The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

FRE SUIN,!fLONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1864

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

GERMANY.
BAMBERG, DEC. 24.

The Conference at Bamberg between Herr von
der Pfordten, the Bavarian Minister, and Baron
von Beust, which has just taken place, had refe-
rence to a scheme for dividing Germany into
three Powers, Austria, Prussia, and the Middle
States. This plan was agreed upon in prineiplo.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.

The Royal Mail steamship China, from New
York, arrived at Queenstown at 4.45 a.m. to•day,
with 120 passengers, and 602,207 dols. in specie
She landed 64 sacks of mails and five passengers,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 5.10. All well. She
has experienced strong easterly winds on the
voyage.

(Via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, Dec, 14, Morning,

The Richmond papers asset t that Sherman's main
army had crossed to the east side of the Ogeechee
River, and was moving on the Plit in a south-
easterly direction towards Savannah.
The. Georgians are rapidly reconstructing the
road in Sherman's rear.
Federal accounts state that the land and naval
forces under Dahlgren and Foster proceeded from
Beaufort on the 6th up Broad River, where they
landed their forces and destroyed Pocataligo Bridge
afterwards entrenching themselves at the latter
point.

Foster's scouts communicated with Sherman
who was expee'ed to reach Savannah on the 141 h.

The Charleston Mercury of the 6th says that
Foster had out the Charleston and Savannah
Railroad near Pocataligo, and driven the Confede •
rates from their entrenched position.
The situation at Nashville is unchanged. 25,000
Confederates (under Lyon) have crossed the Cum.
herland River at Yellow Creek, and moved on Hop.
kinsville, Kentucky.

BEeckenridge is reported as endeavouring to join
Hood.

Grant has despatched an expedition, consisting
of one division of infantry and two brigades of
cavalry, under Warren, to destroy the Weldon Rail-
road as far south as Hickeford to prevent the Con-
federates from receiving supplies on the Weldon
Road to Stoney Creek.

Warren destroyed the bridge across the Notaway
River and 15 miles of railroad.
The Confederates were found in force near Hicks-
ford, with strong works on both sides of the Me-
hergen ltiver. Warren having carried the works
o❑ the north side and destroyed the depot
returned to his former position before Petersburg.
Considerable excitement prevails at Memphis.
Beauregard is reported to be marching on Fort
Pillow.

Murfreesboro despatches report that Hood had
captured two blockhouses, but was repulsed when
attacking a third. Forrest made a demonstration
against the fort and town, but was repulsed. The
Confederate cavalry entered Murfreesboro and de.
stroyed numerous houses; they were driven out by
Rousseau. Tne railroad south of Murfreesboro was
uninjured, but destroyed for five miles on the north
of the town from Ocilla Creek to Oville.

Dodge has superseded Rosencranz.
The Governor of Virginia's message favours the
arming of slaves.
The Confederate Congress has passed the resolu-
tion regarding the unlawful capture of the Florida.

The authorities of Detroit have received certain
information of an intended raid from Canada upon
Detroit.

The steamer Ella has been burnt off Wilmington.
The St. Albans raiders have been discharged at
Toronto, on the ground that the Court has no
jurisdiction.
The House of Representatives has passed a reso-
lution to give notice to England of the abrogatio❑
of the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty.

The Canada has arrived out.
POSTSCRIPT.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14,

The Richmond papers of yesterday report that
Sherman was near Savannah, probably not five
miles distant. ' It was doubtful if he would make
an attack or advance to the coast south-east of the
city. He had not opened communications with the
coast.

Later despatches report Sherman in line of battle,
confronted by a large Confederate force. There is
doubtful report that Sherman has bad a successful
ngsgement at Bloomingdale, fifteen miles from
Savannah.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (Morning).

Money easy. Gold, 136 k per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London—Bankers' Bills, 257; ditto on
Paris, 210 to 2 15. Stocks steady. New York
Central, 121 ; Illinois, 130; Erie, 94; 5-20 United
States Bonds, 109 i. Cotton quiet; Middling Up-
land, 132 c, Flour slightly Brmer. Wheat steady.

(TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ASSOCIATION.)
(Per the China, via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 p.m.
Warren's Fifth Co-ps, part of Second Corps, and
Gregg's Cavalry, left the front of Petersburg on
Wednesday for a raid on the Weldon Railroad.
They captured the works at Hatcher's Run, but
afterwards abandoned them and returned to the
camp. They destroyed the bridge over Notaway
River and 15 miles of the railroad ; but, finding
the Confederates in force at Hicksford, the Fade-
rals withdrew to their old position near Petersburg,
and part of the raiding force was captured.
The reported capture of Howell's Point, opposite
Butler's Canal, is unfounded.
There is a repolt of a Federal ironclad having
been sunk in James River by Confederate batteries.
The siege of Nashville continues, but no battle
has as yet taken place. Tne Federals claim to have
repulsed the Confederates at Murfreesborougb,
which the Confederates deny. The Federal losses
at Franklin are now stated officially at 110 officers
and over 2,000 privates in three divisions. The
losses in the fourth division, which are heavier in
proportion, are not given.
Two locomotives and 20 carts laden with ord-
nance and stores have been captured by the Confe-
derates in Northern Alabama.
There is no tri,th in the reported advance of
Beauregard on Fort Pillow. He is superintending
the defences of Savannah.
Sherman on the 7th was east of the Ogeechee
River, 25 miles from Savannah, upon which city he
is supposed to be advancing.
Richmond papers now anticipate an assault upon
the rear of Savannah, but they say that the city is
prepared. Heavy firing was heard on the 7th, sup-
posed from another engagement on the Charleston
and Savannah Railroad. The Charleston Mercury
confirms the destruction of the bridge at Pocataligo.
The railways destroyed by Sherman are being
rebuilt.

The naval court of inquiry upon the sinking of
the Florida failed to agree. A military court of
inquiry has been ordered.
Corn and provisions heavy. Coffee steady. Sugar
good inquiry. Molasses quiet. Petroleum, crude,
54c. ; refined, 74c.
The Governor, Smith, recommends to the legis-
lature the arming of able-bodied slaves without

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delay.
Secretary Fessenden is redeeming the Seven-
Thirties of July, 1861, in currency. The Comp-
troller of the Currency recommends the suppression
cf all State Banks and the Substitution of National
ones. The Bankrupt Bill of last session passed the
house yesterday by 26 majority.
It is reported that two fast steamers have left
Ne w York to be equipped as Mexican privateers (p)
The Confederates, under General Lyon, have
crossed the Cumberland, and moved towards Hop-
kinsville.

Breckenridge is said to be hying to reinforce
Hcod.

The exchange of prisoners stopped at Savannah
has been resumed off Charleston.
The blockade-runner Ella, with a cargo of arms
and ammunition, has been destroyed off WI!.
mington.
The Confederate Senate has passed a joint retina
lution appointing commissioners to Brazil.

LATEST NEWS.
Wednesday, 8 a.m.
It is reported that the Confederates have isolated
Murfreesboro, and will compel its evacuation.

The steamer Maria exploded on the Mississippi,
nearly 60 passengers were killed or wounded.
Richmond papers of the 13th report Sherman

within five miles of Savannah, confronted by a
heavy force of Confederates. His army was in line
of battle.

Skirmishing was going on yesterday near Nash
ville.

The gunboat Otsego has been destroyed by tor
pcdoes in Roanoke River.

The United States Senate has passed a bill
authorising the employment of six revenue cutters
on the lakes. The United States House of Repre.
sentatives have adopted a resolution giving England
notice of the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty,
by 85 to 57.

Parties in New York have taken 35 millions ad.
ditional of 5-20's.

The blockade.runner Hendrie has been captured
off Wilmington.

The Canadian Court has dieharged the St. Albans
raiders for want of jarbdietion, The Like Erie
raiders have also been discharged,

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Dec. 23.
The Queen, Princess Helena, and Pi ince Leopold,
walked and drove yesterday, and Princess 14)11150
drove out, attended by the Hon. Mrs Bruce. _

The Hon. Lucy Kerr has succeeded the Hon.
Florence S..ymour as Maid of Honour in Waiting.
The Duchess of Grafton and Lady Ashburton
have arrived in Paris. The Duke will meet them in that
city on their way to Cannes to pass the winter.

The Duchess (1),-,wiger) of Grafton will leave in
a few days to join the Duke and Duchess in the south of
France.

Tce Marchioness (Frances Anne) of London•
derry, we regret to say, is in a condition considered by
her medical attendants almost hopeless, For the last four
months the marchioness has been in weak health, and lat-
terly there has been no prospect of her recovery.
The Earl of Dunmore left town yesterday for
Dunmore Park, his seat in Scotland.

Vi-count Courtenay, Mr and Lady Evelyn Bruce,
and the Hon. George Craven have joined the circle assera"
bled at Dean Park, on a visit ti the Earl and Countess of
Cardigan.

Lord and Lady Bloomfield arrived in town y
terday from a v sit to the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke
at Wimpole Hall, and to Mr and Lady Elizabeth Adeanef
at their seat in Cambridgeshire.

Lord and Lady lionsany have sustained a loss
by the death of their youngest son, the Hon. Edward rt.
Plunkett, who expired at Dunsany Castle, Ireland, 02
Tuesday.

The Hon. Captain and Mra Vivian have left the
St, George's Hotel.

British American Colonies and the Hudson
Bay Company.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—ln July, 1863, a prospectus appeared of the transfer
of the Hudson's Bay Company to a Financial A-sociatiout
in which they claim the whole of the prairies—lands and
valleys—between British Columbia and Canada, containing
the only parishes in British America with an excellent
climate and and a fertile soil.

Now, though the Company claim the sovereignty, lord-
ship, ownership, of this vast region, larger than Germany,
France, and Spain, united, yet they do not possess in
reality as much as would "sod a lark," they are merely
tenants at will, the Crown, on behalf of the people, being
the owner; and why the Whig Government wishes to con•
tinue this, the last and only monopoly disgracing the
Statute-book is inexplicable, as Free Trade and no monopoly'
were their mottoes.

How different was the conduct of the Tories when in
power, Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, then Colonial Score'
tart', ha.ving liberated Vancouver's Island and British
Columbia, and formed colonies under the Crown, intending
to do the same with the regions in question.
When Parliament meets this subject must soon be de-
cided, as the British Confederation and the gigantic
monopoly of the Company, with the exclusive privileges
they claim, cannot co-exist.
The Hon, George Brown, the Premier of the Canadair, ig
now in London, who may be able to inform Mr. Chichester
Fortescue, the Under-Secretary of State, whether that gen-
tleman's reply to Mr Wyld, in the ll,,use of Commons, Was
correct, viz,, that "Canada cared nothing about it."

TRAVELLER.

Dublin International Exhibition, 1865.

It is eminently satisfactory to learn that this ell'
terprise, undertaken by Irishmen, actuated solell,
by patriotic motives, will fully realise the hopes of
us promoters. The preparatory arrangements are
in a forward condition, and the promises of support
from home contributors ensure the success of the
Exhibition.

Continental exhibitors hove come forward with
alacrity, and from them large contributions are
expected. From France there will be a magnl'
ficent collection of bronzes and goldsmiths' viol',
of silks and laces; it is even hinted that the
Gobelins and Sevres will not be unrepresented.
Austria will send specimens of all those beautt'
ful manufactures which attracted so much atten-
tion in 1862. Italy intends to surpass herself;
filigree work from Genoa, ornamental metal
work from Milan, mosaics from Florence, and
c,meos from Leghorn, will attest the renewed
industrial activity of this rising country, A display
ut sculpiure, equalling, it not surpassing, the at'
tractive cotleclion sent in 1862, is promised from
Rome. The show of manufactures from Belgium
will be in proportion to the extent of her important
industries. Countries in the North of Europe Will
be chiefly represented by works of Fine Art, et
these special details will be given hereafter.
One special feature of this Exaibition, n°t
attempted on any former occasion, will be an inter..
national display of musical instruments. A Jarge
nail, specially designed for concerts, and eapab'e
of seating 3,000 persons, has been devoted to 01
purpose. In it the instruments of all nations wi
be collected, and daily performances will take place
during the continuance of the Exhibition. Exill`
bitors will therefore have the anvantage not only °f
showing their works, but also of having WTI
tested under most favourable circumstances, an
music as an art will be added to the other attrac'
[lons of the Exhibition.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR TO
ENS"UfNG WEEK.—Monday Horticultural : l'erfurse°
from Flowers and the Processes of Distillation. TuesdaY":
Ethnological, at 8: Flint Implements, Salisbury-bill'
Bath,' Mr Evans; ' Natural History of Iranians,'
Khanikof ; ' Hairy Man of Jesso,' Mr Wood. Royal 111"
stitution, at 3 : Chemistry of a Coal Juvenile Lecture°.
Actuaries, at 7 : Table for the Formation of Logoritbeo
and Anti-Logarithms,' Mr Gray. Thursday—Royal
stitution, at 3 : Chemistry of a Coal ;' Juvenile Lectures;
Saturday—Royal Institution, at 3 : Chemistry of a Coal'
Juvenile Lectures.—.Athenceum.
DEPOSIT OF PRIVATE BlLLS.—Yesterday way
the last day for the deposit of private bills at the House el
Commons. On or before the 31st Wu. further particula:
of the intended new railways must be deposited, end til
Parliamentary deposits of 8 per cent. of the capital must he
made in the Court of Chancery by Jan. 12. A new regilt:
lation has been adopted on the subject. In future no
rants for the deposit of money are to be made out lyt
" third" parties, and borrowing the 8 per cent. is 11°
allowed under this new order.
Loss OF A FISHING SMACK AND SEVEN 10'6,...,5'
—CAISTER, near Great Yarmouth, Friday Nigo•
Signal lights of distress were seen by the Caister beaci'lliheet
and coastguard early on the morning of the 19th Deceit' vg
(writes the Rev. G. W. Steward). The wind was blo;
from S.E., and there was a heavy sea running. Ist
Caister lifeboat of the National Institution iminediatelY
off, but on reaching the Cross bands they could find
oIY
traces of a wreck. I have now, however, the melee°llos
duty to communicate that the vessel which sent up •cj
vi
lights was a Yarmouth fishing smack, named the
carrying five men and two boys. She was corePle
„es
wrecked, and all hands unhappily perished. Another 51:a
belonging to the same owner was in company with her, sort"
seeing her first light bore towards her; when within a eArop,
distance from her the master had the precaution to '4.05,
the lead, and finding only tour fathoms of water, had !not
sufficient time to turn his helm, and thus narrowly cse
the disastrous end of his partner vessel and crew. 11° Ters
near enough to catch a glimpse of her sail wearing r to
The crew of the lifeboat saw the surviving smack 108001.
spot, but they saw nothing whatever of the wrecked 00
A part of the wreck of the Vivid has come on shoti:vgli
Yarmouth. The service of the lifeboat's crew, 83 sod
fruitless, was not the less prompt or praisearorti3/0.11 SO
knowing some of the lost crew, and feeling for ter of
neighbours, they are a good deal saddened. The rail id an
the lost smack is said to have been a desenting "goilipg
excellent man, and was coming into harbour, as. Lbe

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tory of colour manufactures. Mauve, magenta, g,i,illlo'
and other popular colours, are all produced by 6°1833,:e
don School,
treatment of certain substances that p duced during ----.,
distillation of coal. The inventor, oarrpee-rrllps we should °a"
the discoverer, of these dyes was a lad in the City of 14°011;
profits,of the manufacture of these dyss.—CaY
share CI P•
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now grows to man's estate, and euicqii323..l,e
income of several thousands a year, as his
Press.
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THE ABOLITION OF SLATEIrt.--Thcre ifi a gt,„
prospect of the passage through the house of the
con.s;i6
tional amendment to abolish slavery.—.Netv York it°
Dec. 8. vanSo
A Vicious ELEPHANT—A long train of oartir..,ll
containing a collection of wild beasts, -was passing lb. rrgb,
Welwyn, with the camels and elephan is walking a;a::
elO
a poor old man offered a piece of bread to one of
pphutanotust,
hanisdt,ruafctker,
withoutth
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the lbadeas tt.apkreol: feta. thi oeni,n3a rile 4; ttbba6l
poor man by the arm, threw him with great violeno.e L.1)14
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road, and then struck him with buck forca with
or tliree
before any one could render wash that two
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