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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1863.

A copy of a daily London newspaper, the name
of which is simply world-renowned, the influence
of which is such that the journal referred to has
long since come to be recognised as among the insti-
tutions of the land—a copy of this the most dis-
tinguished and powerful of all the Organs of
Public Opinion, has this day come before us in
" so questionable a shape," that we can hardly call
it, as it nevertheless calls itself, The 7imes. The
date of it is Wednesday, October 3, 1798. The
number of the journal is No. 4,298_ The price
affixed to it, in the opposite corner (the right
hand corner) of the first page, is " Sixpence." We
turn back to our own file, and, running through the
pages of the second volume for that same year-
-a period removed from the present by exactly
sixty-four years, seven months, and four days—we
have now lying open before us The Sun of Wednes-
day, October 3, 1798, the number of it, 1,881, the
price of it also" Sixpence." Each of these journals
(of from sixty-four to sixty-five years ago) is not
only a single sheet, or four diminutive pages,
but each is very small indeed in its superficial
dimensions! Both being exactly of the same size
(2 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 71 inches), both four
columns to a page, that is sixteen columns alto-
gether in each. The 7imes being published
then, as it is published still, in Printing-house-
square, Blackfriare. The Sun being published
then, as it is published still, at 112, Strand, in the
precinct of the Savoy. Our great morning contem-
porary of this present Wednesday, May 7, 1863, is
numbered as No. 24,552. We ourselves this even-
ing number for Wednesday, May 7, 1863, No.
22,107. Reverting, however, from the present
moment to a period removed from us by an interval
of nearly sixty-five wonderful and momentous
years, we will cursorily glance though the

contents of the two—we can hardly call them
broad-sheets, they are so small—we might rather
speak of them as doable flyleaves of very moderate
proportions. The limes of October 3, 1798., and
The Sun of October 3, 1798. In each appears, as
the great news of the day, an account of
ADMIRAL NELSON'S VICTORY.

reprinted in both from a London Gazette extra-
ordinary are the official documents relating
to that victory. Among them the Rear-
Admiral's letter to the then Secretary to
the Admiralty EVAN NEPEAN Esq., enclosing

the despatch recounting in many of its details the

incidents of that glorious victory won on the Ist
of August, over the French fleet, at the mouth of
the Nile near Aboukir ! A despatch dated from on
board the Vanguard two days after the battle ;
signed HORATIO NELSON; beginning " My Lord,
Almighty GOD has blessed his MAJESTY'S arms :"
and addressed to the then First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, the Earl of ST. VINCENT. Following these
documents come the catalogues of the English and
French Fleets numbered, the former up to 14 the
latter up to 17, according to their position in the
line-of-battle. Afterwards there are the lists of the
killed and wounded.
There is in neither hardly anything that can
he called, even by courtesy, a leading article,
in spite even of the temptation to the writing
of such in the receipt just then of the grand
record of the glorious victory of the Nile. Running
Comment!, there are, among the official documents,
connecting them together, but nothing else in
any way approximating to a faint resemblance to
what is known now as a Leader. The
illuminations are described as having been
very general throughout the metropolis, though
they were of course hastily arranged, not by order,
but quite spontaneously and upon the spur of the I
moment.

It should be remarked at once, that whereas
The limes of Wednesday morning, the 3d

of October, announces the news of the Victory, and
makes mention of the overnight's illuminations,
The Sun of the previous evening, Tuesday, the 2d

of October, had already given to the town the fitst
tidings of the great event ! Beginning its account
of ADMIRAL NELSON'S VICTORY with—' We lose

tot a moment in giving to the public such

details of this glorious event es have come to our
knowledge•" The record ending thus—" It is almost
unnecessary to observe that this intelligence has
thrown the whole metropolis into a transport of
joy." These being the opening and closing remarks
of the earliest announcement of the Battle of the
Nile as given to the public in The Sun of Tuesday,

the 2d of October.
Turning again, however, to the copy of The
lanes of the following morning as it now lies open
before us (cleverly reproduced in facsimile by
COLLINS and Co., on the 30th of last October, at
their:printing-house in Fetter-lane—and examining
there this ingenious facsimile of our contemporary
of
that date, as it appears at this moment of
Writing at our elbow, side by side with a veritable

copy of our own journal under that same date, we
find in the two little newspapers—then stripling
journals of no more than six or twelve years
each, since aged by nearly 65 years additional--
we find now in one, now in the other of them
such contemporary scraps of intelligence as
the following :—" Mr. CURRAN, the Irish
Barrister," is mentioned in The Timee as
haying "arrived in town," and as " residing at Lord
Mont A's." A Treasury messenger, one Mr. COUR-
VOISIER, is spoken of in The Sun, in another para-
graph, as having a few evenings previously been
stopped, about two miles on this side of Maiden-
head, by two highwaymen, who robbed him of
about three pounds in money." No such great
" ham" for the two highwaymen 1 The messenger
from the Treasury carrying with him apparently no

very large amount of the contents of its coffers. "Mr.
PITT," The Times informs us, " is not confined with
the gout at Weimer; we saw him yesterday in the
park in perfect good health." Still having an eye to
the Day's News, " BIIONAPARTZ'S Dispatches' says
The Sun, " are in possession of Admiral NELSON."
One announcement in The Times reads rather start-
lingly to us nowadays, viz,, one to the
effect that " The Keepers of Several Read-
ing Rooms in Fleet Street have been fined
£5 for lending newspapers for hire." The Sun of
that date, it may be remarked, indulges in various
odd little devices among its typography—every-
thing of that kind being disdained apparently
then, by its contemporary. Between The and Sun
appears the rayed effigy of the same, having
traced within it Sol Clarior Astro. A wreathed
Harp divides IRE from LAND—a wreathed anchor
NAVAL from NEWS. The organ itself had been
from its foundation, was then, and continued
still for some time afterwards—the organ
of that " Heaven-born Minister " who was
seen by the writer in the morning jour-
nal walking in the park the previous
afternoon in such perfect good health. An official
advertisement in The Times, signed by the Secre-
tary of the Post Office, no other than Sir FRANCIS
FREELING, offers £240 reward for the capture of
the Highwayman who, on the 3d of the Ju/y pre-
vious, had stopped The Post Boy, and robbed the
Mail, between Bromley and Sevenoaks. An adver-
tisement in The Sun, the first advertisement in that
number of our journal for the 3d October, 1798, an
nounces that the next evening, " at half after six," for
the " first time this season," "His Majesty'sservants
will act a Tragedy called HAMLET." And glancing
down the list of the dramatis personce, we observe
that Mr. KEMBLE is to be the Hamlet, Mr. Dow-
TON the Polonius, Mrs. JORDAN the Ophelia,
and Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE the Laertes.
Time runs on, two generations pass away, No. 4,298
of The limes has expanded to No. 24,552—N0
1,881 of The Sun having multiplied simultane-
ously to 22,107.
The journals meanwhile expand in size—The
Times, repeatedly nowadays (as in effect it did
but this very morning), becoming magnified,
by means of its double supplement and a
half sheet extra, to absolutely leviathan pro-
portions. Existing during so many years, wit-
nessing and recording the while so many strange
vicissitudes,f, our own journal cannot but direct
attention for a moment in passing, and this too, as it
were, with a sense cf contemporary exultation to
the manner in which that first little sprouting o
the acorn has grown and strengthened, and ex
panded into the giant oak of the limes news
paper.

The necessity of finding employment for our
Lancashire operatives has long been only second in
the minds of the wise and thoughtful to the urgent
need of supplying theta with the means of sub-
sistence for their families. It was felt that long
months of enforced idleness were hard to bear by
intelligent and active men accustomed to the excite-
ment and bustle of a busy commercial life. Content
and industry are, moreover, closely allied, and there
are other evils attending this compulsory inaction
besides the additional discomfort it inflicts upon the
unemployed " hands." It is not probable, scarcely
possible, that so large a standing army of idlers

should be able to maintain during a lengthened
period unbroken order and unshaken resignation.
There will always be demagogues, whose object it

is to inflame and irritate the people against the
governing powers, and their efforts, which produce
but partial and limited effects in tha busy seasons
of activity and prosperity, may act like firebrands
among a large host of idle men and women,
if they are once persuaded that their misfortunes
are in any way the fault of their superiors. The

conduct of the Lancashire operatives has been on
the whole most admirable. Their dignified patience,
and the fortitude with which they have borne their
undeserved sufferings, have called forth the ap-
proval and respect of the civilised world. Even in
the late distressing riots at Staleybridge it was

found that the disturbances originated with a band
of giddy and excitable young people—not with the
regular working men and women of the district,
who complained bitterly of the discredit thus brought
upon them. Bat however admirable the conduct
of the people may be, it is the duty of those whose
province it is to rule them to provide for their needs
and necessities, no less moral than physical. Mi,ny
benevolent schemes have been suggested and par-
tially developed by private exertion and kindliness.
Some hundreds have been shipped off to our colo-
nies to transport into young and thinly peopled
States the energies that cou'd find no room in
the overcrowded arena of the old country. Others
have been removed to different parts of the country,
and set to new kinds of labour. But the school,
the field, and the colony have not as yet disposed
of a twentieth part of the great body of unemployed
hands. The question is what is to be done for the
remainder ? They cannot be left longer in that
idleness which is intolerable to an honest English-
man, and it will be yet some time before our mills
are all fairly at work again. A system of compre-
hensive emigration ua er Government auspices has
been thought of by some, which should transplant
into other lands the vigorous offshoots of English
industry. But is such a wholesale deportation wise
or necessary ? Are these honest and hard-working
sons and daughters of toil the ones that England
can best spare ? Are they not part of that steady
substratum which neutralises the efforts alike of
anarchs and despots, which enables her to smile
,at
the thunders of Chartist eloquence, which offers tie
best safeguard to the liberties of her Constitution.
Young, daring, adventurous spirits may do well to
carry to another land those energies and powers
which the routine of an old civilisation might
cramp ; they are fitted to be the pioneers of Eng-
lish liberty and intelligence. They are qualified to
wrestle with nature and man on the wild outskirts
of civilisation, or to aid in developing a young
colony in the dawn of its rising fortunes. English
worth and English enterprise have by such means
been wafted, like the wind borne seed, into every
latitude of the habitable globe, and their country
applauds them for their courage. It is the fitting
work for youth, and energy, and hope, untram-
melled by home ties, unworn by home labour.

But it is not the work for fathers and
mothers of families, who once had no thought
nor wish but to end their days in
the old land as their parents did before them,

whose eu
whose hopes are dau.i
that time brings to all of us.
scarcely possible, that of the thousanob

1- hitherto

fully employed in the cotton districts, even hun-
dreds would choose emigration voluntarily. It is
the pressure of want, the force of circumstances,
that would drive them to it, and the enforced
severance of all home ties would dishearten
and depress them at the very outset of their un-
dertaking. We would by no means discourage
emigration, which is often a blessing to both the
old country and the new, but to be successful it
should be voluntary. Let those who are fitted
for the life, for whom the change has charms,
be assisted in every way possible, but do not
let those who shrink from it be driven to
adopt it as a last resource from pauperism.
There is the less need for such an enforced emigra-
tion, as there appears to be no reasonable doubt
that the cotton trade will before long revive its
wonted strength. The many sources now opened—
' India, Queensland, Jamaica,Western Africa, Egypt,
and Italy—must ere long bring us in supplies which
will render us commercially indifferent whether the
doors of the Temple of Janus are open or shut in
the troubled Western hemisphere. Oar merchants
have had to pay a heavy price for their own per-
versity and shortsightedness in depending wholly
upon one foreign source. Unfortunately in this
as in so many other cases, the chief trouble has fal-
len on those undeserving of it, but the experience so
dearly bought must surely be productive of some
good, and a similar catastrophe is not
likely to recur in our time. If, then,
the prospects of the cotton trade are so
far satisfactory, why should those who look to it
for bread leave us just as the clouds are breaking ?
Why should those best fitted for the work depart
for a new and untried sphere of action, leaving less
experienced and able hands to fill the place of those
" who have borne the burden and heat of the day.',
Under these circumstances we see with great
satisfaction that, in accordance with the recent
observations of Mr. VILLIERS, a gentleman has
been despatched by the Government to the cotton
districts, for the purpose of reporting-on the possibi-
lity of employing the able-bodied operatives at fair
wages. He inspected the different bodies of men
now engaged in oat-door work, and examined the
industrial schools. On the day he arrived, there
happened fortunately to be a meeting of the Gene-
ral Purposes Committee, to which he explained the
object of his inquiry. He informed the committee
that the Government were prepared to advance
money to municipal bodies, local boards, and simi-
lar associations, for the purpose of carrying out
sanitary improvements or works of public benefir,
which should be the means of giving employment to
the idle hands, and thus carry them safely over the
time, until supplies of cotton arriving from a thou-
sand new plantations shall set our mills merrily at
work again. We should hope this very rational
and feasible scheme may be carried safely into e.ie-
cation.

Last night the House went into Committee on
the " Security from Violence 13i.1," and a short de-
bate ensued. Mr. PEACOCKE moved an amendment
to insert the words " that some previous conviction
must be proved." This after some discussion was
lost by an immense majority of 154, deckling that
the clause should remain as it was. This on the
whole is a desirable conclusion, since it would be
weakening the case as it now stands to alter or
commute the sentences inflicted by it. Mr.
PEACOCKE gave as a reason for his proposal that
he ,Aished legislation to " proceed from principle,
and not to be prompted by panic." This is all very
well, but there is no panic in providing proper and
suitable measures for the suppression of such
crimes as those here refered to. Mr.
ADDERLEY said there had been no undue haste,
since it was six months ago that the garotting
outrages took place, and therefore he did not agree
with the proposal of the hon. member. After a
few other remarks, Mr. BENTINCK spoke very
forcibly and sensibly on the subject, and said that
hon. gentlemen opposite seemed to deal with these
questions as if they were discussing the rights of
their fellow-subjects, but " he thought that crimi-
nals of the most hardened class should be considered
as separate from the rest of their species, he pro-
tested against all maudlin sentiment, and thought
that the evil should be firmly and promptly dealt
with." This is the right way of taking up this
question, and Mr. BENTINCK's remarks are most
applicable at the present time when so much folly
is perpetrated in the management of criminals.

Really honest people are left to starve, and the

virtuous in trouble may pine away in unnoticed
obscurity, while the hardened felon and the con-
victed criminal are to be pampered in every way,
their crimes passed over, and their penalties an-
nulled. There is no greater anomaly in the present
state of society than this premium for crime,
that seems held out by really sensible and
well meaning persons. The present lull

in the excitement that prevailed concerning
garotters is not to be depended on, for as soon as
the dark nights return we shall hear of more depre-
dations unless now some stringent measures are
adopted and passed into law. There is no greater
preventive than disgrace for this class of offences,
and the knowledge that ignominy will be attached
to the act of violence will do more to deter
its repetition than any other system that can be
devised. Ic is, therefore, satisfactory that the
decision of last night should have ratified
Mr. ADDERLEY'S bill, and that gentleman is en-
titled to the thanks of the community whom he has
done so much to serve in the plans he has prepared
for the consideration of the House. " Prevention is
better than cure" is a well-known adage, and it is
well to let it be known among the lawless outcasts
of the metropolis that severe measures will be in
force against them before they again molest our
streets and make the condition of the greatest city
in the world a byeword and a reproach among sur-

rounding nations. False kindness,or as Mr. BENTIN CK
properly denounced it, " maudlin scntiment," is a

city of Posen.

Powers.

firmed.

POLAND.

AMERICA.

cruelty to the evil-doers themselves, and an injustice
to the rest of the community. What with the

absurd leniency of the convict system; juries recom-
mending criminals to mercy, when convicted of bar-
barous and savage assaults; with the apparent im-
possibility of proving cases of poisoning; and with
Secretaries of State being prompt to procure par-
don for the felons, if by any mischance they
have been sentenced to the extreme penalty
of the law, it is so (Moult nowadays to see
things called by their right names, that it is

a refrshitig change to find our legislators adopt

'or once a decisive course. The penalrics cannot

be top severe, nor the preventivEs too stringent that

operate against such malefactors, and the result of

Mr. ADDERLEY'S motion on the subject will be tc

militate against the dangerous practice that gains

ground of making such exploits a subject for boast-

ing, while if it is once an established fact that

TO MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK.

shame is attached to the offender, in such in-
stances, it will prove a more potent auxi-
liary than any other that could be employed
in the cause of order. It is to be hoped that this
decisive step is the forerunner of many others in
the same direction, and that the absurd plans that
have hitherto so signally failed will be put aside at
once and for ever.

,rgita are exhausted by years of toir, LATEST DTTELLIGENCE,
-^ned by that bitter experience
It is not probable, (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

CRACOW, MAY 7.
More than 60 persons hare been arrested in the

Numerouc arrests, including many noblemen, have
also been made in the province of Posen.
The insurgent chief, Osinski, after a successful
encounter on the sth inst. with the Russian troops,
occupied Dombrowa.
The peasants of the district of Podlachia, in the
Government of Lublin, are paying to the revolu-
tionary agents the ground rent for the support of
the insurrection, which their landlords have refused
to pay.

BERLIN, MAY 7

Private letters received here from reliable sources
in St. Petersburg, state that Prince Gortschakoff,
after having despatched the replies to the notes of
the Great Powers on the Polish Question, read a
confidential note to the ambassadors of those powers
in St. Petersburg. This note explained the pro-
gramme of reforms intended to be carried out in
Poland by the Emperor.

The introduction of these reforms would depend
upon circumstances, although they would not be
delayed after the pacification of Poland had been
effected.

It is said that this note has produced a good im-
pression upon the Ambassadors of the Great

It is expected that the insurgent forces in Poland
will shortly be augmented, but the Russian autho-
rities hope to be able to overpower them.

LEMBERG, MAY 3,

A number of boys, averaging between 10 and 12
years of age, left this city to-day with the object
of joining the insurgents in Poland. They were
formed into two detachments, one numbering 30,
and the other 50 strong. It is to be hoped that
the authorities will succeed in preventing these boys
from carrying out their intention, which they have
up to the present moment managed to keep secret.
This incident testifies to the patriotic spirit which
prevails in the breasts even of Polish children.
Mr. W. H. Russell, the well-known correspon-
dent of the Times, arrived here a few days ago.
Baron Seebach is also here, and it is said that he
has been in communication with some of the most
prominent members of the Polish aristocracy.
The Baron has but just returned from Warsaw,
and it is asserted, on reliable authority, that he is
about to proceed to Odessa.

Intelligence recently received here confirms the
news that the insurrection is rapidly extending,
and that new bodies of insurgents are being
formed in every part of the Polish territory. The
most important news, however, is that the peasants
in many districts are now joining the insurgents in
great numbers, in some cases armed with scythes,
and in others with implements of husbandry. They
form distinct bodies, ani alter having fought a
battle they disperse and return to their agricultural
pursuits.

The Russians appear to have abandoned their
favourite system of traversing the country in flying
columns. They now march in considerable force
against the insurgents, evidently with the view of
annihilating the small insurrectionary bodies. This
change of tactics on the part of the Russians has, how-
ever, caused the Poles not to allow their detachments
to operate at too great a distance from each other.
Thus, for instance, the division under the chief
command of Czachowski is subdivided into four
detachments, three of which are led respectively by
Kononowizc, Grelincki, and Lopacki ; the fourth
being under the immediate command of the chief.
In the district of Sandornir other bodies are in
course of formation, which will also co-operate
with the abovenamed detachments under Czachow-
ski. On the 20th ult. Czachowski defeated the
Russians at Bzin, and again at Nicklanie on the
22d ult. Kononowizc, a few days since, gained
another victory over the Russian forces within a
short distance of Wachock. It is said that another
insurgent leader, by name Liittich, has defeated the
Russians at Papow, not far from Dzialoszyn, in the
district of Sandman
The tactics observed by the forces under Cha-
chowski are also followed by the insurgent divi-
sions in the vicinity of Kalisch and Konin, all the
small detachments operating within a short dis-
tance of each other. Tue headquarters of the last-
named forces are at Priesern (Pyzdry), where the
insurgents are employed day and night in the
maaufacture of arms of every description.
The insurgent chiefs Mosakoweki and Obsinski
are now also acting together.
Tezioranski, with about 600 men, mostly volun-
teers from Galicia, is operating in the Government
of Lublin not far from the forces under Lelewell.
A third detachment is now in course of formation
in that Government.

The news that the poet Mieezyslew Romanowsk
had fallen in battle on the 24th ult., is now con

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's screw steamer City of Baltimore, Cap-
tain M‘Gingan, which sailed from New York on
the 25th ult., arrived in the Mersey at 1 o'clock
this afternoon. The Canadian mail steamer
Hibernian, Captain Ballantine; from Portland
Maine, on the 25th ult., also reached the port at the
same time. Full telegraph summaries of news
have already been published.
'The Hibernian not having left Portland till six
p.m. on the 25th ult., we receive by her the follow-
ing telegrams in advance of publication :-
44 Washington, April 25

_ .
" The following despatch from Major• General Burnside
has been received at head-quarters Cincinnati, April 25,
by Major-General Halleck, General in Chief.
Louisville, April 22.

The expedition to Celina was entirely successful.
Colonel Graham reports through General Hobson that they
destroyed the town, 100,0001 b, of bacon, 10,000 bushels of
wheat, 10,000 bushels of corn, 100 barrels of whiskey, 100
barrels of flour, a considerable quantity of sugar, coffee, tea,
malt, and other stores, and 40 boats which had been used
in transportation from Bucksville and other points on the
Cumberland River. The rebels report a loss of 90, killed,
but Colonel Graham, the commander of the expedition, is
of opinion that the number is greater. We had one wounded
and one missing. The result is highly creditable to the
troops enraged. Indeed it was a perfect success.
(Signed) "' Brigadier General WRIGHT.
" A. E. BußssrnE, Major General.'"
" Head-quartet s, Army of the Potomac, April 25.
" Two or three days ago a party of our troops paid a visit
to Port Royal, on the Rappahannock, and captured from
15 to 20 prisoners, a mail, and several horses. They also
destroyed a quantity of forage and some army waggons.
The severe rain storm ceased list night, and there is now
a prospect of better weather, which will dry the roads.
The rebel pickets informal ours that they have a new gene-
ral on their side, whon tet:eathtsety replied,hesoldie `General Starvation,rs with great severity.
On inquiring his name,
begad "

The Baltimore American, of the afternoon of the
24th, has the following:—

"Head-quarters, Bth LEO; Ccrps, Baltimore, 24th.
"By telegraph from Major-Gen. Milroy I learn that the
expedition under General Elliott is a succesei. He captured
about 20 prisoners and some 30 horses. Nine rebels were
killed. We lost two in killed.
(Signed) " R.E. SCHENCK, Major-Gen. Commanding."
PHILADELPHIA, 25TH.—The Bulletin has the
following special despatch :

4‘ Cincinnati, April 5.
Advisee from below state that there has been a cessa-

Hot. of fighting on the Coldwater. Doting the fighting thus
far the Federal loss has been small ; one colonel is reported
killed, but his name has not yet been ascertained. Rebel
reports say that Gen. Loring has arrived from Fort Pem-
berton, with several thousand men, and reinforced General
Chalmers. Some hard fighting was anticipated. Several
houses were burnt at Hermundson, on the 21st. It is re-
ported that Holly Springs has been re-occupied by the
Federals. The steamer Prima Donna, from Vicksburg,
arrived at Memphis on the 23d inst., when our gunboats and
transports ran the rebel blockade at Vicksburg; all went
by the Warrenton batteries but the Forest Queen, which
being disabled put in at the mouth of the lower canal for
repairs. On Tuesday she ran by the Warrenton batteries
and joined the fleet, Not a gun was fired at her,"
The Chattanooga Rebel of the 23d reports a fight
at Tuscumbia, and claims a victory. The Tul-
lahoma correspondent of the Rebel says from pre-
lent indications the campaign in Middle Ten-
nessee will open in earnest. In pursuance of a re-
cent order of Bragg all tents and extra luggage had
been sent to the rear, only 3 flies being reserved to
every 100 men.

The correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat of
the 23d writing from Rolla says :
" General Marmaduke has a force of 20,000 rebels in
south-east Missouri, and General Price has a force of 10,000
conscripts at Pocahontas. This doubtless, is an exaggera-
tion. General Van Dorn left for Rolla with a brigade of
cavalry and some artillery and infantry, and the remainder
of cavalry and artillery of General Ewing's and Osterhan's
divisions were ordered to move."

The steam ship North Star, from Aspinwall, had
arrived at New York with 256,604 dole. in Califor-
nian gold. The French corvette Bertholet, from
Vera Cruz on the 7th, had also arrived at New
York. The commander stated that the report of
the defeat of the French at Puebla was entirely
erroneous. When he left Vera Cruz all was quiet
at Puebla.

The steamer Bremen, for Southampton, left New
York on the 25th, with 160 passengers, and 90,000
dole. in specie.

A dispatch from Simcoe, Canada West, of the
25th says :

" Van Eary's steam mills were blown up yesterday by
the bursting of a boiler. Four men were killed, and the
mills entirely destroyed."

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, April 25 (Evening).
The Stock Market farther advanced to-day—
particularly for Illinois Central Shares, which
closed at 94+. Erie closed at 811.
Gold, 53i prem. Cotton was unchanged, but
firm.
Breadstuffs steady, but firmer.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 7

The North German Lloyds steamship Bremen,
from New York, on the 25th April, has arrived
off Cowes, with 150 passengers, 38 bags of mails,
51,800 dole. for France and 38,750 dole. for
England.

She left Sandy Hook on the morning of the 26th,
passed several large icebergs on the 29th, spoke
the American ship Columbia on the 30th, the Eng-
lish barque Gordon on the 3d, steering westward,
the English ship New Great Britain, off Portland
on the 7th.
Her news has been anticipated.

SPAIN.
M ADRID, MAY 6 (Evening).
In the Congress to-day a Royal decree was read
suspending the sittings of the Cortes.
The Progressist party had the intention of eon-

tinning on Sanday next the celebration of the
national fete of the 2d May. The Government,
however, being opposed to this project, the Pro-
gressists determined to abandon it.
The reports current of A ministerial modification
are devoid of foundation.