The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-07 00:00:00

THE su-N, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY I 1863,

that New -York can say LATEST ENTTELLI
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usual higbflowg list of 9
tured a flag, instead of the
killed, wounded., and c,aptive, we may conclude that
is, that the Federals cap-
this engagement has added little to the Yede-
little doubt that the
ral laurels. rehavaet
ew York grows daily
The staunchest believers in the
politicalmo re
depressing. atmosphere l'
fortunes of the Union must feel tbsqt time is fighting
against them. Every month that the South con-
trives to maintain its ground is so much lost to the
North. The resolute attitude preserved by the
Southerners proves their deep-rooted hatted to
Northern supremacy as well as the unanimity of
their purpose and their capacity for self-govern-
ment. It convinces Europe that the separation is
not produced by a few mob orators, but is the
firm conviction of the great body of the people.
Lord RUSSELL'S words on the opening night of
the session will, we may hope, speak across the
Atlantic, and show the angry combatants the light
in which the struggle appears to English eyes.
He plainly told the North that the Union was
impossible; that if they succeeded in subjugating
the South it would not be by reconstructing a
United Republic, but by dominating over a con-
quered State. Both sides have surely suffered
enough in this political struggle to learn the lessons
of that experience which convinces the most unwil-
ling. Surely sacrifices enough have been made to
the hopeless vision of Union, and it ill becomes a
practical people like the Northerners to persist in
imitating a policy they have often satirized by fight-
ing for an " idea."

POLAND.
FEB. 6 (Evening).
Yesterday a body of 480 troops entirely defeated
a band of 250 insurgents near Zamoses
The Emperor has ordered that all the reports of
the Polish Council of the Empire to the Crown
shall be in future in the Polish language.
ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 7.

The Journal de St, Petersburg of to-day, contra-
dicting the assertions made in a telegram published
by the .Nord on the 31st ult., says:—" Specie is no
scarcer here than before. The Bank of Russia
continues to discount at 5 per cent."

Wengrow has been taken by the Russians after
a sanguinary conflict. The insurgents dispersed
into the forests. Warsaw is quiet.
The Prussian Gen. Von Alvensleben has arrived
here, and will proceed to Warsaw.
The news of an attempt having been made to
poison the Marquis de Wielopolaki is fully con-
firmed. His family and all his servants are seri-
ously ill in consequence. No person has, however,
yet succumbed to the effects of th© poison, which
was mixed with the provisions :consumed by the
family.
LEMBERG, FEB. 6.

Yesterday morning the Russians again took
Tomasgow,and drove the insurgents out of the town
They quitted it, however, after having burned down
some of the houses. Lanziewiz, one of the insur-
gent chiefs, defeated a detachment of Russian troops
near Sandomiez, and made many prisoners, besides
capturing a quantity of arms and horses.
A revolutionary Provisional Government was
established on Tuesday at Sloezow.
The soldiers posted on the frontier near liroezeje
have been disarmed by the insurgents.
Two thousand persons have left the town of Ka-
simir to join the insurgents.

THE EX-KING OF NAPLES.

The following address has been presented to
Francis IL from certain inhabitants of Naples
" Naples, Dec. 23.

"Sire,—The confidence which we felt in the
triumph of justice and right induced us to believe
that the past year would not have rolled away with-
out your august presence having once more rejoiced
those countries which only demand their legitimate
Sovereign to make them reparation for the ills they
have endured, and to represent their national inde-
pet:deuce. But Providence has not yet heard our
prayes. The hour of mercy and of reparation is
still reteded, and we, submissive to the Divine de-
crees, take the liberty of presenting you, though from
afar, our names :And our respectful good wishes. Why
is it, Sire, that thos;lwhose devotion to your Majesty
is equal to our own, hare not been able to follow our
example ? It is certain 004 if the suspicious vigi-
lance of our invaders had mot permitted it had
not prevented it. All those who retain in their
hearts one spark of faith in truth and justice
would have unanimously united with us in an act
imposed by duty and prompted by admiration.
Yes, Sire, be this known to you, that this Neapoli-
tan people wish for, ask for, desire you only—you
the legitimate heir of the august Bourbon dynasty
—you, the symbol of their autonomy—you, the
champion of her independence—you, in short,
Francis 11., the terror of the enemies of our
, country, the joy of her faithful sons. The sole
thought which smiles upon us in the midst of so
much suffering and disappointment is that if to-day
we salute you as glorious in exile, when a short
time shall have passed we shall salute you once
more as a King upon the throne of the Two Sicilies,
and with you the Royal lady who shared your
dangers, who partakes with you the love of the
nation, that nation which with one voice calls for
you through your Royal birth and the inalienable
rights vested in you. Animated by unconquerable
and devoted loyalty, we approach your throne and
sign this address." Here follow more than 30,000
signatures.

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 6.

It is asserted that France has asked Spain to
send back troops to Cochin China, and that Spain
has replied that she will respect the treaty which
she has concluded with that country.
Marshal O'Donnell is unwell. The friends of
the Ministry are said to counsel a dissolution of
the Congress. Hopes are, however, still entertained
of an arrangement taking place between the Go-
vernment and the Opposition.

FRANCE,

PARIS, FEB. 7.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes a letter
addressed by the Emperor to the Duke de Malakoff,
Governor of Algeria, in which the Emperor says
that in order to terminate the anxiety caused by the
discussion in the French Chambers, upon the
landed property held by the Arabians, it is in-
dispensable for the repose and prosperity of
Algeria that this landed property should be con-
solidated in the hands of those who retain it,
and continues—" Algeria is not a colony properly
so called, but an Arab kingdom. The natives
have an equal right to my protection with the
colonists, and I am as much Emperor of the
Arabs as of the French. The Minister of War is
preparing a Solidus Consultum, which will render
tribes, or fractions of a tribe, indefeasible pro-
prietors of the territory they occupy, and which
they have had in traditional possession."

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop
Colenso.

The Opinion Nationale comments on the debate
on the question of Poland, and refers to the remarks
of M. Billault, the representative of the Govern-
ment, on the occasion. He said that France had
lost none of her old sympathies for Poland, but she
thought, and the Government thougilt with her,
that that nation would have more to expect from
the generous and liberal sentiments of the Emperor
of Russia than from the insurrection, which conld
only end in bringing down more evils on
that unhappy country. To this the Opinion
Nationale subjoins that the prudence of the
Government is extreme, but the French nation
will consider that in repressing the sentiments of
'
generous sympathy with which it is animated, it
makes an exaggerated sacrifice to Russia." The
Sleds remarks upon the language of the Govern-
tient representative on the subject of elections. The
Sleds goes on to say that it is certain that the Go-
vcrnment reserves to itself more than ever, the right of
presenting official candidates, and that it continues
to rank among its duties and its most sacred rights
the mission of directing universal suffrage. It ob-
serves that the liberty of the public meetings is not
the same as that of elections and the power of the
press, the former cannot be stimulated or repressed
at pleasure. The President of the Council of State
averred that what happened in England would not
do for France. " Tue liberty of the press in Eng.,
land is the liberty of being judged by exceptional
tribunals, it is the liberty of being under the risk
of fearful penalties. But, truly argues the Sieele,
in France is not Government an exceptional tribu-
nal always in existence, which can subject a jour-
nal to the most terrible penalty, that of suppres-
sion.

The following answer from his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury to the address of the clergy of the rural deanery
of Chesterfield, on the subject of the heresies of Bishop Co-
lens°, has been transmitted through the Lord Bishop of
Lichfield to the Rev. John Hamilton Gray, rural dean :
" Addington Park, Jan. 27.

My itev. and dear Brethren,—l cannot be surprised at
the feelings and the language with which you have ad-
dressed me on the subject of the opinions latelypromulgated
by the Bishop of Natal. They possess, as you observe, but
little of novelty to the well-instructed; and as the objections
he has raised to the authenticity and historic truth of the
Pentateuch are so familiar to all who are acquainted with
the replies given to the Deistical writers of the 17th and
18th centuries, it is to be lamented that Bishop Colenso
should not have made himself earlier acquainted withthose
difficulties, and with solutions given by leading divines of
the English Church.

"But it is still more to be deplored, for his own sake as
well as for the sake of those whose minds may be perplexed,
not certainly by the force of his arguments, but because
they are advanced by a bishop, that he should have felt
himself called upon at once to publish his crude sentiments,
which deeper study and more profound reflection might
most probably have induced him to renounce, but which
the hasty step he has now taken may, it is to be feared,
render impossible. You may be assured that no effort
shall be wanting on my part, nor, I trust, on the part of my
right reverend brethren, to vindicate the faith of the
Church in this instance, as far as it is in our power to do
so.—l am, my reverend and dear brethren, your faithful
friend and brother, " C. T. CANTAUR,
" To the clergy of the rural deanery of Chesterfield."

The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers will
present the Freedom of the Company to his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, on Thursday next ; after which
the Prime Warden will entertain his Royal Highness at a
splendid dejeuner.—City Press.

THE ECCENTRIC WINDHAM FAIRLY ON THE
ROAD AT LAST.—Mr. Windham has indignantly
"cut" the rail, and flung his offended guard's uniform and
door-key into the face of the ungrateful, unappreciating
Groat Eastern directors. He has again returned to the
road, and on Monday last was legally and formally inducted
into the possession of the Norwich and Cromer stage-coach,
horses, harness, stabling, curry-combs, brushes, pitch-
forks, brooms, buckets, " and all other sundry and divers
utensils." He is his own coachman, and, like the late Sir
Vincent Cotton, on another route, the passengers, gentle
and simple, wiil have the satisfaction of being " tooled"
down the road by a "real gentleman barn." We have been
told the length of the stage is some two-and-twenty miles,
passing, for some distance, along the borders of the ex-
patrimonial estate of Fellbrigge Hall, We heard of a
curious incident occurring on the day he took possession of
the ribbons, The first " inside" ha booked happened to be
no less a personage than the Bishop of Norwich, but, when
his lordship learnt who the coachman was, he positively
refused to make good the contract, and immediately
"scratched" himself for the run down. Whether Mr.
Windham may make the matter answer as a commercial
speculation it is not for us to predict, but we think we are
not far wrong when we say that there are plenty of people
in the City who would scarcely expect to make money under
his mercantile superintendence. Be this as it may, if he
has a guard at all like himself we recommend the ride as a
curiosity, as well as a sensation. In sporting circles there
has long been a character known as th' "Eccentric Joey
Jones," who has more wit under his cap and bells than
superficial observers give him credit for. We have seen
Joey dressed a la Richard the Third, hump and all,
mounted on a sorry nag, trotting up Fleet-street in the
middle of the afternoon, followed by mounted " pursuivant-
at arms,"
a genuine " darkey," costumed as Othello, to the
no small amusement and curiosity of an inquiring public.
Now, if Mr. Windham could get Joey for a guard, he
would have " the right man in the right place," to match.
Passengers need not be afraid of Mr. Windham, as he is
rather timid than otherwise when behind horseflesh. The
Norwich folks are in great good humour at coaching it
with this representative of the highly-respectable Windham
Family.—Era.

The Constitution2ze/ animadverts on the speech
of M. Plinhon, who remarked that there were two
opinions in the Government of the Emperor. We
will remind this gentleman, says the Constitutionnel,
that he speaks in the reign of a sovereign, whose
Ministers are chosen by himself, and have only to
carry out his views and obey his suggestions. The
experience of ten years proves to us that this task
has engaged their noblest efforts, and to fulfil it is
their privilege and honour.

The Pays considers that the Duke of Saxe Coburg
has acted most wisely in refusing the crown of
Greece, although it ignores the motives that in-
duced him to do so. It observes that the embarrass-
ment of the Greeks increases as the interregnum is
prolonged, and the several candidates decline the
honour proposed to them.

M. Emile 011ivier's speech in the Legislative
Corps on Wednesday has been greatly remarked.
He met M. Persigny's favourite theme about the
Hanoverian dynasty by showing that even in the
commencement of that dynasty the press was in
reality free, and he quoted some passages from
" Junius's Letters." The following, from the cele-
brated letter to the Duke of Grafton, he read with
emphasis, and amid the smiles of his hearers:—
" The profound respect I bear to the gracious Prince who
governs this country with no less honour to himself than
satisfactory to his subjects, and who restore you to your
rank under his standard, will save you from a multitude of
reproaches. The attention I should have paid to your fail-
ings is involuntarily attracted to the hand that rewards
them ; and, though i am not so partial to the Royal judg-
ment as to affirm that the favour of a King can remove
mountains of infamy, it serves to lessen, at least, for, un••
doubtedly, it divides the burded. While I remember how
much is due to his sacred character, I cannot, with any de-
cent appearance of property, call you the meanest and the
basest fellow in the kingdom."

SPITEFUL!--" That old Frenchman was right,"
muttered Captain Bulstrode; "there is a great
satisfaction in the misfortunes of others. If Igo to my
dentist I like to find another wretch in the waiting-room ;
and I like to have my tooth extracted first, and to see him
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WHAT IS COWARDICE P—Very often the cowar-
dice is merely physical and may be got over. Many
very brave officers have, it is said, shown a great nervous-
ness; or rather nervelessness, in going into their first battle,
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her physical weakness,
and surgeons tell us, all women as a rule bear pain and
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sickness with much more patience and resolution than men
will. A lady on one hand, who will start and scream at a
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burglar,

Murmurs rather loud followed this quotation,
and the Deputies appeared to think that Duke de
Morny was going to call M. Oilivier to order. They
were equally moved by the following from the ad-
dress to the King :
" The people of England aro loyal to the House of Hano-
ver, not from a vain preference of one family to another,
but from a conviction that the establishment of that family
was necessary to the support of their civil and religious
liberty. This, Sir, is a principle of allegiance equally solid
and raiional, fit for Englishmen to adopt, and well
contemptible; worthy of your Majesty's encouragement. W e cannot long
be deluded by nominal distinctions. The name of Stuart, of
itself, is only
armed with the sovereign
authority, their principles are formidable. The prince who
imitates their conduct should be warned by example, and,
while he plumes himself upon the security of his title to
the crown, should remember that, as it was acquired by
one revolution, it may be lost by another."

Notwithstanding these quotations, which were
heard with seeming astonishment, M• Emile 011i-
vier was allowed to continue his speech to the

end, and all seemed to breathe at ease when it was
over.

BOURSE, Feb. 6.--The market continues firm,
but without any further advance in prices, Threes,
for the Account, being unve.ried at yesterday's
closing quotation of 701. 50c. Mobilier have slightly
improved. Railway Share Market quiet, with
previous rates up to the present time pretty well
maintained. The market closed as follows ;

41 per Cents .. OS 75
Do. end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O: 45
New 3 per Cents
Do, end month —
Credit Mobilier 1185
Do. end nionth 1188 75

Bank Shares 3395
Credit Foncier 1530
Piedmontese Fives.
Italian Loan 7l 35
Russian
.-
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt

Cash. Accr,unt,
Orleans IC9S .. 1095
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1185 1183 75
Geneva 420 .. 415
Southern BlO 813 75
..
Western
Eastern .........
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

512 50 .. 510 -
592 50 .. 593 75
547 50 .. 545 -
687 50 .. 68S 75
327 50 .. 332 50

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, FEB. 6.
The following is a summary of the King of
Prussia's reply to the Chamber of Deputies.
The King concludes, from the contents of the
Address, and the mode in which it was sent to
him, that the House seeks to learn the expression
of his personal will. For this reason the reply is
given without the intervention of the Ministry.
His Majesty then adverts to the fact of the
Chamber having accused the Ministry of carrying
on the Administration in violation of the Constitu-
tion, and without the Budget having been voted,
and states, that the acts of the Ministry have been
done with his sanction, because he considered them
constitutional.

The Budget, as voted last year by the Chambers,
could not be executed, but it was nevertheless
necessary that the public administration should
still be carried on.

The King points out that the law requires the
Budget to be agreed to by the three constitutional
bodies of the State.,

The complaints of the Chamber relative to
abuses of the Administration are stated by the
King to be unfounded.
His Majesty further deplores the conflict of
opinions, but states that he will not sacrifice the
rights of the Crown and the Tipper House to the
claims of the Chamber of Deputies.
In conclusion, the King says, that having thus
given a proof that he wishes a reconciliation, he
expects that the House will meet his views.

The fiftieth anniversary of the appeal to the
Prussian people in 1813 was celebrated in Berlin,
on Tuesday last, with much ceremony. There were
out-door processions during the morning, and in-
door festivities during a later period of the day, in
which many of the veteran soldiers whom time had
spared participated. It was remarked, however,
that the processions were not so large as had been
expected. The Society of Volunteers held a meet-
ing, at which the celebrated appeal " To my people"
was read by way of opening the proceedings, and
a toast was then drank in solemn silence to the
memory of King Frederic William 111. and King
Frederic William IV. During the banquet which
followed the King entered the apartment and
greeted the assembly with a speech, the substance
of which is as follows :

" He felt there was a necessity that he should appear that
day among them to return his thanks for the sacrifice, de-
votion, and bravery they had shown at a former period, and
for the readiness with which they had responded to the
appeal made to them by his revered father, who had led
them to the combat and to the victory. his father and his
royal brother had partaken of the labour and the danger of
the troops. His Majesty would recal to their memory the
great deeds of that period, and would add the hope that
their sons and descendants at a future time would as readily
respond to the royal appeal, if it should be necessary for the
interests of the King and country to call upon them."
After a few more words of a courteous nature,
his Majesty quitted the apartment, amidst the
cheers of the assemblage.
A similar festival was held by the Society of
Volunteer Jagers and Combatants, which his Ma-
jesty also honoured with his presence, and thus
addressed the veterans :
"I appear amongst you to-day as you celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the call to arms, in order to express to you
the thanks of the King, whose appeal at that time you so
readily responded to. May the sentiments which then
animated you survive in your descendants; and, if the
country calls upon them, may her sons, as at the period
alluded to, hasten to protect the throne and the country.
Think first with deep affection of the two Kings who fought
at your head, and then give a cheer to the country and to
the army. May heaven long preserve the dear country
and the army."

The assembly gave three hearty cheers, and then
greeted the King in a similar manner, during which
his Majesty retired.
The day closed with a torchlight procession by
the students and other bodies.

AMERICA.

RESIGNATION OF GENERAL BURNSIDE.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (Evening).
(Per Damascus, via St. John's and Queenstown..)

General Burnside has resigned the command of
the army of the Potomac, and General Hooker has
been appointed his successor. Generals Franklin
and Sumner have been relieved of their commands.

General Burnside's letter of resignation says that
the army would, under more favourable circum-
stances, have accomplished great results.
The bad weather and mud prevent any forward
movement on the part of the army of the Potomac.
In North Carolina the Federals under General
Foster have made ro general forward movement.
Land forces were, however, sent forward on the
16th towards the railroad, and encountered 1,300
Confederates at Pollocksvil:e. An engagement
ensued, in which the Confederates were driven back.
The Federals captured a flag.
A Confederate steamer, supposed to be either the
Alabama, Orvieto, or Harriet Lane, after a sharp
engagement, sunk the Federal gunboat Hatteras off
Galveston. The Federal gunboats had engagements
on the 14th at Bayoutcho, Louisiana. The Federal
commander was killed. No Ccnfederates were
captured.

The financial bill framed by the committee of
ways and means has passed the House of Repre-
sentatives.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (Evening.)
Gold, 54 per cent. prem. Exchange on London,
170. Stocks heavy—Erie, 75i ; Illinois, 94. Bread-
stuffs firm, and advancing.

NEW YcRX, Jan. 27.
Advises received here from Vera Cruz to the 3d
inst., via Havana, announce that the French army
had commenced its march upon Puebla.
It was reported that the vanguard under General
Berthier, had been completely defeated by the
Mexicans. This report was, however, discredited.
The Mexicans are stated to be determined to
make a desperate resistance at Puebla. The French
troops destined to act against the place number
about 16,000, The Mexicans had 25,000 regulars,
and 10,000 volunteers at Puebla.
The French fleet bombarded Acapulco for three
days. Tbo Mexicans abandoned the town. The
French then took possession of the fort, and spiked
the guns. The fleet afterwards sailed in another
direction.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 6.
The auxiliary screw steamer Damascus has
arrived here, short of coal. She left New York on
the 231 ult., and St. Joan's on the 28th, and bringt,
32 passengers. She encountered great quantities
of ice on the passage.

VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.—Victoria papers state that
a thousand Indians have died of smallpox in Vancouver's
Island this winter. It is thought this disease will soon
exterminate the race on the island.
At the meeting of the City of London Brewing
Company (late Calvert's) yesterday, a dividend of 4-1 per
cent, was declared, making 71 per cent, for the year.