The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-31 00:00:00

'ME SUN, LONDOI%, FIiMAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1861.

PARLIAILENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—MIN' 30.
PAPER DUTIES.
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Consi•lered in Committee—Question put, " That Clause 4,
as amended, stand part of the Bill." The Committee
divided—Ayes 296, Noes 281.

' Arz.4-296.
Abercromby, R. W Ewart, J. C. ' north, F.
Acton, Sir'J. Ewing, H. E. C. O'Brien, P.
Adair, H. E. Fenwick, Henry ' O'Connell, D.
Adam,W. P. Ferguson, R. Ogilvy, Sir J.
Adeane, H. J. • Fermoy, Lord , Onslow, Guildford
Agar-Ellis, Hon. L. Finlay, A. S. , Osborne, Bernal
Alcock, T. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Owen, Sir H.
Andover, Lord Foley, J. H. Packe, G. H.
Angerstein, W. Foley, Hon. H. W. Padmore, R.
Anson, Capt. Foljambe, F.'J. S. Paget, C.
Ashley, Lord Forster, Charles Paget, Lord A.
Atherton, W. Forster, W: E. . Paget, Lord C. E.
Ayrton, A. S. Foster, W. 0. Palmerston; ViSct.
Bagwell, J. Fortescue, Hon. D. Paxton, Sir J.
Baines, E. Fortescue, C. S. Pease, H.
Baring, H. B. Fox, W. J. Peel, F.
Barina, Sir Y. Freeland, H. W. :Pigott., Francis
Baring, Thos. Gee. Gaskell, J. 31. Piaington, James
Barnes, Thomas Gibson, T. M. Pinney, Wm.
Bass, 31. T., • • Gifford, Earl of Pollard Urquhart W
Baxter; W.. E. Gilpin, C. Ponsonby, A. ,
Bailey, Thomas Gladstone, W. E. Portman W.,11. B.
Beale, Samuel Glyn, G. C. Pritchard, John
Beamish,F.'B. . Glyn, G. G. ' Prbby, Lord. G. L.
Beaumont, W. B. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pryse, Cap_E.. L.
Beaumont,Sonaerset Gordon, C. W. Puller,C. W.
Bellew,.R. M. Gower, r: L. Raynham, Viscount
Berkeley, H. 'Graham, Sir J. R. G. Ricardo, .T. L.
Berkeley, F. Greenall, G. Ricardo, 0.
Bethell, Sir R. Greenwood, J. Rich, H. ,
Biddulph,CoL R.M. Gregson, S. Robartes, T. J. A.
If.rgs John Grenfell, C. P. „Robertson, D.
lack, Admit Adadt . Grey, Rt. lin. Sir G. Roebuck, J. A.
Blencowe, J..G. Gros/dithr, Earl _Rothschild,Baron L.
Bonham-Carter,. T. Gordon, B. Rothschild,Baron 31
Botfield, Bedell Gurney, John H. Roupell, W.
Bouverie,.E. P. Gurney, Samuel Russell,Mord J.
Bouverie, P. P. Hadfield, Geo. Russell, Hastings
Bright, J. Banbury, R, jun. Russell, A. J. E.
Briscoe, J. T. Handley, John Russell, Sir Wm.
Bristow; A. -Mulkey, Thomson St. Aubyn, J.
Brown, James Hanmer, Sir J. Salomong,Alderman
Brown*, Lord J. T. Harcourt, G. G. V. Scholefie;d, W.
Bruce, Lord E. A. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Scott, Sir W.
Bruce, H. A. Hartington,Marquis Scrope, G. P.
Buchanan, W. Hayter, Sir Wm. Seymour, Sir M.
Buckley,`lll4.-Gen. Headlam, Thos. B Seymour, H. D.
Buller, J. W. Heneage, G. Seymour, Digby
Buller, Sir A. Henley, Lord Shafto, R. D.
Bury, Viscount Hervey, Lord A Shelley, Sir J. V.
Buger, C. S. Hodgkinson, G. Sheridan, R. B.
Buxton, C. Hodgson, K. D. Sheridan, H. B.'
Caird, James Holland, E. Sidney, Thomas
Calthorpe, F. H. Howard, Hon. C. Slaney, R. A.
Cardwell,ltt. Hn. E. Hutt, W. Smith, J. B.
Carnegie, Hon. C. Ingham, R. Smith, 31. T.
Castlerosse, Vist. Jackson, W. Smith, Augustus
Cavendish, Hon. W. Jervoise, Sir J. Somerville, Sir W.
Cavenc'lsh, Lord G. Johnstone, Sir J. Staniland, 31.
Childers, H. c. E. Kershaw, J. Stanley, 0.
Cholmeley,, Sir M. King, lion. L. Stan sf eld, J, ,
Churchill, Lord A. Kinglake, A. W. Steel, John
Clay-, James ' Kinglake, Serj..J.- Stuart, Col.
Clifford, C. C. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Sykes, Col. W. H.
Clifford, H. 31. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Thompson, H. S.
Clivd, George Langston, J. H. Thornhill, W. P.
Cobden, R. • Lawson, W. Tite, Win.
Coke, W. C. Layard, A. H. Tollemache, Hon.F.
Colobrooke, Sir T.E. Leatham, E. Traill, G.
Collier, R. P. Lee, W. Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Coningham, Wm. Levinge, Sir R.G.A. Turner, J. A.
Cowper, Hon. W.F. Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Tynte, Col. C. J. K.
Craufurd, E. H. J Lewis, J. Harvey Vane, Lordii. G.
Crawford, R. W. Lindsay, W. S. Verney, Sir Harry
Crossley, Frank Locke, John Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Dalglish, Robert Lockhart, A. E. Vivian, H.H.
Davey, R. Lowe, Rt. Hon.R. Vyner, Reginald Davie, Sirli. R. F. Lytton, Sir E. B. Walter, John
Davie, Col.. F. 31`Cann, J. Warner, Edward
Denman, G. Mackie, J. Watkins, J. L. V.
Dent, John Dent Mackinnon, W.(Ly.) Wemyss, J.
Dillwyn, Lewis L. Mackinnon,W.(Rye. Western, T. S.
Divett, Edward Mainwaring, T. Westhead, B.
Dodson, John G. Marsh, 31.11. Whalley, G. H.
Douglas, Sir C. Marshall, W. Whitbread, S.
Duff, 31. E. Martin, P. W. White. Jas.
Duke, Six. James Martin, J. Wickham, H. W.
Dunbar. Sir Win. Matheson, A. Willcox, B. 31.
Duneombe, T. S. Matheson, S.ir 3.• Williams, W.
Diuidas, Frederick Mellor, John Winnington, Sir T.
Dundas, Sir David Merry, James. Wood, Rt Hn. SirC.
Dunlop, A. Mildmay, H. Woods, Henry
Dutton, Hon. R. H. Miller, William Worsley, Lord
Eleho, Lord Mines, R. 31. Wrightson, W. B.
Ellice, E., jun. Mitchell, T. A. Wyld, James
Enfield, Viscount Moffatt, George Wyvill, M.
Ennis, Jahn • Moncreiff, J.
Euston, Earl of Monson, W. J.
Evans, T. W. Morris, D.
Ewart, William Norris, J. T.

• TELLERS.
Brand, H. B.
Knatchbull-Hugess

()-4TI2V .IN.44,4IZLIGENCE.

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EPSOM IiACES-THUREIDAY.

The Shirley Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft , for tyres-yr -olds ;
colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies Bst 31b:i penalties and allow-

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ances. One mile and a quarter. .
Lord StatitfOid's Ellertcn, Bst 71b (A. Edwards) w.o.
The Grand. Stand Stakes (llandicti) of 10 sous each, h ft;
with 100 added. The last mile and thiee-quarers of the
Metropolitan Stakes Course. Twenty-eight subs.
Lord Lincoln's Lupus,. 3 yrs, 7,7 t 71b (Clement) t
Mr. Ten Brbeck'd Umpire; 4 y'r's . (A Edwards)
Mr. Greville's Amy, 3 yrs; sst7lb (Midgeley) 3

The following also ran :—Bumble Bee, The Monk, Ship-
wreck, Bayonet, Zingaro/Poretopjtorking. ,
'Betting-10 to 3 agst Umpire, Cto 1 agst Zingaro, 6 to 1
apt Bumble Bee, 8 to 1 each ag4 Lupus and Dorking, 10
to 1 agstAmy, 100 to 8 .agst any other offered.

From the distance the race was confined to the first three ,
Amy dropped back beaten half way up, and Umpire had
all the best of it at the stand, but hanging to the•right, and
appearing to stop suddenly, Lupine made a dead heat with
him; Amy, third, was three lengths off, and upwards of a
half-a-dozen lengths behind her Dorking was fourth, Fore-
top fifth, atid Zingaro siltth'; the others finishing together
at their heels. Lupus afterwards walked over, and received
one-third of the stakes.'

The Two .yr-old Stakes.of IQ soyp each, with 50' added ;
colts, Bst 10 lb ; fillies, &it. 711 i; sty
_winner before start-
ing to carry sth. extra. Half-a-Mile. Thirty-six subs.
Captain Goatees -Patriot, .84 (Bullook) 1
Mr. Merry!s Express,. Set 121 b (in.. 01 extra) (Custance) t
Lord Stamford's King of Hearth/A
,11b. (in 51b extra)
11. Prench) t
The following also ran.t—Antares, Pellucid, Voltairp,
Leonora, Baliveine,'aiLa
Betting.—Even on Patriot, &to; l'iikst Express, 7 to 1
aka Ilikkidaraia; B"td rfigst King of Hearts; 100 to 8 agst
33aliVerile. 'After soitie delay at the Pest, caused principally
bk.thblitipitiienCe Patriot, Antarea, Bali Verne, and King
of Hearts, the last mentioned of whom seemed inclined to
do a bit of steeple-chasing by leaping the hedge, the lot
was 'dispatched; Patriot in the' middle of the course making
the running. with Express, King of 'Hearts; and Baliverne
well laid up, Antares in the rear running wide on the lower
ground. An exciting race home with the first four ensued,
Patriot winning by a head, and. King of Hearts and Ex-
pres.making a. dead heat for second place. Baliverne was
close up with them, and Pellucid was -a bad fifth, and up-
wards of a dozen lengths from him came the others, headed
by Hippodamia.

The Epsom Cup of 10 sous each, h ft, with 10 added ; for
three-yr-olds, 7st; four, Bst 91b; five, 9st 31b; six and aged,

9st 51b.
Baron Niviere's Surprise, 4 yrs, 7st ,121 b (Watkins) 1
Mr. W. Hudson's Lady Trespass, 4 yrs, Bst 111b_

(J. Osborne) 2

Betting.-6 to' 4on Lady Trespass. Surprise took a lead
of abont.three lengtho, which he held to the straight, where
the mare began to draw forward, but never quite got up,
and was beaten after a slashing race from the distance by .4
head.

The Walton Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 30 added.

Mr. Hughes's Broad Arrow; 2 yrs, Est 101 b (carried '
sst 111bya0 (J. Daley) 1
Mr. J. Smith's Hedgehog, 2 yrr, sst 101 b, £6O (Wheatley) 3
Mr. Hudson's Revolt, 2 yrs, sst 101 b, (Parsons) 3
Betting-5 to 2on Broad Arrow. Revolt and Hedgehog
rannearly side by side to tho road, where Broad Arrow shot
ahead, and won by two lengths, the second beating the third
by three lengths. The winner was bought in for 275 guineas,
and Revolt was claimed by Mr. J. Smith under the New-
market rule.

The South-Western. Stakes of 13 soya each, h ft, with 100
added by the South-Western Railway Company (Handi-
cap) ; for all ages. One mile.
Mr. Mellon's Sporting Life, 3 yrs, 7st llb (J. Snowden) 1
Mr. Copperthwaite' sT wili ght, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b ( Withington) t
Sir J. Hawley's Gallus, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (Wells) t
The following ajso, ran :—Nicholas, Horace, Furious,
Camerino, Gardener, Little Dick, and Eccola.
Betting-7 to 2 agst Twilight, 4to 1 agst' Nicholas, 6to
1 agst Horace, 7.t0 1 agst. Gallus, 8 to 1 each agsfCamerino
and Sporting Life,lo to 1 agst Gardener,. 100 to 8 agst
Furious.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas (for mares only) ;
three-yr-olds, 7st 91b ; four, 9st 71b ; five, lOst ; six and
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aged, lOst 31b. Great Metropolitan Stakes Course (two
miles and a quarter.) To start at the winning chair.
Mr. Parr's Avalanche, 4 yrs (Clement) 1
Mr.-Gratwicke's'Allington, 4 yrs

Betting-5 to 2on Avalanche, who made all the running,
and won by three quarters of a length.
The Epsom Four-year-old Stakes of 50 sous, h ft; for colts,

Bst 111 b ; fillies, Bst 61b. New Derby Course. 8 subs.

U.r. Te_n Bmeck's Uteuire,_B4Xlb (G. Fordham) 1
Sir J. Hawley's "Loiterer, 8:0111b (wells) 2
Betting-8 to lon Umpire. Loiterer led by a couple of
lengths up to the half distance, when Umpire came to the
front, and won in a canter by six lengths.

THE POST-OFFICE AND THE GALWAY

8 TR A ILER&

Yesterday a return was made to an order of the
House of Commons, of a letter from the Postmaster-
General to the Lords Commissioners of her Majes-
ty's Treasury, dated May 11, 1861, proposing to ter-
minate the contract with the Atlantic Royal Mail
Steam Navigation Company, and of a copy of the
Treasury minute thereon.
The following is the letter of the Postmaster-
General to the Treasury :
" General Post-office, May 11,.1861.
o My Lords,—With reference to my letter of
January 18 last, transmitting
copies of an agree-
ment which, under the authority conveyed to me
in your letter of the 19th of November previous, I
had required the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navi-
gation Company to enter into, as the sole condition
upon which I would relieve them from the penalties
already incurred, and would consent to a temporary
suspension of the mail service under their contract,
I have the honour to inform your lordships that,
owing to the company having only one vessel ready
for survey by the time fixed for the recommencement
of the service, and owing to that vessel being
seriously damaged, and rendered unseaworthy,
while proceeding from Southampton to Galway, to
take up her station, the company were unable to
convey the mails on the appointed day, and it was
therefore in my power at once to have declared the,
contract at an end. Under the circumstances, how-
ever, I refrained from doing so, and allowed there-
commencement of the service to be postponed until
April 9. The mails were accordingly despatched on
that day, and on April 23 another approved vessel
was provided by the company, and took her depar-
ture. The third packet from Galway should have
sailed on the 7th inst., but the company have failed
in offering on this occasion any efficient vessel for
the service, and I have been under the necessity,
therefore, of announcing at the last moment that
no despatch of mails could take place. As it is
now quite evident that the company are not in a
position to fulfil their engagements, I have caused
a letter to be prepared terminating the contract ;
but before sending that letter, I submit a draft of
it for the approval of your lordships.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) STANLEY of ALDERLEY.
_

" The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury."
The letter refei red to is as follows :
" To A. Boate, Esq., Atlantic Royal Mail Steam
Navigation Company.
" Sir,—The failure of the Atlantic Royal Mail
Steam Navigation Company to provide an efficient
steam vessel for the American mails of the 7th inst.,
has rendered it necessary that the Postmaster.
General should again consider the obligations of
the company under their contract, the manner in
which those obligations have been fulfilled, and
the means possessed by the company for con-
tinuing the mail service. In acquainting you with
the determination at which his lordship has ar-
rived, I am desired briefly to advert to the length-
ened correspondence which has taken place between
the Atlantic o:enpany and this department since
the commenyzement of the contract, such correspon-
dence having been almost wholly occasioned by the
inabili'y of the company to abide by the condi-
tiot's to which they had bound themselves, and
old which alone their offer to perform the mail ser-
vice had been accepted. By the terms of the con-
tract, the company undertook to provide a sufficient
number of vessels which should not only be approved
of when complete, but of which the designs
and plans had been previously approved of ;
nevertheless, when in June last, the time fixed for
the commencement of the service, had arrived, they
had only one such ship, the Connaught, ready, and
even the attempt with this ship to perform the first
voyage under the contract was fruitless. Under
these circumstances the Postmaster-General would
have been authorised to put an end to the contract,
but he forebore from doing so, and allowed a vessel
(the Panama), which did not come within the stipu-
lations of the contract, to be despatched in place
of the Connaught. In the second and sixth voyage
the Connaught was employed, but in the latter
she took fire and was lost, and the company were
then without a single ship built, surveyed,
and accepted in the terms of the contract. Be-
tween these latter voyages, the Postmaster-
General had permitted three voyages to be made
by ships not in accordance with the contract,
although his lordship was more than once assured
that the application for such an irregularity was
made for the last time. From the commencement
of the contract, in June last, to the present time,
only one complete voyage has been performed by a
vessel built for the purpooe as contemplated by the

contract. ,When the Postmaster-General would no
longer accept ships which did not possess theneces-,
'fiery qualifications, the coinpany applied for permis-
sion to forego several vofages,and not only was this
permission granted, but the heavy penalties to, hich
they rendered themselves liable for iißt- remitting.,
a packet on the appointed' day 'Wei ,-whoilly re-
mitted. At length, and after great, dela.y_ on. the
part of the company in complying with' the condi-
tions upon which alone the PostmastevGeneral
could grant such a further concession,: they were al-
lowed, temporarily, to suspend the service , alto
gether. By the agreement' executed in January last
the company undertook to recommence the service
on March 26, and thenceforth to perform it in strict
conformity with the conditions of their contract,
which the Postmaster-General was empowered to
terminate if those conditions were not observed.
The company were warned that, in such case, the
Postmaster-General's power would certainly be
exercised. The date for the recommencement of the'
service was, nevertheless„ extended to April 9, in
consequence of the clan-lege sustained by the vessel
which was to have taken the first mail while on her
way to Galway. Since the agreement by which the
company undertook to recommence the service in
March last was executed, the company have pro-
vided three vessels. One of these, the Columbia,
owing to doubts as to her strength, was accepted
by the Postmaster-General for two voyages only.
By intelligence just received, it appears that this
vessel put into Halifax on the fifteenth day after
leaving Galway short of coals; and there is reason to
believe from other circumstances, so that a further
survey may be necessary even before she could be per-
mitted to perform a second voyage. Another ves-
sel, the Hibernia,-whilivatrher we.y from Seutliamp.;l.o
ton to Galway, six weeks ago, is reported by the
Lords of the Admiralty to have been injured in such
a way as to indicate a deficiency in strength, and to
render her unseaworthy. This leaves the company
only one efficient vessel for the performance of their
contract. It is evident, therefore, that the company
are not now, and never have been in a position effi-
ciently to perform the stipulations of their contract.
Under these circumstances, and on a review of the
whole case, the Postmaster-General feels that in the
discharge of his public duty, he has no alternative
but to exercise the power reserved to him, and to
declare the contract at an end. I am desired, ac-
cordingly, to transmit to you the accompanying
notice to that effect :

" Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 14th May, 1861.
" Write to the Postmaster-General that my lords
approve of the letter which his lordship proposes
to address to the directors of the Atlantic Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company, terminating the con-
tract with the company.

2HE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
NEW YORK, MAY 14.

The main positions of interest this week arc
Cairo, Wheeling, Harper's Ferry, and Washington.
The geographical situation of the latter place is too
well known to need description. About 30,000
troops are now concentrated there, and no fear is
felt as to its safety. Indeed, the loyal troops oc-
cupied Baltimore yesterday, without resistance.
Harper's Ferry is situated 'on the Potomac, about
80 miles (I think) above Washington, and ou the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Being at the junc-
tion of the Shenandoah, and thus commanding by
the railway the communication both with Baltimore
and the 'West, and by its rivers the communication
between the interior of Virginia on the one side,
and the city of Washington on the other, it is a
strategic place of great importance. It is under-
stood to be occupied by troops of the Confederate
States in considerable force, and the private intelli-
gence of the Union Defence Committee last night
was that the scouts of this force were being thrown
out towards Washington, and had already come in
collision with some of the Government troops. It
was also supposed that Virginia will attempt from
this point to operate upon Wheeling and Western
Virginia. Wheeling, situated on the Ohio river, is
what is known as the " Panhandle"—the narrow
piece of Virginia that juts up between the western
boundary of Pennsylvania and Ohio—is the western
terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and is
the centre of a movement in favour of the Union that
threatens to be fatal to Virginia. I find that the
Union leaders of New York have yet some doubt
of the good faith of this, that they fear it is a ruse
to get arms,•with the purpose in the end of joining
Virginia. It may be that their fears are well
founded; but I shall assume, until I see more evi-
dence to the contrary than I can yet see, that they
are mistaken, and that the movement is made in
good faith. Before this reaches you the question
will be decided. Assuming that it is not a sham, you
will see at once that it is one of the greatest import-
ance. Twenty-five of the 'Western counties of the
State are represented in the Convention now held
at 'Wheeling, whose object is to restore either the
whole State of Virginia, or so much of it as they
represent, to its allegiance. By the aid of a map of
Virginia you will see how large a part of the State
is included between the Alleghanies, the Kenawha
river, and the Ohio. It was originally contemplated
that the Convention should only consist of repre-
sentatives from these counties, with a view of
seceding from Virginia, but I learn that several
counties to the south of that river and along the
Kentucky line have come into the movement, and
that an effort will be made to induce the Conven-
tion to assume to act as and for the loyal State of
Virginia—to assume that the old State officers by
their treasonable acts have ceased to have a right to
exercise authority over the State, and that the
people have the right to organise a new Govern-
ment faithful to its constitutional obligations and
loyal to the Federal Government at Washington.
Whatever form the deliberations at 'Wheeling
may take, they cannot fail, if had in good
faith, to be of the utmost importance. Instead
of the expected division in the North, Mr.
Davis finds the real civil war on his hands at
the South.., In this part of the country there are
none of threatures of civil war—no dissensions, no
division of parties, no diversity of opinion, except
as to the strategy of the campaign, no signs of hos-
tile forces, no forcible interruption of business, no
marching of armies, except as collected and sent
forward to the seat of war, no blockading of ports,
no contest about the Government which we are to
obey, and which to deny. There, on the contrary,
civil war in reality exists. With a hostile army
and navy encircling its territory, and cutting off all
means of traffic without, the people within are rally-
ing to put down the Government they have at-
tempted to institute in the place of that at Washing-
ton, and the best private advices are that this
movement at Wheeling is but the beginning—that
as the forces of the United States approach, a Union
party will show itself in every seceded State, except
South Carolina, and will aid in the overthrow of
the disunion conspiracy. I see every day new
reason to believe that there is ground for this hope.
It is believed here that the mass of the pro-
perty holders in the South are not in favour of this
rebellion—that while, having large amounts at
stake, they did not offer an active armed opposition
that might have led to anarchy, especially as the
Washington Administration of November and De-
cember last openly sympathised with the conspira-
tors, they will gladly see the authority of the United
States restored, and peace established in the only
way in which it can be established while the present
temper of the North lasts. In view, firstly, of its
immediate effect upon Virginia, and, secondly, of its
ultimate effect upon the great latent Union mass in
the South, the importance of the Wheeling Con-
vention cannot be over-estimated.

Tennessee has followed the ignoble example of
Virginia, has formed a secret military league with
the Confederate States, and provided for a popular
vote upon the question of secession after their
armies shall have occupied the State and silenced
opposition —a mode of settling this question that
this part of the country is not at present disposed
to assent to. The attempt at secession being thus
general in the valley of the Mississippi, the Govern-
ment are taking the most efficient means to prevent
arms, or munitions of war, or provisions from reach-
ing the rebellious States.

the Confederate States are availing themselves
with great diligence of the war privilege of repudiat-
ing their debts. In this matter they show them-
selves faithful disciples of their leader. The Go-
vernor of Georgia orders, by proclamation, Southern
debtors not to pay Northern debtors, and in many
cases they have assigned that in their correspon-
dence as the reason for default. Other merchants
write that they cannot collect money for remittance
North, and all, or nearly all, have stopped remitting.
The West, too, fails to make its remittances, its
currency being entirely disorganised by the depre-
ciation of the Border State stocks, on which it is
founded. New York has to hear the burden of all
this, and under it the dry goods merchants are sus-
pending or asking extensions very generally.
Other branches of business, where there are less
extended credit, are not so much affected,

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SP,

THE NAY Y.

Admiralty orders have been received tit Chatham
for the undernamed line-of-battle and - screw.
steamers, attached to Steam Reserve at-the port, to
be immediately supplied with Armstrong guns in
the following proportions, viz. :—The Meeatice, 80,
400-horse power, with two 100-pounder piliot guns'
and two 40:pounders ; the Phaeton, 51, 100-horse
power, with one 100 pounder pivot gun and two
40-pounders ; the CAmeleon, 17, 200-horie ptiwer,,
With ono 100-pounder pivot gun,:atid -01.10 40-
pounder ; the Defence, 24, 800!hope power -iron
steamer, with four 40-pouerS,
_One 25,0 under-
and one 12-pounder; the Resistance, 24, 800-horse
rid
power iron screw steamer, with-two 100
pcmnder.
pivot guns, 16 100-pounder, four 40-pounders, one
25-pounder, and one 12-pounder s ;`,thc:Leander,
400-horse power, with one 100-pounder pivot gun
and two 40-pounders; the Rodney, 91, 500-horse
power, with two 100-pounder pivot guns and two
40-pounders; the Hood, 91, 600 horse power, with
one 100-pounder pivot gun and two 40-pounders ;
the Waterloo, 91, 500-horse power, with two 100-
pounder pivot guns and two 40-pounders ; the
Goliath, 80, 400-horse power, with two 100-pounder
pivots and two 40 pounders ; the Irresistible, SO,
400-horse power, with two 100-pounder pivots and
two 40-pounders ; the Bombay, 81, 400-horse
power, with one 100-pounder pivot gun and two
40-pounders ; the Galatea, 26, 800-horse power,
with two 100-pounder pivots ; the Severn, 51, 500-
horse power, with one 100-pounder pivot and two
40-pounders; the Arethusa, 51, 400-horse power,
with one 100-pounder pivot and two 40-pounders;
the Orpheus, 22, 400-horse power, with one 100-
pounder pivotl, thff Thvoasa, 22, 400-horse power,
with one 100-pounder pivot ; and the Griffon, Cr,
80-horse power, with two 12-pounders;
The Herald, 8, Capt. Denham, F.R.S., which re-
cently returned to Chatham from the South Pacific
survey, is entirely dismantled, and the whole
of her stores are returned to the dockyard. She
will be taken under the shears to have her masts
taken out, and to-morrow her crew will be paid off,
after nine years' service.
The Marlborough, 131, screw, Captain W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., in the course of her elaborate refit at
Portsmouth, is being fitted with copper tubing to
each deck, having at intervals along the decks
double-headed nozzles, communicating by the ne-
cessary cocks through the ship's side with the sea
water, and worked by an auxiliary engine, forming
one of the most complete and effective fire-engines
it is possible to conceive.
Her Majesty's screw steamship Anson, 91, 800-
horse power, having had her water-pressure tested,
got up steam in the basin at Sheerness dockyard
yesterday, in order to prove her machinery, &c.,
and to ascertain whether she had suffered from the
pressure. The result being satisfactory, the vessel
was removed to her moorings in the harbour, pre-
paratory to undergoing a trial of her speed at the
measured mile.

The engines of the screw steam frigate Phoebe,
51, which was cut in two and lengthened in Devon-
port dockyard, will be tried to-day in the basin at
Keyham Steamyard.
The troopships Powerful, Khersonese, and Ade-
laide have discharged at Woolwich a large number
of miscellaneous materials captured during the late
Chinese war, and a large number of fortress guns,
of various sizes, in solid brass and copper, some of
which weigh about 6 tons. The battered condition
of several of the guns, and the stains of blood with
which they are still marked, testify to the unerring
aim of Milward's and Barry's batteries of Arm-
strong guns. One of the pieces bears no less than
seven severe proofs of the effect of the aim. A shot,
having entered the mouth of the gun, as it appears,
carried away the muzzle and nearly passed through
the opposite side; a second struck one of the trun-
nions, and the gunner was doubtless killed at his post,
as the breech of the piece is besmeared with blood
which has flowed from a large stain over the vent
piece. Others are marked in a similar manner.
Major Milward's battery has been deposited in store
at Hongkong, and Lieut.-Colonel Barry's, brought
home by the Adelaide, is now ranged along the
landing-wharf at Woolwich. It bears extremely
slight indication of wear and tear. A battery is
likewise occupying the same wharf, recently
returned from Aldershott, and on an official
examination of the two it was yesterday stated that
the Chinese carriageig have suffered less damage
than those which had not loft England.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander F. D. Rich, to the
Centurion ; Charles J. Doxat, midshipman, to the
Nile ; Walter C. Batty, promoted to the rank of
acting first-class assist.-engineer in the Terrible ;
Rinbo R. Siccama, assist.-surg., to the Revenge ;
Daniel O'Connor, assist.-surg., to the Impregnable
for Plymouth Hospital ; and William J. Aplin,
assist.-surg., additional to the Fisgard.