The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1865,

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rals withdrew, so that at present the prospect is
satisfactory for Wilmington.
We are sorry to see so much discord and
disa=ffection among some members of the Con-
federacy. Northern gold and Northern influ-
ence have not been wanting, and as the Southern
President has been one of the most formidable, be-
cause one of the most able, temperate, and consistent
of their opponents, it is against him that their
machinations are principally directed. The Federals
are sharp enough to see what vigour, purpose, and
character DAVIS has infused into the councils of the
Confederacy ; how his statesmanship, his high
principle, his firm and straightforward policy, have
raised the rebellion from a mere outbreak of partisans
into the uprising of a united people. In the words
of Mr. GLADSTONE two years since, JEFFERSON
DAVIS " has made the South a nation ;" and while
the tyrannical and arbitrary proceedings of the
North have excited the indignation of all free coun-
tries, DAVIS, in the most trying times, has never
ceased to respect the Constitution of the States, the
freedom of the press, and the liberty of the subject.
Whatever attempts may be made to weaken his
authority, or however ingeniously newspaper
" correspondents" may be made to represent the
people as discontented with his rule, such " corre-
spondence" in American journals is to be always
regarded with some distrust, and the great body of
the people of the Southern States have been
throughout fully sensible of their good fortune in
possessing in so serious a crisis so skilful and con-
scientious a pilot. DAvis's last act shows how far
he is superior to petty feeling, to the envy or self-
importance so often attaching to men in authority.
He has signed the Congressional resolutions ap-
pointing a General-in-Chief, and has sent a
letter to the Congress informing them that
LEE was only relieved from the whole com-
mand at his own personal request, when he
assumed the direction of the Army of Virginia, and
that as soon as he finds it practicable to unite the
duties, he will deem it conducive to the public in-
terest to place him in that position. Such mag-
nanimity and ready acknowledgment of LEE'S
merits proves that DAVIS has the good of his coun-
try more at heart than any personal advantage.
BLAin has returned to Washington without result,
and his return has affected the price of gold and
cotton in New York. DAVIS has informed him
that no treaty can possibly be made without the
preliminary of recognising the Southern indepen-
dence, and, secondly, he has told him that the
South would agree to an armistice during the dis-
cussion. This is the right spirit in which to meet
the insulting offers of the North, and all the Con-
federate organs breathe a warlike tone. The Con-
gress has ordered the issue of 20 million of notes
for the prosecution of the war, so that all indicates
their undiminished resolution. We have no fear
for the fortunes of the Confederacy, and the Ides
of March may possibly entirely change the present
aspect of affairs.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(RELITER'S TELEGRAM.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 4.

Senor Zarcodel Valle has been appointed
Spanish Charge d'Affaires at the Court of King
Victor Emmanuel.

The Epoca of to-day says :—According to private
letters received from Habana by the last steamer,
there were, at the time of the steamer's departure,
6,500 invalids from Santo Domingo in the military
hospitals of Cuba, 3,000 in those of Puerto Rico,
and another 3,000 in hospital in the island of Santo
Domingo itself."

THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 7.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magdalena,
.C.4lpt. Woolward, with the above mails, has arrived.
She brings 75 passengers, specie value £47,500, and
a large cargo. The Magdalena brings 4 packages of
diamonds and a cargo consisting of 1,144 bags of
coffee, 1,083 bales cotton, 553 bales tobacco, 4 boxes
of cigars, 5 boxes ostrich feathers, 20 packages ipe-
cacuanha, and 139 packages of sundries.
The Magdalena experienced head winds the whole
voyage to Lisbon (except two days near the Line),
westerly winds from Lisbon to Cape Finisterre,
northerly and north-westerly across the bay, and up
the Channel south-easterly rain and thick weather.
She anchored in the Solent at 11.45 p.m. on the 6th
inst.

Admiral Elliott and all his squadron, except the
Satellite, were at Monte Video and River Plate. The
Egmont, Sharpshooter, the Dutch frigate Due de
Nassau, and the French surveying vessel Lamothe
Picquet, were at Rio de Janeiro. The Curlew sailed
from Rio for Monte Video on Jan 7. The Prussian
sailing frigate Niobe was at the Cape Verde Islands.
The Government of Rio de Janeiro are sending
every available soldier and vessel of war to the River
Plate to prosecute the war there.

BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 29.
The Standard publishes the following summary of

news :

" Without attaching much importance to the
great apprehension entertained at present of a gene-
ral River Plate war, we regret sincerely to acquaint
our foreign readers that the state of things in this
Republic is anything but desirable. Since the sail-
ing of the French packet the troops of Flores, aided
by the Brazilian gunboats, have besieged and bom-
barded a little town in the Uruguay called Pay-
sandu, and been effectually repulsed by the heroic
garrison of the • place. The bombardment of this
once thriving town has caused the most profound
sensation throughout the country, and, if followed
up by any success on the part of the Monte-
videan Government troops, cannot fail to result
in very serious consequences. Flores and his allies,
the Brazilians, have been compelled to raise the siege
owing to the near approach of the Government
army ; and we are now waiting to hear the issue of
a battle which is anticipated by all, but very pro-
bably never will take place.
" Meanwhile, the Paraguayan Government, view-
ing with distrust the alliance of Brazil with such a
man as Flores, has virtually declared war against
Brazil, seized the Brazilian mail steamer, and actu-
ally despatched a force of 2,000 men to wrest from
Brazil the rich province of Matto Grosso. The
Argentine Republic, we are happy to say, still re-
mains neutral, and the people repose the most un-
bounded confidence in the cool firmness of President
Mitre to steer clear of all the dangers whichthreaten.
A very strong party is raising its head in the pro-
vinces, which is vehement in its complaint against
the National Goverment for its neglect to protect
the frontier, as Indian invasions are of late so daring
and repeated that the lives and properties of the
estancieros are in the greatest peril. The frontier
line of this Republic is of such immense extent that
it is almost impossible to defend it, save at an enor-
mous expense, which the country at present is utterly
unprepared to meet.
"In compliance with the terms of the law, the
Government bank has burnt another nine millions
of the paper currency, and the demand for our cir-
culating medium is at present so great that specie
has suffered a sensible decline since the departure of
the Samtouge. Still, business is very dull, money
is scarce, and a general want of confidence most
painfully obvious. Few of the saladeristas have as
yet commenced working, but they will begin early
in the new year with every prospect of doing a good
business, as estancieros are not only willing but
anxious to sell their cattle at whatever price they
can get.
"We regret to say that the news respecting the
gold mines of San Juan is very discouraging, but
the silver mines are getting excellent returns.
" The state of the interior provinces admits of
much improvement ; the people are restless simply
because destitute of capital or employment. They
have positively no occupation, and embrace politics
and electioneering in the hope of securing a liveli-
hood. We find great fault with the Government of
this country for its excessive apathy in agricultural
and industrial matters, and hope to see President
Mitre, in the coming year, adopt a new line of policy
in this respect.

"The market opened very weak this morning, and
specie displayed a downward tendency ; subse-
quently, no doubt owing to the general conviction
that Flores has suffered a defeat, specie grew firm ;
paper money, however, is scarce, and collections
most unsaleable. Loans for 30 days in the currency
are freely made at 2 per cent per month, and na-
tional bonds hypothecated as collateral security.
" A great number of bills of exchange were offered
on the market to-day at as high a rate as 494, but
the rate of first-class bills cannot be quoted higher
than 49k.
" The wool market is very depressed, although
some. large sales were made in the North Plaza as
high as 97."

CATTLE SHOW IN BRAZIL.—The Correio Pau lis-
tano, a paper published in Sao Paulo, gives an amus-
ingiaccount of what it states to have been a ceremony of a
perfectly novel charactar, not only in that province itself,
but also in the empire of Brazil. The first cattle show on
record there, as it appears, took place in Sao Paulo on the
23d of December last. The idea, according to the Correio,
originated with the superintendent of the Sao Paulo Rail-
way, Mr. J.J. J Aubertin, and was quickly responded to by
the whole staff, who made up a list of subscriptions which
allowed of the distribution of several handsome premiums.
The meeting gave rise to the liveliest curiosity among the
inhabitants of the city and the district, who attended in a
considerable number, in spite of a most unpropitious after-
noon. Happily, however, the large locomotive shed of the
railway was placed at the disposal of the meeting by Mr.
P. W. Sharpe, the resident contractor, where cattle and all
were well sheltered, and whore an admirable distribution of
certain railway material quickly converted the interior into
a compact cattle-market. The animals exhibited consisted
of oxen, sheep, and pigs, and the following premiums are re-
ported as having been presented to the several successful
competitors by her Excellency the Marchioness of Santos,
who, in spite of the bad weather, attended expressly for the
occasion, viz. :—Ten guineas for the best ox, to Senor J.
A. de Borba Cujo ; six guineas for the second best ox, to
Senor Candido J. Silvo ; six guineas for the best sheep, to
Senor Cujo ; three guineas for the second best, to Senor
Chox ; two guineas for the best pig, to Senor Cujo ; and
one guinea and a half for the second to Mr. P. W.
Sharpe. Mr. Sharpe also exhibited a most beautiful fat
cow, to which the judges were reluctantly compelled
to deny a prize, from the wording of the regulations.
The judges were four in number—three Brazilians and
one Englishman,—viz., Senors Commendador Fidelis
Prates, Dr. Martinho Prado, J. R. dos Santos Camargo, and
Mr. H. T. Jarvis, a gentleman on the contractor's staff. A
formal report of the proceedings, drawn by Dr. Fidencio
Prates, the hon. secretary, and signed by the judges, was
presented in duplicate to the Camera Municipal of the city,
and to his Excellency the President of the Province (Con-
selheiro Joao Crispiniano Soares, who acknowledged it in
a handsome despatch. The novelty of the whole affair
appears to have been warmly appreciated by the Paulistas,
who, we understand, contemplate an annual repetition of
our English ceremony. Indeed, from all accounts, there
is no excuse whatever for the province not producing and
sending to market animals of a first-class character. At
present, however, there is a great lack not ;only of good
producers, but likewise of good butchers. The sheep are
for the most part miserable, and mutton properly so called
can scarcely be said to make its appearance at table at all.
In meat and in vegetables too the city is very poorly pro-
vided; yet, with a little care and industry, vegetable and
animal would flourish as elsewhere. This want of variety
in vegetables, combined with the abundance of pork and
bacon always on hand, leads a great portion of the people
to confine themselves to this last sort of food, mixed only
with the dry, black bean of the country ; hence the preva-
lence of scrofula. Two simple conditions only:are required
to remove this stigma in a land where the bounties of na-
ture have been so much talked about as to have become a
stale subject--viz., exertion on the part of the producer.
and a generous support on the part of the consumer ; this
latter most especially. As the province will now very
shortly have a fine railway to develope its resources, it is
to be hoped its people will lose no time in bestirringthem-
selves in reference to the noble branch of industry which
relates to the breed of cattle—an element of progress not
less important in an agricultural than in a sanitary point of
view, and if rightly pursued sure to be highly remunerative.
THE COUNTESS DANNER.—We hear that the
Countess Danner, the morganatic wife of the late King of
Denmark, is about to marry Count Silfwerstolpe, descen-
dant of a very ancient Swedish family, and that the mar-
, riage will take place at Nice.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIS D.Y.
The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 12 o'clock.
RECRUITING IN THE ARMY.
Mr. O'REILLY gave notice that on the 28th instant he
would draw attention to the present mode of recruiting in
the army, and move for a Royal commission in reference to
the same.

THE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.
Mr. WALTER gave notice that he would move an ad-
dition to Sir J. Pakington's motion for an inquiry into the
working of the Council of Education, to the effect ,that
such inquiry should be extended to the inspection of
schools.

THE DRAINAGE AND THE SHANNON.
Colonel FRENCH gave notice of a motion for inquiring
into this subject.
COURTS OF ADMIRALTY IN IRELAND.
Mr. MAGUIRE asked the Chief-Secretary for Ireland
when it was the intention of the Government to introduce
the promised measure for reforming the Court of Admiralty
in Ireland, and assimilating the law in Ireland to that which
exists in Engand ?
Sir R. PEEL said that the subject was under considera-
tion, but he was not in a position to make any statement in
reference to it at present.
REMOVAL OF PAUPER'S TO IRELAND.
Mr. MAGUIRE asked the President of the Poor Law
Board, whether he would lay upon the table all 'correspon-
dence between the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland
and the Poor Law Board is London, relative to the
the alleged illegal removal to Ireland of Mary Moriarty and
her four children, and Julia Hannan and child, by the
guardians of the Greenwich union ; as well as all papers
thereto relating ?
Mr. VILLIERS said he had no objection to produce the
papers referred to.
ARTERIAL DRAINAGE IN IRELAND.
In reply to Lord NAAS,
Sir R. PEEL said that, although the subject had been
under the consideration of Government, he was not in a
position to give the noble lord information on this subject.
ALLEGED PROSPERITY OF IRELAND.
On the bringing up of the report of the address in reply
to the Royal Speech,
Mr. SCULLY moved the following :—" To omit the
paragraph relating to Ireland, and to insert, ' That the
house regret that the general condition of Ireland cannot
be regarded as prosperous or satisfactory, and that multi-
tudes of the inhabitants continue to emigrate to foreign
countries through the want of remunerative employment
at home,' " instead thereof. The hon. member said that
he did not intend to go over the same ground he had
travelled yesterday, but he did repeat at some
length the substance of his observations. Ho could not
see the prosperity that was spoken of in the Royal Address
in regard to Ireland, but, on the contrary, that there was a
downward tendency in its material condition. Ho could
speak positively with regard to agriculture, and he
thought the alleged manufacturing prosperity was very
doubtful, at all events he was too obtuse to per-
ceive any such improvement. There was an an-
nual drain on the population of Ireland of 100,000
men, and it must be remembered that that number of in-
habitants represented a commercial value of £30,000,000.
He attributed the paragraph in the Royal Speech relating
to Ireland to Sir Robert Peel ; and he repeated the com-
plaint he had previously made as to Ireland not being go-
verned by Irishmen, contending that so long as that was
the case the country would never be in a prosperous
state. Ho suggested as a practical measure the
purchase of the railways in Ireland by the Government.
He argued that flagrant injustice was inflicted on Ireland,
and alluded in support of that statement to the practice of
sending Irish paupers who had spent half their lives in
this country back to their birth-place. Irish emigrants left
their native country with a feeling of hostility towards
England, and were ready to take arms against it, a state
of sentiment which it was impolitic and even dangerous to
cherish. In the course of his observations, he asserted
amid much laughter, that it appeared most of his sup-
porters of last night had vanished, which rendered it
doubtful whether he should press his motion to a division
Mr. O'REILLY seconded the motion.
Sir R. PEEL said he wished merely to supplement the
observations he had made last night, as ho understood the
hon. member did not propose to press his motion to a
division. The general feeling of the house was that the
paragraph alluded to should have been introduced into the
Royal Speech. (Hear, hear.) He firmly believed that
since last year there had been an improvement in Ireland,
and that it was never in a more prosperous condition with
respect to the potato crop. The hon. member for Cork
himself admitted that the grazing in Ireland was also in a
prosperous state, and they were all aware of the import-
ance of the grazing interest to that county. In proof
of the improved state of Ireland, he would refer to Irish
railways, on which £24,000,000 had been expended chiefly
by Irish capitalists, which he contended clearly proved the
development of prosperity in Ireland. He quite agreed
with the hon. member for Cork, in regard to the dangers
of the Shannon and its tributaries, and measures would be
devised to prevent a recurrence of such disasters. Within
the last eight years no less than £16,000,000 had been
expended in the erection of buildings in Dublin, and
during the last four years in Belfast no less than
£400,000 for the same object. (Hear, hear.) He had re-
ceived communications from Galway which showed that
measures were adopted to meet the distress prevailing
there, which it was to be hoped would be only temporary.
(Hear, hear.)
Major GAVIN alluded to the increase in the growth of
flax in Limerick as a hopeful sign of the coming prosperity
of the country.
Dr. BRADY supported the amendment.
The house then divided, and the numbers were—
For the amendment
Against 67
Majority —ss

INDIA.
Sir J. ELPHINSTONE drew the attention of the house
to the late disasters resulting from the cyclone on the river
Hooghley, in India, and to the inconvenience of making up
the finance statements for India late in the session.
The reply to the address was then agreed to.
THE STEAM VESSEL STANLEY.
Mr. R. HODGSON moved for copy of evidence and re-
port relative to the loss of the Stanley steam vessel at the
mouth of the Tyne, in pursuance of an inquiry directed by
the Board of Trade.—Agreed to.
MORTGAGE DEBENTURES.
Lord NAAS obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable
certain companies to issue mortgage debentures founded
on securities upon or affecting land, and to make provision
for the registration of such mortgage debenttires and
securities.
The bill was read a first time.
The house then adjourned at ten minutes to two o'clock.

MARKETS --This Day.

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MARK-LANE.

The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market
to-day were very moderate, and the quality of the produce
was inferior. Good and fine dry samples, consequently,
were in fair average request, and prices ruled firm ; but for
damp qualities the trade was dull, at barely late rates.
There was a moderate supply of foreign wheat on the
stands. Good and prime old qualities moved off steadily,
at full currencies ; but Russian produce sold heavily, and
where sales were pressed rather less money was accepted.
Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at late
rates.

The supply of good and fine malting barley on sale was
somewhat restricted, yet the trade was slow at late rates.
Inferior barley sold heavily at previous quotations.

Malt was in limited request at late prices.
The supply of oats on sale was moderate. Generally
Speaking the trade was dull, and inferior produce changed
hands at rather lower prices.
Beans and peas were in slow request, yet prices ruled
stationary.
The flour trade was steady at late quotations.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 480 1,740 790 50 330
Irish — 840
Foreign -
COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN for the
Week ending Feb. 4, 1865 :—Wheat, qrs., 83,620 ; average
38s 4d—barley, 70,493 ; 29s 2d—oats, 9,356 ; 19s 6d
Corresponding week in 1864 :—Wheat, 74,757 ; 40s Bd—
barley, 74,935 ; 32s ld—oats, 14,173 ; 18s 11d.