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merit, coming before us so conspicuously, should, by the one o'clock train, accompanied by Admiral
as a matter of course, be handsomely acknowledged. La Ronciere-Lenoury, and M. Dubuisson, his aide..

As this already world-famous work has now been
issued from the Press of our own country, in its
English Version, by the Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and
Galpin, it reflects the highest possible honour
upon those gentlemen, while, at the same time,
it signalises in a remarkable degree the resources
of their immense establishment. It is a master-
production of the typographical art. By the
beauty of the letterpress, the mere quality and
colour of the material of the paper upon which it
is printed—by all the little accessories of read-
ing and annotating, we might even say, of its
mere binding and blazonry, the book comes
forth—as it ought to have come forth—im-
perially. In conclusion, as already intimated,
while his Imperial Majesty the author, has (quite
superfluously as it still appears to us) justified his
labours as a historian by his hint at an analogy be-
tween Caesar and Napoleon—the popular publish-
ing firm to whom the issue of the English Version
of " The History of Caesar" has been happily en-
trusted, have justified their selection as the Em-
peror's Publishers by the really superb manner in
which they have given to the world his last and
noblest achievement as a Man of Letters.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN.

The following are the heads of the news brought
by the Australasian :
NEW YORK, FEB. 22 (Noon).

Since Sherman's occupation of Columbia,
Charleston has been evacuated, and is now
occupied by the Federals. The greater part of
the city has been burned. The Confederates are
fleeing northwards.
General Schofield and Admiral Porter cap-
tured Fort Anderson on Sunday. The fall of
Wilmington is shortly expected.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, FEB. 22 (noon).
To-day being the anniversary of Washington's
birthday the Exchange was closed. Unofficial

prices.
Gold, 201/. Exchange, 219 k 5-20. United
States Bonds, 111. Illinois, 119. Cotton, 83.

ARRIVAL OF THE ST. DAVID.
GREENCASTLE, March 2.

The Montreal Ocean Company's steamship St
David, from Portland on the evening of Feb. 18,
arrived here this evening. _

NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (Evening).

Philadelphia papers announce that the Rich-
mond papers of Thursday state that Sherman's
main columns had reached Kingsville Junction,
25 miles north-east of Columbia. The communi-
cation south of the Florence Railroads and on the
Charleston Railroad is interrupted.
A Confederate flag of truce boat was blown up
on the James River. All on board were lost.
The House of Representatives has passed the
Tariff Bill, and rejected the proposition to tax sales
of merchandise.

Mr. Stevens's proposed tax of 10 per cent. upon
gold sales has been defeated.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 11.30 p.m.

General Grant reports to Mr. Stanton this even-
ing that to-day's Richmond Dispatch says Sherman
entered and took possession of Columbia yesterday

morning.

General Beauregard communicated this intelli-
gence officially yesterday. From this despatch it
appears the Federals shelled Columbia on Thurs-
day from the south bank of the Congaree. During
the night they moved up the river, and on the fol-
lowing morning forded the Soluda and Broad
rivers. During the Federal passage of these rivers
Beauregard evacuated Columbia. The Federals
soon after took possession. Two days previously,
when it was decided not to attempt the defence
of Columbia, a large quantity of medicinal stores
were destroyed. The Dispatch presumes that the
fall of Columbia will necessitate the evacuation of
Charleston, which the Dispatch thinks has already
commenced.
The general impression is that Sherman will now
proceed to Charleston, to establish his base, but the
Dispatch does not see what need he has of a base.
He subsists on the country, and his army has not
been exhausted by any battle. Since he left
Savannah, Sherman declared his intention to
march to Columbia, thence to Augusta, and thence
to Charleston. This Beauregard considers was
uttered as a boast to hide his designs. The Dispatch
thinks that he will next strike at Charleston or at
Florence. It was reported yesterday that the
Federals had captured Augusta, but the Dispatch
discredits the report.
The Charleston Mercury announced a temporary
suspension on Saturday, with the view to its removal
to another point, this being deemed necessary by
the progress of military events.
Captain Semmes has been made a rear-admiral,
with the command of the James River squadron.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW Yon, Feb. 18 (Evening).
Money easy. Gold, 2041 ; Exchange on London,
2211 ; do. Paris, 2.271 to 2.20. Stocks steady.
New York Centrals, 1121 ; Illinois, 119 ; Erie, 741 ;
5-20 United States Bonds, 1101. Cotton quiet—.
Middling Upland, 85c. Flour dull. Wheat heavy.
Corn dull. Provisions slightly firmer. Coffee
steady. Sugar and molasses quiet. Petroleum
dull. Crude, 48c. ; refined, 67c.

Feb. 18, 11.30 p.m.
Gold, 204. Stocks dull—New York Centrals,
1121 ; Illinois, 119/ ; Erie, 73i.

CANADA.

QUEBEC, Feb. 17.

The House in committee has sanctioned the ap-
propriation of $330,000 for the expenses of 'the
arrangements on the frontier to prevent raids. It
has also appropriated $50,000 on account of the
money refunded to the United States in the case of
the St. Albans raiders.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, Feb. 18.

The New York journals publish advices from
Vera Cruz stating that fighting continued in the
interior of Mexico between the Juarists and Impe-
rialists. It is also asserted that there is an annual
deficit in the Mexican Treasury of $20,000,000.

MEXICO.

PARIS, MARCH 3.

A despatch from Admiral Mazeres, published to-
day, announces that a small detachment of fusiliers,
marines, and Algerian sharpshooters, under the
command of the captain of the frigate Gazelle,
having been abandoned by 200 Mexican troops, by
whom they were escorted, were captured at San
Puebla by the Juarists, after a heroic defence.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 3.

The Emperor has addressed a letter to the Minis-
ter of the Interior recommending the following
measures of public utility at Lyons :—The abolition'
of bridge tolls over the Soane, the demolition of the
wall surrounding the suburb of • Croise Rousse, the
widening of the approaches to the archiepiscopal
palace, and the establishment of a square in the
suburb of La Guillotiere, and of another near the
Grand Seminary of Lyons.
A new fraud has recently been practised on the
gold half-napoleons. It consists in cutting away
half the thickness of the milled edge and recutting
the notches. Each piece thus loses from 25 to 50
centigrammes. The public should therefore examine
the edge, and if it appears defective, refuse the piece
unless it weighs 3 gr. 22 centi.
Prince Napoleon arrived on the tat inst. at Havre

de-camp.
The Duke de Morny is now sufficiently recovered
from his late indisposition as to be able to take car-

riage exercise.
The Patrie has the following :—" The powers
which the Government exercises under the law of
the 27th of February and the 2d of March, 1858,
called of General Safety," expire on the 31st of
this month. Article Bof that law, voted by amend-
ment, runs thus The powers granted to the Go-
vernment by Arts. 5,6, and 7 of the present law,
will cease on the 31st of March, 1865, unless they
should be previously renewed.' We think we are
right in stating that the Legislative Body will not
be called upon in the course of this month to pro-
long the duration of those exceptional arrange-
ments, which a regard for the political and social
interests of the country suggested to the Govern-
ment seven years ago."
BOURSE, March 2.—The market continues heavy,
and prices have declined. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 67fr. 90c. Mobilier have been vari-
able, and are also lower, having been done at 918 fr.
25c. In Railway Shares there is not much doing,
but prices are upon the whole tolerably well sus-
tained. The market closed as follows :

4 per Cents 97
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 67 70
Do. end month 67 85
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3500
Cr3dit Foncier 1272 50
Roman
RAIL'

Italian Loan 64 75
Do. e.nd month 64 85
Ditto Threes
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
reys.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lOl5 ... 1015
Lyons and Mediterranean 948 75 ... 948 75
Southern 582 50 580
Western 541 25
Eastern
Sardinian 306 25 305

Austrian
Lombard 547 50 ... 546 25
North of Spain 320 ... 317 50
Saragossa 395 ... 390 50
Ditto to Barcelona

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TURKEY.
(Via Trieste.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 25.

Mr. Laing's project for the conversion of the
floating debt has been accepted by the Porte in
principle, and the negotiations concerning the de-
tails are progressing satisfactorily.
The prices of the local securities have greatly

risen in consequence.
A disastrous fire has occurred at Galata.

lives were lost.

150

The difficulty between the Porte
_and the Persian
Government is becoming more serious.

The general interruption of telegraphic communi-
cation continues.
THREATENED RUPTURE OF DIPLOMATIC RE-
LATIONS BETWEEN THE PORTE AND PERSIA.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 22.

According to the Levant Herald, the misunder-
standing between the Porte and the Shah's Govern-
ment on the subject of the Customs' tariff in force
between the two countries not merely continues,
but has attained proportions which even seem to
threaten a rupture of diplomatic relations. The loss-
occasioned to the Turkish Treasury by the con-
tinued operation of the old treaty is even greater
than the former estimate represented, extending far
beyond the mere difference in the import and
export rates levied on merchandise passing through
Turkey to and from the Persian frontier. In the
single article of tournbeki—the Persian preparation
of tobacco smoked in Narghiles—the loss to the
Turkish Customs under the existing tariff is rela-
tively enormous, not merely from the difference be-
tween the old rate still levied -on this article, and
that chargeable on tobacco under the new treaties
with the other Powers, but because of the effect of
its, at present, comparatively free importation on
the consumption of the highly taxed native leaf. In
the other exclusive article of salt, the loss to the
Porte is nearly as. great—this, too, being not merely
enormously smuggled over the frontier, but openly
and largely imported under. the old tariff, to the
immense detriment of the Porte's monopolist rights.
in the article under the new conventions with the
other Governments. When to these heavy evasions
of duty is added the loss on the other imports

from Persia—which are made in the names of
Persian subjects at 3 per cent., exported hence to
Europe in those of others foreigners (under the
new treaties) at 5 per cent. instead of the 12, pay-
able under the existing Persian treaty ; the extent
of the loss sustained by the Porte may be readily
imagined. It is against this that the latter has in
vain appealed to the Teheran Government ; and
failing, has now formally intimated to the Persian
Minister, that from and after the 1-13th prox., the
strict rule of the old treaty will be applied, and all
Persian subjects in Turkey be prohibited from en-
gaging in retail trade or industries of any kind.
Orders to this effect have been forwarded to all the
provincial authorities ; in the capital the prohibition
will be enforced by the Minister of Police. The
consequence of this measure—which is forced on
the Porte in self-defence—will be ruinous to thou-
sands of Persian subjects throughout the empire,
as, to say nothing of the large colony established
in Stamboul, there is hardly a town in Asia Minor
or the southern provinces in which a large propor-
tion of the local retail and mercantile trades is not
in their hands.

P A I N.
MADRID, MARCH 2.

Marshal Narvaez has laid before the Congress
the treaty of peace with Peru, the bases of -which
agree with the intelligence via Southampton.
The Finance Committee of the Congress have
made their report, which approves the bill intro-
duced by the Minister of Finance.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, MARCH 2, 11 P.M.
The Marquis of Sada Bandiera has signified his
inability to form a new Ministry. At this hour it
is supposed that the Duke de Louli will be recalled
by the King.

MALTA.

MALTA, February 25.

Her Majesty's surveying steamer Hydra left on
the 16th February for Cephalonia and Patros to
prosecute her hydrographical researches in Grecian
waters. Her Majesty's surveying steam-vessel
was undocked on the 24th, and will shortly proceed
to follow up her surveys in the vicinity of Maretimo
and Sardinian waters.

H.M. steam gunboat Cockatrice is to leave here
to-morrow for Constantinople, in order to reassume
her station with the Weser in the Danube. H.M.
despatch steamer Caradoc, placed by the naval
Commander-in-Chief at the disposal of his Excel-
lency Sir Henry L. Bulwer, her Majesty's ambas-
sador at the Sublime Porte, left Malta, after refitting,
on the 18th for Alexandria, to carry his Excellency to
Constantinople. Sir Henry has been passing the
winter in the neighbourhood of Cairo to recruit his
health, which has been very much shaken by the
recent illness he suffered when on a visit last
autumn to Greece. H.M. steam corvette Pelican
returned to Malta from the vicinity of Bengazi on
the 24th. She was sent to assist in picking up for
repair and re-submerging the section of the Malta
cable broken between Bengazi and Alexandria.
The Fanny Lambert, previously engaged in this
service, returned to Malta to replenish fuel on the
the 18th. During the five weeks she was out the
weather was more boisterous than any one at Ben-
gazi and Trepoli had ever recollected for upwards
of 30 years ; but she, nevertheless, contrived to
pick up and buoy the broken end of the cable,
which buoy, however, it is feared, will have
been detached and carried away by the heavy
stress of weather, which has subsequently
prevailed, and the dredging work will probably
have to be gone over afresh. Few opportunities
in such weather were afforded the staff for touching
the cable, but sufficient has been detected by testing
. with the accurate instruments employed, to prove

that in the neighbourhood of the break, some 30
miles to the southward and eastward of Bengali,
the cable is in such a weak and precarious state, for
an extent of several miles, that other breaks cannot
but be looked for ; and a new and stronger cable,
better adapted to the rocks and coral bottom will
have to be laid when fine weather sets in.
The Fanny Lambert having refilled and filled uP
fuel, took a fresh departure from Malta on the 24th,
proceeding, in the first place, to Tripoli to examlue
and repair a small piece of the cable in that Wino;
diate vicinity found to be defective, an
will afterwards proceed to the locality Of the
break. She has on board an increased staff 0'
electricians and telegraphists, besides °Pe
ratives, among whom are Mr. Gibson, the,
government inspector, Mr. Temple ; on behalf oi
the contractors, Messrs. Bacon, Bruce, Crow':
Farmer, Joys, Fryer, Horne, Hoskins, Hough, and
telli, Saunders, Smith, Stevens, Watkins, a

Wimble.
The Royal Oak, Resistance, and Enterprisrd,e,
ironclads, attended by the steam gunboat Vile I
put to sea on the morning of the 23d,
and returneu.
in the evening after a few days' exercise of the
re°.
heavy armaments, all which, we understand,
highly satisfactory. The Cossack, steam corvetw,o
is being fitted out at Malta dockyard With Ord
screw raising apparatus. out
At a court-martial held at Malta, on the
February, on board the Hibernia, under the 1°1e;
dency of Captain Coate, of her Majesty's usher Gibraltar, Thomas Steed, assistant engineer of o,s,
Majesty's ship Victoria, was tried for drunkeall;,e
and having pleaded guilty was condemned to
loss of all seniority, and severely reprimanded', of
The only naval movement during the Wee'tter
foreign ships of war, is the arrival from Corfu, e).._„
;experiencing very heavy weather, of the Austrib
steam corvette Graf Dandolo, Captain lianta'.lr,
eight days from Corfu. The Mosquito and Itnlrs7
Prussian gun brigs, bound for Cadiz, continue `n-
port wind bound.
Since the 6th inst. the weather has been .more
of
less- boisterous and rainy, with a succession
strong -winds from the N.W. and W., butt una
tended with any great oscillations of beir;
meter since the gale of the 6th and do
On the night of the 21st the island was 3:115,
visited by a gale from the N.W., with heavy 0,11
accompanied by hail and sleet, and which lasted
yesterday, when then there was a slight fall of snow
an almost unprecedented occurrence here. the
atmosphere was very cold, the thermometer in ing
open air standing as low as 40 deg. Fahr. Seal3,h a
men declare that they have seldom witnessed siv:
continuation of bad weather. Each day br ed
some tidings of disasters at sea, and it jecrelit
that more will yet be known as news from CLW.,,
points of the Mediterranean gradually arriTe,so‘pie-
number of vessels have bore up with damage —dila.
ward bound from Baltic sea-ports and Al

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HER MAJESTY.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, ..----„e,,hner,
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal P'w-„•po'l
Princess Helena, went out walking this 101'-1
attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe. atiog
Mr. J. A. Vinter had the honour of sub3.4o-
- her Majesty his portraits of their Royal iter
nesses the Prince and Princess of lArales'
Winterhalter, lithographed for Messrs. C°lll3