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price than they could hate been obtained at if the
Goic,rpment naval officers had been employed to
purchase then).
The proeeedings in Congress on Jan. 15 and 16
were unimportant.
On the 17th, in the Senate; the joint resolution
from the house declaratory of the purpose of Con-
gress to impose taxes which will yield 150,000,000
of revenue was adopted, Mr. Powell alone Toting
against it.
In the House of Representatives Mr. Stevens re'
ported the West Point Academy Appropriation, and
stated that ho had been informed that numerous
libelling letter writers had been finding fault with
the Committee of Ways and Means for not reporting
an equitable tax bill. The committee, however, ho
said, were gathering facts, and worked for hours
after attending to business in the house. He desired
to say the criticisms and libels of the press would
not make them move one minute faster than a due
regard to public interests would permit.
The Fortification Appropriation Bill as originally
reported was passed. It appropriates between five
and six millions dollars for completion of defensive
works already commenced.
No definite financial plan appears yet to have
been determined upon by the Government.
A bill is now before Congress punishing with
death persons guilty of fraud in army contracts.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Times states
that Mr. Cobden has written a letter to General
Scott, expressing his opinion that if the rebellion is
not crushed before April next, England will be com-
pelled by the popular clamour of the manufacturing
interests to open the cotton ports.
The New York Pribune of the 19th publishes the
following _ _

" Washington, Jan. 17.

" Very important news from Mexico has been re-
ceived. Before the adjournment of Congress Juarez
formed a new and stronger Cabinet which gave
general satisfaction. It is constituted as follow :
State, General Doblado : Interior, Senor Yerran ;
War, General Hinojosa ; Finance, Senor Gonzalez
Escheverria.

"The Department of Public Works is absorbed
,n that of Finance, and the Department of Justice in
,hat of the Interior.

" Senor Yerran was formerly Governor of Aguas-
calientes, and held the portfolio of the Interior in
Comonfort's administration.

" The new Minister of War, General Hinojosa,
played a distinguished part in the last revolution,

" The Minister of Finance is a new man from
State Zacatecas.

" Soon after his appointment, General Doblado,
in the name of his government, issued a proclama-
tion, closing the port of Vera Cruz, then in posses-
sion of the Spaniards, to foreign trade, recommend-
ing the governors of states to respect the rights of
foreign residents, and give them as little cause of
complaint as possible, increasing the regular army
to 52,000 men, and calling for as many volunteers
as the Government can properly furnish from their
respective states. It is believed that under this call
150,000 troops will soon be in the field. Juarez
was vested with full dictatorial power by Congress
before its adjournment, and is heartily supported
by the people.
" It is believed the Spaniards will find few allies
in the country. Comonfort has offered his
services to the Government, which has accepted
them. A general amnesty has been offered to the
church party. The reactionists who still remain
have almost all been subdued, or voluntarily yielded
their allegiance. Marquez and Zuloaga, with a few
followers, are still in the mountains. Lozada was
killed in battle, and his forces were destroyed by
Governor Ogezon, of the State of Jalisco. Bentron
and Cajiga have been captured, and their forces
dispersed or taken prisoners.
" Thus supplied with men, the Government has
provided means for the war by laying two direct
taxes, which although heavy, were well received
by the peopl9, who are desirous, at any cost, of
repelling the invader.
" Very likely the first battle will be at Tampico,
which Juarez has determined to defend against the
expected attack of the French."
The following is from the New York Tithes of the
19th ult.:—

"We have from Washington this morning the
first indication that a forward movement of the
grand army of the Potomac may be looked for to
occur soon. A general order has been issued by
Gen. M'Clellan notifying all persons engaged in the
military service to hold themselves in readiness.
The fact that about 900 Government waggons,
drawn by four and six horses, were reviewed in
Washington yesterday is also significant.
"The Burnside expedition, however it may task
our ingenuity to determine its destination, is evi-
dently a much greater puzzle to the enemy, besides
being a great source of apprehension. The papers
of Virginia and North Carolina exhibit a general
uneasiness on the subject. If the preparations at
Fortress Monroe indicate that Norfolk is the place
aimed at, our own curiosity, as well as that of the
rebels, will soon be satisfied. Whether their
apprehensions will be allayed as readily is another
question."
A despatch, dated 12 miles from Columbus, from
the correspondent of the Chicago Times, states that
on the 16th a heavy reconnaissance was made by
General Grant, which advanced to within five miles
of Columbus without discovering the enemy. The
result of the reconnaissance was a reliable know-
ledge of all the routes leading out of Columbus to.
wards Blandville and other towns. Deserters from
the rebels - represent that the force at Columbus is
40,000 men, but this is doubtless an exaggeration.
From other authority it is ascertained that the
rebels were in a state of great excitement on ac-
count of Gen. Grant's movement down the river.

The reports from Cairo a few days ago in regard
to the forward movement from that point seem to
have been exaggerated. There was a movement of
some 7,000 troops as far as Mayfield Creek, about
half-way between Cairo and Columbus ; and prepa-
rations are going on rapidly for the general advance
down the river. But it will be some time vet be-
fore things are ready for the assault on Columbus.
Another and minor, though hardly less important
movement than that, is evidently on foot.
The Wheeling Intelligencer learns by passengers
arriving from Paterson's Creek on the preceding
evening, that rebels to the number of 2,500 had oc-
cupied Romney. On the night of the evacuation
of Romney 400 sick had to be removed, which ac-
counts for the want of transportation, and the neces-
sity of destroying tents and provisions.
We learn from the Upper Potomac that Jackson
and his army 'nave disappeared entirely from the
vicinity of Hancock, and it is believed they have
retired to Winchester. The whole river line is re-
ported quiet.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writing from Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky,
under date of Jan. 10, notices the departure of Gen.
Thomas, with six or seven regiments, for Somerset,
or in the pursuit of Zollicoffer. The Fifth Ken-
tucky,Col. Beatty, were at Bucksville, en the Cum-
berland River, 20 miles below Columbia.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JAN. 21.

Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 32c. Breadstuff; tend•
ing downwards. Stocks heavy, New York Centrals, 831
Illinois, 62k. Erie, 34k. Exchange on London, 112.
Gold at 21 per cent. premium.

THE HARTLEY DISASTER.—The National Choral
Society will shortly give a grand performance of the ora-
torio of " The Creation" for the benefit of the widows and
orphans of Hartley. The chorus of this society, numbering
nearly 700 voices, will be assisted by a complete band se-
lected from the Philharmonic and Opera orchestras. A
committee of noblemen and gentlemen is now being fermi
to assist in carrying out the views of Mr. G. W. Martin, the
conductor of the society. Ladies and gentlemen willing to
co-operate are requested to send in their names to the
offices of the National Choral Society, 11-15, Exeter-hall.

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TUE CONFEDERATE FORCES.

The _Richmond Examiner of the 16th has another
expose of the position of the Confederate forces
‘, For a period uncertain in duration, whether of
days, weeks, or months, the season commands a
truce. This is the true winter. The first campaign
is ended, and a time has come when it is no longer
unsafe to review results and consider with candour
'he situation of our affairs. The campaign has been
-pensive. We have gained nothing, for
strictly
we hate attempt, -
4 no gain. -That we have lost
comparatively itte e. al territory during the
; I„, the difficulties of
latter six mr,n;lis is due tfrsql
invasion in a country like this, treeßfL4b2 tY for lime
to prepare half a million of soldiers, the courage of
the Southern Volunteers, and the individual cowar-
dice of the Northern mercenaries. It is, however,
undeniable that the defensive policy, besides the
moral stain on an army that awaits repeated and
endless attack, and the exhaustion of a country
which is the scene of war, has given the enemy an
uninterrupted opportunity to prepare a gigantic
host, and to arrange it at leisure, for the full trial
of relative strength when the seasons permit the
resumption of hostilities. While the politic
leaders of the South have been reposing in dreams
of approaching peace, and while our accomplished
captains of Engineers have been expending their
remarkable scientific ingenuity in the erection of
works as wonderful and almost as extensive, and
quite as valuable, as the Chinese wall, to resist in•
vading forces from a given direction, the enemy
have gradually and at leisure gathered up their im-
mense resources and concentrated their tremendous
energies to envelope the Confederacy With the armies
and fleets, and to penetrate the interior from some
one of many alternative points. Although:they caii
now do nothing, they have their geneial programme
in perfect.order for execution when the weather
changes in the ordinary course of the earth
round the sun ; and at this moment we find our-
selves in the face of superior forces wherever we
lock, whether to the North, the East, or the
West, or the South itself. General Sydney John-
ston has to strain every nerve to prevent the
military as well as geographical heart of the country
from slipping out of his grasp. Generals Joseph
Johnston and Beauregard are held by 11I‘Clellan on
the Potomac as in a vice. A gigantic armament is
ready to attempt the descent of the Mississippi and
their fleets on the Atlantic seacoast and the Gulf
are too freshly before the public attention to require
remembrance. Such are the fruits of a policy purely
defensive. Without even the hesitation which
would come of a possible interruption, the enemy
have thus surrounded the Southern Confederacy;
and, if permitted to repeat as often as may be de-
sired their efforts to penetrate its heart, they will
necessarily attain the place and the time where
success awaits them. There is now but one chance
of escape from the net that has been coolly drawn
around us ; it is to concentrate our energy on one
point and cut it through ; to convert:our defensive
into an offensive war, and transfer the scene of at
least a part of these hostilities to the enemy's own
country. Situated as we are, it is only possible at
one point, and that is Kentucky. If the force that
we are dispersing to the four corners of the conti-
nent every day, to meet new menaces, were col-
lected under the hand of General Sydney Johnston
till a column was formed sufficient to enable him to
manoeuvre with some possibility of success over the
plains of that region he might hurl back the array ,
in front of him at present, and penetrate the State
of Ohio. The attainment of this object would ren-
der worthless all the plans of the enemy. The circle
of armies would be in the condition of the constric
tor whose back has been broken, the scene of war
would be transferred to his own territory, and every
one who has witnessed the ravages of armies in an)
of the invaded districts of Virginia knows what a
priceless blessing is designated in that brief phrase.
He would be attacked beyond his defences. The
alarm and confusion of the United States would
paralyse its Government and its Generals, and the
entire arrangement, by which we suffer now and
dread great disasters in future would be imme-
diately reversed. We have pointed to the General
commanding the Confederate forces in Kentucky as
the person to whom this business should be intrusted,
because he is the only one in position, at this point
of the game, to undertake an advance on the enemy
with probabilities of success, even if sufficient forces
could be allotted to the others. No natural obstacles
encumbered his path as in the case of Polk and
Beauregard. A concentration of troops now em-
ployed on the sea-coast and at other points where
no vital blow can be either given or received is all
that is necessary to,him for effecting this great end,
To form such a concentration it will be necessary to
leave some portions of the frontier without other
protection than the inhabitants of the neighbouring
country can afford, but this will, in most cases, be
found more than sufficient against the attacks that
were only intended to withdraw our troops from
real points of strategy ; and, even if otherwise, they
must for a brief time be left to take their chance
till the blow that will relieve them, with the whole
Confederacy, can be struck where only it can be
delivered. At present General Johnston confronts
superior forces of the enemy under Buell, one of the
most cautious, painstaking, and able Generals on the
other side. General Buell has now, immediately in
front of Johnston, an army of 76,000 men, and can
bring to bear on us, at other given points, 30,000
more. What the Confederate commander has may
not be stated, but it is probably enough to hold his
present strong position against any numbers that
might attack him there. But the enemy has the
choice to attack him there, or to pass him on either
side, get to his rear, and cut off his supplies. This
he can do by leaving- a sufficient army in front of
General Johnston, while he can still send upon the
right or left flank a force as large as he leaves be-
hind. That this is the plan of Buell is now no
longer doubtful. He has placed a force of 8,000 men
at Glasgow, 30 miles to the eastward of Bowling-
green, threatening the rear of General Johnston,
while it is in easy supporting distance of two other
posts held in strong force by the enemy. If the plan
of Buell is successful, it may result in a great
disaster. To defeat him it is absolutely necessary
that more men should at once be sent to Bowling-
green. General Johnston must have a force sufficient
to attack Buell in front with good chance of success,
and by doing so will not only defeat his scheme on
the centre of the Confederacy, but immediately
transfer the war to the State of Ohio, and
thus save the whole South from the great
danger of being overrun in the fine weather of the
coming spring. We are satisfied that, beyond the
flittering possibilities of a foreign intervention, the
only rational hope we can entertain of a speedy ter-
mination of this war is to be found in an offensive
campaign across the Ohio, from the point that.
General Johnston now defends. The best line of
advance imaginable is to strike at the vitals of the
North, which are the Lake i
States—thats through
Kentucky. The country is a plain, the people not
actively hostile, supplies without stint, and the
great resource of the North is beyond. The enemy
understand this, and are making tremendous efforts
to secure Kentucky to them without the possibility
of escape. This season of inaction, from the incle-
mency of the skies, is a
precious boon of Providence
to us. We can now determine on a plan, and pre
pare for its execution in a short time, that will ren-
der naught and abortive all the costly and compli-
cated devices of the adversary."
The same
paper says :
gs The report of the keeper of Holywood Cemetery
that up to the 12th inst. MO Confederate soldiers
bad been buried at that place, was one well calcu-
lated to induce reflections of an unpleasant nature.
To account for this seeming excessive mortality
among our brave defenders we may state that to
within a very recent period it had been the practice
in the army of the Potomac to retain all sick and
disabled soldiers in the scanty and ill provided

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cause, they were past the power o Ciktia • "'-' i.
When the soldier was thus reduce -!.: -
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spatched to Richmond. It may in truthld stag
that -
that many who thus came were as good as dtad
on their arrival. The parties having charge of the
hospital here have shown neither want of atten-
tion •or skill. The soldiers, or many of
them, when received, were past hope. No
wonder that they died. The matter having
attracted the attention of those in authority,
steps have been taken tending to give the sick
soldier a chance for his life, as we learn it is not
contemplated in future to bundle them off
from Manassas after the ssnds of life have
so nearly run out as to leave the ~,tilject one
chance in a hundred of surviving the journey to
Richmond. A ,hospital. with 811 the necessary
adjuncts, hat; been established at or near Manassas.
is this all sick and disabled soldiers will be taken • •
for treatment. When sufficiently convalescent to
bear the fatigue of n journey to this place, aud not
L efore, he vi ill be sent down in the sick train to be
either cured, killed, or discharged here. This is as
it should be."

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S7'. 71102L1 S'S HOSPIYAL.

(From the Time' Gift Article.)
The following relates to the Charing-cross Bail-
way and St. Thomas's Hospital :--
" Charing-cross Railway, London.bridge Station,
Feb. 1, 1862.
"Sir,—The letter signed ' A,' inserted in your City
Article of Thursday last, being calculated to mislead the
public as to certain matters of fact in reference to the affairs
of the Charing-crone Railway and St. Thomas's Hospital,. I
have to request that you will do me the favour to insert •
the following corrections in the same place.
"1. The offer which your correspondent refers to as
having been made by the hospital a month ago, to give the
company possession of the land required for their purposes..'
was only made on the eXpress condition that the title of the
hospital was accepted, a proceeding which the Lord Chan-
cellor intimated, on giving his judgment upon the appeal
heard before him on Wednesday last, would be placing the 7,
company under duressc in this respect, and was a coursete
could not approve of. His fiords were, ttl4ase
" 'Motives of humanity-dictate that a reasonable 'tinfir"--": :
should be allowed to you to go, and, if I saw a proceeding
on the part of the company that really would interfere with
your having that reasonable time, that would, of course,
very much incline me against them ; but if I find a pro-
ceeding on your part which is to exclude them from every
portion of the land, until by the duresse of that exclusion
you have compelled them to adopt some course of conduct
for perfecting the title which you think it right to dic-
tate, that is a proceeding which I cannot altogether ap-
prove of.'
"2. With reference to the further statement of your
correspondent, that the governors obtained a resolution
from Parliament admitting the fact 'that the construction
of the railway must destroy the hospital,' I have only to
observe that the resolutions which stand recorded in the
Journals of Parliament are precisely to the contrary effect.
It is true the governors endeavoured to impress that view on
the minds of the committees, but whether they succeeded -
let the following resolution of the Commons' Committee
serve to indicate :
" The committee are unable to adopt the opinion of the
Governors of the Hospital,—that the construction of the
railway as proposed necessitates the entire removal of the
hospital to another site, however expedient such removal
may be; but the committee consider that it is a case for
liberal compensation, on account of the injurious effect on
the north wing as now occupied, the risk of some annoyance
being occasionally felt in other parts of the hospital, and the
probability of a rearrangement being required of the other
hospital premises. If the Governors should consent to the
compensation being named by the committee, they will
name a sum, or otherwise they will leave the case to the
operation of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, or to
arbitration, as the Governors may prefer. The committee,
moreover, think that in case the Governors shall accept
any of these propositions, and decide on not opposing the
Bill in its future stages, the expense hitherto incurred by
the Governors should be borne by the company.'
"It is also right to allude to another statement made id
your City Article of Saturday last, to the effect that a con-
siderable portion of the money required for the purchase of
the hospital property is reported to have been lent to the
company by the Bank of England for that purpose, on secu-
rity furnished by the South-Eastern Company. That report
is:entirely Without foundation.
" I am, Sir, yours truly,
"S. SMILES, Secretary.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH REVIVED.

(Frohl the Oliqyre,..)
There is reason to believe that attempts will
shortly be made to connect England with America
once more by the electric telegraph, and this time
with greatly increased prospects of permanent sue-
eess. Re cent occurrences have impressed the go-
vernments of England and of the United States with
the enormous importance of such a means of com-
munication, and it is not too much to say that, had
an electric telegraph existed between the two con-
tinents, the affair of the Trent would not have been
attended with those serious apprehensions which
we have witnessed ; would have saved the vast ex-
penditure which our government incurred ; would
have prevented the depreciation of property in both
countries to the amount of millions, and that inter-
ference with commerce and manufactures which
resulted from the ill-judged and unauthorised con-
duct of Captain Wilkes. The President and govern-
ment of the United States are fully sensible of the
importance and value of telegraphic communication,
and of the possibility of providing it, that they have
decided upon giving every support in their power
to any well considered project of that kind. The
government of the United States have in the most
liberal manner offered to subscribe one-half of the
sum whicfi would be required for making the cable,
and give the use of vessels of their navy in assisting
to lay it, provided the British government will
grant the remaining portion of the sum. Mr. Cyrus
Field, who took so active a part in reference to the
former Atlantic telegraph, has, we are informed,
undertaken a mission to this country, for the pur-
pose of inducing the British government to act in a
spirit of equal liberality and co-operating with this
friendly offer on the part of the United States. As
further evidence of the friendly spirit which has
actuated this offer the government of the United
States are perfectly content that the telegraph
should have its terminus on British territory, as
that will afford the nearest point of communication
with England or Ireland. Any arrangements
that would be entered into between the two
governments would of course provide for the
efficient working and use of the line, and would
guarantee its protection by both countries in the
event of hostilities. We are at a loss to see upon
what grounds our Government can refuse to respond
favourably to the offer, which, if not already made,
will shortly be submitted to its consideration. The
cost of the cable, calculated with the greatest
amount of care, and with every improvement, would
not be greater than that which was expended on
the line from Malta to Alexandria, and which was
wholly defrayed by the Government. Our interests
with the American continent are not less important
than those with India, and even if greater import-
ance were to be attached to our Eastern possessions,
it would only render still more necessary a line
across seeing that, with the telegraphs
which
already
h
't
on the American continent, and
tLtylan exist
iwhich now extend to the Pacific coast, it wou!d
afford a means of rapid and valuable communication
from the West with China and our Indian empire.

The house of Mr. G. P. 'colas, at Manchester,
which suspended during the crisis among the Greek firms
last year, has resumed business, having paid all liabilities
in full, with interest, thus adding another to the numerous
instances of the intrinsically substantial character of the
business and assets of these firms.
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