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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1863.

The Africa has just brought to us news from
America. The intelligence dating down to the 11th
inst., at New York, arrived, it will be seen, on the
22d at Queenstown. It is precisely of the old
lamentable character: Several exploits attempted,
some of them partially accomplished, but nothing
done on either side calculated in any way to bring
this hideous contention to a close. Like the little
scientific Marionettes in the obsolete toy barometer,
in and out, alternately appearing and disappearing
with bewildering uncertainty, move the Federal'
and Confederates. But that the results are so
frightful the events would be simply contempti-
ble. As it is, iy becomes to the last de-
gree wearisome to reiterate continually the same,
precisely the same, kind of inconclusive occur-
rences. Assured all the while that ruin and blood-
sbed increase, as the time advances with the multi-
plication of these events, one reflects at the same
moment that nothing all the while comes of it—
nothing, that is to say, in any even the faintest
appreciable manner calculated to lead towards the
conclusion of this chaotic epoch of disasters.

Tbvo enterprises stand forth in our latest budget
of news from the opposite shores of the Atlantic as
constituting the incidents of the civil war since the
receipt of our former despatches.
On the seventh the Federal cavalry appear to
have obtained a certain advantage over the Con
federates at Unionville, in Tennessee, about ten
miles from Murfreesboro. A sudden attack adven-
tured upon by the former enabled them to bear
off at its termination the camp equipage of the
Southerns at linionvill?, together with a number

of prisoners.
There was tit for tat, however, at as early a date
afterwards as the morning of the ninth, when the
Confederates resolved upon and successfully accom-
plished a bold raid into Fairfax Court House. At
two o'clock in the morning this rush into Fairfax
Court House was effceted—Brigadier General
STOUGHTON, with head-quarters, guard, and fifty-
five horses, being the captured trophies of the day.
Gathering their prisoners together and stowing
away their booty—" boot, saddle, to horse, and
away went the Confederates afterwards on the 1
road to Warrenton. It mattered nothing that
they had to pass the outposts at Centreville. 7 hat,
to keen-witted warriors, like the Southerners,
of an impediment. In the
proved to be nothing
captured order-books of the Court House at Fairfax,
tise countersign being looked for, was there duly
found, was thereupon duly used, and this was won
a clear passage through the obstructive outposts at
Centreville ! To indulge in as choice a specimen of
elegant latinity as any of those charming fragments
from the classics adorning the conversation of Capt.
WRAGGE, one might imagine the leader of this
audacious raid upon Fairfax Court _House muttering
to himself sardonically as he turned the leaves of
the captured order book in search of the counter-
sign— Fas sst ab hosts doceri. No wonder when all
was done thus adroitly, no wonder at all, that
nothing came of it, when the Federal cavalry were
sent in pursuit.

According to the accounts now brought to us by
the Afriea,VAN Dous appears to have had under him
fully 10,000 men during the recent contest at Spring-
ville. And, if we are to credit the assertion on the
other side that the Federals mustered there no more
than 3,000 in all, it cannot be any longer matter of
surprise that with his
much 10,000 menVAN DORN
was enabled to take from among the opposing 3,000
as many as 2,000 prisoners.
As to the maritime movements both among
the
Northerns and Southerna, there are two or three
now reported that are not unworthy of being par_
ticalarised. First of all the statement as to the
destruction of the Nashville at Savannah is, by
these advice, fully confirmed. Then rumours were
afloat on the 10th at New York to the of=-et that
several gunboats had contrived to pass at length
through the channel formed from the Mississippi
into Lake Providence. There were flying state-
ments at New Yorkevedadding that already those
said gunboats were dealing about them consider-
able destruction. One account went so far
as to assert distinctly that, among the gunboats of
the Federals, one more adventurous than the rest
had advanced through Yazoo Pass as far as,

Yazoo City. The expectation awakened by these
rumours—and certainly it is one not much to be
wondered at under the circumstances—was to the
leffect that, in all human likelihood, the Confederate
transports, in retaliation, would forthwith emerge
from the White River for the express purpose of
offering battle without further delay to the gun-
boats of the North.
Perhaps the oddest morsel of news among all
this motley jumble of intelligence brought to us
by the Africa is that declaring as imminent a
collision between the military and the Mormonites
at Utah. The redoubtable prophet, BRIGHAM
YOUNG, together with Councillor KIMBALL and
Councillor WELLS, were, when the advices left,
threatened with immediate seizure by the military
under peremptory orders from the Governor of
Utah and his associate justices. Against this in-
tended arrest of their loaders, the Mormon citizens
were rising in arms with every evidence of having
come to a fixed determination to offer the most
resolute resistance. Whether the impending storm
will eventually blow over there at Utah
it would be difficult even to conjecture.
Bat supposing the Prophet to be worsted—as he
is tolerably certain to be, should events bring his
followers into serious collision with the military
authorities—it were idle even then to anticipate as
a probable consequence the collapse of Mormonism.
Did not the original Prophet of the Mormons,
the veritable founder of Mormonism, BRIGHAM
YOUNG'S predecessor and master, Josue' SMITH—
did not Toseru SMITH retain unmarred his
influence over his all-believing followers, even when
Josern SMITH had undergone the double ordeal of
a dip in a capacious tar barrel and a roll in a ripped
up bed of feathers ? Even when smeared from head
to foot with pitch, and fledged abundantly with
those symbolical pluckings from the geese of
America, the Prophet SMITH was still to the Mor-
mons—the Prophet SMITH ! There is a wonderful
tenacity of reverence, or affection, or admiration, or
by whatever name it may be called, among
the Free Citizens of America. Take, as
among the latest proofs of this, the mention
made towards the close of these last advices from
New York, to the effect that a movement is actually
afoot on the part of the Federal Government, with
a view to make General BUTLER Provost Marshal
under the Conscription Act ! In no other country
but America could BARNUM so long have survived
as among the recognised institutions of the land.
General Tom THUMB no where else than in America
could have found his way in the midst of the
miseries of a disastrous civil war, to a sort of official
audience with the Chief of the State. A little later
on and BRIGHAM YOUNG may be shown off at the
White House as a sort of Mormonite CARACTACUS,
borne onward in Mr. LINCOLN'S state procession !
That—anything but triumphal procession now
going fast down hill, without even the pretence of
a ski& upon the President's chariot wheels, but with
the pace of those wheels perpetually accelerated.

went treasury.

offering any resistance.

abase.

RUSSIA.

It is very distressing to notice the accounts re-
ceived from Staleybridge. It is evident that the
relief committee have been much in fault in their
arrangements lately. It is at such times as these
that peculiar and particular measures should be
taken to prevent the least annoyance or suspicion
gaining ground among the ranks of the sufferers
from such a cruel calamity. Even if the new plans
for giving tickets instead of wages were desirable in
themselves, it should have been ascertained what
were the wishes of the recipients before putting
those measures into execution. Besides this notion
the committee also proposed to have a day in hand
with the wages, and to reduce these by the sum of
fourpence a week. It is really not at all surpris-
ing that these comprehensive charges should have
proved too much for the much-tried operatives,
who are alike irritated and enfeebled by long pri-
vation and great suffering, as well as disheartened
by the want of hope, that might encourage them
to hold on for better days. "While censuring their
conduct in its mistaken ideas and misguided vio
fence, and deeply deploring that any blot should be
fixed on the hitherto admirable demeanour of the
working classes of the community through the whole
of these dreadful trials, we cannot but feel grieved
and disappointed at the want of discretion that has
prevailed in the counsels, and influenced the judg-
ments of those in such a responsible post. It is
evident that causes of irritation must have pre-
vailed for some time previously to this outbreak,
or it would never have assumed on the sudden
such a determined character. A meeting of discon-
tented spirits might have been annoying, but a
mob of rioters, to quell whom the military had to be
called in is a very different affair. Such an event
assumes a serious aspect in the present state of
things, and the details that are given do not tend
to allay the alarm that is naturally caused by such

FRANCE.

proceedings.
We learn that sixty of the chief rioters have been
captured, and the magistrates committed twenty,
nine of them on Saturday for trial at the Chester
assizes. It is given as one of the many causes of
the angry feelings long dormant in this place, that
Ashton has been very differently treated in the way
of relief, and that Staleybridge, only four miles dis-
tant, has had but one relief committee, while at
Ashton several committees of different tendencies,
have ministered to the wants of the distressed. Be
this as it may, the result of the riotous proceedings
of Friday are most deplorable alike in a political and
a moral sense. There is one consolation that the ill
feeling does not seem to have spread to other places,
and therefore let us hope that this warning may be of 1
service to all parties, The committees should re-
member that their object is to maintain peace, and
' that they should make all possible concessions to
attain that end. The operatives should recollect that
they injure their own cause by such unseemly con-
duct, and, instead of calling forth the sympathies of
their countrymen as the subscriptions that have
flowed from all parts of the land have testified they
have hitherto done, they will change sympathy to
suspicion. Let them not lose the grand opportunity
they have had of showing to the world, how the
English working classes can meet adversity. Great
forbearance will now be required in the treatment
of these excited men, and any harshness and un-
necessary strictness on the part of the authorities
may occasion the most deplorable results. There
is no feeling so difficult to allay as the sense of
injury, and none so deadly when it is roused. Let,
those who have the power sink all petty prejudices,
and lay aside all sectarian motives, making it their
endeavour and object to meet the emergency, that
so far as rests on their endeavours, if, un-
happily, suffering must prevail for a while
longer in their dwellings, still the voice of
complaining may be hushed in our streets, and
the Strong arm of the law shall not have to be called
in to put
down those whose cruel sufferings want
no more
addition.
All such victories are defeats in
the end to the cause of order, and the spread
of right feeling among the various classes of the
community. It is a
3 dreadful thing to reflect upon
that mistaken zeal on one side and misguided vio-
lence on the other often lead to results that arc
quite beyond the control of the original movers in
the affair. Then too late they discover that

(Per Africa.)

" The hand that kindled cannot quench the fiatlac."
It is to be trusted that this first sad disturbance of

the public peace may be the last that occurs before
the final disparition of the causes that have led to
this unfortunate and unnatural state of things
among the working classes of the community.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

CRACOW, MARCH 22, Midnight.

greszow, in the Palatinate of Lublin, was occu-
pied by the insurgent chief Czechowski on the 20th
inst. The insurgents took possession of the Govern-

The Russians withdrew from the town without

CRACOW MARCH 23.

A proclamation, dated 21st inst., of the former
Central Revolutionary Committee of Warsaw, has
been published, announcing that the committee re-
sumes its functions on account of Langiewicz having
been taken prisoner.
The proclamation concludes by making an appeal
to the people to take up arms against the enemy.
It says, " When our brothers are fighting in such
numbers the place of every Pole is in the ranks of
the national army."

ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 23.

An imperial ukase has been published to-day,
abolishing, for certain local reasons, all relations of
an obligatory character existing between the pea-
santry and the landed proprietors in the Govern-
ments of Wilna, Grodno, and Minsk, and four dis-
tricts of Witebsk. The emancipation of the peasants
is to be completely effected.

The ukase further orders that from the Ist of May
next the peasants are no longer to pay their rent to
the landed proprietors but to the Government,
which will itself pay to the proprietors the price of

emancipation.
Full details on this head are contained in the

TURIN, MARCH 23.

The Opintone of to-day says :—" Rumours were
current yesterday that the President of the Council
would tender his resignation on account of the state
of his health, and that other Ministerial modifica-
tions might be expected. We believe that this
news is at least premature."

LISBON, MARCH 23.

The law passed by the Cortes, modifying the
restrictions on entailed estates, has given general
satisfaction.

The Government have a majority on the question
of the Indian Bishoprics.
The marriage of the Prince of Wales has been
well feted in Lisbon, there having been no less than
three public dinners of different classes of the British
residents, and two balls in the evening.
The Count de Redendo, a leading member of the
Miguelite party, is dead.

The weather continues wet and stormy.

The Opinione Nationale states that it gives a
letter from the Emperor to M. Billault, which com-
pliments him upon his speech in the Senate.

The Constitutionnel affirms that the letter of the
Emperor to M. Billault is not only a striking tes-
timonial of satisfaction for the illustrious statesman
to whom it is addressed, but it is a solemn declara-
tion which sanctions on all points the exposition of
the policy of the Government by M. Billault, and
the vote of confidence expressed by the Senate.
The Emperor's letter is a solemn ratification, which
gives room for no equivocation, and which will be
perfectly understood both in France and also
abroad.

The Siecle animadverts upon the language of the
Constitattonnel, in its postcript concerning the
defeat of Langiewicz, where it says, " that it is
amnesty which completes such victories, end the
wcrld will applaud Alexander 11. if, after having
put down the insurrection by force, he can disarm
it by his magnanimity." Such words, says the
Steele, ought not to be found written by the pen of
a Frenchman. It is doubtful if they would be toler-
able in the official journal of St. Petersburg. The
writer speaks of the magnanimity of the Emperor of
Russia, and the plaudits the world will give to his
conduct if he accords an amnesty to Poland. But how
can the right cause ask or receive a pardon ? Even
after her defeat will not Poland still be living ? She
knows how to trust to the magnanimity of Alexan-
der. Poland wants no amnesty. One day, when
she has regained her independence, it will be her
part to give an amnesty to her executioners, and the
French writers who invoke the generosity of the
Russian Emperor at the very moment when blood
flows in Poland, and when, according to the un-
nappy expression of the Constitutionnel, the Czar
has put down the insurrection by force. If, which
God forbid, these noble martyrs have been crushed
by treason or overpowered by numbers, there ought
to be no place in any journal of our country for
such revolting plaudits. Every one ought to groan
at a victory which will leave the Polish nation at
the mercy of its oppressors. Every one ought to
appeal to the French Government to obtain a
striking reparation for such long and cruel suf-
ferings.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM,)
QUEENSTOWN, March 22.

The Royal Mail steamship Afric 1, from New
York on the 11th inst., arrived here at 12,14 aan
to-day, with 40 passengers, and 1,315,264 dols. in
specie.

She landed the mails, &c,, and proceeded at 1.15
a.m. for Liverpcol; all well. The weather was
foggy off the harbour.

Federal gunboats are reported to have passed
through the channel, from the Mississippi, into Lake
Providence, and to be doing considerable destruction.
It was thought that the Confederate transports
would come out of White River, and offer battle.
One Federal gunboat is said to have reached Yazoo
City through Yazoo Pass.
The Federal Commander, Porter, has proclaimed
that all parties caught firing upon unarmed vessels,
burning cotton, or levying contributions, should be
hanged.

Immense numbers of troops are sick at Vicks-
burg. The Confederate General, Stephenson, offi-
cially reports that the steamer Indianola was not
destroyed, but was being raised. One gun had
burst, but the others were uninjured. The Confe-
derates made a raid into Fairfax Court-house at
two o'clock on the morning of the 9th inst., and
captured Brigadier-General Stoughton, with his
headquarters, guard, and fifty-five horses. After
securing the prisoners and booty they retreated by
Warrington-road, and, by using the countersign
obtained from the captured order books, they passed
the outposts at Centreville. The Federal cavalry
was sent in pursuit.
On the 7th inst. the Federal cavalry attacked the
Confederates at Unionville, ten miles from Mur-
freesboro', Tennessee, capturing their camp equipage
and a number of prisoners.

At the late engagement at Springville Van Dorn
is said to have had 10,000 men, whilst the Federals
numbered only 3,000 men.
According to Southern reports Van Dorn cap-
tured 2,000 prisoners.
The destruction of the steamer Nashville at
Savannah is confirmed.
A collision between the military and the citizens
at Utah is imminent. The Governor of Utah and
his associate justices ordered the military to arrest

Brigham Young and Councillors Kimball and Wells.
The citizens are armed, and determined to resist
the arrest of their leaders.
A movement has been made by the Government
to make General Butler provost-marshal under the
Conscription Act.
Resolutions have been introduced into the Con-
federate Senate to inquire into the expediency of
repealing the resolution declaring that a neutral
flag covers enemies' goods, with the exception of
contraband of war.
The Washington senate is occupied in executive
session with civil and military nominations.
Despatch bearers to the British and French mini-
sters have arrived in Washington from Richmond.
The New York Journals assert that gold at Rich-
mond is at 350 (P) premium.
The privateer Retribution was at Nassau on the
28th ult. Three iron steamers arrived at Nassau
on the 27th ult. from England.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, March 10, Evening.
Money easy. Gold 59 per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London : Bankers' bills, 178 to 180.
Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1184; Illinois,
90; Erie, 783.
Cotton steady; middling upland, 87c.
Flour improving, and prices 20c. higher. Wheat
and corn improving. Provisions quiet.
Sugar improving. Coffee quiet. Molasses ad-
vancing.
Crude petroleum 20 to 21.
NEW YORK, March 11, Morning.
Van Dorn's forces in Tennessee are reported to
have retreated South. Another report says that a
large Federal force has moved against the Confede-
rates at Spring Hill, Tennessee, and that a battle
is imminent. It is also rumoured that Van Dorn
has been defeated with heavy loss.
The wreck of a steamer has been seen about 12
miles from Havannab, and an impression prevails
that it was the wreck of the privateer Florida.
President Lincoln has issued a proclamation de-
claring that absent soldiers who return to their
commands before April 1 will be reinstated, but
that those who do not will be arrested and treated
as deserters. IL) warns the people against enticing
soldiers to desert, and calls upon them to assist in
preventing desertions.
Several persons who had left New Orleans for the
South, as registered enemies of the Union, have re-
turned to New Orleans in a starving condition.
The /Veto York Tribune asserts that the Federals
were expecting to be attacked at Baton Rouge.
Mr. Slidell's property had been confiscated in
New Orleans.
The three republican members are reported to be
elected in New Hampshire. The legislature will
also be largely republican. No governer has been
elected, as there were three candidates, and neither
had a legal majority, consequently a governor will
be appointed by the legislature, which, being re-
publican, will appoint a republicatk candidate.
The committee of the New York Chamber of
Commerce has had an interview with the President,
urging him to issue forthwith lAters of marque.
The Washington correspondent of the New Jerk
Times asserts that General Butler will be appointed
Provost Marshal.
The following are the particulars of the Confede-
rate raid on Fairfax Court House :
Information has been received that the rebel
Captain Moseley, with his command, stealthily
entered Fairfax Court House this morning at two
o'clock. They captured Provost Marshal °scanner's
patrol, horses, &c., together with Gen. Stoughton
and all the men detached from his brigade.

They took every horse which mild be found,
public and private.
The commanding officer of the post, Colonel
Johnson, of the sth New York Cavalry, made his
escape. The rebels scotched for men in every
direction.

All our available cavalry force were, at last ac-
counts, in pursuit of the rebels.
The enemy appeared-suddenly during a rain
storm. General Stoughton had established his
head-quarters at some distance from his brigade.
The rebels captured one hundred and ten horses.
They went in search of Colonel Wyndham, but
that gentleman happened to 1)9 in Washington.
They, however, searched his trunk and took his
papers. A telegraph operator, it is said, was taken
prisoner by the rebels.

The capture of Brigadier-General Stoughton,
with his head quarters, guard, and fifty-five horses,
by a marauding party of rebels, within our lines,
is regarded by the military authorities here as
deeply mortifying and disgraceful.

Upon securing their prisoners and booty, the
t rebel party retreated by the Warrenton road. Hav-
ing obtained possession of tho countersign from the
captured order books at headquarters, they used it
on their arrival at Centreville to pass the outposts,
and went to the right.

An orderly who had been taken escaped during
the morning, and arrived at Fairfax Court House
at 2 p.m. He reported the enemy rapidly retreat-
ing, and our cavalry in such close pursuit that the
rebels had left behind them 30 of the captured pri-
soners, and were cunning for life.

At the moment of this raid Colonel Wyndham
was in Washington under arrest, for causes hereto-
fore stated. It was his custom, while commanding
that post, to keep patrols between the pickets, which
would have prevented this raid upon the head-
quarters of a brigadier-general.
A few days ago Colonel Wyndham was tempo-
rarily released from arrest to take command of an
important cavalry expedition, with orders to report
himself again under arrest when the duty had been
performed. To-day he was unconditionally released,
and directed to resume the command of the cavalry
forces at that point.

The following Southern despatches are published
in the New York journals :

Commander Porter has proclaimed that any
parties firing on unarmed vessels shall be barged ;
also persons burning cotton, or levying contri-
butions.

The Jackson Mississippian's correspondent says
there are but 2,000 Union troops in Arkansas. The
rebel Generals Holmes and Hindman are at Little
Rock,qud there is a demand among the rebel troops
for their removal, and for fighting generals to be
put in their places.

In the rebel Senate, on the 3d, a resolution was
adopted to inquire into the expediency of repealing
the resolutions deck:it-ing that a neutral flag covers
enemies' goods, with the exception of contraband
I of war.
NEW YORK, March 10, Evening.

In the House a resolution was off6red to suspend
all business until the Currency and Tax Bills are
acted upon.

A bill has been introduced into the rebel Senate
to place all telegraphic lines under the control of the
Postmaster-General.

A Fredericksburg correspondent of the Enquirer
gives the fuliowing prices there :—Coffee, 5 dols.
per pound; sugar, 1 dol. 50c. per pound; candles,
1 dol. 50c. ; beef, 75c. per pound; peas, 16 do's. per
bushel; butter, 3 dols. per pound. All arc on half
rations.

The Richmond Dispatch, of March 6, says—." The
gunboat Indianola, recently captured from the
Yankees, was blown up last Tuesday night by the
rebels, and her guns fell into the hands of the
Federals. The Queen of the West left in such a
edrahurryeaiS.
as to leave part of her crew on shore.
A later despach states that the Indianola, is not
destroyed, and that they are raising her.
The Federal gunboats aro making great destrue
tion on Lake Providence.

The Federals attacked Van Dorn, March 1, at
Thompson's, near Franklin. He drove them back,
and captured 2,200 officers and men. The rebel
loss is not yet reported.

An attack ja daily expected on Port Hucition by
General Banks' force.

The preparations of Admiral Dupont for the at
tack upon Charleston and Savannah are said to be
completed. He has under hie command a most
efficient and iron clad act, with all manner of
novel and ingenious appliances for removing the
obstacles which the Confederates have placed in
the harbour of the former city, and the assault may
begin at any 111°113(.Confederates were in high spirits, the officers o'
Beauregara's staff having
-i
recently given a brilliant
At the last advices thean
ball in the threatened city, and the defence .
doubtless be as determined as th© assault.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 21.

Her Imperial Highness the Duchess of Brabant,
attended by the Countess d'Yve, left the Castle last
night.

Her Royal Highness the Countess of Flanders
arrived at the Castle last evening and accompanied
the Duchess of Brabant to London,

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her
Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse,
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice tock
a carriage airing.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended
by Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle this
afternoon.

March 22.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse,
Princess Helena, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leo-
pold, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the Private
Chapel. The Rcv. F. C. Cook, Chaplain in Ordi-
nary to the Queen, preached the sermon.