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TRE SIML, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1863.

NEW NOVEL BY TILE AUTHOR, OF " MA LIGAILET MAITLAND."
Next week, in 1 vol.,
HEART AND CROSS.
By the Author of " Margaret Maitland."
Hurst and Blackat, 13, West Marlborough-street.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

troops in quarters at Gosport and the adj cent forts
on Haslar- common. The force was composes of the
7th Brigade of Royal Garrison Artillery, under Col.
Doraville ; the Itlyal Marino Light. Infantry, under
Col. Ayles, and the 6th Regiment of Foot—in all
about 1,500 of all ranks. On Wednesday evening
his Royal Highness and Staff visited the fortifica-
tions between South Sea Castle and Fort Cumber-
land. This morning he is expected to commence
his inspection of the outer line of defences, includ-
ing Hilsea end Portsduwn.

mechanics. They came out of the Confederacy
under foreign protection.
" In Richmond oranges and lemons recently sold
at auction for 75 dols. per box.
" An order has been issued from the Rebel Adju-
tant General's Office, placing all officers who resign,
or may be dropped from the rolls, and those who are
cashiered by courts-martial, back in the ranks as
privates."
The Maine State Legislature has adopted con-
current resolutions fully endorsing President Lin-
coln's proclamation, giving freedom to the slaves,
approving of compensated emancipation and the use
of negroes in the military service of the United
States, and opposing all suggestions of compromise.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
ribune says—
" We have unquestionable authority for saying
that the paragraph of Gout ier des Etats Unis, pur-
porting to give the substance of a despatch from M.
Drouyn de Lhuys to M. Mercier, in rejoinder to
Secretary Seward's reply to Napoleon's proposal to

THE NAVY.

About half of the shield plates for protecting from
the effects of shot and shell the elliptical recon-
noitring tower erected on the fighting deck of the
Royal Oak have been fixed in their places, and the
tower itself would have been completed during the
present week had not an order been received at
Chatham Dockyard a few days since from the Ad-
miralty directing that the turret is to be finished off
with the simple teak planking, and that no more
armour plates are to be affixed to its exterior. The
reason for this order appears to be that the Admi-
ralty have only now arrived at the conclusion that
it is perfectly possible the present position of the
tower, as pointed out in Zhe Sun some time since,
is not the best which could be selected, even suppos-
ing it indispensable that the upper deck should be
encumbered with a tower of this description at all.
It has till refore been decided that no more plates are
to be affixed to the tower until the Royal Oak and
the other vessels of her class have been tried at sea,
by which means the best position for the turrets
will be ascertained. Prior to the order being
received from the Admiralty the whole of the
semicircular and elliptical plates required for
the exterior of the reconnoitring tower had
been bent at the dockyard, the operation
being attended with more or less favourable
results. Notwithstanding the assertions put forth
that it is possible to bend the armour-plates cold
with as much ease and safety as those which are
heated, the experience of the last few weeks entirely
negatives that theory. To obviate the present
unsatisfactory plan of bending the slabs of iron to
fit the sections of the ship's side they are intended
to protect, it is the opinion of some of the most emi-
nent manufacturers engaged in the preparation of
armour-plates that the wisest, and certainly the
most economical plan would be to allow the manu-
facturers themselves to bend the plates during the
process of manufacture, the moulds for the required
shape of each plate being supplied from the dockyard.
From a letter received from the Meeanee, 60,
400 horse power, Capt. G. Wodehouse, dated Malta,
April 2, it appears that there is no foundation for
the rumours which have been in circulation for the
past few days of a serious mutiny having broken out
on board that vessel, and that the ship had been
ordered home. The letter does not make any allu-
sion to a mutiny having taken place on board, but,
on the contrary, states that the officers and crew
are exceeding comfortable. The Meeanee, at the
departure of the mail, had just arrived from Naples,
where she had been relieved by the line-of-battle
screw steamer St. George, 84, 500 horse power,
Capt. the Hon. Francis Egerton. She was to fill
up with provisions and stores and proceed to the
coast of Syria. This statement may tend to relieve
the anxiety of the fiiends of the officers and crew
on board, the more especially as rumours had been
circulated that two of the officers had been danger-
ously wounded, that the master-at-arms had been
thrown overboard, and that 70 of the crew were in
irons.

Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
SECOND EDITION of LIVE IT DOWN.
By J. C. JEAFFRE‘ ON.
From the Atheumum.—" This story will satisfy most
readers ; it is lull, well cons dered, toad well worked out.
The pot is broad, and the interest goes on increasing to the
last page. It is by far the best work of fiction Mr. Jeaffreson
has yet written. The e; isode c.f 'Little Fan,' the physician's
daughter, may take its place beside little Dombey for its
pathos."

Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlb9rough-street.

The Megrera screw troopship arrived at Ports.
mouth yesterday with the headquarters of a regimcni
of Infantry from Dublin for Aldershot.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday.
The Inman screw steamer City of Manchester,
Captain Gill, from New York direct on the 28th
ult., arrived here about 6 o'clock this morning. She
brings 175,554 dols. in specie, but no passengers.
The City of Manchester was despatched from New
York as an extra vessel of this line, and brings a
very large cargo.
The New York Herald of the 28th gives the follow-
ing as the " situation of affairs" at that date :
" The latest news from the Vicksburg and Yazoo
expeditions reaches us from Cairo last night. It
appears that on last Saturday night another barge
containing 1,000 bushels of coal floated past the
batteries at Vicksburg safely, for the use of Admiral
Farragut's fleet.
We have it on the authority of the Memphis Bal-
kan of Wednesday that three of Admiral Porter's
gunboats have reached the Yazoo River by the
Sunflower route, and reached Greenwood.
" The same journal says that our forces above
Greenwood had abandoned the undertaking to force
when they met Gen.
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conference was had, the result of which is unknown,
but it is thought that in consequence of the success
of the new route the whole force would return.
" The rebel accounts of affairs in the South-west
conflict somewhat with ours. Richmond papers of
the 26th say, that the Hartford and Monongahela
were allowed to approach within 400 yards of the
rebel batteries at Grand Gull-, when they opened
fire upon them, the vessels replying with broadsides
several times. A dozen shots struck the vessels.
Parties were seen carrying the wounded below. The
Natchez Courier says the Hartford, with Admiral
Farragut on board, anchored in front of that city
on Tuesday afternoon, the 16th, and sent a small
boat with a flag of truce ashore with a note ad-
dressed to the mayor, stating that if the United
States gunboats were fired upon by the people of
Natchez or by guerillas he would bombard the city.
The Hartford remained all night, and left with the
Monongahela in the morning.
" The .Richmond Sentinel of the 24th, in giving
their account of the situation in the South-west,
says The last papers from the United States are
jubilant over false reports of the success of the Yazoo
expedition. Our own reports are several days later
than theirs, and represent the expedition as tho-
roughly whipped and in full retreat by the way they
came. Thus far the enemyhas utterly failed in every
one of his late movements. Farragut was whipped
at Port Hudson ; Banks broke down before he
got there, and fell back without a fight. The Yazoo
Pass expedition ends in chastisement and flight. At
Vicksburg they are drowned out.'

mediate, is utterly without foundation. No dispatch

whatever on the subject has been received from
Drouyn de Lhuys or is known to be on its way. All
statements as to the financial plans or purposes of
the Secretary of the Treasury are pure speculation.
There is the highest authority for saying that the
Secretary has not yet determined what course to
pursue. The daily expenditure of the Government
from this time till the close of the financial year will
it is computed average more than two millions.
" Foreign Ministers are greatly excited with re-
gard to the apprehended issue of letters of marque
and reprisal. One of them, who questioned the
Secretary of State, was informed the report that
the Government had determined not to grant letters
of marque was unfounded."
A Halifax dispatch of March 26 says—

"The steamer Delta, from St. Thomas on the
17th, via Bermuda, on the 23d inst., arrived here
today. The Federal steamship Vanderbilt arrived
at St. Thomas from Barbadoes on the 15th instant.
The governor of Barbadoes invited Admiral Wilkes
to dine with him, but the latter declined, giving as
a reason that the governor had entertained Captain
Maffitt, of the Florida, a few days previously. Ad-
miral Wilkes had transferred his flag to the Van-
derbilt. The Massachusetts was at St. Thomas
on the 16th, also the British steam frigate Phae-
ton ; also two British steamers the Aries and
another unknown blockade runner. Admiral
Wilkes threatened to seize the two blockade
runners if they attempted to leave the port. The
Aries started on the 16th, but, observing the pre-
parations of Admiral Wilkes to pursue, she turned
back and anchored. The captain of the Aries then
applied to the British steamer Phaeton for protec-
tion, which was afforded. The Vanderbilt left the
same day (16th), it was said for Havannah. On
the morning of the 17th the Phaeton convoyed the
two blockade runners out. The Wanhusetts did not
follow them. The commander of the Phaeton had
communicated with Wilkes tegarding the seizure
of the Peterhoff."
The New York World claims that a return to a
" Union platform" was re-awakening the volunteer-
ing spirit of the country.
The following Southern accounts of affairs at
Port Hudson are published in the New York
journals :

Mr. Chas. Rose, a commercial agent of the Rus-
sian War Department and an officer belonging to
the Imperial Engineers of that country, accompa-
nied by Mr. S. H. Louttit, secretary to Bray's
Traction Engine Company, yesterday visited the
dockyard at Woolwich, and inspected the perform-
ances of the traction engine employed in the yard,
with the intention of introducing it in the service
of the Russian Government.

" The Appeal learns of no new movement at Port
Hudson. General Banks had fallen back to his
fortified camp, and manifested no disposition to ad-
vance. Deserters continue to come in and report
disaffection in their camps. The fleet continues
out of sight. The two vessels above mentioned have
been slowly steaming up the river. They landed and
cut down a few poles and telegraph wires."
The Chatanova _Rebel of the 24th has the follow-
ing letter from Port Hudson, dated March 21:—

"The Examiner of the same date has an impres
sive article on the interests and duties of the North.

west. Of course it conceives them to be entirely
with the Southern Cow ederacy, and suggests that
all inducements to gain the cooperation of that
section as alluring as possible' should be held out.
" The rebel papers state that General Longstreet

"Reports of the sinking of the sloop of war Rich-
mond, from injuries received on the 15th, prevails,
nothing definite being known. The mortar fleet
still occupies the old position below, out of range.
Yesterday the enemy fired at our transports with
long range guns without effect. A party landed
from the transports and burned the residence of
Capt. Horn, formerly that of Col. S. Robertson, on
the opposite shore. Some activity has prevailed
among the enemy's transports for the last two days,
but there have been no indications of another at-

is rapidly advancing into Kentucky. The rebel
force now in the State under General Peagram is
believed to be about 6,000. Clarke's guerillas still
hover around Mount Sterling, over 200 of his men
have been captured since Sunday. The Union
waggon trains, stores, anJ camp equipage from Dan-
ville and Richmond have reached Lexington in
safety. Among the prisoners taken are two majors,
one a paymaster with 15,000 dols. in Confederate
money. The rebels were reported to have retreated
from Danville, as the news received in Louisville
yesterday would indicate ; but in the absence of
telegraphic news some doubt was thrown on the
rumour, and the arrival of later intelligence proves

tempt to pass the batteries. Twenty deserters have
arrived in the last two days, and they are continu-
ally coming in. They confirm the previous reports
of the demoralisation of Bank's army. Our batteries
sustained no injury in the late engagement, and are
ready at all times to give the enemy a warm recep-
tion."

the report untrue.
A deserter from the 71st Indiana Volunteers,
legislator of Indiana,
and the other the deputy auditor, were arrested
who returned from the enemy's lines as a spy, was
shot at Indianopolis yesterday I/ sentence of court.
martial. Two gentlemen, one a

From Vicksburg, March 21 :—" The gun-boats
Hartford and Monongahela passed Warrenton about
six o'clock this evening, after a heavy cannonade of
an hour, which was distinctly heard at this city,
arrived safely, and are now anchored below this city
at S wede's Point."

there for cheering for Jeff. Davis.
" Anotber.prize has fallen into our hands. The
British steamer Nicholas I. arrived at Beaufort on

Master Everson, cap-
the 24th, in charge of Prize
tured off Wilmington, N.C., by the United States
gunboat Victoria, while trying to run the
blockade. She had previously attempted to
enter Charleston, but was unsuccessful. She has a
very valuable cargo, consisting partly of 16 tons of
gunpowder and 170 cases of rifles.

And from Fort Pemberton, March 20 :—Genera.
Loring has whipped the enemy back from this point
.. ..

They are now in full retreat to Yazoo Pass. A de-
spatch to the Appeal, dated Panola, March 19, says
the Federals engaged in the raid upon Hernando
have been defeated. The old troops of the enemy
have been replaced by new ones, and old garrisons
taken to Memphis. It is reported that the Memphis
and Charleston railroad has been abandoned, and
also that the Mobile and Ohio road has been aban-
doned from Jackson to Columbus. Five hundred
cavalry crossed the Cold Water, 60 miles south-east
of here, and moved towards Holly Springs.

" We publish to•day an interesting narrative of
affairs in Texas, more particularly with regard to
the important region of that state bordering the Rio
Grande, An account is given of the forts along its
banks, the loyal character of a large portion of the
people, the collision that had taken place between
them and the rebel troops and rangers, and the
efforts that are being made to raise a sufficient
force of loyal Texans to drive the rebels from
their present position on the Rio Grande. Full par-
ticulars are given of the immense trade carried on
by the rebel Government, through Mexico, with
European states, the manner in which this trade
is carried on, and the importance of it to the
rebel Government. In the same connection is
pointed out the necessity which exists for the re-
occupation of the region bordered by the Rio Grande
by our government ; the cost of effecting which by
any of the points of attack recommended, would be
defrayed by the cotton that is stored for shipment,
and which, by a well concerted and rapid movement,
must fall into the hands of the Union troops."
From the army of the Potomac the special cor-
respondent of the New York Tribune writes as fol-
lows :

" Stoneman's Station, Virginia, March 26.
" Reports came in thick and fast yesterday to the
effect that the enemy were in force on our right
flank, but investigation proved that there was no
cause for alarm in that direction, only a few prow-
ling scouts having been discovered. The real cause
of the excitement was the appearances of heavy
bodies of the enemy's infantry on the south side of
the Rappahannock, at Banks and United States
Fords, with an evident purpose of preventing our
crossing the river at those points.

" Your correspondent stated, a day or two since,
that furloughs would be continued as a permanent
regulation, I now learn that they will be tempora-
whenever the exi-
A circular issued
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yesterday suggests that the presence of ladies in
camp is no longer necessary or profitable, and an
immediate hegira of crinoline will ensue. The
weather is again stormy and unpleasant."
of the 25th March
say : ABll.ortress Monroe telegram

"Four German families arrived this morning at
Fortress Monroe, from Richmond, via Yorktown.
They report that the prevailing opinion in Rich-
mond is that the rebels will soon evacuate that city,
and probably most of Virginia. Freedom of speech
is much less restricted there than formerly.
They bring no news from Char:eston, but say
the rebels were expecting an attack upon
that city daily. Provisions were exceedingly high
in Richmond, and wages correspondingly high for

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ATROCITIES OF GENERAL BUTLER,

An officer of the French Imperial Navy, M• A•
Leport, second in command of the steam corvette
Catinat, publishes in the Presse a very remarkable
letter describing what he saw at New Orleans
during the stay of his ship in the Mississippi. He
was there during the governorship of the monster
Butler. The following are some of the more salient
points : _ _

" Once more master of New Orleans, Mr. Butler,
after establishing his troops in positions command-
ing the town, set to work as governor. His first
care was to secure supplies of food—no very hard
duty, as it was sufficient to allow the river steamers
to bring down, under flags of truce, the stores they
could not but be anxious to find purchasers for.
The necessity for feeding his soldiers, moreover,
actuates Mr. Butler quite as much as humanity in
this circumstance. He found iu the act, however,
an opportunity for self-glorification which he did
not neglect to avail himself of, and on the 9th of
May, in a pompous order of the day, he expatiated
with self-complacency on the blessings he had con-
ferred even on the rebellious inhabitants of New
Orleans, and, comparing his conduct with that of
the Confederate Government, heaped upon his pre-
decessors epithets which no officer, no gentleman
would have disgraced his pen by writing. Of course,
insults from a man like Butler produced not the
least impression apparently, and he fancied his posi-
tion safer than he had at first imagined. On the
21st of the same month he again sounded public
opinion. It had come to the knowledge of the com-
mander-in-chief,' he said in a fresh order of the day,
that a pretended proclamation from a so- called Pre-
sident Davis, ordered that Friday, 16th instant, be
observed as a day of prayer and fasting. The pre-
sent order prohibits that proclamation being at-
tended to.' The town still remained calm. Mr.
Butler grew bolder, and launched forth his famous
order, No. 28, according to the terms of which
every woman (calling herself a lady of New Or-
leans) who insulted an officer or soldier in the ser-
vice of the United States, or evinced her contempt
by word, gesture, or movement, should be treated as
a woman of the town plying her trade.' Such an
order, infamous everywhere, was especially so in
America, where the respect for woman is so great.
I know that an attempt has been made to equivoca-
tion on the word woman.' lam aware that the
Northern Press, after having denied the existence of
a proclamation repugnant to every American feel-
ing, has made an attempt to allege that the measure
' Mr. Butler was called to take' was only applicable
to women of low condition. Pettifogging excuses !
gross falsehoods ! The apology deceived nobody.
The Federals brought gold, and the women of a cer-
tain class opened their doors to Mr. Butler's officers
with a cordiality which made still more evident the
eagerness of the ladies to shut theirs. Mr. Butler
knew very well those to whom his order applied ;
moreover, he never denied it—the ladies themselves
knew it. It was in reality the ladies of the best
families whom this man placed at the mercy of any
ruffian among his officers or soldiers who chose to
say that one of them had expressed contempt of
them by a movement or gesture. A few days
later it was a real lady who was em-
braced by a Federal officer in the public
cars, and conveyed into the shop of a neighbour-
ing chemist. The officer had, however, only acted
on the order No. 28, and had, it must be admitted,
not gone so far as Mr. Butler's proclamation sanc-
tioned."
The following is the only other extract regarding
this Federal miscreant for which we can find

room :--
" After all, Mr. Butler had won a great victory
—that population which he had first insulted, then
disarmed, he had subjected finally to a crowning
humiliation, by compelling it by sheer terror to take
an oath which was perjury for all that took it.
Nevertheless, all had not submitted to pass beneath
his Candine forks—there remained laurels' for him
to cull : above all, there remained revenge. Those
ladies, lately so proud, who turned aside their bead
with such disdain at the aspect of a Federal uniform
or a Federal flag—those ladies who refused to re-
ceive Mrs. Butler—those ladies whom the barbarous
treatment of one of themselves, Mrs. Phillips, had
not intimidated, had so often exasperated him by
the display of delicacy and refinement, which to
him were outrages, he was about to be revenged
upon at last. On Sept. 24 there appeared an order,
of which the following is the substance :
"' From this date to Oct. 1, all individuals, of
both sexes, above 18 years of age, who have not up
to this time taken the oath of allegiance to the
Government of the Union, are hereby required
to report themselves to one of the provost mar-
shals, and have themselves registered as enemies of
the United States, un'ler pain of fine and impri-
sonment, or hard labour, or the two penalties com-
bined. Those who prefer renouncing their error,
and take the oath of allegiance before the Ist of
October, shall be recommended to the indulgence of
the President.' Thus, with one stroke of the pen,
and by a piece of unheard of extravagance, this man
transferred into citizens every woman and youth
from 18 to 21. The official journal has said, indeed,
that the generous heart of the chivalrous general
would condescend to draw out the venomous fangs
of women.' The insults and threats of that print
were resumed. Eight days more, and these
proud ladies would be turned out of their luxurious
homes; they would become acquainted with hunger
and distress; they would be allowed to take nothing
with them—neither linen, furniture, nor money.'
" This time the mothers felt what fear was. The
stout-hearted women, who did not shrink from the
horrors of a bombardment, felt their courage give
way at the idea of seeing children perishing with
want. They would have borne everything them-
selves, but did not consider they had the right of
entailing such sufferings on the feeble creatures
whose lives were entrusted to their care. Never-

theless they did not all yield—far from it. Cruel
scenes took place. More than one man had taken
the oath, at which his conscience revolted, to avert

the ruin impending over those dearer to him than
himself. They had devoted themselves fofrtthhe
ener-
getic of their families, in many cases, in
remonstrance of their wives andspitedaoughterE.
nation of these unfortunate menivoes
anda'6
daugh-
" You can understand, Sir, what wansrtehse.c.or
ittrerr:
Butler's last order. Would thesied
they were sum-
prevent their
refused, would their
mooed to do so? And if sum-
taking htoltheaodadthon,
of no use. For eight days
having taken the oath be etaaklleti.htfettylheciuthatwo
took place in every family.
the most horrible scenes
omisfortune to witness several,
particular, will haunt me to my dying
in Aver-persuaded by pusill • aramous friends,
day, .
fur his
~
„,,ivt,‘ of the future his younger children,
havehal
aitnaldsosnelef,
apprehensive
the other hand counselled the other way by those
of children old enough to have an opinion, the
head of a large family had, after long and painful
hesitation, taken the oath before the 24th of Sep-
tember. The order of that day struck him with
stupor—the threats of the Delta overwhelmed him.
His wife, both mother and grandtnother,had yielded
with tears to his supplications, but he knew his
daughters would never submit. For eight days he
supplicated without being able to obtain anything
from them, When at length he invoked his authority
as a father, it was disregarded. He told them ' that
they would he thrown into the workhouse pell-mell

with public women and dishonoured.' To avoid
that dishonour, replied one of them, we must com-

mit perjury—that would b© dishonour self-afflicted

It is better to trust to God.' Perjury—dishonour

self-inflicted,' replied the wretched father, burying
his face in his hands, ' perhaps you are right'—and
he burst into tears. I, sir, a witness of this scene,
was completely overcome. Five months have passed
since these events, and the resistance of these bravo-
hearted girls, and the agony of their broken-
hearted father, still makes me:throb with indigna-