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2, a od to make some money, Those with whom he got aaso- taro appraise: ciated—a among them was the treacherous Yancey— and sympathizers here, wrrant knaves, aud cheated and rob- | bed himonevery hand. He bus been om tue + inside * and im the secrets of the Southern operators since the commencement, and now be undoubtedly has his own reasons for giving me the information he does: at both Southerners and their showed themselves track auy rate bi he has told u from various other exterior circumstaveos, Looking at some letters of that Virginia traitor—M. F. Maury—which were intercepted and published over six months ogo at other indications, we see and know that (he C u/ederates for a year or a year and a half have not goue on auy ‘ninety day theory;”” but have tooked far ahead, particulerly iu their naval operations, and have made :egular contract# here for oumerous efficient war Stormers, and bided their time till they could be finished, Tht is whut has given such @ tone of confident assurance, approaching to the language which we have seen in the reports of their naval Secretary and Jeff. Davis’ messages and to Maury’s luckless letters. have all been made om the basis th ederacy ond the operators. ‘The smaller and less eificiont of the war vessels built, @nd,as a matter of course, those that would-be finished Qrst, woeld very naturally be put on crusing grounds avaror home, ike the Atlantic and West India waters, where refuge and protection would be most readily found, “Then the largest and most powerful steamers, and those that would be the longest im building, would be sent on the most distant and most perilous cruising grounds. The China seas offer several rare advantages. They are the resort of the finest ships, and have the richest car- goes Of American and foreign goods that are found in any ‘trade, They all pass through certain wel! known straits and waters, whee they can be easily captured. They are tar from Ameriou, where the United States cruisers would be very unlikely to be found to give thom trouble. They are siirrouaded by British colonies, trading posts, war veusela and every class of Englishmen who sympathize with the rebela and will give them all aid and as- sistance, These very British speculators, in a region whore the standard uv commercial morality is notoriously tow, are the right parties to purchage, smuggle, conceal and dispose of the captured cargoes” of the luckless Yan- kee traders tbat fall into the hauds of these piratical ro vers of the sea. ‘there are in these seas vast numbers of pirates and gmugyiers—Chivese as well ag other naticnalities— aud these are relied on as the persons to purchase probably at a quarter of their actual value, which to the 8 all profit—and pay in Spanish dollars, rupees, wud other descriptions of bullion and votu, and ‘thus relieve the captors of ships and cargoes, while the crews can be turned adrift on apy of the islands; and if they are al! murdered ,so much the better for such fellows aa ( aptain Semmes and his tellow pirates. Withont theorizing, this 1s what the parties here did. About a year ago ugents were sent out to Canton, Singa. pore, tong ony aud Shanghae, and full information o tamed and arrangements made for their future operations In the first place they got full particulars of all the Ame- ie to China and the tar eastern ports of India, tf , &c.; the usual number of ships monthly at and departed from each port; the eof the cargoes; the American ports the vessels come from, and the Kuropewn ports they are in the habit of returoimg to when they do not go direct to the (vited Mates. Then full information was obtained as to the islands, waters, ports and baunts of all the local snd sthugglers, where captured corgoes could be owed of and ships sold, to be converted into local or Conederate pirates in their turn. All arrangements were made, too, for full supplies of coal lo be sent out from England and to be ready at the mst prominent localities to supply the Alabamas, Geor- giws, Fioridas and Louisianas that are going to have such capital cruising grounds and such « good time generally. The following is the description of one of the vessels that my informant stated had actually gone—sailed along with her consort, also built in the Clyde—several weeks Messrs. Thompson Brothers are building, on the Clyde, a powerful, armor elad steam-ram, “for the Emperor of Chiva,”’ to be ready for sea on the 9th of April next, She is about two bundred and fifty feet long by forty-five deam and thirty-five in depth, Her armor plates are from four and a half to five inches thick. Her engines will be of five hundred horse power each. This description is from the London Mews of February 12. It inay be doubted if there is a vessel in the Ameri- can bayy that i speed, power, armor and armament could cope with this tron-clad steam ram, And suppose you hud a dozen that were each and ail more thana Match for her, and they were ww be seut out to the Fast- ern soas in search of her, there is not a British merchant, 8 British smuggler, a British pirate, a British war vessel, a British naval officer, a British diplomatist, a British consul, or a British colonist from the Cape of Good Hope to Shanghae, from the Hoogley to the headquarters of the Riff pirates, that would not be instan taneously turned into a spy to give information to the Confed: rate pirate to send him warning, to give him every kind of aid and succor, to fight for him, to put the American vessels on a false scent, to block their » Sage in every British port, vo get the Coniederate a ch Pony of heels and twenty-four hours the start. he i’ Kinet ARAM were to aiteinpt to capture Confederate vessels. Mr. Laird, of Birkeuhead, has just got out one or two of this steamers buiit for the Emperor of China, and these are boldl you trial ju Southampton waters and soon to start for Celestial waters. He pretends tuese are actually for the Brother of the Sun and the Cousin of the Moon. Per- bapa they are. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, May 5, 1863, Phe Oficial Organ on the Russian Replies—The Confederate Loan—A New Circular from MM. Erlanger @ Co.—A New Loan, dc. After permitting the unofficial journals to publish, during some days past, analyses more or less correct, the Moniteur of this morning gives the text of the dispatches of Prince Gortchakoff in reply to the representatives of France, Eogiand and Austria,on the subject of Poland. The Monitewr, with an optimism worthy of a better cause, says, fin prefacing them, that “it is easy to see, in reading these documents, thilt they open the way to plans of conciliation, and that in them are found the bases Of negotiations which may end in an entente between the different courts which seek the means of securing the le- gitimate interest of Poland. The liberal journais, how- ever, do cot ‘see it;’ and the organ of the Prince Napo- Jeon declares that the reply to the note of the French Minister ought to produce the immediate rupture of nego- Siations with Russia on the subject of Poand. Indeed, it is difMeult to derive much consolation or hope for Poland Crom these replies, in which Russa, bracing herself back wpon the treaties of 1815, attributes all the blame io this matior wo Poland and tw that revolutionary Spirit which Gortchakotf, in his note to the Russian Am- Dassacor here, declares to be ‘the scourge of our epoch.”” Tho only probable solution will be, ere long, the ending of the revolution by the superior force and power of Russia. Notwithstanding the (act that the statemeut has gone ali over the world that the “Confederate loan’’ bas been ‘taken a number of timer over, and that it now brings « considerable premium in the market, the negotiators hore—MM. Eriauger & Co.—are still issuing circulars, in. forming the lucky ones into whose hands they may fall that they can still have a few shares at par—the inference Deing that Messrs. Erlanger & Co., in the benevolence of their hearts, are willing to relinquish, for the benefit of the cause, the “litle premium’’ which the Confederate toan bears, or else that they have made so much money out of it already that they are satistied: or else, which ts much more probable, that, in spite ef all the puffing and misreprosentation which has been resorted to to force this loan upon the market, Mesers. Erlanger & Co. ricw @tilt find themselves “stuck” with a considerable ao thie fane oo whieh they are to realize. On Saturday last the following , which isa curiosity in ite way, was sent to the cumber, I am informed, of five thousand to bankers, pitalists im Paris and throughout France. All the eecesh’’ iv Paris, who are suppored to have any surplus funds, received them. | understand, bowever, that, ss rule, these gentlemen bave not invested much in ia “fancy.” ‘The following is the circular — American cotton—seven per cent loan of the Confede- rate States of America, of 75,000,000 francs with the privilege of conversion into cotton." Ieeued at $0 per cent The bear interest at the rate of 7 cent per annum, commencing March 1, 1868, payable twice a et London, Yaris, Amsterdam and srankfort-on-the ‘The bonds may be, at the choice of the bolder, con. worted into cotton, or reimbursed at par Sat en ae i. These calculations | of doing as much damage as possible to the material interests of United Stutes—naval, commercial and otherwise— combined with any profit that could be gained to the Con- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, ra—one A by the government and the other by the holder o! the bond. Im case the two ap praisors cannot , an arbiter shall be chosen by them, and his dectsiou be definitive, ‘At the game time it 18 understood that the bondbeld- | ers, who prefer not to convert their bonds into cotion, will bave the right to hold them and draw the interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, payable semi am nuully, up to the redemption of the principal at par ‘he bonds which are not converted into cotton will be reteemed by forty semiannual drawings. Tho ret bound to keep their secrets, and all dyawing will take plice the Ist of March, 1864; the se- rroborated by collateral testimony dates artars, He (lis me be knows they | @re true as facts, without any regard to probabilities or cond the 1st of September foliowing, and at therealter up to the extinction of the loan in twenty yeurs trom the date of tho first drawing. ‘The bonds have been issued at ninety per emt, payable | as follows:— 16 per cent on subscribing. 10 per cent the Ist of May. 10 per cent the 1st of June, | 10 per cent the 1st of July, 15 per cent the Lat of August. | 19 per cent the 1st of September, less the interest at 33, per cent. 15 per cent the Ist of October. 90 per cent. The bondholders have the right to liberate entirely at either of the above mentioned dates with a discount of seven per cent per annum. {n default of payment at the : Fay 2 epochs the previous payments are liable to for- feiture. Provisional certificates to bearer have been delivered. | The certificates will be exchanged, after the first pay- ment against obligations to bearer of 2,500 francs, 6,000 frano:, 12,500 francs, and 25,000 francs, into coupons falling due the Ist of March and 1st of September. Se ere been made for the execution of the obligations: ‘168. * ‘Messrs. Eranger & Co. and their agents are authorized to retain the necessary funds for the frat twe semi-annu- al pay ments. r Nore.—There are different modes of judging of the Con- federaie loan, As a purely Onancial tion it repre- seats a revenue of nearly eight per cent, considering the chances of amortization. As a cotton operation the = bable profit may vary between 100 and 200 per cent. eo cotton which the Confederate government poner, one which it promises to deliver to the bondbolders at fity- four centimes the immediately, or whenever the holders wish it, but at the latest six months after the rea- toration of (the government demanding only sixty days previous notice in Europe), is worth now at Havre aud Liverpool nearly 2.20—that is to say, four times tho price at which it is delivered to the bondholders. In taking the cotton immediately and forcing the block- ade—admitting as expense of ingurance and transporta- tion 100 per cent, or 54 centimes the pound—a profit of 100 per cent still remains. ‘can likewise obtain delivery of the cotton, put thunder French or Bn; protection, and qui awatt the end of the struggle. margin is 80 great that this can be done in all security, whatever may be the issue of the war. But it is difficult to doubt of the final success of the Confederate States of America to constitute themselves into @ separate State, recognized by the governments of Europe. In such an event, the advan- “ of the loan are vaipabie. ‘he cotton promised to the bondholders will be de- livered first, the Confederate government possessing all the means of trausportation. It will not be subject to any tux,except the small tax of one-eighth, while it is pro- bable that the exportation of cottons not possessing this privilege will be heavily taxed by the government, to fill up the deficit which the war will leave, ‘Those who have confidence in the future of the Con- federate government will quietly guard their as, will receive their interest, and will. bave the privilege of a reimbursement io cotton, the advantages of which in- crease on account of the duration of the war, because ae cotton is planted now, while the stock is daily dimin- ny B It has been objected that cotton can be purchased in the Confederate States at a ci r rate. o immense success of the loan, which has subscribed for five times, will have an incontestable influevee upon the price of cotton in America, and will cause a fall in exchange. It is more than probable, then, that orders for purchase already sent will not executed at cheaper rate than the cotton reserved for the bondholders, and no one will fail to see the advantage in procuring cot- ton bringing in an interest and not being subject to any expenses or risks, instead of that which will be taxed with expenses of transportation trom the interior to a port, storage, assurance and export duty. Any man with any loose change about him, who, after reading and carefully considering the above document, should fail to go to Erlanger & Co. and immediately sub scribe; must have but a slighthregard for his pocket. Why such ap urgent appeal should be issued, after the loan has been subscribed for ‘five times over,’’ is uot very clear, ‘and perhape may only be accounted for on the theory which is suggested to me by a Southern gentleman, that Messrs. Erlanger & Co. are now in negotiation with the Confederate government for a new loan of 150,000,000 of francs. Vive la Panis, May 8, 1863. The Russian Replies—Phe Moniteur on the Crisis—The Cha- rivari—Art Exhibition—The Rejected Pictures—Ade- laide Phillips—Mrs. Key Blunt—New Senators, &c. Although the Moniteur expressed itself as highly de- lighted with the Russian replies to the diplomatic repre. sentations of France, England and Austria, they are gene rally regarded as leaving the matter just where it was before the representations were made, That Poland has nothing to hope from them is self-evident, and it is now said that the three Powers are again in correspondence relative to a united and more positive demand upon Rus- sia, In fact the Constitutionnel of this mornipg states that the first phase in the diplomatic interv@ition having panead the‘sanand le ehnt af Vy cure wynttte Btw strong probability, however, is that in all this diplomatic action Russia wili gain all she wants—time, while the Poles are exhausting themselves in their single-handed efforts against the might of Russia, ‘The Moniteur is as unreliable as the other journals of Paris, despite Xs official character. In its bulletins of yesterday it givesa doleful summary of the late news from the United States, and closes them with this sapient conclusion :—* These circumstances ex. plain sufficiontly the evident symptoms of fatigue which manifest themselves in the North, particularly in New York, notwithstanding the meetings organized by the federal government to multiply new excitements to war.’ Now this assertion is rather a broad ove for the official journal of one government to make against another friendly one, that it is using its influence to get upa bogus septimeat. ‘The French have ag yet very little idea of the determined eharacter of our people, and while, as a rule, their sympathies have always been with us, asa rule also they have believed, aud still do, that the present civil war must tern: nate in a separation of the country. The impatience o the nation with regard to the slow progress of affairs in Mexico is well hit off in a recent number of the Charivari, which contains a picture of a French Zouave strangling a Mexican wno stands in the path, by the side of which « guideboard indicates the direction of Mexico. The Zouave thus addresses the frightened Mexican:—“Nom d'une pipe. Hurry up; [ have else todo than to pass my time in at. tending to yeu. 1 Deng employed else where.” The nation is becoming every day more convinced that neither hemor nor profit is to be made out of the Moxiean ex, The gallery of “‘rejected- pictures, which was su; by the Emperor, will open om the 15th, and Iam joformed that the artists who consider themselves to Rave been hardly used by the jury will very generally bay Sones < = egg oppor. tunity of making a direct appen! ¢ public. ow is said where been visited by thirty ra | jaily, Eight hundred and one were on exhi- among them some splendid Bulldogs and terriers, al pack of hounds to the Duke of Beanfort. Miss Adelaide Phillips leit Paris yesterday to (uli an evgagement of six weeks at Lille, after which she intends returning to America. Night before last she gave a little private soiree at her rooms, when she sung & number of operatic gems in excellent style. Mrs. Ellen Key Blunt is playing scenes from ‘ Macbeth” in English at the Mitle Theatre Dejazet. Schnieder, the sprightly and popular actress of the Pa- nis Royal, had a case before the Tribunal of Police yes- torday. She demanded the sum of ten thousand france damages for a libel alleged to be contained in a criticism upon her performance in ‘La Mariee du Mardi Gras,” and published in Figaro. yThe jury awarded damages of twenty (ive francs. Mario has just passed through here from Spain on his way vo London. ition Pants, May 8, 1963. An Imperial Crisis—The Government Uneasy—Election Agitation Why Napoleon Looks to War—The Prince of Wale Wil Not Visit Paris—A Grand Dog Show Relieves the Public Mind by Creating a New Distrac- tion—Telegraph to America—The Emperor in the Saddle, de. , de. We are approaching one of those crises in the history of the second empire which, without positively alarming the government, evidently renders it very uneasy. The session of 1863 closed yesterday, and before another occurs the Chamber has to be re-elected. Tirea of a life of political inaction, the most important mombers of Louis Philippe’s Parliament bave determiced two present themselves before the electors with @ view to forming an organized opposition, which, while weeping within the pale of imperialism, may, by skilful tactics, contrive to discredit its more important parliamentary advocates. Sucti men as Guizot, Thiers, Montalembert, Berrieres and others, old, practiced debaters, who prove formidable antagonists, and joined by other parties of republican Sane oe , ae Euail, Brenase 8 Oo... tendencies, may really succeed in very seriously disturb J y nmen' Wictes'ae “merce, prisnpally guaranteed by an en ing the present comparative tranquillity of the Legisiative tof the said government to deliver cotton to the | Chamber. tod ce the following cousitions ee meg thy ieee nga T continual warnings or “ communicated” notes to The of this te fuil in article conker hn taps an | vers ara teen acy. bee har “Beery bolder of obligations shall hay the right to de- Aor she ghd 4 mand remburegment of the ool as! stlue of hee tage, tee having the e@tct of bealing their lips alte. ‘Bond in cotton, at the price of six pence sterling the pound of orttoa—or 4, nds «of cotton to each bond Of £100—and this at any titne up to the end of six monthe following the ratification of peace between the bellige conte. The declaration must be made Lo the representatives of the government at Varia or London. Sixwy days afr. wards the cotton will be delivered, in ‘het Of peace, in the of Charleston Savannah, Mobile or New Urieans and in case of war, in the interiot of the country, at distance of not yl tag ‘& railway or « ivor navigable very will be made Che egport now in force of ove Tonealiy af cotton shall be of + ew Orleans mid. Ging. If a portion of the cottn is of a superior o- inte. Pwr quantity the disereuge of glue will be estimated by Even the Siecle, which would, longo inéerallo, call | iteelf the Hemap of France, yesterday was obliged to pub- | lish the following “« communieated”’ note:— ment of the inserted in its numbers of the 9th and 10th of 9 a ee ti a assertions, It i not true that the Prefect of the | Marche, durin, ‘sion conclusion of the -Crimeam war,and more than half that pertod since the victories of Magcnta and Solferino distrnoted the attention of the French mind from inconvenient experiments altor more liberal institutions. Tt is by bo means impossible that popular war, nom!- nally in defence of the Poles, but really for tho recovery of the Rhenish frontier, may be thought at the present moment a desirable policy. The diffloulty is to pick & quarrel with Prussia without bringing on a formidable Russian war. The Emperor, however, it 15 said, is quite ready to take the Muscovite by Cake if England will but consent to join him. If England is fool enough to do #so—and is po saying what her t meddling spirit may conduce to—she will after @ while be as cer- tainly deserted ag she was in 1806. The Polish business would be patched up with Russia and leave France more at liberty to deal single-handed with Prussia; and England would have the pleasure of seeing the Rhine once more & French frontier, and herself more than ever isolated. of this nature, The journals ono and all agree in re- pudiating the Russian reply on the Polish question, not- withstanding its more conciliatory tone as compared with that addressed to England. 1n the meantime Prussia is evidently expecting nothi less than to measure swords with France; and the of some of ite journais is so insulting that in military circles here noth- ing is talked of but an approaching Prussian campaiga. ‘To the army of France an addition of 100,000 conscripis, all selected with more than usual care, has just been made, and from Russia we hear that the greatest being used to perfect the navy and strengthen the fortif- it nO bad men- see that the invitation might not have-been accepted unless-other motives bad something to do with it. It is whispered that a letter from Karl Rugsell to the ish Ambassador binte that in the present state of the uestion the ap- Pearance of too cloge an alliance is a8 well avoided. AS @ nouvelle distraction for the Paris mind. the Jardin resent London season, after the cloud Hung over erincs Cenex. ‘There is Species to gratify the curious in dogs. sia, India, Australia, Havana, and God kn other countries, have’ been ransacked and the result is ccrtainly a very oxtraordinary exbibi- ton. ‘The Moniteur yesterday had the follo ‘ment:—*: An int conference has just ‘opened Of examining a project for a tele- ‘grap! ni to connect with tho Amer! an continent. It is proposed that the cable submarine should croas the ocean from Cape Verde Islands to Brazil, Opinion Nationale }) says:—*The realization of this undertaking of the greatest desiderata of civilization. dispensable to Europe in instantaneous communica- tion with the Now World.’” The Emperor has introduced some of the native troops of Algeria—spahees, as they are called—with a view to their taking regular service in Paris, A detachment ar- Tived a few days ago, and their first careon reaching their barracks was to organize a proper system of Arab cookery. A principal portion of their fuod consists of what is termod cous cousson—a kind of coarse semolino. ‘They season it with capsicum (red pepper), and stew it with mutton. It ts eaten out of wooden bowls. Like the Israelites, their meat must be butchered in a peculiar fashion, and hence what they have is not purchased at the ordinary shambles, but killed by their own purveyor. ‘The spahees ouly take charge of their horses and their arms. Ali subordinate labor is done by attendants set apart for that purpose. Their astonishment at the size of the horses in Europe is unbounded, accustomed as they are only to the clean-limbed steeds of their own deserts. It is remarkable that the Emperor, wi usually has been sparing of his favorite horse exercisé, has of late taken every opportunity of placing himgel( in the saddle. Almost daily his Majesty rides i the Bows de Boulogne with the Kmpress. ‘he extraordinary grace of her Majesty's seat is quite worthy of observation. The “horse breaker’’ is as rife in Paria as in London, and it might be supposed that any amateur, however skilled, would r to disadvantage by the side of such a pro- fessi but not so the Empress. Her seat is the beau ideal of graceful, bola, but still effeminate horsemanship. ‘The ‘horse breaker” fresh from the hippodrome sits as if the tail rather than the back of her steed was ber proper place. No doubt {t 1s the best position for power. But commend me to the amazous like the fair Eugenie, who sits back behind the'shoulders of ber steed , and,balancing herself to every movement, looks as if the horse and she bad come into the world together—a feminine centaur, cast in imperial mould. Our St. Petersburg Correspondence. Sr. Pureesnura, May 2, 1963. Loyal Demonstration—Addresses to the Empcror—His Re ply—He Has Not yet Lost the Hope of Avoiding a Gens- ral War—The Russian Navy—The Pacific Squadron— Granite Versus Iron—New Levy of Recruits—Avoiition of Punishment, dc. On Wednesday, the 29th, being the forty-fifth anniver- sary of the Emperor's birthday, a demonstration took place such as was never witnessed in the Northern capital since it was first called into existence by the iron wi:l of the great Peter. Early in the forenoon a long procession was seen moving towards the winter palace, composed of persons of all classes, among whom the flowing beard and the national caftan were larcel» --r-scanted. and mows Uf waovas wore ovidently strangers to St. Petersburg. They were in fact deputations from the nobility, the municipal corporations, the merchants and the peasantry of Mos cow, Novgorod, Tver, Yaroslav, Viadimer and other pro- vinces, all sent tocongratulate the Cz3r, und to assure him of their loyalty and devotion. Whether the governors of the provinces had done anything to promote end encours¢e these manifestations is more than I can tell; but the ad. dresses presented bore every appearance of being the genuine expression of national feeling. Thoir wording is very different, and some of those delivered by the peas- ants are distinguished by a rustic familiarity of tone which must haye horrified the grand master of ceremo- nies, the Emperor being addressed, Quaker-like, in the second person singular; but they all coincide in spirit and Substance. ‘ Our enemies, jealous of the power and pros beneficent reforms inaugurated by your Majesty, and make the troubles in Poland a pretext for threatening the maintain it at all risks, and are as ready to lay down our lives in its defence as were our fathers before us As attachment with the gratitude due to them—a gratitude which is always most lively im times of danger, though it is not unfrequently forgotten when the danger is past, but I will only quote one short passage of his reply, as it shows more than anything I can say how critical the situation bas been, and how soon the spirit now displayed by the people may be put to the test:—'+] bave bot yet lost the hope of avoiding a general war.” if the Em- peror expresses himself openly in this manner, tho chances of ‘avoiding a general war’’ must cer. tainly be very slim. This, you must recollect, is not a mere on dit, such as is spread occasionally in the French and English papers about something said by Louis Napoleon or the King of Sweden, by Lord This or Count That, but the public reply of the Ozar to the loyal ad. dresses of bis subjects, and is printed at full length in the official organ, and reproduced in all the journals of St. Pe tersburg. Had he stated that he still entertained the hope of avoiding @ conflict, it would have been alarming enough, but the expressioe that he has not yet ‘ jost hope is almost equivalent to saying that there is no hope left, and a# suoh it is generally regarded in political circles, where the publication of the imperial speech bas created @ tremendous sensation. That government is reall; this opinion may be in ferred from the measures that are being taken for the in. crease of the army. and still more for the safety of the fleet. Last year the Mediterranean squadrou had been reduced by the return of the Oleg and the Gromoboi, wo two screw frigates, your old acquaintance, the Gencral Admiral, of seventy, and the Ostaba, of forty five guns, which wore to be joined this summer by the screw line. of battle ship Alexander Nevsky and the fifty-three gun frigate Peresvet, but not only the sailii vessels been adjourned sine die, but both Admiral and the Ostaba have been ordere, A Hl f it H s = | q i s i ef agE é i I i 5 i Ward of are Io of 2igt iF i g E 5 : é H if i Ea is = hi i it A 1 | ] e | fe aE Hj fi ; i i j i Hi iH ii: e ss | h i é e fi if iF zi ¢ z zs A ; iz { E | I i i | i ir / 3 ii rfl fi a fit ; Hi i: Ft from the intuonealian iy be pres be leet ao favor wbwe etpiow ta the | Popo, it will not 1 samme vile 3 Es 5 7 4 i 2F ii 2 exertions are. was to be oxpected, the Emperor received these marks of perity of Russia, endeavor to interrupt the course of the integrity of the empire; but we are determined to ee MAY 23, 1863.—TRIPLH burned some Turkish transports near B sphorus, and afiorwarde cacaped throug the whole allied fleet to Udessa—were eo much talked of curing the Crimean war, According to the tast report of the Minister of Marine, the Russian pavy consisted in 1862 of the following ves- ‘sels Screws, uine ships-of-the-line, nine frigates, twenty - one corvettes, ten clippers, twenty-two schooners, seventy-eight gunboats; paddie-wheel frigates, nine; transports and smaller ‘craft, seventy; sailing vessels, t line of-battie, three frigates, two corvettes, ten ports and smaller craft. The sloam vessels 2,108 guna, of which the Baltic jer and 1. ane Bluok Sea 4,504 70 guns. ‘might be sufficient to cope with Freneh fleet, though of course not with the English unfortunately we were not vory inadequately supplied with iron clads. At present their number is confined to the lonting batteries Ne Tro Mone (ods me fangere) and lioating i me langere) Pervenotz, the irom t pane bent ds gun vessel Opyt; and although the Czarovitch, the Sinepe and some others are to be provided with armor this season , they will scarcely be serviceable if hostilities should break out at an early date. in America an iron fleet was improvised in afow months, but cannot attempt to emulate you in this ro- t. It appears, however, by the bombardment of ‘barieston that stone has still a good chance even against iron, and it remains to be seen whether the Warriors, the Gloires and the Black Princes would be more successful against the granite walls of Cronstadt than were the Keo- kuks and the Irovsides against Fort Sumter. As to the measures for increasing the numerical strength of the army, which has dwindled away sadly since. 1856, ‘we are informed that a new levy of recruits hag been al- ready ancluded on, to fifteen out of every 1 male inbabitants, This, if carried into effect, ve @ total of at least 450,000 men; but they would hardly available tor this year’s campaign, seeing that many mouths must elapse before the conscription is q and the recruits are properly the ‘vast such things it souroe ~weakneas, and the roves ly constructed’ are as yet not sufficient to obvii It is also w! that the militia will be called out—a step for which there are only three precedeuts—1807, 1812 and 1855—and which would be an ‘unequivocal proot that the dangers that beset Russia are such ag require the exertion of her utmost strength to make head against them. ‘The Emperor’s brithaay has not brought a constitution; but it has brought something which, for the lower orders at least, will be more beneticial than a constitution on the French or Eaven lah from which the aristocracy and bourgeoisie derive the chief advantage. An imperial ukase announces the restriction and gradual abolition of corpo- r t, which has go long disgraced Russian legislation, though it was unknown to the old Sia vonians. The a relic the Tartar ut, of oke, ad been done ‘away with by Nicholas; but other arbarous Chastisements were still in {ull force, such as running the gauntlet, which was borrowed by Peter the Great {rom the Germans, and for which the Russian lan- guage has not even a word, it semeeenicg. by the Ger- ‘man appellation of apitsruthen; the and nive tails, tor which we are indebted to the English, dc. All these modes of ion are to cease from the day on which the ukase is published, and the leas terrible, though still odious, punt t of the whip is only to be continued till public jails have been erected throughout the empire, after which it will be commuted to simple imprisonment, with labor. This reform, which does honor to the humanity of Alexander I1., will doubtless havo a salutary fect upon the morals of the people, and contrasts favor- ably with the spirit disp! in countries which boast of superior civilization—in England, for instance—where an act extending the operation of the lash has just been passed in the two houses of Parliament, and is loudly ap- proved of by the press. THE AMERICAN QUESTION. ‘The English papors are for the moment all but silent upon American affairs. The New York correspondent of the London Herald says:—The immense arrivals of Irish astonish those who are not inthe secret. Their passages are paid by the United States government, and will be charged to en- listment expenses. The sum appropriated for this pur- pose is $3,000,000, and it is estimated that it will bring over to America 120,000 Irish persons. Of this number it may be safely estimated one-third will enlist. That will cost only $50 each for 60,000, and in any other shaje it costs the United states $100 per soldier. dhe London /'imes, in an editoriat on the danger which threatens Vicksburg and Port Hudson, owing to the sue- cess of Admiral Farragut in runuing the blockade, says, although Vicksburg is not yet taken tor Port liudson either,and though the ware ot boih of these plac would probably failto insure sate navigation of the M Bivsippi, it caunot be denied that the recent success of th Northerners may produce muterial results. It creates a Jess sensation than the capture of Charltston would have dove; but it may prove of greater consequence to them. fhe Coniederates ure not likely to be disheartened by the hss Of acity; but the capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson would open the Mississippi to the States of the Nortwest, diminish the growing dissatiataction of the population of th: se States, and enable the fedorais to claim one more of the real victories of the war, The Rebel States. THE LONDON TIMES REBEL OOKRESPONDENCE. (Richmond (Aiarch 28) oorrespondence ot London Limes.) BXETBR HALL CONTRADICTBD—C ONTRABANDS. AND REPUDIA- TION. In the Illustrated London News of February 21 the fol- lowing passage has caught my eye:— From the Cumberland river, in, Tennoss ae eeues med | tomes man” are’ reportéd. 'WKe “colored” cabin boys and coous ‘cuptured on board some federal taken at Harpeth Souls, on the Cumberiand wereétakem to an open field and jot im id Two others got down by the rudder of ‘on with he steamer and held r Leads avove water, They were discovered and several soldiers were or dered into = skill, who rowed close vp to them and blew out their brains, The life of a chambermaid was saved with difficulty by the clork of # steamer Claiming ber as his slave, whom he was romoving into Kentucky. As our opportunities of seeing English journals in the Confederate States are like angels’ visits, and as there are indications from the use of the term ‘further atrocities,’ ‘hut many similar stories bave been contributed to tbe eniightenment of the British public, tet me venture wo ask your readers whether it is necessary that a voice should come trom this side of the Atlantic to demonstrate to them the ludicrous amprodability of fictwuns live this? At this Moment the ( oniederate States, po less or scarely Jess than the federal, are floating swiltly along a current which, if this war b¢ protracted for ten months more, will plunge both -ectious aiike into that great ocean of re- pudiation which is eonsciously and without a shudder contemplated at Washington, but towards which there is at jeast great repugnunce provessed at Richmond. In both sections alike tho resuit is that everything Fesembling property 1s eagerly sought for, as a safe vehicle for the eyance of a frac tion of those paper promises to pay with which every wan, ragged and tattered though tn some instances he muy be, is heavily ireighied. Jn the cate,ory of pro- perty, o spite of Mr. Liucown’s proclamation, no man can deny that the ngro is still emphatically included. At the siaye market ju Richmond nota day passes but negroes and pegresses are eagerly bought. at prices varying from $2,000 Wo $2,000; and if am Englieh eye could ever learn to look with indifference upon so sad @ sight mavy a smile might be provoked Ww see (he proud satis/aciion with which @ negro, who in ordinary times would have fetched $1,300, and who has litle concepiion of the meaning of such recon: dite terms as depreciation of the currency, finds himself Kewcked down al an advance upon that figure of $1,000. “] wid you,” said a female slave recently, imperial im the dimenstons of her crinoMne, and pointing proudly to ber gold earrings, ‘that it wo for nothing that | wore them things:” ner meaning being that the large price 0 $2,300 which she had just fetched was attributable to ber bijouterie. Under these circumstances ts there any other man in Ercland but Mr. Baptist Noel who believes that captured Airicans are likely by Contedenate soldiers to be pom Held and shot in cold bloody — Is tt con- that (as P have read in some other extract from the bnglish press) negroes taken from the federals should by the Confederates bed to trees, cowhided, and leit there to perish of starvation: Is it likely that Mr. Baptist Noel's other story about negroes biding arms and being shot at Charleston should contain a grain of truth! As sume that it were possible that in such mmiunity as Charleston negroes should have suiticien pendence of character to breathe otherwise than throush their mas ters’ nostrils, is there no other way of punishing them, if insubordinate, than by instant death? There are pro- Prietors of coal mines in Virginia and North Carolina of fering at this moment, by public advertisement, \abulous the hire ot ‘refractory or disatfected’ negroes. ‘safer and more remunerative disposition of such ticklish property as Mr. Noel's imaginary recusants could possibly be found? ANOLITIONIST FICHONS—HOW ENGLAND ENCOURAGES SLAVERY. It should be remarked that stories such as these, which bring down the roof o: Exeter Hall, are wisely seasoned for the palate of the kngi#h public, but are seidom yven- tilated upon this better informed continent. The south- erver, cavalier though he may be, has lived too long in ailipity with the Yankee to be wholly insensible to the fascinations of the almighty dollar. It is possible that iserabie sufferers who are perishing with cou! = i f by & i s 3 3 5 A i é i i i 4 i ii 3 3 al i l ae onad together ii mitvation powerts. Phew ay “ the leas: interest ia bay i Hi! Hee i i sees | SHERT. them work; all they do the streets, their clothes | More a than any | Their forlorn and destitute condition is trast with their blithe and bappy their comfortable cabins, and thelr sorrow Dances strike pity to the stoutest not wi Prejudice and madness of abolition. in tatters. cornfield negra aces when here M stricken counmte- arped by the conception of the pated negro, in tho Northern States, might be conveyed to Ragland. But if it 13 imagined in England that the loudest of Exeter Hall utterances-——that the universal diatribes of Europe against African sores, will induce ste milion intel- aucasians 1» and, upon whole, humane C to turn four million canaries out of their cagrs, and set” them adrift in woods as Wash- ‘ington and Graney Island, then it is high time that England should be undecevied. What has ind recently done to abate this sum of all viilanies—negro slavery? | The an- swer is Lord Macaulay’s,*‘She bas brayed.’” What has she done to encourage it? ' Fur years and years she has im- por'ed not tessthan £50,000,000 worth of slave-grown raw That’ Waving mureduced pon Ce continent the african ing ‘upon conte slave, and having largely profited by him, we registered dying wwery when this continent had pas from our but illustrated that hatred by ing the slaveowner at the rate of £50,000,000 a year? ‘THM EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND ITS RESCLTS. Itjs a solemn thing to ery aloud for abolition and spare Bot;for, discuise it as you , the abolition of siavery ‘means the extermination of the race on the continent of North America. 1 pase {rom the contemptation of such a possibility as the deportation of the blacks to Africa or elsewhere. by reason of its manifest impossibility. Be- tween 1820 and 1856 the Amerivan Coionization Society gent to Liberia 9,502 persons; in the same period the iu- crease in the slave population of the old Union was 1,999,- 527 souls, In the words of Professor Cairnes, ¢The de- portation of slaves would require a new Moses and pew miracles.” To emancipate the negroes without deporta- tion has always, to the most ianatical abolitionist, appeared such extravagance of cruelty that never, until it pleased President Lincoln to put forth his recent proclamation as a war neceasily, was ~such ‘an atrocity contemplated. ‘The results of such a procla- mation, could effect be universally given to it, may be studied at Cairo and Craney Island, That such results should enlist the sympathies of Bogard, ties they should be demanded in tempestuous accen' yy great concourses of people, proves little else than that the English people, justly detesting the abstraction of slavery, know nothing tion, ircumstances of the of the temperament, or cit African slave as seen om the continent of North America. For years, and decades of years. a solution of the difficul- ties of this mighty question has been sought by the whole eivilized world. any approximation to a solution been hitherto found? Will any solution arise from tho stormy addresses of Exeter Hall orators? It is worse than childishness to strive to beat down by clamor what ‘¢ unable to abate by reason, judgment or phi- losophy. SHOULD ENGLAND WISH RRUMION? Ought England, in her detestation of slavery, to desire the restoration of the Union or not? Ought she to sido with Presidet Lineoln or President Davis’ Do those who 80 vituperate and clamor against Mr. Davis heartily de- sire that slavery should be abolished; or is it their wish, ‘because Boston and New York have flattered their literary vanity, that the Union should arise from its ashes to please Boston aud New York? It seems to mv that the answer to the iormer of these questions is very clear; to the latter I leave Mr. Hughes to reply. If by any con- cetvable possibility the resurrection of the Union could be compassed, dues any one doubt that every imaginable prop and security which the most fanatical slavedriver of the ‘South could describe in language would be eagerly and en- . thusiastically conceded air Aa ‘ageless 24 ae rematle all possible future vs? There is, Brenome Foremancipationssts in the restoration of the Unie public believing in and based upon slavery? Such is my honest conviction aud belief. In no portion of the eight slavebolding States through which J have hitherto passed has it ever n denied that there are grievous spots and Diemisbes in the existing system of slavery. Everywhere have these spots and blemishes been excused as the out growth of the defensive attitude which New bpgiand bas forced the South to assume. Leave these States face to face ‘wi h their own peculiar institution; aid them to modify and abate it where modification and abatement are possi- ble; let there be no more taunts and jeers; let it be ascer- tained whether the alleged practice of breeding slaves in Virginia and elsewhere and selling them for covsumption fo tbe South be true or false, and if true let it be frowned = by the moral sense of the world; let the hand ox- Whied to help them in wrestling with slavery be the band neither of Puritan nor Pharisee, but of an equal and @ brother, and trust the rest to Providence. MAJOR PELHAM’S DEATH—THR FEDERAL CAVALRY ADVANCE O sruaRT. In my recent letter of the 17th, when describing the lamented death of Major }elham,1 stated that General Stuart, at the bead of two thousand of his cavalry, bad attacked and driven back a body of three thousand fede- ral horsemen. It appears that the true narrative of the incidents of the 7th is LeoNpm: like the tollowing:— Full and accurate information of the tntended raid of the federal cavalry had reached General Fitzhugh Lee, but in the deep and thiry slime of the roads he gave little heed to the truth of the report. It happened that General Stuart was at Culpepper Court House, attending a court martial. With him went also Major Pelham, neither of them expecting any collision with theenemy. Upon the morning of the 17th it was reported that a large body of federal cavalry, variously estimated at from six thovsaud to eight were rapidly advancing from Kelly’s Ford, them ‘there was nothing but the bri Benerai Fitzhugh Lee numbering at this moment about eight hundred men, but likely to be much stronger here- ‘after, Two of the federal regiments were dismounted and thrown out as sharpshooters, and inst these dis. mounted men the confederates thrice gallantly attempted to charge, but were unable to got at them by reason of the imaccessibility of their position. Just as the third charge was imminent$ Major Pelbam, who had borrowed a borse and was on the field as a voluntecr, rode a little forward, and, having been forbidden by General Stuart to join (as he eagerly desired) in the charge, cheered the ‘Third Virginia regiment with vole and hand. “There they are, boys, there! fGive it ‘em! forward! for- ward!” These were his last words. He never 8} again. A shell, discharged at the regiment, burst abov him, and extinguished one of the purest and bravest spirits which yet been yielded up in this d war. The c ag delivered without elect, but im- mediately afterwards, to the astonishment of their oppo- nents, the fede als began to retreat. . It ts wed that inteiigence of the movement of a large infantry, designed by General R. E Lee to cut Or the foderale from the Rappahnnock, had suddeuly reached them. Be this as it may, nothing could exceed the precipitate disorder of their retreat. Various designs, such as a descent upon Gordonsville, or Chartottesville, or some point of the Vir- gin.a Central Railroad, have been imputed to them. As it is, but for the accidental and irreparable loss which the confederates have sustained in Major Pelham, have been little occasion to waste ten words upon 80 fee- bie and abortive an attempt to lift the curtain of the bloody drama of 1863. Two days later the savin which was sufficiently dim- enh gee the 17th inst., would have been totally imprac- ticable. men, To op. of AND Farly on the morning of the 19th snow steadily to descend, and before night the heaviest layer of suow ground, Since then we have had warm weather and rain, apd the ce nsequent condition of the Virginian roads may be ensily conceived. Operations on a large scale for either General Lee or General Hooker are simply impossible. fer at least three weeks, or, more probably, for a month to come. What are the indications of the movements in- tended when locomotion of large bodies of men tn Virginia ig possibier OF course, the answer can only be guesswork I do net believe that General Hooker has much more, if any more, than one hundred thousand men. Of General Lee's strength it is not necessary that I should say more than thot he and hisarmy are, in my opinion, very formidable. ‘A great deal is said about Hooker's intentions of advanci by Kelly's Ford, or Port Royal, or over the ground which General Burneide's army soaked with rivers of their blood little more than three months ago, My own opinion in: clines to the beltef that, it Wy constantly threatening to advance, Hooker coud hold in check and newralize for sume months General Leo and bis fine army, the authori- ties at Washington would be abuadantly satisfied. NEWS FROM GENERAL JOHNSTON Iv of the army of the latter. hopes of a battle on that line Pa I have before de- scribed stretching from ibyville to Manchester, along what are called the Normandy Hills) were becom. ing confident, expectation ts baftied by the retreat of Ge- neral Rosecrans and his army. What may be the explana- @ feint to draw Gene- But just as our which I have yet seen in the South had carpeted the | Hl E é Ff Hi = . 8 EF. : rope, standing as they do upon & higher level than it is possible that I can occupy, may see no hope of successful moral interference. But if they could ouly witness the misery whieh is, from every acre of this once favored contineni, crying aloud to Heaven, it could scarcely be but that they would risk some chance of failure rather than permit humanity to be eutraged by @ continuance of such excess of anguish as has visited no nation since the sword first leaped from its scalbard, and the human heart was first u tiveness and hate. ‘What England Hopes from the Repulse at Charleston. i (From the London Poat (government orgen), May 8.) - To the american Unionists the failure of Captam Eriea- @ heavier blow than any defeats sustained by their armics te the field. Not only has ‘utmost confidence bean in the power of new vessels to ‘offea- ‘The rendering a vessel is description powerless as if the gun iteelf woreda ie pieces. This may, perhaps, be considered @ minor point with the advocates of system of revolving Tets, and be a matter which the enyineoring skill of present day may be evabled possibly to grapple«with sue cesstully; but uptil this defect has been remedied, revolving turret system is not likely to meet with very great encouragement in this country. The failure: much eonscke as sea going ships is too welt known and rally acknow! tw admit of dispute; and as their chief recommendations, which consisted i cheapness of construction, has also received lately a damaging blow, there really remains vow but little said in their behalf. It has been proved that the principle of bi together thin iron plates ¢o the thickness requii for a vessel’s side will not produce the degree of resistance which was expected; consequently, whem these vessels have to be constructed of solid plates and that ali the materials required should be quality. This is not the course which has been in America—conseyuently their veseels donot bear any of compartson with ours. At the present moment it is per- haps fortunate that this mutter should have been 80 ly established, as it may tend to check some of the extrava- gant notions of the more violent anti-English party in New York, aud permit of that sooty development of the naval ig Goan have ever wie with justice and modera- Hion. The Rebel Loan. LAW ACTION AGAINST THE AGENTS IN PARIS. [Fron gnani’s Messenger, May 9.4 An application was yesterday made to the President of the Civil Tribunal, by MM. Erlanger & Co., bankors, under tae following circumstances:— In the beginning of the present year the applicants had undertaken the negotiation of @ loan fer the Confederate ‘States of America; but their operations were suddenly paralyzed by « notice of seizure of its om ‘them at the instance of MM. Dupasseur & Co., ship own- ers, of Havre, who alleged that they had a claim on the Confederate government for a million of francs, a8 an im- demnity for the wiltul destruction of their ship, the Lemu- el Dyer, with a cargo of 2,683 bales of cotton, when leay- ing New Orleans in April, 1892. The French goverm- ment not having recognized the Confederate States, MM. Oupasseur & Co. could not obtain a remedy by di- plomatic means, and therefore the e: ient of seizing the proceeds of the loan. MM. Erlanger & Co. now applied for an order to annul the seizure on the that it interfered with their rights as negotiators of the loan, und that the question involved points of internation- al 1aw, not within the competence of the tribunal which granted the order for seizure. The application was op- posed by MM. Dupasseur & Co., whose counsel argued thas the Coufederate government was the only party entitled to demand the annulment of the seizure, but the Prest- dent decided that, as the seizure impeded MM. Erlanger & Co.’s operations, they had a right to demand its sup- ression. jally as the claim of ‘Duy & Ce. Baa Sct bece leant established, he anoordingty granted an order demanded by,the \. A Burning Ship at Sea. WAS IT THE WORK OF THE ALABAMA? {From the London Shipping Gazette, May The Imperatrice Kugenie, Stuart, from Natal, arrived im the river, reporte:— On the night of March 26, between ten and clevem o’clock P. M., in latitude 120 N., longitude 25 saw a red glare in the horizon, reflected which, after viewing from aloft, took Immediately bore away west southwest sible vail towards the barning vessel, from northeast. ‘dhe fire at this time must at a distance of from eighteen to twenty miles; its extreme brilliancy and reffection seem to be more than eeven or eight Hoisted a bright light to the foreyard, lights to attract the Po of ship in boats, At it, on seven oreight miles a te fire, ‘out the hull of a large ship, burned and rising higher towards still burning, and a dense daylight a good look out for boats; but none & a 438 < ‘ i i i fy 3 Heifer init f i i Eg ; i i seeyeslis® Stelle yieatrit weal ly ‘Lost sight of the fre until eight o'clock, again, and we could see what remained of distinctly than before, but no boats weré seen, about seven miles, intending tion, to fetch the burning f E i | 8 5 5 H £ ij i he uni ithe 2» * General James Watson Webb in the British Parliament—The Premier ‘Does. Not Know Him” and “Will Say Ne- thing’’—His Opinion of the General ae a Diplomatist—What the Other Mem- bers Think of His “Veracity,” d&c. To the House of Commons, on the 7th instant, Mr. M. ‘Mainwes said:—As the circumstances to which my ques- tions refer affect the credit and honor of a public fune- tionary, I must ask the House to let me state the facts of the case. It appears that a gentieman holding the office of Minister of the United States ia Brazil addressed to Kart Cmgasad bog = therefore would not be de- be of & private House. But im the serving of the notice of what i : iE = ig } i Ff if I i i f i E 8 Li i i ll &; < Li ~ SEB a =