New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-06

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The Times and The Evening Matt
Items.
from Our Specisl Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. 81. 1865
This weeks news began dolorously with dis
nal accounts Of the effects of the terrible gee which
ragged along tie British coasts toward tie close OF last
week and which, at times TO have amounted To
absolute hurricane. marking its course with deVasa
ton and death. For several days the papers teemed
with the sombre record of wrecks and
tAem, by the way tbe laundering of new Liverpool
tslt bockadernnner which bad Just lef the Mersey OH
her first nefarious voyage involving the drowning oi
he son of tic English bCilder, the Virginan captain
and master the Danish first mate. the Georgian second
the LIVERPOOL third. anil a Captain Of the Rebel army
With some twenty or thirty others. On land Also II
New great guns. e6ectmc some loss life and serious
destruction Of property In this metropolis Inc ro'
Of the Thames below London Bridge was Jus raging
SEA of muddy water covered by covering confused
shipping the river high u overflow its bink'
and at Lamboh, Vauxhan and Ba.teIscI. many OF the
&C Gets were flooded and rendered impossible. Tie
works of the Thames emh ankH eDt were os) seriously
hterrupted and had the river risen bet foot OF two
higher between the 70 and Somerset House, where
the embsnkn ent Is already formed might have writ
Zen to you of very formidable swamping OF both men
and machinery. tai chimney, too, was blown down
n Shoe Lane right in tie heart Of the eiyndeed the
Nassau.street of London-snashrg in the roof Of an
cid tumbledown three-story eneu emit and killing and
xsaiming the occupants You the untameable wind
ssll blows shrowdy In these secs as did in
Jsus Caesars tine, I'D is as destructive. All the
week the items of maritime disaster have come drop ing
h, like dying gusts Of great storm which has oTer
blown tsef i commend you for particulars TO the
papers
Political news IL dull ough ministers and VI. P.s
ere coming back to town and Parliamentary reporters
beginnng to wal up, like dormce with the approach
II Spring II is said that tie Wig whrperin speaks
pguiney Of the Ministry surviving the session with
cut any important defeat though the Liberals, who are
anything but satisfied with Octogenaran pr'miers
honey uggng with the great questions Of reform and
seem 10 think that the time has arrived
lor bestirrng themselves. Lord Palmerston who to
parody Tenny sons Northern Farmer
~Ta. had his fling he balo, every ses for forty year
h really euy Prime Minister by sufersnce and the
weakness Of his o.? orens; people to crate him because
shey can't get be ter. and fear that worse may come
b his place. BY and by they WI obtain such an eI-
tension Of the suffrage vii enable them 10 take
great step forward. think Mr. Gladstone will be the
"coming man." tho Ii erals of England have never
Srgotten his declaration in favor o. universal suffrage
In the coming session 1t not to ce expected that any
great poitea rogorns viii be proposed; the Govern
nent relying a. usual for fayor Oh its financial sue
sess II it 10 tue Te!ofel, that Mr. Gladstone
viii show Suiplus Of foor uiijus and propose to take
of the income *. tie is no Go1bt that the Minis
NV 10 ,sfe until the budget is passed. Then hear
ta OF some grand Gndstonian scheme for the CONVEX
son Of railways into State property asches by which
ybcdy to be enriched TO their hearts con-
- (which is highly probable. I repeat that the
Queen siN open Parliament, all rumors to the cor
Rary Notwithstanding.
You viii perceive that they have arrested Capt
erso of the Peruvian screw steamship Union Of whom
Iv,ote a fortnight ago for on alleged breach Of tn
Foreign Enlis.n Il act, in T. ru ting EngisaneI
Ssr possible hostes against Spain. lie was arrested
n hartford under warrant obtained by the Spanish
Consul subse luent to tie siilng OF the vessel from
GreeDbibe, and lie care will be adjudicsted by the
Kentish magistrates Saturday next, the @sth. Also
tint the scandaous Shenantolh business has been
ION" again at Bov.stroe. VheI Capt COrbet. who re-
served his defense WIS tel for trial. hut admit
~ IN bail 1 may daim that The first authentic de-
tails of this geDemans proc edings in transferring the
Sea King TO Rebel hands, tie attempt 70 se6uee the crew
~ that service involving the bringing OF buckeffl q
sovereigrs ON deck to teup pit them first saw light IN
THg TRleuYg in my letter of November 26. Nothing
additional trans pred at Bow'sticet
Here 10 another exclusive maritime item which should
interest you. -Four days ago there put into Dublin
Hnb driven thil by OF weather. the double
screw Ir,peIlor Ajax. intended bockade-runner aud
Rebel gnnboat. She IL three-dccAer and has ber;hs
f,r upwards of eighty men, though her COR pleneni
scarce,y exceeded score mutinied IN consequence
Of her dangerous condition there being three feet o.
ws,er in her holl on Der reaching port. They have
summoned the Captain before the Kingston magistrates
Ss arrears Of wage and assert that he is only nomna
commander ore from the c. ". 4. s. being aboard tt
take control when tie vessel reached Madeira, oh,
place you remem. err here the Soaking was trans
frredD and also that she has cannon, armoi platei
end ammunition concealed under her coal You owe
is little bit of neutrality to shpbuilder Of DUN
barton. Scotland.
We have sinilar run Of the possible simultaneous
recognition Of the South bv England aud France. which
seem TO have reacNel you at New York and Washing
ton but no welinforned person attaches much impor
tanoe to them Rebel stock politically is declining. n
you may sec by the Of the English papers. The
C. g. got an ncurabe hurt last ninth VI November ant
Sherman march, and still more the sensible accepta
don Of its fate by Savannah, has sunk deep into the
xnds Of people If it has not convinced them that the
rebellion is moribund Tie faCt that the person wh'
would inevitably tale the lead In the recognition OF the
south II Is ever occurred mean the French Emperor
has recently had his cousin Prince Napoleon (wLom b
ant over 20 the United States just 10 what cbancs