The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-16 00:00:00

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London. Wholesale London agents—Barclay and Son, 95,
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of St, Paul's Churchyard; Cleaver, 63, Oxford-street; Dart,
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A sample bottle forwarded free from the manufactory on re-
ceipt of 40 stamps.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, Ring's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE SOLG
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH,
Treasurer—Edward Masterrnan, Esq.
The numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad-
mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the
affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged
to treat as out-patients many distressing cases which.with
more adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wards.
The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 600
beds.
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on
voluntary contributions and legacies, Which are received by
the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also
by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and
03. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith,
Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Dones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay
and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Maras, Deacon, and Co. ;
Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street
ned and Co., Liverpool; and at
FORD S. SALMI f3eoretary.
Masterman and Co. ; Bar
the Hospital, from 10 lAs.zi.

The rear of Beauregard's army passed through
Petersburg on the 30th ult., according to rebel
accounts. The town of Madison Court-house has
been burned by, the Federal troops. The reason
assigned is that a body of rebels took refuge in the
place, and fired upon Union troops from the houses.
A Federal cavalry force encountered a small body
of Mosby's guerillas near Upperville, and, after a
brisk fight, captured 20 of them.
The army of the Potomac is represented to be
larger than General Lee's, end in excellent fighting
condition.

Southern papers say that a battle near Chet.",
nooga is near at hand. Johnston's force is said to
be 65,000. lie was expecting to be joined by a
portion of troops under Forrest, who is reported to
have received large additions to his force in Ken-
tucky and Tennessee.
Advices from North Carolina announce the eva-
cuation of Washington by the Federal troops on
the 28th ult. The object was to concentrate for
the defence of
Newbury, which is threatened
by the rebels with an immediate attack from a
large land force and three powerful rams. The
rebel ram in the
Neese river had moved down to
within four miles of the city, but could not make
an attack until a rise took place in the river. This
ram is said to draw nine feet, and to be much more
formidable than the one which assisted in the cap-
ture of Plymouth,

General Peck has been superseded in the com-
mand of Newbern by General Palmer.
General Beauregard is said to be in command:of
the rebel troops
in North Carolina, although
another account announces his arrival in Virginia.
A disastrous Ere had occurred at Wilmington,
destroying property to the value of 5,000,000 doss.

Latest advices from Louisiana state that the
array of General Banks has fallen bacit to Alexan-
dria, closely followed by the rebels under General
Kirby Smith. AU the Federal transports and gun-
fa
boats,
reached tahl el 8 x fia.the Eastport, had
A rebel cavalry force under Van Zandt had ap-
peared at Cheneyville, 19 miles below Alexandria.
The rebels are also reported to have a large cavalry
force near Baton Rouge.
s,
with
the
Rebel accounts claim that Kirby Smith captured
in the recent battles in Louisiana 2,500 prisoners,
35 pieces of artillery, and 200 waggons.
A Cairo despatch states that the forces in Ar-
kansas under Generals Steele and: Thayer had
attacked the rebels near Prairie de Anna and driven
them towards Washington, Arkansas. General
Steele then turned end marched rapidly towards
Camden, which point had been strongly fortified by
the rebels,l,but subsequently abandoned. General
Price commanding the rebel forces, seeing General
Steele's intention, attempted to reach Camden before
him, but in this he was unsuccessful. On the 17th
General Steele's army was in Camden, but whether
acting on the defensive, or Purposing another ad-
vance, is not stated. A Mobile despatch,tdated
April 20, says ~...`The Federals under. Steele are
surrounded on the Little Missouri, Arkansas, and
waiting for reinforeements."
The U. S. gunboat Petrel was boarded and cap-
tured on the 23d ult., near Yazoo City, by some of
Wirt Adams's rebel cavalry. The force under
General Adams is estimated at between 3,000 and
5,000. The rib:As make desperate attacks upon
all Federal boats posing in the Mississippi river,
and the navigation ei that stream, except by iron-
clads, is deemed very hazardous,
Two hundred rebel cavalry under Colonel Powers
dashed into Port gudson recently and captured
one gun and 19 prisoners, killing and wounding
about 90.

Repel reported to be numerous and
daring e
in cerKentucky aresnd West Tennessee,
Senators Gooch
end Wade, who went to Fort
Pillow to investigate lgillas
the alleged massacre of negro
troops, have collected evidence confirming previous
reports. It is said that retaliatory measures will be
immediately adopted.

In the Federal Oenate an Quaendraent tr) ish.r

Wheat.—Dall, and 1 to 2 cents. per bushel lower.
1 dol, 84c. for amber Michigan, 1 dol. 78c. for
amber Jersey ; 1 dol. 80e. for spring amber, and
winter, and Western.
Corn.-1 dol. 37c. to 1 dol. 39c. for old Western.
Cotton—Quiet and steady. 8310. for middling
uplands, and 80e. for low middlings.

Ashes.—Quiet. 9 dots. for pots. and 11 doll. for
pearls.

Provisions.—Pork, quiet. 26 dols. for mess ; 28
dole. 503. for new do. ; 23 dole. to 25 dols, for old
and new prime ; 27 dots, 50c. for prime mess. Beef
ie firm, at 16 dots. to 17 dole. for repacked, and 19
dais, to 20 doll. for extra mess.

Tallow.—Dall ; 131 c. fur city.
Sugar.—Stecd.y ; lqc. to 171 c. for Cuba.
Rice.—Quiet, at lie, for Rangoon:
Petroleum.—Moderately active; at. 383 c. for
crude, and 5Sc. to 60c, for refined.

Coffee.--D all. San Domingo at 39c.; 45e. to
470 or Rio, and 53c. to 550. for Java.

President lincoln on Slavery and Email-
cipation,

The American papers publish the following:—
Executive Mansion, Washington, April 4.

A, G. Hodges, Esq., Frankfort, Ky.
My dear Sir,—You ask me to put in writing the
substance of what I verbally said, the other day, in
your presence, to Governor Bramlette and Senator
Dixon. It was about as follows :—I am naturally
anti. slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is
wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so
think and feel. And yet I have never understood
that the Presidency conferred upon me an unre-
stricted right to act officially upon this judgment
and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would,
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and de-
fend the constitution of the United States. I could
not take the office without taking the oath. Nor
was it my view that I might take an oath to get
power, and break the oath in using the power. I
understood that, in ordinary civil administration,
this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my
primary, abstract judgment on the moral question of
slavery. I had publicly declared this many times,
and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I
hive done no official ac; in mere deference to my ab-
stract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did under-
stand, however, that my oath to preserve the con-
stitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me
the duty of preserving by every indispensable means
that Government—that nation, of which that con-
stitution was the organic law. Was it possible to
lose the nation and yet preserve the constitution ?
By general law, life and limb must be protected ;
yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life;
but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I
feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional might
become lawful by becoming indispensable to the
preservation of the constitution. Right or wrong,
I aasumed this ground, and now avow it. I could
not feel that to the best of my ability I had even
tried to preserve the constitution, if to save slavery
or any minor matter. I should permit the wreck of
government, country, and constitution altogether.
When early in the war General Fremont attempted
military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did
not then think it an indispensable necessity,
When, a little later, General Cameron, then Secre-
tary at War, suggesting the arming of the blacks,
I objected, because I did not yet think it an in-
dispensable necessity. When, still later, General
Hunter attempted military emancipation, I
again forbade it, because I did not yet think
the indispensable ncceseity bed come. When
in March and May, and July, 1862, I made earnest
and successive appeals to the Border States to
favour compensated emancipation, I believed the
indispensable necessity for military emancipation;
and arming the blacks would come, unless averted
by that mcasure. They declined the proposition,
and I war, in my best judgment, driven to the alier-
native of either surrendering the Union, and with
it the constitution, or of layloF, strong hand upon
the coloured element. I chose the latter. In choos-
ing it I hoped for greater gain than loss ; but of
this I was not entirely confident. More than a year
of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign rela-
tions ; none in our home popular sentiment; none
or.
in our white military force—no less by it anyhow
anywhere. On the contrary, it shows a gain et
quite 130,000 soldiers, seamen and labourer& Thesee
are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can b
e„

The great banking-house of Coutts and Co. arose
under circumstances not less striking than those
connected with tha history of Jones, Loyd, and Ca.
The father of Mr. Coutts was a merchant at Edin-
burgh who had four sons, the two youngest of
whom, James and Thomas, were brought up in the
paternal-counting-hoeme. James, at the. age of
twenty-five, came to London, and first settled in
St. Mary Axe as a Scotch merchant, from which
business, however, he subsequently retired to be-
come a banker. He took a house in the Strand,
the same in which the firm still exists; and he was
joined here, some years after, by his brother Thomas
as a partner—the business being carried on under
the name of James and Thomas Coutts. James Con tts
died early, and Thomas was then left sole pro-
prietor of the bank. His high integrity, joined to
a very enterprising spirit, soon gained him many
friends, and made him remarkably successful in his
business. A characteristic instance both of his
shrewdness and enterprise is given by Mr. Lawson,
in his" History of Banking." In the early part of his
career Mr. Coutts, anxious to secure the sordid]. co-
operation of the heads of the various banking
houses in London, was in the habit of frequently
inviting them to dinner. On one of these occasions
the manager of a City bank, in retailing the news
of the day, accidentally remarked that a certain
nobleman had applied to his firm for the loan of
£30,000 and had been refused. Mr. Coutts listened
and said nothing; but the moment his guests had
retired, about ten o'clock in the evening, he started
off to the house of the nobleman mentioned and
requested the honour of an interview with his lord-
ship the next day. On the following morning the
nobleman called at the bank. Mr. Coutts received
him with the greatest politeness, and, taking 30
one-thousand pound notes from a drawer, presented
them to his lordship. The latter, very agreeably
surprised, exclaimed—" But what security am I to
give you ?" " I shall be satisfied with your lord-
ship's note of hand," was the reply. The I 0 U was
instantly given, with the remark, "I find I shall
only require for the present £lO,OOO ; I therefore
return you £20,000, with which you will be
pleased to open an account in my name." The
generous—or, as it may more truly be called,
exceedingly well calculated—act of Mr. Coutts was
not lost upon the nobleman, who, in addition to
paying is within a few months £200,000 to his ac-
count, the prod ice of Cie sale of au estate, reco:r.-
ment!ed several high personages to patronise the
bank in the Strand. Among the new clients who
did so patronise it WIF3 King George 111.
Mr. Coutts had not only many friends but real
admirers among thy nobility, and wtfs an object of
attraction to not a few designing matrons, who
would have been but teo happy to marry their
nobs but portionless daughter to the rich
b:lnlzer. These aristocratic matrimonial specula-
tions were somewhat rudely dispelled by the choice
which Mr.:Coutts made of a wife, in the person of
Elizabeth Starkey, a domestic in his brother's
service. The union was productive, it is said, of great
happiness to the banker; and, though children of a
servant, his three daughters married three noble-
men—namely, the Marquis of Bute, the Earl of
Guildford, and the celebrated Sir Francis Bur-
dett. After the death of his first wife Mr. Coatts
gave his hand to Miss Mellon, an actress. On this
second marriage, both Mr. and Mrs. Coutts were
made the constant subjects of unworthy ridicule,
which, however, had no other effect than that of
strengthening the confidence of the husband in
his wife. This confidence was displayed in a
remarkable Learner in the last will and testament
of Mr. Coutts. By this:will he left the whole of his for-
tune,amounting to above £900,000, to his widow, for
her sole use and benefit, and at her absolute disposal
without the deduction of a single legacy to any
person. Mrs Coutts subsequently married the Duke
of St. Albans ; but under her marriage settlement
wisely reserved to herself the whole control of the
immense fortune left to her by her first husband.
On her death she bequeathed the vast property to
the favourite grand-daughter of Mr Coutts, Miss
Angela Burdett—the estimable and beneficent lady,
founder of so many churches and schools, who is
now well known as Miss Angela Burdett Coutts.
Miss A. B. Coutts continues to be the principal
proprietor of the old bank in the Strand, the busie
ness being conducted for her by trustees, under the
old style of Coutts and Co.—Railway News.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.—CoIoneI Raczkow-
ski, one of the most idefatigable chiefs of the
Polish insurrection, who quitted Paris in February. 1863,
to take part in the events then taking place in Poland, and
who remained there after that period, and was present at
various actions fought with the Russians, has arrived in
Paris. He is, perhaps, the only one of the insurrectionary
chiefs who exposed his life so many hundred times without
ever having been wounded. Colonel Raczkowski is an old
officer of the Prussian army. He subsequently served in
the Brazilian army with the rank of captain. He had just
arrived in Paris from the Brazils when the Polish insur-
rection broke out, and he hastened to assist his countrymen
in throwing off the Muscovite yoke. General Bossah, who
fuught so long and so successfully in the palatinates of San-
domir and of Cracow, has joined his family at Geneva. It
appears from the information received from various sources
that the insurrection in Poland has been completely sup-
pressed.
DEATH OP MR. WILLIAM SEARLE.—It is with
great regret we announce the decease of Mr. Wm.
Searle, who expired in his 49th year a few minutes before 1
o'clock on Friday morning. Well known to the public as
an excellent actor, and much esteemed by the profession,
the intelligence of his death will be received by both play-
goers and performers with deep sorrow. Mr. Wm.. Searle
was born in January, 1816, and having lost both his parents
before his 14th year, he sought employment in a. solicitor'sld
office, where he remained two years., Finding his tastet
thee
him to the stage, ho made his debut as a, youth of 16 a
and
Surrey:Theatre, then under.Osba.ldiston s management,y _or
the encouragement he received induced him to aPP, _
and obtain a situation at the Adelphi, where he priaolveainc/Z
some time a series of small parts. After
dinethe
so
wich Circuit, he came back to
St
town pr
joined erPaand Theatre, of
Smitrhe :
practice with Down in York Circuit, andt keora
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higher range of parts. Ho the
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manager, and
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stayed till 1844. Soon after ho
accepted the position of
a
stcgo manager of the City of London Theatre, which he
filled with credit to himself and advantage to the manage-
!, raelend w
t for nearly 14 years. He afterwards occupied the post
at stage-manager at Astley s. Mr. Searle was an admir-
able "character" actor, and i▪ n th 3 picturesque dressing of
his parts showed much of the care and artistic judgment of
Mr. 0. Smith, on whose peculiar style of acting he had
evidently modelled his own. Mr. Searle leaves a son, who
is also a member of the dramatic profession, and who bids
fair to achieve professional success.—Era.
Lord Ltanover h4B left town for Llanover, South
Wales.