The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-18 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE
WEEK.
Miles Opened, Receipts.
Railways. ---•-•"------11-1803. 1862.
'-1863. WI £ £
Belfast and N, Counties 136 13 2,264 2,224
663 674
Belfast and County Down 49 " 1, 869 2,376
Bl'th and Tyne
28
28 i L 6 948 7,0b1 I
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1,.--o„2'''' 16:210 14,968
Caledonian 230 .'"'.i - -
Cockermouth & Workington_ 84 „,17,9 371 293
Cork and Bandon 2O ‘''„, 254 213
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage.., 64 321 v 493 386
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall
534 '',44 34 372
Deeside l7 .... 1,436 1,483
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 r, 1,918 1,931
Dublin and Drogheda 75 '''' 186 -
Dublin and Meath .. . - ... - 23 ~--, 2,793 2,796
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid. 481 ",' 1048 1,030
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. - 31
..,'1 8,417 7.675
Edinburgh and cilasgow
Forth & Cl3;cle Junction ... 30 °`' 3,048 2,357
Furness, &o 5O .1,5, '
a 8,772 7,900
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union - 28.189 80,016
Great Northern
330 330 L
1 884 1,869
Great North of' Scotland ... -,Ai '489 363
tat. IN °Min. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7ll ..,,7 8,806 8,177
'R.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3544
Great Western 10564 10"041
s. 1 240
6,3,,2951 66.174
Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 731 „,-._ ,
Irish North-Western 145 145 4 ••,78s 1.878 - - Irish South-Eastern 254 2511 34.174
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 395} 38,479
79 181
Limerick and Ennis-.
Limerick and Foynes 261 26 737 60_3
Lianelty 4 4
London & North-Western
11356'
101,549 101,' 44
2 202 2,070
London and Blackwall 5l 51 --, 97 079
London & South-Western ..• 450/ 4002 1:5,921 •
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2.0/ 2115 21,293 22,103
London, Chat ham, & Dover 724 724 5,647 5,986
Do. Metropolitan hxtension 104 _ 1,300 -
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Han.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 94 04 3,400 1,202
Ilaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 3l _ 2,0 ,3 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 614 40 33 40,005
Midland GL in Westn. of ird.: 2;i911 1924 4,956 4•999
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 t 9 ~ 358 2,398
-
North British, JEdin., Perth
and Dundee
4
N-Eastern and New. & Car 8941 8-81 44,117 42,233
North London 9 9 3,469 3,446
North Staffordshire 254 252 '8,016 7.769
Uswestry and Newton... 59 42 1,093 v9l
Rhy_mney
194 191 779 758.1
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 62 2,050 2,011
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1321 5,700 5.228
Somerset and Dorset 394 assi 134 337
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306 24,766 25,061
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 55 55 5,778 5,468
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 251 254 2,0,18 1,i,97
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 303 399
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,250 1,213
West Cornwall 271 271 731 704
W. H artlepool Harbr. &Rail..
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 693 385
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 875 668
Whitehaven & Furness Jun :55 35 841 602
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,272 1,237
Austrian B2B 828 30,310 37,943
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 261 3CO 314
Bombay, Barodae& Cen. India 1851 1324 3,221 877
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1614 1614 2,296 1,487
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 3,452 2,911
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 5,082 4,424
Eastern of France
1 Mast Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1690 18,559 13,605
Great Indian Peninsula 495 4371 9,570 7,492
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,653 4,639
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 345 9,120 8,356
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 4OO 435 16,878 14.430
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 643 691 52,918 49,900
Norwegian Trunk
I" ?,1,1
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 120,905 1y1:31(33
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 58,530 '
Pernambuco 774 -- 767
Royal Danish 69 69
68 e.e 1,2564 561:0401
Sambre and Meuse
1420 . 1315 51.227 27,90
South Austrian . 777 777 24,408 60,88
Southern of France ...
' 196 92 9,719 491
Victorian
25 25 792
988
4 210
Welland.
75 75 °, ‘4O 389
W. and N.W. of Fran
West Flanders
758 758 42303 '
France

The Peace Democrats, who promise speedily to
absorb the greater portion of the community, are
not, however, quite idle. The invasion that stirs
them to no martial ardour stirs them to demand en
immediate armistice, and to support the demand
by a course of reasoning which proves that the love
of liberty has not yet been trampled out of the
heart of the American people by all the measures
which Mr. Lincoln's Administration and his brutal
military satraps have adopted for the purpose.
Three important meetings have been held since
General Lee's occupation of Northern soil, which
show how the current of the popular feeling has
begun to flow, or rather to rush—the one at River-
bead, in Long Island, which was attended by up-
wards of 3,000 people; the second at a place called
Dingman's Ferry, in Pike county, Pennsylvania
near the conterminous lines of the States of New
Yurk, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and which
yeas attended by delegations from the Peace Demo-
cracy of each of the three, estimated to number
12,000 persons; and the third at Middletown in the
State of New York. The resolutions adopted at the
first were an able, logical, consistent, and courageous
exposition of principles which, if adopted now, would
end the war immediately, and which, if acted upon
by Mr. Lincoln when he came into office, would
have rendered the war impassible. While recognis-
ing the Federal Constitution as an eminently just
and well-balanced embodiment of political wisdom,
they denied that it warranted coercion against any
State that chose to secede from a Union which, in
the estimation of the people and the Legislature and
regularly constituted authorities of such State, had
ceased to be desirable or in accordance with its
wishes or interests. "If from any cause, real or
imaginary," said the first resolution, " any one or
more cf the States of the Union, in the exercise of
that Sovereignty which is their highest attribute
and the tole ground of their existence as States,
shall see fit to withdraw from the obligations im-
posed and the benefitsconferred by the Constitution,
we recognise no grant of power in that instrument
to the Federal Government, created by it, or to the
combination of Stales left after such a secessien, to
compel such seceding State or States to return to
a Union which they have deliberately repudiated,
and which, deriving its whole life from the princi-
ple of consent, dies on the instant that consent is
withdrawn." This is clear and emphatic. It is the
doctrine which the South has made good at the
cannon's mouth ; and which to all present appear.
ante will be made good by similar agencies at the
North and the North-West, if the Federal Govern-
ment do not seize the favourable moment before it
have been too greatly humiliated to propose that
peace with the South which may otherwise be ex-
torted. The second resolution affirmed in a similar
spirit that the State of New York was a sovereign
power, subject only to the Constitution of the
United States, so long as her people shall elect to be
governed by it. The filth resolution declared,
" That the dictates of a common humanity, the best
interests of the entire country, and the good repute
of a republican form of government demanded a
cessation of hostilities in this iratricidal war, and
neither false pr;cle nor political etiquette should
stand in the wuy of a possible mutual reconciliation
or reconstruction of the Government." The eighth
denied the constituiioual legality of the Conscrip-
tion Act, and called upon Governor Seymour to ar
rest its execution within his jurisdiction until the
question of its validity had been decided upon be
the Supreme Court, pledging the meeting to sup
port the Governor in any justifiable steps he reigui
take to resist so palpable en infraction of the Cot,-
stitution of the State of New York. Other resolu-
tions denounced the attempts of the Federal Ad-
ministration to suppress the right of the discussion,
and signalised fur particular odium the illegal ar-
rest and exile of M.t. Vallandigham, as an outrage
not only on all the principles on which American
institutions are founded, but as a gross invasion of
the rights of the Sovereign State of Ohio, by the
Constitution and organic law of which it wasret::
preesly enacted that no citizen should be transr
same. The resolutions are in every
way
tieor nand.
out of the State for offences committed within the
and are palpably the work of nOll2
remarkable
for the presence of Mr. Fernandoo
the
argu.
The two other meetings were chiefly
the reiteration by that gentlemeavnenf
though peace
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solution and nearly
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mination of this dreadful conflict?" Air. Wood was
hopeful that not many months, or even weeks,
canttthhh eee
subjects
-Abe 'en American
brought
would pass before the exhausted people would
realise the impossibility of any longer continuance of

New York continues apathetic, and gold—snirabde
dicta—continues to fall, although the " Waterloo "
of the war commenced at Gettysburg on Wednesday,
with great loss to the Federals, and was renewed on
Thursday and yesterday with results as yet unknown.
The apathy is. not to be explained, except on the
supposition that the popular disgust with the war is
so excessive that most people would be glad of a Con-
federate victory, provided only it were great and de-
cisive enough to bring peace in its train. The fall in
gold, in face of actual and prospective disaster, is
only to be accounted for by the fact that specula-
tion in stocks has, to a great extent, superseded
that in the pr'cious meals; and tht.t Mr. Chase
has it in his power to bear the market whenever
he pleases within a margin of four or five per cent.
Latterly, whenever the news from the seat of war
has been ominous of impending evil, gold has gone
down, because the agents of the Treasury, acting on
instructions from headquarters, have gone into the
market offering it for sale in ten times greater amounts
that anybody wished to buy it, or than the legiti-
mate wants of foreign commerce required. But it is
obvious that Mr. Chase's powers in this line are
limited, and that the barometer of men's fears, es
marked by gold, compared with paper money, based
upon a credit that may be overthrown in an hour,
is only subject to manipulation of this kind in com-
paratively calm weather. When the storm bursts
Mr. Chase will have no more power to control it
than he has to control the physical convulsions of
the atmosphere.
Much alarm is represented as prevalent in Wash-
ington and Baltimore, but New York cares little.
The shops are closed to-day in honour of the
" Fourth of July," the flags are waving from all the
vesssels in the harbour, and from the church steeples
and public buildings and private dwellings of
Broadway in the mode customary with this great
city when it makes bolyday. The steamboats are
with pleasure seekers betaking themselves to Long
Branch, to Staten island, to Long Island, to the
Highlands of the Hudson, to the pleasant shores of
the Sound, to every place within easy distance,
where weary men of business and toil can have
day's rural enjoyment with their wives and chil-
dren, and forget alike their private care and their
public sorrow. The little boys swarm in all the
streets, letting off squibbs and crackers; for the
juvenile heart of the American population Indepen-
dence-day answers to Gay Faux-day
in England,
and is commemorated with riot and fireworks, with
this difference that American impatience does not
-
wait for night to indulge.in pyrotechny, but cool
mences it with the earliest dawn of days
to the
sore annoyance of everybody but the boys and the
blackguards. Mr. Lincoln
his part in celebration of thew" t
have done
day
whichthe success.
recalls
to the American mind the triumph by making
tul rebellion of George Washington of
a speech in Philadelphia in condemnation
consequence
a countrymen,
of tbesi,cond rebellion of
oce of the imminent
but was compelled, in Wse_agsruee;
the pleasureand
to forego
his own gunboats
e
ou
danger of Philadelphia,
keep within easy distance
the Potomac. There
is to be a great Democratic
meeting this evening at the Academy of Music, at
which Governor Seymour, of New
York, and ex-
Connecticut, have
Governor Seymour, of promised
to attend.
Doubtless these eminent Democratic
chiefs—neither of whom ever utters a word of
spread eagleism," or any kind of buncombe—will
;peak to their countrymen in a manner befitting the
real memories of the day, and the awful crisis of the
national fortune, in which for the 87th time it has
dawned over a country, no longer free, happy, or
united, but rent in twain, as Washington feared and
Jefferson foresaw ; its liberties
and its fairest regions lost or perishing,
deluged with fratricidal
blood, as Daniel -Webster
sablimest as well predicted in some of the
as most mournful words that ever
tell from the lips of
a statesman.

CONFESSION OF MURDER.-A soldier of the 50th
Regiment, named Louis Sayers, stated a few days since to
Provofit-Sergeant Wort, of the 22d Regiment, that he could
net rest, and be wished to be given into the hands of the
police for the murder of a girl named Ellen Smith, in
Epping Forest. He said that he had been living with the
Young woman in London, that she was 14 years of age, and
that she pressed him se much to marry her that on the 27th
of September last he took her down on an excursion to
Epping Forest, and while there he stabbed her with a knife,
and buried the body in the forest, in a spot which he knew
well, and could point out. After consideration he was
given over to the police, who are at present investigating
the affair. The West Sussex Gazette says, Louis Sayer, the
soldier who accused himself of the murder of a young
woman, has again been brought before the magistrates.
The whole affair now turns out to be a hoax, for Sayers,
when taken before the Epping magistrates, refused to say
aword about it, and was sent back to Parkhurst prison under
oseort, to be dealt with by the military for the trouble and
expenses he has caused.

purchase, vice R. R. iNi‘Queen, 'transferred-to 'the 16th
Foot,
50th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Thomas Waring, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Richmond, promoted.
52d Foot-. Lieut. Robert Westropp Ellis to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Walter James Stopford, who retires; En-
sign H enry Fredk. Barter to be Lieu enant, by purchase,
vice Ellis ; Ensign Francis Edward Dowler to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Henry Richard Beattie, who
retires; Ensign Robert Vm. Blackwood, from the 96th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Barker; Gentleman Cadet Wm.

Augustus FredjriCk Biakeney, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice bowler.
59th Foot—Lieut. Launcekt Charles Brown to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Charles Hotham, who retires; Ensign
Patrick Chalmers to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Brown ; James George Bruce, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Chalmers.
60th Foot—Lieut. William Henry Moseley to be Adjutant,
vice Lieutenant James Arthur Morrab, promoted ; Lieut.
Astley Fellows Terry to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant
James Forbes, who has retired.
64th Foot—Lieut. Artemas Thomas Aglen, from the Ist
ot, to be Lieutenant, vice Janvrin, who exchanges ;
Ensign John Gee to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Arthur Richard Alston, who retires ; Robert Barlow
maiming, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice

Gee.
69th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Staples Bond, from the 36th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Daubeny, who exchanges.
82d Foot—Gentleman Cadet James Bird Hutchinson, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Charles Neville, promoted.
83d Foot—Captain Lawrence Mackenzie, from the 14th
Hussars, to be Captain, receiving a portion of the former
Blurt on,
difference between cavalry and infantry, vice Campbell,
who exchanges; Gentleman Cadet.R.aymond Oliver de
mer, deceased.
Montmorency, trom the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, without purchase. vice J. C. Cowslade, trans-
ferred to the 34th Foot ; Gentleman Cadet John
from the Royal Military College,
. to be Ensign, without
87pthurFchooatseiminasinarccelehsioomnatao
Casey
ytennt Bry
Lyons, trom the 20th
Blackwood, transferred to the 5824e9
Foot, to be Major, vice Cobbe, vit!) exchanges,
College, to be Ensign,
96th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William N.ewbigging from
itlauraym 13 bY purchase,
vice theice Royalitober
tMlivl i
Foot.
Gentleman Foot— Cadet Stanley Napier Rob
from the Royal Military College, to be E -
erts,
104th
Robert Campbell Richardson, promoted. nstgn, vice