The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEUBER 29, 1862.

the attack by BURNSIDE, another was to be I
made on the south of Richmond by a gunboat fleet
and army advancing along the James River. The
enemy's army was to be thus divided. The Nor-
thern accounts themselves had indicated a similar
plan. Why it was abandoned, if ever seriously en-
tertained, we have no information. Perhaps the
North had not the armament to spare, yet we read
of one proceeding, no one could tell whither, but it
was seen south of Cape Hatteras,which is far enough
south of Richmond and Virginia, and in North
Carolina. The event shows that something more
was needed for BURNSIDE'S support than an expe-
dition an terrorem.

This will surely be the last great battle of the
present campaign. No further attempt on Richmond
will be thought of in this direction. Each of the three
lines hitherto selected have, from one cause or ano-
ther, proved unfortunate. Bull's Run, the York and
James River, and Fredericksburg, have all proved
to the Federals roads to ruin. The first was given
up in an almost ridiculous panic. The other two
have been renowned by " strategic movements "
and "masterly retreats," and both retreats were
well managed ; the last one especially, for to slip
across a river by six pontoon bridges, immedi-
ately in the face of a victorious enemy, was no easy
task. Indeed, it seems likely that the Confederates,
knowing that their strength was better adapted to
defence than attack, adopted the old German
general's maxim on the wisdom of " building a
bridge of gold for a retreating enemy." Perhaps,
however, the fog and darkness, and the shelter of
the town, might effectually conceal the Federal
movements. Still BURNSIDE himself owns that
tho L. mo-voirabont was' a porilouQ ono," and modestly
attributes the enemy's ignorance of it chiefly to the
tempestuous state of the weather.
The Washingtonians seem to be " thankful for
small mercies." They make the best of a successful
retreat, as they have no victory to boast of; and the
confidence of the Money-market appears to be
hardly touched, for the premium on gold advanced
but a trifle ; at which one of our contemporaries
seems a little displeased. Of course there is the
old clamour for a change back to the old General ;
and it must be said for the leading Federal Generals
that they seem to be on very fraternal terms with
each other, showing no jealousy of a brother's
advance, while the Secretary for War seems jealous
of them all. To us it seems as if the Federals
themselves could now have no hope from purely
military operations; they must perceive that unless
a better negro policy open the way for them to
better results, they might as well begin negotia-
tions for peace. The negro is the key to the South,
or there is no key thither for the North at all.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, DEC. 29.
The physicians attending Cardinal Morlot doabt
very much whether he will outlive to-night.

News received here from Lisbon to the 27th inst.
announces that 27 fresh nominations of Peers have
been made, and that a rumour is current that the
Queen is in an interesting condition.
The Patrze of this evening announces that one of
the officers of the Emperor's household will shortly
set out for Mexico.
It is rumoured that Cardinal Morlot is dead.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the re-
port of M. Fould on the financial condition of the
Government.

The report estimates the total expense of the
Mexican expedition during 1862 at 83 million
francs. The financial deficit for the same year is
stated at 35 millions, proposals to cover which will
be laid before the Corps Legislatif.
M. Fould states that the relinquishment by the
Emperor of the prerogative of opening extraordi-
nary credits has not proved prejudicial to the effi-
cient despatch of business.
The Minister then enters upon the examination
of the budget for 1863.
He says that, taking into view the constant pro-
gression in the public revenue, the surplus at the
end of 1863 may be estimated at 110 millions, and
continues—" This will enable us to meet both the
Mexican expenses for 1863 and any unforeseen ex-
penses. The ordinary budget for 1864 will be pre-
sented with a diminution of four millions."

M. Fould estimates the extraordinary budget for
1864 at 104 millions. The total amount, 848 mil-
lions, of all the deficits from former years has not
been increased.
M. Fould concludes as follows :

" Were it not for the extraordinary expenses
which weigh upon 1862 and 1863, it would have
been possible to re-enter a normal situation at the
beginning of 1864. The attainment of this so much
to he desired result is only adjourned. The amount
of deficit does not exceed our reasonable resources,
and is such as to allow us to dismiss any idea of
appealing to credit. I renew this assurance to your
Majesty."
The rumour current yesterday evening of the
death of Cardinal Morlot has not been eonfirmed.

The cardinal remains, however, in a very danger.

ous state.

The Patrie of this evening says :—" We believe
that Mr. Elliot's mission is to enter into negotia-
tions with the Porte for the cession of some terri-
tory in favour of Greece on the side of Epirus and
Thesssly."
BOURSE, Dec. 27.—There has been a fair amount
of business doing, but up to the present time the
quotations have not gone beyond those of the close
of yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now
firm at 69f. 90c. Railway Share Market quiet, but
prices pretty well maintained. The market closed
as follows :-
11 per Cents. 97 76
Do. end month....

Bank Shares 3300
Credit F ancier 1382 50
Piedmontese Fives 71 50
Italian Loan 72 30
Russian
Austrian .. —
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt

3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 95

New 3 per Cents ..- --- __—
Do. end month.... _ _

Credit Mobilier....ll3o
Do, end m0nth....1133 75

RA ILWAYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans . ... 1070 .. 1070
Northern . ... lO3B 75 .. 1037 50
New ditto ........... .: . • •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 1155
Geneva .. 375 .. 370
Southern ........
Western
Eastern ...,
Sardinian 375 .. 373 75
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 657 60 .. 662 50
Ditto to Barcelona

GREECE.

ATHENS, DEC. 26.

It is generally asserted here that the Hon. Mr.
Elliot has officially announced to the President of
the Provisional Government the cession of the
lonian Islands by England, and the decisive refusal
of Prince Alfred to accept the throne of Greece.
It is also stated that Mr. Elliot has not yet re-
commended any other candidate.

DEC. 27.

Coroneos, the commander of the National Guard,
has been dismissed, and the office which he held
has been abolished.

One hundred and thirty-four members of the
National Assembly are now in Athens.
The state of public affairs has improved.

ITALY.

TURIN, DEC. 27.

The Gazzetta di Torino of today asserts that the
report on the brigandage which was laid on the
table of the Chamber of Deputies by Signor Rat-
tazzi was not prepared by General Lamarmora, but
drawn up by an officer of that general's staff.

lain,
Torino,' rfhis" says the Gazzetta di
inaccuracies which occur in
the report in question."
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SERVIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 27.

According to advices received here the commis
sioners entrusted with the execution of the de-
mands of the Porte upon Servia have taken their
departure for Belgrade.
The—
are—the
a
inbe definitively arranged
tofortress of Belgrade, the arerdcivaslo the
in-
demnities to be paid to the Turkish inhabitants
oints
who have suffered damage during the late disor-
ders, the strength of the Turkish garrison in the
fortress, and the number of men to which the na-
tional militia of Servia is to be confined.

TEE QUARTER'S REVENUE RETURNS.—These
returns will not be made uptill Wednesday night.
Enough is now known, however, to enable us to congratu-
late our readers that the income continues to exhibit the
buoyancy that has for some time past been its almost nor-
mal condition. The falling off that might, under other cir-
cumstances and in other times, have been naturally appre-
hended from the distress of a large portion of our industrious
population, and the derangement of an important branch of
trade, has not taken place. On the contrary, the leading
sources of revenue continue to exhibit the most gratifying
progress. The customs revenue is more than usually
prosperous, in the face of the reduction of so many items ;
and the excise exhibits a steadiness that is most remarkable,
when the privations of so large a class of operatives in
Lancashire are to be taken into account. After all, the
suffering, though great, is limited in its range, and the
other branches of native industry and production appear
fully to make up the loss. Another gratifying feature of
the present condition of the industrious classes is to be found
in the fact that the withdrawals from the savings banks,
not unusual at this time of year, have not been to any large
extent amongst the small depositors, but are spread more
over the general class of savings, which are probably only
used for a time, to be replaced when thc. exigencies of the
season are over.

DEATH OF MR. JUAN LEYCESTER ADOLPHUS.—
This gentleman expired at his house in Hyde Park-
square on the 24th inst., rather unexpectedly, though his
health bad been fur some little time unsatisfactory. He
was the coadjutor of the late Mr. Barnswoll, and afterwards
of the late Mr, Ellis, for a long series of years in reporting
the decisions of the Court of Queen's Bench, and was
appointed by Lord St. Leonard's, when Lord Chancellor,
a County Court judge (No. 43, Middlesex), solely from his
long standing, high personal character, and merits as a
lawyer and reporter. Mr. Adolphus, in early life, published
a little work to prove by internal evidence that the author
of " Waverley" could be only Sir Walter Scott. His rea-
sons were characterised by remarkable ingenuity and acute-
ness, and afterwards secured from the great novelist a
frank admission of their cogency. Mr. Adolphus was a
man of extreme modesty, of highly refined and sensitive
mind and character, and an admirable scholar. As Attor-
ney General of the Northern Circuit he surprised every
one by his political and caustic wit and humour, which
never trespassed beyond the bounds of true gentlemanly
feeling. He led a very laborious life, both as law reporter
and county court judge, and was universally respected.
Solely from his personal and professional character and
position he was elected a few years ago a benches of the
Inner Temple. He died without completing the last vo-
lume of his father's " History of England during the Reign
of George III.," and in his 68th year. He was called to
the bar in the year 1822.
Importing tea without colour on the leaf prevents
the Chinese eassing off inferior brown leaves as in the usual
kinds. Horniman's tea is uncoloured, therefore always
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents, ;

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
The Royal Mail steamship China has arrived
with advices from New York to the 17th inst.

In the Senate, on the 15th, Mr. Davis, of Ken-
tucky, offered a resolution, which was laid on the
table, declaring that after it had become manifest
that an insurrection against the United States was
about to break out in several Southern States,James
Buchanan, then President, from sympathy with the
conspirators and their treasonable projects, failed
to take the necessary and proper measures to pre-
vent it, wherefore he should receive the censure
and condemnation of the Senate and of the Ameri-
can people. A resolution requesting the President,
if not inconsistent with the public interests, to
transmit to the Senate the report and accompany-
ing documents of the Hon. Itervedy Johnson, as
Commissioner of the United States during last
summer at New Orleans, was adopted. Mr. Wright,
of Indiana, offered a resolution, which was also
adopted, that the Committee on the Judiciary be in-
structed to inquire into the expediency of providing
by Act of Congress, that any loyal citizen of the
United States who has sustained damage from the
troops of the States engaged in the present rebellion
may set off such damages against any claim or
demand against him in any action at law by any
such rebellious States, or the agents or trustees of
such States, or in any case where such claim or demand
is for the use or benefit of such States. A resolution

instructing the Committee on Foreign Relations to
inquire whether some method cannot be devised to
manifest the sympathy of Congress with the suffer-
ing Lancashire operatives was ordered to be printed.
The resolution calling for information relative to
arbitrary arrests in Delaware was taken up, and
Mr. Davis made a speech, arguing that the Presi-
dent had no authority, under the Constitution, to
make such arrests. On the 16th resolutions declar-
ing that the Government will maintain the pay-
meat in coin of any interest or indebtedness, and
will consider it a breach of the public faith to do
otherwise, and that the duties on imports shall con-
tinute to be collected in coin and the old issue of de-
mand notes, and when the lattershall not be sufficient
for the purpose of such payment they shall there-
after be payable in coin, were introduced by Mr.
M`Dougal and referred to the Finance Committee.
The resolution censuring ex-President Buchanan
for his course respecting the rebellion was laid on
the table. A resolution of thanks to Lieutenant
Ringgold and the officers and crew of the frigate
Sabine was referred to the Naval Committee. Re-
solutions granting lands to Minnesota to aid in im-
proving the navigation of the Minnesota and Red
River of the North, and connecting them by a canal,
and to promote the efficiency of the subsistence de-
partment, were appropriately referred. Bills for
the removal of the Minnesota Indians and the sale
of their lands, granting relief for damages sustained
at the hands of the Indians, and to improve the
organisation of the cavalry forces were introduced
and referred. Resolutions calling for correspondence
on the culture of cotton in Asia Minor and Egypt,

and directing inquiry as to the expediency of pub-
lishing Captain Mullin's report of his waggon road
expedition across the Rocky Mountains, were
adopted. The consideration of the subject of arbi-
trary arrests of citizens was postponed.
In the House of Representatives on the 15th a re-

solution declaring that in the judgment of the
House there should be no legislation changing the
existing laws providing for the payment of interest
on the public debt in coin was adopted by a vote of
81 against 24, and a joint resolution that the
secretary of the Treasury of the United States be
and is hereby authorised and empowered to pay in
coin any portion of the bonded public debt matur-
ing and falling due previous to the Ist day of
January, 1861, was referred to the Committee of
Ways and Means. Mr. Noell, of Missouri, intro-
duced a bill, which was referred, to procure the
abolishment of slavery in Missouri and provide corn
pensation to loyal owners. A resolution was adoptea
instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to in-

quire into the expediency of revising the tariff, in-
creasing the duty of foreign goods not of prime
necessity, so that the importation of foreign goods
shall not exceed the amount exported of American
growth and manufacture, exclusive of specie. A
resolution endorsing the President's emancipation
proclamation was adopted by a vote of 78 against
51. The Army Appropriation Bill was reported.
Mr. Conway (Republiean, Kansas) offered the fol-
lowing resolutions :
" That freedom and slavery cannot coexist in the same
Government without producing endless strife and civil war;
that a house divided against itself cannot stand ;' end that
'this nation must be all free or all slave.'
" That the American Union consists of those States which
are now loyal to the Federal Constitution.
"That the restoration of the Union as it existed prior to
the rebellion would be a greater calamity than the rebellion
itself, and would give new life to the irrepressible con-
flict,' and entail upon the nation another cycle of bitter con-
tention and civil war.
" That whether the seceded States have accomplished a
revolution or not, they have lost their place in the Union
and all right to its guaranties; and that the Union has a
claim to their territory, never to be relinquished, but to be
asserted by arms or otherwise, now and hereafter.
" That the seceded States can never be put down but by
being regarded as out of constitutional relations with the
Unim, and by being assailed upon principles of ordinary
warfare as between separate nations.
" That if any person in the employment of the United
States, in either the legislative or executive branches,
should propose to make peace, or should accept or advise
the acceptance of any such proposition on any basis which
would restore the slave power tD its former supremacy in
the Government, or by any new compromise or amendment
to the constitution recognise slavery as an element of pol;-
tical power, such person shall be guilty of a high crime.
" That the superior resources and military prowess of the
North in this struggle are beyond dispute, and that the
question of its success turns not upon its relative ability,
but on the fitness of its Chief Executive Magistrate to give
effect to its power.
" That it is unsafe to intrust the execution of any system

of administration to persons who aro not in cordial sym-
pathy therewith ; and that no change of policy in the con •
duct of the war is more than nominal which is not accom-
panied by a complete change in the personnel of the Execu-
tive Department.
" That it is a matter for serious reflection whether an-
other election of President must not supervene before the
rightful authority of the nation can be established; and
whether, in the meantime, it is not a flagrant waste of our
energies to continue the war.
" That unless the Army of the West shall have swept
through the valley of the Mississippi to its mouth, and the
Army of the Potomac annihilated the legions of Lee and
Jackson, thus subverting the military power of the rebel-
lion, within a reasonable time, the best interekts of the
country and humanity will require a cessation of hostilities.
" That the States of the North, composing the American
nation, and wielding its power, must ever remain one and
indivisible on the basis of freedom for all, without distinc-
tion of race, colour. or condition; that their mission must
ever be to extend their own civilisation over the entire
continent, whatever derangements, difficulties, checks, or
defeats thay may encounter, they must ever cherish and
pursue the inspiring idea of nationality and continental
dominion."

On the motion of Mr. Maynard (Unionist, Ten-
nessee), these resolutions were tabled by a vote of
132 Yeas to one Nay. Mr. Con way was the only one
who voted in the negative. Mr. Maynard said this
was the first formal proposition asserting the disso-
lution of the Union and the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy. On the 16th, on the motion
of Mr. Cox, of Ohio, it was resolved that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury be directed to furnish to the
house a statement of the amount of the United
States' loan created in 1841, and extended by Act
of April 15,1842, which falls due during the present
year, and also the names of those who are registered
as the owners thereof, and such information as the
department may possess as to the actual ownership
thereof; and that he communicate to this house a
copy or copies of any memorial or memorials ad-
dressed to him or to the Treasury Department, pro-
posing or soliciting a special medium of payment to
the owners or holders of the said loan, and whether
he proposes to pay said loan in coin. The considera-
tion of Mr. Stevens's resolution, declaring that the
Union must be and remain one and indivisible for
ever, and that it would be a high crime to advise or
accept peace propositions on any other terms, was
postponed for three wicks.

Under the heading, An Appeal to the President,
the New Fork World says :
" The most splendid army of the world with Generals as
gallant as ever led and soldiers as bravo as ever marched to
victory has met the frightfullosi disaster of the war. BY
Gen, lialleck's orders the army of the Rappahannock was

marched up against the impregnable batteries of the Frede-
r icksbury heights, brigade after brigade, division after divi-
tion, one after another decimated, thousands upon thou-
sands slaughtered, from daybreak to sunset, until its ruin
was complete, until well nigh 20,000 brave and noble souls
wet the Virginia hillsides with their blood. The unblench-
ing courage, the dauntless intrepidity, of our magnificent
army were never more sublimely displayed.• The blunder-
ing strategy, the incompetent generalship, which hurled
them to a fruitless doom never branded itself so conspi-
cuously as indiscriminate slaughter and murder by whole-
sale. Again, have you, Abraham Lincoln, by the hands
of Henry W, Halleck and Edwin M. Stanton, sent death
to thousands upon thousands of our brothers and friends,
again desolation and anguish to the homes and hearts of
the people—death that gives no life to the perishing nation,
and sorrow which no patriotism can console, or the con-
sciousness of a needful, though cestly self-sacrifice assuage.
By the banks of the Rappahannock there was slaughter
which was fruitless, and by 20,000 firesides tears to-day
are shed which God alone can wipe away. We have no
words of anger in an hour like this. The sense of sorrow
for the nation and her slaughtered sons cools even the hot
wrath which must yet break forth upon the heads of those
whose selfishness, whcse incompetency, whose recklessness
and whose ambition have brought our grief upon us. By
that sorrow, in which there is not a family in all the cities
and villages of the North but shares ; by that love for our
country which has not faltered among us and does not fal-
ter in her darkest hour; by the hopes which must yet
linger in the bosom of the Chief Magistrate to recover the
confidence of his people, and to transmit an honoured name
to his and their posterity; by the desire which in his seri-
ous moments must yet move him to win in times as trying
as those in which Washington won the title of the father
of his country the equal title of its saviour; by the unutter-
able contempt of the men of his own time and the blasting
scorn of history which will surely be wreaked upon him if
he fails in aught which he may fairly do to save the Re-
public ; by tne glory which may yet await and by the
doom which threatens her—by these and every other consi •
deration which the breaking hearts or the anxious minds
of 20,000,000 of people can conceive or frame, we beseech
the President to cut loose now and finally from his past
and fatal policy, and from the men of whom it is enough to
say that the Union and the Constitution might have been
saved, but that, with the resources of a continent and the
arms of twenty millions of united freemen at their backs,
they have not saved it. We beseech him to call to his
Cabinet and aid the ablest, bravest, and best men of the na-
tion, and so, if our cause is not yet past all remedy, by their
help, and the favour of a just God, to make one final effort
for the salvation of the Republic which fruitless millions
have been spent for, and for which more than 100,000 liVes
have been yielded up in vain."

The Federal Attorney-General had given his
official opinion that a free men of colour, if born in
the United Stites, is a citizen, and competent to be
master of a coasting vessel.
The National War Committee had addressed the
following memorial respecting the Alabama to Con-
gress:—

" To THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REFRESENTATITES OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS

ASSE3IIILED.
" National War Committee of the Citizens of
New York, New York, Dec. 15.
"The memorial of the National War Committee of the
citizens of New York respectfully represents :--That the
depredations upon American property by an unlawful
cruiser fitted out in a British port have become so disgrace-
fully frequent and so disastrous to free commerce on the
ocean as to call for the immediate attention of Congress,
and the adoption of measures for their suppression more
effectual than any which have yet been resorted to. It
would seem hardly credible, if the facts were not clearly
established, that a war vessel like the Alabama, built in the
most open manner upon English ground, equipped and
armed by the aid of English merchants, provisioned and
coaled in an English port, there manned almost wholly by
English subjects, should have been permitted by the Go •
vernment of Great. Britain, in defiance of earnest and just
remonstrances, and in violation of a proclamation of neu-
trality, to set forth on a marauding expedition to prey upon
unarmed merchantmen. If there were no higher motive than
the most selfish policy affecting the British Government,that
Government should have been the last to set a precedent so
fatal to British commerce. In the future wars of England
her enemies, however insignificant, have but to do what the
rebels have done in the present instance, and (if it should be
possible to persuade tho American Government to follow
this pernicious English example) procure cruisers in Ame-
rican ports, after the fashion of the Alabama, to prey upon
English commerce, or drive it from the sea. It is, how-
ever, not necessary for us to consider or care what England
may or may not do ; the duty of Americans is to take care
of themselves, to which, happily, they are fully competent,
no matter what other nations may purpose. The means of
redress must correspond to the exigency. If it be once as-
sumed that a vessel may thus be fitted out by a neutral
nation, and cruise without ever entering a home port or
sending a prize there, it seems mutely possible to fix a
limit to the mischief she may do, unless the ocean be
covered with pursuing ships. National vessels of war must
prove inadequate to protect our commerce against such
enemies, thoush our navy woro inerpostra to such an OX.-
tent as to outnumber those of England and France united.
The 447 vessels now in our service have other duties to
perform, and a part of the fleet might possibly search the
sea for months without finding the Alabama. The surest
and best resource appears to your memorialists to be the
commissioning of private armed vessels as letters of marque
and reprisal, to pursue the outlaw, and the offering of a
liberal reward for her capture. Such measures would pro-
bably prove effectual against this ♦essel, or any similar one
which the cupidity or the prejudice of our Transatlantic
rivals may send out hereafter to capture American property
and light the ocean with our burning ships. Whatever
else the Government may think for its honour and interest
to do, either in the way of remonstrasicel reprisal, or even
to put a stop to the repetition of such annoyances, it ap-
pears reasonably certain that if the Alabama is to be de-
stroyed some such measures should be taken as your me-
morialists should suggest. Por the reasons here set forth
your memorialists beg leave to ask for the passage of an
Act of Congress authorising the granting of commissions
to private armed vessels for the capture of the Alabama and
other like cruisers, and the offer of a suitable reward for the
capture. And, as in duty bound, your memorialists will
ever pray, &c.

" GEORGE OPDYKE, Chairman.
" R. D. LATHROP, Secretary."

The committee appointed to inquire into the
conduct of Commander Preble, in allowing the
Florida, alias the Oveto, to enter Mobile, had re-
ported that "he did not do his whole duty." The
Secretary of the Navy had, consequently, declined
to reinstate him.

Her Majesty's ship Cadmus, which had arrived
at Old Point, reported seeing a large fleet entering
Cape Fear River. It was supposed to be Banks's
expedition.
On the night of the 14th a bocly Cif Major White's
Confederate Cavalry made a raid into Ponies Ville,
Maryland, and captured some Federal soldiers.
At daybreak, on the 12th, a body of General
Stuart's Confederate Cavalry dashed into Dumfries,
Virginia, cut down the telegraph wires, and cap-
tured some prisoners. Buinfri,s is between Fal-
mouth, Burnside's head-quarters, and Washington.
Plymouth, North Carolina, had been burnt by
the Federal troops.
Nashville advices of the 15th report that the Con-
federates had a large negro force at Tullahoma,
fortifying. The Confederates had increased their
forces at Nolensville. President Davis left Mur-
freesborough on the 15th for Mobile.

From Cairo we have advices to the 16th. Gene-
ral Hovey's expedition had returned to Helena,
Arkansas. General Sherman had returned to Mem-
phis with his forces. The Confederate army of the
Mississippi was said to be between Jackson and
Cantor.

Advices from North Carolina report that twelve
Federal regiments were recently marched in the
direction of Weldon, to be supported by two gun-
boats and another force of 10,000 men.
Letters from Suffolk,Virginia, of the 14th, state
that General Wessel left that place with his brigade
for a point on the Chowan river, North Carolina,
whence he effected a junction with General Foster.
The same letter gives au account of a heavy skirmish
on the Blackwater river at a point a mile below
Zuni. The reconnais t.ance—for such it properly was
—revealed the enemy in large force, and the Federate,
after some fighting, were compelled to fall back to
Suffolk.

TIIE REPORTED WRECK OF THE WEYMOTITII.
—The Weymouth, reported as totally wrecked in
China, is not the ship of that name belonging to Temperley
and Co., London, but an American ship to San Francisco.
The Weymouth, of Lendon, now on her voyage home, has
on board a freight of upwards of 1,000,0001 b. of tea: .—Leeds
Mercury.
It appears that the Naples Railway will
hardly
be ready for public traffic so soon as the Ist Ja
on account of the extensive lines of wall which will be
necessary to render the escarpments of the cuttings beyond
San Germano safe. The company has therefore resolved,
to establish a regular service of ournibu,,esfrom C,eprano.
to Presenzano, in coincidence with the finished portions of
the line, by which it is expected that travellers from Rome
will reach Naples in 12 hours. Travellers' from N will
have to sleep at San Germano, because of the dis't'Prilcets tra
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