The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1863.

1-10 NO T FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT.
jlll --We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, of ter Jullien's

Concert.

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the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale
at

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Observe the Red Seal, Pink Lab3l, and Cork branded
"liinahan's LL Whisky,"

THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear
are those mad.-! by ELSTOB, of GO, New Bond-street.
They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being
carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the
wealthy purchasers. "In inedio tutlsimus ibis."
ELSTOB'S TROUSER
PAR TIVENIY-ONE SHILLINGS
PAIR.

Ms JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL D'OPERA.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, M. Jullien's celebrated Quadrille Band of
110 Performers.
Conductor —M. JULLIEN.
Doors open at 9. Dancing will commence at 10. Supper
will be served at 1 o'clock.
Ball tickets. 10s. 6d. each. Dress circle, Is. ; gallery stalls,
4s. ; gallery, 2s. Private boxes, from four guineas.
Tickets may be obtained at Jallien's, Regent-street ; at the
Box-office of the Theatre ; and at the doors during the
evening.
N.B.—No person will be admitted in Clown, Harlequin, or
Pantaloon costumes.

PARIS.-THE GRAND HOTEL,
Boulevard des Capucines. Place de Nouvelle Opera,
opposite the'Rue de la Paix, and near the Theatres.
Has been opened since July, 1862. It contains 700 bed-
rooms, prices from 41r. to 251 r. ; 70 drawing-rooms, from ifr.
to 30fr. ; a magnifi.unt salon, capable of dining more than
300 persons, and where there is a table d'hote at six o'clock.
Dinners and breakfasts are served a la carte in the coffee-
rooms, as well as in the apartments. There is a reading-
room with the best English and foreign papers and publica-
tions, a music-room, and a drawing-room for the use of tra-
vellers without any additional charge. There are also baths,
billiard-rooms, smoking divans, post-office ; cabs, carriages,
and omn buses going to the railway stations. The servant 4
speak all languages. This superb hotel, possessing all that
modern luxury and comfort can combine, and situated in the
mo,t fashionable part of Paris, is recommended to the atten-
tion of travellers.
Independently of their Two Hotels, the Compagnie Immo-
biliere has established an extensive Private Furnish( d House
on the Boulevard des Capucines, opposite the ROTUNDA of
the GRAND HOTEL, where Families can reside as in their
own private residences, and where they may rely upon find-
ing the utmost comfort.

POLYTECHNIC.—Patron : H.R H. the PRINCE
of WALES.—CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—The Ghost
Effects and Spectral Illusions, beine Professor Pepper's
adaptation of the original and most startling illusion of
Henry Dircks, Esq., C.E. The Illustrated Fairy Tales, the
Shadow Pantomime, the Christmas Tree, the Imriroved
Chinese Fireworks. The Entertainments and Lectures pro-
vided this year are on the most liberal scale, and commence
on BOXING DAY, December 20, IS
N.B.—The Institution will be closed on the 22d, 23d, 24th,
and 25th December, in order to make the very extensive pre-
parations required for the Christmas Entert.inments.

THE 0X F ORD,
e, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the
following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CL ARA, the
MAID of MILAN, by Sir H. ; also, from LA. FORZA.
DEL DES I INO—Verdi ; by the f ollowin, talented artistes]
—Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, 11, almsley, Tyr,
and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, ttc.
Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOPTI COLLINS, the
celebrated English Violinist.
Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant.
And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL
PIANO, by.llerr SCHAL KENB A.CH, the Inventor.
Comedy, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Madigan, and the marvel-
lous Gymnast, J. 11 enderson.
In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas E re, sup-
ported by the entire company, a new and original C,antat 1,
entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley,
Esq., and composed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the
establishment.

29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7
o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and
Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the
Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,030 Models, Natural Pre-
parations, la. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years
old. Admission, One shilling tior Gentlemen only).

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
The Megrera screw troopship, Commander Edward Mad-
den, is hourly expected to arrive at Spithead from the West
Indies with the Ist battery of the 7th brigade, Royal Artil-
lery, on board, together with a number of military and naval
invalids and time expired men. The battery of Artillery em-
barked on board the Megtera at Jamaica on the 25th ult.,
and on disembarking from the ship at Portsmouth will be
quartered at Fort Brockhurst, near Gosport.
On Friday the crew of the screw steam frigate Topaz%
39, Commodore the Hon. W. S. Spencer, just returned from
the Pacific, were mustered and inspected by Vice-Admiral
of the Red Sir C. H. Fremantle, K.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief at Plymouth. On Saturday morning the frigate dis-
charged her powder and then proceeded from the Sound
into Bamoaze, and was placed alongside the jetty of the
Devonport dockyard. To-day the duty of dismantling will
be commenced, preparatory to paying off the crew.
The paddlewheel steam vessel Advice, with'seamen, from
Queenstown, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth.
The iron screw steamship Resistance, 16, Capt. W. C.
Chamberlain, having been repaired, was put out of the
Prince's Dock at Devonport on Saturday, and removed from
Hamoaze into the Sound. After taking an experimental
run outside the breakwater she went to the Admiralty an-
chorage and shipped her powder and shell, and is now ready
for sea.

The Admiralty, it has just transpired, sent an officer to
America some time ago to inspect and report upon the guns
in use there. The officer intrusted with this mission is one
of whose Ability there can be no doubt.

The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Commander R. Wells, to the Immortalite
—Commander R. A. Parr, to the Lyra—J. G. Mongan,
master, to the Asia, for the tender—R H. Hawes, confirmed
as master of the Perseus—G. B. Moore, surgeon, to the
Rattlesnake—F. Bunn, paymaster, to the Lyra—E. A. M,
Chaffers, assist-paymaster, to the Resistance—H. Marsh,
clerk, to the Lyra—William F. Woods, clerk, to the
ilm-
placable—T• Johnston,
o
h,
ns:ol assist-clerk, to the Canopus—
and John second-class assist.- engineer, to the
Salamander.
Ia owk.

AMERICA.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 20.
The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, from Boston
on the 9th and Halifax on the 11th inst., arrived
here at two a.m. to-day. She brings 58 passengers
and 30,955 dole. in specie. She landed 57 sacks of
mails and six passengers and proceeded for Liver-
pool at 2,30 a.m., all well.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8, Afternoon,
General Foster reports from Tazewell, Tennessee,
on the 7th ;—" General Longstreet is in full retreat
up the valley. Cavalry will pursue him. Yester-
day my cavalry attacked that of the enemy in one
of the passes of the Clinch Mountain and was pur-
suing them vigorously. Couriers from Knoxville
arrived here last night. The road is clear, a man
having arrived here yesterday.
The official reports state :
General Longstreet commenced his siege opera-
tions against Knoxville upon the 18th ult., and
raised the siege upon the 4th inst., retreating to-
wards Bristol, via Harristown .Railway to Rich-
mond, and south from Bristol, along the north and
south banks of Holston River.
Foster's cavalry is pursuing on the south, and
Sherman's on the north bank. General Longstreet
has 36 hours'start. Sherman's advance has reached
Knoxville.
The Fedorals are preparing for the winter de-
fence of Chattanooga told Lookout Mountain. •
Boats are running to Kingston, and a railroad is
being completed to Bridgeport.
The Confederates captured 15 Federal forage

waggons, 12 miles from Chattanooga.
General Bragg has been relieved from his cone
mend at his own request. He was serenaded upon
the 2d at Dalton, where he made a farewell
address. No successor has been appointed. Gen.
Hardee commands temporarily. Bishop Polk has
been ordered to command the department of the
Southern Mississippi.
General Forrest is encamped 15 miles from
Holly Springs with 10,000 men.
Western Tennessee, Western Kentucky, and
Northern Mississippi, as far as Tallahatchie,•have
been formed into one Confederate department.
Great preparations are being made to defend it.
Five thousand Confederates are reported to be
advancing on Maysville, Kentucky.
The Confederate General Macpherson has issued
a conscription order in Tennessee, similar to that
issued by General Harlburt.
General Lee has made no attempt to cross the
Rapidan in force, but Stuart's and Mosley's cavalry
keep up their raids north of the Rappahannock.
It is supposed Meade will go into winter quar-
ters some distance north of the Rappahannock.
The Confederates have captured Thomas Francis
Meagher.
Advices from Charleston are to the 4th instant.
A slow fire is being kept up on Fort Sumter.
The firing upon Charleston has ceased, but the
Federals are remounting more guns bearing upon
the city.
Southern papers eased that Gillmore'a Greek fire
is easily extinguished. General Beauregard visited
Fort Sumter upon the 2d inst.
The Confederates, in strong organised bodies, are
impeding the navigation upon the Mississippi.-
President Lincoln has issued a proclamation that,
in consequence of receiving reliable information that
the insurgents were retreating from Tennessee,
under circumstances rendering it probable that the
Federals cannot hereafter be dislodged from there,
and esteeming this to be of high national conse-
quence, he recommends'the people to return public
thanks.
General Butler has issued a proclamation saying,
the recruitment of coloured troops having become a
purpose of the Government, and as the best use dur-
ing the war for able bodied coloured men, both for
themselves and their country, is to be soldiers, Go-
vernment officers must not employ negroes to work
at higher wages than soldiers' pay. Every possie
hie provision will be mode for negroes.
Congress met yesterday. The Democrats were
divided on the choice of a candidate for a speaker,
and Colfax, a Republican, was elected speaker of
the house. This secures to the Republicans an
opponent of standing committees.
Notice has been given of a bill to suspend the
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty.
The Russian officers are being feted in Wash
ngton.

NEW yoßx, Dec. 8, Evening.
General Longstreet has retreated from Knox-
ville towards Virginia.
General Hardee is falling back from Dalton with
B rag g's troops.
Breckenridge is not dead.
Congress met yesterday, and the President's
Message will appear to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln is
reported better.
The Saxonia and Kedar have arrived out.

PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT,
NEW YORK, Dec. 9, Afternoon.
Accompanying President LII3COII3'S Message is a
proclamation, suggesting the following terms for
the reconstruction of the Union :
An amnesty will be granted to persons in rebel-
lious States who take the oath of allegiance to the
United Slates, and an oath to support all the acts
passed by the Federal Congress, and all proclama-
tions issued by Mr. Lincoln since the rebellion, in-
cluding the Emancipation Proclamation.
This latter oath, the President observes in his
Message, is subject to the modifying and abrogat-
ing power of legislation and supreme judicial deci-
sion, if one-tenth of the legalised voters of any re-
bellious State take the oaths above cited and form a
Republican State Government. Such Government
will be recognised and receive constitutional protec-
tion from the Federal Government.
Persona who have held office under the Confede-
rate Government; those who held rank in the army
above the rank of colonel, or in the navy above the
rank of lieutenant; those formerly holding judicial
positions, or who resigned the Federal service and
joined the rebellion ; and those who have treated
coloured soldiers otherwise than as prisoners of war,
are exempted from the amnesty.
The proclamation does not refer to the States
which throughout the rebellion have maintained
the loyal Government.
Mr. Lincoln says that the mode proposed in the
proclamation is the best the Executive can suggest,
but it must not be understood that no other possible
mode would be acceptable.
The Message declares that foreign relations are
friendly, but, beyond the accompanying proclama•
tion, contains nothing important.
NEW YORK, Deo, 10 (Morning).
President Lincoln's proclamation accompanying
the Message grants not only an amnesty but a full
pardon and restoration of the rights of property,
except slave property, to those taking the oaths
described in the proclamation.
NEW YORK, D; c. 11 (Morning).
The Secretary of the Treasury has imposed an
increase of duty on distilled spirits to 60 cents. per
gallon ; on tobacco to 20 cents. per lb on leaf, and
from 5 to 12 cents. on manufactured ; and of 10
cents. per gallon on petroleum. Money tight.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (Evening).
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury

says :--
Ti
d:p
is It will be necessary to raise by loans
460,000,000 dols to cover the expenses till July,
1864. It will be necessary to provide 545,00e,000d01s
for the expenses from July, 1864, to July, 1865.
million dollars. The Secretary proposes to increase
the
jpaurlYar'ylBlo6asn, s and the certificates
is estimated at 2,200
of indebtedness, but will issue no more Treasury
notes. sotsaittes
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landed the captain and crew at St. John's, but they
killed the second engineer. A large number of
steamers have left New York in pursuit.
Congress has unanimously passed a vote of
thanks, and voted a medal to Gen. Grant.
It is rumoured that General Pleasanton has super-
seded General Meade, Generals Sedgwick and
Warren having both refused the appointment,
The New York
Tribune and Times applaud Pre-
sident Lincoln's Message.
The New York World thinks the Message
to be
good as an electioneering document, but considers
his plan for a reconstruction to be absurd.
The New York Herald believes the President's
plan for a reconstruction will be a failure.
News from Charleston to the 7th inst. reports
matters quiet.
Money tight. Gold, which has fluctuated since
Monday between 52 and 47, closed to-day 501 per
cent. prem. Exchange on London, Bankers' bills,
161; on Paris, 3.40. Stocks steady. New York
Centrals 132, Illinois Centrals 1161, Erie 1047,
Six per Cent. United States Bonds 1071. Cot-
ton—Heavy middling Upland, 78e. to 79c. Flour
advancing ; wheat, good inquiry ; corn, large spe-
culative sales; provisions, steady; coffee very firm;
sugar, limited demand; molasses very dull.
NEW Yong, Dec. 9, Afternoon.
Money tight. Gold 48! per cent. prem.

JAPAN.

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, Afternoon.

Advices received here from Kanagawa, Japan, to
Nov. 1, state that great excitement prevailed there.
Another European had been murdered. An armed
force from the fleet was guarding the city perma-
riently.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, Dec, 8, Afternoon,

Intelligence from Vera Cruz to the 21st ult. an-
nounces that the French had occupied Queretaro
without opposition. Juarez had left San Louis di
Potosi for Taucaucas. His army was scattered, de-
moralised, and offering no resistance.