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AMERICAN AFFAIRS.—The further accounts from New
York this week by the Atlantic show a renewed im-
provement in the stock market. At the same time,
owing to the shipments of produce to this country, the
rate of exchange was declining, although the present
steamer has brought specie to the extent of 100,0001.
Even, however, if the remittances should fall off by the
next two or three packets, they are likely to be aug-
mented by the dividends which have to be sent to Lon-
don during January. Business was increasingly active
in all quarters, and the railroad receipts, as compared
with the corresponding period of last year, continued in
almost every instance to show a great advance. A re-
port regarding the Illinois Central Railroad, in which a
considerable interest is held onthis side, had just been pub-
lished by the chief engineer, to the effect that the construc-
tion of the entire line is going on rapidly, and that it will
certainly be completed at the appointed time. The mar-
ket for imported goods was firm, and, as the arrivals
during December had been moderate, the stock was not
larger than at the end of 1852. As the reduced tariff
recommended by the Government will not, if it be
adopted, come into operation for a year, and the notice
for the Government purchases of United States' stocks
would expire on the 31st of December, attention was
directed to the question of preventing the continued
accumulation of surplus revenue meanwhile, and the
consequent hoarding of specie in the Treasury vaults.
One plan suggested, and which was still before Con-
gress, was to allow the importers of railroad iron a credit
of four years for the payment of duties.
rates ooff freights GUANO.—We understand that the Peruvian Govern-
tmhee price
c ees has instructed its agents in this country to advance
guano to
during
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the g
agate.

" ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH."

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The motto, " England for the English," which we
suggested eight days ago as that which ought to be the
national motto, is, we rejoice to. find, ;already in the
course of universal!adoption. That motto is on all lips:
it is in every heart. It is the only motto which is suited
to the existing circumstances of this country. There
could be no more appropriate rallying-cry for the people
than " England for the English. Let that cry be only
raised in tones sufficiently loud, and it will make itself
heard in ears not always accessible tolthe popular voice.
And not only will it make itself heard, but it will force
admission into the Court and Cabinet with resistless
power. It will extort a practical response in the foreign
policy of the country, from those who have hitherto had
everything their own way.
When sufficiently ample revelations have been made
of the influences which have been exercised in the admi-
nistration uf public affairs in this country, for a conside-
rable time past, the people of England will be alike sur-
prised and indignant. Just now, were the full extent of
undue influences at work, to be laid before them, they
would scarcely be able to credit the statements which
should have to be made ; but they will not always be
sceptically disposed. Facts will be submitted to them
which they ' cannot gainsay—facts which will command
their belief, however unwilling they may feel to give
credence to them.

And here let us do our countrymen the justice to say,
that this indisposition to believe anythinc, unfavourable
to those of whom they wished to think favourably,6 and
to whom they had shown a sincere friendship, is in-
finitely to their credit. It is so much to be regretted,
that confidence so generous should have been abused,
and that friendship so sincere should have been mis-
placed.

- But it will not be so much longer. If the English are
slow to believe anything which is ungenerous on the
part of thiise on whom they had lavished unbounded
kindness, they feel all more strongly, when
it no longer admits of doubt that that kindness has been
ill-requitted. The eyes of the nation are fast opening to
the fatal state of matters in the most exalted places in
the land, and they will feel and act accordingly. A per-
fect flood of light has, within the last few weeks, been

let it on the public mind, and the people will never again
be deceived.

We knew not that we have ever seen more unmis•

takeable indications of public indignation than those
which we now witness at the disclosures which we have
recently made. Nothicg could touch the national sen-
sibilities more strongly than the discovery that England,
instead of being governed for the English, and in ac-
cordance with English principles and opinions, has been,
in reality, governed in consonance with German notions,
by German influences, and for German purposes.
Nothing could be more calculated to create a powerful
prejudice against Germans, than the discovery of the
fact that Germans have been busy, and, what is more,
successful, in a certain sense and to a certain extent,
in intriguing at the Court of England. What were
mysteries before become plain as the noon-day
sun. What was incomprehensible to the unsophis-
ticated, unsuspicious minds of the people of this
country, is easily and perfectly comprehensible now.
The secret of that anti-English, degrading, and in-
jurious policy, which the Coalition have pursued with
regard to the Turkish question, is now as transparent
as crystal. They were subjected to an irresistible ex-
ternal. pressure. A power beyond the walls of the Coun-
cil-chamber guided and governed them in every delibe-
ration they had, and in every act they performed. They
had no will of their own. They were the veriest slaves
of others. They were no better than so many mere
marionettes. They did as they were bid ; they moved
when and as the wires were pulled.
And this, too, in a great country like England—the
greatest in the world ; but, we say it with sorrow, great
no longer. It may recover its moral as well as its mar-
tial greatness ; but that will only be when the existing
system of governing the country at home and abroad,'
by secret and unconstitutional agencies, has been de-
stroyed, and English minds and hearts are again at the
head of affairs, in reality as well as in name. If the
people would see the lost prestige of their country re-
stored, if they would see England once more at the head
of the nations of Europe, taking the lead in all that is
just, generous, and great—they must take care that no
foreign influence obtain access to the councils of the
Sovereign, and that thoroughly English feelings and
thoroughly English-views prevail in all'the deliberations
of our Ministers of State. "England for the English"
must become the motto of future Cabinets, as well as of
the country. It must be the guiding principle of those
in power, an well as the rallying cry of the people. And
to insure the adoption of that motto on the part of Mi-
nisters, it will only be necessary that it should be uni-
versally adopted in the country.
With this view we trust that, at all the great popular
demonstrations which are about to be made in reference
to the conduct of our Government with relation to the
Turkish question, the cry of "England for the English"
will be heard loud and long. Let it ring through the
halls or rooms in which the meetings take place, and be
reverberated by the walls of the buildings. Let it sound
from shore to shore—from the centre to the circumference
of the British empire. If this be done, all may yet be well.
Dismay will be carried into the Court and the Cabinet,
and, from very fear, if from no higher or nobler prin-
ciple, we shall'see an end put to that sinister system of
secret, un-constitutional, un-English influences with the
Ministry of the day, which has dishonoured the name
of England, and destroyed its prestige everywhere—
which has subjected us to the charge of treachery to
Turkey, of truckling to Russia, and of placing in the
most imminent jeopardy the peace of Europe.
But before we can have any reason to believe Coburg
influences have ceased to operate in the councils of the
country we must have a change of Ministry. Nothing
is to be expected from the present men. They have lost
everything that pertains to the English character, by
their constant association, for so long a period, with
parties whose predilections are thoroughly German.
It may be doubted, indeed, whether it has not so
far become a political habit with them to subserve
the purposes of those who have been their German
masters, as to proceed in the same course, without
the promptings under which they have hitherto acted.
Be this as it flay, they cannot remain in office. The
country does not repose the slightest confidence in them.
Nor will the country ever believe that the Coburg dy-
nasty has been entirely overthrown at the Court and in
the Cabinet, so long as the Coalition, or even a majority
of their number, remain in Downing-street.
To the ignominious expulsion, therefore, of the men
now in office—ii would be a misnomer to say power, for
power they have none—the country must direct its im-
mediate and exclusive attention. These men have sacri-
ficed their country's interests, to a feeling of utter
servility to parties who have no constitutional status in
these realms, beyond that of the other subjects of her
Majesty, and who, consequently, have no right to inter-
meddle in any wEtY with polities. And until these per-
sons are expelled from Downing-street, and men of
thoroughly English feelings appointed in their place,
we can have no ground for believing that Germanism
has ceased to inspire and regulate the foreign policy of
this country. Until a consummation so devoutly to be
wished has taken place, let us repeat, that the only
motto for the people of Great Britain in the present con-
juncture must be—.“ England for the English."

COMPLETION OE TELEURAPHIC COMMUNICATION BE-
TWEEN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.—The English and
Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company having completed
their present operations, telegraphic communication is
now perfected between Stranraer, in Scotland, and
Queenstown, through Belfast, Dublin, and Cork. The
first message received at Dublin from Queenstown was
from Rear-Admiral Sir William Carroll, to the Lord-
Lieutenant. It reached College-green between twelve
and one lon Monday, and
was conveyed to the Vice-
regal Lodge by Mr. Jenoure the company's manager
for Ireland, who brought thence a reply from his Excel-
lency to Si: William Carroll, which was transmitted at
once, and delivered in Queenstown by three o'clock.
The laying of the wires being finished between Stanraer,
London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, Dublin will very
shortly be in close communication with these cities.
TURKEY AND RUSSIA.—On Wednesday last a public
meeting of the inhabitants of Chester was held in the
Theatre Royal, for the Purpose of expressing an opinion
on the Russo-Turkish question. Resolutions were
adopted to the effect that England would be justified in
taking instant steps for an open declaration of war
against Russia. The meeting was convened and pre-
sided over by the Mayor of Cheater.
GROSS SUPERSTITION.—At the quarter sessions at
Bristol on F Thursday, a fortuneteller Darned Richard
Harris was tried, first for having stolen a half-sovereign
from a young woman, under the following circum-
stances :—The prosecutrix was a female servant living
with a respectable family, and was 21 years of age.
Having heard of the reputation of "the Cunning Man,"
she applied to him for the purpose of having her fortune
told. This he did, and told her he could make a charm
for her which would have the power of compelling the
affections of the opposite sex towards her, so that she
might have whoever she pleased for a husband. He then
asked for a sovereign to work the:charm. She, however,
had but half a sovereign, having procured which he drew
a certain charm, in the shape of a heart, and then took
some paper, in which he pretended to pack the coin, and
handing back the package, told her that it was the magic
love charm, and that she was to keep it in her pocket
for nine days, at the end of which time she would have
everything she had wished for during the time. The silly
girl believed what he told her, and pocketted the charm,
having first, as she thought, ascertained that the half-
sovereign was safe inside. Female curiosity, however,
induced her shortly after to open " the charm;" when
she found that the half-sovereign had been changed for
a sixpence. Upon this he was given into custody. The
prisoner, in his defence, cross-examined her adroitly,
and elicited that she had previously had some charmed
tooth-powder of him, to procure her a husband, and in
excuse he said it was all a mistake—he was a conjuror,
and only did it as a sleight-of-hand trick, intending to
return the money. He was subsequently tried upon an-
other and precisely similar charge, except as to the
amount of money, and having been convicted on both
indictments he was sentenced for each to four months'
imprisonment with hard labour.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, DEc. 29.
The Caradoc, despatch steam-vessel, Lieutenant Der-
riman, has just arrived from Constantinople, with de-
spatches from the British and French Ambassadors for
the home Governments. She has encountered bad
weather from Cape Matapan, and, had this continued
all the way, she would have been obliged to bear up for
Navarin•bay or Zante. This alternative would-be pre-
vented by the Admirals employing steamers capable of
steaming all the way to Malta, independent of any
weather. She brings no particular news, and leaves di-
rectly for Marseilles. The Triton steam-vessel sails this
evening for Constantinople ; Lady Dundas and the wife
of the flag-lieutenant take passage in her. Dr. Hill pro-
ceeds in her in charge of medical stores for the sick
quarters in Therapia.
Mr. Stokes, master .of the Spitfire, goes- to England
on six weeks' leave of absence.

The Highflyer is at Corfu.
The Spitfire goes to Constantinople on the 13th of
January with the mail.
The Wasp, 14, is hourly expected from Alexandria;
Lord Carlisle is on board of her.

Lieutenants Carter, Todd, Ward, and Cornwall (re-
cently promoted), proceed to Marseilles by the Caradoc.
These officers have been kept waiting a passage for six
weeks.

Dr. Martin, of the Agamemnon, has gone to England
by a Peninsular and Oriental steamer.

The Ardent is lying in harbour unfit for any duty.

BOSPHORUS, Ditc. 25.
At Beicos Bay—Britannia (flag), Agamemnon, Queen,
Trafalgar, Albion, London, Rodney, Vengeance,
Bel-
lerophon, Sanspareil, Leander, and Arethusa. Steamers
—Terrible, Sampson, Firebrand, Fury, Inflexible, and
Niger.
At Therapia—The Furious.
At Constantinople—The Tiger.
The Caradoc leaves- to-day with despatches for Mar-
seilles.

Retribution, Fury, Inflexible,. and two French
steamers, were ordered suddenly on the 21st December,
to get up steam, with all despatch and proceed to Con-
stantantinople, as an insurrection was apprehended
there. The Inflexible returned the following morning,
and made the signal " All is tranquil." The other ves-
sels returned i❑ the evening. Owing to the presence of
so large a squadron, and the apprehension of any epide-
mic arising, sick quarters have been establised at Thera-
pia, under the medical superintendence of Surgeon Rees,
of the flagship, assisted by Assistant-Surgeon Cotton,
M.D., of the Arethusa, and Assistant-Surgeon Irwin,
of the Britannia. This is a most desirable step, as the
season of the year and the distance from Malta forbid
the transport of sick men to the hospital there.
Lieutenant Blake, additional of Britannia, is appointed
to the Fury, vice Lieutenant Morgan, to Sanspereil.
Lieutenant Whimper, additional of Britannia, is ap-
pointed to the Wasp, vice Pritchard, in command of
Ardent.

Rear-Admiral Lyons and Captain Symonds turn over
to the Agamemnon on the Ist of January, as their
doing so at this date will facilitate the making up of the
ship's accounts. The Arethusa sails directly afterwards
for England in command of Captain Mends.
The Agamemnon arrived at Constantinople yester-
day forenoon, after a splendid passage of four and a-half
days from Malta, out of which she hove to for a night
off Tenedos. Her run through the Dardanelles was ex-
traordinary, her rate of going being at least 13 miles an
hour, before a southerly gale, under close-reefed topsails
and courses. She only used steam for two days during
the passage.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.

The Basilisk, 6, paddle steam-sloop, Commander the
Hon. F. Egerton, was paid down to-day, and her ship's
company granted leave for a few days.
The Sprightly steam-vessel, Acting-Master George
Allen, RN., commanding, returned with the surveying
party of Royal Engineers from Hurst Castle last night.
The Blenheim, 60, screw, guard-ship, Capt. the Hon.
F. T. Pelham, is undergoing a through examina-
tion. Her bottom is not in the best possible state ; her
copper also is very thin, and much worn forward. She
got her main and wizen tops over to-day.
The Shannon 51, screw—Blocks are being laid to be
carried to a certain height, to allow for the extra length
of this formidable screw-frigate. She will be built under
the same shed that the Princess Royal was launched
from, and will be several feet longer than that vessel.
Her keel will be laid the latter end of next week.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.

Commander Wm. H. Kennedy, who since April,
1848, has been Inspecting Commander of the Coast
Guard force in this district, has just obtained (2d of
January) promotion to the rank of Post-Captain. This
officer was First Lieutenant under Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker in the Constance, from which ship he was made
a Commander in 1846, and shortly after this commenced
duty in the Preventive Service.

A letter from one of the crew of her Majesty's frigate
Spartan, 26, Captain Sir Wm. Hoste, dated Shanghai,
October 31, states that at that time the crew had to go
ashore every evening to mount guard in the English
church by night For the purpose of protecting the inter-
est of the resident British merchants. The Spartan had
been aground, and was appointed to leave shortly for
Hong Kong and Whampoa, whore she would be docked.
The writer expected to pass Christmas-day at sea.
Arrived at Plymouth, on Thursday afternoon, the
Vassiter Tidjerat. Captain Bianchi, Ottoman Govern-
ment steamer, from Constantinople, bound to London,
to procure new boilers, and to repair her machinery.
This vessel is English built, and left Plymouth about six
years ago, since which she has been employed as a tran-
sport in the Turkish service. She left Constantinople
in the end of November last, and has touched at Malta,
Gibraltar, &a., arriving at Falmouth on Wednesday,
but brings no new information, her news being fore-
stalled through other channels. Her object in calling
at Falmouth and Plymouth was to obtain a supply of
coals, and having procured them at Plymouth, she was
expected to proceed on her voyage yesterday evening.

SHEERNESS, JAN. 5.

The Cyclops, 6, paddlewheel steam frigate, Master-
Commander Robert W. Roberts.—ln consequence of a
very heavy fall of snow, unprecedented for many years,
and a severe frost, tile dock gates have not been opened
to undock this frigate. In most of the public thorough-
fares of the yard they have been compelled to carry the
snow away in carts in order to proceed with the usual
yard duties. The snow and frost continue unabated,
with a strong wind from east to east by south, with the
barometer down to 28 20, and the thermometer at 26.,
and falling.
The Goodwill lighter, J. Partrick in command, bound
from this yard to Portsmouth with stores, put back yes-
terday, having parted from, her bower anchor while rid-
ing between the Nore and the Warp.
The Banshee, 2, paddlewheel steam vessel, Lieutenant
Commander Louis R. Reynolds, and the Sprightly pad-
dle-wheel steam vessel (tender to Victory at Portsmouth),
are daily expected here with volunteers for ships in com-
mission and seamen draughted from the fleet at Ports-
mouth, in lieu of seamen draughted from the ships in
commission here, for service in the Royal George, 120
guns.

JAN. G.

The Adder, paddle-wheel steam-vessel (tender to
Poictiers, guardship of ordinary at Chatham), J. Mun-
chin, Assistant Master in command, arrived here yes-
terday from Chatham with 19 seamen and one warrant
officer for the Cressy, 80. guns. The seamen were sent
round from Devonport to Portsmouth by sea, and sent
on from Portsmouth, via rail, to Chatham, on their route
here.

The Ores*, 80 guns, screw steam line of battle ship,
Capt. Richard L. Warren. The masting of this ship
was completed yesterday under the directions and super-
intendence of Mr. Jonathan Aylen, Master-Attendant
at this yard.
The Pallas, William Penfold, master, has completed
the delivery of her cargo of coals for the use of her
Majesty's steam navy here, and sailed yesterday for the
north.

The Champion, of Lynn, Henry Smith, master, from
London, bound to Hartlepool, put in here yesterday
with loss of an anchor and part of a chain cable (parted
from) while riding at the Nore, and with damage to her
windlass.

The Wildfire, paddle-wheel steam-vessel (tender to the
Waterloo, 120 guns), Second Master George Brockman
in command, left here at 10 a.in., yesterday, for Dover,
on particular service. Our late respected Flag Captain,
now Rear-Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Montague
Stopford, took a paasage round to Dover in the
Wildfire.

The Waterloo, 120 guns, flag-ship, Capt. Lord Fred-
erick Kerr. The Paymaster of this ship, Mr. John H.
Cook, being senior Paymaster at this port, is appointed
with the master of the said ship, Mr. John C. Barlow,
by the Lords of the Admiralty (as per Admiralty regu-
lations) to inspect and survey all cattle previous to
their being slaughtered for the use of the navy here ;
and, so stringent are their Lordships' directions for the
terms of the contract being duly complied with, that
these officers are at all reasonable hours to have access
to the contractor's slaughterhouse and stores where
meat for the use of the navy shall be deposited, and, if
found necessary, they shall have full power to condemn
slaughtered meat when dressed, although the cattle shall
have passed survey and inspection when alive. This
order has been found necessary to prevent cattle with
internal diseases, epidemics, &c., being served for the
use of the navy, such meat, on survey, having
de-
clared unfit for human food. Mr. George Filmer, butcher
of this place, a highly respectable tradesman, has beenter dress,
approved by the authorities to slaughter, been
and send
in meat for account of the contractor here. The average
daily supply to the navy here is about I,ooolb.

WOOLWICH, JAN, 6
APPOINTMENTS.
Master R. W. Ward (1850), to be First Master of the
Argus revenue cruiser.
Mate Gerald R. Fitzgerald (1852), from the Royal
George, 120, screw steam-ship, at Devonport, to *the
Pique, 40, at Devonport.
Midshipman Charles D. Davies. to the Cressy, 80,
crew steam-ship at Sheerness,

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Nf G •
Acting Cleric . N. Burney, to the Tribune, 30
screw steam4rigate at Lisbon.
Naval Cadet Herbert polphin, to the Royal George.
The Admiralty are Using every exertion to obtain sea-
men for service in the Royal navy, and have just issued
a great number of the following notices, printed in blue
colours :

"Young men, between the ages of 19 and 24, who
are active, stout, and ablebodied, 5 - feet 7 inches in
height, and in all respects healthy and fit for, the naval
service, will be reoeived for entry by making application
on board the flagships at any of the naval ports, or at
the rendezvous at London, Liverpool, and Bristol, and
agent of transport at Leith. A preference will be given
to those young men who have been used to boats.—
Admiralty, January 3, 1854."
The 'Medea, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
Augustus Phillimore, is ordered to Woolwich, to be
docked at this port, and have the injuries she recently
received repaired.
The boilers of the Algiers, 90, are now ready at the
factory here, and will be taken round to Devonport by
the Melampus, 42, frigate.
Colonel Commandant Samuel Burdon Ellis, C. 8., of
the Woolwich division, having applied to the Admiralty
for additional assistance in performing the duty here,
which was very arduous to the men, owing to the num-•
ber recently draughted from head-quarters here, two
companies of the 38th Foot have been lent from Chatham,
and they arrived at Woolwich yesterday, and marched
up to the barracks.