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

SKIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, Jan.. I.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; strong breeze, and cloudy weather, with slight
rain.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Wind N.W,—Arrived—Mary
Lee, from London, for Sydney.
FALMOUTH,
N.—Sailed—Bianca, for
Calcutta. Dec. 30.—Wind

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Momin.,
Arrived, Dec. 31—Oryx, from Algoa Bay; PhitosopV„
City of Glasgow, and Liverpool, from Calcutta ; Hero, from
Dunkirk.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Zingari, screw steamer, from London, for Bor-
deaux.

The Nazione of Florence states that on the 26th
ult. a disturbance occurred in the National Theatre
of that city, some of the audience calling loudly for the
hymn of Garibaldi, while others refused to hear it. The
hymn being prohibited, the authorities of the theatre did
not comply with the call; whereupon a tumult arose and
the performance was interrupted, until the prima donna
appeared and addressed the public with so much grace and
presence of mind, inviting them to abstain from any fur-
ther disorder, that she was loudly applauded, and the per-
formance was resumed and brought to a closo without any
further interruption.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 5
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent lOB4 5
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
D.tto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent.
D . r I 0 Bond s £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,OOO .... 29
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent l3 9
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 45 pea Cent., 1852-58-60
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 381
Egpptian 7 per Cent JS
1 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms 165
Ditto Coupons
Italian 5 per Cect. (Maremmana Railway) 745
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
New Granada 2 per Cent
Ditto ex over-due Coups, & Hectares 125 a
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent.; 1862
Ditto Scrip, £2O paid
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9Bl
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account. B3
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account.. 7ll 5
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1832
Ditto Account 685 a
Venezuela,Dp iittttoo
AA
c 3:: pert, Cent
Jan. 8 235
241
Ditto 6 per Cents., 1862 (Scrip), £53 pd 15 dis
Ditto 15 per Cent ... 115
Dividends on the above payable in London,
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
925
921 1

debt
of Austria
in the Vienna
According to an official
millions
amounted at the
veneitrs of florins. The debt
Gazette, the public
ityrainosklngdom is comprised
ofinTAbporildleabstt of the
9th4el
end of June, 1862, to 2,445
tbne l
tohnagti ns gu
mt o
for th e 71,0 Lombardo-Venetian
of
land, indemnity amounted on the Ist .
millions of florins, and is not comprised the above named
sum.
The ex-King of Greece received at Munich, on
the 29th December, Baron Sins, his representative at
I Yzenus, who had arrived by railway that morning.

DESERTIONS FROM THE FEDERAL ARMY.--Gen.
Halleek's weekly reprimand produces no effect
upon the delinquents whatever, and produces upon the
army at large the worst effect possible, because it holds out
the plain prospect of impunity for the greatest of military
crimes. We commented a few days ago upon the preva-
lence of marauding among our troops. Desertion is another
form of the same disease. Want of discipline is a worse
one, indeed, because it weakens our resources. 'We are
engaged in a struggle of unparalleled proportions; volun-
tary enlistment may be said to be exhausted ; draughting
has to a great extent been found impracticable; and we
have at home a large body of indefatigable agitators doing
everything that perverted ingenuity can suggest to demo-
ralise and dishearten the country. Under these circum-
stances, we cannot spare a single man from his post ; and
yet we aro informed that 20,000 at least have deserted, and
the number is every day increasing. Twenty thousand
men would in any other war be considered an army in itself
a less number has on many a famous field decided the fate
of nations, and before this campaign is over the presence or
absence of that number in some encounter or other may
save or lose the Union. ' . . And yet in our army there
is absolutely no punishment for desertion. Tho worst that
can happen to a man who deserts is to be sent back to his
regiment. Hundreds of vagabonds who quit their camp
without leave are picked up in Washington every week by
the Provost Marshal's guard, and marched back to their
posts with as much consideration and good nature as if
they had been on duty ; so that our force in the field may
really be said to be kept together either by the conscien-
tiousness of the men or the material difficulties in the way
of running away.—New York Times.
THE SOUTHERN FAITH.—The Richmond Exa-
miner of December 8 thus conc:udes an article on
President Lincoln's Message : -" The fact is, when the
Creator established the different races of men, He esta•
blished their position and adapted them to their places.
That which harmonises with the Creative will is happiness.
That which opposes leis discord and unhappiness. The
negro, from the time of Cainan, has occupied the position
of a servant. He has been fitted for it by disposition and
instinct, and is therefore happy in it, and is not happy out
of it. In his place he is useful. Cut of it he is a mere
savage; and if out of it and in the bosom of a community
of the superior race he is a pest. It is the effort of the
Yankee States to dictate our institutions, and in so doing
to ruin us by Attempting to amend a decree of the Creator
so as to make it suit their ideas, that has caused the present
troubles."

Tne report," says the Independance, " that the
Princess of Denmark, sister to the affianced bride of the
Prince of Wales, was to marry the Grand Duke, heir to the
throne of Russia, is now contradicted."