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shall be submitted to by us. We
that demon thirst for their blood al.
whom we have won fame, if not among maims..
must give the President to Abraham's tender rner-
r
cies. The army of the Potomac must offer
up their glorious leader, under whom both
have become illustrious. Beauregard must
be hanged. Is even Lincoln base enough
to imagine a brave people, such as the Confede-
rates have proved themselves, would, under any
stress of fortune, prove traitors to the men whom
they have called to lead them in camp or council ?
This infamous proclamation will but arouse us to ne (v
zeal and new efforts."
A leading war journal of this city recommends
General Grant for the next Presidency upon the
supposition that he is jnt the man to crush the
rebellion, restore the Union, drive the French out of
Mexico, obtain indemnity from England for the
depredations of the Confederate cruisers, or dcclaro
war against her, or seize the Canadas and the British
West India Islands as an cffiet.
Gold, 151.

PRIC E....,,,,,~~qd
STAMPED ....sd.

AMERICA.

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INEw YORK, Dec. IS, 5 p.m.

Despatches from Cumberland Gap of the 16th
report that Gen. Longstreet capturf d 22 loads of
quartermasters'stores at the fight on t he 1402, wuich
is now stated to have occurred at Bc an's Station.

The Federal Gen. Wilcox had been driven back
to Tazewell, where he was fortifying.
Fighting was reported in progress at Blair's Cross-
reads on the 16th, from which it would seem that
the Federals have been also forced tc, retrett towards
Knoxville.

A body of Gen. Mosby's cavalry captured one en-
tire company
of the 140th New York Regiment one
mile and a half beyond Fairfax Courthouse last
night.

The British brig Ala, from Minatitlan, Alerieo,
November 19, reports that town closely besieged
by the Frencb. All supplies were cut off, and the
citizens were Luffering frcm want of provisions.
The rumoured recapture of Puebla by the Mexicana
is alleged to have .een confirmed by late arrivals at
New Orleans of vessels from Vera Cruz. There was
no resistance. The ntmber of French troops gar,.
risoning the town bring small, they retired before
the Mexicans, who occu
lied the place with 5,000
men.

Accounts from Newborn, North Carolina, of the
12th assert that blockade running at Wilmington
continues to increase. It is estimated that goods to
the amount of one million dollars land at that port
every 21 hours.

The situation at Chattanooga is unchanged.
There is no later news of importance from
Charleston or Texas.

Advices from Tampico represent the French pr-
rieon there in a state of siege. No dates are given.
The Etna takes 673,393 dollars in specie. ..

;
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Gold, 152. Exchange, 167. United States' Sixes
registered, 1881, 1041 ; Treasury 7-30 Notes, IN!!
New
wY York Central
119. Cotton, ralll Railway, 1342 Eries, 108 a.
Illinois Centrals, n, 82c. Brendstuffs
rising. Provisions improving. Sugars steady.
Coffee firm.
Dec. 19, 11 exi,

OBITITARY FOR 1863.

Our record of "death's doings" for the year whhh id just
drawing to a close is, we fear, both long and sad. -raking
the "upper ten thousand" first, we find that their tanks )
have been thinned during 1863 to an extent far, in excess of .
the annual, average.
In rh:d Catalogue of Royalty departed, we have to'Oaro-
aidle -Aly a single death, that of Frederick Charles Christian,
i'..tk of De:it-nark, whose name mast henceforth disappear
trona the ,11»tanaeh de Gotha.
Marquis of
Among the members of the peerage of the United ~
Kingdom there have been no less than 30 deaths to be set
against 'l6 deaths in the previous year. The list is as fol-
lows:--Thethe Archbishop of Dublin, Viscount Templet,own, Lord
Waterpark, Lord n
, -:eaY, Lord Clyde, Viscount Massareene,
Lord Seaton; Lordliatherton, Lord Sandys, the Luke of
Midletoa, Earl Poulett,
arlemont. Three cut of
Grafton, Lord de SaunaL:rnesd:Lwonre:
Lauderdale, Lord Macdonald, the Duke of Hamilton, Lord
thep oEwanr
el
s, of
tChoet t
Earle nh a i
on
f,
de Freyno, the Earl of Mornington, the Marquis of Nor-
manby, Lord Sudeley, Earl Beauchamp, the Marquis
9, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord
ltsh'
ioneweElnaasi hrr
Sinclair,
noLfda, therd e
Elgin,MarquishethhaemE, .
a.
Viscount
slcoiofuuncrithtl
the above titles, namely, the baronies of Lyndhurst, Clyde, i
and Downes, have' bacomo extinct, and the earldom bf
Mornington has become merged in the superior hdoours of :
the Duke of Wellington.

Chattanooga despatches of the 18th state that
Gen. Wheeler has rejoined lien. Hardee at Dalton,
where he is reorganising his cavalry for an active
winter campaign against the Federal lines of com-
munication.

Ou the 16th the Confederate cavalry commander
Ferguson, with a small force, captured the train of
the Ist Cavalry Division, while on the route from
MiMinnville to Sparta, in Tennessee. No late news
from Knoxville had been received.

The same despatches announce that General
Morgan crossed the Tennessee River at Gillespie's
Landing, 60 miles above Chattanooga, on the 13th.
Captains William and Robert Cummings, who
escaped with General Morgan from Columbus, were
captured, together with 14 of their escort, during
the ride from that town.

General Howard's cavalry is in pursuit of General
Morgan.
Considerable anxiety is evinced by the public to
learn the true situation of affairs at Knoxville.
The statement in the despatch from Cumberland
Gep on the 16th, to the effect that the union
citizens were leaving Knoxville, leads to the belief
that General Longstreet is about to again besiege
the town.
The TVorld remarks :

The baronets deceased during the year number thirty- "I't
five; the following are their names :—Sir M. Brute, Sir M.
liakiston, Sir 0- J. Honyman, Sir J. B. Robinson, Sir
11. Lushington, Sir J. patron?, Sir R. Hughes,
,Sir G. C.-,
Lewis, Sir J. Louis,. Sic R. Bateson, Sir W. L. Wrazall,
Sir J. W. Pollen, Sir A. Warren, Sir C. E.. Eardlcy, Sir
A. Campbell, Sir A. Armstrong, Sir Isaac Grant, Sir J.
R. Dashwood, Sir J. Bonham, Sir W. Stanley, Sir
R. A. Anstruther, Sir T. Sykes, Sir H. Nugent, Sir J. G.
Sinclair, Sir . F. , E. Scott, Sir T. G. Skip`vith, Sir'F. W,
Slade, Sir H. Martin, Sir J. B. Warren, Sir R. P. Glyn,
the Rev. Sir G. Shifter, Sir St. Vincent' Cotton,' Sir 1). ;
Cameron, Sir A. Nicolson, and Sir, F: IL. Gilbert. The '
last four mentioned titles have become extinct.: • ,

" The news from Knoxville has not a very cheer-
ful look. One of two things, we fear, has happened
—either our forces have been two widely scattered,
with a view to cut off Longstreet, upon the theory
that he was retreating in disorder; or else he has
been lately reinforced from General Lee's army.
This last is practicable. It would be an awkward
circumstance if, after all, Knoxville and East Ten,
nessee should be repossessed by the Confederates."
The guerilla attacks upon Mississippi river
steamers continue, and the Brazil was fired into
near Roomy on the 11th, and three women and one
man were killed, and several others wounded. The
Tecumseh was burnt on the 16th, bat it is not
stated at what pint. -

In the House of Commons the following deaths have
oc-
curred :—The Hon. William T. Bernard (Bandon), Captain
Gladstone (Devizes), Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart. (Radnor, tkc ),
Mr. Western Wood (London), Captain Gordon (Berwick),
Mr. Francis M.Calcutt (county Clare), Captain J. S. Wiles
Johnson (Montgomery Burghs), Mr. Beriah Botfield (Lud-
low), the Right Hon. Edward Ellice (Coventry), Mr. G.
W. Hope (Windsor), Mr. J. H. Langston (Oxford), Mr.
William Cuhitt (Andover), and Mr. George Potts (Barn-
staple).

--Fraaaftele, •re ,
eve order:, that earepere the lerrightage the'
.folloisving names will have to be struck out :—Sir Charles
s
, Sir William Bellairs, Sir Henry William Bruce,
K.C.8., Sir James L. Caldwell, G.C.8., Sir John Cbmp.
boll, the Right Hon. Sir Cresswell Cresswell, the Hon. S:r
George Elliot, K.C.8., Sir George Leigh (3-oldie, K.C.8.,
Sir Robert Hagan, Sir Hugh Halkett, G.C.H., Sir John
Hauburr, K.C.8., Sir Henry Hope, K.C.8., Sir Joshua
Jebb, K.C.8., Sir John Spencer Login, Sir Thomas Erskine
Napier, K.C.8., Sir James li. Plumridge, K.C.8., Sir
William G. Power, K.C.8., Sir Henry Roper, Sir William
Henry Sewell, K.C.8., Sir William Stevenson, K.C.8., Sir
Warwick IL Timkin, Sir William Wightman.
Other members of the aristocracy who died during the
year were as follows :—Viscountess Boyle, the Hon. and
Rev. Thos. R. Keppel, the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Dowager
Countess Ashburnham, the Hon. Mrs. W. H. Yolverton
G. A. C. Dashwood, Esq., the Hon. Miss Stapleton, Lady
Kathleen Tighe, Dowager Lady Bolton, the Hoa. and
Rev. Adolphus F, Irby, the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean
Pakenham, the Hon. Robert Curzon, the Hon. Mrs. Ca-
vendish (mother of the Duke of Devonshire), Dowager
Viscountess Andover, the Hon. Herbert A. Moreton,
Miss Louisa M. Tollemache, the Hon. Charles Bruce, the
Hon. Samuel Crichton, the Hon. Samuel Talbot, the Hon.
Mrs. Plantagenet Cary, Dowager Lady Foley, the Hon.
Lady Rushoat, Viscountess Gough, Lady Olivia Sparrow,
the Hon. Lady Maude, Dowager Lady Headley, Lady
Elizabeth Borough, Dowager Lady Kilmaine, Edward Fox
Fitz Gerald, Eeq., Major the lion. H. Powys-Keck, Lady
Frances Wade, the lion. Mrs. Calliphronas, Mrs. James
D. Brabazon, Mr. T. C. Robertson, Lady Monson, Lady
Margaret Jane Stuart, the non. Lionel F. Fitzclarence,
the Dowager Lady Banbury, the lion. H. Nelson, the
Dowager Lady Fenimore, the Ron. George
. 3' Milner, the
Ponsonby,
Lady Elizabeth Dawson, the Dowager Lae
Hon. Mrs. Stratford, the Hon. Captain II •
Liddell, Lady
Sophia Hoare, Lady Amelia C. MarBhami Mr. Chgram, arle
thes W.
Wi Beauclerk, Lady Seaton, Lady Catherine
Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley, Captain the Hon.
Charles Sinclair, Robt. H. Southaven, Esq Lady Camilla
Sinclair, Mr. Joseph Weld, of Lulworth, Mr.
John Labou
chore? the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave,
Lad Westbury,Ver ;
Fane, Esq., T. 4
Kirkcudbright, Dowager
"4irkcjdbright,
the Dowa-
ger Countess of Verulam,
William Beckett, Lady
Beaver, Mr. F. A. Grattanas
ew, Mr. George Flndyer,
Miss
Mr. George Forbes, Mr,
White-Jervis,nselm E. Guise, Mr. John
Mrs. F. W. Ord, Mrs. Caroline Lamb, Captain Francis Price,
the Dowager Lady B E. M. Brownlow, Mrs. Childers,
Catherine Scott -Douglas,
Mr. W. Gamier, Miss
Besides the `DoUglas, and Capt. Edward Wilmot.
Arehbishoof Dublin d mentioned),
two members p (a rea y
year, viz the
of the episcopal body have died during the
" Bishops of Gibraltar and Quebec.
Amongst
;ad the other notable personages whom death has
canm off, first and foremost stands the name of William
a ePeacenackeray,whose recent loss we are all mourning..
Besides him we have to chronicle the deaths of the Ven.
Archdeacon -Bonney, Mr. Justice Wightman, Professor
k'Pekerell, R.A., Mr. Augustus Egg, R.A., Mr. Jas.Wm.
Gilbert, F;R.S. (founder of the jointestock banking system),
' Mr. James D. Harding (artist in water colours), the Rev.
P. Wm. Hope (founder of the Zoological Professorship at
Oxford), the Rev. Alexander M'Caul, Mr. Wrn. Mulready,
R.A„ Miss Julia Pardee, Mr. Apsley Follett, the Rev. Dr.
Ratites (of Liverpool), the Rev. Andrew Reed, the Rev.
Dr. Russell (formerly Head Master of Chatterhouse), Mre.
Thomson (author of , the " Memoirs of the Duchess of
Marlborough"), Mr. William Tooke, F.R.S., the Rev.
Richard A. Willmott, lthe Rev. Fredriok William Faber,
the:Rev. Josiah Forshall, Mr. J. H. Green, Mrs. Frances
Trollope (the novelist), Mr. William B. Turnbull, Mr.
Jas. T. Willmore (engraver), and the Rev. Henry Drury.
In the list of distinguished foreigners who have died
during the year are the names of Mons. 13illanit the
French Minister), General Pepe (of Neapolitan fame), the
French General Bedeau; the Rev. Dr. L. Beecher (father
of Mrs. Beecher Stowe), Delacroix (the historical painter),
Said Pasha ,(Viceroy of Egypt), Jacob Grimm (the philo-
logist), Samuel Houston (the American general and poli-
tician), Madame Lamartine, General Oadinot, Horace
Vernet (the eminent painter), Alfred Victor Vigny
(the
poet), William Lowndes Yancey (of Alabama )

The Federal steamer Dacotah arrived at Sambro
immediately after the capture of the Chesapeake,
and her commander ordered both captor and prize
into Halifax.

The Tribune's Washington correspondent writes
that the capture having been made in British
waters, the vessel will be surrendered to the pro-
vincial authorities. A demand, under the Ashburton
Treaty, for the return of the vessel and prisoners
has, however, been made upon Lord Lyons by Mr.
Seward.

The official reports of the commanders of the
Monitors made to Admiral Dupont immediately
after the failure of the attack upon Fort Sumter, in
April last, were submitted to Congress by Secretary'.
Welles with his annexed report, and show that
these vessels were incapable of resisting the concen-
trated fire of heavy rifled ordnance. Captain Dray-
ton, of the Passive, says _ _ _

" I was struck in quick succession in the lower
part of the turret by two heavy shots, which bulged
in its plates and beams, and forcing together the
rails on which the carriage of the 11-inch gun
worked, rendered it wholly useless for the remainder
of the action ; a little after a very heavy rifle-shot
struck the upper edge of the turret, broke all of its
eleven plates, and then glancing upwards struck
the pilothouse with such force as to send it over,
open the plates, and squeeze out the top, exposing
the inside of rue pilothouse, and rendering it ex-
tremely likely that the next shot would take off the
top entirely."

Captain Rodgers, of the Weehawken, reports :

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" Two or three heavy shots struck the side armour
near the same place. They so broke the iron that
it only remained in splintered fragments, much of
which could be picked off by hand, and the wood
was exposed. The deck was pierced so as to make
a hole, through which water ran into the vessel;
36 bolts were broken in the turret, and a great many
in the pilothouse. To the Patapsco no damage was
done which disabled her, although injuries which
she received, if multiplied, would do so. Forty bolts
in the funnel were broken. After the third shot
from the 15-inch gun of the Nantuck a port stopper
became jammed,'several shots striking very near the
port and driving in the plating.
it was not used
again. A number of the same plates were started
so much that another shot in their vicinity would
have knocked them off. The deck plates were cut
and one,
in 12 places; one shot cut through the iron, and
about two inches into the beam, starting the
plates, several bolts, and the planking, for some
feet below. The plates on the side armour of the
Nahant were badbyly btwrookeenhiontssevineraellpolsaecepsr,
proximity,
where struck
starting backing
stripped from the wood,and the Wood yf
back plates started up and
rolled back in places. The deck was
giy,one shot near the struck twice
propeller wheel, quite
PI) ;tor broken leyn in, with edging of
and tearing the plate in '
sedthßattmrtttiliengrgiinn go bolts, anotheras passage, and
plates and 20
bolts in the turret. There were marks of nine shots;
66 of the bolts were broken perceptibly, the heads
eying off inside the turret,
and the bolts starting
almost their length outside, some of them flying out
completely, and being found at a considerable dis-
tance from the turret, on the deck. One shot struck
the upper part of the turret, breaking through every
plate. The pilot-house was much damaged and
wrecked, and four more such shots as it received
would have • demolished it. Ono shot at the base
broke every plate through, and evidently nearly
penetrated it."

THE LATE BRUTAL OUTRAGE UPON A "WOMAN
AT BETIINAL-GREEN—GOVERNMENT REWARD.---It will
be recollected that a short time ago a NVOIR was brutally
assaulted by three men in. the neighbourhood of Bethnal-.
green. This morning the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury issued a bill offering a reward of -e5O for the tc,rJre-
hension of Joseph Aneeney, one of the men concerned.
QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION.--The ship Prince
P
Consort, 2,500 tons burden, belonging to Messrs. T. M.
Mackay and Co., sailed on the 25th inst. from
for Queensland, Captain Aitcheson, commander. The
Prince Consort is the thirty-sixth vessel that has sailed on
the land order system of emigration, under the immediate
direction of the Queensland Government. She contains 73
souls, divided into pl ° assisted, and free passengers,
vimr, iymputh
::i
and consisting of 111 members of familic.=, 17S single
men, and 44 single females.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE
HOLSTEIN QUESTION.—Our Berlin correspondent writes,
under date Dec. 2S :—" On his way hero the Crown Prince
had an interview with the Prince of Augustenburg, an old
friend of his, who rode with him in the same carriage from
Guntershauseu to Gotha. His Royal Highness has
_been
A very active in the interest of the popular cause ever mu.
With what result; the next few days will probably show."

The Rick ond Inquirer, in publishing Mr. Lin-
coln's
proclamationogfua: .nnesty,_rejects its projects
in the following go .
" He is going to forgive na somethingit seems,
on certain terms. Forgive us what? Forgive us
because he has invaded our States with armed mul-
titudes to compass our destruction ?;Forgive us be-
cause he has plundered cur seas, ravaged our coasts,
burnt our towns, desolated our homes ? Forgive us
for the many thousands of brothers and sons whom
he has slain upon our soil while repelling his inva-
sion, and for the many dear mutilated ones who
will remain the legacy of the war when the war is
over ? He may forgive us for all these his crimes,
but so long as we have hearts to feel and hands to
strike we shall never forgiva him. But ho goes
further, ho makes his forgiveness dependent upon
terms. We have to swear that the proclamation of
emancipation which we received with mocking last
year, and which has since been a general derision,