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2 battle enly about twenty-six thouwand men, if 99 many, nd thee weary and dishearizned ty. the tian ness of their regimental and company re: Bot asm the 6th, the Southern soldier showed invincible dash and Spirit, go on the Tih he showed uncogquerad'e pluck and endurance, All day long the exemy hurled his wassive columns against our sleader and exiausted forces, to be hurled back iu rout and blood tn every case. Tuus the Southern soldier showed he coald d better than charge bo could staud the charge. The result of the second day's fight is more satisfactory in assuring the prestige of the ‘Southern soldier than that of the first. We havo the as- Surance that in ing like an equal fight, out of reach of the gunboats, Southern soldier ) whip their en- emios,be they picked Western men, or be they what they may. THE UNION FORCES ADVANCING. (From the Norfolk as | Book, May .) Savanwaut, May 1, 1862. ‘Tho Savannah Republican's Corinth correspondent of the 30th ult., says that heavy skirmishing is going on Detween the outposts. The enemy is slowly ad- ‘vancing. LATER FROM COBENTH, [From the Norfolk Day Book, May Savannah, May 1, 1362. A dispatch from the Corinth correspondent of the Re- » dated 29th, Gays that the enemy have been re- advancing. There is heavy skirmish- ing daily. Quite an aia occurred to-day this side of Mouterey. . Rebel Accounts from General Mitchel’s Department. {From the Norfolk Day Book, May 3. Avausra, Ga, May 1, 1862. ‘Tho Chattanooga correspondent of the Chronicle and Sentinel writos, on the 30th, that the federals attacked the Confederates at Bridgeport on the 29th, the latter falling back on Geu. Reynolds reports that the exemy are crossing tho island, and while he was leaving the place the cars ran o ‘wounding several; two, probabd! Ported at Atlanta that part of Mitchel’s forces were ad wancing from Gunter's landing on Rome. TUSCUMBLA AND DROATUR RE°ORTED TAKEN BY THE CONFSDERATES. [From the Norfolk Day Book, May 3.1 Rrcumonp, May 2, 1862. An official from Corinth of the 1st says that “'idlicbol na mot moore that 00 tre troops all told. at and jiche| $8 NOL more t! 5, all at around Hintsville. The enemy are moving on our front,and we are preparing to meet him. Monte, May 1, 1862. A special despatch to the Mobile Advertiser, from Corinth 26th uit., says that Colouel Scott's Louisiana eavalry, consist ng of two compaiias, had driven out a regiment of federals froin Tuscumbia, killed several, and took forty prisoners. The enemy burnt the stores, and were pursued by the Cor rates. Result unknown, Mii ippi Will the Rebelifon. (From the Vicksourg Wig, April 28.) Tf we lose the Misstesipp?, wm love Lonisiona, Artan‘as and Texas, We loso al! to ar,aud much of the stock and grain growing lands « Confederacy. They will ‘be cut of and of no bereiit to ns.» The East will be severed from the West. A compete possession of all the territory west of the Mississij)p is a physical and moral essential to our cause. The branches of a mutual com- merce, of idea, sentiment, trade and Diood are warped together more clo the knarled boughs of those kindred forests which stitch a twining brotherhood along eur border line. Wermust not allow apathy and over confidenes to cut them off frem us. They must remain with us. Our aent life and fulure carer ave staked upon the issue If we lose them now it will take years of fighting to regain them. Everything then would bs at the mercy of the enemy, and ali our “pleasant places"? would be filled with vandals, while misery and ruin would mark their every step. We hope our authorities will look to this matter at once, and place the Mississippi river ia a pro- per state of defence. Let every available point be forti fied, and with brave and invincible hearts and strong and powerful arms we em hold our own, thongh the world should be arrayed ayainst us. Affairs on the Peninsula. THE TAKING OF A REBEL BATTERY ON THE 267H STANT. * (From the Petersburg Express, May 2.] Gen. McClellan, who, at the head of 100,060 men, the very pick and choice of the great Yankee army, bas been digicing about the Peninsula for several weeks, without atriking a blow, communicates ‘the above affair to his War Dopartmeut in the following grandiloquent (a la Laurel Hill) style. {The commuvication from General McClellan has al- d @ is some truth in the young Napoléon’s bulletin, so far as tt goes. But he has faile? to finish the statement, and we will do it for him. The advanced ‘ lanette’’ of the rebels, on the cast side of Warwick river is a mere ritie pit—uothing more. Tt was occupied by @ picket guard pumbering fourteen men. These men, we regret to hear, on this particular occasion, were more devoted to Somnus than to Mars, and while in a state of somnciency were surprised by the cnemy and taken prisoners. Our reserves hearing the firing, immediately rushed to the scene, and dis- covered the evemy in the work, with their spades, busily removing the earth work which had been hastily thrown up. They were charged upou, and driven aff, leaving fourteen guns, knapsacks, Laversacks, &c., which came into our possession. We pow hold the position, and the gallant First MI .ssachusetts dare not approach, #0 long as Our men keep awake. Should they fall asleep, our cowardly oponents may again stealibily approach and surprise its occupants. Surely General Mc! lellan ts sadly in want of encour. agement when be resorts to such inconsiderable affairs as the foregoing to bolater up am inability of generaiship, which s0 far has been pesitively disgraceful. This despatch wil! go fortu te all Yankeedom as a great achievement. A “lunette,” military men inform us, is a moon-shaped fort, an@ the use of the word implies some- thing more than arifie pit. But the manner in which it has been peralded by General McClellan would create the impression with the uninitiated, that it was scarcely in- ferior in importance to Pulaeki or Fortress Monroe. Ben- nett’s Haat will go out in the next steamer, with this re ‘cent achievement @f MeCielian’s grand army, paraded in glaring capitals, accompanied by the suggestion, that is pro- bably puts an end to the rebellion. And thus it is, that the Yankees doa business of most jiaposing maguitude on the smallest imaginary capital. WATER APPROACHES TO RICHMOND TO BR CLOSED. [From the Petersburg Express, May 2.} The regular monthly mvotiug of use Conimon Council was heid yesterday aiternoop. The important subject of obstructing the water approschee to this city and Richmond was introduced aad cqpsidered, and the Council appointed & committee ree, consisting of Messrs. Lemuel Peebles, D'Arcy Paul and iT. W. siggins, to confer with Use proper authorities relative t the pro: of eo obstructing the Appomatcox and James as to prevent the approach of the enemy's gun. boats. This is @ step in the right direction, and one that deserves the earliest attention of both the govern- mont and the committee. PETERSBURG IN DANGER—REBEL OUNBOATS WANTED. » (From the Petersburg xpress, May Wo baveacity of neariy 20,000 inhabitants, situated on a wator course easily ascended by the light draught jun boats of tive euem, : TY important, much that tf Pittsburg should be captured by any possibility, Richmond would certainly fall. Then we would be no iuconsiderable prize to the enemy efther. Our immense storehouses and (beir contents would vtlor some inducements ty the Yankees to pay us a fying visit, to saywothing of the great advantages they would gain and the tremendous injuries they would indict by getting possession of our railroads. We believe a sufficient sum gould be raised bere and ia the Southeside counties to Duild a very formidable gunboat. Who will breach the matier, aud who will make the first (eposits! How Secessionists Gen. Dix's Depart- ment Correspond With the Rebei: (From the Richwond xaminer, May 2.) ‘Will you oblige the numerous residents of tue eastern shore of Virginia, aow exiles from their home, by per. mitting me . worm you throngh your colamns that s heavy pac age of letters from (he easiern sure of Vir- has beon received by me at the War Department, and has been left ia the bands of Dr. Geo. T. Soarburgh, Belvin’s Building, on Tweilch street, who has kindly con: wented to take of thelr delivery and distribution. This package ‘hasted sahore nenr (hemsouth of tee Rappa- Bannock river, where it was picked up and delivered om the 20th of april, to Lieut. Wm. A. Oliver, com- @anding the guard near ida, "Middlesex gounty, by w it wee immediately forwarded in charge of « soldier, private Wm. A. Muse, to the Sec- retary of War. Lbad the good fort to be present whon the packnge was finy ae evening, and immediately recognized the ts. am happy to gay that the letters, though thoroughly soaked, are in a state of preservation, and now almost dry. Dr. ‘burgh requosis me W say thatle will be happy to distribute such as may de called for at his office, where the letters will be reteiued for s few ‘until and the waves, to one of which, wo fear « carrier has fallen @ victim. Our thanks are also duc Lieutenant Oliver and [ tymy Muse, a8 well as to the Gnder of the package, for ite delivery. ° “ FEOWAnD 3. OYNrs, ‘Wan Deramtusyt, May 1, 1562 Another Rebel Canard. (From the Norfolk Day Book, May 3.) ‘THE SNEMY WHIPPED AT CUMBERLAND Gar. A special despatch to th Pet megemsrin onset 9 Petersburg Bnpress, Knoxville 2d, eays the enemy attacked Cumberland Gap in large forces on Tuesday about noon, They were gab lantly repulsed three times. The last attack ey charged up to the )reaskworks. The “enemy's loss 190 Killed and 400 wousled, our loss seventeen killed and thirty wounded. The last repulse was effectual, when the Yankees skeodad/od. ENGAGEMENT AT QUMBERLAND GAP—THE ENEMY RE- PULSED. (From the Peteseburg Express, May 2.] RucuMoxn, May 1, 1862. A telegram from Knoxville siates that an engagement eeourred «| Cumberland cs pd Monday leat, April 28 The cnemy was repulsed with gonsiderabie joss. ( federate joss tr’ The federalists have been rein. forced by eight regiinents, and have completed » Donting bridge across Cumberland river, General Morgan is com- mahding. It i believed that they will attempt to make aflank movement, for which our forces are prepared. ‘There is no other uews bere The Department of North Caroli ‘TI REBELS VAN'T UNDERSTAND BURNSIDE’s MOVE- MENTS, [From the Norfoik Day Book, May 3.) Through a oorrespondent of the Wilmington Journal ‘we aro informed that Burnside hag called in bis pickets, Joaded all his transports, and od his gunboats in order What the invader of North ‘olifia means by this. qusther looking to future operations at Wilmington, Nor eee eS as the back of Dechoo river, where they would be | woul obliged to pass, and preparod for action, About | The Oficial Gazette of Turin publishes a royal decree pas lh a Poggi Seas epee by which Lieutenants Generals Sirtori, Medici, Bixio. yards, singing mer: near White Point, twenty-two miles from Charicston. The French Minister those best qualified to know, whal Confederate States pendence. transpired, but wo are informed that he appeared to be Accounts from Lower Burgundy of the offects of the highly satisied with all he saw and heard. Grande, that the federals have withdrawn all thoir yos- sels from that region, owing to the threatening proximi- | what took place on tho following day. On (he night of ty of foreign vessels. tho 13th the thormometer fell to five dogrees below zoro, 8. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, arrived ‘bere yes- terday in the train frome Petersburg. They are pad ‘of | On the othor side of the account:— the Atlantic. Government securii the Navy Yard, the Virginia and other points of interest. | Notes vnemployed. They expressed themselves, we learn, highly pleased ‘The amount of notes incirc :!-tion is £21,420,975, being with what they saw. in Richmond have beon in particular high gise, within the past f¢ diately sent bome on parole. They, or of them, have enjoyed ihe pleasing advantage of a tesi- | England Baeked Out of the Mexican Coalition—The Fron” dence in Richmond for many months, and when the; Lele , ts og get back heme will dowbtless spin ou many’ a diretal | Clad Fever—The Religious World in a Stote of Ezcite yarn of their sufferings, which, in the monotony of their ment—The Southerners in Paris, and What They Soy— brigoa ease and relaxation, their imaginations must have | stidett_ and Tucker—Theatrical Demonstrationt—Th conjured up for the oceasion. y will be sent down “ i 1 sant the river, we understand, by way of Yorktown, where | ‘Students and the Government—Senience of a Metlicay they will'be handed over to their o: McClellan. Since I last wrote you England seems to have backed able officers. It is beyond question that the Yan! bi whose especial bus the battle of Shilob an unusual numb; were wounded. In some of the Alabama regimonis very field officer was wounded. Is there no way to to this mode of warfare? If the Yankeos aro allowed to | new elass of ships. fight us with breastplates, should they ber Prisoners of war when caught? We say not. W taken <a steel fe bung to tree. why may not our army or- | world, into &@ considerable state of excitement, eanize a corps of sharpshooters also, to pick off tl) ¢ eyed ral generals. It is a game two can play at losses, but wo are by no means preparod to recar as irreparabie. atin besbels.s NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1862—TRIPLE.. SHEET... folk or tho Seaboard Railroad—we leave the roador to | quire the adoption of mew contracts and thr opening of Ju dge, uew ways of Communication with the feld of supply. HOW TH BEBELS VIPW wR. STANDFY’s APPOINT- But with organization- wo fec] coudident that no di en. ey of provisions need be apprehended, nor need (From the Wilmington Journal. there be any abaten of the vigor with which the war Wo understand that General “wrnside annovnced some | Our part will be be: oufter prosecu ed. time since at Elizabeth City, tha he was acting military | | Iadeed, it has been ratuer the vast abundance than the governor of North Carolina unt’ the arrival of Hon. Rd- | Statcity of provisipus that has postponed the pecessary Ward Stanley, who would act »s provisional governor of | 2Feaieabioa of supply still accessible to us. North Carolina under appointment of President Lincoln. | "4: He 3 is another of the devel ponte of the war, % ——— = e knew that Mr, Stanley wed the use canclidate by the black republicans of Cali- ADDITIONAL FROM EUROPE. did not think this of bun, But he would A Mysterious Hint. British Anticipation of the Fall of {From the Norfolk Day Book, May 3.] We anticipate, says the Suflolk Sun, much excitement New Orleans. about Suffolk during the woxt week. eee Rebel Accounts from the Coast Depart- A REBEL barreny DESTROYED. F my “ (From the Savannah Republican, May 1.] Ranneerueee A report wee braugye to Sara oe: Foeadar ovanin passouger: 1@ Charleston road, u 2. Boate land shotlod out tho garrison from a battery ofiwo | Fifty Thousand Tradesmen Pauperized and a guns, @ few miles above Pocatali General Evans, (6 tras Zaid, Bad sent roiaforeomanta to look after the mat “Fearful Mass of Dostitution” ter bod hata out a ee Mant gop ee Gme ie Behind Th ion. fe 'o rumor wi it ia worth. On furthor inquiry we learn that the battory captured : wad was the one near White Point, tweuty-two imiles from oe ve eons On eae ope Pay number rumors: ive ne ve were rt eee areaet, tae ae et eens een port of tho ener a estroyed our o ne fans at Pineberry was o-Froct. One of the enemy"s gen. Sumter Leave the Vessel. its made its appearance before the battery on Seaseutien Geile ipertae’ ol s aeeey ee oree dn the approac without a conflict. The party upon landing spiked their guns, | Approach of a War Convulsion ammu- Durat the gun carriages, destroyed s quantity: of in the Old World, Mg cape eee Lae, written b: ber vi ter from Camp. writ y a memt of the Washington Artillery, Captain Waiker, says: Kees ‘Bees ee «*A detachment of our company left camp at ton d’clock Tuesday for th» acene of action, General Evans having received intelligence of on attack on our battery at Ping- | The Koonomute Belge aays:— berry. Someot our party mareled with two of our field There is some question of convoking an International pleces to that place, the remainder under Captain Walter | Congress for the purpose of considering the propriety of to another important point. After reaching this last | henceferth placing non-fortified towns under the protec- position, and waiting about two hours, 4 courier came | tion of international law. Should such a project be real- along who informed us that the enemy had taken the bat- } ized, London, Liverpool, Havre, Rotterdam and Hamburg , burned the carriages aud destroyed the ammunition, | Would be secure (rom tho dangers of war; while Ant- Tetreated to their boats. We selected # position on | Worp, as a fortified town, whether iron-plated or not, id bo more than ever devoted to destruction, justructions to keep the utmost sileuce and take the | Twrr and Avezzana, asalso Major Generals Sacchi, Orsini, vandals by surprise. ay cams within three hy aed d@’Ayala, do Miblitz, Carini and Stocco, are transforroa and not dreaming wo were watch- in fifty yards and vetweon our four | ‘TO™ the volunteers to the regulary army of Italy. upon Letters and journals bad arrived in Paris from Marti. ing them; when w: pieces the order was given to fire, ata we | loose them with solid shot aud grape. They kept on their | nique and Guadaloupe to the 23th of April. All the jour course at full speed. |. Our shots were heard distinctly " * they struck. What damage we did could not, nals notice the painful impression made on the colonial of course, be ascertained. We returned to camp without | market by the news of the proposed increase in the the slightest injury. It was a bold action, for our force | sugar duty. That intelligonce had caused a total cessa- contended with a gumboat of eight guns. ‘The follow ing despatch corroborates the above:— tion of business, although sugar was offered at lower (From the Norfoik Day Hook May 3.) prices, ‘Cuantuston, May 1, 1862, M. Dupanloup, the Catholic Bishop of Orleans, France, The foderalg have captured a smali batery of two guns has published an eloquont pastoral lettor against slavery. General Evans sent a force to look after the Yankeos, Since the last experiments tried with the new wrought REBEL VESSEL DESTROYED. | iron smooth-bore Armstrong gun, at Shoeburyness , Eng [From the Charleston Mercury, April 20. land, other trials have been made with the same pisce of ‘The pilot boat Chaso, trom Nassail, N. P., for this port, was chased ashoro by ihe Lincoln ficot on Saturday Inst, | 2Fdnance.to prove its power. During the course of these and grounaed on th: borned by the office: into the hands of the enemy. She had on board a cargo of salt, &¢. The officers and men have arrived here. Raccuon Keys, whsre sho was | it has boen tried with a fifty pound charge of powder nt hor falling | against a target of three five-inch plates of wrought iron bolted together—a macs of wrought iron, in all, of fiflwan inehes thick—or, as nearly as possible, four times the Visit to Richmond. | thicknessof the Warrior's platos, Two or three shota wore {From the Petersburg Express, May 2. fired against this, and each broke all three plates, erush ye, understand that it has ook ascertained with oer- 1 ing the frst, ripping and splitting tho second, and ripping ‘sonal interview with | the third in sucha way as to show that even fitesn ¢ the provpecis of the | inchesof metal was an insufficient protection against ahieving and maintsising their inde} ceananco of this description at close ranges. arn, from a late frost are very nufavorable to tho vines. The Consti tution of Auxerre contains the following: Rebel News from the Rio Grande. ‘The frost has destroyed part of the magniftcent vi Oss vo the San Antonio (Texas), News, of April7.] | crops wjth which the country Was covered. On the n| @ learn by a person from the mouth of the Rio | of the 18th the frost had attacked rather roughiy some of the most exposed lands, but in a less proportion than and the mischief caused by the frost was very considera- Spain Reported to Have Recognized the | jo, Few vineyards have escaped the disaster, and some Confederated States of America, plains are quite devastated. Vegotation was unusually [From the Savannah Nows.] _ | advanced—the vines, tho frnit treos and the artificial A despatch received iu this city from Baldwin, | grasses promising the most abundant crop. The toss in Floriaa, states thata gentleman arrived at that piace y of . from Gainesvilie ou Sonday night, who said that he bag | 2S Part of ma big ine been st casa seeu the captain of a vessel who, in attempting to run The Paris Presse of the 18th ultimo says: the blockade, was chased by the blockaders, and was | It is stated that the Commodore in command of the compelled to blow up his vessel, the crew escaping in | American squadron sent to Mexico has roceived ordors to their boats. The captain had late Havana papers, in | renew the protest of President Lincoln to the represania- which it wi coynized the independence of the Southern Conf ,and | tion, in case such i that ambassadors from that government were on their woy | government of the © fo Richmond with despatches to that effect. We give the | The return from the Bank of England for tho weok end tated that the Sponish government had re- | tives of the Powers, on the subject of foreignsintery ference should tend to change the try. ye ag it domes to us, from a reliable source, im the Fi that it is (rue. jag the 16th of April gives the following results when compared with the previous week:— £3,085,467 Increase. 5,225,132 Decrease, 2 15,710, Distinguished Visitors in Norfolk. (From the Norfolk Day Book, May 3.) Hon. George W. Randolph, Secretary of War, and Hon, 260 Decreaso. Tncroage,. £50,000 Decrease. 705,005 Decrease. 395,795 In the aftersoon those distinguished gontlemen visited | Other securities. an increase of £272,635, and the stock of bullion in bath Prisoners to be Released. departments is £16,743,434, showing a doorease of v (From the Richmond Enquirer, May 2. The five hundred and odd Yankee prisovers. ecofined | *198;608 when compared with the preceding return. w days, at the news that they are to be imme- Duar Paris Correspondence. ther the most Paris, April 8, 1862. 1 genius, General | Student—Arrival of the Jopanate Embassy, dc. de. - out of the Mexican coalilion, expressed herself ised ett oe nea cenery Arter remas+ | with tho proliminarios of the troaty, and leaves France Wo learn [rou an oflicer just from North Alabama, | and Spain to work oxt the matter in their own way. who is well acquainted with the country, that the enemy } The panic which the result of the battle between the are securing considerable cotton by means of threats 0 should they burn it, Quite a number had | Monitor and Merrimac has been the means of causing io cotton, and some of them had beencaptured. | Great Britain possibly aided in producing this resuit- i Lior 70 ety an oe —— the Fone’ 4 in | England wants no war upon her bands until she has thewneighborhocd ‘useum| which is in their posses. > ten sion, but they are closely observed by Colonel Featns | placed lhorself. in @ position to maintain bor Kentucky cavalry. A skirmish oocwyred a few days | boasted supremacy of the seas, or, if the modern improve- since between a party of these an some Yankees within | ments shall be the means of taking this prestige from the limite of the town. Only four Of “whom showed thomselves,. Ty | her, until she ja atleast upon an equal footing with other , ’ enemy, after five of their number were killed, fell back, | nations. The iron-clad fever is spreading rapidly in = the intention of drawing our men into ambush, but | Kurope. The Danish Chambers have already voted the they we the bridge at Florence was burned by our mea. too shrewd for them. We undorstan! (hat | xtraordinary credits demanded by the Min iste of Ma- rine for the construction of jron-cased ships; Prussia is Porage eo Officers. to crpend twelve millions of thalers for the same pur- [From the Milledgovillo (Ga.) Union.) pose, and the kingdom of Italy will soon have a formid Darring the past there months we Lave lost many valu- | ablenavy of the same description. The French journals sharpshooters, wearing bullet-proof breastplaies, | seem to think thatthe Marine Department should now sa it iw to pick Off our offivers. At | devote its attention more than ever before to the in- struction of seanfon in the tactics of boarding, as this itastop | Will,tm the foture, be the only means of taking the wed as | Two incidents have thrown the religions and anti, preserver on he «heuld he | religious, or, rather, the clerical and ant{-clerical months since, you know, the committee which sat in Paris, and from there ruled the Association of St. Vin- Army. | contde Paul, converting it into a political machine,was dis vanded by order of the government, and tho different con. Rebel Resources for Feedii re From the Richmond Whig, May 2.) most vivid approbensions of the alarmists seems the idea that the loes of New Orleans and the Me. | Treneee of the order in France wore required to submit sissipp! will destroy our ability to feed our army. Wo the same rules which wero applied to secular soclatis We by uo means underrato the misfortune of thes» | On Sunday morning last the Minister of the Interior pub. | (ehed im the Moniteur a circular addressed to the Pri While we knew that there was an abundant prod)... | “ots of the Departments upon this subject. He state within the area commanded Dy the confederacy , ik i nue fica’ Miu Cer waco walle | that in January last the conferences were consulted as to we therefore have liad carefully compiled: — A statement of \* nether they ‘desired to be reunited by a contral coun wo ey nora ‘Broduots of ertan | formed peer 4? sae. tae po at com- r ¢ South «ay } ot tee, and having for President a ignitary ap- eee awe a by tiny 1 yowted by the Emperor, or whether they pore 7A | sot separately, aa they are now authorized to do.” It | seoum that Im reply co this quostion eighty-eight onverence® accepted the general council, while seven | | snent consitors that the regularization of the Society of | St. Yunesnt de Paul ts terminated, and that henceforth s | each conference will bo required to act for itself, without we ie y coutralized power. It seems that previous to the | dissolution of the old council its ancient President wag it with dictatorial powers, and that he has ) a lever in one of the joa! journals that ho exercise this power over all the conferences, and couracy, bat the extraor#in estern prodyction within past ten years bas not only jastified us in adding per cent ipon the products of 1450, but would, ‘ opinion, justify @ much larger estimate, and e#iaiiict | en conviction that the breadstumte and other prov!) " ascot his death or apy interference ae should on this side of the Mississippi, and within tl wit hooommitit to @ committee three foreigners—a Bel- rate control, will abundantly support tho population and | gin, « Holiander and a Prussian. Count de Persig¢ny army dependent ypon it duriog avy probable teri colla the attention of the profects to this threatened war. vivietion of the low, and it ie hinted that if it is But, bowides the area referred to, we may calouiate | ¢a:riod into effect the society will be entirely suppremsod, upon receiving sapplicn from the country nominally | The religious Journals, of course, have raised the cry of withio the control of the enemy. perageution, aod that the decision of the govern No biookade for seven hundred miles cau provent aup. | ment will be she means of suppressing this charitadio from crossing the Missiseipp!. No occupation of | association, which has, howevs 7 yours past e the coast can prevent the sonding of cattle to tho grasa | boon oon valleys and mountain ranges of the interior. The other No gunboats can prevent th to & Vast political engine pastoral letter of tho Archbishop upper waters of the | of Toulouse, appointing ‘a gonlar jubilee, the exposition James, the the Pedeo, the Flint, the Clinch and the | and solemn procession of the holy relics, presorved in Tennossoe from souding by balteaux, their tribusa to the | the church of St. Suturnia at Toulouse, for the yoar of common defence. graoe 1862.’’ “This jabilow,”’ the mild Archbishop adda, No vigilance on the part of the invaderscan prevent | ‘js for the purpose of celebrating the glorious act our army from suarivg the produets of the couwtry vecu- | accomplished among us three centuries ago pied by him. does not fat thie ‘glorious act’ is to the Another enlarged source of supply will ¢onaist in the | celebration of which he invites the faithful; but history obange of an extensivo erea from the produgtion of Got- | supplies the deficiency. In 1562 @ disturbance took place ton and tobacco to that of brondatutfs in the streets of Toulouse between the Protestants and ‘Pho loxs of Néw Orioans and the Mississippi must have | Catholics, growing out of the burial of » Protestant, disooncerted all calculations bayd on yt? be | whose body was claimed, however, by the Cathol drama from Taxes and Western Louisiana, Pus Tiki te: | Yoing of voric r¥iigiva. A lwonccy vF Uypyeawis euppdy ‘tho horrid carnage Iasting five € more than four thougand Protes! and the Archbishop now wishes 40 revive U of this “glorious agt” which for the two centuries follow ing it was celebrated with great pomp In the streets which y ago were red with the blood of the It is said that the government will interfere, aud prevent othe disgraceful exhibition—disg'aceful ta ‘hom it is tolerated, and disgraceful to sation and tolerance of tho nineteenth ba Batnarn mon in =e are very much aeacigarerted rolation 0 town burning system upon whi tied. Those whocen proper lays, during which time antes murdered— he celebration threc hundred years the people the boasted civil rebels seem to have in the cities are orday eae esterday with agen- tioman from Charleston, but wl Hf om resi: cis Europo ever sinco the coi of tho war,and ‘who, although a whole hearted secessionist averse to the destruction of what remains to the Bronomist, in the most favorable phe- tin to the Nort months would elapse tate Bigiand ive te Sea seve th ‘dest thing which English workingmen can do, salaries, a thing which they have already done for soveral months. things. If, however, after six months dolay, the cotton industry was to receive its usual supply, we would gay that there is no reason to be thankful to Providence, for many times we have had neason to fear a groater evil. A nation as wealthy a9 England can, by unusual means, go over a crisis atfect- ing only @ portion of her community without much hurt, and France, where cotton industry is not so developed icker is @ philosopher of the Mark Tapley school, who bo- ily under unfavorable circumstances,”” and gays that very brilliant; that ail the evacuations border States a1 contrating the Southern furces in when once entered by “the Yankees,” there can be no escape. I saw John Slidell yesterday, taking a walk on the Champs Elysees. He looks very seedy and gloomy. He gives brilliant receptions at his magnificent but he feels that his failure, and it is now said that, unleas events tako a very favorable turn for him and Lis by July or August— and that there is then a strong probability by France aud England—both he and Mr, Mson will take their departure, shaking from off their feet the dust of the inhospitable countries whose goveroments could not be made to see the force of their claims. 1 told you about a theatrical row at the Vaudeville last week. exceedingly disgusted at the fact that the management employed a number of bullies to occupy the front seats ot tho orchestra, and who en- deavored tv drown out the tokens of disapprobation, The next day, by order of the Minister of State, the piece was withdrawn, and is to be produced at the Udeon, where the actresses will not object to dancing in the quadrilie at the close of it. it is supposed that there to bo @ great theatrical. ‘‘ demonstration” tho Porte St. Martin on Friday evening. ‘ihe theatre has been closed for the past two nights for the rehearsal of agrand syectacular drama entitled © The Volunteers This picce was written more than a year since, its professed author being Victor Sejour is a negro from New Orleans) ernment would not permit it to alloged, on the ground that it contained allusions calcu- the feelings of the Eaglish and the other mace up the allied army h that was objectionxble taken out of it, and at'length, in its emasculated form, is to be presented for the lirst time on Friday evening, when it pposed a large niiber of students will be present to ‘These noisy and demonstrative youths are not ly amiable humor toward the govornment \¢ the dozen or more of their number who were sentenced to fine and imprisonment for participat- ing in the riots at the Coilege de France, they have beon sensed at tho condemnation on Saturday student ramed Taule, the editor of a al principally circulated among students, and called Le Zrarail. Tauie was charged with ‘+h munication with @ foreign country, with the ob, di ublic peace, and exhibiting hatre look to uaas dark as to the Economist, But as regards surprising that the provision of a continual scarcity of a produce of first necessity, as indispensable to the wol- fare of English ‘society, has not excited moro attention, and that, in? territory from which, turned into acatastrophe, the statesmen of that great nation have not exerted thomselves. How is it that the English Parliament, where all the emotions and wants of the country are sure to find an echo, has this time ity oF recoguition | *ept silent? tional maritime law been medified, belligeren’ rights, with convenient restrictions sanctioned by ‘The audience wai circumstances, and wit which, very Ukely, wou'd not have v fused their consent’ might mitted to believe that the confederates themselves would have given up their pian to hoid it back, for they did. $0.01. tunately, the question of maritime international right raised by the House of motion of hir. Horsfall has not been the government; on the contrary, it has been attacked by them and inoffigiontly advocated by independent Speakers. A suditeit indisposition procentod the trious champ: from speaking. ‘the speech ho had prepared on Lnat sub- Ject would likely have turned tho chances of the discus- sion. ‘The motion haa then beon an abortive one. In it, however, we must look for a sctuicme).t of this important question. We express tho wishes that this motion bo again presented to Parliament. Once its attention arous- ed, tho House of Commons cannot fail to receive it well, 4 thing which would authorize or rather compe! the Eng- lish Cabinet to enter into a nogotiation with tho Cabinet of Waghington, and to carry it on vigorously. hes bean pruned, and BRITISH ANTICIPATION OF THE VICTORY—A Fam nectation for bews of tho fall 0! Yand bis crime consisted in having ad- an envelope directed to another This letter, which nl are impatient of any pause in t! dressed a letter, und chafe under tho delay ia clearing the Mississippi and at person, to Ledra Rol was seized und opened before leaving Paria, beside con taining a copy of the seditious song, ‘Le Lion dn Quartier ’ expressed the strongest republican sentiments, was sentenced in, in London. beiug checked at a point five liundred milea above its moe te ure their ** foreign critics” at they hh: ly, in all probability, gained pusses- ‘The students say that M. Mocquard, the private scere- tary Of the Emperor, is the collabora‘eur of Sejour iv the drama ip question, and they intend to make ita first ro- presentation the occasion of a demoustratior government. The Conctitutionnel has goue to to deny that M. Mocquard had anything to do with it: bat this will not have the effect tended, and there will doubtless be a great deal of hissing, a few bloody noses and several arrests on the occasion of the first represen. tation of this pai ‘The Japanese Embassy arrived last ovening, and took rooms which had been prepared for them at the Hotel ‘They were received at tho Lyons railway station by M. Feuillet de Conches, introducer of ambas-* sadors, and a detachmont of fifty cavalry. There are five ambassadors, twelve officers and several servants iv the embassy. They will afford some amusement during the coming fortnight to the excitement-loving denizens of Mr. Adams, United States Minister at tho Court of St. James, bas been speniling a few days in Paris. Letter from the Comte de Paris to a Friend OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. April 18, 1862. y, publishes the The Journal des Debats, of yostord: following letter, which it states was written by an officer of General McClellan's staff, aad who, in all probability ig uo other than the Comte do Paris:— ‘ I profit by a moment of leisure to send you Ihasten to do this because 1 do not know wh able to resume the pen again, for bel the moment so long wished for. will be in the field, and this campaign wil! decide the fate of the Union. It is not possible to foretell the chauces of Neve they are in our favor. + for me when I start back to Europe after having aided in a brilliant and fortunate campaign, and leaving American society in the way of victoriously omorging from the terrible crisis which, for a moment, menaced its very existence. You will bave learned, in bulk at least, the succers which has marked the campaign in the wast. soon know whether the South was animated by @ verita- blo desire for separation. having exhibited its superiority, an erritories,4 the i peusable to ite existe let the extreme slaveholding States tempt au experiment which, in my opinion, is im- or we will see if seceasion has not been, asT believe, but a political revolution ; anos avd sustained bya siaam. In the latter case it will suffice for the federal overminent to show itseif as much more moderate, as it jg the stronger, for the re establishment of the Union. A revoiution can only suceeed in the first moment of on- thusiasim, and cannot subsist in the midss of reverses. at you do not render justice in Eu ment, Which has exhibited s remarkable moderation. At the time when a secial revolution me- naced the etistence of the country, not @ drop of blood has beoR spilied outside of the fleld of battle. institutioms aet with their customary re leagues frou the army, and all the political pri whe had been arrested Lave been released, without even required to take the oath of more interesting than the spectacle of a great who, dy their own resources, undertake such a out oven seriously affecting their institu- We oxample, which liberty rejoice. days I hopewe pleasant: mom tourniquet tightaned over the great artery of Uve seceded’ S'ates. ‘This mportant place ts now attacked” both by land aud by water. Genoral Butler has a stroug laud foroe under his orders, und Captain Porter with lus zaortars and his frigates has already paseod the bar at the mouth of the te wi this aid hopes rua high at New York that by this tiue conquered the 7 cholera whole population, the best revenge of au invaded people tederates. They on thoir ass: jotidons enthu- | ri of America, but also of the whole world ; aud that, when the uncultivated aud unvccupied basics of the Missis sippl and Missouri are peopled and tilled, this city or one placed on some happy neighboring site, will eclipse all the present magnificunce of the ports of allegiance. Nothing tions. These is in it a should make all the friends The Want of Catt NECESSITY OF MODIFYING MARITIME INTERNATIONAL LAW TO ALLOW COTTON TO GO OUT FROM THE UNITED STATBS. (Translated oe, the Journal des bs for the New England commences te be moved by afact which ought 10 have mado her feel uneasy sooner, for it is the neve: ce of the civil war which desoclates the diminution of her stock eonseq| north of America. Wemean of cotton and the danger of its eomplete disappearance. ‘This fact deserves the greatest attention on wo would seriously be affected b; the want of cotton in England would be than with ws, because im Kogland bas a far greater importance than in Fi ‘oductions of cotton maaufact Hong of dollars) ia. Knyland. the ‘sxportat ions ol A KI exportation alon billion (200 miiifons of dollars), and the total to twice that amount. ts fk and bungled on the same moro the industry of rence. Whilas | S century bas nficiently: Ss the artof war to m bare an unity of saving Now Orleans by thesimple tactics of General Jackson; but if there be any truth in the loud eriesof defiance of the Southern press, the con- quest of this city ts mot so absolutely certain as the Northerners think. It may be attacked cither from the sea or from the river. If the fedcralists think it better to force their gunboats and steam frigates up the river their success must depend upon their being able to run bi with us the toval Dot exceod bors several ri its accessories, Thi scarcity of cotton is t befall our neighbors. Let us show the three-fourths of # cotton industry ‘Gorn excepted, tho Groatest misfortune which can ition such as itis. Ti immense quantity of raw cotton Great Britain for hor manufactures comes merican Union, that ts to say ern States. Now, either from the fact of the blockade stablished by the North before the Southern bar- ‘or in consequence of the plan adhered to by tho to keep back their stock of cotton, nino months ince a single cargo has entered an Enghsh commerciai year begins for this article on the lat of the September, time for the the United Sta! from the South. that the attack is to be made in concert, by General Batler overland, debarking from the lake or ra’ of Pontchartrain, and by Captains Porter and Farragut up the river, If’there be any real fight in these bollige- rents, this is au impending event worth our interest. thering up of the their usual course would have sent to England a crop of from 2,000,000 to 2,200,000 bales, t immense quantity bas © stores usually contain wl i at 600,000 bales of American cotton; at presont they hardly Lave 150,000 bales, ‘Tho price has already increased twofoid. not inerease yor? Great offerte have been made to draw from other places what America could not furnish, ransacked, and by dint of researches that country bas given twice a@ much cotton as in other yoare— England has now 100,000 by more of indian cotton than she had last year at the samo © of supply : it is simply sotually embarked an’ » 100,000 bale 5 ear, iy round numbers 200,000 balgr in How much will it Ind‘a has boon one million of bales time. But this an anticipelion. The quanti leas than last y 96 990,008 Algo, well informed persons think that ostond de oup threatened with an absolute privagwon of codon. It matte factories were working as ugna! thelr actual stock of cotton would not ast over two months. And if they work loss than usual, what will besome of the numerous working claas who draw @ living from them, aud who have ulreacy absorbed all their moans? ‘This is stilt another reason to make us wish to seo tho civil war which desvlates the orth of Amerig: cease; and we must say it, tho ropeated victories of tho tederals upoa ‘the coufedwrates of the Suuih seem #0 imdicato that tho North—the gowin ment Washingon—wilk before bo mt the Union, everywhere. New Orleaus, which ithe pe a cipal cotton markot, was, accord the tast A to surrounded by a powerful federal fleet, and a corps are posted on the lower part of the Mississippi river waited for the river to be cleared from obstructions to go up and assault the city, But if the Confoderates dis- play thero the furious which they have shown upon other points taken by the federal arma and sot fire fo must that this oovton? Wi is an eventuality yok may reasonably ace. fe is tals quenion Eoswizaiy, eae with: peace cesentnens, @ course of the success of the i terrupted, anasto Confede- rates should be whipped opor all points obliged to submit in a short time, Knglish iudustry would not be out of stress, and the gufferings throaten- sh, six her requisite provision. According to would be to live six months more on half thoir wait withzstill more patience. Futurity does not of a fact which could easily be The difficulty might have been lessened had interna- xy common aecor% ‘have allowed American ¢ ttn tocome out. It is por- ly after the blockade was deciared. Unfor- mumons upon the ported by us. ‘allcommercialfreedom-——Mr. Cobden— The Capture of New Orleans. IDEA OF THE IMPORTANCE OF TUE TRIUMPH, (From the Lon‘ion times, April 18.) re on tt The Amoricans in the North at they - They Orleans.’ Tho forco at the mouth of tho pt is strong enough to strike terror wher- over there is human Life to ba extiuguished and property to be plundered. The American papers boast that it is the most toruidwble naval force sunt on a hos- tie errand in modern times, Tn an age which remem- bers the fleet that sprond itsolf ever the Blick Sea the yaunt is suflicientiy bombastic, but still it is a tremen- duus foree When directed against an which has notayy and can keep up no dockyards, ana which de- pends ‘upon smuggted supplies for ita powder and its guns. It comprises a terribie mortar fleet of the heaviest Ordnance which can bo bought or made in the North, and more than 200 vessels, including the largest steam frigates in the federal navy. “The world, we ure toid, will be astenishod at the force tho federal government has sent agaist this revollious city, and it will take oven the American people by surprise when they learn its extent and juportance,’” ‘The Northern conguercr’s do not over-estimate the impor- tance of the omquest for the tidings of which they are so impatient. Nov Orléaus is the commercial metropolis of the South and the West; {t is the emporfum of the vast tracts traversed by the Mississippi and all the great tri- butaries of that most mighty of rivers. It has a greater command of interndl navigation than any cily in the Old or ‘New World. In itself, asa city, it is little worth. Built upon a flat below the lovel of the risen river, it would, porhaps, bo to the permanent honefit of its inhabitants if the dykes wore cut and the stroam were allowed to tiow over it. To friend or to foe its atmosphoro alike is fever and death, and even among the acc.imated New Orleanists the abnual mortality is three times that uf Pos- ton. Itis not the ity, but the position at the point that commands all the interna! navigation which is so important. The Southern papers pertinent!y remiud tis defenders that “superior cheapness of transportation by water draws thither all the cotton produced fa Middie and Western Teunossoo, Arkansas, kasturn 1 Mississippi, while t i vast Western omy ff way thither from the same cause.” The occupation of New Orleans would be a river. Nothing was wanting but that the Mississippt t should come down by the upper river, aud the city id Do surrounced aud mustiall. But even without rth New Orleans is in the h nds of the imperia Porbaps in the case of a city where vein some years destroyed « would be tolet the invaders take and Ruldit. Such, on of the Con- d victory. Comm ° have predicted that New Orleans is destined to bevome ‘emporium not only of the Southern and Western Stites the North. The confoderates are as sanguine that they will be able to preserve t! comunercial capi- tul for its future destinies as federais are that they are even now certainly wresting it from them, New Orleans is a hundred miles from mouth of tho river, and the banks are fortified all the way down. At @ convenient point there arc forts armed with the heaviest guns, and commanding auartificial dam stretch- ed across the river, aud which is calculated to delay any naval force under the guns of the forts for s saflicient time for the artillery to sink them. Theso defences, so doseribed, are suspiciously like thoso which were pre- ‘ed by the Chinese to opposo the passage of the Eng- Fah and French fleets up Poiho, and which, althouga temporarily successful, were readily overcome wheu the leaders had learned to respect their enemy. But, in ad- dition to these, there we are told, two iron-casod floating batteries, carrying heavy armaments aud 4 gar- rison of $2,000 men, eager for the of the in- vaders. New Orloanists say they are mad with ex- cftement aud rage, that their hot slot aro ready, their rnaces in complete preparation, and that the Yankees, Pienover they come, will receive a hot reception. ‘The game of brag on both sides is playéd with equal enterprise. Events will soon tell us on which side tho power of execution lies, Times «re much altered sco an Foglish Admiral and an English General quarrelied \d were lured ou by tho isgracoful defeat. Near balf most t tricks ake us eertain that General eld Lovell will uot untlet of the furts and batteries, Once past these is deen water up to tho city quays and many miles Arrived at , New Orleans is their own. ough by land, there is an inlet within eix iniles of the city y dobark their land arm; The thirty-two thousand mou ive a good account of ggosted ir gull SufVerings of the People of England. WANE, AND PAUPERISM OF VHB WHITE TOILERS= “a FINE CHANCE FOR ABOLITION CHARITY. [From tho London Times, April 19] T’,6 almost inconsant rain bus abated; the sky is@Y yap an’ (bright; tho apring flowers are ont in Bpiie of the Ysid, and tho b vn is on every abrub and fruit bo uri ef was A pleasanter Koster, put 4 season milion y ¥s now pearel . shorn of ” tree, Sofar there Wile the @easons run . at is not returning PY suffering as much as if the sun had re half tts beams or nature had suddenty # OP 4 of decay. A terrible cotton dearth deprives coun a ds, through populows districts and crowded ouies Of ING aeans of earn, ame as if the grain had y rot; for, though im the country, op ‘within purchaseable distance, the means of purchase an* nok to be found; and people perish, stp erctaction,” i the as was raid in the day canaries and ph'es of. lence ever varies the fiseal sysiom,; then it wa'8 & bed Larvest; then it wag an overstocked market; the 2 Uf was the peripdical rebellion of labor agaiust capital. Ingenious mon endeavored te shape of calamity, and imagined @ quarrel with the United States,in which thoy would attempt to starve us out, aud hum their cotton. “The Amoricans of ourdopendence. But that has now ied before Lor so much ag Tho cotton crop has hat bore it bya top of foracast the next ble us to terms by themselves Comes ¢ Between the pass and fell incensed poiste ty Loe cope of nigro inffering and wrong, hile thought jeri: yi would ome day pricy @ sentimental an ac- tion in that story. The Amorican abolition- wing preached bo axe. in vain, now enforces abate, one For a time there was hope, found ty of supposing that to ot tuinge oi eu fast” long. eae 80 strango a state of things coul® soon by the mere ives savings, run their credit, sold hate ve furniture, and a6 last sunk their before passer by—~*Caunot you do not we do something to help them? Wore thero vhe hope of that miserable war in the States ending wit the few months that wi-e men assigned to it, we be on!y too glad to let things take tixeir course. Bubwe see no such Nope, and have to look the calamity éw the fisce, * : In the Union of Ashton-under-Lyne there five thousand receiving relief, compared with nalf number in the bad times four years ago, and little more jast year. In the Union of Biackbura: there are more than ten thousand receiving relief, compared with less than half that number four years moro than a quarter last y ‘somewhat less dependent on cotton, and mattors are only about 25 per cent worse than last year. In Burnley Union more than twice as many are receiving good many more than in the In Bury Union there are near- ly twice a3 many “ paupers”” as there wero a year ago; in Chorley Union balf as many again; in Chorlton a third more; in Haslingden Union about twice as many; in Liverpool!’ 22,000, against 14,000 last ycar; in Macs Id Union a quarter more than last year chester township bear 13,000, or more than twice as many as last year; in Oldham than last year; in Preston U: tween two and three times as many as last year; im Rochdale Union twice as many as last year; in three-quarters more; In these Unions alone there 14 50,000 more persons receiving relief thaw time last year, when manufacturers were already reducing their produce, and keoping their milla open more for kinduess than profit. sons have beon driven from their only employment to the bard necessity of demanding reliof over and above the applicants of a period which might bo called one of auxioty and approaching distress. those 50,000 additional paupors do not at all represent the number made abvolutel: aud there are bebind them many thousands as badly off, co to come forward and parade mething to help u rolief as last year, and a Dad times four years ago. nion three-quarters more jon about 11,500, or be- Saiford Union, Union three timos as many. ‘These 60,000 per- Yet we aro assured the dearth of cotton: whom nothing wiil inc their.misery to the world. w, whit fs to be done? Leeds suffers; Sheffield sat here are threo thou- spers” there than last year at thi AtCovontry there are near three times as man} ke-upon-Trent and Keclesall Bierlow are Enterpriso is flagging at many placos; for peyle do not know how soon the tloed may reach them, bo they ever so much out of the cottom But the other day 200 porsons were starved to death, or more merc: le the wives and ch fers; even Lirming) suffering congiderab!y. them a eep and peculiar fiowed in with scarcely an invitation. Probably @ hundred times tha! number of victims are now suffer ing only a move protracted form of the same tortures, an@ to plead for them, there are so: Has not cotton produced @ w: and an aristocracy of i's non? Mas it not been stated, without contradiction, that five millions, and, indoed, much more, have been made by this very rise in prices which we oall the cotton dearth? Havenot'some of the mill owners themselves laid up stocks, and then sold thom ata great profit—nay, even for exportation to New York? * ® % Would that something would inspire a millionaire or two to address themselves to tho noble and nocessary work of supplying helpmeets for all these scatiered and solitary Adams! this. Wo must look uhead and watch the peril in our course. Here isa fearful mass of destitution thet may any day prove too great for the locai resources. It must not be too soon adopted by the Stato, tut it may be tow late, and meanwhile it must not be forgotten by any whom it may concern. scruples aud diiliculties. But we cannot wait for Destitution of the Artis: AN ARMY SUBSCRIPTION IN ALD OF THE TRADESMEN. The Belgian Minister of War has addressed to the Genera's commanding territorial divisions, Generals of Iry, and toall the chic Prvsrers, April 8, 1862. Gentiewex—Zhe war in America bas produced an ame fortunate crisis in tho cotton manufactures of all coun- Ghent bas, in particular, suffered and it is urgent to agsist the numerous and bravo workmen by demanding of publie tha deficiency of work has pletely dried up. Lbave thought tha: the army would be disposed to lend its assistance to spy measure that would tend to alleviate those sufferings; aud, in order to enable ench to bring his offering to the valiant army of | Thove decided that in each garrison possessing a band music arrangements shall be made for or, cert, the product of which shail be applie ance of the working population of Ghent. goodness, gentlemen, to ta you, the necessary steps for the execution ns of Belgium. infantry and cava' tries. The town of much from that cris! charity resources whi anizing & com that which concerns England’s Land Fortffications Against an Iron Fleet. In the House of Lords on the 11th ult. Lord Venuaw asked what was the intention of the government with res: ect to the fortifications atSpithead, and alluding tothe os 1 of the recent experiments at Spithead, expressed his oninion that the result of al! the scientific trin's aud im- ventions would leave matters much as t were, with respect t derence; when the fect was converted into iron ships, thore would be nothing at the dockyards to defend or to ‘The ari px Grey ann Ripon was glad that the question had been raised on this occasion, for the government de- sired to bave the question fully discussed, as their: object could be to provide as econo possible for the public safety. He was not surprised the attention which the action in Hampton Roads had attracted, for it brought home to the mind of every man the hey originally relative powers of attack and jot the desire of government to bowever striking; but they hastily from any facta, caring of these facts upen pre- would inquire into the vious experience and tho experiments at Shoe! it not to tuo hastily depart from the eourse- deliberately adopted after full ration. The cost of the works at Spithead, already com- £230, ll eases lene mato grea ogress, and to considerable expense in maintain gona’ aad ms , but the total cost would be 000, of which this £230,000 was Zor foundations, &c, Ho must oxpiain, however, that if the ferts were for yom aig. the totareoet of th is of the Comyniesioucrs wes £10,000,000 om £11,000,000, but Parliay gent had only deen asked tosanc~ tion the raising of £2,000 000, and ef ¢ lod fo.” land, and £790 , Whi) 5 if the works wont on the balance 180 supposed 000 would be saved onitors; but he he fortifications recoma~ fo ny expend other liabilities, would be absorbed py July that by stopping ty FS and U creating & fet this would not thow who had sons that these forte i whioh of the scheme , put if they have thirt, scattored alr \g the coast, they might ‘They would, thorefore, bo sb alte zother reliable; for, after w! that it was still desira~ posed and important point of atte ic and fat Shoebary yuess, it must be fol blo to fort’ (fy the most He ont? .s the report in the Zimes of the oxperimot Parl nese as eee soa ti dean of uillery, whieh they already poesessed, bu was re ily ‘no limi lo the power of the gun, aud he believed ashort time the saine results would be obtained at uch greater distanee than two hundred yards dis- tenor , and Sir W. Armstrong told him that day thas he was couiident ho could make ween the forts and Spithead. that the great secret lay in the charge of dit was on thia account that thi charge, produced so little iron plate bad tho bes! jned its superiorit ‘They showed the power gun of the mediam range Those experiments uns, with a smal Appeared that one da: the noxt the gun re shifting results the most had concluded that thor: easily seo by the tide authorities was alimit, which they could ese of the armor, and the tof the gun which a ship could carry, if it wae ne power of the gun was cligtant, had hardly appreciated it, while it was desirable that they should Bot proceed too hastily so much expense, whicu thoy ityalthough they were in th jon, must keep on a level with other sae Dut there was wo limit to the thickuos of o woight of the gun, witch they could It was intended to continue forts and ght nol to altogether riMac, when Lyared to float, but the limit of th and at the pre: in ranitors attended w iti might son after reverse, the iron, and the place on a fort. 16 was inte floating Wattories, and thoy overlook (he faut that the io