The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

(Per the Asia, via Roche's Point, 8.35 a.m.)
NE W YORK, JAN. 14.

The defeat of the Faderals at Vicksburg and their
retreat up the Mississippi will enable the Confede-
rates to spare troops from that point to assist in the
defence of Port Hudson, which is to be forthwith
attacked by Gen. Banks and a flotilla of gunboats
and ironclads.

Despatches from Colonel Crabbe, at Springfield,
Missouri, state that the Confederates were repulsed
in their attack upon the town, and retired, leaving
a portion of their killed and wounded on the field.
The Confederates are again concentrating their
forces in Tennessee.

A detachment, under Generals Forrest, Wheeler,
and Stearns, with two full batteries of cannon, are
advancing upon Charlotte, with the intention of
capturing the supplies of Gen. Rosecranz. They
have burnt one steamboat, and captured 20 prisoners.
The Confederate General Morgan has re-entered
Kentucky.

Gen. Wool, late of Baltimore, has been appointed
to the military command of the eastern department,
including New York and the New England States.
His headquarters will be in New York city.
Twenty-six Republican members of the Senate,
forming a clear majority of that body, have pre-
sented a memorial to the President expressing a
want of confidence-in the Administration. They
assert that the President is not aided by a Cabinet
Council agreeing with him in political principles
and general policy, and urge that he make
such changes as will secure a unity of purpose and
action. They also admonish him that it is unwise
and unsafe to intrust any important military opera-
tion to any officer who is not a cordial supporter of
the Government.

General Butler had an enthusiastic reception in
Boston yesterday. He stated that his plan for
paying the war debt was the introduction of free
labour into the South, by which abundant crops of
cotton • could be produced with profit, at 10 cents
per pound. He proposed to lay on this a tax of
10 cents, thus raising the price to 20 cents per
pound, which France and England would be obliged
to pay. This tax alone he said would pay the inte-
rest on a debt three times as large as has been
contracted for the prosecution of the war.
Mr. Chase's ,interviews with the leading New
York bankers have been unsatisfactory.
The Government Bill for the issue of 900,000,000
of United States Bonds passed the Senate on the
12th. In anticipation of this new flood of irre-
deemable paper money the speculative mania has
largely increased in Wall-street.

Gold has gone up to 1441, and all kinds of
securities have shared in the inflation.
It is :announced that a French army of 4,000
men has landed at Matamoras.

NEW YORK, JAN. 14, EVENING.

A rumour is current on the Stock Exchange that
General Banks and Commodore Farragut have been
repulsed on the Mississippi.
NEW YORK, JAN. 15, MORNING.
M'Clennard's expedition has gone up the White
River.

In Congress, Mr. Vallandigham has made a
speech favouring an armistice or foreign mediation,
but repudiating arbitration.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 13, EVENING.
Money easy. Gold 431 premium. Exchange
157.
Stocks, large speculative sales. Now York Cen-
trals, 1161; Illinois, 891; Erie, 74.
Cotton very firm. Middling upland, 70-1.
Flour, good inquiry and 15c. higher. Wheat in
good demand, at an advance of 2c. Corn steady.
Provisions good inquiry. Coffee and sugar very
firm. Molasses steady.

JAN. 15, Evening.

Money easy. Gokl 48 per cent. prem. Exchange,
163. Stocks very firm. New York Centrals, 117 ;
Illinois, 90-1, ; Erie, 73,1..
Cotton very firm. Middling upland, 71e.

Flour, good inquiry. Wheat in good demand for
export, and 2c. higher. Corn and provisions steady.
Coffee, sugar, and molasses very firm.

FRANCE AND AMERICA.

PARIS, JAN. 28.

The following is a summery of a note addressed
by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to M. Mercier, the French
Minister at Washington, dated 9th January, in re-
ference to fresh proposals for peace to be submitted
to the Federal Cabinet. M. Drouyn els Lhuys

says :
"In adopting this course, France is above all
guided by her friendship for the Government of
Washington.
" The Government of the Emperor has therefore
thoroughly examined the objections which can be
raised against friendly intervention. Among these
objections were the reluctance of the Republic to
admit any foreign influence, and the hope enter-
tained by the Americans of a solution being arrived
at by the force of arms.
" The assistance of the good offices of foreign
Powers has nothing incompatible with the pride of
a great
facilitate
negotiations
between the belligerents, we
e
have abstained from prejudging these bases. France
in no way disputes the right of America to decline
the assistance of the great maritime Powers, but
this assistance is the only means of hastening the
end of the war. Should the American Government,
nevertheless, reject foreign mediation, could
it not at least enter into direct negotiations
with the authorities of the South ? The open-
ing of negotiations between the belligerents
would not 'necessarily involve the cessation of hos-
tilities. Nothing would hinder the Federal Govern-
ment from retaining the advantages which the con-
tinuation of the war might offer, and it might,
nevertheless, enter into negotiations with the South.
"If the South consented, representatives of the
two parties might meet in a city which could be de-
clared ne u t ai . The grievances which have led to
the
separation
Could be examined. The represen-
tatives might also consider whether secession is the
unavoidable extremity, and whether the recollec-
tion of former times and common interests is not
more powerful than the causes which have brought
the two peoples under arms.
" Negotiations of this character would not be
open to the objections which have been raised to
European intervention, and, without giving rise
even to any hope of immediate reconciliation, the
armistice would nevertheless exercise an amelio-
rating influence upon present events."
M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in conclusion, authorises
M. Mercier to leave a copy of the despatch with
Mr. Seward.

INSURRECTION IN POLAND.
ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 27.

The Journal de
St. Petersbourg of to-day pub-
lishes the speech of the Emperor to the army, of
which a telegraphic summary has already appeared.
The same paper eotithins news fr.ml. Warsaw tt.,!

the afternoon of the 26th, received by way of Ber-
lin, stating that telegraphic communication at War-
saw was still interrupted. Upon the night of the
23d a band of insurgents had damaged the Soura
Railway. Upon the 24th troops were sent from
Warsaw, Bialystock, and Grodno to restore the
line. Forces were also despatched to various other
places upon the frontier with the same object, but
up to the present time the communication between
Bialystock and Warsaw has not been re-estab-
lished.

Telegrams of the 25th state that bands of insur-
gents baying been seen at Giotzkow and other loca-
lities, troops had been sent to meet them. The
rebels had attacked travellers. During the previous
night telegraphic communication with Warsaw by
way of Kowno has also been interrupted.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN; JAN. 27, Evening.
In the Chamber of Deputies to-eby the debate
upon the Address was commenced.
Herr von Sybel said that Herr von Bismark-
Schonhausen, in denying the statement of the
Chamber that no identity existed between the King
and the Ministry, had insulted the honour of the
King.
Herr von Waldeck said that Herr von Grabow,
in his opening speech, had deserved well of his
country.
The Minister-President, Herr von Bismark-
Schonhausen, stated that the Address made mani-
fest the relation between the Chamber and the
Government. It demanded of the House of Hohen-
zollern to renounce rights belonging to it by the
constitution. He maintained that there could be
no distinction between the Ministry and the Crown,
and said that the position occupied by the Ministry
was based upon constitutional rights. The co ope-
ration of the three principal bodies of the State—the
Crown, the Upper House, and the Lower House—
was necessary for the establishment of the budget.
The constitution made no provision for the case of
the non-voting of the budget. Compromises were
therefore necessary to obviate conflicts between the
Chamber and the Government, which raise the
question in whom the actual power lies. The Chamber
by refusing the supplies requisite for the reorgani-
sation of the army, had abused its constitutional
rights, and the Upper House was therefore justified
in rejecting the budget. The Ministry was deter-
mined to resist the demands of the Chamber to en-
large its constitutional privileges, and to maintain
unimpaired the rights of the House of Hohen-
zollern.
The debate continues.

SERVIA.
PARIS, JAN. 27.

The Presse of this evening says :—" The Turkish
Ambassador at Vienna has handed to Count Rech-
berg a despatch upon the subject of the arms sent
to Servia, pointing out the complicity of Russia,
whose constant aim it was to incite Servia to attack
the Turkish frontier. The despatch states that
Russia has assembled considerable parks of artil-
lery in the southern provinces, especially in Bes-
sarabia, and that numbers of Russian agents, sup-
plied with money, had been sent into Servia.
" The despatch expresses the thanks of the
Turkish Government to Austria for having asso-
ciated an Austrian commissioner with the Turkish
commission for a pacific settlement of the question
which has arisen out of the transport of arms to
Servia."

The Presse says that the Turkish Ambassador
has made a similar communication to the English
Cabinet.

FRANCE.

The draft of the Address of the is to. day
reported in the Siecle, which reserves the full con-
sideration of each paragrah until the opening of the
debate, but its attention is attracted by an enig-
matical passage, which runs thus :—" Italy by her
attitude seconds herself the pacification of the fears
which she had created. The era of conflicts is
passed—that of compromise seems approaching.
At Turin no one speaks of Rome ; at Rome
people occupy themselves with reforms, and the
Holy Father, sustained by the presence of an
army, expresses loudly his gratitude to the Empe-
ror." "We ask," says the Siecle "in what manner
the silence preserved at Turin, and the gratitude
which. Pius IX. feels for the Government that sup-
ports him, removes the era of conflicts, and brings
nearer that of compromise ?"

L' Opinion Nationale, referring to the paragraph
in question, observes that if the Senate adopts it,
it will have pledged itself more distinctly than ever
to the maintenance of the temporal pa wer.

Le Pays, judging from the favourable reception
met with by the Address, believes that the debates
upon it will neither be very animated nor very pro-
longed. It applauds the calmness of its tone
especially as regards Italian affairs, and hopes that
advantage will be taken of the present lull to
reconcile the interests of Rome and Turin.

Le Constztutionnel is enthusiastic on the subjec
of the Emperor's Address to the French exhibitors.
It was more, it observes, than rewards given to en-
terprising workers, it was the consecration of the
triumph of a grand idea, and the triumph, also, of
a Sovereign who, notwithstanding prejudices and
obstacles, had reckoned on the forces of that nation
which he governs, and which he knows so well to
conduct to victory on the battlefields of peace as
well as of war. The speech of the Emperor was the
crowning of one of the most fruitful acts of his
reign.

The Corps Legislatif, yesterday, voted unani-
mously, immediately after the reading of the report
of M. Pouyer-Quartier, the credit of 5,000,000 fr.,
asked by the Government for the operatives in the
cotton districts.

In the Sleds we meet with a long account of the
execution of Ronca. This triple assassin expiated
his crime last Thursday at Aix. It is worthy of
remark that the man who nearly fell a victim to this
murderer's attempt has since died in consequence of
the excitement and the emotions of that sad event.
An immense crowd assembled to witness the execu-
tion, and from the preceding day the inhabitants of
the neighbouring localities had stationed themselves
in the vicinity. The courage of the unhappy man
completely gave way at the last, and the execu •
tioners were obliged almost to carry him to the
scaffold. This terrible scene appears to have caused
a considerable sensation among the spectators,

BOURSE, Jan. 27.—The market continues heavy
in consequence of a further decline in Consols, but
the price of yesterday is well maintained at 691 r.
85c. for Threes, for the Account. Railway Share
Market also dull. The market closed as follows
Bank Shares 3400
Credit p Dueler
Piedmontese Fives.
Italian Loan 7O
Russian
Austrian .. B3 25
Spaniel]. Threes 5O 25
Home Debt

4i per Cents. 9B 60
Do. end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 75
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1152 50
Do, end month 1150

BAIL"

_ AYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans ICBO .. 1080
Northern .. 1027 60 .. 1025
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1152 50 1152 50
Geneva 4OO .. 400

~.. __
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa.
Ditto to Barcelona

Mrs. Sheridan Knowles, formerly
Miss Elphin-
stone, and now the widow of the celebrated dramatist, is
likely to receive a pension for life, on the recommendation
of Lord Palmerston,

The Sardinia and Sicily Telegraph Cable.

To secure a more immediate and closer connexion
with Sicily and Southern Daly, and to have a rorre
!or the Indian telegraphic triAc other than that
through the disturbed district of the Calabrias, the
Indian Government decided to lay a cable from the
south-west part of the Island of Sardinia, near Cag-
liari, to a point in Sicily between Trapani and
Marsala ; and Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., the
well-known contractors for submarine telegraphs,
engaged to make, lay, and maintain a submarine
communication between those places.
The main cable consists of a seven-strand copper
wire covered with three coats of gutta percha and
three of compound to a diameter of three-eighths of
an inch, then served with tarred yarn, and closed
with 14 No. 10 gauge best charcoal bright iro❑
wire. Its weight in air is two tons per nautical
mile, with a specific gravity of 2-68, and it bears a
strain of nearly seven tons. The shore end is the
same core, served with tarred yarn, and closed with
12 No. 2 gauge best annealed iron wire. It neighs
seven tons per nautical mile, and will bear a strain
of about 20 tons.

The screw steamer Hawthorns, 1,000 tons burden,
which had just completed the Ziuclvoort cable for
the same firm, having had an iron tank 24ft. in
diameter and 14ft. deep fitted in her, and the
cable coiled into it, left Greenhithe on the sth
of December last, and arrived at Cagliari on the
17th. Mr. Canning joined her on the 22d, having
travelled by Turin, and after several soundings
had been taken along the proposed route, and wait-
ing for favourable weather, on Monday, the 29th
of December, at 11 a.m., the end was landed
at Porto Gionco, a little to the northward of the
Cavali light, Cape Carbonara, where there was a
fine sandy beach, and deep water half a mile from it.
The paddle war steamer Malfatano had been de-
tailed by the Italian Government to pilot the course,
as the compasses of a ship paying out cable cannot
be relied upon, owing to the constant changing of
the mass of iron cable on board, and to assist the
Hawthorns in case it was required. The captain
of the Malfatano having some further soundings to
take left on the 24th of December, having notice
that the work of laying would commence on the
following morning if it was fine. Accerdingly at
2 p.m., with a smooth sea, the Hawthorns began
paying out, although the Malfatano had not re-
turned, as a fine day could not be risked, owing to
the weather being so very changeable and bois-
terous at this season. After three miles of the
heavy shore-end cable had been laid (depth of
water 150 fathoms) the change was made to the
main cable, and the course set S.S.E., to bring the
cable into the shoal water north of the Keith Reef,
on the Skerki or Esquerquis Bank, distant 100
miles, after which it was intended to steer E. until
abreast of the island of Maritimo.

This course was selected, as accurate soundings
have been taken on it at various times by the Eng-
lish Hydrographical Department, and no one but
those actually engaged can appreciate the full ad-
vantages of laying a cable over a route which has
been thoroughly and carefully sounded.
At daybreak next morning a buoy which had
been placed on the Keith shoal ought to have been
in sight. The ship during the night went about
six knots, and it was very interesting to note by
the varying indications of the dynamometer the
different changes in the depth. From 9. p.m. on
the 29th to 2 a.m. on the 30th the greatest depth
was met with, and at 11 p.m., in the middle of it,
a barque gave great anxiety by constantly crossing
the bows and keeping abreast of the Hawthorns,
curious to know what was doing with so many lights
about the ship. Had she known the trouble
she was causing she would no doubt have altered
her course. It is a pity that the excellent arrange-
ments of the Board of Trade for the protection of
telegraph ships when engaged with cables are not
better known among shipping, as a cable ship,when
at work is unable to go out of her course without
great risk and danger to the cable.

The regulations are—" That a telegraph ship
shall, when at work, carry at night two bright red
lights, hung vertically below the white light at the
foremast head, each of the intervals between the
lights to be four feet. By day—two opaque black
balls hung vertically from the foremast head. The
lower ball to be four feet from the upper, and each
ball to be three feet in diameter."

At midnight a steamer was sighted, apparently
brought up; the Hawthorns sent up a rocket, hop-
ing it was her lost consort, the Malfatano, but no
reply was received.
At 8 a.rn. it was found by observation that the
ship had been out of her course. A sounding gave
150 fathoms, sandy bottom ; and the ship was
headed to the eastward. At noon it was found that
the ship had been carried by the very uncertain
currents which prevail hereletween 14 and 15 miles
to the south-west of the arranged course, and also
that there was not sufficient cable in the ship to
reach the destination. " Imray's Sailing Direc-
tions for the Mediterranean," at page 140, speaking
of the Skerki Bank, &c., says :—" The currents run-
ning so strongly, and without any positive direc-
tion, render this part of the Mediterranean ex-
tremely difficult to navigate," &c.
At 12 30 p.m. the island of Maritimo was sighted,
distant by observation 43 miles, and Mr. Canning
decided to run the cable into shoal water there. Set-
ting the course for Maritimo direct, it was found
that more currents were running; but, having the
island in sight, the helm was altered accordingly.
At 3 p.m. there was a heavy and increasing
swell. At 7 p.m. the ship was abreast of Ma-
ritimo, and, as the wind and sea were increasing,
with signs of bad weather, the end of the cable was
sealed and buoyed about mile from the shore, in
60 fathoms water, and the ship stood off and on
until daylight, intending to land the end; but next
morning it blew a gale of wind, and she went for
shelter to Farignano, where the Malfatano, her in-
tended escort, joined her, and both steamed into
Trapani to wait answer to a request transmitted
through the cable to London, that the surplus
Malta and Alexandria cable, which was landed at
Malta in Sept., 1861, might be used to complete
this work.
On Saturday, January 3, the Hawthorns left for
Malta, shipped the extra cable required, returned
here, and after waiting for flue weather until Jan.
12, it was thought a fine day had been secured; The
end of the cable was picked up, the splice made, and
paying out recommenced, but the ship had not gone
many miles before she met a very heavy short beam
sea, making the proposed landing place a lee shore.
At 10 p.m. it was very dark, with a low shore and
reefs about the Hawthorns, so she let go her anchor.
At daybreak she ran within a mile of the landing
place, but, as there were too much wind and sea to
trust the boats in landing the end, the cable was
cut and buoyed.
In England we hear about the beautiful smooth
sea that is always to be met with in the Mediter-
ranean at this season, but unfortunately this is not
the case. You do get a very fine day now and then,
but it changes very suddenly, and a nasty sea soon
gets up.
The sea on Wednesday was really smooth, and
the Hawthorns appreciated it, for the cable had:to
be carried by her raft of boats over very shallow
water to the landing place. At four p.m. the end
was put into an old Saracenic tower called Torre
Nubia, distant about one and a half miles from
Trapani and twelve from Marsala. A message
from the agents of the Italian Government,
who were on board during the operations, was
sent through the cable, via Cagliari, to the Director-
General of Telegraphs at Turin, announcing the
successful completion and the very satisfactory state
of the tests.

The electrical arrangements during the p lying
out of the cable were superintended by Mr. C. V.
de Sauty, and were similar to those used in the Al-
gerine, Corsican, Malta, Wexford, Zaudvoort, and
previous cables, and everything went well during
the work.

The cable has from the first tested very well ; it
has slightly but steadily improved during the pro-
cess of immersion, and from the final tests there is
every reason to hope this will be a permanent and
lasting cable. The length payed out was 211 nau-
tical miles.
It could have been wished that a cable with a less
specific gravity had been chosen for the depths which
were encountered in this route, as unless careful ex-
periments are previously made to determine the pro-
per materials with which the cable shall be con-
structed, having a due regard to the depth of water
and the strength of the cable, the risk of successful
immersion and of its permanent durability is very
materially increased.
The paying-out machinery was designed by
Messrs. Canning and Clifford, and is the same as
that used by them in laying the cables before men-
tioned. It worked well and smoothly.,

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OSBORNE, Jan. 27.
The Queen and Princess Helena, attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce, drove out yesterday.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse also drove
out.

The Prince of Wales.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 27.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been
pleased to make the following appointments :
Sir William Dunbar, Bart., M.P., to be Keeper of the
Privy Seal of his Royal Highness.
Sir William John Alexander, Bart., Q.C., to be Attorney..
General of his Royal Highness.
To be the Council of his Royal Highness :
The Duke of Newcastle, K.G., Lord Warden of the
Stannaries.

Sir William Dunbar, Bart., mx., Keeper of the Privy
Seal.

Sir William John Alexander, Bart., Q.C., Attorney-
6reneral.

Colonel the Honourable Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps,
K.C.8., Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall.
Lieut.-General William Thomas Knollys, Comptroller
and Treasurer of the Household of his Royal Highness.
The Lord Portman.

The Prince of Wales visited Marlborough House
yesterday. His Royal Highness, attended by Lieutenant-
General Kilollys and Captain Grey, honoured the perform-
ance at the Adelphi Theatre last evening with his presence.
A public meting was held at the Town• hall,
Windsor, yesterday, for the purpose of making arrange-
ments to give a proper reception to the Princess Alex-
andra of Denmark on her arrival at the Castle. The
Mayor was called to the chair. A resolution was pro-
posed, in an appropriate speech, by Mr. Vansittart,
M.P., to the Effect that on the occasion of the ap-
proaching marriage of the Prince of Wales with her
Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the
inhabitants of Windsor should manifest their loyalty by
giving the illustrious Princess a cordial welcome. He con-
gratulated the inhabitants of Windsor on the honour which
was about to be conferred on their good town by the cele-
bration of the marriage within its precincts. The motion
was seconded by Captain Seymour. The Vicar of Windsor
moved a resolution that congratulatory addresses to the
Queen and the Prince of Wales should be prepared. Other
resolutions were adopted for carrying out the necessary
arrangements for the erection of triumphal arches, illumi-
nations, a public ball, a public dinner, and a distribution of
money to the poor. Upwards of £3OO was subscribed in
the hall, Mr. Vansittart heading the list for £5O. After
a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting broke up.
The Duke of Newcastle arrived in London on
Monday evening from his seat, Clumber Park, Notts.
The Duchess of Inverness entertained at dinner
last evening, at her apartments in Kensington
Palace, his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency the Portuguese Minis-
ter, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, Hon. Gerald and
Lady Maria Ponsonby, Mr. George Ruz sell and Lady Char-
lotte Russell, Miss Adelaide Gore, Mr. Wm. Peel, Sc.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll arrived at their
residence on Campden-hill yesterday.

The Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and the
Ladies Geraldine and Edith Somerset are still staying at
Badminton.

The Earl and Countess of Airlie and family are
expected at Holly Lodge, Campden-hill, early next week
from Cortachy Castle, Forfarshire.

The Earl Russell will leave Pembroke Lodge to-
day for Osborne.

The Earl and Countess Delawarr and family will
leave town in a few days for Hastings.
The Earl and Countess of Lincoln have left
Brighton for Hastings.

The Earl and Countess of Cardigan are enter-
taining a select circle at Deene Park, amongst whom aro
the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the Hon. Henry
Forester, Colonel and Mrs. Charles Baring, Captain and
Mrs. Bulkeley, Mr. Cathcart, Mr. Bernal and Mr. Dorrien
Magens, Lord Gardner, the Hon. Julian Fane, &c.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
from his seat, Broadlands, Hants.

Lord and Lady Cremorne have arrived at their
residence in Curzon-street, from Dartrey House, county
Monaghan.

Lord Forbes and the Hon. Courteurty Forbes
have arrived at Brighton from the North.
The Bight Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis,
M.P., was prevented attending the Cabinet Council held
yesterday by indisposition, the right hon. gentleman being
confined to his residence by a severe cold.

CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held
yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord
of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Rus-
sell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. Milner:Gibson, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Lord
Stanley of Aldeiley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

MARRIAGES IN INDIA.—•A bill has been intro-
duced in the Legislative Council of India to legalise
all marriages of Christians in India contracted since 1851 in
the presence of persons not in holy orders, and to prevent
all doubts as to the legality of Dissenters' and native Chris-
tians' marriages for the future, caused by the decision of
the House of Lords that the English common law applies
to Indian marriages. As native Christians in thousands are
scattered over parts of India under pastors of their own
race, far from clergymen and marriage registrars, persons
are to be appointed for this class to register in a simple form,
Lefore witnesses, the consent of a oouple to become man and
wife. Being Christians they are to be subject to the Chris-
tian law of affinity and consanguinity, and polygamy is not
permitted.

CHILD MURDER IN HOXTON.—Yesterday morn-
ing an inquiry was held by Mr. H. R. Walthew,
the deputy-coroner, at the Black Horse Tavern, Kingsland-
road, respecting the death of a fenlale child, found mur-
dered in Hoxton-square, under the following circumstances
—William Wright said that he was keeper of the square,
and last Wednesday morning, while going his rounds, he
found a large canvas bag lying on the pavement. It con-
tained the body of deceased child. The bag had evidently
belonged to a wholesale grocer, and it was marked with the
letters "T. R.," in a diamond. The bag had not been in
the place where he found it four minutes before it was
picked up, but he saw no one going towards the spot with a
bundle. He gave the child to the police. Dr. J. Cluer
Griffith, police-surgeon, said that deceased was a fully-de-
veloped healthy child. It had been killed by a blow on the
side of the head, the injury from which was quite apparent.
There appeared to have been also some bruises on the face
from blows or pressure. The Coroner summed up, and ex-
pressed a hope that in this instance, at all events, the police
might be able to follow out the clue to the perpetrators of
the murder. The discovery and punishment of the offenders
in even one such case might do much to check the shocking
practice of child murder, but he had little hope of seeing it
put an end to until the laws on the subject were altered.
The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown, and recommended that the
authorities should offer a reward for the apprehension of
the guilty parties.

A CHILD KILLED BY CAMPHOR.—On Monday
Mr. W. Carter held an inquiry at the Dun Cow
Tavern, High-street, Peckham, on the body of Harriet
Auna Castledine, aged 15 months, whose death took place
under the following circumstances :—The child, it appeared,
had not been well, and having asked for a drink, its father
took from a shelf a bottle which he supposed contained
medicine which it had been taking, and administered a
teaspoonful of the mixture. Immediately he had done so
his wife discovered that the bottle contained camphorated
oil, whi,h had been supplied by Mr. Plummer, a chemist
in the neighbourhood, and was so labelled. The wrong
bottle had been taken, and the label had not been noticed.
The child shook a great deal after taking the mixture, and
the father immediately went to the chemist who supplied it,
and was told he need not be alarmed, as camphorated oil
was not injurious. The child, however, became worse in
the course of the day, and was seized with convulsions.
Medical assistance was called in, and though the child
rallied for a short time, it died in 13 hours. The jury
returned a verdict that the child died from the administra-
tion of camphorated oil given by misadventure.

THE CAMPAGNA. this-;agnificent
amphitheatre lies the Campagna of Rome, and
nothing can be more rich and varied, with every kind of
beauty—sometimes, as around Ostia, flat as an American
prairie, with miles of canni and reeds rustling in the wind,
fields of exquisite feathery grasses waving to and fro, and
forests of tall golden-truaked stone-pines poising their
spreading umbrellas of rich green high in the air, and
weaving a murmurous roof against the sun; sometimes
drear, mysterious, and melancholy, as in the desolate
stretches between Civita Vecchia and Rome, with lonely
hollows and hi.l without a habitation, where sheep and
oxen feed, and the wind roams over treeless and deserted
slopes and silence makes its home; sometimes rolling like
an inland sea whose waves have suddenly been checked and
stiffened, green with grass, golden with grain, and gracious
with myriads of wild flowers, where scarlet poppies blaze
over acres and acres, and pink-frilled daisies cover the
vast meadows, and pendant vines shroud the picturesque
ruins of antique villas, aqueducts, and tombs, or Stoop from
mediteval towers and fortresses.—Storys" Bac; ch. Roma,