The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1861, Page 2

2 ARRIVAL OF THE NEW YORK. TWO DAYS LATEB FROM EUROPE. BOMBARDMENT OF GAETA CONTINUED. DISCONTENT IN BRITISH INDIA. IRON CASED FRIGATES IN FRANCE. AFFAIRS IN CHINA, MOROCCO, SERYIA, Bory Ker ae ‘The steamship New York left Southampton on Tuesday January 29, She brings $52.000, £9,680 and 62,600 france in specie—over $90,000 in all, The specie list is distributed as follows:— + £2015 5 396 a . A. Newman Bank of Commerce. 1,000 Tappan & Starbuck .30,000f. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the officia residence of Lord Palmer ton in Downing street. The Growth and Prosperity of the Ameri- can Repablic. {From the London Times, Jan. 28.1 If the threatened dissolution of the United States should be actually consummated, ita citizens will enjoy a sing lar opportunity of contemplating, at the very crisis of their cestinies, the magnitude and splendor of the politi. cal fabric which they bave just destroyed. The year of the seceesion was also the year of the census, At tho moment that the federal government was receiving the envoys of mdepencent Carolina it was receiving also (he | returns of the population and progress from the several States of the. Union. For the eighth time only since the origin of the confederacy, and yet for the last time, per- haps, in its history, the great republic has taken stock of its people. It bas numbered and classitied its citizens, counted its gains and put its growth upon record, and now it seems as 11 1t were resolved on terminating its existence. If it coes so it will die ina blaze. Its progress has out- Btripped even the speculations of its own rulers, Ten years ago, at the taking of the seventh census, some Americans sat down to calculate the probable numbers ‘of the population in 1860, just as a thri(ty trader ou ba- dancing bis accounts will indulge himself ia computing the prospective accumulations of such a surplus as he has just discovered. They made out that the Unite: States would contain at the period which has now arrive an aggregate population of $1,095,555. The reckoning has actually been verified, and with a little to spare. The numbers are 31,874,b56. : : Nothi:g like euch growth bas ever been witnessed in the old states of Europe. Tho increase during the de- cade has been upwards of 8,000,000; the per centage thir- ty-five. Our own country has made great stridcs, con- Bidering the numbers who emigrate, but we can only show such a per centage of increase in very rare in stances, upon insignificant areas, and under special con- ditions. Ot ali the counties of England and Wales two only during the present century have grown at this rate, those ure the contiguous shires of Monmouth and Glamorgan. In the year 1801 they contained 115 000 peo- ple. They now contain eome 400,000, and Merthyr fydvil can account probably for a good deal of tho result. The groes increase, however, of the entire population was ever like thirty-lve per cent in a de ja fact, it was never ba/fas mvcb. At the last cer was between twelve and th rteen per cent for the whole of Great Bri. In afew months’ time we shall again be able to survey our progress, but it will certainly not approach ‘the American rate, however satisfactory it may prove. ‘The statistics of the provincial returns are in some cases pertectiy astounding. Not ouly single citics, bat whole states, have actually doubled their numbers, and ‘Chicago has ali bat quadrupled its population. In 1850 it contained Jess than 90,000 inhabitants, it now contains nearly 110 000. The State of New York has increased by about 800,000, Pennsylvania by 600 000, Massachusetts by 400,000, ana Ilinois by little short of a million, In the Northwest the progress hag been extraordinary. ‘The three staics of Michigan, Wisconsin, and lowa hardly contained between them more inhabitants in 1$60 than Wisconsin alone contains at tho present time. Towa, in par- ticular, hada population of 192,214 in 1850, whercas it now numbers its 676,436 souls. The Americans carry into these reckonings a spirit of rivalry which is quite amusing. They poli their populations a= they do their elertors, and tock for the returns of the enumerators as we do for the coclaration of the Mayor on the day after a tremendous contest beeween whig and tory. The recent consus hap pened to place Cinsinnati 2,119 below St. Louis on the great national poll. It citizens protested against the return, demanded aeerutiny, and instituted a private census of their own to test’ the official figures. Their Proceedings resulted in a decisive Lime Thoy diseo- vered that they had been underrated by 11,233 inha- bitants, and pulled down accordingly the majority of St. Louis with a good 8,000 to spare. It will not surprise io one to learn that the Southern States are lott in arrear by the Northern in theso statis- tica; but the contrast 1s not quite ¢o strong as it appears to be at first sight. The Southwest makes progress, just ag the Northwest does, and for the same reason—that the push of the whole poptlation ia westward. Still, Penn- s#ylvania and New York have not fared like Virginia. Virginia began in 1790 by heading the whole, list of the | States in the numbers lation; in 1860 it had dropped to the fourth place, another place had been fost by the returns just made, North Carolina ‘was originally fourth in the list, and South Caro- tima seventh; they were tenth and fourteenth re- spectively im 1850, and are now, perhaps, lower stil. On the other hand Georgin had risen from tweltth to ninth, and Missouri from twenty second to thirteenth. There can be no doubt, however, ab yut the geueral superiority of vigor attaching to the free States of the Union. A cataloguo has been formed of twenty- one great towns qualilied by their numbers and impor tance to form a species of first class, and of these fittocn exclude slavery, and six only admit it. Of the whole list, too, one town alone has shown an actual decline since 1860, and that one is Charieston, the seat of th» present revolt. The increase in the number of alaves is not quite #0 great ap it was between 1840 and 1850, though greator than it had been between 1820 and 1840. about 600 000. A single entry of apparently slight importance in the Statistics before us explains the whole of that struggle between North and South which now threatens such for midablo consequences. The “p ition of tho Territo- ries” is set down altogether at 2$4,856—not much above Qhat of the single city of Brooklyn, and lees than that of Vhiladelphia; but the area of tho country thus thinly oc- ed is little, if at all, leas than the aggregate arca of he organizod States of the Uaion, Hy whom, then ure these mognificent opportunities of expansion 'to be eajored? What people are to possess there boundless chadecs of growth? “We,” aay the citizens of the North, “We will not allow that any new State of this glorious Union shall be infested with the taint of Now soil ehall be free soil. We will not re With the institutions which time has sanctioned ‘tates where they still exist, but we will never it the qvil to gproad.”” What, however, docs such a declaration Hian? It is sincerely uttered, we verily be- lieve, and Frglsimen will never gainsay its justice or y; but in its political import it cuts off the South from all prospect, not only of popular growth but of poli. tical prepondorance. It would isolate the Southern States and leave them, unless they choose gradually to abo! ainvery, to die out, as it were, in comparison Ww: pansive communities around them. They cow y themselves of the new Territories by foregoing their pecu iar ‘inativetion” and aivcarding their ‘‘property.’’ ‘To teil them that they may share the common privilege of American citizons of migrating to new homes, but that pa » is i telling n Western pettler that he may go into the back- woods, but that he must not take lus axe with him, Thoy protest accordingly, and are ready to seco sand even to Aight, not for their possessions, for thoee are not likely to bo molested, but for the freedom of progress and Jon which their adversaries would deay . them. The answer, however, to this specious plea is olyvious. * Blavery is, in vory truth, a thing hateful und abominable. It ia 0 Wingrace to any country, and the Northern people are perfectly justified in thefr requisition that if it ean- ot De abolished within tho limits of the American Unioa it shall at least not be extended. If, therefore, the Southern States persist in maintaining such an instity tion they are auswernble for the consequences. They ma have taken better ground at first. All tho States of tho Union were slave States onco: almost all were lave. Btater as recently a# sixty years since. In the census of 100 eee a only were returned a3 containing no slaves within et eel and what his beon dono by New York and New Jersey might have been done, or, any rate, ee a VA North aud South Carolina, Bat the people of the South haye obosen another course They have not onl, slavery, but have encou raged it, denying td evils and asserting for it a positive morit and value. They have at length preferred iteven national Union and are endeavoring to establish 2 eracy which must rest on this institution as a Whither they will succeed of fail we cannot yen- basis tare to predict, we can only hopo that better counsels May prevail, and that the idea of disunion may be relin- quished, Senator Seward'y Late Speech from an Fnglish Point of View, [From the london Times, Bevora) years ago an article apy hewepapers, from which it wos English press, suggesting a schoo Vornmont on ‘the basis of the produstion jon of cotton. Jancashire on the oue han Ya and several of the planting State on the oepectively to secede from the governme they formed a part, and to er a rep pati on the Foaterr and partly on the ne American largely copied into the e Atlantic Ocean. Now, supposing th to have taken effect, in wha | rest of England hay . the great county of Lancaster back to the firet grant of the and the Mersey by William the Cong fapus, ond traced the connection of Grown of England through its Dukes to Or should wo not at once have the f gral of the minions of the € oe dedivdval haa ® right to put that which vo individual can de “3 do, whether ma: jority in a porisu, a ora equnty—the [) %, by us It amounts to | although 6 county, and organized o@ 6 count tex | Ee 5 33 i i soutainored within cortain, territorial dit States, and to each of these governments, Saas | p American citizen is bou 6 people of do to under which they live. Any ina!vidual citizen, Secking to destroy fy Rey a is guilty treason against it, ¢ SAD ‘egate of individuals, oven should tl jority of the population of ‘The fact that rebellion takes the form of fi fs | @ State can make no difference; for so long as the central government confines itself in its own " the Biato poseoeses no rights whatever ust it. The State possesses no greater Fr: th than each of its cit\zens possesses individually, We are glad to see that these views bave at last found expression in the elaborate speech which Mr. Seward, the proximate Prime Minister of Mr. Lincoln, has ad- dressed to the Senate on the state of the Union. These hould have been laid down and elucidated in iy de oat ested Be a ly g this, ri to wil) guide the councils of his Sean. With this im- of affairs in America at the present moment is not favorable to merely rhetorical exercitation, When a certain line of conduct has been firmly and deli- berately adopted, oratory is very useful to convince men of Sts propriety, and juade ther to follow it. But the present difficulty of the federal government is, that while Provided to eatiety with sophists, rl fans, logisians, and lawyers, it has no men of action, no men who can | Clearly see and boldiy state the exact course which it is the Guty of the United States to taxe in the present emergency. The Southegn leaders are afflicted with no such -——. Rebellion lay in their wag, and they re- belled. ‘They do not trouble themselves with arguments about compacts and delegations; they are determined to break op Union, and ror that purpose they employ the whole energy of the States they represent, and their own votes inthe Senate and Congress of the country against | which they are in flagrant rebellion. Mr. Seward is evident- ly not a man of this manid. He can tell us what will not save the Union. It will not be saved by reerimination, Lor by debates on the constitutional power of Congress on the subject of slavery in the Territories, nor by prov- ing secegaion to be ‘illegal or unconstitutional, nor by ussing the right of the federal government to coerce ug States ; nor ia the Union to be saved by Con greseional compromises, or by any person in particu- lar, nor by some cunning and insincere compact of conciliation. This is a long list of negatives, and in the remaining part of Mr. Seward’s specch, extending over two columns of the Zimes, we seek in vain for wer to the question, ‘What will save the ‘ We have abundazce of praise of the form of government over which destruction is im pending. We are reminded, in rather inflatet language, of the benefits which.the Union has conferred cn the nation at home, and of the strength which it hag given to it ab: ‘We have a picture of an American a European port with all the honors, and of what the reception of an American man-of-war i3 likely to be under a divided confederacy, We have a contrast drawn between Young apd Old America in the persons of the page and the clerk of the Senate, the former of whom seers to be carried away by therhetoric, while the elder is shocked by the treason of the Southern orators, just as the younger Jews rejoiced, while the elder, who remembered the glories of the edifice of Solo mon, wept at the dedication of the second Temple. All this we have waded through in hopes of finding what it is that Mr. Seward would recommend as tho means of saving the Union. It seems to come to this;— The idea of the withdrawal of tho Gulf States and their permanent reorganization, with or without others, ina distinct comtederacy, is “ impossible,” and is therefore dismissed by Mr. Seward. We only wish, and there are many who will join with us, that Mr. Seward had as large a jurisdiction over the actual as over the ideal. While 8 dismissing the idea of the Southern confederacy the South ern confederacy is actually formed, and will doutéless fi some means of creating that ‘ idea, notion, or conception” which Mr. Seward has thus summarily eradicated from his brain. While rebeition was contemplated, Mr. Seward met it ly endeavoring to fhe hostile ‘ow camps that they were the best friends in the world. all lut consummated he mects a well attested fact with the assertion that it is “impossie.”” Mr. Seward is in favor of doing all those things which he has already assured us will not save the Union. He is pay: f to repeal the Personal Liberty acts, which trench on the policy of the Fugitive Slave law. He is willing to vote for the amend. ment of the constitution, declaring that henceforth it shall not be lawful to abolish slavery by an act of Con- - amendment utterly futile, since it can always be resciuded by the sume power that enacted it, But, lastly, Mr. Seward is willing when people have grown coo!—that is, he says, in twoor three years time—to con- sent to a convention to consider any cl e in the or- ganic laws in regard to slavery. Abd this while the steamers of the United States return to Now York disabled by shot fred from Charleston batteries; while Charleston threatens Major Anderson with an at- tack on a fort held by him for the United States, and while the arsenals and forts of the central government, left to the care of separate States, are plundered and oc- cupied as vhe result of a declared secession. This is all ‘that the official adviser of the incoming President can suggest us a remedy for dangers so urgent and s0 threat- euing. The thing which has happened is “impossible,” and in two or three years we may have a convention. Alas! in two or three years, for alt that Mr. Seward and tea a ary orn do (0 prevent tt, the United fe will have drifted into a position not requiring, as now, only a inanly rewlution for their deliverance, but the reach of the boldest or witest of mankind to remedy it. In | ene thing we certailny agree with Mr. Seward—that if he | is to be accepted as a type of tha would-be saviours of his country, the Union ‘is not likely to be saved, as he says, “by anybody in particular.’ {From the London Star, Jan. 29.) Mr. Seward has, it appears, delivered a “grand con- ciliatory speech” in the American Senate, While he adopted a friendly toue towards the South, and talked in general way of the supremacy of the constitution, and the desirability of redressing any ‘real’ grievances of which the offended States have to complain, he doos not appear to have made any p ition which was likely to accomplish the object he ae fessed to havo in viow. His speech, of course, would not exercise the slightest in- fluence in the extreme South; and it is doubtful whether ft would meet with a better fate in border State For it is now becoming apparent that in somo of these States the secession movement is gaining ground, and the probability of a junction with the new Southern coufcderacy proportionately great, The Canada Kugitive Slave Case. {From the Londou Times, Jan. 27.) Sin—There is a point In this case which, ¢o far as Tam , has not yet been noticed. The words of the act r which Anderron is claimed are as follows:— _A person charged with committing, within any of the United States of America, ony of the’ offences mentioned in the treaty—that is to Say, murder or assault to commit murder, piracy, arson, robbery or forgery—and charged upon such evidence or criminality as, according to the law of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and com- mitment for trial if the crime or offence had there been committed, may be apprehended upon com pisiet me order that he may be brought © judge or justice of the who has caused him to be apprehended be end that the evidence of his criminality may be heard and con- sidered, and that if, on such , the evidence be deemed sufficient by low to snatain charge according to the laws of Canada, he shall cert the same, ther with a copy of all the testimony taken before him, to the Governor of the province, in order that a warrant may issue upon the requisition of the proper authorities in the United states, or of any such States, for the sur- render of the person charged, according to the stipula- tions of the treaty. is » principles of criminal law are, I'believe, the oe in Canada as in England, and, aseumis this to be the case, let us consider what woul: be done here in caro was brought before a ma- gistrate charged wii havi committed murder upon such evidence as that which has been given against Anderson, After hearing the witnesses, the ma- gistrate would, of course, come to the conclusion that the charge of murder could not be sustained, because the act of Lomicide was committed in self-defence. What would be hie duty under these circumstances’ Would he still commit the accuged for murder, or would he, upon hie own responsibitity, dismiss him forthwith from bar’ He woul do neither the one nor the other, but he would commit him for manslaughter, and allow a judge and jury to adjudicate finally upon the care. As “man- tlaughter, t, if not one ef the offences enu- merated in the act, the accused should not be claimed bj the United States. Tam, sir, your most obedient servant, AMICUS CURIA, The English Cotton Pantc. (From the London Times, Jan. 29.} Manchester has at last awakened to the fact that she haa a special interest in India. In the midst of hor great manufacture, while gathering together colossal fortunes, while extending her smoky emptre and raising more chim: neys to puff forth their blask defiance to the pure [skies of Derbyshire and Cheehire, Manchester still has the pru dence to remgmber that sho is not guarantee a por- petual Prosperity. All these fil-favored evidences of justling trade ahd enormous weaith would pise away like a dream py wats Su eengation of the continuous arrivals which — Liver rs in to feed the factories. It all ped aad one cot ton. The Pye = bs of the frugal millionaire, ho comfortable gains of the crowds which pass in and ut to the sound of the factory bell, the profits of the thriving tradesmen who minister to the creature com. forts of the multitudes, all depend ‘upon cotton. How many months’ supply has Manchester at this moment? Lot us not inquire too curiously, Let it enflice us to no- tice how the price bas risen, and tet this fact alono ex plain to ws why Manchester is troubled in spirit, and is Calling together the Oambers of Commores, and is re- solving to ‘give special attention during the coming you to the financial and commerc\a! affnirs of India.” © But, even if Manchester show'd be so happy ax to pro. duce this reguit, she will be yet fur from having galned »rineipal end. Eloquence will not sow tho Sunder- with cotton. The rafters of the Chamber of Gom- may quiver to “loud cheers,” bat the endiepes will mot pa a halfpenny a more for cotton from India than thoy will cotton of the same Uy 4 from Americ the guests at this Conference declaim ever so for- he too terrible evils of afailure in our cot ue of the rich men present wil! go away in planting cotton wnles he market, At present prices Indian ® cultivated at huge profits; main- ‘s for ton years and you would havo hough frota India, and indeed from China and . teed of th ‘orld, to keep double your present number of 2 if Dight and day. The rules of aup- to cotton as well as to otber ¥ do not apply to epasmodic retion, but taey whon tested upon a period of reasonable oh Seay daa ot pve @ monly cotton may toin these pr cotton ¢ ™ ngs. They faithful Sizay fea geecemetanenee cost re a ferance his and (ibis If this pe & ’ of the com conference, it has all our sym and excites our hope; but if the meeting is to end with fine worda and who, in thelr Warsaw meeting, laid Allianee, the ebief object of which the ion of Venetia. Public opinion 1s much ; it rernembers the noiao that In eny case, the remembrance of the Warsaw meoting can cause it Do great anxiety? On the 28d of last October the descendants of the three povecsians 0) ninety years ago, commenced the work of spoliation, which has been fually accomplished under our eyes, met in the town which still stands as « monu- ment of the independence of Poland aud of tho attack made on its nationality. The second triumvirate, in which Europe saw a menace against its liverties, had, however, nothing of the audacity and insolence of the Qirst. For thirty years order has reigned at Warsaw. Rusgia, Prussia and Austria—full of terror, irritated al the preeent and afraid of the future—azsembled then, not to plot the ruin of @ people and to share its territory, but to devise means for saving an edifice whose foundations are giving way on ail Fides, The interview, brought about with difficuity, terminated abruptly, sud the threo princes separa'ad, giving to Europe tho solemn and instructive spectacle of their apxiety and their im- is interview, which the Augsourg Gacelle as to recall, disclosed to the members of the triumvirate tho secret of their nees. It taught them that there existed no bh. their views, and that they had noithor the sincere wish nor the power to combine their resources for « common course of action. eturned: to their States discon tented with one anothor, and quite convinced, beyond a doubt, that the pruicipi> of neuiutervention is heacy forth fatally imposed upon thom by their weatuoes, thoir disagreement, and the y growing asoondancy Of the modern ideas of Europe. rope ia wow diy ato Lwo campe, in ove of which may be witnessed (ie cosiro for war and iopotevce to mako it; in the other, all the means of recommeucing it brillantly, bat the desire to avoid it, and let the regenoration of Italy bo accomplish of poncefully, ‘Un one Bide, the old, worn o: and tho easy fall of thrones which had no other © than the bayonet; on the other, democracy vie shaking cif the rule of oppression, which for century has been the tisfortune of people the sean: dal ot humanity. On ong side, in short, the Karope of 1815; on the cthor, the’ Furope of the new public law, t.¢,tho Europe of the hiborty and independence of na- tions. It is in the midst of those death etry, f abso lutism, in presenco of old monarchies iu a state of decom- position, that certain German journals turesten demo: racy with a coalition. Where ‘is that coalition to come from? Whore is it to bo got up? Whore aro its gonerals, its armies, its funds? That the blind councillors of the Papacy should reckon on the head of the Greek church and the King of a Protestant and constitutional State to bring the Italians to obedience; that Francis IT, should reckon on a holy alliance to replace him on his throne; that the Finperor of Austria should endeavor toform a league that sitould permit him to restore tho old regimo, maintain the concordat, subdue Hungary, and lay that phantom of a parliament which already bhows such a strange spirit of independence, we ean very well under- @tand; and it is possible that their hopes may be fed by confidential * notes” and diplomasic propos ids. But there is @ long way trom a courteous and diplomatic good un derstanding to an alliance offensive and defensive. ‘The times are gono when Russia, Prussia aud Ausizia could think themselves strong enough to give the law to Europe. They have no longer that unity of aitn or that community of interests which they had- when Poland offered herself up to them as an easy prey for seiaure and partition, The sovereigns of these three powers may lay cut programmes, but thoy will never be cull of the folly of wishing to itnpose them on Europe. They may form plins in concert in view of certain events, but on the exprese condition of undertaking nothing against the peace of the world on the independence of nations. Tho day they transyress that limit, the order which they claim to re-establish in Italy of elsewhere, would not exist very much longer in their own States, even at Wu saw. But these, let us hasten to admit, ore chinorteal ap prebensions. In the tiret place, France and Kugivad are astingly and sincerely allied, apd as lo thelr al- fance, Bcondition sine qua non of the peace of tke world, is not broken, every Farepean aifficulty, of whatever kind ft may be, will bo solved or cut through in the in- terest of civilization. In the next place, amoug Russia, Prussia and Anstria, there exists no principle of sincere alliance, no real element or coalition, Austria, although im o rapid decline, is still a State of the first rank; but she is 90 !n virtue of ber past rather than her present power, and in that fact lies precisely her greatest danger. ithe she has lost the prestige of her wisdom and hor strenyth, she cannot bring herself to renounce either (he preponderance sho exercised eo re- contly as 1848 iu the cou of Eurepo, or the supre- macy which she has arrogated to hereelf fn Italy and Gor many. Severely shattere 1848, sho could hope to recover herself only by keeping herself quiet and ayotd- tng every internal sheck; it was at thet yery time, on the contrary, that she substituted for tho off tradi: tions of the Cabinet of Vienna 2 eystem of intemperance and audacity which wore ill suited to her situation. In 1860 she provokes I’russia and displeases all Germany; in 1864 she provokes Russia, and lms not the courngo to push matters to en issue; in 1866 she reaps in the Con- reer of Paris tho fruits of this vaocillatwg and proyok- Polley. To avenge herself for her check, she attacks Piedmont and provokes France, aud comes out of the two months’ struggle beaten, humbled, exhausted, and with national, added to financial derangement. She has just played bor last card in giving @ constitution to her dissatisfied Provinces. But this constitution, torn from her by fear, has excited demand everywhere and satis- fled diecontent nowhere. Avstria is Puiniog horself to keep enormous masses of troops ia Venetia, and yot the Emperor Francis Josep’, rot being sure of the provinces he leaves behind him, and not being able to rely any longer on itussia, as in 1849, does not dare to take a step beyond his fortriessee. Prussia does not love Austria, whose natural rival she is; but in order to keep in Furcpe the attitude and au- thority of agreat Power she is compelled to adopt a firmer, move direct and bolder policy; let her remember the triumps of Roebach a little less, and the humiliations of Jena a fittio more. Above all, let her be convinced nt length that paltry finwsiag, tergiversation and amia- Buity are unsuited to the present timea, She wished to Persuade England and Rnssia that she agreed with cach of them, and she must have subsequently found out that in 80 doing sho was wanting in clevorness aa well aa in frankness, Jor the rest, a8 the principle prociaimed in Italy and ronintatned by France and Fogland mivht re- ceive in Germany an appiieation favorable to the inte- rests and the ambition of the Houso of Braudouburg, it ig not probable that the new King of Prussia, in spite of the Mexphicahle atupidity of his speech, dreams of going arm to arm with Eogland and France oa the dangerous path Coflowed by Anstria « Russia fa a power (ull of life and growth, which uses hor fortune modorately, and studies the causes of her misfortunes in order to prevent their recurrence. She undertakes railways and encourages maritime com Panies; she colonizes the vast region of the Amoor, and gains ground by treaties rather than by arms in China, which she is oponing to her commerce. She hus etudlied! and now sho is pntting into execution, the project of Potor the Great, to join by a canal the Black and tho Caspian seas: sho hag subdued and sooks to attach to hor the peoples of the Caucasus, thus securing to horself 9 paagage into Georgia, Persia and Asia Minor; sho is ox- ing evory day her relations with Torkistan, in ordor to push on further and further on the road to the Indios, into which che is sending her outposts, her merchandise and her scientific observers. A government taken up with such works oad sich plans does not dream of form. ing coalitions. Ag to the Emperor Alexandor, he has too much to do In hia own States to throw himself stupidly into the storms of Italian polities. He has before hin « whole ation of sorta, w ch he has encouraged to demand their rights, though he has not yot found the means of granting them without danger. If he were as powerful ag the greatest Of his ancestors, he could not look without trembling on tho troubies which threaten him, and which, should they actually broak out, might overthrow jhis governmont, ‘The war obstinately provoked by his futher has ruined his South’rn provinces and shaken hie credit, and it is with great difficulty that he keeps up a considerably reduced army. He may reca'l his ambassador from Turin, ond encourage Francis If. in hie resistance, but the times when Suwarrow crossed the Alps to stop the triumphs of the Freneh armies are past nover to return. Tho Fm- peror Alexander may not Approve of all that is taktog lace in 1 aly, bat he will not make war to oppose the formation of an Italian kingdom. Resides, to provent Avatria from encroaching on the Lower Panibe, to drive her out of Italy and to raise up in tho Poninavla a state able to defend its independence, aro tracitional ideas in the Cabinet of St. Potersburg. A coalition in the present condition ef Europe is then, if uot absolutely impossible, at least essentially im: Probable. Anew war this spring, is that equally eo? at i¢ another matter, and one which depends above all on the Italien, It is important accordingly to have an exact conception of thelt dispositions and thotr real in ercet Shocking Tragedy in Liverpool. (From the London Toiegraph , Jan. 29.) Between twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning @ deplerabls affair occurred in Dale street, Liverpool, im which ene tan was mortally stabbed and another #0 she kingly ent about the neck that no hopes are enter: tained of his recovery, 1 appears that at twelve o'clock en Saturday night about forty perrons wore drinking in IJewellen’s public house, at the corner of Male street and Johnson street, Thoy wore turned out in order that the house might be cleeed. A quarrel nrees among several of thein in consequence of a previous disturbance during the evening. Amongst the parties in the crowd wore James Cassidy, © young man named Thomas Donegan, James Jenegsn, his father, and Thomas Luglio, Sl + cident bh | built, high cheek bones | tarsal pine) brown halr out He is tweaty five years of age, ive feot six or seven inches high, ratner stout complexion, nose rather short, no whiskers, and when Jast seen was dressed in @ blue cloth Jacket, blue Guernsey frock underneath, & pair of brown ‘or blate colored cloth trowsers, and a dark cap. He has been living in Boston, United States, for the last threo y bas the appearance of an Amev ican sailor, and has a Yankee twang in his speech. In Liverpool he is kaown a8 & reckless character, and for violont assaults upoa his parents, hag repeatedly before the Liverpool Dench, by whom he has been at least once bound over to kcep the peace. India. ‘The India mail bad arrived with dates from Calcutta to vc. 22, Pte London Times’ correspondent at Calcutta says:— “The Presidency of Bengal is in a very angry state: there 8 not a contented mind or a tranquil pengne. in ali the By the mismanagement of Mr. Grant the £2,000 000 annually «pent tn the indigo manufacture have been this year withdrawn from cixculation, and in a country like India the consequences are naturally of discoutent."’ China, ‘The China intelligence is to Dec er 15 from Hong Kong. Tord Figin was at Shanghae on the 8th of December, and is expected at Hong Kong immediately. Baron Gros pro- ceeds to Suez in a few days. Mr. Ward leaves this morn- ing inthe Ningara, * At Ningpo alarm existed from the reports brougat in of the movements the rebels. Foo Chow was quict. Dnsturbances had broken out the northoast part of the province, aud one or two walled places had been taken. The Jobn Adams, Niagara, Hartford aud gunboat faginaw were at Hong Kong. ‘ France. Pans, Jan 26—P. M. ‘The Patric says:—It is not true, as some journals have stated, that the Freoch government has encouraged Den- mark o resist tho demands of Gertoany; neither is it true that France is organizing a squadron to be seut to the Baltic. ‘ihe P’aéric also bu, l continues at Gaeta without groat reault on citber side. Marsertxs, Jan. 26, 186L, has not pro- franca, where A Russian frigate } ceeded to Gacta. Her the commander awaits fresh orders. ‘the Army and Navy Gascite says:—The Empsror has re rolved to constract with ajl despatch ten iron cased frigates of the Ia Gloire ciass. This is uo mero idio ramor, but a stubborn fact. M. Canesidicre, who tiled during the regime of the late Freneb republic the office of Pretoct of Police, a ‘ho, since then, lived for many years in the Unit tes, and for some time in Hngland, died in Paris On the 27th ult. He had but very recently returned to Franco, Italy. Navies, Jan, 25—5 1. M. Yesterday the bombardment of Gaeta was continued by the Sardinian fleet. Gaeta has sutfered auch from the bombaroment. The fire from the batteries of the place is feeble. General Cialdimi has lost but few men. A Sar- dinian gunboat has boon damaged. Naru, Jan, 26, 1861. ‘The bombardment of Gaeta continues. A treasonable correspondence of high itnportance, which has been en- tertained with Caeta, has Deen discovered. Genoa, vin Marseilles, Jan, 26, 1861. The Corricre Mercantile of to day eays;—The bombard. mont of Gaeta ia continued with prodigious effect from the batteries on the jaud sido, conwiatiy with the power- ful co-operation of the fleet. It is hoped that success will attend the eftorts of the besiegers in a few days. ‘The fleet withdrew on the 2.4 in order to repair damages, after having silenced nearly al! the enemy’s batteries. it to recommecee the bombardment on the same evening. Turis Tho elections to the Ttalian Partiameat ducted with order and tranquillity. ‘The members for Turin are Cavour, Miglietti and Cassini. Among the ceputiog elected in tho provinces are Gon. Cialdini, Admirol Versano, Gen. Sirtori, 3ignors Malenchini, Pabrizi, Ribeui, Ratezzi and other Batisfactor eB. ‘The resuit of the elections in Southera Haly ia not yot known, The number of elections in Upper Italy, of which the result is already known or assured, is 134. Of this nam- bor tw mg tothe party of Pr. Bertani, two to the Guribaldian party, fourteen to the opposition or to the contre, and the rehuwinder more or less to the ministerial party. urs Cabeilo has been defeated at Genoa, Dr. Bertani in Milan, Guerazzi in Loghorn, and Mor jini in Lucea. ‘The firet electoral news received {rom Naples bas been ood. i The number of elections now definitely known is two ‘hundred, of which twenty are of (he opposition party. Garibaldi ant Poerio have been clecte: Naples. ‘The reeult of the elections is generally favorable to the ministry. Jan. 28, 1861. ave been con- Gen. dain Marmors, Spain, Mavkw, Jan. 25, 1861. ‘The Correspondencia Autografa states that the report that the Qucep hed sent money to Cacia is totally un- founded. Tho Correspondencia ‘The Spanish Minister wit ay with King Francis If. as Jong as he remains on Ne: an territory. It also states that Tetuan will be occupied by Spanish troops uati the entize oxecution of the treaty by the Moors, Hungary. Prerit, Jan. 27, 1861. ‘The inhabitants of Voivedina have protested against the incorporation of that proviace with Hungary ia an arbi trary manner, They demaad the convocation of a Ser. vian National Assembly. wemauex, Jon, 27, 1861, A ministerial ordinance has bétn aadressed to ail the functionaries whose duties are in aey way connected with the calling out of the soldiers for the army, ordering them to take sued steps as will enable thom to execute as speedily as possible the ordors for the military convoca- tion already prectaimed, or for any other which may yot bo made. The Danish Diet has sanctioned the government com- tract, from the 1sth of December, 1860, with Mr. Poto, relativo to the railway through Finland, the east coast o| Jutinnd, from Aalborg to the South Schleswig Railway, and from Aarhuss towards the west coast, Russia, Sr. Perens The negotiations between the Bank of and the Bank of Fravece in reference to th gold for silverThave 1. Prince Orioff, President of the Ministry and the Council 4 bh has tendered his resignation, on account of i health. : Posy, Jan. 28, 1961, Tho Posen Zeitung says:—News received hore from St. Petersburg states that the corps d'armer #tationed in the provinces of Lithuania and Voihynia are to advance to the frontiers of tre empire, and will be replaced by troops from tho interior of Russia, The soldiors on furlough havo already beeu recalled, and the formation of three corps Warmer, on a war’ footing, has beon ordered, which are to be ready by the Ist of March noxt—owo to march to the Pruth, tho second to the frontiors of Poland, pa third to any other destination that may bo re- quired al Intelligence. Perso: Marquis De Radopont, of Paria, and Catesby ap R. Jones, g Ae United States Navy, are stopping at tho New York Carter, of Troland; A. Wild, of Albany, and G. B. of Boston, are stopping at the Brevoort House. Spencer H. Smith, of Flushing; K. M. Hodges, of Goor- em dW. B. Weir, of California, are stopping at the go House, Capt. McGuigan, of the steamship Vigo; P. ©. Cathonn, of Bridgeport; J. G. Welsh, of Madeira, aud J. A. Wood, of Boston, are stopping at the Everett House. E. Baldwin, T. W. Shannon, & R. Payson, Dexter MH. Follett and wife, and E. 8. Lewellyn, of Virgioia; A. Falea, of South Carolina; W. T. Troy, of Mobilo, and H. Wolcott, of Binghamton, are stopping at tho Fifth Ave- nue Hotel, R. L. Dickinson and wife, of Richmond, Va.; Paul Ponder, of Berlin; F. W, Moyer, of Bromen: MH. Trovw- bridge, of New Haven; Thomas (i, Pratt, E. F. Jonkins and T. Il. Hecgee, of Maryland, aro stopping at the St. Nichoins Hotel, P. W. Hitebcock, of Omah», N. T.:J. H, Morton, of Ne braska, J. HH. and FB. i’, Kinsbury and wife, Mr. Clark, of Pennsylvania; J. R. Rosenburgh and wife, of Hilinois,’ M. Lameroux, of &t. Louis, E. Keith, of Chicago; 8. A.’ Mo- Clelland, of Texas; B.A. Hoops and C. Hallow Phi Indolphin; , Mathews, of California, and W. ci. Faegioigh, of St. Joseph, are stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Hon. F. B. Morgan, of Now York; Cuptain M. M. Cook and family, of Delawaro; Captain 1, MoKay, of Boston: Mr, Roo anil wife, of West Point; 8. A. Harvey, of Phila: ia; W. H. Thayer, of Cineiinati; Thomas Sweenoy, P. Gallagher and A J. Selze, of Georgian, &. C.; Marvey , of Law ile; W. 6. Hall ana W. Krebs, of Bal- timore, ate story og at the Astor House, Captain W. T. Mogrwler, United States Army; Goror- nor Buchingha®, of Connecticut; Mesers, J. Mullikin, Chas. Levering, Vr. W. Oliver, J. 6. Grubb, 8. Galwell and fon, and Geo, N. Tatham, Committee of the Philatelpbia Board of Trade,ca businéss with the governinent, and Hon. E. B. Bigelow, of Marsachnectte, are in Washing ‘on, ‘The Richmond Hnqvirer of Baturday says: —Some mom vere of the Virginia Legislature aro desirous of introduc ing # resolution requesting General Scott to roturu the medal and sword presented to him by that Stato, Ex Governor Banks writes to his friends in Hoston that himpeif and family aro in excellent henith, and that they are dolighted with their new homo, Ovituary. Died, at Etbridgo, N. ¥., om the 10th tnst., Taxes Man ax, at tho great age of 112 years, Eo bad outlived all ——— Tavespar, Feb. 14—6 P. M. The money market is without change. Some failures continue to occur, both among houses in the Southern trade, and among houses which were really ruined in 1867, and have since been strug- ' gling along in the hope of better times. But it seems to be expected that a fair business will be done this spring with the West and North. Foreign exchange is dull; rates for bankers’ bills are about 10434 a 10424, The market will not fairly open till to-morrow. -The decline in the stock market noticed yester- day brought in some fresh buyers this morning. ‘The recovery in prices which ensued was aasisted, in the afternoon, by news that the sub-committee of the Peace Conference had agreed to report Mr. Guthrie's plan of compromise, with a condition stipulating that no more territory shall be acquired without the consent of three-fourths of the Senate. This confirms the private advices of most of the leading brokers, and may probably be considered the first practical step toward a settlement of the pending political dificulty. On the strength of it, everything advanced, and quite an active de- mand arose for State stocks and some leading railroad shares. Tennessees advanced 14; Missouris, ¥%; New York Central, 34; Reading, 4; Michigan Central, 9%; Galena, 4; Rock Island, 4. The greatest advance of the day was in Ilinois Cen- tral, the prosperous condition of which concern seems to be attracting some outside attention; it rose 144 per cent. Eric rose 44; this property is soon likely to derive marked advantage from the use of the long dock, which shortens the time of the freight trains to Dunkirk by Buffalo by about | nine hours. The following were the last quo- tations of the day:—Tennessees, 7244 a © Virginia 6's, 76 a %%; Missouri 6's, 66% a %; Canton, 144%; Cumberland Coal pre- ferred, 7 a 8; Pacific Mail, 814 a 85; New York Central, 781¢; Erie, 324404; Hudson River, 43% a 24; Harlem, 163{ a 44; do. preferred, 4014 a; Reading, 43 a3; Michigan Central, 5674 a 2%; Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 144% a 54; do. guaranteed, 5234 a 33; Panama, 112% a 115%; Minois Central, 78% a 34; Galena and cago, 724 0%; Cleveland and Toledo, 33%, a § Chicago and Rock Island, 67% a 68; Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy, 7144 a 72; United States 5's C4), 86% a 8724. Mr. Secretary Dix has issued the following pro- posal for a new loan of $3,000,000:— Treasury Drrartstust, Feb. 13, 1361. Sealed proposals wil! be received this department il tweive o'clock noon of Saturday, the 2s day of February instant, tor cight millions of dollars of the stock | of tho United] States, to be issued under the act of Con- grces of the th instant, authorizing a loan, at which time the proposals will be opened and decided. "The stock will be renmbursable in twenty years from the Ist of Jani- ary last, and will bear interest at six per cent per annum, payable’ semi annually on the first days of January and July of each year. No offer can be accopted for any fraction of one thow- sand doilers; nor will «ny offer be considered unless ono per centum’ of the amount thereof is deposited with a dopositary of the United States, subject to the order of the Secretary of the Treasury. The certificate of such de- posit must scoom pany each proposal. The offer must be unconditiozal, wi-hout reference to other offers, and must state the sum offered for each huncred dollars of such stock. ‘The proposals should be endorsed on the outsile, “ Pr porals for Loan of 1661,’’ and be addressed on the outsi to the “Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C."" ‘The bidders under the foregomg condition will be im- mediately informed by mail of the decision on their pro- posals. “If accepted, they must deposit the amount offered and accepted with’ the Treasurer of the United States, or with the Assistant Treasurer at Boston, New York or Philadelphia, on or before the first day of March proximo. Should successful bidders desire tu deposit at other points, on communicating such wish to this depart- ment it will bo consicered. Cortifi ates of inseribed stock will be issued to the ac ceptod bidders or their assigns in sums of one thousacd, five thovsand and ten thousand dollars, to the amount to which they may be respectively entitled upon their de- posits as sforecaid, carrying interest from the date of fuch deposits at the rate of 6 percent. Such stock will be transferrable o2 the books of the Treasury, agreeably to the regulation of the department. Should any of the successful bidders request certificates of stocks with coupong of semi-annual interest attached ayable frum the Ist of July next, such certificates will po issued in sums of one thousand dollars each, wita such coupons attached thereto; and such compen, stock, instead of being transferrable on the books of the Treasury, may be astigned and transferred by the delivery of such cer- tiflcates. ‘The interest on this coupon stock, from the date of the deposit watil the first day of July, will be paid on that day to the accepted bidder or his attorney by the depositary with whom the principal was deposited. b perercoqed deposit of one centum required from all bidders under this notice will be included in tho final deposit of primoipel by jidders, and will be directed to be immediately returned to unsuccessful bidders, JOHN A. DIX, Sesrotary of the Treasury. It will thus be seen that the bonds are to be sixes, running twenty years; that the bids must be sent in by Saturday, 23d, and the deposits on ac- count of New York bids made with the Sub-Trea- surer at this point before four P. M. on Friday, 22d. It seems to be supposed. that the loan will not command a higher price than 99, unless events should change the complexion of affairs between this and the 22d. Had Mr. Sherman's project for obtaining the endorsement of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Now York and Massachusetts been adopted, the bonds could probably have been sold at pat. Wr. Garnett’s objection thus bids fair to cost the conn- try $800,000; and as the eight millions now ealled for are wanted, not to carry ont the purposes of the incoming administration, but to pay the over- due claims of poor sailors, soldiers and others, who are starving for want of their dues, it is diffi- cult to detect any compensating merit in the ob- jection. The law under which Mr. Dix acts reads as follows:— AN Act Aurtonraxa 4 Loax. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of Amertea in Congress assem- bled, That the President of the United States be and is hereby authorized, at Le Apwed before the firat day of duly next, to borrow, on the credit of the United States, ® Stim not exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars, or so maueh thereof as, 10 his opinion, tho exigetcies of the public service may require to be used in payment of the current demands upon the Treasury and for the re- domption of Treasury notes now outstanding, and to re- place in the Treasury any amount of said notes which shall Lave been paid and received for pablic dues, See. 2. And be it further enacted, That stock shall bo iesned for the amount so borrowed, interest not exceeding six per centum por annum, to be roim- bureed within a period not beyont twenty years and not lees than ten years; and the Seerctary of the Treasury be and is hereby anthorized, with the consent of the Presi- dent, to cause certifientes of atock to be prepared, which shall be signed by the Rogister and sealed with the seal of the Treasury Department, for the amount so borrowed, in favor of the parties lending tho same, or thoir aszigns, which cértificates may be transferred on the books of thé [aie under such regulations as may be established by the Secretary of the Treasury: Previdod, That no cer- titeate shall be issued for a less sum than one thousand collars: And provided, also, That, whonover required, the Secretary of the Treasy Tany cause coupons of semi- annual intercat payndlo thereon to be attached to cortifi- cates isaned ere bee pra an, Seen — such coupons of interest at! may be nasi trans- ferred by delivery of the samo, instead of being trans- forred on the books of the bot! @ Bec. 3. And be it forther enacted, That, before award- ing anid loan, the Scerctary of the Treasury shall cause tobe. insorted in two of the public howspapers of the city of Washington, end in one or more public ne pore in other cities ‘of the United States, public not that sealed proposal: for such a loan will be recetved until @ coriain day, to be specitied in such notice, not lees thap ten ¢ay® from its firet insertion in a Wash ington newspaper; «iit eich notice shall state the amount of the lonn, at what periods the money shall be paid, if by instalmonts, and at what places. “Such sealed pro- poeals shall be opened, on the day appointed in the no- tien, in the prozenee of auch as my Choose to attend, and the proposals decided by the Secretary of ihe Treasury, who shail accept the most favorable of- fered by responsible bidders for said stock, And the said Secretary shell report to Congress, at the commence- ment of the poxt session, the amount of money bor- rowed under this act, and of whom and what terms it shail have been obtained, with an abstract or brief state- ment of all the proposals submitted for the samo, dia- Ungulshing between those acc and thoro rejected, with @ detailed statement of the expense of making such loaner, 4. And be It further enacted, That the faith of the Sec United States is hereby pledged for the due payment of the elena and the reeapten of the principal of said etock. See. 5. And be it further onacted, That the residue of the loan antborived by the act of 224 of Jane, 1860, or so much thereof oe is neceaeary, sball be applied to the re- pmption of tho Trewury notes issued under the act of 17th of December, 1800, and for no other purpose; and the Seorotary of tho Treasury is hereby authorized, at his discretion, to exchany bonds of the United States muthorized by said act of of June, 1800, for the said ‘Treasury notes and the accruing interest thereon, fee. 6. And be it further enacted, That, to defray the oxpense of engraving and printing certificates of such stock, and other expenses incident to the execution of thig act, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ia horeby appropriated: Trovided, That no compensation shall be allowed for any service performed undet this act to any officer whose salary ia established by law. Sec. 7, And be it further enacted, That tho Secretary of the Treasury ehall not be obliged’ to accept the most faverobie bids ag t rovided, auias by gail consider it tae for any eaetien: of Approved, Feb. 8, The following The New York, arrived this morning, brings about $77,000 in specie, consigned as followB:— £2,015, Nesmith & Sons; £5,000, Bunge, Burlage & Co.; £395, B. W. Miller; £870, Hawley Stones #All, W. H. Newman & Co.; £1,000, Bank of Com- merce; 30,000 francs, Tappan & Starbutk; $5,472, W. H. Riversmith; $10,130, T. F. Aschmann & Cog $1,520,J. A. Abrey; 32,625 francs, Antonio Cokino; $626, Pratt & Reath; $640, John EH. Hyde & Sons. The New York brings news of an advance in the funds and in American stocks. The panic so long expected sedms no nearer; it looks as though Eng- land, which, after all, asthe parent country of Australia, is quite as largé a producer of gold ag the United States, was as well able to spare us $20,000,000 in sovereigne as we are to spare her $40,000,000 or $50,000,000 a year in leg and bars. The cessation of the drain to China at the present time enables her to stand the flow to this country the better. The London Herald of the 28th remarks:— Americana stocks and shares presented uctuation, though the aspect of prices was more favora- Iimois Coutral one hundred dollar shares were ken at 32% and 3¢ dis.,and the last quotation was 33 © 2 dis. The paid up were at 66 and €53%, leaving off 66 to 67. In New York and Eric as- | sented there was business at 29 and 2834, the final quota- tion baving been 284; to 293,. ‘Ddusiness in Great Western of Canada shares, the actual transactions having been at 103; and 103(; and the last price Was 10}¢ to 24, or 4 quarter por cent higher. The London Times of the 29th thus notices and quotes the market:— Great Western of Canada shares are again bighor at It to 'y. Grand Trupk stock closed at 22 to 14; the ordinat bones, 45 to 47; and the preference, 72 to 74. In Amert- can railway securities, New York and Erie shares tm- proved to 29 to 30, and Illinois Centra. to 31; to 30)¢ dis. Canadian Five per cents, 100 to '. Unite! States 5's, 1874. cownineies ab Virginia 6's. 216 Virginia 6's. 7 i + 85 ‘7'B, ISTS...... . Do. $100 shares, $80 paid dis \ 32 Pelle es: . 66 Michigan Central 8°, convertible, 1869. : 8T Do. sinking funds, '§’s, "82. + 81 3100 shares... I 50 ichigon So. & N. Indiana Va, 1985: Lio. $100 shares, New York Sentral 63, 1588. Do. 7's, 1564... To. 778, 1876. Do. 7's, 1876 Do. $100 shares, New York & Eric To. 2d m., 1850, Do. 3d m., 1883, assented..... Do. bouos, 1864, ‘71, '75. Do, eharcé, assented Ponvina ist mort, 7's, 1866. Le 0.5 187 Pennsylvania Central 6's. Do. 24 mort. Do. 860 shares. evens Tiiadelpbia & Reading 6 Do. $00 shires......, ‘The following correspo! merchants ia the Southern trade:—- Mr. Curuaan To MR. ScHEtt. Nxw York, Fob. 12, 186. Scrmur., Corrector or THE Port: 2B eppemererese srr ara r pps eerereD o susztisecaseserssessesesszass How. Ave be paid when entered for consumption in Charlestom, C. Uncer the present state of things I would beg leave to ask whother I would be allowed to ship me pole, Bond, aud whether a certificate of the present tor ‘hartcston that the duties have been paid there would tease me from the bonds 1am to ee 1 a Mx, Scum. To Mr, Cui, Coston Hovse, New York, Courcton’s Orrick, Feb. 14, 1861. Gin—In reply to your letter of 12th inst., I have te state that, under the existing warehouse laws, you may be allowed to ship merchandise to any port of entry of the United States in bond under your transportation bond if approved. The bonds, however, cannot be cancelled Ly the certifeate of any officer acting under the authority of any State, Tam yours, ; AUGUSTUS SCHELL, Collector. Mr. Cu Cursmay, No. 5 Cedar street, New York. We call attention to the advertisement request- ing holders of second mortgage bonds of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company to fund their coupons before the close of the fiscal year, on the 28th inst. It is, we believe, for their inte- rest to do so. By reference to an advertisement in another co- lumn, it will be seen that the New York Central Railroad Company have adopted some new an@ very proper rules for the additional security of transfers of stock in the company. Mr. John P. Yelverton has been appointed cashier of the Bank of North America, vice Mr, Seymour, who was lately clected President. Tho exchanges at the Bank Clearing House thia morning were $23,312,581 75, and the balances $1,166,805 69. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad earned ia January:— Tncrease., We take the following from 4 Southern Illinois paper:— The Minois Coutral Company hased a section land at the junction of their main fino and branch road in 1863 at het per acre; eS See their division there, it Perms sunal eaeer oentees ch the tne dane Tm one day last woek the company's ines Contralia station 441 cars, and away . Wedoubt if the New York Cont Dusincss at @ single station, even in Its th Aico a 0 14 32 32: a is iis 18; 1% Hy 18: 460 Gal & Chi 1 50 do. i 50 do. ” 200 do. 72: 100 do. » 410 do. + 2 300 Clov & Tol » 100 Chi & RT . 6 100 do.. Of 60 Chi, Bur is LJ do. 20 do. 100 do. 20N J Con OTH &hi BOARD. 26 shes Erie . & oer 4 Jersey Con RR. 11! a 100 M RR.b30 66: 88 oO 56, od 50 66 1000 b #8 a £000 iNWeslm 40 86200 783 2000 1, igh 18 200 cid 1000 Cleve&?2mb 573% 300 7 50 sls NY'KORR.s10 78); 100 10% 400 do. iq 100 ” 100 do. ~ 500 38. 100 do, 200 b10 38 20 Mp igo chi, bur wean, 72 i . 100 Erie Rn, pagpay dove 1X CITY COMMERCIAL REPORT. Trurapay, Feb. 14—6P. M. Asti. —Tho market was unchanged and gales limited at be. for pots and at 61¢0. for pearls. Puraverryr.—Flour—Tho market closed with more Dimas wad goliyity, imgluding some purchases foe ‘