The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Feb. 18.—Stock has been very freely
offered to-day, and Threes, for the Account, are now
at 70f. 45c. Railway Shares are also in some cases
lower.

The following are the last quotations :-
4t per per Cents 100 10; Credit Foncier 1430
Do, end month.... Belgian 4f lOOl
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 45 Roman
Bank Shares 3070 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 760 Spaniih Threes 5O 25
Do. Account 762 50 , Home Debt .. 47 50

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

The Cunard steamship Europa has arrived with
advices from Boston to the sth, Halifax to the 7th,
and from New York, by telegraph via the latter
port, to the evening of the 6th. In the Senate, on
the 3d, a petition was presented from the Legisla-
ture of Mississippi asking that as slavery is the
cause of the war it be swept from the land. A peti-
tion was also presented from citizens of New York,
asking that Congress take speedy measures to repeal
the present Reciprocity Treaty between Canada
and the United States. Mr. Chandler, of Michigan
(Republican), offered a resolution that the Commit-
tee on Commerce inquire into the expediency of
immediately notifying Great Britain that the Reci-
procity Treaty is not reciprocal, and that it be ter-
minated at the earliest possible moment. Laid
over. Mr. Simmons, of Rhode Island (Republi-
can) from the Committee on Patents, reported back
the joint resolution appropriating 3,000 dollars for
the purchase of cotton seed for general distribution,
with an amendment appropriating 1,000 dollars for
the purchase of 'tobacco seed; Mr. Carlile, of
Virginia (Union), thought the cotton seed would
not produce a profitable crop in the North. He
moved to postpone the subject until next January.
Mr. Pomeroy said that cotton Lad been raised in
Kansas, and he hoped the resolution would pass,
as they had no seed there. Mr. Pierce,
of Maryland (Opposition), was satisfied that
cotton could be a profitable crop as far north
as the southern boundary of Maryland. He had
some experience in raising cotton. Mr. Carlisle's
.motion was rejected, and the amendment of the
Committee adopted, and the resolution passed. Mr.
Anthony, of Rhode Island (Republican), offered a
resolution that the Committee on Patents inquire
into the expediency of making an appropriation to
aid in the experiment of manufacturing flax as a
substitute for cotton.—Adopted.
On the 4th the bill providing for iron-clad
steamers was referred back to the Naval Committee.
The motion for the expulsion of Mr. Bright, of
Indiana, was again discussed.
In the House of Representatives on the 3d, the
Treasury Note Bill was considered in committee of
the whole, and Mr, Yallandigham, of Ohio, made a
speech in opposition to it, on the ground that it
proposed to mike the notes a legal tender. He was
followed by Mr. Hooper, of Massachusetts, advo-
cating its passage.

On the 4th the house went into committee of the
whole on the Treasury Note Bill, but arrived at no
decision.

A financial crisis was anticipated by the Treasury
Department. The Secretary of the Treasury, in a
letter to Mr. Spaulding, dated the 33, says :
" Immediate action is of great importance. The
Treasury is nearly empty. 1 have been obliged to
draw for the last instalment of the November loan.
So soon as it is paid I fear the banks generally will
refuse to receive the United States' Treasury notes.
You will see the necessity of urging the bill through
without delay."
The House Committee of Ways and Means had
very nearly completed the Tax Bill, and it would
soon be reported. Most of the articles of general
consumption would be moderately taxed, while
higher rates would be charged on distilled liquors
and other articles of luxury, on legacies and pro-
bates, on passengers by railroads and other con-
veyances, on newspapers, and on telegraphic mes-
sages. It was expected that from these sources, and
from the ordinary sources, a reveille of at least
150,000,000 dols. annually -would be secured.
A letter from the Federal Camp at Budd's Ferry,
Maryland, gives a dismal account of the state of the
roads :

" Mud adhesive, mud tenacious, mud knee-deep,
mud intolerable, mud indescribable prevails every-
where. The parade grounds, the camp streets, the
naked floors, the sentry beats, and the military and
public roads, all present a most ungenial and aggra-
vating picture of forlorn nature. The idea of moving
an army in this vicinity, or, in fact, anywhere on
the Potomac below Washington, is preposterous.
A regiment alone could not be moved three miles
a day, without baggage. Every footstep made in
the track of another but sinks deeper and deeper in
the yielding soil. A month at least of unbroken
dry weather will scarcely suffice to render the roads
passable for the movement of our army. Freezing
weather will not answer the purpose now. The mud
is too deep to allow more than a crust to be formed
from any probable cold snap we shall experience
this winter. The effect of one warm day would
again render the soil as impassable as before,
and all military movements would perforce
suddenly terminate, and communication with
our stores be rendered impracticable. We
are now nearly all comfortably quartered in our
winter quarters, where there is every prospect of
remaining until spring. Notwithstanding the vigi-
lant efforts of General Hooker to prevent the intru-
sion of intoxicating drinks into his department, it
finds its way hither in no inconsiderable quantities,
under various disguises, such as patent medicines,
pickles, preserves, &c. The latest dodge, however,
has been, perhaps, the most successful, in which the
most villanous whisky has been put up in tin cans,
sealed, and freely dispensed among the soldiers as
preserved oysters.'

- The receipt of a flag of truce from General John-
ston, of the Confederate army, with despatches for
the President, had given rise to many surmises,
more especially as a conference was held at the War
Department, Mr. Seward, the President, and General
M'Clellan being present.
Federal soldiers dying in camp hospital having
been buried promiscuously, to the distress of their
friends, a committee had been appointed to consider
the subject of providing a national cemetery for
those dying in the national cause.
On the night of the 31st 30 vessels ran past the
Confederate batteries on the Potomac without being
molested.

It was probable that the Burnside expedition had
been engaged. A communication received at the
Navy Department from Captain Marston, of the
United States' steamer Roanoke, dated Hampton
Roads, Ist inst., states that the captain of the bark
Gemsboek, from Beaufort, North Carolina, on the
28th tilt., reports having heard heavy firing in the
rear of Beaufort on that day; and that on the
morning of the 30th, while off Currituck Inlet, he
also heard heavy firing in the direction of Roanoke
Island.

NEW YORK, FEB. 6 (Evening).
General Beauregard's official report on the battle
of Manassas has been published.
According to this report the loss of the Confede-
rates was 1,800 killed and wounded. The effective
force of the Cor federate army of the Potomac was
21,000 men and 29 guns.
The report concludes as follows :
"In conclusion it is doubtless expected that
through this report my countrymen should be made
acquainted with some of the sufficient causes that
prevented the advance of our forces and prolonged
vigorous pursuit of the enemy to and beyond the
Potomac. The War Department has been fully
advised long since of all those clauses, some of
which only are proper to be here communicated.
An army which had fought like ours on that day
against uncommon odds, under a July sun, most of
the time without water and without food, except a
hastily snatched meal at dawn, was not in a condi-
tion for the toil of an eager, effective pursuit of an
enemy immediately after the battle. On the fol-
lowing day an unusually heavy and unintermitting
fall of rain intervened to obstruct our advance.
Added to this the want of a sufficient cavalry force
made an effective pursuit a military impossibility."
The New York Chamber of Commerce has unani-
mously passed resolutions to sustain the Govern-
ment in giving credit and currency to the 150,000,000
dole. legal tender notes until they can be placed on
a specie basis by the imposition of taxes adequate
to their redemption.

The Philadelphia .Enquirer says that it was re-
ported in Norfolk that the Burnsides expedition
had left Pamlico Sound, and proceeded further
South.

Southern accounts declare that no Fe.deral yes
sels have been seen in Pamlico Sound.

The New York journals of today (6th inst.) dis-
cuss fully the probability of foreign intervention in,

American affairs. The Journal of Commerce thinks
that the commercial interests of England and
France rule the moral interests of those countries,
and that it is evident that England will shortly be
urged to interfere, and that the only way to pre-
vent this is to show energy in crushing the rebel-
lion. The World considers that matters cannot re-
main long in their present position without the
recognition of the Southern Confederacy by the
European Powers. This danger can only be averted
by early victories. The New Fork Times thinks
that the Emperor Napoleon, in consequence Of
, petitions from the French commercial classes, may
make a conciliatory protest against the blockade,
but thinks this diplomatic correspondence will be
anticipated by the crushing of the rebellion, and
consequent cessation of the blockade. The Net°
York times says that Mr, Seward has promptly
declined to have his name used in connexion with
the next Presidential canvass, and says that severe
gentlemen of the Federal Administration shape the"
course with a too consistent reference to the peso'
bility of needing the suffrages of a re-united people•
These gentlemen should follow Mr. Seward $
example.
The Navy Department states that not more than
ten iron-clad gunboats can be built and equipped
this year. .

President Lincoln has granted three weeks' re-
spite to Captain Gordon of the slaver Erie, Nvb°
was to have been hung to-morrow morning (the 7th
inst.) The New York press unanimously urge the
carrying out of capital punishment.
The report of the committee discusses the extent
population, position, and resources of the Brit's];
North American provinces, together with the (VW
tion of including the right of the United States to
just reciprocity, and fiscal reasons for at, American
or continental system. "The value of Canadian
productions," says the report, "has increased 20 per
cent. by this treaty." America taxes Canadian pro•
ductions 25,000 dollars per annum. Canada talceil
American productions 1,000,000 dollars, and 13°
also an unfair system of dissemination again°
America.

The report was recommitted for the further action
of the committee.
The Californian Legislature has assumed the col-
lection of the United States' direct taxes apportioned
to California.