The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEL—Business has remained very dull, and prices aro
unchanged. A small quantity of Indian, viz., 1,995 pack-
ages, will be offered at public sale to-day.
ST:GAM—Tim market has been inactive, and the few
dealings entered into have been at about previous rates.
In the refined market there is also little change of im-
portance.

COFFEE. There has been a very moderate amount of
business transacted, at about late rates, for both plantation
and native Ceylon.

RICE.—The demand has been limited without any ma-
terial change to report in value.
TALLOW.—Business has remained inactive, and owing to
a large quantity being in the market, prices are depressed.
P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 47s Gd ; March, 48s 3d to 48s
Gd ; April to June, 48s ; and last three mouths, 495-3 d per
cwt.

Arrest of Captain Semme of tte Alabama.

The arrest of Raphael Semmes, late admiral in the Con-
federate navy, and commander of the celebrated cruiser
Alabama, has already been announced. We give below the
charge preferred against him, as also Capt. Semmes' pro-
test, which we find in the Mobile Daily Times. That paper
prefaces the publication of these documents as follows:
"It is with a profound feeling of shame, as citizens of
the great republic, that the Times has to lay before its
readers the sad intelligence of the unexpected arrest and
immediate transfer to a Northern gaol of the bravo, good,
and chivalric Raphael Semmes, formerly the commander of
the Confederate man of war Alabama, on the ground of
having, during his most unequal fight with the Kearsage,
raised a white flag and then escaped under coter of the
cessation of hostilities. When the commander of the Kear-

sage made on the Confederate agent at Cherbourg the
rather strange demand of surrendering the Confederates
who had actually swam ashore and ware then under the
protection of the French flag, he was coldly referred by
that semi-official personage to the maritime prefect of that
French port for all information regarding those men, and
there the demand was dropped. And to-day, the Go-
vernment whose fleets are swarming on every sea,
whose gigantic armies shake the\ earth as they rnovei
that Government snatches almoSt by surprise from
among his family the unprotected, helpless, and
over-confident commander of a ship which, after having
skilfully baffled the efforts of the whole Federal navy,
finally came out, like a true-born American sailor, gave
battle to a superior enemy, and gallantly sunk sooner than
'give up his ship'."

The following are the charge and specification brought
against Admiral Semmes :
Charge and specification of a charge preferred by the Sec-
retary of the Navy against Raphael Semmes, late com-

mauder of the rebel steamer Alabama.
Charge—Violating the usages of war.
Specification—ln this, that on or about the 19th day of
June, 1864, off the entrance of the port of Cherbourg,
France, the said Raphael Semmes, being then in command
of the rebel steamer known as the Alabama, and an engage-
ment having taken place between the said steamer and the
United States steamer Kearsarge, ordered or permitted a
white flag to be hoisted on board the said rebel steamer, and
took the opportunity of the cessation thereby caused in the
engagement, and of the trust reposed in him, to make his
escape from the saidrebel steamer, fortho purpose of avoid-
ing the actual surrender of his person as a prisoner of war,
and the responsibilities thereby incurred, and did subse-
quently, without having been exchanged as a prisoner,
engage in hostilities against the United States.
GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy.
Navy Department, Nov. 25, 1865.
Against which arrest Admiral Semmes entered the fol-
lowing protest :—" Sir,—on the 26th day of April, 1865,
I was at Greensboro', N.C., in command of a naval brigade
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pitulation on the part of General Johnston was that the
army under his command should cease all acts of war from
the date of the capitulation, April 2G aforesaid. In consi-
deration of which condition thus entered into by General
Johnston, General Sherman stipulated that the officers and
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ligation they had entered into, and obeyed the laws en-
forced where they resided. I have this day been arrested
by order of the Secretary of the Navy, had a guard placed
over my house, and have been informed that I am to pro-
ceed to Washington, in custody, there to answer a charge
preferred against me, predicated upon facts which tcok
place anterior to the capitulation between Gen. Johnston
and Gen. Sherman. This being a violation of tho capitu-
lation on the part of Gen. Sherman,
I respectfully make
this my protest against said arrest.— (Signed)
R. SEMMES.
"Mobile, Ala., Dec. 15, 1865."

EXECUTION AT STAFFORD.—Robinson, who it
will be recollected was found guilty of murdering his
sweetheart, was this morning executed in front of Stafford
gaol.. He died hard.
EXAMINERS ON PRIVATE BILLS.—The 18th inst.,
and not the 22d, as erroneously stated, is the first
day on which Messrs. Frere and W. Smith, the
examiners of Private Bills, will proceed with the
local bills in Parliament. The number is 633.
His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador has
returned to Chandos House from visiting the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowood Park, Wilts.
THE YEAR'S EMIGRATION FROM THE MERSEY.—
The Government Emigration Agent has just completed the
yearly emigration returns for the port of Liverpool. It
appears that during the past year there have sailed from
the Mersey, under the Act, for the United States 264 ships,
conveying 4,969 cabin and 89,475 steerage passengers. Of
the latter 24,200 were English, 2,258 Scotch, 42,357 Irish,
and 26,680 other countries. For Canada, 32 ships, with
1,114 cabin, and 7,570 steerage passengers,
of whom 3,289
were English, 1,671 Irish, and 2,105 other countries; to
New South Wales 2 ships, with 2 cabin cud 1,281 steerage
passengers; to Queensland, 6 ships, with 49 cabin and
2,193 steerage passengers; to Victoria, 25 ships, with 31G
cabin and 6,341 steerage passengers; and to South Ame-
rica, 3 strips, with 10 cabin and 284 steerage passengers.
Total sailing under the Act, 333 ships, conveying 6,464:
cabin and 107,147 steerage Passengers; of whom 31,819
o 1 74 "short ships"
were English, 3,051 Scotch, 43,401 .Irish, and 22,576 other
countries. During the same p,-!rt
sailed to the United States with 4,106 cabin and 1,258
steerage passengers ; and to South America, 51 ships, with
585 cabin and 366 steerage passengers. Several ships
sailed to various other countries—the " short slip" emi-
gration representing
121,046 agayinsrt. 12
Thes,4 45 in
emigration 1864
a total of 202 ships, with 5,391 cabin
and 2,048 steerage passengers. The total emigration for
the year is therefor©res
showing a decrease
for the past month of December showed a total of 27 ships
a.e 39 9on the year. of 4,
under the Act, carrying 4,398 steerage and 225 cabin pas-
sengers- total, 4,623. Not under the Act, or "short," 16
ships and 752 passengers. Total emigration for the mouth,
5,375 passengers against 4,175 in the corresponding month
of 1861—increase, 1,2G0.