The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW. YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE . W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASS40 STS. ty mad will beat cok arena, eine Tis current tm Now Ti DEIRT Sim ere swocntoan cm, (87 per annum. LY HERALD, every Saturaay, af stzcente ‘or §Sper annum, the Buropean Eitiomtatry Webealay, iFto any 2 I Re Continent, sath to faclode postage; the & on the Let, 110% and 2lat af each month, ates rot h 15 per annum Tah sumict menaLo. on Wednesday, af four cents per Tis PRINTING executes with neaines, cheapness and de Volame XXVII.. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Itatian Orgra— La Traviata. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Roxgo anv Juuist. iWINTBR OARDER, Broadway.—Natap Qugun—MagRikp an. WALLACK'S THEATRE, No. 814 Broadway.—Sax Stoors 10 CON WURK. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.-Ovur Auxet caw Cousin MEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Manst—Cusany (AND Paik Sian. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Snceysy's Natiowat crows. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Day and Evening.—Onoixa—Hirrorotamus, WitaLi, aNd Oruek Cu- BIOSITIES. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.-J6wx 1x OLD K-¥- road. HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, Broadway.—Eruioriax Sonas, MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No. 539 Broadway.— Sones, Danows, Bunuesacus, 0.—Hoipar iv Lxmian d. CANTERBURY MUSIO HALL, 685 Broadway.—So: Dances, BunLssaues, £0-—-Macves, sue Sieuy Ou ayvesant Institute, No. 659 Daxcas. to. t® Xo GATETIFS CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—D: Boow Exruuraiwunnrs, BAliiis, Pastournus, Panctse bo. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway. —Sonas, Bau- Lars, Pantominus, &¢.—PORtRAIT FAINTER. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery.— Bunvesquas, Sones, Dances, &c.— eye ’ ‘Peon ii PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— Open dally from Wa M. Gg? ee Stat NOVELTY MUSIC HALL, 616 Brosdway.~1 Sones, Dances ae. 616 way.—BoR.Esqvss IRVING HALL, Irving piace—Sorer Fi 1s5— Quann on Vaur Turn Box Carss—Ler Das New York, Sunday, February 2, 1863 THE SITUATION. The heavy deposit of snow on the roads in Vir- ginia will still further delay the movements of the Army of the Potomac. The troops were engaged yesterday in clearing their camps of anow to pre- vent the tents from being flooded. Ramors were busy in Washington yesterday that General Banks would soon assume the charge of the Navy Department in place of Mr. Welles. As the official career of the latter gentleman has re- ceived a rebuke from the Senate Naval Committee in connection with the conduct of Mr.G.D. Mor, an, it is possible that a change in the Navy De- partment may be considered necessary. Mr. Banks, it must be said, has all the qualifications for the Position—of energy, vigor and integrity. Ex-Senator Fish and Bishop Ames, the Commis- sioners appointed by Mr. Stanton to visit our pri- soners-at the South, have completed their arrange- ments and have started on their mission. The kind of reception they are likely to meet may be foreshadowed by the following extract, which appears in the Norfalk Day Book of the 30th ult., which says that ‘‘the exquisite modesty of this proposition to send official inspectors of our de- fences and general condition entitles Mr. Stanton to the reputation of being the most impudent man mong all King Lincoln's proverbially impudent pubjects."’ The steamer Ericsson, on her way from Key West, arrived at Fortress Monroe on Friday evening, bringing in tow the John Trucks with the d’Epi- neuil Zouaves (Fifty-third New York) on board. She found the Trucks at sea disabled, and the men Saffering from a short allowance of biscuits and water, and, at their request, helped them along to Fortress Monroe. The report from the Burnside expedition, at Hatteras, is, that the fleet was about to start for its “destination. Most of the vessels had gone in the direction of Roanoke Island. A great panic is said to exist in Norfolk and Richmond in regard to the expedition. It was be- lieved at Richmond that the great rebel steamer, the Merrimac was a grand failure. We learn by private sources from Fortress Monroe that she sinks so deep in the water as to be almost unma- nageable. A released prisoner from the rebel pri- fons at Norfolk reports that Jeff. Davis intends to take command in person at Manassas after his inauguration to the “Presidency” on the 22d inst. The action of the important gunboat expedition on the Mississippi river is likely to be retarded for a little time for want of men for that service, Com" modore Foote finding his complement unfilled: Bat General Halleck has issued orders, in which commanders serving in the department are or Gered to take immediate measures to ascertain what men in their respective commands de- sire to be transferred to the gunboat ser- vice. He directs that care shall be taken in selecting them, and that preference shall be given to the best men fitted for such service. The men selected are ordered to report to Lieutenant Q. M, Grachett, United States Army, at St. Louis, by whom they will be enrolled and shipped. A list of the names of the men furnished from ‘each com- ‘mand, stating in each case the company and the regiment the men have been taken from, is to be went to headquarters, that orders directing the transfer of such men may be issued without delay. Our intelligence from the South continues to pos- #oss unusual interest. We have received the Richmond Dispatch and the Norfolk Day Book of the 30th ult., from which we obtain the following summary of news from the South:— The Day Book of the 30th ult. has a long edi- torial appeal in behalf of the people of Hampton. It says:—We are pained to learn that the Hampton eoldiers are still suffering for want of many essen- tial articles of comfort, and they not only suffer in body but in mind, and their families suffering pri- vations which none of them had ever seen endured by their slaves. The Day Book appeals to Vir- Ginians to come forward in this {me of need and Supply the suffering rebels with those articles they DOW 80 easentially need. ‘The same journal says:—''The military prison at Ballsbary, N.C., is pronounced by Major Gibbs to bo ready for the reeeption of seven hundred ‘Yan- fkeos' now in Richmond.” It also devotes a half a column of editorial to the subject of Beauregard’s transfer to Kentucky. It sheds crocodile tears over his departure, adverts to his Fort Sumter vic. «ia saaseiialeigeeguememmmieeniamammmadiniin — tory (?) in substantiating his claims as a hero, and]! which Morris Kapje, fireman, and Michael Led- cails the double-dyed traitor a gentleman of the highest tone of honor and the most rigid and ex- emplary virtues. What perversion of language! The Richmond Dispatch feels sensible that the federal tactics is to destroy the leading lines of rebel railroad communication. In regard to the federal naval and military ex" peditions on the coast, the Dispatch says:—We confess to have lost all apprehension of serious danger or harm from the naval expeditions of the enemy. In their history, so far, they have proved unwieldy, inefficient and frightfully costly to the federal exchequer. They have afflicted little com- parative damage upon us; andina military point of view, have turned out tobe the most wretched abortions.”’ A special despatch from Savannah to the Nor- folk Day Book, dated the 30th ult., says that on the day previous a rebel fleet went down to look after and strengthen the obstructions in the river, and that they were unmolested by the Union ves- sels. Seventeen of our ships were said tobe in Warsaw Sound on that day, and heavy firing was heard in that direction. The Savannah Republican publishes a letter from Bainbridge, dated January 27, which reportsa fight at James Island, near Apalachicola, in which sixty Union troops were | killed and thirty-five taken prisoners, and claiming @ great victory for the rebels. however, are given. From Europe we learn that the Edinburg Scotsman of the Mth of January makes a state- ment which, if true, is most important. Our con- temporary learns from ‘‘good sources’’ that the Emperor Napoleonis ‘‘pushing with much eager- ness’’ a “renewed request” that the English go- vernment should joit him in recognizing the Southern confederacy, and disregarding the blockade; that the subject is likely to be mooted in the French Chambers in such a manner “as will bring the question into at least a critical position, and in all probability give much offence to the Americans;’’ that there exists in London “an active and growing party, including many M. P.’s,"" whose aim is an immediate recog- nition of the Southern confederacy; and that the “South, acting through its London agents, is at least willing to have it understood, that, in consi- deration of immediate recognition and the disre- gard of the ‘paper blockade,’ it would engage for these three things—a treaty of free trade; the pro- hibition of all import of slaves, and the freedom of all blacks born hereafter.” US NEWS. In the Senate of our State Legislature ycm..ium, among the petitions presented was one for the passage of the Metropolitan Health bill. Favora- ble reports were made by the committees on the bills to enable wives to effect insurance on the lives of their husbands, and to amend the act con- cerning liabilities of husbands and wives. The resolutions on the national taxes adopted by the Assembly on Friday were received in the Senate, and laid on the table with the order to be printed- Notice was given of a bill to compel insurance companies to make speedy settlements with their creditors. The New York Homeopathic Medical Society bill was introduced; also a bill amending the act regulating the apportionment of money among the school district libraries. The bill relating to the agencies of foreign insurance com- panies doing business in this State was passed. The resolutions of instruction to our Senators in Con" gress to vote for the expulsion of Mr. Bright were again taken up and discussed to the hour of ad- journment, no vote being taken on them. In the Assembly, a me: was presented relative to the invention of a and submarine battery for New York Bay. Favorable reports were made on the bills amending the Central Park act; mak ing appropriations for the canals, and to amend the law relative to unauthorized banking. Bills were introduced to prohibit the fencing in of wharves in New York harbor; in relation to the health of this city; to permit loans under $250 to be negotiated at more than the present legal inte- rest; to authorize portions of the Battery to be leased for Staten Island ferry slips; to bring per sonal property into the taxation list, and to regu- late the duties of harbor masters. Notice was given that the resolutions for an amendment of the constitution so as to prohibit the sale of intoxicat- ing liquors as a beverage will be called up on Monday. The committee appointed by the State Legisla- ture to inquire into the subject of the shoddy uni- forms furnished to our volunteers by the Brooks contract held a meeting yesterday at the St. Ni- cholas Hotel. The committee, which is composed of five members, organized by choosing the Hon. E. MeMallen as Chairman. The session was exceed- ingly protracted, and members of the press strictly excluded. No report of the proceedings can there- fore be published; but itis understood some rich developements have been made. The committee is composed of the following gentlemen:—Messrs. McMullen, Hazleton, Wheeler, Wells and Provost. Over sixty witnesses have been subpeenaed, and it is probable the investigation will last for several No particulars, othe word ‘insurgents,’ as used by Earl Russely in his despatch to Lord Lyons, and applied to the rebel ambassadors, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and their secretaries, is thus defined by Webster:— “Inaurgent—A person who rises in opposition to civil or political authority; one who openly or ac- tively resists the execution of laws.”’ Precisely the same definition is given by the English lexicographers. Tire levy of fifteen thousand dollars upon the se- cessionists of Marion county, Missouri, made by Gen. Halleck, to repair the railroad bridges which were destroyed by the rebels, is now being col- lected. The levy has caused @ great number to suddenly change from Jeff. Davisites to Abe Lincolnites. Eleven hundred and twelve soldiers were in the hospitals of Washington, Alexandria and George- town on the 24th of January. There are nowin Camp Dennison, Ohio, 3,333 infantry, 3,145 cavalry and 891 artillery soldiers: making @ total of 7,369. ‘The Twelfth and Sixteenth Indiana regiments of infantry, whose terms of enlistment will expire in May, have obtained permission to reorganize for the war. Robert Hull, an old dry goods merchant of Balti- more, was arrested on the 30th ult., ona charge of treason, and conveyed to Fort McHenry. Strennous efforts are being made in the Ohio Le- Gislature to defeat the re-election of United States Senator Wade. The bill revoking the lottery grant in Delaware Passed the Senate on Tuesday, having previously passed the House. The State is now free from lot- teries and policy shops. A new political party is in course of formation in New Hampshire. It is to be composed of the conservative elements of both the old democratic and republican organizations, or rather of the honest supporters of the administration of Mr. Lincoln. A State Convention has been called to meet in Concord on the 6th of February, to organ- ize the party and nominate candidates for Gover- nor and Railroad Commissioners, A collision occurred between two freight trains on the Little Miami Bailroed on the 29th ult., by lock, brakeman, were ‘ustantly killed, and Reuben Watts, engineer, wos fatdUy injured. The river was clear of ice at St. Louis on the 29th ult. Some of the steamboats were slightly damaged wheu it moved off. From Liberia we have news dated at Monrovia on the 26th of November. A very large meeting of citizens had approved, by resolutions, of the treatment given to the Congo Africans, of the ship Nightingale, by President Benson, which had been censured in a communication to the Haraup. The writer, however, still maintains his position, and hints that his Excellency did not actas a “man and a brother’ towards these negroes. Spain had abated her war demonstrations against the republic, England having promised material aid to the colored citizens against her Bourbon ally in Mexico. Liberia had prepared many articles to be forwarded to the international exhibition in London. Mrs. Peter Downing, an aristocratic lady of color, lately married in New York, had just died in Monrovia. It seems to be the fate of New York to be visited with bad weather, in one shape or another, during this entire winter. No sooner has one storm blown well over than a fresh one sets in, and rain, hail or snow comes down with a vengeance. Mud and slush have held sway for three weeks, and the prospect is that their reign will not cease very speedily. Yesterday a heavy fall of snow com- menced early in the morning and continued till a late hour in the afternoon, when it ceased. It is the intention of the Central Park authorities, if possible, to have the snow cleared from a por- tion of the ice so as to allow skating to-day. The ice was in good condition previous to the fall of snow, and, if the latter has been removed, our skating friends may be able to spend an hour or two agreeably and h shily. Walton’s prize skates—for the ladies’ skating match to come off during the present week—are now on exhibition at Ball, Black & Co.'s, and are considered by many aaa handsome piece of workmanship. Yesterday being the last day of the present term of the General Sessions, the prisoners who had been remanded during the month were brought up for sentence. Patrick Crimmage, who was con- victed of assaulting an officer, was sent to the penitentiary for six months. Charles Schultz, found guilty of an aggravated assault and battery upon Mary Wentworth, was sent to the City Prison for thirty days, and ordered to pay a fine of $260, Peter Reynolds, who pleaded guilty to grand lar- ceny, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the State Prison. Samuel H. Merritt, convicted of shooting Swain, the secessionist, was placed at the bar for sentence; but, on motion of Mr. Holmes, he was remanded till next Saturday, in order that steps may be taken to secure a pardon from the Governor. A large number of cases have been disposed of this term, notwithstanding the fact that the Distriet Attorney’s subordinates have not yet become very familiar with their respecti duties. It should be stated that, in order to fi tate the public business, Judge McCunn- has pre- sided at three terms of the court without inter- mission. The February term will commence on Monday, Recorder Hoffman presiding. ‘The cotton market continued to be somewhat irregular and unsettled yesterday. The sales embraced about 500 bales, in lots, to spinners; chiefly reimported—pretty much the only kind pressing upon the market—on the basis of $2c., with some lots reported at 81340. for mid- dling uplands. Flour was quite firm, though less active, the chief demand coming from the domostic trade. Wheat was higher and active, with sales at an advance of 1c. a 2c. per bushel, and for some grades 3c. a 4c. ad- vance was claimed. Corn was quite firm, with sales toa fair extent at 64}{c. a 65c. for Western mixed, in store and delivered. Pork was unchanged and active, with sales, for spring delivery, at $13 for new mess, and at $12 8734 a $12 93 for do. on the spot, and at $9 50 for new Prime. Sugars were. steady, with sales of 218 bhds. and 1,140 boxes. Coffee was quiet and firm. Freights were steady, with more offering for English perts and rather more doing. Our Danger of European futervention— What is to be 1. vm In the midet of our congrai..lations upon Earl Russell's assurances of the complete re-estab- lishment of our amicable relations with Eng- land, we are menaced with the early interven- tion of the Western Powers of Europe upon a much broader ground of action than the ques- tion of neutral rights involved in the Trent affair. In this change of the drama, too, Lords Palmerstom and Russell recede into the rear, and Louis Napoleon, that able and ambitious arbiter of European affairs, fills the foreground of the picture. He is understood to be anxiously urging England to join in the recognition of our re- bellious Confederate States as an independent nation. His designs are, doubtless, first to get the navy of England entangled in a war with the United States, and then to proceed to a re- construction of the map of Europe with the armies of France. His temptations are great, and great are the temptations offered to Eng- land. Her objects and her interests, her tra- ditions and her policy, all combine to lead her inthe same direction. Her extensive cotton manufactories are languishing for the want of the raw material. She has only to break our Southern blockade, and three or four millions of bales are at ber disposal, at cheap rates and in exchange for British goods. She has long been hankering for free trade with our Southern States, and free trade is offered her by Jeff. Davis with the recognition of his confederacy: Above all, for half a century the acts and the agitations of the slavery question by the British government and its emissaries have been di- rected to the disruption of this country, in order to destroy it as a dangerous commercia! rival, and in order to destroy the moral power of our popular institutions, which, for half a century, have been undermining the weak foun- dations of England’s feudal aristocracy. Such, then, are the temptations which invite the two great Western Powers of Europe to the recognition of our so-called Confederate States, and to armed intervention in support of Jeff. Davis, Napoleon the Third, with England out of the way, dreams of the re-establishment of the French empire of Napoleon the First, and England, with our country broken up, antici- pates the control of North America, and the absolute and undisputed dominion of the seas. Ip the presence of such great inducements, all questions of law, right, justice, consistency, good faith and magnanimity sink into the shade. Weare, therefore, in imminent danger of the armed intervention of England and France in behalf of Jeff. Davis, and upon the ridionlous and insulting pretext of intervention for the common rights of mankind. Whatis to be done? What are we called upon to do? We are simply called upon to pre pare for the additional warlike work of defend- ing our Northern seaboard and frontiers against the poseible trials of a war with England and France. The powerful combined squadron of England, France and Spain, sent over the At. lantic, professedly to operate against Mexico, is really the offepring of @ much grander de- sign. Armies, and not fleets, are required to conquer Mexico. This vast combined European squadron is intended to meet the expected con- tingencies of a war with the United States; and the presence of ‘this squadron in the Gulf of Mexico warns us of “the happy accord” exist- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1862. the eontinuance of “ugiand’s warlike prepara- tions in Canada admon shes us to beware of her Present professions of peacé: The administration and the Congress of the United States are called upon to fortify our Northern seaboard and frontier line with such defences and artillery as will ena ble us to repel any European fleet, though armed with artillery of no lighter calibre than one hundred-pounder Arm- strong guns. Our government is required to strengthen our navy bya liberal addition of powerful steam gunboats, iron-clad, or of su- perior swiftness, and carrying one or two rifled guns, equal at least to the hundred-pounder Armatrongs of the English navy. At the same time, the war system of measures of finance, currency, revenue, taxation and bankruptcy, broached in Congress, should be pushed for- ward to their completion, and upon a scale of six or seven hundred millions of expenditures per annum. Meantime, the President and his Cabinet, with Gen. McClellan and the active officers controll- ing our army and navy, in every department, should proceed with redoubled energy in the work of putting down this rebellion. One great and decisive victory will doa world of good in our behalf on the other side of the Atlantic; but another great reverse may settle the question of European inter- vention. We have the men and the means for a succession of great victories; and as we are confident that General McClellan has provided egainst all dangers of disaster, we believe that we shall only have to wait for a few days of ary weather in order to hear of a succession of crushing blows against the strongholds of the enemy. One thing more. The administration and the army, with some exceptions, are working together harmoniously; but the abolition agita- tors and Marplots, in and out of Congress, are embarrassing the whole programme designed and required to save the government from sbip- wreck, military and financial. Menaced by the Western Powers of Europe, the government can with safety no longer trifle with these abolition disorganizers. We want perfect union and co-operation between the government and the people of our loyal States to carry us through this crisis, and nothing would contribute so much to this perfect union as the seizure and imprisonment of half a dozen of such abolition malcontents as Beecher, Cheever, Garrison, Goodell, and that “ horrible monsier, Greeley.” We call upon Congress to provide at once for the defences and financial demands of the crisis, and upon our honest and patriotic President to silence these abolition disturbers of the harmony and energy of the government, the army and the country. The dangers before us can only be averted by the cordial co-opera” tion, all together, of our Cabinet, our Congress, our army and navy, and all classes of the peo- ple of our loyal States. ‘whe Southern Rebellion and the Crimean War—English and American Blunders Comparcd. ‘The English journals have frequently taunted us with the slow progress we have made and are still making in the suppression of the Southern rebellion; and recently they are proceeding to the length of recommending not only a recog- nition of the independence of the South, but an armed intervention to put a stop to the war. According to their particular notions the United States government should raise and equip an army anda navy in a fort- night, and in a month or two after extinguish every trace of revolution. But these censors of the British aristocratic pross seem to have forgotten their own slow and completely barren Crimean campaign, pane possessed of an immense navy and a large stand- ing army of veterans. Such incapacity and mismanagement as the British government ex- hibited during this fatal campaign stand unpar- alleled in the history of war. Through sheer neglect and blundering, over 20,000 British sol- diers perished from cold and hunger, without firing a shot or meeting a foe. Their commissa- riat was the worst ever known in any military service at any time. Their generals, with breasts covered with ribbons and decorations, were of no more use in the direction of an army than so many shoemakers. And yet, with all these facts imprinted on the page of history, we have the arrogant press of England presuming to lecture us on the want of system and rapidity in the movements of our army. In order to remind our readers of the slug. gish and incompetent manner in which the British conducted their share of a war which called for Herculean exertions, we elsewhere publish a concise review of the operations of the campaign from animpartial source. Every one who reads it will see that our campaign against the Southern rebels has thus far been conducted with more skill, energy and success then the whole war of England against Russia, We had to create, arm and equip our army. England had hers ready at hand. We had to build and urm a navy. England had at her~ command the most powerful fleet that ever floated on the sea. And yet, with all these advantages, the course of the British arms was marked by disasters and reverses at every step, and her proud fleet could do nothing more than block- ade a few insignificant Russian ports, and bom- bard some half dozen villages and minor for- tifications. War was declared against Russia by the Ot- toman government on the 5th of October, 1853, and on the 18th of the same month British and French vessels-of-war entered the Dardanelles. The Western Powers of Europe had, however, not yet declared war against Russia. It was not until the month of February, 1854, that di- plomatic relations were broken off between Russia and France and England. In March of the same year actual hostilities began by the advance of English and French forces to the aid of the Turkish Power. The troops which left England with the de- sign of annihilating Russia, without the slightest delay, soon found their task more difficult one than they had been led to suppose. In facts they were powerless to make any successful de, monstrations against the Cossack. The Turks, whom they came to proteot, were manfully de- fending their own rights, and driving the Rus- sians from place to place. But where were the British fleet and army? The one blockading distant points, and firing at small villages; the other awaiting the orders of their French com- mander before daring to advance, It was noy until the month of June—five months after their arrival in the Crimea—that, with the aid of the Freacb, an attack was made apon the Russian fortress of Bomarsund. Tho time actually consy,med by the Allies in ing between the three nations congerned; pod | thelr war preparatigns excegds bulief. They did ee not fight a regular battle until fully nine, oaths | the powder manufacturing Dupont supplies after the arrival of their forces in the Kast. Tbeir genuine article, the powder consuming Du" first land engagement was on the 20th of powt knows how to make it tell against the September, whca sixty-two thousand Allies— French, English and Turks—engaged fifty thousand Russians at the battle of the Alma. Victory sat upon the allied banners, but the French eagle soared highest in the fight, and carried off the greatest honors of the day. The whole of the rest of the campaign against Russia was disastrous and fatal to the British arms, with perhaps the sole exception of the battle of Inkerman. On their first attack on the Great Redan they were fiercely driven back by the Russians and slaughtered unmer. cifully. Their second attack, after a three days’ bombardment, was even a worse disaster than the first, for in their retreat the flying English columns could see the victorious ban- ners of France floating over the grim defences of the Malakoff tower, Owing to this success of the French, Sebas- topol was rendered untenable, unless at a enicer loss of life than the Russians could afford at such a distance from reinforcements, and on the 9th of September, 1855, they quietly retired to the north part of the city, after having burned and blown up the south side and sunk their ships. This was nearly a year and eight months after England declared hostilities against Russia; so that, with the assistance of France, Sardinia and Turkey, she was occupied all that time in-trying to take a fortress which was not taken at all, but could have held out much longer if policy permitted; and the peace was not concluded until the 30th of March 1856—two years and two months after she en- tered upon the strife. She accomplished nothing by the war but the evacuation by the Russians of one fortress on their frontier, and was ut- terly unable to penetrate into their country. The facts we have briefly referred to are vouch- ed for by cotemporary history. We commend them to the British press, and suggest that they be read and reflected on before any more un- just comments be made on our gencrals and our campaign. A year has not yet passed since our war began, and yet we have done more than England in nearly the whole Crimean war, Certainly we have passed through no such bloody aud reckless disasters as those which attended her arma. Let her but wait a short time longer, and we will show her how a great war should be conducted. She waited for six years in the case of Greece and Turkey before she deemed intervention proper ; but now she is impatient to interfere in our war before the lapse of @ single year. The motive is clear— she wants to see two governments established instead of one. Activiry Iv THE War and Navy Depart- MENTS.—Under the new Secretary of War the work of preparing for active operations against the rebels is progressing finely. In every branoh of the department, and in every corps of the army, a new spirit of activity prevails. The Navy Department, too, has caught the con- tagion, notwithstanding the cloud cast over the venerable Secretary by the Morgan jobs, and by various swindling operations in the articles of ships, and boats, and water casks, &c., of the Burnside expedition. In spite of all these drawbacks, General Burnside has pushed his way into Pamlico Sound, and he will soon make its usually silent and melancholy shores ring with the music of Union thunder. In Missouri, General Halleck is moving onward for a final settlement with Price. The floating ice of the Mississippi, the great flood in the Obio, and the impassable condition of the muddy roads of Western Ken- tucky, have delayed the combined movement by land and water upon the rebels at Columbus; but when it is made it will only be the more de- cisive from the more perfect arming and or- ganization of our land and river forces. In Southeastern Kentucky, meantime, General Schoepff has followed up the late Somerset victory of his superior officer, General Thomas, ina masterly enterprise. Realizing the import- ance of an immediate advance southward to the strong position of Monticello, and finding the ordinary roads absolutely impassable, the indefatigable corps under General Schoepff went to work, and, cutting down trees and cut- ting them up into proper lengths, bridged a con” siderable portion of the muddy route of twenty miles to Monticello, and then moved forward and occupied the place. With men of this stamp there is no such word as fail. But, again. We are confident that we have not yet heard one-half the good news, of the late advance of our gunboats to a position between the United States fort Pulaski, occupied by rebels, and the city of Savannah; for we have every reason to be- lieve that this movement will shortly give us both the fort and the city. In a word, consider- ing this season’s unexampled embargo of mud against all land operations in the South, we are content to know that our land forces in every quarter are busy with their preparations for an advance with the first freeze, and that our water forces, from Hampton Roads to Louisiana, are keeping the whole rebellious South ina con. stant state of alarm, with their steady advanceg upon the strongholds of King Cotton. Trox-Crap Sures—Tue Bint Berore THe Sevate.—In Congress, the House bill providing for the building of twenty-one iron-clad war vessels has not been heard of for some time. When last before the Senate, on motion of Mr. Hale, an amendment was adopted providing that the President, and not the Secretary of the Navy, shall superintend the construction of said ships. This was intended as a notification to the President that, since the disclosures of those Morgan jobs in the purchase of vessels for the navy, the Senate has no confidence in the head of the department. Upon this difficulty, we presume, tho bill hangs fire. Let the matter be settled one way or the other, but let us have the ships. The warnings of England and France domand the instant attention of Congress to the important work of strengthening our navy, and no secondary questions, such as this be- tweon the Senate and Secretary Wolles, should be permitted to stand in the way. The most imperative duty of Congross now, Mr. Hale, next to a comprehensive financial system, is to provide usa powerful navy, with all the modern improvements. Tar Revert Carraw Summers, or tae Suntan.— In hia late impudent letter to the London Times, the rebel Captain Semmes, of the rebel priva- teer Sumter, indulges in a fling at his former, associate in the United States Navy, the loy a) Commodore Dupont. Semmes broadly ine \mua- ates that Duponé, in the burning of i'nited states gunpowder, raakes a good thing of it, i'zasmuch as another Of the Duponts seis it to t'4e govern- ment. Semmes, bowever, should ‘save told the whoo story, in the acknow|o“igyaent that, while r@bels, and that our government could not afford to exchange these Duponts for all our navy traitors anc All their stolen craft in the rebel service. Crry ‘Cans anp Omntnis#8.—The discomforts of an omaibus ride are matters of daily expe- rience to most of us, and we seom to have borne with the stage nuisance so long that we lave at length bowed our heads to the yoke, and are too hopeless of improvement to think worth our while to complain. But we ought to per- sist in our complaints till we have the present system of making the public act as conductors changed, awd more suitable and comfortable vehicles introduced. The trouble of passing the money to ¢he driver through the aperture near the roof is annoying, and especially when a gentleman ‘Aas to pass the fares and dis- tribute the change of several or all of the other passengers. Let this system of passing fares for other passengers be discountenanced by every omnibus rider, and the straggling up towards the holg at the top would lead to such diurnal indignation that very soon there would be an outcry against the omnibus pro- prictors, who would be conspelled, and very justly, to supply each of their high, lumbering vehicles with a conductor. Improvement in the build of these conveyances wou'd follow, and. we feel assured that any enterprising persom who might introduce omnibuses eufficiently low to be easy of ingress and egress, and pro~ vided with body conductors, would make a for- tune. Such of these as might run along the ave- nues where there are railroad tracks might be made to correspond in breadth with the rails; and there is no enactment to prevent the latter being used, provided the omni- buses turned off whenever a car re- quired to pass. From the disgraceful manner in which the cars are kept and run, all cleanly and respectable people would give the preference to the omnibuses. There is no rea- son why these should not ran on Sundays, as in other countries, and the Legislature would do well to repeal the law against stage travelling on the Sabbath. Another great nuisance is that relating to carriages. At present we have no choice be- tween a four-whecled nondescript, looking like a funeral coach, and drawn by two horses, and anomnibus. We have, moreover, to pay ex- orbitant rates of fare, to submit to being car- ried along at a mournful pace, and to contead with an impertinent impostor, yclept the driver, It is a reproach to the city that it is not better provided with the means of street travelling. We need Hansom cabs, elegant two- wheeled contrivances, drawn by one horse, and driven by a man who sits above and behind the vehicle, and who would, therefore, have no op- portunity of filling the cab with tobacco smoke or dusting his coat in your face. It isto be hoped that we shall not have to wait long before some energetic, enterprising capitalist will give usthe boon of comfortable city travelling by the introduction of proper cabs and omnibuses. Till we get them, however, let us protest against the nuisances that exist. Senator Bricut.—The case of Senator Bright has been pretty thoroughly discussed. His chances of escaping an ignominious expulsion. bave diminished as the debate has progressed, until at length, it is said, he will surely be thrown overboard. Very well. Let the vote be taken, and let the Senate proceed to more important business. Religious Inte! CITY CHURCHES Rev. C. C. Goss, of the Christian Alliance, will proach in the lecture room of the Museum this evening, at a quarter before eight o'clock. Subject—‘The True Hero.” In the State street Congregational church, State street, near Hoyt, Brooklyn, preaching to-day by the pastor, Rev. Newton Heston, at half-past ten in the morning, and half-past seven in the evening. In the Second Universalist church, Eleventh street and Second avenue, the Rev. G. T. Flanders will deliver @ fermon this evening on the new birth—-‘‘ Except a mam bo born again ho cannot see the kingdom of God.” New views of the subject presented. Morning serviceate quarter to eleven o'clock. Miss Emma Hardinge will lecture in Clinton Hall (Asto™ place), at balf-past one o’clock in the morning, and half- past seven o’clock in the evening. Subject—Morning, « The Spirit World.”” Evening, “ Insptration.’* Mrs. E. J. French will lecture in Clinton Hall, Astor Place, at three o'clock im the afternoon. Subject to be chosen by the audience. Services will be held in Trenor Hall, No. 65 West Thirty. fourth street, near Broadway, at half-past ten @'clock im the morning, and half-past seven o'clock in the evening, ‘The Rev. E. C. Flagg will preach morning and evening. in the New Broadway Presbyterian Chapel, between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth streets, Rev. L. H. Van Dorem minister, at half-past ten in the morning, “ The Event, which must Precede the Millenium.” At three o'clock in the afternoon, ‘‘Elisha and the Great Woman of Shunem.’” At seven o’clock in the evening, Rev. N. L. Rice, D. D. In the Momorial church, Hammend street, corner of Waverley piace, the Rev. Sylvanus H. Reed, rector of St. George’s chapel, will preach this evening. Sorvices. at half-past ten, balf-past three and balf-past seven o'clock. jam in the Camp Worse than Rum in Now York?’ This will be discussed, with reference to the pending anti-liquor amendment of the constitution, this afternoon, at the Twentieth street Universaliet church between Sixth and Seventh avenues, by Rev. E. G. Brooks. Services at three o’ciock. Sermon in the morning at half-past ten o'clock. Mrs. Cora L. V. Hatch will hold @ matinee converse tionale at Dodworth’s Hall, No. 806 Broadway, at haif- past ten o'clock this morning, on the subject of Spiritual” ism, in which she will reply to and expound questions: from the audience. At half-past seven o'clock in the ‘evening she will discourse on the: ‘Crisis, or Dead-lock of the Republic analytically.’’ At the Laight street chureb, St. John’s park, Rev. 1. S Kalloch will preach this morning upon ‘Mordecai and: Haman,” and in the evening upon ‘The Great Salvation.’* In the Christian chapel, Seventeenth street, near Sixth avenue, services at half-pact ten in the morning and at. half-past seven in the evening. Urban C. Brewer, the- pastor, will preach inthe evenisg. Subjsot—''The Cam+ paign against Amalek, or the Neoersity of Obedience.” [At the Bleocker street Universalist church, Rev. Moses Ballou will repeat this evening his discourse on Matthew, 24th and 26th chapters, illustrating the paratle of the “Sheep and Goats” Services also at. half pasa ten in the morning. “Dostruction of Popery, about 1286-08, at the Advent of Christ,’ sill be lectured upon by the Rev. M. Baxter, at th ‘opal church of the Hely Martyrs, Ne 39 For- syth stree’s, this evening at half-past sew clock. Rev. Dé. Chapin will commence thia (Sunday) evening series of discourses om ‘The Times and the People.’ Subject/of the first discourse—‘The Age of Iron.’ InSA. Ann’s church, Rov. Thos. Gallaudet rector, ser. vice 440 morrow as usual, with the voice, at half-past ton A. MM. and balf-past sevon P. M., and in the sign language atyibree P.M. Tho rector will preach in the mérning, and the Rev, F.C, Ewor in the evening. Soats free. «The Glorification of the Lord's Humanity, the Proto. type of Man's Regeneration,” by the Rov. Abiel Silver, at the New Jerusalem House of Worship in Thirty fifth street, between Fourth and Lexingion avenues, this ‘evening at half-past seven o'clock. Seats free. In the Consistory recently held in Rome, his Holiness made known the choice made by the Sacred Congroyation of Propagenda of tho following Bishop:—For the episeo. pal church of Pompeiopolia, in partibus inpdctoum, the Rev, Sylvester H. Rosoc ‘ontjutor of ee Arohbishop of Ciuciunati, North Am