New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-01
Great britain.

House Of Lords, Monday. March l6.-Lord Gran.
VILE moved the second reading OF the Union Keller
Aid act. The bill was read. , r,
The Salmon Expectation bill was read second
time.
The Malt Duty bill was read third time, and
passed.
Houss of Commons, Monday March 16.-Mr.
Cochrane moved for copies OF correspondence re!a'
ting 20 affairs Of Greece. He blamed the Govern
ment for lite treatment Of Greece, but he believed
Lord Palmerston was not aware of the course which
had been pursued by the Foreign Office.
Lord Palmerston defended the. Government, anc
said. that If Mr.. Cocbrane withdrew bis motion
when further papers on the subject were received
he would have no objection to lay them on the table
The motion was then Withdrawn.
The House then went into COMMITTEE OF suppl!
on the remaining Army Estimates, when the follow
ing votes were agreed to: f635.6S for barracl
establishments f46,097 for divine service, f43 Oh
for administration of martial law, G255 1913 for med
ical establishments, f75i 0S4 for disemboded mill
tia, f93, l62 for yeomanry. l
The Prince and Princess Of Wales left Osborne
for Windsor and London on Tuesday, March IL,
crossing to Portsmouth i'll Her MGjesty's yacht
Fairy.
Prince Christian Of Denmark, with his son. were
in the ambassadors Gallery in the House of Com
mons Oh Monday night. -.....
The Malta Times says: Prince Alfred continues
20 progress favorably, and s expected TO be fully
stored 70 health very shortly, when he will proceed
OfBcisi intelligence, says The Lsraut Herald, has
been received tina, 5000 stand Of the Russian arms,
recently attempted to be Struggled across the Prnci
paties into Servia, have been purloined en- route,
and have found their way into Poland.
THE POWDER MILLS IN TIE REBEL STATES
Thf London Times, Of March ls, has another d.
rect correspondence from the Rebel States, dated
Augusta, Jan. o. 1t is written in the usual style
of the Confederate correspondence OF TIE Tunes,
80 Il n. H. l. III
papers are themselves. The following account OF
The powder-rns established by the Rebel Govern.
ment, contains some valuable information;
When, upon the 18th Of April, 1861, Fort Sumter
surrendered to Gen. Beauregard and the Confed-
crates not one single pound OF gunpowder WAS any
where manufactured in the Confcderacy. "A
rigorous blockade OF the seaporss OF the South
was Immediately commenced, through which
the principal ingredient Of gunpowder lsaltpeter)
had to be largely sucked in. Al this juncture it
seemed advisable to President Davis to intrust TO
Col. Raiues formerly officer of the United States
Army, the responsibility Of planning and building
large Government mill Tor the manufacture Of gun
powder. For this post Col. Rsines possessed emf
nent qualifications. lie had been Professor OF Chem
istry at West Point, and, for some years, since
Leaving the Army, he had been at the head Of some
large iron works at Newburg, on the Hudson. Au-
pusss in Georgia, was selected as the site of the
intended mill and never both as regards the person
and the situation pitched upon, was happier sagacy
u,
was acquainted with it, the plan upon which the
gunpowder.mill at Watham Abbey, belonging to
the English Government, is built Col. Raines pro.
cseded TO construct the works necessary tor his pur
pose and the success which has attended bis efforts
has been such as could have been believed be-
fore the pressure OF war and gation had awakened
Southern ingenuity and enterprise. The result is
that at tue cost Of about 900, one OF the most
perfect gunpowder-mis in the world has been pro-
ducsd which turns out 5000 pounds Of powder per
Gay, ahd could produce double that quantity, IT
worked day and night and much more IL worked
under The exlgeney OF pressing demand.
cost Oh this powder, in spite of the costliness
OF tae sanPeter which has been introduced through
the blockade, 10 about cents pound, which is be.
TeSea 70 Ds avoa' tse same as ITS css in England
months, and consequently, more powder than the
Confederacy 10 likely to require Tor wears "a coms
has already been produced. There is another GOV.
eminent powder.Inll at Columbia, in South Caro-.
very large as yeti of the Confederate NAVY nm Ru,
Gil the gunpowder issued for the service Of The Con-
federate armies Of Virginia and the West and siso
for tho defense Of Charleston and VicksburQ, has
como out Of the mill at Augusta; and 1t was stalled
TO No by an ordnance officer in Charleston that the
powder which he had recently received there and
tested. was very nearly II not entirely, up to the
standard of the finest English manufacture.
The extreme deIiberauon with which the Confed.
crate Government has engaged in many large and
costly undertakings requiring long tune ior their
completion and much ingenuity In their design, Is
the best earnest Of the qustness and confidence
with which they have from the very commence
ment looked at their independence az at . thing
which they could not fail TO attain. These Govern
mehs powder-mills 1t Columbia and Augusts are by
~ no~hs the sole Rchey of the Confederates
A. nome an support Of their soldiers in the field. II
MAy w notced that In the North, although the ne.
ee.Sisy ioi Inc erection OF Q Government powder
mn has 1l'en eeen represented to tho War Depart