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THE"SITN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, 'JANUARY 23, 1863.

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him is decidedly that of progress. Far from fall- time, we believe, is going by for ever. We look
ing short of expectation, his Highness has more upon her present Government as little less corrupt •
than fulfilled the most extravagant desires that than that of the North. The conduct of her
could have been formed; and all that remains now Ministers in our affairs has been characterised by
to wish is that he may be long spared to carry out sordid lust and base ears." Mr. SEWARD
his noble resolutions. The result cannot be other- is even described as Lord RUSSELL'S master !
wise than happy to the country which it imme- " A threat from SEWARD will silence Earl RUSSELL
diately concerns, and beneficial to all those nations more effectually than the wails of the suffering poor
' that come in immediate contact. Certainly a more of his country. Treachery being the predominant
auspicious opening of a new reign has seldom been characteristic of both the Yankee and the English
seen ; and both on political and personal grounds premiers, we are not surprised that there is a mutual
there can be but one opinion, that IsmAm PASHA hostility to the South, and perhaps a tacit under-
has already taken his place among the ranks of standing to despoil us of the products of our court-
national reformers and social benefactors. The land try. SEWARD is by far the shrewder knave of the
of the Nile has a bright prospect before it under two, and his voice seems to be as potent with Earl
present auspices, and it is earnestly to be hoped that RUSSELL as it is in the Cabinet of Washington.
the judicious improvements now laid down by the Certain it is that he has dictated, in the most super-
intelligence of its new ruler may be carried out cilious terms, the course which he wished England
in a style and with a success that may result in credit to pursue since the establishment of the blockade
to the enlightened mind that has devised them. and the recognition of the Confederates as bell
get ents."

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam.
ship Hammonia, from New York on the 10th inst.
arrived off the Needles at 11.30 a.m.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 17.

Sir Henry Bulsver has arrived here.

Dervisch Pasha has received orders to return
with his troops to Scutari for the winter. The
construction of block-houses in Montenegro has
therefore been postponed.

English, French, and Austrian war steamers are
cruising against pirates.

GREECE.
ATHENS, JAN. 17.

It is one proof that England must be right in her
firm neutrality between the North and South, that
she gains of both sides. Whigs, Tories,
and Radicals here, with a few singular exceptions,
concur in the policy of leaving the two great parties
to fight out their own quarrel. Both sides in the
States perfectly well know that we, and all Europe,
would rather they should settle it by the unbloody
war of diplomacy. They know that France obtru-
sively, and England without any display of zeal in
the macter,would gladly aid both parties in coming
to terms which should be dishonourable to neither;
but we do not mean to:offer services which would
certainly be rejected, and which, in the present
temper of both, would as certainly be useless.
In the coming session, we have little doubt that
there will be various opinions as to what will
be the end of the struggle most desirable for
England and the world. Most statesmen and poli-
ticians in Europe will believe, as we certainly do,
that a breaking up of the Union into such a num-
ber of independent nations as geography and diver-
sity of interests suggest, will be for the advantage
of the world; and there may be also a few who can
honestly believe that a democratic Republic, com-
prising all the lands between the Isthmus and the
North Pole, would be a blessing for humanity ; but
those who think all North America should form one
vast power, and those who would break it up into
two, four, or more nations,will all agree that the set-
tlement which Americans will make for themselves
will be better than any we can make for them. Ever
since the Norman Conquest we, in England, have
fought out our own quarrels; we have thus come to
a practical conclusion that this is the best course
for all nations. France has not yet learned the
same lesson. Hence her interference in Italy and
in Mexico, we might add in Egypt ; hence her
readiness to burn her fingers in the American fire ;
bat England's mind is quite made up.
We know the thanks we have had for this from
the North. For a long time all our thorough im•
partiality was represented as favouring the South.
Our manufacturers supplied the South with arms;
our skippers, at their own risk, attempted to get
medicines, clothing, and luxuries in food, through
the blockade, as well as guns and ammunition ; we
half forgot the black spot of Southern slavery in
the courage and skill displayed by Southern com-
manders and Southern soldiers, and all these things
were set down against us as grimes. It availed
nothing that we did ten times more for the North,

Such effusions we read and laugh at, and hardly
say we forgive, because, they have not the power to
make us angry; but what will injure the South far
more with England, is, her brutality towards negro
prisoners. Mr. DAVIS' savage proclamation against
them was veiled in semi-legal phraseology, though
no cue could doubt what it meant ; but we are not
allowed to wait long for the practical comment. The
shooting in cold blood, by order of Southern com-
manders, of twenty negro teamsters near 11Iurfrees-
borough, has excited no indignation or remonstrance
in the South ! JEFFERSON DAVIS has given, and
will give no intimation, that it is not exactly what
he meant, for he did mean it. The atrocity, as we
regard it in England, is coolly taken as a matter of
course, by the South and its friends. In this coun-
try it will be matched with the doings of NEILL and
FURCHIN and BUTLER. In England negroes are
regarded as men, and as having a perfect right to
their liberty if they can get it. Suppose that these
negroes were slaves who had made good their title
to manhood, and who were now driving for wages
the waggons of the army through which they had
gained their liberty—what but the most fiendish
spirit of revenge could dare to deal with these in-
nocent men as brigands or pirates ? The South is
adopting the very means by such deeds as this to
cut itself off from the sympathies of all civilised na-
tions, and of England pre-eminently. Since the
issue of the war has manifestly become emancipa-
tion or slavery, an evident change has commenced
in the feelings of this country towards the Northern
cause, and the South needs to treat the negro better
rather than worse, if it would retain any measure
of English good will. We do not, indeed, think the
North more generous or philanthropic than we
thought her before. Emancipation as a " military
necessity," is pure selfishness ; but we are a practical
people, and when we associate the triumph of the
North with the abolition of slavery in ten large
States, to be as surely followed by its abolition in
the Border States, we shall regard, not the nobleness
or meanness of the motive, but the grandeur of the
result. We may care little for the Nortb, but the
cessation of Southern slavery is everything to Eng-
lishmen.

The Government has determined that rewards
shall be given to those who capture brigands, for
trying whom court-martials are to be established.
The Hon. Mr. Elliot has taken his house at
Athens for three more months.

SPAIN.
MADRID, JAN. 22.

The Government intends laying before the
Chamber a bill for a general amnesty, and a bill
establishing the ineligibility of members of Par-
liament to fill public offices.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JAN. 22.

The following are the most important passages
of the draft of the Address of the Chamber of

Deputies :

" We begin our work under sad auspices, and feel
it our duty to make respectful representations to
your Majesty concerning the state of publicaffairs.

di Since last session the Ministers have carried on
the public administration against the Constitution
and without a legal budget. The supreme right of
the representatives of the people has thereby been
attacked. The country has been alarmed, and has
stood by its representatives.

"A small minority of the people only has, en-
couraged by the Ministers, carried the worst
calumnies against the Chamber of Deputies to the
foot of the throne in the form of addressee.
" Abuses of the power of the Government are
now taking place, just as in the sad years which
preceded the Regency. Your Majesty recently
declared that nobody should doubt your intentions
of maintaining the Constitution; but the Constitu-
tion has already been violated by the Ministers.
" Our position imposes on us the most urgent
duty of solemnly declaring that peace at home
and power abroad can only be restored to the
Government by its returning to a constitutional
state of things."

FRANCE.
PARIS, JAN. 23.

The Moniteur of this morning says :

"The English press has given vent to strange
conjectures upon the despatch of a battalion of
Egyptian troops to Mexico, experience having
proved that negroes are not subject to the yellow
fever.

The address of the Prussian Chamber of Depu-

ties to their unconstitutional KING will be read
with interest. As yet a mere summary of the
Address has reached us, but its tone and spirit are
plainly discernable, and confirm our anticipations.
The Chamber has assumed a firm and undaunted
attitude, remonstrating with the KING► in respect-
ful but decided language on the illegality of the
proceedings of his Government. " Since last Sea-
lsion,"says the Address, " the Ministers have carried
on the public administration against the Constitu-
tion and without a legal Budget." They declare
the supreme right of the popular representatives to
have been attacked, and the country is alarmed by
these unconstitutional measures. There is certainly
much ground for this uneasiness, since if the Minis-
ters continue to act in direct opposition to the ex-
pressed will of the Chambers all constitutional
government will be at an end. The deputies de-
dare to the KING that abuses of the power of the
Government are now taking place as in the years
that preceded the Regency, and reminding him of
kis recent declaration of the sincerity of his
intention to maintain the Constitution, distinctly
express their conviction that his Ministers have
already trenched on its privileges. They assure the
Monarch that they are supported by the great body
of the people, and that the party who presented the
recent addresses to the throne are only a small
minority. It is now to be seen whether the KING
will listen to this remonstrance; whether his eyes
are yet open to the danger and weakness of a posi-
tion which is seen to be untenable by all
but himself. We learn from a French source that
it is rumoured in Berlin that the Government is
willing to fix by law the maximum of the army, if
the Chamber would inaugurate Ft similar proposi-

" The Emperor has not, like England during the
war in India, requested permission to enlist soldiers
in Egypt, but the temporary loan to France of a
regiment of 1,200 negroes.

prailically, than we did for the South—that where
aish I ;erchants and manufacturers sold a hundred
*lst tois' worth of warlike stores to the South, they
must have furnished five times that amount to the
North. Political independence and military courage
turned our sympathy towards the South, and the
North could not forgive the sentiments which we

" The Viceroy could only dispense with 350 men,
who are destined to garrison Vera Cruz. The mea-
sure has therefore been taken in the interests of
humanity, and cannot give rise to the slightest
criticism."

did not care to suppress. Yet all the time our

national acts were the same. Whatever feelings the
conduot of either aide evoked, we maintained our
neutrality. We do not recollect one single case in
which the North has even the shadowof a just com-
plaint against us except it be for the building of the
Alabama. That, however, at the very worst, is
simply a cpse of action too slow on the part of our
Government to cope with the dexterous movements
of those whose property the vessel was. We cannot
for one moment blame the builders; they had a
perfect right, as the American builders themselves

Le Nord, which is now published at Paris, 4as
the following :--`‘ It is stated that about eight days
since an official note was despatched from the
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Washing-
ton Government, proposing the meeting of an
American Congress, which would be for the United
States what the Congress of Westphalia was to Ger-
many during the Thirty Years' War. The idea of
this Congress is said to emanate from M.Drouyn de
Lhuye. A recent at ticle in the Constttutionnel,
which was looked upon as coming from a semi-
official source, developed the spirit of the note of the
French Government. We give this news with due
reserve."

would have asserted in a parallel case, to execute

orders in their own trade, without asking curious
questions. And as to our Government, it could not,
unless prepared to imitate the illegalities of Mr.
LINCGLN and his Secretary for War, have inter-
fered before they had legal ground for doing so, and
that was furnished too late.

The Emperor and Empress dined yesterday with
,he Princess Mathilde.

Among the passengers, by the Estremadura, who
arrived at Bordeaux yesterday were Gen. Pelissier,
LfriosmSenegal, and M. De Breull French Consul at
Lisbon.

A three masted vessel having missed the entrance
of the harbour was lost two days since in sight of
Havre. It said to be the Bonne Mere, of Bordeaux,
Captain Gaignerot, from the coast of Africa, with
a cargo of palm oil. Thanks to the assistance of
the lifeboat, the crew escaped, saving also, with
ggereatdifficul
ly ill in y
the h
cabin.
been received by the steamer L'Eclair, just arrived
t, their captain,
taip
Intelligencen,
who
has since was lying dan-
gerously
from Honfleur, that 50 casks of palm oil had been
washed ashore and saved.

The South, for a long time, did behave somewhat
civilly towards us; though it was no doubt in the
hope of obtaining our more or less direct assistance.
Indeed the South began with attempts at compul-
sion. Before the blockade had become effectual it

Iprohibited the sale of cotton, under the assured con-
viction that "cotton was king," and would soon
compel the intervention of Europe. The North
shared the conviction. Indeed both parties for a
long time fully believed that want of cotton would
compel Europe, and England especially, to take
sides with one of them, each hoping to be the one ;
the South because it had what we wanted, the
North because it kept the maritime look and key
to it. Singularly enough, to this day the South, as
well as the North, persists in refusing to liberate
cotton. The South forbids its sale, and burns it
where the North would be likely to capture it;
the North stations its ships to prevent its leaving the
Southern ports. The South has always cherished the
overweening conceit that England was at its
mercy. " What would mankind do without us
and our slaves," they ask triumphantly: " But
for our productions the mills of Lanashire would
r t y
be shut up, and the Chartists of England would
revolutionise the country." Such, says a pretty
recent traveller in the States—Mr. STIRLING—is
their language; and the common term of contempt
applied by them to our honest and industrious
workmen is that of " hireling !"

tion. This would seem to indicate a more con-
ciliatory spirit, but we fear that it will need further
time and trouble to bring the KING to reason. The
cause of the dispute is not touched upon in the
address of the Deputies. They justly conceive it
to be their duty in the present crisis to make their
stand upon the general principles of the Constitu-
tion, rather than upon any isolated measure, how-
ever arbitrary and uncalled for, The gravity of
the tone of the Address shows that the Deputies
fully appreciate the seriousness of their position.
There is no exultation, no defilnce, only a firm and
quiet resolve to maintain the rights of the people
whom they repeesent. We trust their unshaken
tone, supported as it must be by all constitutional
kingdoms, will yet have weight with their mis-
taken rulers, and convince them, in the concluding
words of the Address, that " peace at home and
power abroad can only be restored to the Govern-
ment by its returning to a constitutional state of
things."

A sad collision is recorded between the steamboat
arriving at St. Nazaire from Nantes and the staemer
Comtesse de Cuba, which destroyed the former.
The shock was so violent as to terrify many persons,
who rashly endeavoured to jump into the ship's
boat. One lost his life, another was dangerously
and it is feared fatally injured, while others were
seriously hurt, Those who remained on board were
unharmed.

The Siecle cf this morning announces that it has
received in one day 10,000 fr. for the relief of the
Seine-Inferieure,

The Gazette de Weimar announces that the Duke
of Saxe Coburg Gotha will accept the crown of
Greece on condition that he is allowed to retain the
regency of his duchy at the same time.

BOURSE, Jan. 22.—The market has shown little
animation, but prices of Rente have been well main-
tained, and with even a shade of improvement,
Threes being now at 70f. 10c. The Italian Loan
has receded in consequence of sales for realising
previous profit. Mobilier remains nearly unvaried.
Itlilway Share market quiet. The market con-
tinued heavy to the close, and left off as follows
4t per Cents. OS GO
Do. end month.... --

DEATH OF MR. W. C. NOTTER.—Mr. Mt. C. S.
Netter, who was for many years connected with Covent
Garden and Drury Lane Theatres, departed this life on the
16th inst., aged 65, deeply lamented.
THE SOUTHERN EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.
—Last evening a meeting of the rector, church-
wardens, and ves'rymen of the parish of St. Diary, Lam-
beth, was held at the Vestry-hall, Kennington, to consider
a report of a committee of the vestry on the Thames Em-
bankment and roadway (south side) ; Mr. R. Taylor in the
chair. Mr. Doulton,M.P., moved theadoption of the report,
the practical effect of which, he said, was to empower the
vestry to consult some practical engineer so as to protect
the interests of the parish in reference to the damage to
property which would be effected by the embankment.
some slightsduisicrus;iocnHthAelrNesporAt wNpaa adopted.ANcno as._
A communication
of the Mersey Dock Board,
from Lloyd's Registry-office was
read yesterday at the. meetingshad been passed to prevent ships
unless they had chains and an-
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Board le co-operate with
test, and asking the Mersey Doc t o
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A MAN BURIED IN A SEWER.
The letter was referred to the Works Committee.
rued Charles
morning, shortly before nine o'clock, an accident of
a painful character occurred to a man nd
Liverpool es rupb oi ee subjected
t cad
Church, an exca.vator at Darnley-road, near Hackney I
Old Church. The unfortunate man was engaged in form-
/e.resterday
ing a new drain, when a naafis of earth gave way, and corn-
pletely buried hitn. Three .quarters of an hour elapsed be-
fore the unfortunate man could be reached. He was dis-
covered crouched up,quite insensible, and fearfully crushed.
At the London Hospital it was found that he had fractured
legs, a severe scalp wound, and numerous contu,ians. Put
slight hopes are given of hi,, recovery.

At length, however, the South appears to have
lost all patience with us. The Emperor of the
FRENCH wished to procure for it an armistice of
Biz months, with the farther object of its indefinite
prolongation. Europe, meanwhile,
was to obtain
the four millions bales of cotton which, our
Consuls tells
us, are to be found there, and the
South to be thus amply supplied with money, and,
ofn•gcolaunrdse,anwd Russiaithall replied,that:l,lt yet.,,
could purchase.
t
the North neither praises nor blames us.k"
' The I
latter it could not do, the former it would not. But
now it is our turn to catch it also from the South.
When we acknowledged them as belligerents, and
refused to act as policemen for the North in our own
manufactories, then England was everything. New
that we refuse to adopt, governmentally, a partisan
policy, nothing is too bad for us. We are told by
the _Richmond Whtg that the English people
"permit, almost without remonstrance, those two
old painted mummies, RUSSELL and P.kLMERSTON,
to place the British nation in &n attitude towards
us heartlessly cruel and unjust." And we are even
threatened with the high displeasure of the mighty
South. " The Confederate States vi ill remember
England in the future. There was a time when
she could have made fast frioids of us, but that

Bank Shares 3400
Credit I oncier 1477 50
Piedmontese Fives
Italian Loan 7O 40
Russian ..
Austrian
Spanidi Threes..., 53
Home Debt .. 5O
'WAIN.

3 per Cents -
Do. end month 7O 05
New 3 per Cents
Do, end month
Credit Mobilier 1165
Do. end month —

ItA IL'

Cash. Account.
Orleans ................ ICB7 50 .. 1087 50
Northern .............. 1023 75 .. 1025
New ditto ............ Lyons and MeditQrrauean 1.162 ..
50 .. 1160
............ 410 .. 405
Southern .............. 825
-- .. 822 50
Western.
Eastern ....... 530 --- ..
525 --
Sardinian .......... 370 370
Austrian
Saragossa...
Lon.barif ............. 586 25 .. 587 ,
North of Spain ........ 647 50 .. 547 50
........... 665 665
Ditto to Barcelona 325 50

DE
The CopenhagenNMAß IC,
bagbladet remarks that the
Danish Government has not shown too much haste
in replying to Lord Russell's second despatch,
seeing that it was not of great importance after the'
decided tone of the -Danish answer. But, as there
was no desire to fail in courtesy towards a great
Power that at least professes friendliness, the
Milist"' for li°re'gri Affairs has now despatched a
lengthened reply. It is rumoured that the Cabinet
of St. Petersburg Las
"'Totted Lord Russell's
recommendations, a fact which the Dagbladet thinks
should make Dentnark ;Aill more su,Tit.:ious of th;,ir

tendency and still more resolute to refuse
them. Lord Russell, it says, has by no
means consulted the real interests of England,
who should on every account rejoice to see the
establishment of a strong and independent Danish
kingdom, closely allied to Sweden and Norway, and
free from all German interference, while such a
Scandinavian alliance would be extremely mortify-
ing to Russia.