The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, lB6l.

formed by the parasitical genus of the " TITE
BARNACLES" upon the battered hull of the good
ship Britannia. She is going into dock now for
repairs. Let those repairs, so often talked of as
necessary,' now that they are likely to be made at
all, be made as promptly as may be and as
thoroughly.

The Committee of Supply has barely begun to
make way throughtheNaval Estimates, estimates to
the tune of a little more than £12,000,000, when the
Army Estimates follow suit to a yet larger amount—
namely, to the aggregate expenditure of very nearly
twelve million and a half ; otherwise—to the exact
sum as the total required for " effective
services"—Xl2,493,943. Remembering that so far
as actual facts go in Europe, as to the alternative
of War or Peace, we are still in a year of profound
tranquillity—poor Farmer BULL may whistle with
dismay while dragging out of one breeches pocket
twelve million sterling for his red-coats, and out of
the other breeches pocket twelve million sterling
for his blue-jackets—having thus certainly to pay
the piper, year after year, with a vengeance.
Nor is this by any means the worst
of it, in regard to the extent of our yearly
military expenditure. In specifying this sum of
twelve millions and a half, it will be seen that we
have spoken of it as the total set apart as necessary
for " effective purposes :" the whole round sum of the
Navy Estimates in their entirety being more than
fourteen millions and a half, viz., £14,606,751.
Out of these fourteen millions six hundred and odd
there will be required for effective purposes the
following :

Land Forces, pay and allowances .. £4,780,000
Ditto, miscellaneous charges
Volunteer Corps 133,276
Departments of the Secretary of State for 'War,
and of the General Commanding-in-Chief
Manufacturing establishments, military store-
keepers, barrack masters, lodging money,

201,833

rents, &c.
Wages of artificers, labourers, &c 860,447
Clothing and necessaries 525,416
Provisions, forage, fuel and light, barrack fur-
niture, bedding, &c.
Warlike stores for land and sea service 2,200,581
Fortifications 158,185
Civil buildings
Barrack& 690,159
Educational and scientific branches
making a total 0f—£12,493,943. This for effective
purposes ! The rest of the fourteen millions and odd
being dribbled away in half-pay, pensions, super-
annuation allowances, and so forth. Altogether in
the total expenditure there is a decrease upon 1861-
1862 as compared with 1860-1861 of £185,795. So
also, by a few hundred, is there observable upon the
current year as compared with its predecessor, a
diminution in the aggregate number of men which
the House will be asked to vote now in committee
of supply—the aggregate being still, however,
but very little short of £150,000, or just £146,044
altogether. These items in the accounts may be
better considered in detail when the Under Secretary
of State for the War Department has in due
course made his statement in committee of
supply upon bringing before the House the Army
Estimates in their completeness. As it is, we content
ourselves here with this casual glance at the totals,
doubtful yet as to the advisability or the feasibi-
lity of any bolder measures of retrenchment under
existing circumstances.

Her Majesty visits the Adelphi this evening, it
being the third time she will have honoured this favourite
place of amusement this season.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and the Mar-
quis of Lorn have returned from Trentham, where they
have been staying for the last ten days with the Duchess of
Sutherland and family circle.
We learn from a return to Parliament that the
amount of duty received in the year ending Dec. 31 last for
stamps on foreign bills of exchange, under the Act. 17 and
18 Vic., cap. 83, as extended by the 23d Vic., cap. 15, where
above £4,000, was 4245,601 14s. 9d.

It is confirmed that arrangements have been con-
cluded at Paris whereby the whole of the large amount of
outstanding Constantinople bills drawn on M. Mires on
account of the Turkish Loan will be provided for. Nothing
was wanting but the signature of the Turkish Minister.
This is very satisfactory intelligence.
The fears of the stockholders have been realised
by the announcement, made to-day, that the Grand Trunk
Railway Company of Canada are not able to meet the in-
terest due the 15th inst. on the stock of the Atlantic and
St. Lawrence Company, which is leased by the Grand
Trunk.

THE BLACK PRINCE.—This vessel, which took
the ground near Garvel Point on Sunday, on her way down
to Greenock, floated off about eleven o'clock. She was
towed into Victoria harbour, Greenock. She has not sus-
tained any injury. It is confidently expected that she will
be equipped and ready for sea within four months.—Glas.
gow Herald.

THE DISTRICT TELEGRAPII.—An analysis of the
messages sent prove that telegraphic communications of a
domestic character are steadily on the increase. 'When we
remember that commercial London lives out of town we can
understand that the heads of the households would have
many occasions to communicate with their homes. Thus,
a very common message is for forgotten keys, or some
" worse half," mindful of the black looks that await a hus-
band who brings home a friend to " pot luck," sends word
of the coming of company. It is very common to order
places at the opera, or at theatres, by telegraph ; and doc-
tors, now and then, when taken suddenly ill, send round to
their patients to know if they will be wanted, franking the
return message.—Once a Week. '

THE ROAD MURDER —ALLEGED CONFESSION
OF THE MURDERER.—We have received information from
a quarter which is entitled to respect, to the effect that the
murder at Road House has been confessed by Miss Con-
stance Kent, who, it is said, states that she drowned the
child, and afterwards cut its throat, and opened the shutters
of the house to avert suspicion from herself. The report
adds that Miss Constance Kent has shown unmistakeable
evidence of derangement, and is now in confinement—
Western Morning Nfles.

RECENT LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.— During the heavy
gales which have occurred within the last 10 weeks the life
boats of the National Life-boat Institution have been the
means of saving the crews of the following wrecked vessels :
—Five men from the brigantine Nugget, of Bideford ; 6 men
from the brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham ; 6 men from the
schooner Prospect, of Berwick; 4 men from a Whitburn
fishing boat ; 8 men from the brig A rethusa, of myth ; 8
men from the schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoe ; 2 men
from the flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris ; 5 men from the
schooner William. of Morecambe ; 8 men from the brig
Providence, of Shields ; 8 men from the brig Mayflower, of
Newcastle ; 4 men from the smack Gipsy, of Newry ; 4 man
from the schooner Margaret Ann, of Preston; 8 men from
the brig Nlw Draper, of Whitehaven ; 5 men from the
schooner William, of Liverpool; 3 men from the lugger
Nimrod, of Castletown ; 4 men from the schooner Village
Maid, of Fleetwood ; 3 men from the sloop Thomas and
Anne, of Dundee ; 19 men from the barque Guyana, of
Glasgow; 39 men from the brig Roman Empress, of Sun-
derland ; 2 men from the brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide ;
8 men from the schooner Voador du Vouga, of Viana ; 11
men from the French brig La Jeune Marie Therese; 4 men
from the schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater ; 17 men from
the ship Danube, of Belfast, making a total of 162 persons
saved from shipwreck. In addition to this number 210 lives
wore saved by the institution's life boats during the past
year—giving altogether a grand total of 372 shipwrecked
persons saved through the direct instrumentality of the Life-
boat Institution from an inevitable and appalling death
during the past fourteen months. Since the beginning of
the year the institution has expended on life-boat establish-
ments and their crews nearly £3,500, and it now earnestly
appeals to the public for help to assist it to carry on its im-
portant` and national work.

MASTERS AND OPERATIVES.— Mr. Mackinnon
has again introduced a bill for establishing equitable coun -
oils of conciliation to settle differences between masters and
operatives. It proposes that the councils should consist o"
an equal number of masters and workmen, elected annually
by their own order, in any place where persons choose ' e
pat the act in force, besides a chairman, a person ur -
connected with trade, chosen by the council. Tie
councils, obtaining a license from the Crown, are to
have power to hear and determine disputes between
masters and workmen submitted to them by both
parties, and their award is to be final and conclu.ive, and
not subject to review or challenge by any court or authority
whatsoever. But the Act is not to authorise the councils to
establish a future rate of wages ; nor is it to extend to do-
mestic servants or servants in husbandry. No lawyers are
to be allowed to attend on any healing before the councils.
There is already an Act of George IV. in force upon this
subject, but the proceeding commences before the magi-
strates, and has the appearance of a criminal proceeding,
audit is otherwise objectionable and unsatisfactory.

LATEST NEWS.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
SURRENDER OF MESSINA.
MESSINA, MARCH 13, 7.10

The citadel has surrendered to the army and
fleet. The troops will leave for Naples by Frosinone
early in April.

There was an encounter a few days since between
the French 71st Regiment of- the Line and 700
Papal Zouaves. A French Colonel was killed, and
43 men wounded. How the affair ended has not
transpired.

Romano has tendered his resignation, which has
been accepted.
The Municipal elections will take place on the
24th.

NAPLES, MARCH 12, EVENING.
The Citadel of Messina capitulated yesterday

evening.
The conditions of the capitulation are not ye

known.

Civitella del Tronto will not be able to hold on

much longer.
Liberio Romano has tendered his resignation as
Director of the Affairs of the Interior.

Prince Carignan has given orders that the Neapo-
litan officers who are staying in the Roman States
shall be allowed to return to Naples.
The Italian army is to be divided into six corps
d'armee; the fourth corps, under the command of
General Cialdini, will proceed to Bologna.

TURIN, MARCH 13, EVENING.

Count Cavour to-day announced the surrender of
the citadel of Messina to the Chamber of Deputies.
The Chamber passed by acclamation a vote of
thanks to the land and sea forces.

The project of law respecting the assumption of
the title " Kingdom of Italy," has been favourably

received.

TURIN, MARCH 13.
The citadel of Messina surrendered to the Sar,
dinian troops this day.

PARIS, MARCH 13.

The Moniteur has the following paragraph :
" The good offices of the Emperor's Government
have been successful in preventing further effusion
of blood, and preserving the town of Messina from
the dangers with which it was threatened from an
impending conflict. The Sardinian Government
has consented to extend the terms of the capitula-
tion of Gaeta, with a few slight modifications, to
the garrisons of the citadel of Messina and of
Civitella del Tronto ; and a steamer has been des-
patched with an order of Sing Francis 11. to Gene-
ral Fergola to accept those conditions. A flag of
truce has been seat with the same view to Civitella
del Tronto."

NAPLES, MARCIE 9.

The sick and wounded brought from Gaeta have
communicated typhus fever among the hospitals
and in the city itself.
Troops have been sent to Lecce.

BERNE, MARCH 13.

The Sardinian Government has lodged a com-
plaint with the Federal Council against Bishop
Marilley, on account of the pastoral letter issued
by him during Lent having contained some dis-
respectful expressions respecting King Victor
Emmanuel.

The Government of the Canton Fribourg, before
which this complaint had been referred, as the only
competent tribunal, has rejected it.

BERLIN, MARCH 13.

In to day's sitting of the Upper House the pro-
ject of law relating to marriage was discussed. The
clause rendering the civil ceremony necessary for
the validity of marriages was rejected by 124
against 44 votes.

The proposal that the civil ceremony should be
optional was likewise rejected, by 122 against 45
votes.

At the request of the Minister of Justice, the
further discussion of the project of law was ad-
journed.

FIUME, MARCH 13.

The municipality of Fiume has resolved upon
sending an address to the Emperor, praying for the
reincorporation of Fiume with Hungary.

The municipality has likevciie determined not to
send any deputies to the Croatian Diet, and to sus-
pend the payment of the additional taxes. ,

CHINA, JAPAN, AND AUSTRALIA.
SHANGHAI, JAN. 24.

Pekin is quiet.
'rite troops at Tien-tsin are healthy.
The treaty is working satisfactorily.
The rebels have been defeated by the Impe-
rialists at Ehsien, and Sangholinsen has been de-
feated at Shantang.
In Japan affairs are peaceful.
The Prussian Embassy his concluded a treaty
with Japan.

CANTON, FEB. 1.
Lord Elgin has left for Manilla.
The English Admiral and Sir Hope Grant have
arrived here.

The American ship Hesperus has been destroyed
by fire.

Kowloong has been formally transferred to the
British.
Trade is depressed.

SINGAPORE, FEB. 7.
The Java cable has been lost.
The French have been victorious at Saigon.
The French transport Wesir has been wrecked.
Everything is quiet.
NEW ZEALAND, JAN. 24.
The war continues.

Several paha have been taken by General Pratt,
and these advantages have been actively fol-
lowed up.

The Boanerges has arrived with troops.
MELBOURNE, JAN. 26.
The following are the departures of gold ships :
The Result, with ........ 29,335 ounces.
The Alliance, with ........ 31,513 „
The Lightning, with ...... 28,844 „
The Southampton, with .. 21,544 „
CALCUTTA, FEB. 8.
The famine continues in the North-West pro-

vinces.

GALLE, FEB. 17.
Sir W. Denison has left Ceylon for Madras.

POLAND.

WARSAW, MARCH 13.

General Alayendmff has arrived here, the bearer
of the Emperor's reply to the address of the Polish
citizens.

A separate Council of State has been granted
by the Emperor to the Kingdom of Poland, of
which Zamoisky has been appointed President.
The Municipality of Warsaw has been confirmed
in its functions.
All official acts are to be executed in the name of
the Emperor as King of Poland.

POSEN, MARCH 14.
Before the arrival of the reply of the Emperor of

Russia to the address of the Poles, a telegram had
already been received at Warsaw stating that the
Emperor was favourably disposed towards the Poles.

All the Polish officials had resolved to tender
their resignations en masse should the Emperor's
reply have proved unfavourable.
Militia guards, composed of the citizens, have
also been formed in the provinces.
Tranquility prevails everywhere.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Patrie of this evening says :—" It is not
true that Prince Napoleon is about to proceed to
Italy."

Another gunboat, built by M. Normand of Havre,
for the Russian Government, left that port yester-
day, in tow of an English steamer for England,
where she is to be fitted out.

BOURSE, March 13,—The market still continues
inanimate but firm. Threes, for the Account,
opened at 68f 5c., and after having been for a time
at 68f 15c, are now at 68f 10c. The Railway Share
Market is in the same position as the Rente.
The following are the last quotations :-
4i per per Cents ... 95 90 Credit Fonder 930
Do end month.... 95 80 Belgian 4f
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 101 Roman
Bank Shares'.. 2890 1 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 657 50 Spanish Threes 471
Do. Account 655 ' Home Debt -
RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1425 .. 1423 75
Northern
New ditto 895 .. 895
Lyons and Mediterranean 950 947 50
Geneva 3BO
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
A llatriau
Lowbard 473 75 .. 473 75

AMERICA.

LONDONDERRY, WEDNESDAY.

The Canadian screw steamer Nova Scotian,
Captain M'Master, from Portland on the 2d inst.,
has arrived and landed all mails except those for
Liverpool. She brings twenty-two cabin and
seventeen steerage passengers. She passed the
Glasgow.
The Fulton and Saxonia had sailed for Europe
with 10,000 dols. in specie.
The election in North Carolina had gone in favour
of Union by a small majority.
General Twigg had been struck off the army-roll
as a coward and a traitor.

It was thought probable that the Fulton would
call at St. John's for a telegraphic summary of the
inaugural message of President Lincoln.

COMMERCIAL .

NEW YORK, March 2.—The Stock Market is
active, but heavy. Illinois, 712 ; Erie, 321-; York,
78. Cotton heavy. Other markets unchanged.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Evening.

The United States steamer Falton, Capt. %Votton,
with New York advices to the 2d inst., has arrived
off Cowes. She brings 68 passengers, and 4,915
dols, for France.

In the House the report of the committee of 33
on the crisis was taken up. The clause providing
for the admission of New Mexico into the Union,
with or without slavery as her people may elect,
was laid on the table by a vote of 114 to 71.

The amendment to the act for the rendition of
fugitive slaves was passed. The amendment to the
act for the rendition of fugitives from justice, was
rejected by a vote of 162 to 47.
The selection of Governor Chase was regarded as
a triumph of the Radical Republicans over the
Seward Conservatives.
Private intelligence says that the condition of
affairs is exceedingly grave, and that the speeches
of Lincoln have caused general dissatisfaction, as
indicating a vacillating policy.
Money continued active among brokers. Bor-
rowers paid 7 per cent.

In paper little was doing, owing to the scarcity
of first-class names.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 14.

The United States steamer Fulton, Capt. Wilton,
arrived off Cowes this evening on her way to
Havre, with New York dates of the 2d inst.

She brings 68 passengers, 4,915 dols. in specie,
and 11,981 bushels of wheat for France.
Despatches from Washington state that the fol-
lowing is a list, of Cabinet officers of the in-coming
Administration, which has been virtually adopted
as a compromise between the contesting sections,
factions, and cliques of the Republican party :
Secretary of State—W. H. Seward, New York.
Secretary of Treasury—Salmon P. Chase, Ohio.
Secretary of War—Simon Cameron, Pennsyl-
vania.

Secretary of Navy—Montgomery Blair, Indiana.
Secretary of Interior—Caleb B. Smith, Indiana.
Postmaster- General—GideonWilles, Connecticut
Attorney-General—Edward Bates, Mobile.

The selection of Governor Chase to a place in the
Cabinet is regarded as a triumph of the Radical
Republicans over the Seward Conservatives.
It is reported from Washington, that among the
first acts of the Lincoln Administration will be the
reinforcement of Fort Sumter, and an attempt to
collect the revenue at the Gulf ports. Should this
report be verified we shall soon witness the inau-
guration of civil war.
Major Anderson, who is in daily communication
with the War Department, writes that the bat-
teries and other works of the South Carolinians are
nearly completed, and that unless the Southern
Congress interpose, he expects Fort Sumter will be
attacked immediately after the 4th inst. It appears
that there is a large party in South Carolina who
ignore the Southern Congress, particularly as re-
gards military operations in Charleston harbour,
while the Governor and the Conservatives gene-
rally are disposed to abide by the directions of the
authorities of the Confederate States.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Saxonia, Captain Elhers, from New York on the
2d inst., has arrived.
She brings 127 passengers, of whom 104 are for
Hamburg, and 523 dols. in specie for the same city.
News anticipated.

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Cleopatra has arrived
with the mails and 2,180 ounces in golddust, and
£3,867 in specie.

FERNANDO P0.,--The Spaniards are continuing
to effect considerable improvements on the island
by building barracks, hospitals, and making roads.
At Malimba, a few miles distant from Fernando
Po, there have been at times English factories
established, but the natives have frequently seized
the agents, put them in irons, carried them into
the interior, and divided the goods in the fac-
tories between them. Her Majesty's ship Ranger,
therefore, with the acting British Consul on board,
visited the place, to endeavour to come to some
treaty with the natives, to prevent the recurrence
of these barbarities, which they succeeded in

doing.

CAMEROONS.—Trade entirely stopped. River
healthy.
OLD CALABAR.—Trade dull. River unhealthy.
BONNY.—Another of these horrible cannibal
feasts so degrading to Africa has again occurred in
this river during the stay of the mail, and under
the very eyes of the white men. The victims in
this instance were some unoffending negroes, cap-

tured from a neighbouring tribe. Their heads were
cut off and publicly exhibited in the front of the
Fee-jee house (i e., place of worship) in the centre
of the town. Trade improving. The river very
sickly.
CAPE COAST.—The trade on the Gold Coast eon-
tinues active, English and American goods being

in good demand. Plenty of palm oil, gum, and
guinea grains, to be had at. fair prices. Great
numbers of slaves .:eing shipped along the Slave
Coast for the West Indies.

CAPE PALMAS.—From this place I am sorry to
report the total loss of the ship Roderick Dhu,
1,093 tons regivter, which left Liverpool on the 2d
of January with a valuable cargo, bound to Old
Calabar; she struck on a sunken rook, about•sevett

miles below Cape Palmas, on the Bth of February.
Some 3,000 natives put off from the shore in their
canoes, and plundered everything that was to be
had from the wreck; the captain, officers, and men
only escaping with their lives.
BATHURST, RIVER GAMBIA.—A war has broken
out in this river between the English and the
Mandingoes. The British force comprises the Ist
and 2d West India Regiments, River Gambia
Artillery, 600 volunteers, a land transport corps
240 strong, and a few French artillerymen. The
fleet was composed of her Majesty's ship Arrogant,
Commodore Edmonstone ; her Majesty's ship Fal-
con, Commander Heneage ; her Majesty's ship
Torch, Commander Smith ; her Majesty's ship
Dover, and a host of small craft, the large steam
transport Avon being used for the conveyance of
troops. The expeditionary force, having proceeded
some distance up the river and landed, marched
upon the town of Saba on the 21st of February,
which place they found to be strongly stockaded,
and defended by 3,000 of the enemy, composed of
infantry and cavalry. After some very hard
fighting the English succeeded in taking the town.
The enemy lost 200 killed and 300 wounded. The
British casualties were as follows :—Mr. Hamilton,
mate of her Majesty's ship Arrogant,, shot dead,
having received three balls in his heart ; two
sailors and two marines of the same vessel were
also killed ; Lieut. Harford, her Majesty's ship
Arrogant, and Lieut. Martin, her Majesty's ship
Torch, were wounded; Lieut. Bourke, Ist West
India Regiment, severely wounded; Ensign N.
Clare Garsia, Ist West India Regiment, was
wounded in both legs when entering the stockade
with the blue-jackets. His horse was also shot
under him. Lieut. Eyre, 2d West India Regiment,
wounded ; also one sergeant and six privates of the
the Ist and 2d West India Regiments. Twelve
prisoners were taken, and two of the King's sons
were killed in the town, A three days' armistice
had been concluded.