The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-30 00:00:00

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT.

In reply to Lord HoTusm,
Mr. M. GIBSON said he would bring cn this bill on
Monday next.

PURCHASE IN THE ARMY.

Sir DEL. EVANS, on the motion for going into com-
mittee, moved that, in the opinion of this house, no further
postponement ought to take place in giving effect to the
promises of Government, that the command of regi-
ments should no longer be purchasable, and that the
promotions to that rank should henceforth be regulated by
election upon the responsibility of the Commander-in-Chief.
The hon. and gallant member, who stated that he was
labouring under ill-health, was very indistinctly heard, was
understood to urge the usual argument which ho has
previously advanced on this subject.
Sir G. LEWIS said that the committee who had elabo-
rately investigated this subject in 1860, and which ir.
Sidney
Herbert, and other distinguished persons, had recommended
that the commission of lieutenant-general should not be
obtained by purchase, but be in the appointment of the
Commander-in-Chief. Some other recommendations had
been made. It as decided that 12 new regiments should be
created, and it was thought it would be desirable that before
making any alteration in the system they should have the
practice of non-purchase worked in these regiments in which
it was to be tested. Any alteration in the system would be
attended with groat difficulties in detail that would
practically render it impossible to be carried
at the present day. (Hear.) He also reminded the house
of the expense of any immediate alteration, which would
amount to £7,106,000, for reimbursing the persons who had
purchased commissions in the army. He contended that there
was no analogy between the naval and military service to
justify the applying the rule of ono to the other, for they
were quite dissimilar. He adverted to the fact that in Ind'
where the practice was voluntrY, and not sancioned by 19:
it prevailed to a considerable extent. The rightg honour-
support
by moving the
able gentleman went through different other
support of his views, and said that he must orpoptionsdesthine
motion of the hon. and gallant mernber
previous question.

[LEFT SITTING.]

LONDON GAZETTE.—Thts Evening.

The followinlgNGDe InAera? FoFrdleCrEisO'sulledlYby2the Government
of India, regarding
concurrently with thea payment of prize money in England,
General Order by his payment in India, is published for
India in Council,
ge-
neral information.
William,
si
liu Excellencyth e i‘ii l
it
thaer
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part
m Governor-Generaleht.. (N oo
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342, dated Fort 1
England, liara, March 21, 1862.).
tHhetn. the Governor-General in Council is
The Rightwith
to law clown thef
pleased view of payments of prize money being
made inconcurrently with payments in Indio,
I. That no officneirinworinsgolrduileers :tilTall receive his share in
England, so long as the head-quarters of his regiment shall
be in India, unless he produce a certificate, in the case of
am officer, showing that his share has not been paid in,lndia,
or
unless his name, in the case of a non-commissioned offi-
cer or soldier, be found on a roll of unpaid shares forwarded
from India.
11. That on the embarkation of the head-quarters of any
regiment or battery from India, payments in India shall
cease. Nominal rolls shall be forwarded to England, and
thenceforward no payment shall be made in India, to officers
or soldiers of that regiment or battery, but upon the pro-
duction of certificates that their shares have not been, and
will not be paid in England.
111. With regard, however, to corps already proceeded
to England, which, before embarkation drew prize money
for all except volunteers to other regiments in India, the
foregoing clause shall be in abeyance for two months from
this date; claims on behalf of the vol
of unteers aro ttheo be
corps
sub-
mitted within that period by the officers
with or
which the volunteers have joined.
IV. As regards corps proceeded to England,
corps,
without having, drawn prize money, and in which c.
officers have assigned their shares to individuals residing
in India, tho shares in question will ceased to be payable
in India on the expiration of two months from this date, at
the end of which period, if not claimed in this country by
that time, they will be included in
rule wil a list of unpaid shares
for transmission to England. The same l apply to
1 officers of regiments in India who have left the cottutry,

but have assigned their shares to individuals residing in, India.

V. In ELI cases of deceased officers and soldiers, who have
left no representatives in India, as also of soldiers who re-
turned to England prior to the commencement of distribu-
tion, and of officers who similarly returned without having
assigned their shares in India, the fact of their decease, or
of their having so returned, is to be notified in a complete
copy of the Prize Rolls to be forwarded by the General
Prize Committee to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital.
VI. In the cases of regiments which returned to England
prior to the commencement of distribution, similar complete
Rolls will be sent to India. These Rolls will specify in
every case whether the shares are to be paid in India or by
the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital in England.
2. To enable the General Prize Committee to send to the
home authorities the lists of all unpaid shares, including
those of men of both line and local forces who may leave
India while the distribution is being made, without having
received their shares of prize—officers commanding regi-
ments and batteries are requested to send to the said com_
mittee within a fortnight of the receipt of this order, prize
lists of non-commissioned officers and men invalided and
discharged and sent to England, and of deceased men 'who
have lett no heirs in India, and whose estates have been
sent to England.

WHITEHALL, MAY 13.
BaTrtee, LofoNrdo.Cshzanociedilßorrohada-sstarpeepto,icntite3d,,
Gentleman,Hobart
a London Commissioner to administer oaths in the High
Court of Chancery.
CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 28.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PA.RLIAMENT.
gr
Borough of Kidderminster—Luke White, of No. 19, Bel_
roam i
of Alfredn the
Rhodes county of Middlesex, Esq., in the
Bristow, Esq., who has accepted
the office of Steward of her 14ajesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR•OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 30.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards MALL,
e.nd
Brevet-Colonel Charles Cameron Shute, from half-p y
late 6th Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lieati-
tenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Arthur Cavendish
Bentinck, who retires upon half-pay.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Assistant-Commi„,„,.
General
General Alexander Edwatds to be Deputy-Commissa4,
, vice Davenport, placed on the retired list.
Deputy and Assistant Commissary-General Edward
Edward
Lindsay Ward to be Assistant Commissary-General,
vice
s.

•
Newport
BANKRUPTS.
Jcbn Evans, publican, Cardiff
Thomas Jenkins, contractor, Whitchurch
Martha Charlesworth, Mancheater
Richard Clarence Williams, clerk, Salford
Charles Mansfield, Portsea
John Scorror, publican, Honlaxton, Lincoln
Charles Windmill, bucher, Roath, near Cardiff •
John R. Jones, broker, Cardiff
Thos. T. Drysdale, ship owner, Swansea
Andrew T. Edmonds, butcher, Marazion, Cornwall -
John T. George, builder, Camborne, Cornwall '
Henri Truyen, importer, Lawrence Pountney-lane •
street
EjcAohd
John W. Soar, Woburn-buildings, St, Pancras
Charles E. Griffiths, bookseller, Hanover-streets Regent.
Yeoward,Cahill,c.
B e
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ps t
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ot i Manchester-squireokneerrLisvinevoerwpLiverpool
Wm. J. Taylor, match manufacturer, Old Ford
Alex. Bronn, engineer, Liverpool
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Marsden,
Lancashire Lancashire
EdwardJAanmdereswG K
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sit,,t
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cuoinrr
no. ,n builder,fmacoton ar,erm
Louis Casper, cap manufacturer, Manchester
Ann Lowe, grocer, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Geo. S. Smith, painter, Winchester
Joseph Harris, tailor, Coventry
John Reanney, porter, Halifax
Wm. Ballinger, publican, Derby
James Hailstones, beerseller, Wolstanton
Joseph Steele, cabinet maker, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Elijah Bottomley, stuff manufacturer, North Bierley
Alexander B. Copeland, commercial traveller, Bradford
George Sheriff, grocer, Scothorne, Lincolnshire
William [Gravel], grocer's assistant, Ystalyfera, Llano
guicke, Glamorganshire
Robert Harding, boot maker, King-street New North-road
James Giles Morrison, surgeon, Edgware-road
Thomson Jepps, bookseller, Paternoster•-row
Thomas King, grt cer, South Audley-street
Charles Phillips, carpenter, Totteridge, Hertfordshire
Frederick Barnett, tailor, Hampton, Middlesex
Patrick O'Mealley, skin merchant, Stourbridge
Charles Aldridge, farmer, Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire
Benjamin Massey, innkeeper, Abertelery, Monmouth
John Wood, shoemaker, Culmstock, Devonshire
James Cartwright, butcher, Broseley
Joseph Guy, Madeley, Salop
Henry Grafton, engineer, Canning-street, Kensington
John E. Gard, cab proprietor, Queen's-rd., Notting-hill
Thos. Fielding, builder, Ashted, Birmingham
Benjamin and Edwin Beckett, tin plate workers, Wol.c
verhampton
Gustavus V. Brooke, actor, Birmingham
Henry Hickman, builder, Wednesbury, Staffordshire
John Nesbitt, provision dealer, Manchester
Wm. W. Yates, reporter, Dewsbury, Yorkshire
'Writ]. Jenkins, abourer, Powick, Worcestershire
James Loveland, licensed victualler, Harting, Sussex
John Cross, butcher, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Charles Bawden, mine broker, St. Bay, Cornwall
Thomas B. Wade, clerk, Wolverhampton
Wm. Henry Illidge, locksmith, Wolverhampton
Isaac Powell, saddler, Tillingham,,Essex
Jeremiah Hurst, innkeeper, Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne
James Holt, grocer, Ashton-under-Lyne
Thomas Tucker Duke, draper, Torquay
Henry Holmes, labourer, Findon
Isaac Gunn, blacksmith, Cattawade, Suffolk
William Holland, publican, Chepstow
',John Andrew, joiner, Crookes, Yorkshire
John and Jame Heade, nurserymen, Addlestone,Surrey'
Her ry J. Pritchard, huckster, Netherton, Worcestershire
William Round, jur.., boat loader, Dudley
Rees Thomas, beerhouse-keeper, Newport, Monmouth
John Evans, beerhouse-keeper, Talawain, Monmouth
Thomas George, licensed victualler: Westbromwich,
Staffordshire
snawenrpalher Edward Jones,
haulier,

James Barron Rodway, brewer, Edgbaston, Birraing-'
ham , .

Charles Abraham Parker, commission agent, Lozalls,
Birmingham
Alfred Collishaw, lacemaker, Nottingham
George Sargiston Denton, plumber, Osbuurnby, Lincoln
John Minnitt, lace dealer, Nottingham
Henry Dunford, journeyman harness maker, Marylebone
John Barfitt, minister, New Shoreham
Harry Allen Lamb Prior, coachmaker, Pimlico
Edward Orton Ayre, commission agent, Mark-lane
Thomas Leach Mersham, licensed victualler, Lawrance
Stephen Court Drayson, draper, Gravesend
Edmund Hawkins general dealer, Islington
Wm. Hall, brewer, Kingston-upon-Hull
John Corthorn, watchmaker, Lincoln
Charles H. Cherrington, :draper's assistant, Coningsby,
Lincolnshire
Benjamin Harrison, wine merchant, Scarborough.
Jonathan Blakeborough, clock maker, Keighley,
shiro

William Driver, attorney-at-law, Yorkshire
Wm. Henry Flower, grocer, Sheffield

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Bartholomew M'Gregor, milliner, Edinburgh
John Dodds, bootmaker, Glasgow
Murray and Steel, bootmakers, Glasgow

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending May 27, 1862,
exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain !
Per. cwt.
From the British possessions in America 23s. ltd.
Mauritius ...... s• d.
East Indies ..............
-d.
Average price of the three foregoing
..

COURSE OF EXCIIANGE.—TniS DA j.
3 Months. 11_ 181
Short. 11 151
Amsterdam 11 16
11 18t
11 18t 11 18
Antwerp ........ .. • • •._ 2a
4.5
2.5 52/
Brussels —. 25 45 25 52}
Hamburgh
13 4. 13 81,1;
Paris
R01ittietrt0dam.....................
Ditto
Frankfort on Maine __.
Vienna
1319 a 60 13119 a 60
Trieste ..
Petersburgh . 2 33/ 34/
Berlin .........
Madrid: 49a 491
Cadiz .............. --
Leghorn horn. 49
49
49j
521 25 60
Milan 25
... 25 521 25 57k
Genoa
Naples . — 25 521 25 60
39/ 39a
Palermo ll9/
..
Messina .. 119 119
lAabon 521 52f
Oporto —52 f
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz L3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons
t

SPORTING-THIS DAY.

HARPENDEN RACES, THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
ROTIIAMPSTEAD STAKES.

Liberality ..
Warrener ............................................................. 1
Consternation ......................................

Ten ran.
HARPENDEN HANDICAP.

Stanton ..................................... 1
Dorking ..............................
Cam ... . ..........................................
Eight ran.

1.R.E161N .PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.
June 18.
via Marseilles June 12,
—0 Yards, by British packet June 4.
via Southampton.
dallope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 1.
Cape of Goo
and Singapore, via Southampton June 2.
China, Penang',
AiAruaPzlirialainacianc
_ .
_ „ , _ via Marseilles ..June 12.
Ceylon, via June 4.
Falkland via Southampton
(Calcutta), and Southampton.. June 2.
June 2.
Isiadn:Mas.u..ri.'t.in: .
via Marseilles June 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton June 10.
Gibraltar,
India (Cal
via Marseilles June 6.
Lisbon
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 2.
via Marseilles June 5.
Newfoundland
OTorto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet June 1.
by U.S. packet..a.....,__ ~,,_
by Canadian pack
"June !ItY 10:
W.C. of Africa, Madeira and Tenni&
Bahamas, via New York' ....................
.Aa,:29.
.... •• • ~
Mexico. ..................
_..",.., Percy i
May
29.
All parts of West Indies, including Ow'
California, and British Columbia.. ..........

THE CIVIL TVAR IN AMERICA.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, MAY 16.

If the South is to be finally conquered—which is
not quite so certain as the North imagines—it is
palpable from every scrap of reliable information
which comes from the Cotton and Border States,
whether in the shape of official documents, news-
paper reports, or private letters, that a far more
difficult work than that of conquest remains to be
accomplished. How is the country to be governed ?
Bow are these eight or ten millions of people—not
On inferior or an alien race, but high-spirited, proud,
and defiant, speaking the same language with their
conquerors, and looking upon them with a hatred
Rs intense as that which Feenehmen would entertain
towards Englishmen, or vice versa, if either country
invaded and retained the other in subjection—to be
dealt with by a people who have conquered them
in the name of freedom and union, both of which
will be destroyed in the struggle that pretended to
establish them ? Like the Imperial Guard, the
,South may die, but it will not surrender. This
truth becomes more apparent every day. General
Beauregard, in a proclamation from Memphis, ad-
dressed to the Southern planters, calls upon them
•• to apply the torch without delay or hesitation to
nil cotton within the possible reach of the enemy."
The order or request, whichever it be, has been very
generally obeyed throughout the whole length of
the Mississippi Valley. Such is the spirit of the
people, their bitter loathing of the Yankees, and
their determination, if they must retreat before
superior force, to leave nothing but a wilderness be-
hind them, that they will not only destroy their cot-
ton and sugar, but their towns and cities, as the in-
vaders approach. The Mayor and Aldermen of e N w
Orleans, nothing daunted by the military force
in possession, have refused to take the oath of
allegiance to the Federal Government, and have
been consigned to prison for their obstinacy—or
patriotism, as they consider it; to remain
until they change their minds or are released by a
general amnesty or the fortune of war. Another
circumstanoe shows in quite as striking a manner
the temper of the people. General Butler having
penned a proclamation to the inhabitants, promising
%he protection of the Federal Government to their
lives and property, sent it round to all the news-
paper and firinting offices in the city. Every one
of them refused to publish or print it. In this emer-
gency the general was compelled to appeal to his
own army to know whether there were any compo-
sitors and pressmen in the ranks, and a sufficient
number of both having stepped forth, they were
marched under escort to one of the newspaper
printing-offices, where they set up and printed the
document, and afterwards affixed it to the walls and
public places of the city. The ladies not only talk
secession in the streets, but wave secession flags from
the windows as the soldiers pass, and no gentleman
who values his social position will exchange a word
with a Federal officer, except in reply to a civil
question. The Creole population are quite as hos-
tile as those who speak English, and, as the French
language is very little cultivated in the North, and
not one officer in a thousand adds any knowledge
of it to his other accomplishments, the Creoles hurl
Secession sentiments at their heads in French, and
utter language which would speedily consign them
to prison, along with the mayor and aldermen, if
the Federals could but understand it. In Virginia,
in the trail of the retreating army, the correspon-
dents and reporters who accompany the march to
Richmond do not find the slightest traces of Union
feeling, except among the black population. "The
negroes," says one letter, " are, I fancy, the only
Union people now in Dixie. With respect to the
whites, the feelingthat their country is invaded has
overborne all antecedents. They hate us with the
hate of hell, and will yet do bloody work if they
have the opportunity." " At Williamsburgh," says
the Abolitionist on his travels, "no scrutiny
'With candles or by daytime can discover a
single Unionist, man or woman." When the
people of Williamsburgh discovered that the Fe-
deral army paid in cash for what they wanted in
the stores, " they found," he adds, " the courage to
come oat and scowl upon us." " Your soldiers are
largely foreigners;' said a Virginian in Norfolk to
this gentleman, as the 20th New York, a German
regiment, passod up the street, but you yourselves
will be conquered soon. This is but a reverse to
our arms, and we must expect ups and downs in
war." " Yes," replied the Federal, " but does it not
strike you that we have all the ups and you all the
downs ?" The Confederate turned on his heel,
muttering something about Bull's Run, and closed
the parley. And while the people of the South,
even the armies of the North in actual possession of
their soil, are in this frame of mind, and while they
have yet two strong armies in the field burning
with a fieree desire to retrieve the late disasters of
their cause, does it not seem the extreme of folly on
the part of a Federal General in command of a great
d epartnrent to proclaim the abolition of slavery ?
Abolition is not, or has not hitherto been, the policy
of the President or of Mr. Seward, and both have
taken espeoial pains to make the South understand
it as thoroughly as the North. It is not a policy
that the majority of the Northern people would re-
commend or support, but one to which they are, on
the contrary, very decidedly opposed. It meets
with no sympathy, except from a few ultra-Aboli-
tionists, who think, with Dr. Cheever, that the
‘" white men of America ought to go down on their
knees to the Negroes and ask pardon for the wrongs
eoramitted on their race. For taking it upon him-
*elf to proclaim emancipation at St. Louis with-
out the authority of the President, and to the sore
ernbarraseroent of his Government, Gen. Fremont was
deprived of his command at a critical moment, and
in the face of the enemy in the field; yet a second
General, unwarned by the example, has been found
to follow the same course in a still more startling
manner. Under date of Hilton Head, South Caro-
lina, May 9, General Hunter, warm with the
thanks of the Government for the capture of Fort
Pulaski, issued a proclamation which, unless imme-
diately
disavowed, will be as valuable to the Con-
federates as an army of half a million of men, and of
which the logic is as wonderful as the rashness. He
declares that e slavery and martial law in a free
country are altogether incompatible. The persons
in those three States,Georgia, Florida, and South
Carolina, heretofore held as slaves, are therebre de-
clared for ever frees' lost
people of • •
are opinion
that slaves and martial law are butt
compatible,
00
and that (see is exceedingly like the other, though
neither Om one nor the other has any business •
free country. But this is not what theGenlenraal
meant. No one, net even an ultra-Abolitionist, has
any idea that slavery can be abolished by the stroke
of a pen, whether the penman be a subordinate
officer or the President himself. The first its.
pression in New York was that the document could
not be genuine; but all doubt is at an end on the
subject this morning, and the greatest anxiety is
felt to know what will be done at 'Washington.
Even if General Hunter's proclamation be imme-
diatnly disavowed and himself superseded in his
command he will have done ekn immensity of mis-
chief ; for the leaders of the South will take care to
use his proclamation as an incentive scarcely needed
to the intensity of hatred that rages against the
Yankees, and will take no particular pains to
let it be known that his act had not the autho-
rity of the Federal Government. But if, as
is not very probable, unless there has been a
bu dd ea change in Mr. Lincoln's council, the
act be adopted, the last hopes of a speedy ter-
mination of a war that began to be prayed for in
this city are scattered to the winds. The already
exasperated South will be exasperated still further.
The proclamation will make a soldier of every man
and boy in the South, and will have an effect in
Kentucky and Other Border States which may de-
prive the Union of some of its most effective legions
in the
South-west. There are supposed to be at
least 30,000 is •
mon men from the Border States in
the army of general Halleck who will either lay
dowa their arms or
the President end go over to the Confederates if
e" General Hunter's procla-
matioo, and the war,
exhaustion of the instead South,
will of dying out by the
be invigorated by a
new lease of life and hatred that will carry it
through a dozen years, unless Europe should, in the
meantime, intervene between the combatants.
The public mind continues ill at ease on the sub.

ject of Gen. Halleek's position near Corinth. His
army is believed to be greatly outnumbered by that
of Gen. Beauregard. He is untried as a commander,
never having fought a battle, and his suh(:rdinates,
Generals Grant and Buell,did not win ,1 ch laurels
at Pittsburg Landing as to impress the ( ountry and,
worse than all, their own soldiers with a high opi-
nion of their military judgment. Every one admits
that they fought well, and performed what it is the
custom to call "prodigies of valour," but a true
general ought not to allow his army to get into a
position where his own personal bravery is needed
as much as that of the common soldier to save the
whole force from annihilation. It is not the strong
arm, but the clear head which is expected in the
leader of men, and it was the clear head which was
wanting both before and during that obstinate and
fruitless battle, in which both sides claim, and
neither won, the victory, and in which Grant's di-
vision was only rescued from utter destruction by
circumstances which he did not create. And to in-
crease the general disquietude caused by this infe-
riority, both of men and commanders, Mr. Secre-
tary Stanton, as if he were fearful of bad news and
anxious to keep it from public knowledge as long
as possible, has issued another of his press ordon-
nances, prohibiting all newspapers from publishing
any telegraphic despatches from Halleck's army, or
from Corinth and the neighbourhood, until such
despatches shall have been communicated to the
War department. People ask why this should be?
If there be good news, why should it not be flashed
along the wires to every newspaper in the country ?
And if there be bad news, why should the official
ostrich hide its silly head in a hole, and affect not
to know it ?

The armies of Halleck and Beauregard have both
received reinforcements. Halleck has been joired
by General Mitchell (the astronomer), who has
made a retrograde movement from Huntsville,
in Alabama, to come to his relief; and Beaure-
gard has received the accession of the army of Gen.
Mansfield Lovell, numbering from 25,000 to 30,000
men, which marched out of New Orleans and took
the rail towards Memphis, as soon as the unexpected
appearance of Commodore Farragut's flotilla at the
levee of that city had proclaimed the position to be
no longer tenable. The last news from Halleck is
a proclamation warning all unauthorised persons
from his lines, and ordering that any such persons,
whether negroes or newspaper reporters, shall be
set to work in the trenches, or to such active labour
in the camp as may be deemed advisable, It is not
known whether any newspaper reporters have been
authorised to remain, or whether this publication
is his own work or that of Secretary Stanton.
General M'Clellan has taken up a position on the
Pamunkey River, within 27 miles of Richmond.
His advanced guard is on the Chickahominy, within
17 miles of that capital. It is not now believed that
the Confederates mean to evacuate the city and re-
treat southwards, but that they have raised such
fortifications and gathered together such a force as
will detain M'Clellan for a month before it will be
prudent in him to commence an attack.
Both Houses of Congress have Confiscation Bills
before them, in defiance of Mrs. Glasse's celebrated
maxim that you cannot well cook a hare until you
have caught it. The Senate has reported upon the
whole batch, which I mentioned in my last, and
brought in a new bill, decreeing death and forfeiture
of all property—that in slaves included—against
all persons who shall be convicted of treason to the
United States; and minor punishments, including
fine, imprisonment, and disqualification for office,
against all future aiders and abettors of the crime.
A measure similar in spirit, but differing in some of
the details, has been reported in like manner by a
special committee of the House of Representatives ;
but as both measures reserve to the President the
right of proclaiming a general amnesty, and as by
virtue of his office he has the power of life and death,
it is possible, even if the hare be caught, that it
may not be cooked in the exact manner recom-
mended by the Legislature.
The President's proclamation, opening three, not
five, Southern ports—New Orleans, Port Royal, and
Beaufort—to the commerce of the United States;
and to the foreigner under certain well-defined
restrictions, and the re-establishment of postal com-
munication from this city direct to New Orleans,
have been received with great satisfaction by the
mercantile community. The arrears of a twelve-
month's correspondence, principally on business
matters, have been thrown into the Post-office in
Nassau-street, subject to the liability of being
opened and detained on suspicion of containing
treason. But the accumulation was so large that
very little espionage of this kind was possible,
even if the authorities were desirous of exercising
it. The principal activity which has been yet shown
among that part of the business community whose
hopes run on future profits, rather than on the
recovery of old debts, is among the wine and spirit
merchants, who, knowing that the South drinks
much, and that it has for many months been with-
out claret, champagne, hollands, and stomachic
bitters, for all of which it has a liking that the
North cannot equal, have prepared large consign-
ments of those articles for the opening market.
How they are to receive payment, when the Confe-
derate notes are declared to be worth less than 25
cents on the dollar, and while cotton, sugar, and
tobacco are consigned on every hand to destruction,
is a matter on which they have doubtless made up
their minds, and which does not yet concern the
outside public.

As it is easy to be a lion in New York, the city is
seldom without one for the amusement of the inha-
bitants. But New York lions, though permitted to
roar lustily, are not permitted to roar long ; or the
great element of loyalty, without which lionism
would be a worse nuisance than it is, would be
wanting. The lion of to-day. is a certain Dr.
Brownlow—" Parson Brownlow," as he is com-
monly called--a gentleman who unites in his public
and private character many piquant originalities.
He is a minister of the Gospel, yet fights duels and
goes armed. He is supposed, from his calling, to
be a person of education and refinement, but he
swears profanely, and talks and preaches in the
vulgarest slang of the streets. Add to these little
peculiarities that heis, or was, a slaveholder, and is
now a eupporter of slavery, that he was editor and
proprietor of a newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee,
suppressed for treason to the Coefederate Govern-
ment ; that he was imprisoned for many months in
the common gaol of Knoxville for his Union prin-
ciples, and that he was finally set at liberty, appa-
rently on the ground that his eccentricities almost
amounted 10 and tlacit Lc wao aot,in lamo.oy,
to be held accountable for his actions, and you have
a rough, but not incorrect sketch of the history and
character of Parson Brownlow. One of the largest,
most respectable, and most enthusiastic audiences
that ever assembled in New York gathered together
last night at the Academy of Music (or Opera
House), with the hope of drawing both amusement
and excitement from a speech about the war, and
his own personal experience in captivity, which he
was announced to deliver. Nor was the audience
in any way disappointed, either by his patriotism
or his buffoonery, or by the recital of his sufferings.
He declared the late President, Mr. Buchanan, to
be " a miserable mockery of a man ;" that " such a
President as Andrew Jackson would have crushed
the rebellion out as sure as God made Moses;" that
" President Lincoln would crush it out with the aid
of the people ; and, When that was done, they (the
people), after a few weeks to recruit strength,
would lick France and England, too, both on at
once." This amiable sentiment—which I regret to
say, is very popular just now—wax received with
reiterated rounds of applause. He farther stated
that the leaders of Secession " had bought up the
Southern editors, to the last devil of them;"
that every outraged Union-man in Tennessee had
a devil in his bosom the size of a bat; that Mr.
Yancey once asked him on a public platfoem why
he, a minister of the Gospel, meddled with politics ;
that he said to Yancey, as Christ said to the Devil,
" Get thee behind me, Satan ;" that he
fully expected that Yancey would knock him down,
but that he (the parson) had a cocked Derringer in
his pocket, and fully intended that if he went down
Yancey should go down on the other side; that he
wanted to have the pleasure of tying the rope
around the neck of every traitor in Tennessee; that
the last suit of clothes worn by Henry Clay would
make a better President, without a man in thew,

than any President of recent time ; that the Seces-
sionists in Knoxville had entered his house three
times in search of arms and got two guns and a
pistol, but that being a D.D. he was not largely
provided, and had the balance under his clothes ;
that when they asked him to take the oath of alle-
giance he rose up several feet in his boots, and
swore that, preacher though he was, he would see
thorn down in the infernal regions before he would
join them, and that if he owed the Devil twelve of
the most revolting and degraded wretches the world
ever saw, he would make his Satanic Majesty a
tender of twelve Northern sympathisers with seces-
sion. All the fashion of New York were present to
hear the speech from which I have culled these
flowers of rhetoric, and the flutter of white hand-
kerchiefs when anything particularly racy or em-
phatic was uttered was unprecedented since the
days when Jenny Lind excited the sensibilities of
the fair wearers by gentler and more humanising
influences. Commodore Wilkes himself was not a
greater favourite for the moment that this fire-eating
parson. Doubtless he will soon blow over, and be
forgotten. In the meantime all the world desires
his autograph and his carte de visite ; and the suc-
cess of his entertainment was such as will enable
him to carry away from New York as much money
as will re-establish his newspaper on its ancient
footing, as soon as Knoxville is once again a safe
place for se vigorous a parson to abide in.
The desperate character of the two conflicts pend-
ing at Riehmond and Corinth, and the uncertainty
of the issues in both, have acted for the last three
days as dampers on the speculative ardour of the
Stock Exchange, but there has been as yet no
marked decline in Government or other securities.