The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1861.

are too well aware of their own dignity, they have
too much respect for themselves and fer the great
interests which are confided to them, to think for a
single moment of resenting from petty pique the
deliberate action of the House of Commons."

We must suppose it is the fear on the part of the
Commons of being supposed to look to their own
class, but we certainly think of all taxes that have
a claim to remission the Income Tax stands first.
Via is emphatically a war tax, or at best a tax for
an exigency such as that with which Sir R. PEEL
began his financial reforms. It has now, compared
with all other taxes, a prior claim to abolition.
It is still, as ever, the most personally offensive tax
which a free man, and especially a free Englishman,
can pay; its asking personal secrets will ever make
it odious. its unequal pressure makes it the sum
of fiscal injustice ; the provocation of its injustice,
possibility of evasion, make it the strongest
andtein theptation to fraud. It may be borne as a neces-
sity, but as a permanent tax it is unendurable. In
war time we make up our minds to hardships, but
in time of peace we ought to be taxed with
common equity. We cannot doubt, also, that
it robs most other taxes, and checks trade
as much as even an Excise duty. If the tax-
gatherer curtails the income of the middle classes, of
course they must spend so much less, and employ
so much less labour. Thousands of families even
give up a newspaper, and purchase less of tea,
because the Income Tax absorb their hard-earned
money, and deprives them of the most reasonable
luxuries. Had the Income Tax been reduced
this year to sevenpence, we cannot doubt
that trade and commerce would have gained
more by it than by either leaving the duty on tea
or repealing that on paper ; at the same time the
revenue would have felt the advantage of in-
creased family expenditure. The forms of the
house will permit Mr. DISRAELI to make such an
amendment when the bill is brought before it, and
if he does he will, we believe, have such support
from outside as he has not yet experienced.
Whether consumers would feel any immediate
relief from lower tea duties, may be doubted—none
will doubt the relief that would be instantly given
by the reduction of the income tax.

How ca many a slip 'twist the cup and the lip"
has not the Despotic Party upon the Continent had
of late ! Not in one country alone, but in many
countries. The Defence of Gaeta was to restore
FRANCIS 11. safe and sound to his throne as Lord
Paramount of the Two Sicilies. But—alas ! after
a protracted defence—Gaeta fell, as every be-
leaguered fortress somehow does fall in the end.
The disturbances in the Abruzzi were to do the
work of re-habilitation a little later on more effec-
tually. A spark kindled there by an emissary of
the exiled monarch was to light up a conflagration
that would scare away Garibaldians and Pied-
montese, and reveal to astonished Europe the
triumphal return of the ex-King—like the last scene
of the last act of" Masaniello," with GARIBALDI, of

course, as the doomed Fisherman. Lamentable to

relate, however, the fuse was damp or the gun-
powder itself saturated with the despairing tears of
those who laid the train—the train itself would not
light, it spluttered and flashed for a moment or two
like a bad "squib," or, perhaps, we should call it
more appropriataly a bad " cracker"—and lo!
there was no conflagration. In an opposite corner
of the European Continent—there was a
golden opportunity opening like a Fairy
Future before the Czar ALEXANDER ! Autocracy
was in the Ascendant ! Despotism was taking
the initiative in wholesale philanthropy. The
rEmperor-High-Priest, the Head of the Greek
Church, the irresponsible Monarch of All the
Russias, by a stroke of his grand autocratic pen,
manumitted 20,000,000 serfs out of the 60,000,000
of the Muscovite Population. Scarcely, however,
had Western Europe awakened to a recognition
of this astonishing incident in the history of
modern civilisation, when—Piff! Paff!—the streets
of Warsaw were swimming with blood ; the
pavements were littered with dead, wounded, and
dying; the Poles, men, women, children, were
being massacred by the order of Prince GORTS- I

CIIAKOFF in the name and at the behest of his Im-

perial MAJESTY the Emperor-Philanthropist.
" Hope," there too, as in the song, " told a flatter-
ing tale." The halcyon vision of Russia forsaking
an Autocracy for a Constitutional form of Govern-
ment faded out—almost before the news had been
proclaimed that the twenty million serfs had been

emancipated. The jubilee caused by the " decree"
died out under the wailing heard from the scene of
the massacre. Reverting, however, to Italy, there
was that—first of all Coolness, but after-
wards—fierce and stormy Quarrel between
GARIBALDI On the one part, and upon
either side of him, to the right and to the
left, the KING'S Minister and the KING'S General,

CA YOUR and CIALDINI. What hopes must thero not
have been raised in the hearts of the aspirants for
Reactionary Honours by the tidings of that alarm-

ing scene in the Italian Parliament ! Everything
was pronounced then to be, on the contrary, hope-
less with the popular party in the Roman penin-
sula. GARIBALDI would never be reconciled more

to Count CAVOUR—he could never again grasp the
hand of the man who, in his picturesque and touch-
ing phrase, had rendered him him of all
men ! " a Foreigner in his own country,"
that country, too, which his sword had guided
to political independence. GARIBALDI, again,
could never embrace as a " brother-in-arms"
that out-spoken CIALDINI, who had reviled
him—him, GARIBALDI! -- so loudly and un-
compromisingly. Yet—somehow here again the
Reactionists have proved to have been counting as
usual without their host. GARIBALDI did concede
in both instances—to the right and to the left—did
grasp the hand of CAvoun, did embrace his reviler,
CIALDINI. The champions of Continental despotism
thereby have had another lesson of magnanimity
from that foremost among the great Leaders of Men
now opposed to them. For the good of the cause
he had at heart, for the furtherance to the uttermost
of those interests for which he has been striving
so heroically during a whole lifetime, GARIBALDI
could, and did, scatter to the winds all idea of any-
thin; at all in the way of mere personal considera-

tion. Bitterly though he has felt, though he still
feels, the yielding up of his native land (Savoy) to
France —he has yet dashed aside his poignant re-
collections of that dread calamity, and, for the sake
of Italy, has consented to a reconciliation with the
"19 Minister (CAvouit) by whom the concession
was—retd
contrivedutAiteciti3gAvittpeeraavni d accomplished. Wrathful though
Lbt could not, possibly, but have been upon
General CIALto"' in
direct • haughty words of reproof, or rather of
sented, condescended which he was addressed by
instant reconciliation, —et has the ex-Dictator con-
for the sake of Italy, to an
flagrant reviler and e " with CIALDINI, his
vituperator ! Let but the
popular party take a lesson from the course pursued
in this critical emergency by t h° lisrra-t of c
sl
little
iea actpoe
,rfeehraiars.
Let but the other leaders -
of the P
emulate his self abnegation, his self-sacrifice, party
self-forgetfulness, and they have but
even from their most formidable antagonists. It
was the union of the parallel rods bound around the
Praetorian axe that constituted the strength of the

Consular Fasces. Let but the Liberals remember
what was therein symbolised, and act amongst
themselves accordingly. Tho need there is for this
harmonious combination is worthy of consideration
here at home, moreover, as well as far and wide
over the European Continent.

A letter, addressed to a weekly contemporary, is
worth the attention of all who take an interest in
the building trades strike, or in the Ballot, or in
both. At Bolton the masters, both spinners and
power-loom weavers, considered a reduction of five
per cent. on the wages of their operatives to be
necessary. The men struck, and had been on strike
for six weeks. The leaders of the Spinners' Union
advised the men to accept the reduction, and to ask
for a rise when trade improved. This prudent
advice was clamoured down by many of the more
thoughtless, and there is no doubt that much suffer-
ing and privation was in consequence endured by
many families, for it seems as if the younger hands
were the most opposed to accepting the advice of
the Union.

Fortunately, however, it occurred, to what
seemed to be the minority of the prudent ones,
to suggest that a ballot should be taken in
each mill whether the negotiation with
the employers should be left in the hands
of the committee which had given them the
wise 'counsel when a decided majority voted
the affirmative. The weavers had been out for a
longer period, and they voted direct on the question
" Going in or stopping out." Again the majority,
protected by the Ballot, " voted for going on with
their work rather than begging from the public.'
Thus, in two instances, two things were plainly
proved respecting working men. First, that the
majority of them are men of sound common sense,
open to conviction, and ready to act wisely if at
liberty to do so. Secondly, that working men, like
all other men, may be intimidated by a noisy ma-
jority, and compelled to act in opposition to their
better judgment. The shame of seeming to desert
one's party, above all the fear of annoyance, have
the same effect on Bolton operatives as on the Mi-
nisterial and Opposition benches of the House of
Commons. Tyrannically minded workmen are to
be found as well as tyrannically minded landlords,
and understand as well how, in their way, to coerce
their fellow men.

Is the example we have quoted not worth the
attention of the thousands of right minded men
connected with the present strike in the building
trades. Why should not they, now, demand a
ballot of the whole body on the question Ns hether
to accept the last offer of the masters, to work by
the hour, with a Saturday half-holiday and an
advance of wages, or to stand out for nine hours a
day and the old pay. From the manner in which
the masters' proposal has been received we have
little doubt that the vast majority of the operatives
in these trades would joyfully accept the masters'
offer, and that a ballot would show that the men
really appreciated the conciliatory spirit in which
that offer was made.

Politicians, too, may certainly learn their lesson
from the spinners and weavers of Bolton. They
see that amongst them the Ballot gave the majority
to what even the other side would confess were
moderate counsels. Nor have we the smallest
doubt that in this sense, what Lord DERBY calls
" that skulking hole of political cowardice—vote
by Ballot,' would be found to be eminently Con-
servative. Men are never so moderate as when
their action is uninfluenced by external excitement,
when they are thrown upon judgment and
conscience, and the calm calculations of prudence,
just because they cannot be appealed to by either
bribes or threats, or by the unreasoning clamour of
agitators and their partizans. Conservatism sub-
sists now by bribery in many boroughs, by influence
in small agricultural boroughs, and by direct
exertion of landlord power in the counties. For
this artificial, bad, and tyrannical Conservatism,
the Ballot would substitute a better. There would
be a great deal of Conservatism still, but it would
be that of the moderate and the prudent, of those
who thought safety of more consequence than
travelling by the Reform Express Train.

THE LATE MR. HERBERT COLERIDGE.—We an-
nounce with much regret the premature death of one whose
early promise gave high hopes of future eminence. From
his father, Henry Nelson Coleridge, and his mother, Sarah
Coleridge, the daughter of the poet and philosopher, Her-
bert Coleridge seemed to have inherited all the genius of
that gifted family. His career at Oxford was crowned
with the highest attainable honours. He took a double
first in the Easter term of 1852. On leaving the Univer-
sity he was called to the bar, but literature continued to
occupy his leisure. He became secretary to the Philologi-
cal Society, and was associated with the Dean of Westmin-
ster in a project for rescuing from oblivion and restoring to
the English language words used by the best writers of
the 17th century, but not acknowledged by Johnson and
his successors. For the last five years, we believe, his life
and energies have been gradually undermined by the fatal
disease which so often accompanies genius and sensibility,
and which has now brought him to an early grave.—
Guardian.

It appears that, although the East Indian Rail-
way Company have taken power to issue new shares for
£6,000,000, the sum positively required is only £3,000,000,
two-thirds of which will be raised this year and one-third
next. The remaining £3,000,000 is contemplated for the
Jubbulpore and Allahabad line, the construction of which
is indefinitely deferred.

ROBBERY BY A LETTER-CARRIER.-Yesterday
at the Guildhall Police-court John Rensch, a letter-carrier
in the employ of the General Post-office, was charged with
stealing two post letters, containing the corresponding
halves of 16 Bank of England notes of the value of £l6O,
and cheque for £l7 10s. 7d., the property of the Postmaster-
General, and Mary Ann Rensch, the wife of the prisoner,
was charged with feloniously receiving several of the stolen
notes. Both prisoners were fully committed.
MARRYING A WARD IN CHANCERY.—Yesterday
an application was made to Vice-Chancellor Kindersley,
for the interference of the Court in the case of Miss Emily
Keats ; her guardians alleging that she had married Mr.
Augustus Garland, of the Guards, without their consent.
The Court took time to consider its decision.

THE WAR EFIELD ELECTION.—The judges in
the Common nem, informed Mr. Bovill yesterday, that
they would take time to consider his application for a writ
of habeas in the case of Jose Fernandez,

THE REPORTED WRECK OF H.M.S. WASP.—It
is believed that no intelligence had been received at the
Admiralty down to last evening of the report stating that
her Majesty's screw sloop Wasp, 13 guns, Commander
Charles Stirling, had struck on a coral reef in llango Bay
on the 28th January. The crew, according to the state-
ment, had been landed upon a small island about a mile
distant from the wreck, living in tents, hoping at the next
ensuing spring tides to get the ship afloat.

THE LATE MURDER AT STEPNEY.—The question
of ownership of the property of the late Mrs. Emsley, who
was FO foully murdered by Mullins, and for which he
expif.ted his crime on the scaffold some months since, is
likely to be prominently brought before the public. The
deceased lady, as is well known, was possessed of large
household property in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green
and Stepney ; and at the time of her death, she having died
intestate, and without leaving any heir at law or next of kin,
the Attorney-General, on the part of the Crown, claimed to
be entitled to the property. A claimant, however, has started
up, in the person of a gentleman named Williams, who
claims to be her heir at law and next of kin through a sister
of the unfortunate lady, and to establish such claim he has
already, through his solicitors, commenced upwards of 200
actions of ejectment, to recover possession of the disputed
property, and instituted suits in Chancery as against Mr.,
Rose, her late solicitor, and the Attorney-General, to este •
blish his rights ; and in the suit against Mr. Rose, who
claims to be a mortgagee of thegreater portion of the premises
for moneys advanced, he, yesterday, through Mr. Selwyn,
Q. C., and Mr. Bevir, his counsel, applied to the Master of
the Rolls, Sir J. Romilly, for an injunction to restrain Mr.
Rose from selling or disposing of the property so mut t •
gaged, on the ground that the advances had been repaid.
Mr. Roundell Palmer, QC., and Mr. Berkeley opposed the
application, upon which the Master of the Rolls refused the
injunction, and ordered the matter to stand over until the
cause came on for hearing. Much interest and excitement
are created amopg the inhabitants by the coAflictiog claims
setup,

LATEST NEWS.

GENOA, MAY 2.

The Corriere Mercantile of to.day announces that
large bodies of troops have embarked for Southern
[taly.
Garibaldi returned to Caprera yesterday.

VIENNA, MAY 2.

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Council of the Empire a member, addressed a ques-
tion to the Minister of State with reference to the
members to be sent by Hungary to the Council of
the Empire.

The Upper House voted the address in reply to
the speech of the Emperor.
In the Lower House the addres3 was proposed.

VIENNA, MAY 2.

The Oesterreilusehe leitung of to-day says :
" The 20 representatives whom Venetia has to send
to the Council of the Empire have been elected.
Amongst them are three members of the Mocanigo
family, and Counts Revedin, Balmarare, Pellegrini,
Citadella, Capodilista, 7reschi, and Bellatorre."

AGRAM, MAY 2.

The Magnates have declared that, they will not
send any representative; to the Hungarian Diet so
long as the relation of Croatia to Hungary remains
unsettled.

BERLIN, MAY 2.

In to-day's sitting or the Chaniber of Deputies
M. Von Vincke put a q'iestion to the Ministry re-
lative to the affair of Cap?ain Macdonald. Baron
Schleinitz, Minister for Foreign Affairs, promised
to reply on Monday next.

DARUSTADT, MAY 2.

The Darmstadter Zeitung d to day contains the
official announcement of the besothal of her Royal
Highness Princess Alice to Pritce Louis of Hesse.

GENEVA, MAY 2.
Prince Napoleon arrived here at 11 a.m. to-day,
accompanied by a small suite on his way to the
villa which he has ordered to be constructed at
Nyon.

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Edinburgh, Capt. Brooks, from
New York on the 20th April, has arrived here.
The Governor of Maryland had informed Presi-
dent Lincoln that he would send troops for the
protection of Washington, but not for the invasion
of the South.

All the Northern regiments will have to proceed
to Washington by sea.

No clearances were granted in New York to ships
bound for Southern ports.

We have received Boston and Portland papers
to the 20th ultimo. As may be supposed from the
summary of the news published yesterday, they are
filled with despatches of a warlike and alarming
character from various parts of the States. Re-
specting the seizure of the arsenal at Harper's
Ferry, details are supplied in the following tele-
grams

CARLISLE, PA,, April 19.--Lieutenant Jones, late in com-
mand of Harper's Ferry, arrived with his command, forty-
three men, at three o'clock this afternoon. The lieutenant
having been advised that a force of 2,500 troops were ordered
by the governor to take possession of Harper's Ferry, and
finding his position untenable, under the direction of the
War department, he destroyed all the munitions of war, the
armoury, arsenal, and buildings. He withdrew his command
under cover of night, and almost in the presence of 2,500
troops. He lost three men. Fifteen thousand stands of
arms were destroyed. His command made a forced march
of 30 miles last night, from Harper's Ferry to llaggerstown,
Md. They look much worn and fatigued. They were en-
thusiastically received by the entire population of this place.
HARRISBURG, PA., April 19.--Lieutenant Jones, who is
here, says, as the Federal troops at Harper's Ferry rushed
across the Potomac bridge, people rushed into the arsenal,
and ho believes a large number perished, as repeated explo-
sions occurred. Ho saw the light of the burning building
many miles. Two Ohio regiments arrived to-night. They
will stay until the Pennsylvanians are ready to march. An
abundance of arms for the latter will reach hero to-morrow.
Major Simonton, commander of the Pittsburg Arsenal,
whose fidelity is suspected, is watched by the committee of
safety. Governor Hicks, of Maryland, declines by tele-
graph to let any more armed troops pass through Balti-
more. Lieutenant Jones states that, hearing yesterday
that 600 Virginians were approaching by the Winchester
road, they put piles of powder straw in all the buildings,
and quietly awaited their approach. The picket guard
gave the alarm and the garrison set fire to the outhouses,
carpenters' shops, and powder-houses, and began a retreat.
Citizens of Harper's Ferry, evidently in league with the
party advancing to seize the arsenal, were instantly in arms,
and pursued, and firing upon them killed two of the regu-
lars. Two others deserted before the troops reached Ha-
gerstown. They marched all night, having missed the
railroad train. At Hagerstown they took omnibuses to
Chambersbury, where they arrived much exhausted with
their night march. They were received with loud cheers
along their route to Carlisle. The reported assault upon
the Massachusetts regiment in Baltimore occasioned intense
excitement among the troops. Camp Curtin swear terrible
vengeance. There are 3,000 men here.

The Boston Journal gives the following account
of the attack on the Massachusetts regiment at
Baltimore on the 18th ult.:--

At the President-street depot of the Philadelphia Rail-
road a large crowd assembled in anticipation of the arrival
of a large number of troops from New York and Massa-
chusetts. Shortlyafter eleven the train from Philadelphia,
comprising 29 cars, arrived at the depot. Without disem-
barking the soldiers from the train, the general cars had
horses attached, and about nine were drawn along Pratt-
street to the Camden station, the first six without creating
any marked objection. For same reason the horses attached
to the seventh car became reetive, and were taken from the
car at the Pratt-street bridge, and the car moved without
their aid to within a short distance of Gay-street, between
Gay and Frederick streets. A number of labourers were
engaged in repairing the bed of the street, and just at the
moment the car reached Gay-street, they were engaged in
removing the cobble stones from the principal portion of
the street. Some thirty or forty men assembled at this
point, having followed the car from the depot, and with
cheers for Davis and the confederacy, hurled bitter taunts
at the Northern black republicans, as they termed them.
This continuedfor several minutes, when as the horses were
again attached and the car moved off it was proposed to
stone it. Before the cars had gone twenty yards, almost
every window therein was broken, and a portion of the
crowd followed, hurling pavine. stones. The eighth car was
treated in the same manner, but the ninth car, apparently
being empty, or at least no person being visible, escaped
only with one stone. The crowd exulted in their work, ex-
claiming that black republicans should not pass through
Maryland. A lapse of five minutes succeeded, a number
of respectable persons meanwhile urging the crowd to tear
up the track. After the first train passed, one was observed
on the Pratt-street-bridge, when anchors were dragged on
the track at the corner of Gay-street, and part of the track
taken up. Observing this, the cars were turned back to
President-street depot, and the troops disembarked and
prepared to march through the streets. Mayor Brown,
with a number cf police, appeared at their head, and led the
way. They came away at a brisk pace, and when they
reached Center Market space, an immenEte concourse of
Wople closed in behind them, and commenced stoning them.
hen they reached Gay-street, where the track had been
taken up, a large crowd of men armed with paving stones
showered them on their heads with such force that several
of them were knocked down in the ranks.
After lying a few minutes they crowded into the stores
on Pratt-street. At the corner of South and Pratt streets
a man fired a pistol into the ranks of tho militia, when those
in the rear ranks immediately wheeled and fired upon their
assailants, and several were wounded. The guns of the
soldiers that had fallen wounded were seized and fired upon
the ranks with fatal effect. In two or three instances after
they reached Culvert-street the troops succeeded in check-
ing their pursuers by rapid fire, which brought down two
or three, and were not much molested until they reached
Howard-street, where another large crowd was assembled.
Some stones wero thrown at them, but their guns were not
loaded, and they passed on through a dense crowd down
Howard-street towards the depot.

The scene on Pratt-street was of a most startling cha-
racter, the wounded soldiers, three in number, were taken
up carefully, and carried to places of safety by citizens.
Along the street at the Camden station, where trains leave
for Washington, there were assembled a largo detachment
of police under direction of Marshal Kane.
. It soon appeared that orders were given to clear the tracks
near the main depot building. This was done, and soon
after a large passenger car of the Philadelphia Railroad
came up at a rapid rate filled with soldiers. The car was
soon followed by about 16 more, all occupied by troops.
Upon inquiry it was ascertained they consisted of the 6th
Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, in all 11 companies,
with an aggregate of 860 men.
As soon as the train arrived sores of the troops were com-
pelled to change cars, when they were hooted at by the
crowd, which made no overt act. Several young men ap-
peared at one of the cars, and displayed revolvers, where-
upon the captain of one of the companies drew his sword,
and declared he would protect his men. Many expected
the train would start immediately, but it did not move until
half-past twelve, a delay being occasioned by the fact that
President Garrett had received information that a large
crowd of excited men had determined to tear up the track
and blow up the bridges, and thereby prevent the passage
of the train.
In a few minutes after the train left a discharge of fire-
arms attracted the attention of the crowd to the corner of
Pratt and Howard Streets, where a body of infantry from
one of the Northern Stites, about 150 strong, was seen ra-
pidly approaching the depot, and no doubt anxious to reach
the cars.
The excitement was beyond description, and a man dis-
playing a flag of the Confederate States seemed to be the
rallying point for the people. Some assaulted the infantry
with stones, when a number of the latter discharged their
muskets. At least twenty shots were fired, but as far as
learned no person was injured. There seemed to be but
little discipline among the troops, especially as they rushed
along pell-mell.
Whilst they were entering the"cars a crowd of young
men gave them several volleys of bricks and stones, some
of which demolished a car window, whereupon three or
four muskets v ere pointed through the car windows and
fired, but no one was injured. Whilst this body was pass-
ing near the corner of Pratt and Charles streets they got in
collision with the crowd, and firing took place. One of the
soldiers, named Robins, of the company from Stonington,
Conn. (Stoneham), is supposed to be mortally wounded.
He was wounded in the back part of the head, and fell to
the ground. The train with the second detachment left at
a quarter-past 1.
Them are rumours of an intended attack on Fort
WHonry.

Further details may be gathered from later
despatches from Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, April 19.—A crowd broke into the ware-
house of Paterson and Walfert, on Long Dock, this even-
ing, and took therefrom 400 rifles and swords. Squads are
parading the strept, ,4 fully armod, nn the look-out for mili-
tary from the North, expected to-night. Have- just heard
that the Pennsylvania volunteers and the 7th New York
regiment are coming. Fear there will be bloody work.
BALTIMORE, April 19.—R. W. Davis of this city was
shot dead near the Camden station. It is reported that the
Philadelphians are now at the outer depot. The president
of the road ordered the train back, at the urgent request of
the mayor and governor. They are already off. John
M'Cann, P. Griffin, and G. Needham, three citizens, are
mortilly wounded. Four of the Massachusetts troops were
killed and several wounded. It is impossible to learn their
names. _

BALTIMORE, April 10.—The town meeting in Monu-
ment-square this afternoon. was attended by an immense
crowd. The state flag was hoisted. Mayor Brown said he
was opposed to the call of the President in spirit and object,
but as Maryland was still in the Union he had exerted him-
self to his utmost ability to protect- the passage of troops
through the city. He, however, felt that this should not
be, and had telegraphed to the President urging that no
more troops be sent through. Governor Hicks was sent for,
and said ho was opposed to secession, but the right of revo-
lution could not be disputed. It was folly to attempt to
subjugate the South, and ho hoped the North and the ad-
ministration would see the impracticability of doing so. He
was still devoted to the Union, and he hoped to see a re-
construction of it. (Shoats, " No, never.") The governor
replied that he should bow to the decision of the people.
Speeches were made by Messre. Teakle, Wallis, W. C.
Preston, and others, justifying the people of Baltimore, and
declaring that no northern troops should invade their soil
to subjugate and make war on their brethren of the South.
Tho speakers counselled peace, and urged that the laws be
respected and obeyed. All is quiet to-night. The military
and police combined guard the city. Tho streets are com-
paratively deserted. Here and there are small knots of
people discussing the events of the day.
Correct list of the killed and wounded so far as known :
Military—Wounded, Sergeant Ames, of the Lowell City
Guard, slightly; Private Coilum, of the same place, shot in
the head, not fatal ; Private Michael Green, of Lawrence,
slightly; S. H. Needham, skull fractured ; another, name
unknown at the infirmary, badly wound( d. Ames and
Coilum to-night were taken to a private house, where they
will receive the best attentions. H. W. Danforth and
Edward Cooper were shot in the thigh. Two Massachusetts
men dead, as before reported, their names not ascertained.
Citizens killed :—John M‘Ghan, Sebastian Gies, Patrick
chuck, 131 Thane Niles, Wm, c, >l4l9Aey, W, Roo, and

Mr. Davis. Wounded—Eatriek Griffin fatally, others un-
known.
The Philadelphians, who were unequipped and unarmed,
remained in the last car at the station. They were assaulted
with stones and other missiles, and some were slightly
wounded. The train *as taken back, but quite a number
escaped to the city, and, having no uniform, were unrecog-
nised. The reported difficulty on the road between here
and Washington is incorrect. It is understood that all the
troops reached Washington safely, except the Philadel-
phians, who were taken back. At the meeting the mayor
announced that the presidents of the railroads had pro raised
they would bring no more troops this way. As far as ascer-
tained only two Massachusetts soldiers were killed. They
belonged to Company C. Their bodies are now at the police
station. At the same station are the following wounded :
Sergeant Ames, of the Lowell City Guards, wounded on the
head slightly ; private Coilum, of the same place, shot in the
head, not seriously ; private Michael Green, of Lawrence,
wounded on the head with stones ; H. W. Danforth, com-
pany C, 6th Regiment, slightly wounded. As far as known
seven citizens were killed, includine, Mr. Davis (before men-
tioned), and James Clark. A half dozen or so are seriously
wounded, but believed not fatally. Comparative quiet now
prevails. The military are under arms. The police are out
in full force. The mass meeting was very large. It was
addressed by the mayor. The governor was present.
BALTIMORE, April 19.—A town meeting was called at 4
o'clock p.m. It is said that twelve lives were lost, and
several mortally wounded. Parties were roaming the streets
armed with guns and pistols. Stores closed and business
suspended. Everybody in a state of dread. A party of the
mob rushed into the teleg,raph office and cut the wires with
a hatchet, but they have since been repaired.

The following are the latest despatches from
Washington :

WASHINGTON, April 19.—The Massachusetts arrived
this evening, and are quartered at the capital. Several of
them wounded in Baltimore were sent to the infirmary,
while others who were injured in that city were on duty
with their comrades. The President had issued a procla-
mation stating that an insurrection against the Government
of the United States has broken out in the States of South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Texas ; and the laws of the United States cannot be exe-
cuted effectually therein, conformably to that provision of
the constitution which requires duties to be uniform
throughout the United States; and thither, a combination
of persons engaged in such insui rections have threatened to
grant pretended letters of marque to authorise the bearers
thereof to commit assaults.
The mayor has issued a proclamation exhorting all good
citizens to so conduct themselves as neither by word nor deed
to give occasion for any breach of the peace. The President
has seized four Potomac steamers, on suspicion of being in
the service of C. S. A. Charles Clarke has been appointed
marshal of Maine. Lieutenant Jones reports that as the
federal troops left the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, the seces-
sionists rushed in, and believes that many were killed ; re
peated explosions were heard. Two regulars were killed,
and two deserted. Major Simonton, in command of the
Pittsburg Arsenal, is suspected, and is watched by a com-
mittee of safety. _ _

Governor hicks declines to allow any more armed men
to pass through Baltimore.
Three thousand troops have reached Washington.
The Baltimore riot commenced by some labourers en-
gaged in repairing Pruth-street. They hurled the loose
paving-stones at the cars.

A despdtch from New York on the 19th contains
the following :
An attempt has been made to purchase the new steamer
Mercedita for the Confederate States, but the reply was
that there was not money enough in the seceded states to
buy her. The Rhode Island Marine Artillery arrived to -
day, with six pieces of artillery, and star ted for Washington.
A thousand Rhode Islanders under Governor Sprague will
be here to. morrow. Governor Morgan has issued a requi-
sition for the Gth, 12th, and 71st Regiments of this city,
who will start for Washington to-morrow. The gunboat
Pocahontas has been ordered to sea immediately. It is
reported she will sail to-night with troops for Fort Monroe.
The 7th Regiment left this city for Washington by railroad
this afternoon. The entire first division, 7,000 men, has
offered its services to the Governor, and are ready to
march at an hour's notice. There is intense excitement
among our military, caused by the news from Balti-
more. The Chamber of Commerce resolved to-day that
the Government should issue a proclamation that all
persons privateering under the Jefferson Davis com-
mission be dealt with as pirates, and to imme-
diately blockade every southern port. Over 22,000 dols.
were subscribed in aid of the volunteers. They appointed
commissioners to take up Government stock. The members
of the Corn Exchange resolved to close their places of
business to-morrow, and attend the Union meeting. Dele-
gates from sixteen life insurance companies met to-day, and
recommended to the several boards of directors to assume
the risk of the assured entering upon naval or military ser-
vice. The Evening Post learns from a reliable source that
Jeff. Davis, at the head of the Confederate army, is within
twenty-four hours' march of Washington. Major Anderson
was overwhelmed with congratulations to-day. The excite-
ment at the recruiting stations is unprecedented. The. Ist
New York Regiment has completed 1,000 men, and the
muster roll sent to Albany. Orders are expected to-morrow
to muster them into the United States service. A despatch
from Wilmington, Del., to the Tribune says that a merchant
captain, from Pensacola, gives information that Fort
Pickens now contains 800 men, and seven vessels lying out-
side. A large number of southern troops arrived on Satur-
day. There are still many Union men in Florida. A
bloody negro insurrection is apprehended in the cotton
states. A gentleman who passed through Tennessee on
Wednesday says the America flag was flying everywhere.
In Virginia loud threats to lynch Union men are heard
everywhere. Private despatches from Baltimore state that
the position of the loyal citizens was very critical.
A despatch says : "We hope the North will stand by us,
and in their forced passage through our city to the Capitol
remember that there are many true raen here. Our police
and many of our military companies openly defy the Go-
vernment,"

The excited state of the country may be gathered
by the despatches from various quarters :

NORTHERN STATES.

0c*.8.,,,,-RG, N.V., Arm-r,lO
was held here las tmiiht, Democrats and Republicans partici-
pating alike. There is a volunteer company forming. The
stars and stripes arc floating from the shipping And
throughout the town. _ _ _

PoirLAND, APRIL 19.—Captain Blanchard, of the
steamer Daniel Webster, has offered to convey all the troops
and munitions of war free.

PHILADELPHIA, Arm', 18.—The Philadelphia Volun-
teers have not been accepted, being without arms and
equipments.
PORTLAND, APRIL 19.—At the Marino Hospital Dr. S.
H. Tewksbury, the retiring superintendent, hoisted the
American flag and saluted it with 34 guns.
The Mechanic Blues volunteered this evening for the
war. The Light Infantry have voted themselves ready for
service, if called upon.
TRENTON, N.J., APRIL 19.—Quarters are being pro-
vided for the State forces, companies of which are beginning
to arrive. _ _

WILMINGTON, DEL., APRIL 19.—There was a great
Union meeting at Odd Fellows Hall to-night. Dr. Asken
oresided. Addresses were made by Messrs. Patterson,
Wales, and others. Resolutions were unanimously passed
for immediate enrolment for the protection of home and to
restore the Union by arms if necessary, also, that " we do
not belong to the North or to the South, but the Union."
There was great enthusiasm. Enrolment was commenced.
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 19.—1 t is supposed the troops
will go to llarrisburg, and thence to Baltimore.
ALBANY, N.Y., APRIL 19.—Twenty-five regiments
have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for
Washington.
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, APRIL 19.—i he recently ap-
pointed postmaster at Weston, Mo., has been driven cut of
the place. The Confederate States flag was hoisted this
corning, and taken down again at the request, of the
citizens.

ERIE, PA., APRIL 19.—Over 7,000 dollars has been sub-
scribed to the Volunteer Fund. Recruiting is rapidly
going on. Al. the military companies here have volun-
teered.

PITTSBURG, PA., APRIL 19.—The war feeling is in
creasing. New companies arc forming. All parties will
unite in the nomination of a Union ticket for country
officers.

Seventeen hundred volunteers from Ohio arrived this
evening en route for Washington. Governor Dennison has
telegraphed for them to remain here until further orders, in
consequence of a rumoured attack in Cincinnatti by the
secessionists.
SAco, ME., April 19.—The people in both Saco and Bid-
deford have had flag raisings to-day, and the booming of
cannon and unbounded enthusiasm. In the evening an im
mense crowd gathered about the office of the Biddeford
Heroic?, and demanded that a disunion flag which was flying
from the building in the morning should be taken down.
It was given up and torn into shreds. The office was then
compelled to display the stars and stripes. The crowd then
marched to the Maine Democrat et:lice, and called for the
hoisting of the American flag, which was done. The crowd
then dispersed with rousing cheers for our country and its
flag.
ELMIRA, N.Y., April 19.—Three companies have volun-
teered here.
BINGTIA.MPTON, N.Y. April 19.—There was an imposing
Union demonstration hero to day. The Hon. Daniel S.
Dickinson was among the speakers : he speaks in New
York to-morrow.
AUBURN, N.Y., April 19.—At an immense meeting of
citizens over 4,000 dole. was subscribed for the benefit of the
volunteers and'their families.