The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-02 00:00:00

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THE CAPITAL of the TYCOON: A Nar-
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A special despatch from Nashville, dated Jan.l6,
gives the following particulars of the affair on the
Cumberland River :

" Brigadier-General Forrest, of the rebel army,
with a force of about 4,000 men and 12 pieces of
light artillery, attacked our relief and store ships
coming up the Cumberland River, and succeeded in
capturing five steamboats laden with valuable com-
missary stores, and the gunboat Slidell. Several
of the boats contained wounded soldiers, who, in
jumping from them while burning, were shot in
the water. The negro crews were stripped of their
clothing, tied to trees, cowhided, and left to starve
on the shore. The boats were all anchored in the
mid-channel, and burned after being robbed of their
valuables. The officers and soldiers were stripped
of their clothing, placed on shore, and paroled. A
tremendous rain-storm has set in, and the river has
risen over three feet in a few hours. Several
bridges on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
have been destroyed by a band of marauders, and
mail communication cannot be resumed for some

time. The wires between this place and Murfrees-
boro' have been cut by Secessionists, who pretend
to be quiet Union farmers. I have no word from
our army to-day, but it'ls ready for therinias:
Nineteen deserters from various Tennessee regi-
ments came into this city to-day. An entire regi-
ment, numbering about 300, deserted and came into
an outpost 15 miles below Murfreesboro' yesterday.
Ninety thousand dollars of Confederate State
funds were seized from brokers in this city, and
confiscated yesterday by order of General Mitchell.
General Longstreet will attack us, it is said,
next week, with his entire force, which is thought
to number 45,000. We shall have stirring times
here soon. General Rosecrans is fully prepared for

the enemy, but will not move until certain expedi-
tions effect the destruction of a railroad, and cap-
ture Forrest and his men, or drive them off. We
have nothing but rebel news here, and feel gloomy,
but hope for the best."
The Washington National Intelligencer of the
17th publishes eight columns of intercepted rebel
despatches, being letters of instruction to Mason
and Slidell and other rebel agents in Europe. The
first is a letter from Secretary Benjamin, dated in
September last, exaggerating all the rebel victories,
ar d summing up the Federal losses in all the
battles up to that time at 350,000 men. The most
important portion of the correspondence relates to a
movement on the part of the French consuls at
Galveston and Richmond, supposed to have origi-
nated in Paris, to induce Texas to secede from the
Southern Confederacy and establish an independent
gavernment. The result of this discovery was an
order to Magruder to send the consul at Galveston
to Mexico as soon as possible, and to order the
Richmond consul to leave forthwith. The order,
however, with regard to the latter was rescinded.

Address of the House of Representatives to
the King of Prussia.

The address of the House of Representatives to
the King of Prussia which was agreed to on
Thursday by 255 against 68 votes is as follows :
" Most Serene Most Mighty King, Most Gracious
King and Lord— _ _

"Your Majesty has again called together both
Houses of the Diet of the Monarchy. The House
of Representatives have responded to this appeal
impressed with the earnest will to prove again their
unalterable devotion to the throne and their con-
scientious care for the maintenance of the consti-
tution. It is not concealed that they commence
their labours under gloomy auguries ; but it is
precisely on this account that they the more feel it
a duty to lay before your Majesty as publicly as
reverentially the situation of the country.
" The last session was closed before the budget
for the year 1862 prescribed by the constitution
was fixed. The estimates for the year 1863, which
should have been arranged before the expiry of the
preceding year, were withdrawn. The appeals to
your Majesty's Government to bring in this account
at the proper time were without any result.
" Since then the Ministers appointed by your
Majesty have carried on the Government indeed,
in opposition to the constitution, without having
introduced the legal budget, and, in opposition to a
declared vote of the House of Representatives, have
ordered an outlay which was expressly and definitely
refused by a vote of the House.
" The chief right of the representatives of the
people—that of the approval of the outlay—was
thereby attacked—a right which is the basis of
constitutional existence, which therefore all exist-
ing constitutional forms of government guarantee,
and which until now was exercised by the Prussian
representatives under the fixed recognition of the
Government of the State itself. The country saw
with alarm the entire advantages of our previous
national development placed in peril. It stood by
its representatives.
" Only a small minority, for a long time estranged
from the nation, supported by the Ministers of
your Majesty, have borne to the foot of the throne
the gravest calumnies against a fraction of the
Legislature, and have hesitated to confuse the
judgment respecting the measure and signficance
of clear constitutional right-

" At the same time many abuses of administrative
power have appeared, as in the troublous years be-
fore the commencement of your Majesty's regency.
Officials who have been true to the constitution, at
the same time such as were deputies, have been
visited wiih oppressive measures. The press has
been persecuted in cases where it has publicly
combated for the right. The attempt has been
made to prevent the exercise of undoubted rights of
citizenship on the part of not called out Landwehr
men, by inadmissible orders of military superiors
not justified by the rules of the service.
" Most Gracious King and Lord—Your Majesty
has been recently pleased to declare that no one
need doubt your gracious intention to maintain
intact and to protect the constitution to which you
had sworn. In fact, no one ventured to hold such
a doubt ; but your Majesty will permit it to be said
openly that the constitution has been already vio-
lated by the Ministers. The 99th article is no lon-
ger a truth. The serious ill of a budgetless Go-
vernment has fallen on the country ; and a new ses-
sion has commenced without, by any steps of the
Government, merely the prospect being opened that
the session may result in restoring the regulated
r administration of the finances, and the support of
the army establishment again on legal bases.
" Foreign nations see with astonishment the pro-
longation of a conflict which concerns the consider-
ation for the name of Prussian deeper day by day,
and which threatens to deprive the voice of the
Goveanrnent council of peoples of its best
strength. They know well that duty and conscien-
tiousness compel the Prussian representatives to
preserve the right which the constitution grants
them from all attacks, and all injury 011 all sides,
and that the prospect of external perplexity
mregain her
dis-
cords. They know that Prussia can
la)er strengh,
medium for the adjustment of ourondlesticisinfluence in Germany, and thereby
when she restores constitutional order to herself,
and when she calls upon the German people and
her representatives to cc-operate in the national
unity of the great fatherland.
people—who have been proved in so
many
dangers,
b y no other
" In the meantime this affliction does not deprive
the
who in loyalty and endurance are
people--of the hope that
your Majesty's wisdom will distinguish the honour
able voice of your legal representatives from
exceeded Prussian
the counsel of those who endeavour, in the strife