The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

gECOND EDITION.

bUN OFFICE, HA] J-PAST 4 o'CLocK.

HOLLAND.

The Liberal party in Holland has just gained an
advantage. The district of Almelo had to elect a
new deputy in the place of M. Van Logchem, who
had resigned on account of ill health. M. Vander
Linden had also to undergo a fresh election on being
nominated to a high Gove :nment post. M. Vander
Linden was re elected, am.; M. Limbourg-Brouwer,
of known progressive principles, was chosen to fill
the second seat. Both th e members for that district
are therefore Liberal at present.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
(Per the Africa via Roche's P Ant.)
(Per Telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (Afternoon).
The diplomatic correspondence has been laid
before the Congress.
Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Adams ;n October last
that the United States insist and must continue to
insist that the British Government is responsible
for the damages which American citizens sustain by
the Alabama's depredations, and Mr. Seward cannot
instruct Mr. Adams to refrain from pressing
the claims he has in his hands referring to
Mr. Laird's rams. In September Mr. Seward writes
Mr. Adams that the Navy Department has not any
vessels which can be spared from Charleston ade-
quate to resist those rams, which may be expected
to attack New York, Boston, Portle.nd, Charleston,
or New Orleans. Can the Britist: Government,
says Mr. Seward, suppose that such an assault can
be made with British-built, armed, and manned
vessels without arousing the whole American nation
and rendering a retaliatory war inevitable. The
political debates throughout the country show that
the United States would now accept an unprovoked
foreign war with more unanimity and cheerfulness
than at any former period. The nation, after two
years war, has overco me the sense of fear, whit
its temper is highly excitive. It believes there are
n 3 limits to its ultimate ability of self-defence.
For the interest of both countries, I hope no blow
will fall from the hands of British statesmen,
which will render peace impossible after the
detention of the rams."
Mr. Seward requests Mr. Adams to inform Earl
Russell that the Federal Government will here-
after hold itself obliged, with even more cause
than heretofore, to endeavour to conduct its inter-
course with England, so that the civil war, when
terminated, will leave to_neither nation any per.
ntanent cause for discontent.
Mr. Seaward wrote to Mr. Dayton in September
last that the United States held in regard to
Mexico the same principles as towards all nations.
They have, he said, neither the right nor the di's.,
position to intervene forcibly in Mexican affairs
whether to establish a Republican or domestic
Government, or to overthrow an Imperial or
foreign Government. The United States practice

n regard to Mexico is non-intervention, which
,hey require all foreign powers to ob•
serve in regard to the United States.
Notwithstanding this self-restraint the United
States knows well that the internal normal opinion
of Mexico favours Republican Government. The
United States do not deny that, in their opinion,
their own safety and the destiny to which they
aspire are ultimately dependent upon the con-
tinuance of Republican institutions throughout
America. These opinions are submitted as worthy
of the Emperor's consideration in determining how
he would conduct and close what might prove a
successful war in Mexico. If France adopted a
policy in Mexico adverse to American opinions and
sentiments, that policy would scatter seeds fruit.
ful of jealousies which might ultimately ripet..
into a collision between France and the
United States and other American Republics.
In October last, referring to an intimation of M.
Drouyn de Lhnys that an early acknowledgment
of the Mexican empire by the United States would
be cony enient to France, Mr. Seward writes :
The United States are of opinion that the permanent
establishment of a monarchical government will be
found neither desirable nor easy. The United States
continue to regard Mexico as the theatre of a war
which has not yet ended in the submission of the
Government long existing there; therefore the
United States are not at liberty to consider the ques-
tion of recognising a government which in the fur-
ther chances of war may come into its place. The
United States cannot do otherwise than leave
the destinies of Mexico in the keeping of
her own people, and recognise their sovereignty
and independence in whatever form they them-
selves shall choose that this sovereignty and inde-
pendence shall be manifested,

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21, Evening.
A downivard reaction has taken place in gold to-
day, the price falling to 551, closing at 57. Ex-

change on London, 172; Paris, 3.24. There was
much excitement ,in stocks yesterday at higher

prices. To-day, however, the market closed
heavy. New York Central, 1361 ; Illinois,
1291; Erie, 1081 ; 6 per cent U.S. Bonds,

1041. Cotton advancing. Middling Upland, 841,
Flour, wheat, and corn declining. Provisions
heavy. Coffee, good inquiry. Sugar advancing.

Molasses steady. Petroleum inactive. Crude, 31f

32. Refined, 47.48.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Evening).
It is rumoured that Longstreet is advancing on
Knoxville, reinforced by two divisions of Lee's

army.

SHAKSPERE'S MONUMENTAL BUST IN THE
CHANCEL ON STRATFORD CHURCH is known, without
much difficulty, to have been executed by` Gerard Johnson
in London immediately after Shakspere's death in 1616,
and it is probable that Johnson worked from a plaster cast
of the features, which now lies in the British Museum,
under the custody of Professor Owen. The cast belonged
to a collection of art curiosities left by Count von Kessel-
stadt, who died at. Mayenee in 1843, and whose ancestors,
for above 300 years, had been accustomed to preserve such
things, and had sometimes phrchased them in London. It
is not at all improbable, as Mr. Friswell observes, that ,
German nobleman, or one of his correspondents, being in
cast
o e.
Thehic h
cast, i t
it modelled
iss
ai said,
London shortly after Shakspere's death, and finding that
the German sculptor had executed a bust of him, which
was praised in the contemporary verses of Ben Jonson and.
h fromm
and
Digger,add itwould
tohis
collection upthe
at
agrees very well with the bust, except that in the' bust the
upper lip is longer, the nose shorter and thicker, and the
checks are fuller than in the cast.
There is a rumour, which
Will probably turn out
to be well founded, that the next Gazette, or one
very soon after it, will contain a notice of the distribution
of the Kertch prize money to the Royal Navy. The
flag officers' share will be something under £3,000, to
be distributed as follows :—Sir E. Lyons, represented
by his son Lord Lyons, now British Minister at
Washington, £1,484 ; Admiral Sir :H. Stewart, £371;
Admiral Boxer, £371 ; Admiral Grey, £371; Admiral
Stopford, £371. Admiral Lyons, it will be remem-
bered, commanded the naval forces ; Admiral Stewart was
his second in command ; Admiral Grey being in charge at
Constantinople, and Admiral Stopford, we believe, being at
Malta. Each captain will get £248; each commander, £124.
The proportions due to each of the ten classes may be esti-
mated by multiplying £l3s. 6d., the value of each share, by
the number of shares due to each class. Better late than
never. It is only eight years since Kertch fell into the
hands of the Anglo-French expedition, and this celerity is
quite refreshing.—Army and Navy Gazette.
ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY.—Another fatal occident has occurred at
the Bletchley station, on tho London and North-Western
Railway, whereby one of the pointsuien, named Henry
Wenner, aged 32 3 ears, received such frightful injuries that
he only survived a tew minutes after his removal to the in-
firmary at Bedford. It appears the deceased was crossing
the line at a point about 160 yards from the station just
the
instant a train was approaching on the up-line, and at
instant a train of empty coal-waggons came along on the
down lino, and before he could step into the sir, foot space
between the rails he was struck ry the buffer of the
25
en-
gine of the down train and knocked down.
At the inquest Nearly
of the bucks passed over his legs
and
ann a
verdict of
held en Saturday before the borough
coroner,
expressed
"Accidental death" was returned, buto vide the b
juryy
the London
an opinion that means ought to bo pr
and North-Western Railway Company at Bletchley, that
any sufferers should
receive immediate attention on the oc-
ca,ion of accidents at that place.