
schemes proposed to be carried into the City of London, with
a view to their being postponed, and in order that measurer,
may be taken to prevent such schemes as are not absolutely
necessary for the convenience of the public being carried out.
The petition was referred 10 the special railway committee.
Mr. Alderman PI/ULU; gave notice of the following
motion to be brought forward by him at the next court :
"That the thanks of this 2,orporation be respect fully ten-
dered to Sir Moses Mantefiere, Bart., for the signal services
rendered by him to the cause of humanity by missions under-
taken by him to various couttries, in relief of those oppressed
for their religious convictions, and more especially for his
journey to Morocco, to solicit from his Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of that country that nia Jewish, and Christian gni).

jects should be relieved from all civil and religious disabi-
lities.
"That the foregoing resolution be ornamentally written,
framed, and glazed, and presented to Sir Moses Montefiore
Upon reading the resolution the alderman was hailed with
loud cheers.
Mr. J E. SAUNDERS submitted the following motion,
which had been some time on the business paper—" That
the Commissioners of Sewers having during the last year in-
curred an expenditure of £20,843 in improving and widening
Tower-street (11,0,630), Fenchurch-street (£6,642), Bull and
Mouth- street (L 1,450), Paternoster-row (£4200), and Up-
per Thames-street (£919), it be referred to the Improve-
ment Committee to inquire and report what sum or sums, if
any, they would recommend this Court to contribute to-
wards the cost of the said improvements."
The motion was seconded by Mr. STE WART and agreed to.
Mr. ANDERTON moved, "That it be referred to the Mar-
kets Committee forthwith to examine and cause to be sur-
veyed the present state and condition of Farringdon-market,
and report to this court whether, in their opinion, any, and
if any, what repairs are required to be done; and whether
any improvements and alterations can be made in its con-
struction, to make it more advantageous for letting; and
whether or not it is advisable to grant leases of any of the
lettings, and make such further report thereon as they (the
committee) may seem desirable, with an estimate of the pro-
bable cost of any proposed repairs and alterations."
Mr. RUDKIN seconded the motion, and suggested that
the Markets Committee should be empowered to confer with
the Improvements Committee.
Mr. ANDERTON had no objection to the suggestion, and
the motion, with the addition, was agreed to.
The Remembrancer (Mr. Corrie) reported the following
bills in Parliament :—A bill on the forfeiture of lands and
goods in convictions of felony, and a bill to make provision
respecting the use of subways, constituted by the Metropo-
litan Board of Works, which were referred to the Law, Par-
liamentary, and City Lands Committees.
Some other business was transacted, and the Court ad-
journed.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The following are the new regulations, dated the
18th of March inst., for the information of officers
wishing to attend the Levees of the First Lord of
the Admiralty :
" In future the Levee book will be kept in the
First Lord's private office, and officers are requested
to app►y by letter to his private secretary, stating at
which the Levees they desire to be present; bu►
applications should not be made until the Levees
are actually announced. Agents applying on be-
half of a client must send to the private secretary a
memorandum written by the officer himself (to be
retained in office), stating the day on which he
wishes to be present ; and care should be taken that
the rank, Christian names, and seniority of the
officer be correctly and clearly given. It is to be
distinctly understood that if an officer (without good
reason) does not appear upon the day which he has
specified he cannot be received at any subsequent
Levees during the year."
The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, held a Levee yesterday afternoon at the
Admiralty, Whitehall. The undernamed officers
attended :—Rear-Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington,
Rear. Admiral Warden, Rear-Admiral F. Bullock,
Capt. J. Napier, Capt. Francis Marten, Capt. J. E.
Berton, Capt. R. B. Pearse, Capt. H. S. Blomfield,
Capt. A. De Horsey, Capt. H. L. Lacon, Capt. J.
A. P. Price, Capt. the Hon. G. H. Douglas, Capt.
T. P. Thompson, Capt. J. C. Heat.lcp, Capt. H. S.
Hillyar, C. 8., Commander A. P. Arkwright, Com
mender G. W. Towsey, Commander J. B. Scott,
Commander W. C. Forsyth, Commander P. H.
Dyke, Commander F. H. Stevens, Commander Thos.
Creser, Commander F. Cannon, Commander R.
Wells, Lieut. Thomas H. Greer, Lieut. J. F.
Prowse, the Rev. G. Jackson, Mr. J. Colwell (Pay-
master in Chief), and Mr. John Elliott, surgeon.
The War Department transport Marlborough
went alongside the Ordnance-wharf at Chatham
yesterday, and landed the remainder of the hollow
and solid cast iron spherical and Armstrong shot
from the Ariadne, 26, 800-horse :power, Captain
Vansittart, which is now being dismantled at the
Nore, previously to being paid off into the third
division of the Chatham Steam Reserve. The
Armstrong and other guns have been landed at the
Chatham gun-what f, and the powder and shell
placed in store at Upnor Castle.
By directio❑ of the Admiralty every exertion is
used in completing the repairs of the paddlewheel
steamer Terrible, 21, 800-horse power, and fitting
her for the first-class Steam Reserve at Chathanyin
readiness for immediate commission, as her services
are required to relieve one of the ships ordered
home.

Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham
for every exertio❑ to be used to expedite the com-
pletion of the boilers now being prepared in the
factory at Sheerness, as they are required for the
new machinery about to be erected in connexion with
the operation of iron shipbuilding at Chatham.
The Pigmy, paddle, Master Commander Vine,
arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from Ply-
mouth, Dartmouth, and Portland with a i.umber of
supernumeraries from the Britannia, a few naval
prisoners from the Channel fleet, and men belonging
to tiie Prince Consort who had been left behind when
the ship sailed.
The Prince Consort, steam ironclad, Capt. G. 0.
Willes, having shipped a quantity of stores and pro-
visions for the Channel fleet, will leave Spithead this
morning, taking also supernumeraries and men be-
longing to the ships at Portland returning from leave.
The iron steam storeship Buffalo, recently com-
missioned at Woolwich, was yesterday handed over
to the authorities of Deptford to be used as a vic-
tualling hoy.

The military invalids reported as having arrived
in the Himalaya, were removed yesterday to Netley
Hospital by the Sprightly, paddle-wheel steamer,
Master Commander Allen. • The time-expired men
were landed at the dockyard, whence they were
forwarded to the depots of their respective regi-
ments.

In the naval and military intelligence of yester-
day read as the name of a naval cadet Arthur Mal-
colm Corrie, instead of Arthur M. Come.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Sub•Lieut. Arthur Bloxsome,
to the Hector; and Robert L. Mayne, nominated to
a naval cadetship.

Benevolent Society of St, Patrick,

Yesterday being St. Patrick's Day, the 81st anniversary
festival of this society was celebrated at the Freemasons'
Tavern, Great Qaeen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, under the
presidency of Major-General Viscount Templetown, C.B.
The attendance was not so numerous as it was wont to be
in years gone by, and the enthusiasm which was awakened
during the evening was not of such a character as to lead to
the belief that the majority of the company were tree sons
of the Hibernian soil. The shamrock was not so conspi-
cuous as is usual on this occasion, and the general feeling
of nationality did not display itself in those outbursts of
patriotism which are generally associated with gatherings
of the Knights of St. Patrick. The benevolent object of
the meeting, however, was never lost sight of, and when the
girls and boys who are receiving their education in the
schools made their appearance, according to custom, they
were greeted in a manner which showed that they were
surrounded by some of their best friends. The guests at the
principal table included the Earl of Courtown, Sir H. H.
Bruce, Bart., M. 1%, General Down, Mr. Morgan John
O'Connell, Mr. Hamilton Geale, Mr. C. M'Garel, Mr. W•
Newton, Mr. C. Latouche, Dr. O'Connor, .Bco. The chair-
man, in giving the toast of the evening, made an earnest
appeal to the company on behalf of the society, and a report
presented from the sub-committee, which showed that the
schools continue lull to their utmost capacity, and, as in
former years, the 500 children they contain have been edu-
cated and clothed, and during the winter months provided
with a daily meal at the society's expense. This latter is
an additional boon which has only been conferred of late
years, and it is on 3 which has proved most beneficial to the
recipients, many of whom depend in great measure on the
meal they receive in these schools. In so large an estab-
lishment, however, this measure necessarily involves a very
considerable increase in the expenditure of the charity;
but the sub-committee relied with confideace on the
liberality of their supporters, conscious as they were of the
endeavour's which the society continued to make to improve
the condition of the labouring Irish population of this city.
The subscriptions announced by the secretary, after due
honour had been done to the toasts which bore more par-
ticularly upon the interests of the society, amounted to
abo• t £6OO.
The musical arrangements ware under the able direction
of Mr. Land, who had secured the assistance of several
members of the London Glee and Madrigal Union, repre-
sented by Miss Eyles, Miss J, 'Wells, Mr, W. Cummings,
and Mr. Winn.
In the course of the evening the band of the Irish Volun-
teer Rifles performed a variety of national airs under the
superintendence of Mr. Cowen, and the majority of the
songs sung by Mr. Land's corps of vocalists ware either
Irish melodies or were based upon subjects suggested by
Irish traditions.

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The House o. Commons could not fail to
take turther notice of the unpleasant question which
has been raised by the reflections of the Procureur-
Imperial upon a member of the House of Commons
and of the Government. The explanations given
had been se unsatisfactory, the course which had
been pursued so unworthy of the occasion, the con-
duct of the person principally concerned had exhi-
bited so much forgetfulness of what was due to the
Government, to the House of Commons, to the coun-
try, and to himself, and the tone adopted by the
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs had been
so uncourteous to the Emperor of the French and
so contrary to the most obvious claims of :interne-
tional usage, that a general feeling of discomfort and
restlessness on the subject had taken possession of
the public mind. It was not that any one doubted
for a moment that perfect explanations were forth-
coming, Whatever might be the truth about the
letter found among Greco's papers, apparently in
Mazzini's handwriting, directing the conspirators
to apply for money to Mr. Flower, 35, Thurloe-
, square, Brompton, it never entered any English-
I man's head to believe anything about it, except that
it was either' intolerable folly or intolerable imper-
tinence in Mazzini to have at any time given the
address of an English gentleman to such miscreants;
and that a gentieman who could be so unwise—to
say nothing else—as to put it into the power of
Mazzini to drag his name and address through the
mire of Continental revolutionists was very natu-
rally punished by getting them bespattered. But
it was just for this very reason, because explanations
were so easy, because the matter might have been
so readily disposed of, that explanations ought to
have been given, and a disagreeable affair got rid
of at once. Above all, it was felt that a course had
been adopt, d with respect to the Emperor of the
French which was inconsistent not only with the
respect due to a great Sovereign and a great nation,
but even with the courtesy commonly observed
eet ween private persons. Mr. Stansfeld, theretore,
ig entirely beside the mark in maintaining a tone of
indi.;:nation at what hecalls" an odious imputation."
No odio'!is imputation whatever has been made upon
nine in this country, and it is not credible that the
Procureur-Icap,,yial can have intended by the words
he used, to convey any such imputation as Mr.
Sainsfeld repels. No doubt the ready sycophants
of Imperial pomer have caught at an opening for
adulatory declamation, and have used language
which we writ resent if it were worth resenting.
But it is impossible that a personage of the high
position, character, and responsibility of the late
Procureur-Imperial can have intended to insinuate
such imputations against a member of the Rigish
House of Commons and of the Government of
her Majesty. Such imputations could not have
been made without the evidence of facts which
would not only have justified the French Govern-
ment in demanding, but would have compelled them
to demand, an immediate investigation. All such
imputations, therefore, are out of the question; and
we repeat that it is Mr. Stansfeld, and Mr. Stans-
feld alone, who has introduced them into the dis-
cussion. But what the Procurear-Imperia, did
reflect upon was the fact of a gentleman in Mr.
Stansfeld's position allowing himself to be connected
with persons who were capable of being involved in
schemes of such a nature ; and we do not see how it
can be denied that he had sufficient evidence to
justify such a reflection. Let it be remembered that
the main facts upon which his observation was
founded have been admitted now by both Mr. Stara-
feld and M. Mazzini. It is not disputed that letters
have been addressed to M. Mazzini at Mr. Stans-
feld's house under feigned names, and the particular
address contained in the conspirator's letter appears
to have been one of them. Moreover, though the
particular observation about Mr. Stansfeld's connec-
tion with a supposed Tibaldi Fund was not true, it
has been made sufficiently evident by the bank-note
which was forwarded to us the other day that he
has at former times allowed himself to assist in the
pecuniary arrangements of Italian revolutions.
Now, to put out of question M. Mazzini's own opi-
nions, which are not so material to the point at
issue as they have been represented to be, can it be
considered by any reasonable man that M. Mazzini's
correspondents in the revolutionary party abroad
are so entirely free from the object and disposition
of political assassination that it need be matter of
surprise if some of the communications which
reached him should be from very suspicious charac-
ters and of a very questionable nature? Here, for
example, we find beyond all question that he has been
in communication with Greco, the infamous principal
in the recent plot. Could Mr. Stansfeld, in short,
have any right to be surprised if he were to find that
his house had been made the channel tor the most
compromising eemmunications ? And when he hid
laid himself open to this danger of his own accord,
is it at all reasonable for him to rise to a height of
moral indignation at the occurrence of the natural
consequences of his own rashness P Does he not,
on the contrary, owe every apology to those wnom
he has, from want of proper consideration, brought
into a most upleasaut position, as well as to the
great Sovereign in an attack upon whose life the
same carelessness has allowed his address to be made
use of ? W e are really unable to understand the obli-
quity of natural feeling which still res,rains him
lion] expressing his deepest regret to the House of
Commons, the Government, and the country for
having given occasion to their being placed in such
an unpleasant position in the eyes of the French
people; and to the Emperor of the French for
having made it possible that anything connected
with tam could be turned to such an iatamous pur-
pose. It' he had done this, 'and had, before any
pressure was put upon him, taken the step which he
has now .aken to prevent the recurrence of such an
~,fair, the inexperience of younger days would nave
been all twed to excuse his rashness. But he has
made it impossible for the matter to be so passed
over, and the least that can be said is that be has
displayed such an amount of folly as almost con-
stitutes culpability. We regret very much tuat the
Government, in their determination to defend a
colleague, have not taken a more generous view of
their reiation to the Emperor of the French in the
matter. A simple explanation of the facts of the
Case would have removed every excuse for the un-
worthy language which has been used in France on
the subject, and we are unable to understand the
squeamishness of dignity which has prevented their
making allowance for and explaining away a very
natural misconception. The insinuations of an
enemy for a malicious purpose may be rightly
spurned, but reflections proceeding from a friend,
and made " in eadnees," deserve consideration, and
true honour and self-respect would have anticipated
the suggestion. At the same time it does
not make matters better to use a question of this
sort for a party stalking-horse. The Opposition by
taking it up as a party question urged the Minis-
terial side of the House into a mere attitude of
counter assertion. It would have been more fitting
if both sides of /he house, putting aside any party
views, had combined to express a proper and
spontaneous regret at the misconception and errors
of conduct which have been displayed in the matter.
This unpleasant affair does not end as we could have
wished it to end for our character as a considerate
and generous nation. The Emperor of the French,
however, and the French nation may be satisfied
that the people of this country, whose judgment is
undisturbed by the conflict of Parliamentary par-
ties, view the matter very differently, and they feel
that the reserve and confidence with which he has
treated this unfortunate occurrence deserved a more
generous return.
POST.—By the latest intelligence from America
it appears/ that at the beginning of the present
month an opinion was in process of rapid formation
among the Federals that disastrous failure, equally
speedy and complete, had overtaken the spring cam.
paign both in Virginia and in the west. The plan
of these ill-starred enterprises seems to have been
in substance as follows. The Federal Gen. Sherm in.
and others holding commands in the army of the
west, of which Gen. Grant is the Commander .in-
Chief, were to manoeuvre in such a way as to induce
Confederate Gen. Johnston to divide his forces oy
the necessity of covering the points threatened by
the Northern troops. Admiral Farragut was to co-

0-p;r-at-e with his fleet, and make a demonstration al.
Mobile to further distract the attention of the Con
tederates on the side of the coast. In concert with
these movements Federal Gen. Thomas was to move

upon Dalton and Atlanta with a body of 35.000 men.
It was anticipated Gen. Johnston would divide his
irmy to meet these several movements, and that the
reserves of the Federal forces would attack his dis-
persed army, and, in co-operation with the troop,.
previously thrown forward, capture, or destroy it.
Such is an outline of the projected campaign in the
south-west, so far as it can be gathered from the
meagre details before us as we write. This plan
Gen. Johnston, as it appears, has been able entirely
to frustrate and defeat. The movements of Sherman
and Grierson, as well as Farragut's demonstration,
are stated to have been little else than feints, and
the land forces employed do not seem to have been in
much more danger than the fleet. The first-men-
tioned (Sherman) is reported to have marched back
as fast as he could to Vicksburg, whence he came.
Federal Gen. Thomas, however, was not so fortu-
nate. He seems to have come into sharp collision
with Johnston's army on the 23d, 24th, and 25th of
last month, the immediate result being the loss of a
housand min in killed and wounded, and the ulti-
mate consequence a somewhat hasty strategic move-
ment to the rear. It was not to be reasonably ex-
pected that so wary, experienced, and vigilant a
commander as Gen. Joseph Johnston was likely to
be caught in such a clumsy trap. No sooner was it
set for him and brought within reach than he recce
nised it at once, and broke it to pieces with the
greatest facility and despatch. Admiral Farragut's

"demonstration" at Mobile has therefore demon'
strated nothing but the complete inutility of the
enterprise. It this is a foretaste of Gen. Grants
quaim y as a strategist and Commander-in-Cnief of
the armies of the west, it tends to confirm the
theory that his former victories were due to gee"
graphical circumstances, and that, when be is Do
longer close to a river with a fleet of gunboats at
his back, the spell of his success is broken. The
Southern generals probably understood what they
were about, and saw that it would be better to
wait for him in their present position than waste
their strength in contesting the possession of Vick
burg, where the flotillas of the Mississippi won'd
place them at so great a disadvantage. Animas
derived his strength from the earth, but the
Northern giant, in his struggle with the compare-
tively diminutive South, derives all his strength
from the water. Once at a distance from the rivers
and the sea, he finds that his little foe is more than
a match for him. The Confederacy, it must be
confessed, appears more vulnerable in the west
i
than in the north, where Richmond seems n as
little danger from capture by Gen. Meade as If,
it were a town in France or Germany, instead 01
being the capital of the Confederate States of North
America; but still it is not improbable that the
superior generalship of the Southern leaders may
hold the Federal armies in that onarter so effectual*?
in check as the grand army of the Potomac has been
held by Lee. The campaign in Virginia has.ended•
almost as soon as begun, in signal and ignominious
failure. It, seems that Gen. Kilpatrick had been
despatched with a large body of troops on an extra-
ordinary errand to Richmond, going through by'
ways in order to get behind it unawares. This must
have been a promising enterprise. We are told be
"found it impossible to reach Richmond," so he
wended his way back as fast as he could, and sought
shelter and repose within Gen. Butler's lines. As
for' the army of the Potomac," that is described as
being "at its old position at Brandy Station,"
where it is likely to remain, saferand quietly, !f
somewhat ingloriously, until Gen. Lee shall find it
convenient to beat up the quarters of Gen. Meade,
or whatever other general may happen to command
it a month or two hence. Gen. Meade himself was
not with his army when the last advises left, having
been summoned to Washington to hold a consulta-
tion with the President and the chief of the War
Department. So stood matters at the despatch of
the telegrams from New York on the sth of this
month. The Ides of M ,rah do not appear to be
etvourable to the Cm err of the White House. The
sudden and utter collapse of the campaign in Vir'
ginia and the west would seem to indicate far
greater weakness on the partof the North, or strength
on the part of the South, than appeared to be pro'
bable before proved by experiment We never
thought that the progress of the Federal armies 10
the west was likely to be very eonsilerable. The
farther the Northern armies are able to move
onward into the South, the farther they will
be from their base, from whatever quarter
they may advance ; the greater will be the
danger of their communications being cut Off,
and the more will the Southern forces be concen-
trated, while their own will be proportionately
thinned and weakened. Still we had a right to
expect from the Federal army of the west something
different from what the last news tells us it has
been doing, or rather suffering. Heretofore, though
the Federals have been beaten severely on the
Potomac, and have made hardly any appreciable
progress even in the west when away from their
gunboats, still they have fought great pitched
battles. But they now seem to have adopted a hope'
less strategy of feints and retreats. They make
sham attacks, and only escape being cut to pieces
by keeping out of danger, and making rapid sera.
tegic movements to the rear, However, there is at
least the consolation that there is not likely to be
much bloodshed in this pacific method of conducting
campaigns, by which war will happily be shorn of
its terrors. But as the Federals are not likely to
restore the Union by this novel system of tactics,
would it not be the best way " to leave the South
alone" at once, and let their "erring sisters" go in
peace? More "raids in the (Erection of Richmond,"
torpidity, dormancy, paralysis on the Potomac,
feints in the west, impotent operations at Charleston,
still more impotent "demonstrations" at Mobile,
and a new organisation of slavery at New Orleans,
will never conquer the South and restore the
Union.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

MANCHESTER-THURSDAY.

A thin attendance to-day at market, and English wheat
met with a limited demand at the currency of this dal'
week. Foreign wheat was neglected, and unchanged in
price. Indian coin firm at former rates. Flour met with
with an exceedingly dull pale, at late prices. Oats and oat-
meal were very dull, and unchanged in value. English
beans the turn in favour of buyers, but Egyptian sorts ad•
vanced 6d per qr.