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 Fonder 1430
Do. end month.... —1 Belgian 4} lOOl
3 per Cents .. 70 30 Piedmontese Fives. 69
Do. end month.... 70 45/ Roman
Bank Shares 3070 Austrian ........
Credit Mobilier 760 Spanish Threes.... 50 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 had 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. Vallandigham, of Ohio, made a
speech in opposition to it, on the ground that it
proposed to make 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
. .

4 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 revenue of at least
150,000,000 dole. 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 timid 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 mouth 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 Potomae 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
Gemsbock, from Beaufort, North Carolina, on the
28th ult., 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'a 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 causes, 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
dols. lc gal 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 Federal ves
sels have been seen in Pamlico Sound.

The New York journals of to-day (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 .Nete York limes 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 New
York Times says that Mr, Seward has promptly
declined to have his name used in connexion with
the next Presidential canvass, and says that several
gentlemen of the Federal Administration shape their
course with a too consistent reference to the possi-
bility of needing the suffrages of a re-united people.
These gentlemen should follow Mr. Seward's
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, who
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 British
North American provinces, together with the ques-
tion of including the right of the United States to
just reciprocity, and fiscal reasons for an 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 taxes
American productions 1,000,000 dollars, and has
also an unfair system of dissemination against
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.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the Bombay Mail we have re-
ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 27th of
January, and from Calcutta to the 18th of January.
We .have also received telegraphic advices from
Calcutta to the 25th of January, inclusive.
We take the following summary of news from the
Bombay Gazette of the 27th of January :
The English mail of the 18th of December did
not arrive in Bombay till the 20th of January.
The mail steamer China was detained eight days
at Suez in consequence of the breaking down of the,
Sultan with the Marseilles portion of the mails for
Bombay.

The same steamer brought us London files to the
26th of December.

The sad intelligence of the death of the Prince
Consort has produced universal and sincere grief
for the loss which tier Gracious Majesty, the Royal
family, and the British nation have sustained, and
an unexampled manifestation of sympathy, affec-
tion, and loyalty for the widowed Queen and of
anxiety on her behalf.
The whole community has gone into mourning..
On Jan. 24 the largest concourse of citizens ever
assembled in this city at the Town-hall, and u'aani-
mously, cordially, and mournfully voted an ?Address
of condolence to her Majesty. Business -was sus-
pended for the day throughout the city.
The inauguration meeting of the Legislative
branch of the Bombay Council, instituted in accord-
tines with the Act of Parliament, took place on the
22d of January, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, in the
Town-hall. His Excellency the Hon. Governor
and President of the Council, Sir G. Russell Clerk,
K.C.8., K. 5.1., took his seat precisely at 11 o'clock.
On his Excellency's right were Lieutenant-General
Sir William R. Mansfield, K.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief of the Bombay army, and Second Member
of Council ; the Hon. M. R. Westropp, Acting-
Advocate-General; his Highness Abdool Doolair
Khan, Abdool Khair Khan, Nawab of Savanoor
the Hon. Mahadhoorow Wittul Vinchoorkur, the
Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. On nie
President's left were the Hon. H. W. Reeves, T'Dird
Member of Council ; the Hon. W. E. Frere, F ourth
Member of Council ; the Hon. W. B. Tristram, the
Hon. Shet Prembbhai Hemabhai, City Deputy'
Magistrate and Nuggursett of Ahmedabad; and the
Hon. Juggonath Sunkersett, of Bombay.
Mr. Shaw Stewart, Acting Judicial Secretary to
Government, officiated as Secretary to the Council.
Prince Kumroodin, of the house of Mysore, grand*
son of Prince Gholam Mahomed, and third in '
descent from the famous Tippoo Sultan, has been
found guilty of an attempted fraud on the Bank of
Bengal in trying to pass off a 10-rupee note which
he had defaced as a note for Rs. 1,000, and has
been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, with
labour, in Alipore Gaol.

A letter from the Secretary to the Government of
India, addressed to the Secretary to the Government
of Bengal, has just been published, severely censur-
ing the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal on the
course taken by him with reference to the dispute
between the ryots and European landholders in
Lower Bengal.
The Government of India has ordered the dis-
bandment of eight more regiments of the Madras
Army ; and Sir Hope Grant, Commander-in-Chief of
the Madras Army, has proceeded to Calcutta to con-
fer with the Viceroy on the subject.
The Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab has prn-
ceeded to Calcutta, and Mr. 1). F. M'Leod has been
empowered to conduct all the current business of
the Government his absence.

Brigadier Robertson, of the Bombay Army, died
at Aden on the 10th of January. Few officers have
seen more service or won a more honourable name'
The Legislative Branch of the Madras Council L 9
composed of the following additional members
Official Members—Mr. T. S. Smyth, Advocate'
General; Mr. T. Pycroft, Chief Secretary; Mr. O'
Pelly, Senior Member of the Board of Revenue.
Non-Official Members—Mr. W. R. Arbuthnot,
Mr. R. O. Campbell, and V. Sadagopah Charloo.

Mr. J. D. Mayne, barrister-at-law, has been OP'
pointed Clerk of the Council.

- Obituary—Mr. E. M. Wylly, Bengal Civil
Service ; Mr. J. I. Geddes, agent of the Mercantile
Bank, Madras ; Captain H. B. Connew, Mr. Joho.
Swanseger, Mr. W. J. Kenderdine, Mr. Charleo
Seton, sen., Mr. James Dewar.