The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-14 00:00:00

THE ALABAMA AT JAMAICA.

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The Jamaica Morning Journal of the 24th says:
—" The famous rover Alabama is now at Port
Royal, having arrived on Tuesday night last,
bringing as prisoners, to be liberated here, 118 men,
among them 17 officers taken from a United States
steamer of war, which she had destroyed. No little
surprise was felt by the good folks of the town when
what they regarded as a French steamer turned
out to be the famous No. 290. The object of her
visit was soon made known. It appears that she
was hard pressed by the fleet sent out for her cap-
ture, and when off Galveston Commodore Semmes
conceived the idea of making one of the intended
desolators desolate_ The gunboat. Hatteras was in
full chase; and the Alabama then turned head and
pretended to be running away, and thus deluded
her pursuer into following up the chase. At last
she turned round and prepared for battle, sending
into the Hatteras a broadside which sunk her in 13
minutes. She took off the officers, and came into
Port Royal for the purpose of landing them.
They were handed over ta• the American Consul,
and Semmes then proceeded to Spanish Town to
obtain the Lieutenant-Governor's permission to
refit his ship before leaving. Another statement
is that she carried French colours, and only
made known whom she really was when she came
up with the Hatteras, and was prepared to give her
a broadside. The Alabama has certainly been se•
verely riddled. Forty-three of the crew of the Hat-
teras were drowned. The Hatteras was purchased
by the Federal Government for a transport, and
armed with four 32-pounders of 27 cwt. After-
wards, on account of her light draft and speed, she
received an additional armament of two 30-pounders
rifled and one 20-pounder, and with this armament
she met the Alabama. Her boiler, machinery, and
magazine were all above the water-line, protected
only by the thin sides of the vessel. Besides being
thus vulnerable she was built with the old style of
walking beam, which rose about 28 feet above the
decks. On account of the deception practised by
Captain Semmes in representing his vessel to be
one of her Majesty's ships of war the United States
Hatteras received a full broadside from the Alabama
while she was lowering a boat to board the Ala-
bama."

The Morning Journal adds—" We have been re-
quested to state that Captain Semmes, of the Con-
federate steamer of war Alabama, will be at the
Commercial Exchange Rooms at twelve o'clock this
day, and will be happy to receive any gentleman
who may wish to see him."

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Feb. 13.—1 n Tuesday's report we
stated great dullness existed here and at Liverpool,
and that the depression of the market was increased
by an impression, owing to the non-arrival of the
China from New York, that she might have been
kept back to bring despatches connected with the
proposed mediation. The intelligence subsequently
brought by the Hibernian has of course dispelled
this illusion, and the market has recovered a little.
In yarns there has been rather more business done,
at slightly improved rates upon Tuesday's prices.
The demand has been chiefly for Calcutta and the
Mediterranean. The home trade have also been
buyers to a limited extent in yarns at Tuesday's
prices. For all other markets the demand appears
to be next to nothing. What demand there has
been appears to be legitimate, speculators not
showing a disposition to operate for some weeks
past, and sellers are showing more confidence
and less disposition to press their goods on the
market. In cloth, also, there is a less gloomy feel-
ing than there was on Tuesday. The great depres-
sion exising on that day seems to have passed.
away, but still there are few transactions to report.
Manufacturers generally show less anxiety to sell.
They are unable to get back to the full prices of last
week, but there is a more cheerful tone among them.
The business in printing cloths appears to be as dull
as in other fabrics, and the rather active demand
that showed itself at times last month seems to be
at an end. There is no demand for shirtings and
other cloths for shipment to India
ing better
enough
n ocuhgah-
, reasons stated in our last report, nor have Chin
at
the tahce-
racter than previous ones, been .
- , counts to hand this week,
thotiegnhcooufraag
suffi-
cientlytoinduce speculators to buy on the faith of a
further improvement.
hight he
prices,
NOTTINGHAM, 13th.—There was a thin attend.
'woe at the Exchange-hall
Holders today,
asked
s
market ruled slow,
which purchasers were reluctant to pay, and conse-
quently only a limited number
of sales were effected.
In silk there was not much
doing.
Brown lace actor
were nominally unaltered.

The Yelverton Marriage case has been set down
for hearing on appeal in the House of Lords, but it will
probably not be heard till immediately after the re-assem-
bling of the house at the close of the Easter recess.

MADAME DE SOLMS.—The following letter ap-
pears in Saunders's News Letter :—" Sir,—Having
this day seen an article in your journal copied from the cor-
respondent of the London Morning Post, referring to the
marriage of the sth inst., at Turin, of the ex-Italian Minis-
ter, Signor Rattazzi, I feel myself called on, as head oafs. trhee,
`Wyse' family, to correct a statement in thatcomi_nutucha-
tion—T allude to that part of the paragraph
t taken
h e brideotwrm
and can testify that my
ISattax,ato, atnhelhtaolniaonurpaabpleer,anwdhihchouroeupr.reedsenfamilyofWyse.'
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family, and
on my
aSnudchevreerlyatimonesmhbiperlofdismtiyncfatlmy
deceased brother, the Right lion. Sir Thomas Wyse (for
many years the British Minister at Athens), both publicly
and privately Protested against this assumed relationship.
I may add that his eldest son, Mr. A. N. Wyse, has recently
' confirmed it by the most emphatic declaration, on oath, in
certain pleadings in the Court of Chancery in this country,
that his late father never had more than two children, viz.,
himself and his brother, William Charles Wyse; conse-
quently the lady so named neither has nor can have any
title to the name of Wyse, or to any relationship with the
family.—.l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, G:EORG'F'
WYSE,-22, Upper Leeson-street, Dublin, Feb. 10. '