The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

semble their English prototype as closely as pos-
sible, is of a character familiar to most of us. It
addresses collectively the members of both assem-
blies, commenting on one or two points of import-
ance in the domestic economy ; it directs the atten-
tion of the popular branch of the Legislature to
the consideration of the estimates; and concludes
with courtly expressions of confidence and hopes
for peace and prosperity. Under this seeming
routine, however, there lurk indications of some
moment. The assembling of the Parliament at an
unusual season is accounted for by the somewhat
abrupt termination of the Tabours of its predecessor;
but it is not improbable that the state of affairs in
the neighbouring country may have had something
to do with it. Nothing is said, moreover, in refer-
ence to the conduct of the Federal States in the
observations made by the Governor-General re-
specting the proposed amendments of the Militia
Law, and to the increase in the volunteer force ;
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they can never reckon on the maintenance of the
outwardly amicable relations between the Cabinets
of St. James's and Washington. It is true that
their union with this country is a tower of
strength to them; but, at the same time,
it is not impossible that the same cause may
involve the Canadians in a war with their powerful
neighbour. The ultimate issue would not be doubt-
ful with the mother country in the background, but
it needs all Canada's watchfulness and energy to
be on her guard against the first move. In this
matter she must help herself, and though some
among us have been too ready to censure the colo-
nists because their efforts appeared disproportionate
to their requirements, not regarding the scarcity of
the population, there can be no question that our
North American colonies must make greater and
more sustained efforts than they have hitherto done
if they wish to keep pace with the necessities of
their position. However much the security of
Canada may concern us, it touches them still more
nearly. It has been said by those who are unwil-
ling to make the required exertion that it is unfair
to call upon the colonists to carry on a war in which
they are not interested, and with whose origin they
have had nothing to do. To this, the sufficient
answer is that, without the support of that Power
which involves them in these disinterested wars,
they would probably long since have fallen victims
to the aggression of some stronger Stale. The ex-
tensive application of the Volunteer principle is the
safeguard for a colony like Canada. Every able-
bodied man should know how to shoulder his rifle,
and be familiar with the rudiments of military
training, that in the time of sudden need or
urgency the army of defence would be ready and
able to act at a moment's notice. The meu of a
regular army could be ill spared from the popula-
tion of the country, and however admirable may be
the effects of enthusiasm and patriotic fervour, they
will not altogether supply the place of skill and
discipline. The Governor in his speech especially
directs the attention of the Legislature to the pro

LATEST _ INTELLIGENCE. 1

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

WARSAW, AUG. 29.
The National Government has issued a decree
forbidding the exercise of the censorship in
Warsaw.

The chief censor, M. Sobieszczanski, has conse
quently already tendered his resignation.

JAPAN.
(By Telegraph from Suez,)

Government
JAPAN, JULY 4.
a growing affinity be-
tween There
t h ies
Tycoon'sreported
and foreigners.
The Ty coon has chartered British steamers to
cony ey troops.

PORTUGAL.
(Per Oneida.)
LISBON, AUG. 27

Count Bone Fim has b3en appointed Governor of
The Cape Verde Islands.
The Gazette has published a ministerial decree
that the bills and the Pontifical rescripts concern-
ing the rights of the Portuguese Crown over the
Indian bishoprics be published at th© cost of the
Government.

An Italian squadron and Prince Carignan are
expected to arrive at Lisbon for the baptism of
the expected Royal infant, which will take place
i❑ the Church of Santa Maria of Belem.

The Marquis de Bella is appointed Italian Minis
,er at the Court of Lisbon.

The war steamer Mindello is under orders to pro-
ceed to England at the end of this month to bring
back Dorn Fernando.

The arbiters appointed to settle the points at
issue between the Government and Senhor Sala-
manca have decided in favour of the former.
The remains of the late Infante Don John have
been privately removed by night to the Mausoleum
of San Vincente.

It is said the Portuguese Government are abou
,o negotiate another large loan in a foreign market
Tne vine disease has already committed grew

ravages.

It is said the Portuguese Government are about
to negotiate another large loan in a foreign market.
The general assembly of the Bank of Portugal
have approved of the report of the committee
charged to give their advice on the proposition of
Messrs. Stern of London inviting the Bank to asso-
ciate itself in the creation of a Credit Foncier in
Lisbon.

Trade continues dull. Renter, 491; Coupons
491. Exchange on London, 53/ at 90 days' date.

FRANCE.
A MEDAL FOR MEXICO.

PARIS, AUG. 31

A decree has been issued for striking a medal
commemorative of the Alexican expedition, to be
distributed to all who have taken
part in the cam-
paign.

BOURSE, Aug. 29.—The market has lost none of
the buoyancy which it acquired before the close of
business yesterday, and prices are again rather
higher, Threes, for
the Account, being now at
67f. 90c. Railway Share Market firm, without
any material variations. The market continued
firm to the end, and closed as follows :-
11 per Cent 5....... 97 Italian Loan 73 20
Do. end month..."
-- Do. end month 73 05
3 per Cents ..... 67 90 New ditto .......
Do. end month.... 67 75 Do, end month 73 Oa
Credit Mobilier.... 1115 Russian
Do. end month.... 1111 25 Austrian
Bank Shares
3390 Spanish Throes.... 51 7;
Credit .F oneier 1270 Home Debt

posed amendment in the militia law, and to the
large increase which has taken place in Volunteer
force. Offers of service continue to pour in, proving
that the whole colony is fully aware of the impor-

ance of the matter, and the Governor observes that
,he interest felt in the formation of drill associations,
;ogether with the eagerness of the youth of the
country to perfect their skill as marksmen, are evi•
deuces of the readiness with which the people of
Canada would submit to hardship and sacrifice, were
it necessary in the cause of their country. It would
ill become the Governor of a professedly peaceful
State to state the reason why such urgent need
exists for strengthening the defence of the country,
but the riddle is not difficult to read, and will be
probably very quickly read by a good many others.
Matters of finance are but lightly touched upon,
although the Governor alluded to the unsatisfactory
state of the exchequer, in which for some years the
deficiency has exceeded the incomings. He suggests
that some strenuous effort be made to put an end to
so awkward a discrepancy, and we may hope from
the improving fortunes of the colony that it will
not be very long before credit and debit change
places in the sum total. The proposal for opening
a telegraphic and postal communication between
Lake Superior and New Westminster may well be
styled an important undertaking, and the scheme
will probably be one of the first brought under
legislative notice. A line connecting the Northern
and Southern neighbours of Canada would, as the
Governor observed, affect her prospects both in a
military and commercial point of view. When that
vast continent from north to south is joined in one
mighty chain, whose links stretch unbroken through
English territories, the commerce of the mother
country will be worthily represented by her descen-
dants. The colonists, like ourselves, are expressing
their thankfulness for that national blessing, an
abundant harvest, and the good it brings in its
train. Let us hope that their course of 'in-
ternal progress and development may proceed

BAIL

'AYB.

Cash. Account.
1020 .. 1023 75
.. 990 --

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1028 75 .. 1030
Geneva 492 50 .. 493 75
Southern ......
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 416 25 .. 415
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 6BO .. 678 75
Ditto to Barcelona

The Brazil and River Plate Mails.

SOUTCAMPTON, Monday Morning.

The Royal Mail Company's screw steamer
Oneida, Captain T. A. Bevis, has arrived, with mails
of the following dates :—Buenos Ayres, July 30 ;
Montevideo, 31 ; Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 8; Bahia, 11;
Pernambuco, 13 ; St. Vincent (Cape Verds), 20 ;
Lisbon, 27.

Among the passengers are Mr. Hopkins, Consul-
General of the Argentine Republic to the United
States, from Buenos Ayres ; the Hon. W. G. Cora.
wallis Elliot and Mr. William Brodie, of the British
Legation at Rio Janeiro.

all
diamonds,
passengers, i
1£8403; 492
in ispheecioe,nleoidpa
aberkianggessin
of
to-
bacco, 170 barrels of tapioca, 8 cases of plants, and
138 packages of sundries.
She spoke Her Majesty's ship Esk on leaving Rio ;
the English ship Tudor, standing to the north, on
the 18th inst., lat. 11.42 N., long. 27 %V.; the
outwardEnglishas tn 19th, let. 5.11 i
shipm ail steamer
Elizabeth
lPa Fry, standing to the south-
east,
rNa ; long. 25.50 N.; the
a , on 20 th , bound for
St. Vincent; and abreast Oporto the French Bra•
zilian mail steamer, standing to the southward.
Her Majesty's ships Curlew and Spider were at
Buenos Ayres; the Alecto gone to the Falkland
Islands; the Forte, Triton, Dotterel, and Sheldrake
at Buenos Ayres; the Satellite at Bahia ; and the
Stromboli at Pernambuco. 1

unchecked by the horrors of war, though the old

Canadian spirit would not shrink from sustaining
them if necessary. We would, moreover, caution

BUENOS A
...LYRES, July 30.
The political sitaation of the Argentine Republic
has become very steady. The provinces continue
pacified, and General Penaloza is said to have passed
over to Chili. The dispute With the Government of
the Banda Oriental is settled.

our friends of the Northern States that in case of

hostilities between them and Canada, we may turn

our modern education to some account, and show
them that we have improved in geography since the
days of Lord ASIIBUFTON, by rectifying the trifling
error
which gavo them Portland and Maine.

Business dull; the principal export and import
articles aro neglected.

E ansLondon,con
considerably,
6d.; Paris, 830.;
daderably, and closed at
440 dole. on the 27th duly, and at 434 dole. on the
30th idem.
obxlcohon ge
have on
declined

THE PRIVATEER FLORIDA AT BREST.—The in-
telligence recently published that the Confederate
steam corvette Florida had arrived at Brest is confirmed,
She has a crew of 128 men, and had on board when she
reached Brest 24 other persons, 23 of whom composed the
crew of the Federal vessel the Anglo-Saxon, which the
Florida captured and burnt not far from the English coast.
Those men were landed at Brest and left to themselves in
the public street. The American Consul, on being informed
of the fact, took measures to secure them boarding and
lodging until their future fate is decided on. The other
man is the English pilot, who was on board the captured
vessel. The Florida, which has received free pratique, has
met with some damage to her engine and is short of coal.
PRIZE FIGHTS.—The great fight between Mace
and Goss, to which the attention of sporting men has for
is, of course, a secret except to a few. Heenan,
"the Be
some time past been directed, will come off to-morrow, but
h
whose fight with Tom Sayers created
so mach excitement
is to fight King, who
won the last battle for the championship in his contest with
Mace. The day fixed is the Bth of December, the distance
te
localityDeix Benicia
Boy,"ment some time ago,
to be within 100 miles of Loudon. Both men are over six
feet in height.

MONTE VIDEO, July 31.
The civil war continues but is carried on very
slowly on account of the winter season, General
Flores is reported to be at Tacnarembo, a small
place on the Brazilian frontier. The Monte Videan
Government report that a division of their troops
had been defeated by General Flores, nevertheless
the country.
it is generally believed that he will have to leave

stocked with most import articles.
and the market over-
Business extremely dull,
Exchange on London. 511 d.; Paris, 82f.
Rio DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7.
Business in general very dull. In coffee no dis-
position to operate after the Oneida's news, at the
high rates of 7,500 to 7,900 for superiors; 7,200 to
7,400 good packets; 7,000 to 7,250 Channel lots.
Stocks 45,000 bags.

Exchange on London, 2f3 to 27 per dol., 90 days'
sight. _ _

THE NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES, DOWNING-
STrtEET.—In giving the list of tenders for the new
Foreign-office, sonic explanation of the present condition of
the extensive works is necessary. Up to the present time,
the contract for the foundations and concrete of the Foreign-
office has alone been completed. The cost of this portion
of the work has been L 16,117. The present tender, accepted,
embraces the whole of the superstructure of the Foreign-
office, and amounts to a little over £195,000. The works of
the India-office on the western portion of the ground, or
next'the park, art advancing with considerekle rapidity.
The expiration, in 1866, of the lease held by the Govern-
ment of the temporary India-office in Victoria-street has
rendered it necessary to proceed with the new works .with
Choralbei g
all possible vigour. Tho contract, therefore, has been let
spo reepimarte ieds.—a.Breud greatly
atly
in sections to Messrs, Smith and Taylor, in order to avcid
the delay that would otherwise occur while the quantities
were
on the increase in
Russia,

The elections for voters to appoint the deputies
to the new Assembly were to commence on the 9th.
PERNAMBUCO, Aug. 13.
The elections were going off quietly.
The entries of produce from the country con-
tinued to arrive slowly. Sugars quoted 3 dole. to
3,800 dais. per arrobta, for whites, for second to
fourth quality.

Exchange on London, 27d. to 274-d• per dol., 90
days'sight, at which rates about X 50,000 sterling
had been passed for the Oneida.

BAHIA, Aug. 11.
There had been little movement in the export
market. Stocks of sugar small —whites had sold
from 2 dols. to 2.400 dols.
Exchange on Laudon,
per dol., 93 days'
sight.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1863.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 29.
The Royal mail steamship Arabia has arrived
with the Neer York mails of the 18th, Boston of
the 19th, and Halifax of the 21st.
Gen. Canby had issued the following circular in
reference to the duties of his troops during the en-
forcement of the draught in New York :
"Their duties are limited to the defence of forts
and the protection of public property and officers of
the general Government in the performance of their
legal duties. The duty of maintaining order and
protecting the property and rights of private indi-
viduals devolves upon the municipal and State
authorities, but the troops of the United States will
be held in readiness to render any assistance that
may be called for by the proper authority or be
rendered necessary by the inability of the civil
authorities to accomplish these ends. lithe officers
of the general Government and any county of the
State and municipal Government are assailed by
lawless violence, it will be the duty of the troops to
protect them. If they are charged with the protec-
tion of public property, public buildings, or other
valuable interests, it will be their duty to defend
them to the last extremity. If called upon by the
civil authorities to aid in the maintenance of order
or the enforcement of the laws, the aid will be ren-
dered promptly, cheerfully, and efficiently. The
troops that have been brought to the city, and who
may be called upon to aid in the maintenance of
order and the enforcement of the laws, must
themselves set the example of orderly and
soldierly conduct, and the attention of all
officers and men is specially directed to this point.
The movement of troops to distant parts of the city,
or to points in its neighbourhood, will be made as
far as practicable by water, and for this the quar-
termaster's department will keep a sufficient num-
ber of steamers in constant readiness to move to any
point. The steamers, if not armed, will be con-
veyed by armed steamers. Al! the militia in this
city and Brooklyn are under arms, and will be until
the draught is completed."
Governor Seymour, in hie address, says
"I hereby admonish all judicial and executive
officers whose duty it is to enforce law and preserve
public order, that they take vigorous and effective
measures to put down any riotous or unlawful assem•
blages, and if they find their power insufficient for
that purpose, to call on the military in the manner
pointed out by the statutes of the State. If these
means should prove insufficient, I shall then exert
the full power of the State in order that public
order may be preserved, and the persons and pro-
perty of citizens be fully protected."
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says that the following conversation had oc-
curred between General Butler and Mr. Stanton :
" General Butler dropped in at the War Depart-
ment a few days after his return, and while there
the following authentic conversation transpired—
" General Butler—' I have called, Mr. Stanton,
to know why I was removed from the Department
of the Gulf.'
" Secretary Stanton—' I assure you, General, that
it was from no lack of confidence in your patriotism,
capacity, or integrity.
" General Butler —e I did not ask you, Mr. Secre-
tary, why I was not removed, but why I was.'
" Secretary Stanton-.' You are a lawyer, General,
and so am I, and you are aware that it is not always
polite to tell all we know.'
" General Butler—' Well, what are you going to
do with me now ?
Secretary Stanton-1110w would you like to
take the Army of the Potomac ? '
" General Butler—, Did you ever know amer-
chant, Mr. Secretary, to invest largely in an old
stock of goods ?'
" This was the responsive and suggestive poser
to the Secretary. Whereupon Gen. Butler made
his exit from the War Department, confident of
being even with the Pennsylvania pleader.
A despatch from New York of the 18th says, that
the British Government has made an appeal to the
Supreme Court in the case of the Peterhoff.
"In the interim the Secretary of the Navy hks
directed that application be made for an order fpr
the sale of the ship's cargo and tackle to the United
States. The vessel will be a valuable addition to

the navy." •
The Army of the Potomac remained inactive. A
correspondent writing from Gen. Meade's head-
quarters on the 10th inst. describes briefly the
manner in which the soldiers passed their time :
" Were it not for the great scarcity of water the
troops would fare very well. They are all fatigued
after their long marches, and in want of rest. Even
were they not tired they could not do much in the
way of marching or fighting while this fearfully hot
`spell' continues. Every morning about half-past
five o'clock the fierce red sun rises over the woods,
and pours down his scorching rays on man and
beast. As he follows his course to the West the
beat is intensified, and by noon it is intolerable.
The men, with the exception of those on guard,
seek the grateful shade of the woods. Some may
be found a mile from camp, picking blackberries,
others visiting the few miserable farmhouses in the
vicinity in search of good water or fresh milk—for
the latter they always pay—and others may be
seen slumbering off the sultry hours under their
little shelter tents. We have not even the poor re-
lief of passing clouds to break the force of the
shooting fire, but must bear it all until the snn goes
down behind the woods off in the West. The even-
ings are cool, and we can pass the night in comfort.
Mosquitoes have not yet made their appearance
here, and while we remain on high ground we are
not likely to be much troubled with them."

A letter dated Baltimore of the 13th inst. says :
" Your despatches from the head-quarters of the
army of the Potomac contain accounts of the arrival
at Gordonsville of reinforcements for General Lee's
army from the South. My information, never at
fault hitherto, places the number of these reinforce.
ments at 30,000, which makes General Lee's pre-
sent strength 125,000 troops. General Lee is be•
sides receiving some conscripts, which will soon
swell his numbers to 150,000. The main body of
this vast slimy is massed on the line of the Rapidan,
with General Lee's headquarters at Gordonsville,
but the new cavalry squadrons are being drilled and
exercised in the Shenandoah valley. It would
seem also that General Lee is organising some new
batteries of artillery, for artillery drills with target
practice take place daily, at the same points where
these new cavalry squadrons are exercised. The
guns are brass pieces, and if not new, are so bright
that they look new. There are twelve of these bat.
terics at one point of the Shenandoah valley. Gene.
ral Meade ccriceives, and with reason, that the
administration is putting him and keeping him in a
false position, and one in which he can reap no
laurels. He wishes to take Richmond, and believes
he can do so. But he wishes to make the campaign
by the proper route, and to be furnished with ade-
quate means of doing so—namely, 200,000 troops by
the peninsula route. To march his 150,000 troops
across the Rappahannock he believes will be march-
ing them by too lcng a route for rapid operations."
Messrs. Upton, of Boston, owners of the ship
Nora, destroyed by the Alabama, had sent a me-
morial to Mr. Seward, protesting against the de-
struction of their property. The chief points in
their memorial are the ll fe
- owie-- • :---" The Nora, a
legally registered American ship, was chartered at
Liverpool by Mr. W. N. De AT
a tos to carry a cargo
from that port to Calcutta. While on the voyage
she was boarded and taken possession of by a vessel
calling herself the Confederate States man-of-war
Alabama, by whose captain a part of the stores were
removed and the ship set on fire. The owners pro-
test 1,
against this destruction of their ship, and de-
mand reparation from the British Government in
the sum of 80,000 dollars. They base their claim
on the fact that the Alabama is an English vessel,
having sailed under the British flag, and never having
entered a Confederate port ; that the British Govern-
ment has never interfered with her unlawful acts, and
on the additional fact that at the time of the capture
of the Nora she was principally manned by British
subjects. In view of these matters and of others
which may be made to appear, the memorialists
have entered their solemn protest against the Bri-
tish Government and people, as willing parties
negligently culpable in the destruction of their pro.
perty upon the high seas, and thus, in firet violating