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

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

(Per the Africa, via Roche's Point, 9.40 a.m.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 22.
The absence of all reliable information from the
Army of the Potomac causes great anxiety.
Among numberless rumours that prevail, is one
that a terrible conflict has commenced, and that
General Hooker is mortally wounded.
The last intelligence received from the armies
from the West, states that General Grant is making
extensive preparations at Memphis for some impor-
tant movement iv a direction not yet made public.
General M'Clernand is advancing up Arkansas
River, with the intention of attacking Little Rock,

the capital of the State.
General Rosecranz is being heavily reinforced, to
enable him to push to Shelbyville, or to give battle
to the Corfederates at Murfreesboro', should
they attack him there.

The total loss of the Federals at Murfreesboro' is
admitted by them to be 10,287 killed, wounded, and

missing.

The Legislature at Albany hasnot yet agreed upon
the choice of a speaker. Great agitation prevails.
The town is filled with rowdies from New York.
Judge Bend, the Democratic candidate, has with.
drawn.

Gold advanced from 1, to -1 per cent. yesterday ;
to-day it stands at 48 premium.
Middling upland cotton, 751 e. to 76c. per pound.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 2.

The Mondeur of this morning announces the
nomination of M. Royer as First President of the
Cour des Comptes.
The Moniteur also says :—" Tne Emperor re-
ceived a deputation with the Address of the Senate
yesterday, and observed, in reply;—
«'I receive with thanks the Address by which
the Senate gives its approbation to my policy. The
expressions of devotion which it contains touch me
sincerely. The unanimity displayed in voting the
Address has also given me deep satisfaction, be-
cause it testifies a harmony which cannot fail to
bring about happy results.' "
The same journal further states that, according
to a despatch received from Alexandria, the party
opposed to peace is in the ascendant at Hue. The
Annanite Minister of Commerce has given Admiral
Bonnard to understand that serious difficulties will
be encountered in the execution of certain articles
of the treaty. The Admiral is taking measures to
meet all emergencies.

The Moniteur also contains news from Mexico to
Dec. 27. At that date General Forey was still at
Orizaba with the main body of the expeditionary
force, collecting provisions and ammunition, and
preparing to march towards Puebla as soon as the
necessary resources should have been brought
together.

Le Pays believes that the debate on the address
in the Corps Legislatif will be as pacific as that in
the Senate. The tone and form of the address read
on Saturday in the Chamber is very similar to that
adopted by the Senate ; and after considering some
paragraphs, Le Pays arrives at the conclusion, that
no member sitting on the benches of the national
assembly will hesitate to give it his hearty support.
Le Constitutionnel of to-day, after stating the
refusal of the King of Prussia to receive the depu
tation with the Addresss, remarks that it is the first
time that such a thing has happened in Prussia
since the establishment of the constitution. The
same journal cites a paragraph from Le Colonne,
slating that, within the last few days, many hun-
dred bales of cotton have been disembarked at Bou-
logne by the steamers arriving from England, to
the astonishrdent of the English visitors prome-
nading the quays, who were justly surprised that
their merchants should send to France a raw
material so greatly needed in their own country.
BOURSE, Jan. 31.—Little change has taken place
in the tone of the market, and prices continue to be
well maintained, Threes, for the Account, being now
at 691. sa. The reponse de primes (option) has been
made at 69f. 77-Ic. Very little business doing in
Railway Shares, quotations up to the present show-
ing but trifling variation. The market closed as
follows :

It per Cents. ...... 98 76 Bank Shares 3395
Do. end month• ••• Credit t oncter 1485
3 per Cents ...... 69 85 Piedmontese Fives
Do. end month.... 69 85 Italian Loan 7O
N", -3 r Cents .. Russian

04 ew 3 per
Do. end month....
Credit
lio, end month.... .—.

Austrian
Spanish Threes s2a
Home Debt

RAIL

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Cash. Account.
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Sorthern

I.,yeowndeiantt°d Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 15188517:
5205
Geneva ................
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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 1.

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Prince Leopold,
attended Divine service at Osborne this morning,
which was performed by the Rev. G. Prothero.
the Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis
of Hesse, and Princess Louisa attended the morning
service at Whippingham Church.

Foreign Courts.

BERLIN, Jan. 28.

A grand children's festival was given by the Crown
Prince and Crown Princess yesterday at their palace in
Berlin, to celebrate the fourth birth-day of Prince William,
their royal highnesses' eldest son. Their Majesties dined
with the Crown Prince and Crown Princess on the occa-
sion, and remained to witness the entertainment which
followed.

The Bavarian Minister at the Court of Berlin goes to St.
Petersburg in a few days on business connected with the
marriage contract between the Princess of Leuchtenberg
and Prince William of Baden, who are to be united in the
course of next month.

AUGSBURG, Jan. 28.

In memory of the residence of Queen Marie of Naples at
Augsburg, a silver medal has been granted to the female
scholars in the St. Ursula Convent. The medal bears the
inscription—" Souvenir of the visit of her Majesty Queen
Marie of Naples in the conventual school of St. Ursula.
Augsburg, Jan. 3, 1863." The nuns have received a copy
of the medal in gold. -

The Prince of Wales has-consented to inaugurate
the Memorial of the 1851 Exhibition, designed by Mr.
Durham, in the Gardens of the Royal Horticultural So-
ciety. The ceremony will take place on the sth of June
next.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Colonel Du
Plat, and suite honoured the performances at the Adelphi
Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary honoured the Olympic Theatre
with their presence on Saturday evening, and expressed
their approbation of the entertainments.

His Excellency the Italian Minister has returned
to the residence of the Legation in Grosvenor-street, from
the Continent.

The Earl and Countess of Cork are expected in
town to-morrow from Marston House, Somersetshire.

The Earl and Countess Vane are expected in
town in a few days. His lordship has taken a residence in
Upper Grosvenor-street for the season.
The Countess Dowager of Longford and Lady
Louisa Pakenham have arrived in town from Brighton.

Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton come to town
to-day from their seat, Tatton.park, Cheshire.
Lord Ashburton continues at Paris too unwell to
proceed to the 'loath of France or to bear the fatigue of
being removed home. Although considered better, his
lordship remains in very indifferent health.
_ .

Lord and Lady John Manners are expected in
town on Wednesday, from visiting the Duke of Rutland at
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire.

Lord and Lady Faversham come to town to-
morrow from Duncombe-park, Yorkshire.

The Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis,
who has been suffering from indisposition for some days
past, is now, we learn much better.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, M.P., arrived
in Whitehall gardens on Saturday, from Drayton Manor,
Staffordshire, for the meeting of Parliament.

Tne Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte
Denison will arrive at the right hon. gentleman's official
residence at the New Palace, Westminster, this evening,
from their seat in Nottinghamshire.

PERORATIONS—Enumerated by a London

Reviewer.

Macaulay's first speech on the Reform Bill, one
of the most highly wrought of all his speeches,
thus terminated:—

"The danger is terrible. The time is short. If this
bill should be rejected, I pray to God that none of those
who concur in rejecting it may ever remember their votes
with unavailing remorse, amidst the wreck of laws, the
confusion of ranks, the spoliation of property, and the dis-
solution of social order."
Fox closed his speech on the state of Ireland
thus:—

" I shall now relinquish this subject, perhaps for ever,
by repeating a sentiment that I have before thrown out
during the discussion. I will not barter English commerce
for Irish slavery. That is not the price I would pay, nor
is the thing I would purchase."

No illustration, however, can be better than the
rival addresses delivered on the last night of the
debate in December, 1852—the debate which cost
Lord Derby's Government their office. The first
passage quoted is the conclusion of Mr. Disraeli's
peroration ; the second, that of Mr. Gladstone:—

" This I know, that England does not love coalitions. I
appeal from the coalition to the public opinion, which
governs the country—to that public opinion whose wise and
irresistible influence can control even the decrees of Parlia-
ment, and without whose support the most august and
ancient institutions are but the baseless fabric of a vision."
" You may refuse my appeal now—you may accompany
the Chancellor of the Exchequer into the lobby—but the
lime will surely come when you will look back upon this
vote, as its consequences shall sooner or later unfold Ihena-
selves, with bitter, but with late and ineffectual repen.
tance."

By way of final illustration, the concluding pas-
sages of Bulwer's " Last Days of Pompeii," and of
"Mill on the Floss," along with Mrs. Oliphant's
description of Irving's death, might be instanced as
worthy of study for their extreme rhythmical
beauty.

The New Viceroy of Egypt and the Cotton

Supply.

The subjoined interesting and satisfactory letter
has been handed to us for publication :
The Firs, Lee, Kent, Jan. 25, 1863.—My dear
the month of November you were kind enough to submit
to the genttemen forming the Cotton Supply Association a
communication I was entrusted to make to them, in refer-
ence to a proposition on their part, soliciting the sanction
of the late Viceroy of Egypt to be allowed to form an asso-
ciation for the purpose of advancing to the cotton cultiva-
tors of that country, with the view of extending the culti •
vation of cotton in Egypt. In answer to this proposition,
His Highness not only sanctioned the formation of the
proposed association, but consented to give the moral
guarantee of the Government for the p-iyment of the ad-
vances made to the Fellahs. Since that communication was
made a change has taken place in the Government of Egypt
The viceroyalty has passed into other hands. The present
Viceroy of Egypt, his Highness Ishmael Pasha, has in-
structed me to lose no time in informing the association of
his views as regards the question at issue.

His Highness is fully alive to the importance of extend-
i❑g, as much as possible, the cultivation of cotton in his do-
minions, and no exertion on his part will ba wanting to that
end.

His Highness is also aware of the benefit to be derived by
the Fellahs from a judicious advance of money to those not
possessing sufficient means to extend their cultivation ; but
his Royal Highness is convinced that these advances ought
to be made by the Egyptian Government itself; and, in
order to make them out of the revenues of the country, has
merely determined upon introuucing a reform in the finan-
cial administration of the country, which—added to the
strictest economy in every department of the Government
—will enable him to carry his views into effect without re-
course to foreign aid.
Under these considerations, I am instructed to inform
the gentlemen forming the Cotton Supply Association that
His Highness rescinds the sanction given by the predeces-
sor; but at the same time to assure them that he does so
solely under the conviction that the object they have in
in view of extending the cultivation of cot ton in Egypt will
be more readily attained by the means we propose to adopt
than by a company, which would necessarily be composed
of parties inexperienced in the internal administration of
Egypt.
May I request the favour of your communicating the
letter to the association, and apologising for the trouble I
am giving you, believe me, dear sir, yours very truly,
Thos. Bailey, Esq., M.P. JOHN W. LARKINS.

BERANGERS LISETTE.—Mrs. Eliza Fleur,
,‘ Lisette," iota just died in a P':11,
Bet-,nu-trs
hospital, 71 yea rs old. For some time previous to r
death, she lived in a pour attic, on lOid. a day, the pro-
duce of her handiwork. Not one of the many admirers of
the great Chansonnier seems to have remembered his old
friend, or tried to alleviate the gnawing hunger and want
to which she must have been pretty often subjected, when
her feeble hands failed to earn the miserable pittance, upon
which we should fancy only a Frenchwoman would be
able to subsist.

The Judges, to whom the Act of Parliament,
23d and 24th Vic., cap. cx'vii., entrusts the power
of controlling the examinations of 'persons'. intended for the
profession of
,solicitors, have unanimously resolved to re
cognise the first-class certificates of the college of Precep-
tors as guarantees of good general education, and as thus
exempting their holders from the necessity of passing the
preliminary examination in general knowledge held under
,heir lordships' auspices, Ly the Incorporated Law Society